OUUC Weekly Update
February 13, 2024
Thursday Dinner - February 15 at 5:30 pm
Join us for a celebration of the color Red in food form! All are welcome for food and fellowship at 5:30 pm.
Volunteers are needed to cook, set up, and clean up. In particular some table set up at 4:30 that Rev Sara knew she could count on would help a lot!
If you can help, please contact Rev Sara.
Following Dinner this week stay for the Children’s class, Buddhist Group, Action Hour, (all those at 6:30 pm) and the UU Pagan Group (7
pm)
New to UU/Seekers Class: UU History, Principles, and Sources
All who are new to UU or to OUUC are welcome at these classes (one or all of the series). For those interested in becoming members of OUUC this class is required. This class is offered both in person and on Zoom, 1st and 3rd Saturdays at 10:00 am.
This Saturday, the topic is: UU History, Principles, and Sources
Each class will cover a different topic. See the full list on the registration page.
Register here.
For questions or more information contact Rev Sara.
All OUUC Volunteer Training: Tech Use
Join Rev Sara and Tech Coordinator, Dr. Teresa Madsen for a training on tech we might use as part of our OUUC volunteer work: hosting a Zoom meeting, using a shared google drive, using the audiovisual television carts at OUUC, and more.
Presentation in person and on zoom following worship, 11:30 am. Hands on practice, in person only, about noon. Bring your own devices for practicing.
"Since I Been Down" Film Screening Next Steps
Did you join us for the film “Since I Been Down” and hear from Dr Gilda Sheppard this past Sunday? Dr Sheppard gave us some next steps we can do, including commenting on these bills.
30 Days of Love
Through February 15, all UU’s are invited to engage with resources and themes of intersectional love and justice gifted to us by the Side with Love project.
You can find those resources here: 30 Days of Love 2024 — Side With Love
Grounds Work Party! - Saturday, February 17 1-3 pm
Each third Saturday of the month a bunch of us gather for grounds cleanup. There is always something for everyone to do - from weeding to chain sawing. Bring for favorite garden tool (hand pruners, weeding tools, gloves) or your favorite power tool (leaf blower, hedge trimmer) and we will find a job for you. Contact Lynn MacDonald.
Action Hour
Each Thursday at 6:30 pm through February. Do you find yourself overwhelmed by all the petitions to sign and the bills to comment on during the legislative session? Do you mean to get to it but find your email inbox just too choked up and/or you forget? Well, set a time and do it with us! All are invited to join us at OUUC for this weekly opportunity to engage with faithful advocacy actions in the company of others. Bring your own device if you can: laptop, phone, tablet. We’ll have a menu of actions to take, all experience levels are welcome.
News from our Partner Church
Dear Friends at our Partner Church,
I am very happy with your letter, I hope everyone is in good health. Everyone is doing well here. Just imagine, tomorrow is the start of an event that happens every year, when I visit each family one by one at the beginning of the year. They wait a lot and everyone is happy about the conversations.
Thank you for your support, the students are very happy with the scholarships, it is a great help for the families! Special thanks to the congregation for the support for the renovation of the church. The experts promised that the work will start in April as soon as the weather warms up. In September we could even celebrate Thanksgiving together when it is finished. We welcome and hug all our dear friends.
God bless you!
Levente
Darlene’s Retirement Party on February 25
We cannot let Darlene depart us without saying thank you for thirty-three years of devoted service to OUUC and to all of us. Not one for the limelight, Darlene prefers that we minimize the hoopla surrounding this event. So, there will be no band and no fireworks. But there will be a brief tribute, and a light lunch after service on February 25. We hope that you can attend. Questions? Want to volunteer to help? Contact Melanie Ransom.