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Category: Board
- Notice of May 21 Annual Congregational Meeting
- 2023 Board and LDC Nominees
- Congregational Meeting May 22
- Stewardship Update
- From the Board: Board Listening Session Follow-up
- News from the Board of Trustees
- Information for May 1 Meeting
- Notice of Annual Congregational Meeting
- Our Nominees
- Proposed Vision, Mission, and Ends
- Calendar Evaluation Committee Recommendation
- A Message from our VME Consultant
- Don’t Miss Upcoming All-Congregation Visioning Sessions
- Vision/Mission/Ends Project: Introducing Cottage Meetings!
- Sign Up for Cottage Meetings
- Sign Up for Cottage Meetings
- Vision-Mission-End (VME) Surveys are Due February 1!
- OUUC Vision – Mission – End Project Explained (through Ice Cream)
- A New Vision for Uncharted Waters
- The Board Line – September
- Board of Trustees Message
- The Board Line
Category: Committees and Teams
- Leadership at OUUC
- Thank You, Spring Clean-up Volunteers
- OUUC’s Response to the Pandemic
Category: Environment
- Earth Grief: Making Space for a Heartful Response
- TREES: Legacy Forests, Carbon Capture & Legislation
- Chehalis at a Crossroads
- Welcome to Earth Month!
- Environmental Action Team March Challenge: Eat Less Meat
- Getting Beyond Climate Crisis Apathy: “I won’t make a difference.”
- Environmental Action Team (EAT) Monthly Climate Challenge
- January EAT Challenge
- January EAT Challenge
- Take it Easy on the Planet this Holiday
- Three Environmental Calls to Action
- September Environmental Challenge – Fossil Fuel Footprint!
Category: Event
- Deep Listening Mini-Retreat
- Grief Workshop 3/24
- Choir Concerts – December 2023
- Trunk and Treat on October 29
- Sing Your Heart Out! Belated Valentine’s Karaoke at OUUC on February 16
- “This Machine” – Roy Zimmerman in Concert, Sunday, November 13 at 3:00 pm
- Ritual of Remembrance August 13
- Climate – Get Your Oar in the Water – Sunday June 26
- Auction 2022: We Are Building a New Way—Together!
- Challenges After Jail – Services in Thurston County
- Save That Thought! It’s Time Capsule Time!
- Holiday Services
- Holiday Book Sale Success!
- Invitation to Tea with Rev. Mary
- Congregational Picnic Postponed
- Let Our Love Fly – The Art Flag Project
Category: Faith in Action
- DRC Workshop
- Faith in Action Notes
- January 2023 Faith in Action Opportunities
- Faith in Action Suggested Actions for the Week
- Let’s Talk About Reproductive Justice
- Autonomy and Agency
- Generosity Is Faith in Action: A Share the Plate Update
- May-June Share the Plate Recipient: Homes First
- Putting Our Money Where Our Values Lie
- March-April Share the Plate Recipient: Olympia Mutual Aid Partners (OlyMAP)
- Food Bank Drive-Through on January 30, 2022
- Share the Plate News
- November-December 2021 Share the Plate Recipient: The Mayday Foundation
- Showing Up for Reproductive Justice
- Disaster Relief with UUSC
- Watch: The Fallacy of Public Safety and Mass Incarceration Online Public Forum
- Watch: Justice Innovation and Racial Equity in Thurston County – Online Community Forum
- Share the Plate: Quixote Communities
- GreenFaith and OUUC
- Our new Share the Plate Recipient: Wild Grief
- Tiny Houses, Big Impacts
- Guest At Your Table
- Faith In Action Visioning
- Get Your Old Laptop to Kids Who Need Them
- From Rev. Carol – Pathways
- Happenings on the Homelessness Front
Category: Fundraising
- Holiday Online Book Sale
- Stewardship Drive
Category: Green Sanctuary
- Divest from Fossil Fuels Workshop – June 13
- 68 deg F or below!
