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On Your Mark… Get Set… Go! The UU Virtual Easter Egg Hunt 2021 is a go! The hunt begins Saturday, April 3, 2021 – the day before Easter – and will remain active throughout April. Spend the whole month exploring the UU net! Mark your calendars now! The hunt begins here: https://tinyurl.com/z1p2mwqv
by Bonnie Gilbert and Meghan Horn, Co-Chairs, Endowment Committee The Endowment Committee has begun its annual grant application process. Due to gains in our investments, the Committee is able to offer Endowment Grants which are used to benefit UUCWC and support at least one of the 8 UU Principles. The projects must begin during the … Continue reading 2021 Endowment Grant Applications Available
Our popular Spring Auction, UUCWC’s biggest fundraiser of the year, accounts for a good portion of our operational budget. This year, it is projected to be about 7%. Best of all, half of the Auction proceeds over the budgeted amount will be donated to an organization selected by UUCWC’s Council for Faith in Action. And … Continue reading 2021 Spring Auction – Success Starts With Your Contributions
by Jamie Evanini, Trustee, Board of Trustees I’ve been thinking of the lines of a song we listened to at February 24th’s Church Council meeting, a gathering of representatives from all of UUCWC’s committees and ministries and any other interested members and friends: “This joy that I have, the world didn’t give it to me. … Continue reading UUCWC’s Mission: The One We Give To Ourselves
The Personnel Committee, Board and staff look forward to celebrating Caryl Tipton’s 30 years at UUCWC and share this statement from Caryl as well as a history of the music program. A Statement on Reitrement from Caryl Tipton, Director of Music Ministry I will have served as Director, Music Ministry for 30 years in August … Continue reading Caryl Tipton Retiring in 2022
UUCWC’s Council for Faith In Action quickly responds! The UU DISASTER RELIEF FUND and our Southern Region staff are working diligently to assist UU congregations and their communities impacted by the severe winter weather and extended power outages across Texas. The First UU Church of Houston is a distribution center for water…receiving over 20 pallets! … Continue reading UUCWC to donate to UUA’s Texas Relief Fund
Please join us for a Side With Love Watch Party: The Black Church February 16 & 17 @ 8:45pm-11:15pm EST Co-Hosted by Revs. Duncan Teague & Michael Crumpler Register Now Side With Love invites you to join as they livestream the premiere of PBS’s The Black Church, an epic production about the impacts of the … Continue reading Side with Love Watch Party
The Environmental Task Force of the Unitarian Universalist for Social Justice shared with our Earth Ministry the following educational pieces: Plastic waste http://www.uusforsocialjustice.org/Environment/PLASTIC%20WASTE_FranRead100620.pdf Feeding Hungry Cities http://www.uusforsocialjustice.org/Environment/FeedingOurHungryCitiesRead.htm See more educational offers from the Total Environmental Task Force at Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice (UUSJ)
by Mary Baltycki, Chair-Finance Committee FINANCIAL: FISCAL YEAR 7/1/20-6/30/21 MID-YEAR UPDATE It is with a great deal of pleasure that the Finance Committee presents a financial summary for the first six months of our fiscal year. We have closed out the calendar year in a very strong financial position thanks to the extraordinary success of … Continue reading Mid-Year Financial Update
by Steve Saddlemire, Faith Expression and Funding Team of the Council for Faith and Action Last Spring when everyone became aware of the “Coronavirus thing”, the expectation was that by mid-summer it would all be over. Summer turned into fall and now as we enter a new year, we are battling the worst surge of … Continue reading UUCWC Continues To Be Generous
