Please bring heavy hors d-oeuvres, finger foods, or a snack to share. Someone will be available in the kitchen beginning at 5:00 to help do whatever you need to prepare and present your contribution.
It's always fun to have a plateful of tasty treats while browsing the silent auction offerings and vying for special live auction items.
PS: Potluck Sunday happens to be the next day, November 9. Maybe prepare for two events at one time!
Email auction@hvuuc.org with any questions.
Don’t forget Daylight Savings time is this Sunday!
Join us for church on November 2, 2025!
9:30am Religious Education
11:00am Sunday Service
12:00pm Coffee Hour
This time of year many religious traditions take time to honor their dearly departed, and the Remembering service here in our church has become an annual tradition. During this service Rev. Tiffany names and honors the people connected to this congregation that have died this year, as well as important figures in the world. And then we share a ritual of remembering together. You are invited to bring photos or mementos of your departed friends and loved ones to place on the altar during this service.
No need to wear yourself out making an entire meal. Join us at HVUUC for a Thanksgiving potluck from 2-5pm on Nov 27.
Sign up in the sanctuary or by emailing thanksgiving@hvuuc.org to tell us who’s coming & what you’re bringing.
Everyone is welcome!
Please email all submissions for the November newsletter by Monday November 3rd to newsletter@hvuuc.org.
At our recent Listening Circle, it became very clear that choir deserves more energy and attention than it has been given. This coming Sunday, November 2, will be the first official rehearsal for our re-booted choir program! Please assemble in the sanctuary by the piano at 12:30, after relaxing for a while at Coffee Hour. Rehearsal will last approximately an hour.
This Sunday we will begin working on two songs for the upcoming Festival of Lights: Pass on the Light and De Noche. If you have never joined the choir or are hesitant to sing, you are invited to sit with the choir and simply observe! New voices are always welcome.
Email musicdirector@hvuuc.org with any questions.
Headlines
Minister’s Note: Update from GA
Summer RE Activities
Social Justice
Treasury Report
Kitchen Update
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Church Family,
I have returned from Pittsburgh’s General Assembly three days ago (as of the day I’m writing this, June 28th) and I am still marinating in the inspiring worship services, intriguing workshops, and the challenging but fulfilling work of governance for our Unitarian Universalist Association. There were several important votes that happened this year, and I want to let you know how they went.
Click through to read the full update about Article 2 Revisions
If the main way you experience our Sunday Services is through our YouTube services, we want to hear from you! We want to get feedback about how much of our services you watch, and what parts you watch, so that we can make good choices moving forward, please fill out this survey!
If you come to our services in-person fairly regularly, then please do not fill out this survey.
Click here to answer a few brief questions, it will only take a minute of your time.
Summer RE is in full swing and there is more to come in July! Here is the full list of activities for July RE.
July 2 - NO RE!
July 9 - Making Bird Houses w/Derek Sennes and Libby Ridley
July 16 - Surgery w/Stephanie Hart and Sophia Peterson
July 23 - A Window Between Worlds - RE and Covenant w/Justin Ridley and Jessica Bouchard
July 30 - Astronomy w/Mike Frisch
Please join us as you are able! Don't miss out on these RE opportunities!
Join us for church on Sunday June 25, 2023
9:30 Religious Education
11:00 Sunday Service
What is Evil? Where did it come from? How does it manifest in the world about us? How do we recognize in others and in ourselves? Can we do anything to stop it, or even avoid it? These are questions that have confounded us since the beginning of time. Let’s explore them using sacred writings, story, and art.
Soapbox Sunday is coming soon! If you have something you'd like to talk about on July 2nd, please talk to Bradley or email him at rscchair@hvuuc.org.
Ever since the Typhoon Mawar devastated the people of Guam, we have been hearing from people who want to help. This page is FULL of ways you can help. Please keep in mind that money donations are the most needed and most appreciated in these situations:
https://guamrecovery.com/how-you-can-help-typhoon-mawar-disaster-relief-efforts/
Rev. Tiffany will be out of the office from Sunday June 18th until Monday June 26th for professional development
Justin will be out of the office from Saturday June 24 until Tuesday July 4 for vacation time
Please note that scammers and spoofers and hackers LOVE to target us while our minister is away. If someone reaches out to you by email during these times claiming to be Rev. Tiffany or Justin, they are NOT. You can reach out to the office at office@hvuuc.org if you have any concerns about this.
Join us for church on Sunday June 18, 2023
9:30 Religious Education
11:00 Sunday Service
As Unitarian Universalists, we share an ethical framework in our principles. Our individual moral stances may vary yet they converge in a democratic process to this common ground. Presumably the purpose of the 4th principle, how we search for truth and meaning, is to inform how we should act in the world. Yet knowing a truth or finding meaning in a narrative does not directly provide a moral direction. How do we bridge the gap from narrative to a personal moral? One must acknowledge a feedback loop from our communal ethic back to the individual. I’d like to introduce the concept of moral constructivism as a framework for investigating this question. The outcome should provide interesting questions for the individual to wrestle.
Join us for church on Sunday June 11, 2023
A Transcendentalist and an Abolitionist, Theodore Parker was a Unitarian minister in the 1800s that inspired a wide gamut of thinkers and writers including Martin Luther King Jr and Abraham Lincoln. Today we learn a little something about this important figure in Unitarian Universalist History
Please be warned that there is an email scam that uses a fake email address impersonating the minister or other staff to request membership information, urgent assistance with an unspecified task, and/or financial assistance - often in the form of gift cards. These messages are not generated by a HACKED email address or account, they use fake or SPOOFED email addresses. That means that there is nothing HVUUC or any individual can directly do to stop this - a password or account change does not help.
If you receive a message that seems like a scam, here is what you can do to ensure that the scam does not spread further:
DO NOT reply to these messages.
REPORT the email as spam and BLOCK the sender.
If you aren't sure and want to check the message's veracity, call the HVUUC office, or start a NEW email using the correct email address (minister@hvuuc.org or office@hvuuc.org), and ask.
NEVER send gift card numbers or financial information via email or otherwise.
Many email programs like gmail and outlook automatically save new email addresses to your account, so you may need to go into your comments and confirm that you have the correct email address, deleting any others you have on file so that future emails don't get lost to the scammers.
Links to more info about this type of scam:
https://www.cmu.edu/iso/news/2020/email-spoofing.html
Here is my solemn promise to you: If I ever need help, or am ever trying to help someone else, it will never be in the form of asking you to buy and send gift cards electronically. If for some reason that I cannot fathom right now I do need such a thing, I will reach out to you in a way other than email.
Special thank you to Caring ❤ Team member Alicia C. for her dedication as May coordinator.
The June coordinator is Joy B. along with newest member Judy T.
The Caring ❤ Team cares about you!
New members always welcome in this very worthy committee serving church members and friends.
If you are interested in joining us or just have questions email
caring@hvuuc.org
Thank you! ❤
