WUUC will host Bloodworks’ Pop-Up Donor Center on Thursday and Friday, April 8-9, in the sanctuary. Masks are required and the blood draws will be conducted in accordance with social distancing guidelines. No walk-ins, guests, or people under age 16 are permitted onsite.
Donating blood is an essential activity critical to sustaining community healthcare, especially during emergencies. For questions, please call 800-398-7888.
Each week we enjoy a “prelude” time for 10 minutes before our worship service. This time includes artwork from WUUC friends and members and announcements about upcoming events. Now we will be adding a slide to the prelude that will highlight a WUUC community friend or member.
The slide will refer to an article in the WUUC monthly newsletter for more information about the contributions of the highlighted person.
Worship Team member extraordinaire, Winny Schnitzler, conceived, developed, and implemented this new feature. Winny also serves as both a Worship Leader and a ZoomKeeper. Jen Ikeda helped to develop the interview questions that were used to gather information.
WUUC will serve a meal to denizens of Camp Unity Eastside on Saturday, June 27. Watch for more information, including the menu, as the time nears. For more information or to suggest a meal, contact Reggie Gausman.
The Building and Grounds Committee (BAG) invites everyone to honor EARTH DAY by helping out at our all church work party on SATURDAY, APRIL 24.
There will be projects large and small, something appropriate for any age and ability. We will start at 9:00ish and break for lunch. Restart at 1:00ish and finish up. Lots to do after a stormy winter.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. – Anais Nin
The word, ‘become,” is based on the root word “be” and the Old English word, cumin – to move with the purpose of reaching. This month’s Soul Matters materials highlight many things to contemplate about the idea of ‘becoming” –
The advantages of framing aging as becoming
The dangers of confusing striving with becoming
How becoming broken open by difficult times can help us grow
What becoming an adult really means
Becoming by holding on to and reclaiming ethnic identities
Accepting change on the path to becoming
Determining when becoming might first require us to unbecome who we are not
When to (and not to) facilitate becoming by Faking it ‘til You Make it
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. – Anais Nin
Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real… It doesn’t happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time. – Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit
If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path. – Joseph Campbell
Check out the materials listed below for more about becoming.
You don’t have to be a millionaire to make a difference in the world. In a world where hate and oppression make claim to religious truth, Unitarian Universalism offers love, democracy, and compassionate justice. A gift to Unitarian Universalism will bring you joy and will strengthen and extend our faith.
Consider WUUC’s Endowment Fund. Your bequest or beneficiary designation is a statement of faith- faith that our Unitarian Universalism and its voice for compassionate justice and religious freedom are important now and will be important after we are gone.
How will the Endowment Fund be used?
The Endowment Fund provides a permanent fund for enhancing WUUC’s mission. It can be a means to take advantage of opportunities for growth and service or to provide funds for major emergencies. Once the fund reaches $250,000, WUUC will be able to withdraw up to 5% of the fund (the fund is currently at $120,000). Here are examples of how the fund can be used.
Enlarging classrooms
Startup funding for a preschool
RE books, supplies, and furnishings
Leadership training
Scholarships for youth to attend UUA events
Support of a ministerial candidate or initial funding for an assistant minister
How can I make a gift to WUUC’s Endowment Fund?
Anyone can give to WUUC’s Endowment fund. Any level of contribution is welcome. Endowments are sensible and simple gifts that allow you to be a Unitarian Universalist philanthropist and keep your financial options open. Here’s how you can give.
Use beneficiary designation to give a percentage of a retirement account, life insurance policy, savings account, or annuity.
Use a bequest in your will to give a specific dollar amount, a percentage of your estate or a specific item, such as real estate or another asset.
A simple cash donation to WUUC.
Larger gifts ($10,000 or more) are memorialized with an engraved glass leaf that is added to the Kimbrough Legacy Circle Tree located in our church’s foyer
I’m interested. What do I do next?
Contact a member of WUUC’s Endowment Committee. They are: Chuck Bean, Laurie Rockenbeck, Jean Fowler, Tom Richards and John Hartman.
