Many of you are new to WUUC — Post -COVID members who were seeking – and found WUUC. What you are seeking is unique to you and we’re glad you found it at the Woodinville Unitarian Universalist Church!
The Annual Pledge Drive is wrapping up and we hope you’ve discovered how WUUC is Lighting Our World with our growing congregation and expanding offerings to support our community.
If you have any questions, let Jo Raymond know at: jozray@gmail.com.
Woodinville Unitarian Universalist Church2025-26 Budget Drive – Lighting Our World
WUUC Mission Statement
We connect and engage in joyful, inclusive, and intentional spiritual community to support one another as we help heal and transform the world.
Goal
The goal for this year’s budget drive is $330,000 in pledges.
Your generous financial support will help ensure that WUUC can:
Pursue our mission
Provide a spiritual home for our members and friends
Be a liberal religious presence in the broader community.
Attract and retain new members, which are vital to the vibrancy of the church community.
Budget
42% Minister
35% Staff
13% Facilities
11% Board, Committees & Office
24-25 Pledge Statistics
Average: $2000
Median: $3500 Range: $100 – $20,000
Range: $100 – $20,000 +
Community Offerings
Sunday Service
Choir, Piano, Guest Musicians
Circle Suppers
Men’s Breakfast
Super Seniors
Pondering
Ted Talk Tuesdays
Non-Fiction Book club
Camping & Retreats
Gen XYZ Nights
Cares and Concerns
Sister Circles
Religious Education
Social Justice Action
Social Justice Sunday Collections
Day School Space
The beauty of our nurturing community, church building and grounds
Our Dedicated Staff
Our volunteers
And so much more
Fair ShareInformation
Stewardship Committee
Co-Hosts: Leslie Morton & David Goss-Grubbs Chair: David Simons Communication: Holly Beck Stewardship Treasurer: Jo Raymond Church Treasurer: Kermit Sprang Calling Steward: Charlotte Benson
Questions about your pledge or how to pledge? Contact: Jo Raymond at jozray@laura-akers
We are forming a committee to refresh our congregation’s values, purpose, mission, and vision (VPMV). In the past several years, our congregation had experienced steady growth with new members post pandemic. With the current social climate, it is important to refresh our VPMV, involving the whole congregation. We expect the committee members to engage most of the congregation through focus group discussions, consolidate the data, and present the final readout to the congregation in a year-long process.
Please contact us if you are interested in participating.
Each member of the core team (the “VPMV Committee”) will need to commit to the following:
Attending each virtual committee meeting, which will take place up to several times monthly to get the plan started, then about monthly during the next church year as the process plays out, with more frequent meetings as needed.
Attend VPMV Training (one of the committee’s meetings) to be trained on how to facilitate a Focus Group for the VPMV Process
Facilitate at least 3 (possibly 4) Focus Groups of about 5 people each from the congregation, guiding them through the VPMV recreation process as trained; gather notes from each Focus Group in a common documentation area (Google Drive) for analysis and follow-through by the Committee
Support and participate as needed within the Committee to see the VPMV Recreation process through to the end.
Our annual rummage sale date is rapidly approaching (April 11-12) and we have no one to lead it. If no one steps up to lead it, WUUC will lose $6000 towards our annual budget. We do this sale every year at the same time and the community counts on it to happen; if we skip a year we may lose the community muscle memory to come to the sale and have lower sales in future years. We will also lose some benefit/service at church with the loss to the budget. The community also counts on this sale for affordable clothes/books/toys/household supplies; one year a woman bought almost all of the summer clothes I had donated from my kids and she expressed her great joy and relief that she could outfit her kids for such an incredibly low price!
You don’t have to do this alone! My first few years I had a team and people were assigned specific tasks (one did the advertising, one ordered the truck, one did regular emails to the congregation, etc). I am very happy to walk you (alone or with a buddy or a whole team) through the process. I will also be volunteering during the sale prep process (I oddly really enjoy that part) and the sale itself. There are also a lot of folks that have been helping regularly at the sale who I know will step up to participate.
Never been to the sale so have no idea what I’m talking about or just have questions; email me and we can chat! mortonmarler@hotmail.com.
A new year has started and we can be pleased with the work we’ve done in supporting the Totes to Go program throughout 2024. Totes provides food for weekends when school meals aren’t available to students. We know that hungry kids can’t learn well, so we help to ensure weekend nutrition for kids who are at risk of missing meals. We deliver items each month throughout the school year.
We have a number of “scheduled” donors who have signed up to bring the same items each month. Sometime after the 15th of the month, I send out a message listing the items we still need. Want to help? Watch for those e-mails and pick up some items we need. Or you might choose to make a financial contribution (WUUC with Totes on the memo line or envelope). Also, usually on the last Sunday of the month, I can use help loading everything into my car.
Questions or comments? See me, Grace Simons or John Hartman, co-coordinators.