- Environmental Action Team’s November Challenge is: 68 deg F or below!
- Our October Challenge is: Reduce Food Waste!
- Our October Challenge is: Reduce Food Waste!
- Our October Challenge is: Reduce Food Waste!
- August’s Environmental Challenge – Energy Saving Home Cooling
- July’s Environmental Challenge – Water Conservation
Category: Larger Community
- Learning Right Relations Gathering
- OUUC to be Recognized by Quixote Communities
- Zoom Forum: Behavioral Health Services in the Thurston County Courts and Jail
- September-October Share the Plate Recipient: Rebuilding Together Thurston County
- March-April 2021 Share the Plate Recipient: GRuB
Category: Minister
- Two Services, Coming Soon!
- Sabbatical of Rev Mary Gear 2024
- Interconnected – by Rev. Mary Gear
- Summer As a Bridge
- The UUA, General Assembly, Gadfly, and More
- The Same and Different: Looking Ahead to the 2022-2023 Church Year
- Being Installed: A Reflection from the Minister on OUUC’s Installation Ceremony
- July Services with OUUC
- Bridges Are About Stress
- An OUUC COVID-19 Update: May 2022
- And How Are the Children?
- Such is Life, Such is Love
- May Monthly Spiritual Theme: Embrace
- Safe and Safer: An OUUC COVID Update
- Respectful Relationship
- April Spiritual Theme: Wonder
- March Spiritual Theme: Become
- Growing Community
- Reopening OUUC
- Human Rights. Again and Again and Again.
- Unitarian Universalist Efforts for Racial Justice
- Become and Becoming
- Re-Opening OUUC
- Sharing and Understanding Our Power
- Empower
- Connected to Something Greater
- Renewal
- Forming Ministers: Welcoming (Again) Rylee Uhrich
- Consent Culture
- Welcome In the New Year
- A Christmas Blessing
- When the Holidays Aren’t Happy
- Showing Up
- Healthy
- Living With COVID
- Correction: The Audubon Legacy
- What Is ‘Just’?
- Beauty and Joy
- Conversation with Rev. Mary
- The Purposes of a Faith Community
- Taking Care
- Ritual of Remembrance – Fire to Ashes
- A Loving World: New Monthly Spiritual Themes
- Seeking Care and Support
- Ingathering – In All the Ways
- Ingathering
- Water Communion and Ingathering: Return Again on September 12 at 10:00 am
- What’s Your Joy?
- How to Help: Afghanistan
- Flexibility
- Why Are We Here Again?
- Installation Update
- Sanctuary Update
- Grief
- Covid Etiquette
- “When Can We Worship in the Sanctuary Again?”
- “The Only Constant in Life is Change”
- Covenanting with Our Minister
- General Assembly Wrap-Up
- “Installation?”
- “Circle ‘Round”… It’s Almost Time!
- Being A Loving Community
- Be Alive
- Re-Opening OUUC – the Building
- Advocacy, Again and Always
- Your Story, My Story, Our Story
- From Languishing to Flourishing
- “Good Trouble”
- Circle ‘Round for GA!
- Becoming Human
- Shared Ministry
- What’s Advocacy?
- Commitment
- It’s All Connected
- Commitment and the 8th Principle
- Bits and Pieces
- Come, Come, Whoever You Are
- Safe and Safer
- Beloved Community
- Sunday Worship
- Feel All the Feels
- Faith in Action
- Imagining Possibilities
- Joy to the World!
- Holiday Spirit
- Bountiful Blessings
- Be Still
- Grief and Gratitude
- From Rev. Mary: “Being and Doing”
- From Rev. Mary: “The Soul of America”
- From Rev. Mary – “The Spiritual Practice of Waiting”
- From Rev. Mary – A Few Things for Inspiration
- From Rev. Mary – Spiritual Care for the Election Season
- From Rev. Mary – VOTE!
