OUUC Weekly Update
December 19, 2023
Thursday Dinner
This week’s Thursday Dinner will be a solstice celebration. Volunteers are needed for set up and clean up, contact Rev Sara if you can help. All are welcome for food and fellowship at 5:30 pm.
Upcoming Faith Development Class
Fluent in Faith, Led by Rev Sara Lewis. 3 sessions, Wednesdays, 6:30-8:00 pm, January 10, 17, and 24.
Do you love words like Worship, god, and grace, or do you struggle with them? Do you just find the words confusing? Join this class to explore these and more words, to find and make meaning together as we dive into the language of faith.
Class will be on Zoom (good for those dark and cold evenings of January!)
Creating Your Own Spoken Spiritual Practice Class
The words we use have power in our lives. If we say things – especially out loud, but even just in our minds, our life will tend to work to make them manifest. The idea behind this class is that we can choose things we say with the intention of creating outcomes we actually intend to make manifest. Woody Moore has a Masters degree in psychology and has devoted considerable time (at least 25 years), energy and focus in using a practice made up of spoken words to achieve more consistency with how he lives his life. Class is offered in two sections with same content: Section One via Zoom: Four Mondays 6:30 – 8:30 pm—January 8, 15, 22 and 29 as needed. Register for Zoom section
Section Two In person at church: Four Tuesdays 1:30-3:00 pm —January 9, 16, 23 and 30 as needed. Register for In Person Section
Investing in Our Values; with a Focus on Congregational Financing
January 14 after the Sunday service. A resolution brought forward at the last UUA General Assembly asked that the UUA Common Fund totally divest of fossil fuels. Although the resolution was not successful, many congregations currently in the Common Fund, including OUUC, are interested in pursuing fossil fuel divestment and pursuing Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investments instead. ESG emphasize a portfolio's measures of sustainability, social justice, LGBTQ+ rights, solving food insecurity, and human rights. Not all ESG-labeled funds live up to their claims. How do you know? Do ESG funds perform as well as non-ESG funds? Longwave Financial will describe their experience as a financial advisory firm with experience in personal advising as well as helping faith-based organizations answer these questions and maintain endowments to insure their long-term financial health and pursue their financial and values-based goals.
Guest at Your Table
Do you have a Guest at Your Table Box you’ve been collecting money in? Please return your boxes to OUUC by January 7!
Volunteer to Provide Food
On Wednesdays, December 20 and 27 volunteers from OUUC will bring main and side dishes for the evening meal at Interfaith Works’ Unity Common’s Adult Shelter, and/or collect shelf stable foods for the food bank’s weekend backpacks. New volunteers are always needed and welcome to join this team which is helping to provide food security to kids, teens and adults in need. For more information, please call or email Jo Ann Young.
Help Wanted for the New Year’s Fire Communion
Volunteers needed for setting up and cleaning up for the New Year’s Fire Communion on Sunday December 31. If you could help, please contact Rev Sara.
A loving, just, and healthy world.