CELDF Championing Nature & Communities
The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) is helping build a decolonial movement for Community Rights and the Rights of Nature to advance democratic, economic, social, and environmental rights – building upward from the grassroots to the … read more.
Interim ministry is a formative process. Formative – to give shape, to add form, to make meaning, to stop and assess the shape and develop. That means, we try on ideas, we look under rocks, and we have a list of things we are supposed … read more.
March 21, 2022
Hello Countryside:
Congregational life is getting busier and that is a good problem to have. Please try to get announcements in ahead of time for the e-news and to put on social media. Please, let others know what you are planning and have it … read more.
The Worship Council and Rev. Denise want to help you have an amazing Summer of Worship. July and August are a time we often hear from YOU about what you want to present in a worship service. Consider that worship is different from “speeches” or … read more.
March 1, 2023
Yesterday, the staff and I had our final staff lunch with Mary Shelden. It was a day full of the fun conversations, the heaviness of goodbye, and the continuation of church business. In the last month since Mary announced she would be moving … read more.
If you are like me, hearing that UUs could have LENT might be shocking. I was shocked when I first heard of this way of both honoring where our spiritual ancestors came from and also holding that philosophically and theologically a time of reflection for … read more.
As you prepare for a called minister, consider that the diversity of ministers who are coming into congregational leadership and parish ministry. When I left seminary, my last classes had more people who held marginalized identities (including but not limited to: BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and … read more.
Sunday, Feb 19, after service, approximately 11:20 am – 12:30 pm, in Atherton Hall
ALL are welcome. Childcare available.
“Telling our stories is not an end in itself, but an attempt to release ourselves from them, to evolve and grow beyond them. We tell our stories to … read more.
Join us February 19 after service for another all-church conversation about stories we recall about Lifespan Religious Education, affinity groups, and our favorite clubs in our history. Bring your stories and your memories and think about things you loved or used to do. CCUU dedicates … read more.
Have you noticed the look of our pulpit podium on the chancel? It has had a facelift! Huge thanks to Lois Phillips for transforming the look to make it reflect the church décor. Plus, she and Jeff Phillips changed the angle of the pulpit itself … read more.
