Religious Education Update - May 3

Religious Education Update - May 3

✨ The Happenings:

💜 Youth Lock-In is officially locked in!

May 16–17 — more details coming soon via email, E-News, and Facebook!

🕸 Stay Connected

Join our HVUUC Families Facebook Group to keep up with all things RE:

https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1CbL7p4Lp9/

🌞 Summer All-Ages RE is FULL — and it’s going to be incredible!

Our community is showing up in the most beautiful ways to share knowledge, creativity, and passion across generations:

Click through to read more.

Flower Communion: Companion Planting our Church

Flower Communion: Companion Planting our Church

Join us for church on April 26, 2026.

  • 9:30am Religious Education

  • 11:00am Service

  • 12:00pm Coffee Hour

  • 12:30pm Annual Meeting

Flower Communion: Companion Planting our Church

Just as the Native Americans have a long history of planting corn, beans and squash together in a way that benefits all three, our Unitarian Universalist community has planted many different kinds of people together to create a diverse and beautiful garden of humanity. Flower Communion is our annual celebration of that coming together. Please bring a flower and an open heart to this celebration. Members are invited to stay for our Annual Meeting afterwards.

Regaining Our Senses

Regaining Our Senses

Join us for church on April 19, 2026.

  • 9:30am Religious Education

  • 11:00am Service

  • 12:00pm Coffee Hour

  • 4:00pm Youth Group

Regaining Our Senses

Our senses are the means by which we experience our world and our life. While our five senses haven’t changed over thousands of generations, our experience in using them in the modern world is unlike any time before us. We are in a time and sensory bubble called modernity. This week Charlie Mattioli explores what we have won and what we have lost and why it matters in our lives and spiritual journey.

WETS Donations for Radio

WETS Donations for Radio

Do you enjoy listening to NPR and WETS? We can help support them and, in return, get information about HVUUC aired on the radio to let the community know who we are.


Just write your check to HVUUC with WETS noted on the memo line or enclose cash in an envelope marked WETS. Drop these in the offering basket or the donation dropbox on the back wall. Then we will bundle these donations and listen for our church name on the radio!  

Holy Humor

Holy Humor

Join us for church on April 12, 2026.

  • 9:30am Religious Education

  • 11:00am Service

  • 12:00pm Potluck

  • 1:00pm Meeting about Music

“Holy Humor”

Holy Humor: The Sacred Art of Not Taking Ourselves Too Seriously. Brought to us by Rev. Eric Coleman, his message will reflect on using humor as spiritual resistance and community building.

Easter Sunday

Easter Sunday

Join us for church on April 5, 2026.

  • 9:30am Religious Education

  • 11:00am Service

  • 12:00pm Egg Hunt

  • 12:30pm Security Listening Circle

“Easter Sunday”

This Easter Sunday Rev. Tiffany and Alesha Chaffin explore the different ways we Unitarian Universalists relate to Jesus and the symbolism connected to Christian belief and practice.

Executive Session Board Report

Executive Session Board Report

On 08/19/2025, the Board appointed a special task force to review policy around those who are survivors of domestic abuse. At a special Board meeting on 01/06/2026, the Safe Here Task Force reported back to the board with; a letter, a statement of conscience, a proposed Abuse Response Policy, appendices, and a proposed charge if the Board determined to create the suggested Survivor Care Collaborative. The Board reviewed the documents over the next two months, consulting with the UUA and an attorney. In an Executive Session at the Board’s meeting on 03/17/2026, the Board voted unanimously to move forward in the following ways to address concerns of survivors and those who are close to survivors, security, and covenantal living:

Church Annual Meeting

Church Annual Meeting

HVUUC will hold its Annual Meeting on Sunday, April 26th at 12:30 in the church sanctuary at 12:30. All members are encouraged to attend to vote on the proposed slate of officers for 2026-2027, as well as the proposed budget and other church business. Childcare will be provided.

Email president@hvuuc.org with any questions.