Office Closed
The WUUC office will be closed from Wednesday, December 25, 2024 to Tuesday, January 7, 2025. Building use and Weekly events will continue unless canceled by the group leader. If you are planning an event during this timeframe please plan ahead to coordinate with staff.
Kwanzaa
Kwanzaa is an annual celebration of African-American culture from December 26 to January 1, culminating in a communal feast called Karamu, usually on the sixth day. It was created by activist Maulana Karenga, based on African harvest festival traditions from various parts of West and Southeast Africa.
Burning Bowl
Ditzler Hall & ZoomBy Rachel Eddy The beginning of the calendar year is an opportunity to let go of the old and set one’s intentions for the new year. There will be four altars set for that purpose: a burning bowl to burn away the old, water to symbolically cleanse one’s self, oil to anoint oneself with intention, […]
New Year’s Day
New Year's Day is a festival observed in most of the world on 1 January, the first day of the year in the modern Gregorian calendar.
Building the World We Dream About (BWWDA)
Ditzler Hall & ZoomBy Participants and Facilitators in BWWDA As UUs, we want to build the multicultural world of beloved community that we dream about. The Building the World We Dream About program offered this past fall at WUUC, sought to interrupt the workings of systemic racism and transform how people from different racial and ethnic groups understand […]
Hope? Really?
Ditzler Hall & ZoomBy Reverend Grace Simons Our culture leads us to be suspicious of other people and expect them to be uncaring and self-seeking. Several current authors say that’s off-base and harmful. What’s more, we can do some things to resist. Reverend Grace Simons Bio: Rev Grace Simons is Minister Emerita of the UU Fellowship of Stanislaus […]
Circle Lunch (os)
Off SiteCircle Supper is turning into Circle Lunch! If you would like to attend Circle LUNCH, now is the time to sign up. We’ve switched to lunch for this month to try to accommodate people for whom night time driving is a problem or who just don’t want to stay up and/or eat late in the […]
The Infinite Story Part 2
Ditzler Hall & ZoomBy Chuck Fowler and Jane Flood What do we Believe and Why? Chuck Fowler and Jane Flood will invite the congregation to continue the discussion of our infinite stories that we began in August. If you'd like to listen to part 1 the link is here: https://on.soundcloud.com/TUwERypB5RhquRLT6 The link to join the Zoom Meeting online […]
Practice The Practice
Ditzler Hall & ZoomBy Reverend Deanna Vandiver Together we can learn to care and how to care, making the web of life and love tangible and well-tended as part of our spiritual practice and ever unfolding faith formation. Rev. Deanna Vandiver (she/they), lives with her partner on the land of the Coastal Salish people known as the Suquamish, […]
Imbolc
Also called Imbolg, Candlemas, Brigantia, The Feast of the Waxing Light, and Oimelc. Imbolc celebrates the increasing strength of the God, given as the first and greatest gift of the Goddess. Many Wiccans honour the Goddess at this time as the source of fire, poetry, arts, crafts, agriculture and smith craft. It is a time […]
Lunar New Year Celebration
Whole Church BuildingCelebration of the Lunar New Year with Lion Dance!
Valentine’s Day
It originated as a Christian feast day honoring one or two early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine and, through later folk traditions, has become a significant cultural, religious, and commercial celebration of romance and love in many regions of the world.
R&R team
Ditzler Hall, Library & FoyerR&R team meeting Using Library, Foyer and Ditzler Hall
Ostara
Celebrates the return of the Goddess-as-Maiden, the courting of the Goddess by the God, and the reawakening of the seeds within the earth.
Transgender Day of Visibility
International Transgender Day of Visibility is an annual event occurring on March 31 dedicated to celebrating transgender and non-binary people and raising awareness of discrimination faced by transgender people worldwide, as well as a celebration of their contributions to society.