by WUUC | Oct 31, 2024 | DRE Blog
Children’s Religious Education (RE) Update
You may have noticed the numbers of children on Sunday mornings continuing to grow! We now have 17 children registered for RE from ages 2-16 years old.
If you have not already done so, please register your children, ages 0-17, to help us plan: WUUC RE Registration Form
Volunteers Needed
With the growth in children on Sunday mornings, we have split our previously one classroom into two so that activities can be age appropriate. With two adult volunteers required in each room every Sunday, we are stretched even more thin. Please consider taking on one of the three volunteer roles we now have:
- Back-up volunteer – someone who would not regularly help, but is willing to be scheduled and available to step in as a warm body if someone unexpectedly can’t make it.
- Assistant teacher – someone who regularly helps in the classroom, but does not do the prep work.
- Lead teacher – someone who regularly reviews the Soul Matters lesson for that week, prepares materials, and leads classroom activities.
Please email office@wuuc.org if you are interested in volunteering or have any questions.
by WUUC | Oct 25, 2024 | Announcements
Planning is underway for the many December Holiday Happenings at WUUC this year – some familiar and beloved, some new! First, some dates to get on your calendars: Advent starts on Sunday, 12/1 and goes for 4 Sundays: 12/1, 12/8, 12/15, 12/22. Solstice is on Saturday, 12/21. Christmas Eve is on Tuesday, 12/24. Christmas Day is on Wednesday, 12/25. New Year’s Eve is on Tuesday, 12/31.
We will be decorating the church and our Giving Tree in early December. Activities planned for December are: crafting and gift shopping for the children, cookie exchange and social justice gifting project, Solstice Labyrinth, pancakes/egg brunch after the Sunday service on 12/22, singing of favorite holiday carols before the Christmas Eve service on 12/24, and the Burning Bowl Sunday service on 12/29. If you are interested in volunteering to help for any of these WUUC holiday happenings, please contact either Jan Radoslovich or Donna Johnson by e-mail or text. Jan’s contact info: jmrad8642@gmail.com or (206) 718-3399. Donna’s contact info: djohnyh@yahoo.com or (206) 940-9577. We will be sending out communication re: details/dates/times on all the above December activities during the last week in November. Be looking for it!
by WUUC | Sep 27, 2024 | Announcements
School is in full swing and so is WUUC’s Totes to Go program. We support 15 students at Maywood Hills school with food for weekends, when school meals aren’t available. Each month we deliver supplies for four weekends – and a little extra in months with five weekends. Students receive servings of milk, juice, a one-dish meal, cereal, granola bars, fruit, snacks, and a protein food (chicken, tuna & mayonnaise, or peanut butter & crackers).
Each month regular, ‘scheduled’ donors bring items they’ve signed up for. We are so grateful that they fill most of our needs! Toward the end of the month, a “still need” e-mail goes out to the WUUC chat, inviting folks to fill in the gaps for that month’s delivery. We work a month ahead – in other words, food collected in October is delivered for November.
You can help in several ways. Become a scheduled donor for something we need. Make a donation to WUUC with “Totes to Go” on the memo line or envelope. Respond to the “still need” message when you see it near the end of the month. Or help with loading items to be delivered – usually on the last Sunday of the month, shortly after the service ends. Whatever you can do, the school and the children are very grateful.
For questions, comments, or to sign up, contact John Hartman or Grace Simons, co-coordinators.
by WUUC | Aug 31, 2024 | Announcements
The new WUUC Board met on 8/30 for a team-building at Jeff’s house, and on 8/31 on a off-site retreat to kick-off our 2024-2025 year. The main objectives of this first meeting are understanding the Board’s roles and responsibilities, and setting our goals for the year ahead. The Board will have its regular monthly business meeting on the third Wednesday each month, starting 9/18/2024.
President: Jeff Lu
Vice President: Barbara Brachtl
Secretary: John Gamble
Treasurer: Kermit Sprang
Board Members: Azure Forte, Trina Roulet, Kerrie Vespaziani
Non-voting Member: Rev. Dan Lillie
by WUUC | Aug 16, 2024 | Announcements, Minister Blog
Greetings WUUC community,
As we enter my fifth year of ministry with you here at WUUC, I want to share the news that I will be taking a sabbatical during the 2024-25 church year. This is a normal custom among clergy of all types, and specifically for Unitarian Universalist ministers. In our faith tradition (and in accordance with my Letter of Agreement), a called minister receives one month of sabbatical time for every year of ministry served. This means that this year (year five), I will be taking a four-month sabbatical starting on November 25, 2024, and returning to work on March 25, 2025. My first Sunday worship service back in the pulpit will be on April 6, 2025 (to give me some time to reintegrate back into the community before planning and leading worship again).
I imagine you might have some questions about how all of this will work. Luckily, I’m not having to figure it out alone. I have formed (and been working with) a Sabbatical Team to create coverage plans that will ensure everything goes smoothly while I’m away. There is still some planning to do and details to work out, but our plans are beginning to take shape.
To share what we know so far, we have created a brochure (attached) with information about the upcoming sabbatical. If (after reading the brochure) you still have questions, bring them with you to church on Sunday. After the worship service (this Sunday 8/18), there will be a Q&A session with myself and the Sabbatical Team to address your unanswered questions.
I am looking forward to my sabbatical; and also to returning from it refreshed, renewed, and ready to dive back into the vibrant ministry here at WUUC! As much as I’m looking forward to this, I know I will miss you all very much and be eager to see you all again by the time March rolls around. For the next few months, though, let’s focus on getting this new church year off to a good start.
See you on Sunday!
Rev. Dan Lillie (he/him)
