by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Aug 21, 2024 | Featured, Weekly Message
Auction Time Is Coming! It’s summer now, but our November annual auction is right around the corner!  The date is Saturday, November 16, 2024. Our theme this year is WELCOME TO THE UU CIRCUS! Mark your calendars! Get your thinking caps on to decide what you might...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Aug 15, 2024 | Weekly Message
Summertime has been a wonderful opportunity for downtime and family time. Our youngest daughter was married in NY and a few weeks later I was able to visit familia in Colombia. It had been ten years! It was an amazing trip. Here is a photo from one of the towns we...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Aug 8, 2024 | Weekly Message
This Sunday, your energetic and growing Pride + LGBTQIA+ Gender and Sexuality Justice team is offering a free Big Gay Ice Cream Social to our members, friends, and visitors. It’s just one of the ways that we’re working to make sure there’s a big-welcome feeling about...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Aug 1, 2024 | Weekly Message
August finds us deep in the throes of summer. The solstice has passed but the weather has stayed warm and sticky. It’s the season of days by the pool, hikes to swimming holes, or maybe a road trip to visit family or a national park. All of these outdoor activities get...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Jul 17, 2024 | Weekly Message
Faith formation doesn’t stop over the summer – we’ve been reading and learning with Banned Books Summer! In June, we read LGBTQ+ themed books to celebrate Pride Month. We heard the stories of This Day in June, And Tango Makes 3, and Jacob’s New Dress. In July,...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Jul 11, 2024 | Weekly Message
The last Soul Matters theme for the congregational year was the gift of renewal, an appropriate theme to launch the summer season. What does renewal mean to you? Replenishment? Recovery? Restoration? Summer can be a time of replenishment when schedules slow down...
