Summer is almost here! It feels like we are starting to cautiously re-engage with more in-person events right now, while also still needing to feel safe and make the decision that is right for our families. I imagine this summer will be a patchwork quilt of home-based and community-based activity, with some hanging out time […]
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What’s Advocacy?
Last Fall, those who participated in OUUC‘s Faith in Action Visioning gave input for the FIA Leadership Council to create a matrix to help organize and structure the congregation’s justice efforts. The Council created an OUUC Justice Matrix that looks like this: The matrix has three areas of focus and three modalities to address the […]
Disaster Relief with UUSC
The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, or UUSC, is doing relief work in Haiti and Afghanistan as well as in response to Ida. Donations are always welcome. Articles for background: Afghanistan: U.S. Has Historic Responsibility to Evacuate and Welcome Afghan Refugees 5 Ways to Take Action for Afghan Refugees DONATE HERE: https://donate.uusc.org/give/188649/#!/donation/checkout Haiti: UUSC Statement on […]
Holiday Services and Events
Please join us for worship services and other activities during the holiday season. All are welcome! Comfort and Joy: A Candlelight Christmas Eve Servicewith Rev. Mary Gear and Rev. Sara Lewis Tuesday, December 24 5:30 pm, onsite and online, with the OUUC Choir (Order of Service embedded below)9:00 pm, onsite only, with guest musicians Children are […]
May Monthly Spiritual Theme: Embrace
The spiritual theme for this month of May is “embrace.” This is one word in the new OUUC mission to welcome and wonder, embrace and empower, bridge and become. Embrace has two meanings; the first is to hold close, enfold, encircle, enclose. It means literally to take to heart, as in a hug. The second […]