- From Rev. Mary
- From Rev. Mary and Sara Lewis – Leadership Charge
- From Rev. Mary – “Moments of Joy”
- From Rev. Mary – “Caring for Your Spirit”
- From Rev. Mary – “It’s Not the Same!”
- From Rev. Mary – “Opening Up”
- From Rev. Mary – “In This Together”
- From Rev. Mary – Half Empty or Half Full?
- From Rev. Mary – Pathways to Engagement Part 2
- From Rev. Mary – “Different Voices”
- From Rev. Mary – Vote Your Values
- From Rev. Mary – Overflowing!
- From Rev. Mary – How We Are Responding to COVID-19
Category: Ministries
- OUUC Staff Update
- Letter from Rylee Uhrich
Category: OUUC Community
- Celebration of Life for Riley McLaughlin
- Celebration of Life for Lorrie Eaton
- Celebration of Life for Barry Zickuhr
- Celebration of Life for Pat Sonnenstuhl
- OUUC’s Congregational Covenant Project
- Celebration of Life for Phyllis Clausen
- Celebration of Life for Ken Yeo
- Celebration of Life for Gale Blomstrom
- New Scholarship Program at SPSCC in honor of Gladys Burns
- Celebration of Life for Nancy May
- Celebration of Life for Ken Guza
- Celebration of Life for Anna Jones
- Celebration of Life for Janet Dawes
- Celebration of Life for Chuck Ricketts
- Celebration of Life for Kelly Thompson
- Celebration of Life for Jim Knudson
- Celebration of Life for Karen Krueger
- Celebration of Life for Janet Swanson
- Celebration of Life for Bob Sundstrom
- Celebration of Life for Carolyn Keck
- Celebration of Life for Tom Joldersma
- Back to School, Back to Church
- Covid Guidance Update
- Celebration of Life for Joan Forst
- Remembering Gary Tobin and John Tobin
- Honoring the Memory of the Christophers
- The Joy of Being Together
- Celebration of Life for Junia E. Jenkins
- Celebration of Life for George Lanning
- Celebration of Life for Evelyn (Evey) Greenberg
- Photos from Easter 2022 at OUUC
- A Community Inquiry in Preparation for the Installation of Our Settled Minister
- Member Engagement at OUUC
- Help Us Imagine a New OUUC Logo!
- Remembering Bob Sundstrom
- Memorial Service for Brad Gupta
- Remembering Tom Joldersma
Category: Parish Nurse
- A Few Words from OUUC’s Parish Nurse
- A Few Words from OUUC’s Parish Nurse
- A Few Words from OUUC’s Parish Nurse
- A Few Words from OUUC’s Parish Nurse
- A Few Words from OUUC’s Parish Nurse
- A Few Words from OUUC’s Parish Nurse
- A Few Words from OUUC’s Parish Nurse
- A Few Words from OUUC’s Parish Nurse
- A Few Words from OUUC’s Parish Nurse
- A Few Words from OUUC’s Parish Nurse
- A Few Words from OUUC’s Parish Nurse
Category: Programs
- New Groups Forming at OUUC
- Building the World We Dream About
- COVID-19 and Church Activities
- Share the Plate 2022
- A Monthly Gathering for Trans and Nonbinary UUs
- Pathways to Engagement at OUUC
Category: Religious Education
- Life Without Notes: A Storytelling Workshop
- My Report from General Assembly
- General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association – What Is That?
- The Flower Communion
- Reading with Rev. Sara: Book Recommendations!
- So What Is an Interfaith Chaplain, Anyway?
- May Is Mental Health Awareness Month
- Lessons from a Break
- Our Monthly Theme Has Been “Welcome”
- While Sara is On Sabbatical
- Welcoming New Beginnings
- Seminary and Sabbatical for Sara
- Winter As a Time to Rest
- The Darkest Days Draw Near
- Cards and Connection
- Thinking Generations Ahead
- October’s Spiritual Theme Was ‘Loving’
- Reproductive Justice and UU
- Youth Groups Resume
- Back to School 2021
- “What I Did During My Summer Break”
- General Assembly 2021: Bylaws Revisions
- Sara’s Sabbatical Plans
- Anti-Racist Reading Recommendations
- Religious Education Summer Camps
- What’s Your Story?
