🎉 All-Ages RE Kick-Off on the Deck — August 30!
🌱 A New Adventure for Our K–5 Explorers!
🙌 Volunteers Make This Possible!
🔥 Teacher Commissioning & Blessing
📦 Save Those Dryer Sheet Boxes!
🎶 “This Joy” — Time for All Ages
🏕️Youth Group Heads to Wilderness at the Smokies!
🧭 Adult 1: Exploratorium Continues!
🎤 Youth-Led Service — September 13
🎵 Heartstrings & Harmonies
🗓️A Quick Schedule Reminder
🤝 REC Meeting — September 6
Please email all submissions for the September newsletter by Monday August 31 to newsletter@hvuuc.org.
Click through for a collection of upcoming news and events at HVUUC. Click the images to be directed to more information.
Don’t forget your water for Water Communion this week!
Join us for church on August 23, 2026.
9:30 am Religious Education
11:00am Service
12:00pm Coffee Hour
12:30pm Social Justice Meeting
Our annual interactive and intergenerational Water Communion service where we celebrate our interconnectivity. Many people bring water from their travels throughout the year, or from another water source that holds meaning for them.
Our annual interactive and intergenerational Water Communion service where we celebrate our interconnectivity is this Sunday. Many people bring water from their travels throughout the year, or from another water source that holds meaning for them.
If you’d like, please bring your water for water communion this Sunday!
Join us for church on July 5, 2026.
NO RE
11:00am Service
12:00pm Coffee Hour
5:00pm RE Collaborative Meeting
This is a yearly tradition in which a handful of your very own friends volunteer to "get up on their soapbox" to speak to us about something they feel is of great importance to them. This is our church's nod to the 1st ammendment rights of the people of this country. This year, we also commemorate the 250th Birthday of our country.
Headlines .…
S’mores & Stories!
K-5 Options During the Service
Scam Alert
Family Movie Night
Solidarity Summit
Absences and Closures
Women’s Retreat
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You can also find a few printed copies at our visitors table in the sanctuary.
Join us for church on June 28, 2026.
9:30am Religious Education
11:00am Service
12:00pm Coffee Hour
Come explore questions about your own and others "Best Advice". What is it? What was its source? Why is it pertinent? How do you share it? This exploration is facilitated by Steven Roberts.
✨ REC — Be Seen, Be Heard, Be Part of the Magic
🌟 All Ages, All In: A Summer of Community Connection
📖 Storytellers: S'mores & Stories
🧘 Healers: Family Yoga with Tish & More
🚒 First Responders with Gray Volunteer Fire Department
✨ Visionaries: Stargazing with Donnie and Mike Frisch
📚 RE Book Sale Fundraiser
🎬 Family Movie Night Fundraiser
🌈 Summer RE Class Updates
🦴 This Sunday: Fossil Exploration 2!
📱 Coming Soon: Simplified RE Sign-In & Sign-Out
Join us for church on June 21, 2026.
9:30am Religious Education
11:00am Service
12:00pm Coffee Hour
4:00pm Youth Group
People try so hard to be remembered--to have a legacy--after their death. No other creature on the planet cares about this except humans. Guest speaker Bradley discusses his thoughts on humanity's fight against natural law, why we do it, and is there any point to it.
Please email all submissions for the July newsletter by Wednesday June 24th to newsletter@hvuuc.org.
The deadline is a little shorter this month as the office will be closed the following week.
Join us for church on June 14, 2026.
9:30am Religious Education
11:00am Service
12:00pm Potluck
12:15pm Music Committee (all welcome!)
How do we, as Unitarian Universalists, talk about God? The Unitarian Universalist hymn "Name Unnamed" offers us several metaphors for exploring and understanding concepts of the sacred. Rev. Tiffany will reflect on how our lives are interwoven with sacredness.
For $1500 HVUUC can get 125 radio spots aired on WETS during the year. We are $500 short. If we can raise the needed amount by June 20 we can get information about our church to a wide audience of radio listeners.
HVUUC has usually managed to raise enough money to get a yearly contract with WETS. Then we hear something like this on the radio:
"Support for WETS comes from Holston Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, a religious congregation working together as a church to share love, pursue justice, and seek wonder."
This year we are $500 short of our goal. Can you donate before the June 20 deadline? Pay by cash, check, or Zelle--just be sure to designate it for WETS. Thank you!
This report highlights accomplishments, challenges, and plans for 2026-2027. Our leaders are guided by HVUUC's Vision of "We work together as a church to transform ourselves, our community, and our world by sharing love, pursuing justice, and seeking wonder."
You can find the annual report in the “Members Area” of our website. If you need to password to the Members Area, email office@hvuuc.org.
Join us for church on June 7, 2026.
9:30am Religious Education
11:00am Service
12:00pm Coffee Hour
12:30pm k-5 Service Option Meeting
What do we do with the word "evil." Many of us, who may have been called evil ourselves because of who we love or what we do or don't believe, probably want to shy away from the word altogether or claim that evil isn't real. But life in 2026 might be inviting us to name what evil actually is, and to consider what we might do about it. Rev. Tiffany offers her reflections on one of the big questions of life.
Here are some dates to keep in mind this summer involving staff absences and holidays.
Rev. Tiffany will be out June 15-July 13th.
Jess, our, DRE will be out June 14-June 20th and also July 6 - July 12th.
Our office manager will be out Tuesday June 30th and Thursday July 2 and our office will be closed that week.
No RE July 5th!
Headlines .…
Flamy Grant Concert!
K-5 Options During the Service
New Service Group
Family Game Night
Litha Ritual
Path to Membership
Ukulele Jam
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You can also find a few printed copies at our visitors table in the sanctuary.