- Reading with Sara
- Pondering Our Principles
- Five Commitments to Yourself
- Toward a More Anti-Racist OUUC
- Under the Fig Tree
- A Time for Rest – and UULent!
- Circle ‘Round for GA!
- Bringing Soul Matters Themes into Our Lives
- Christmas in Whoville
- Games for Gatherings
- Responding to Food Insecurity
- Beginning a New Journey Toward Chaplaincy
Category: Social Justice
- “Since I Been Down” Film Screening Next Steps
- A Successful Giving Tree! Thank You All!
- BBB – It’s a Wrap!
- Being in Right Relationship: Gender Pronouns Are Just the Beginning
- Non-Violence and Peace Traditions: OnLine
Category: Tech Tips
- The Imperfect Perfection of Our Connection
- OUUC Tech and Software Update: December 12, 2021
- Announcing a New OUUC Website!
- How Our Tech Connects
- An OUUC Website Redesign Update – June 1
- Tech Tip: Changing Your Zoom Profile Picture
- Tech Tip: Understanding OUUC Communication
- Tech Tip: Four Ways to Join a Zoom Meeting
- Tech Tip: Renaming Yourself and Adding Pronouns on Zoom
- Tech Tip: Updating Zoom
- Tech Tip: Join Jo for a Help Hour!
- Tech Tips Roundup for Making Distanced Holidays Easier
- Tech Tip: Getting Started in OUUC Connect/Realm
- Tech Tip: Avoiding Email Scams
Category: Uncategorized
- Notice of June 9, 2024 Annual Congregational Meeting
- Proposed Governance Manual Revision
- Carrie Newcomer Events
- OUUC is Hiring: Part-Time Professional-Office Assistant
- Are you curious about what the OUUC Tech Team does?
- Holiday Services and Events
- Revisiting OUUC’s Covenant: After-service Forum
- Keeping the Holidays Merry & Bright – Gift Card Scams
- OUUC is Hiring: Part-Time Professional: Business Manager
- OUUC Under Construction Soon!
- Proposed Covenant Modifications
- Extending Our Reach: An Invitation from Congregational Leaders
- February 23 Snow Closure
- Learning Right Relations Gathering: Elizabeth Satiacum
- Faith in Action Notifications
- OUUC Environmental Action Team Quarterly Topic: Carbon Fee and Dividend Legislation
- Modified OUUC Schedule for This Snowy Thursday, December 1
- 2023 Share the Plate Recipients Chosen
- Songs in the Key of Warm: a Capital Campaign Cabaret
- Community Dinner FAQs
- Life and Legacy Planning: An Overview
- Thursday Evening Spiritual Practice Sessions Have Begun
- Update to OUUC Covid Guidance
- Seeking Communications Specialist
- OUUC Agreement for Times of Pandemic
- January-February Share the Plate Recipient: Thurston Climate Action Team
- Opportunities for Social Justice Learning and Action
- October Challenge
- Tech Tip: Saving Links from Zoom Meetings
- Questions
- Lights in the Dark
- Help Stop the Spread of COVID-19
- Summarizing Our Month of Healing
- Announcing the OUUC Website Redesign Plan
- Remembering Bernie Steckler
- Church Marketing – Guidelines for Announcements
Category: UUA
- Article II Study Commission Draft Feedback Sessions
Category: Video
Category: Volunteer Opportunities
- Are you curious about what the OUUC Tech Team does?
- New Skills & Interests Survey to Foster Stewardship
Category: Who we are
- Our New Vision, Mission, and Ends
- Vision, Mission, and Ends Explanation
Category: Worship
- Transgender Day of Remembrance
- February 26 Events Move Online
- Sunday Services Coming Up
- Fall Sunday Service Plan