🌉 The Bridge Weekly — July 26, 2026, 9:30-10:45AM, REZ Building

🌱 Religious Education is now Religious Exploration

🎨Summer All-Ages RE: Expressing Emotions Through Art

🧘 All Ages, All In — Healers

🎬 Family Movie Night Fundraiser

🌟 Wonder Worship Task Force

🌈 26'-27' RE Registrations Open This Sunday!

👶 Nursery

🌼 K–2: Flourishing Hearts

🌎 Grades 3–5: My Mindfulness Passport

🎲 Grades 6–12: The Journeys of Deeper Joy RPG

☕ Adult 1 Discussion Group

🌿 Adult 2: The Journey Home to YoUU

💜 Volunteers Make the Magic Happen

👶 Caregiver Substitute Opportunity

On Sunday August 2nd, we will be blessing backpacks, notebooks, or favorite school supplies for both our Students and Teachers for the beginning of the school year.  They will be blessed by the congregation during our August 2nd worship service, to celebrate our interdependence and send all our good energies to school with our students. Bring your backpack to church on August 2nd!

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Join us for church on July 19, 2026.

• 9:30 am Religious Education

• 11:00am Service

• 12:00pm Coffee Hour

Eat the Strawberry!

Life is short, so eat the strawberry! Rev. Tiffany shares one of her favorite stories from the Buddhist tradition and we all explore the gifts that the present moment has to offer us.

MUSIC LOVERS: Donnie Barnett's Bad Cats Brass Band will be bringing us several special music pieces on this day!

 🌉 The Bridge Weekly 7/19/26

✨ A Note from the DRE

 🌈 Religious Education is now Religious Exploration!

 🎲 Summer All-Ages RE: D&D 101

 🔥 S'mores & Stories

 💜 Wonder Worship Task Force

🛠️Behind the Scenes Gratitude

🧸 Nursery Wish List

If your group or committee is looking for additional volunteers, or if you'd simply like to share information about your group's purpose and activities, tables will be available at the church picnic for displays and outreach.

If you would like to reserve a table, please email fellowship@hvuuc.org or speak with Debbie after a service. We encourage all groups to take advantage of this opportunity to connect with our church community!

Volunteers needed for the annual church picnic on August 22!  If you enjoy sharing ideas or just want to help create a fun day for our church family, I'd love to have you on the planning committee and/or working team.  Those with the sacred knowledge of flipping burgers without burning them would be extremely helpful to have on board.

If you're interested, please email fellowship@hvuuc.org or talk to Debbie after the service.

Thank you!  Debbie Vasut, Fellowship Trustee

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Nursery Pick-Up Reminder

A friendly reminder that our wonderful nursery caregivers provide care for our littlest members each Sunday from 9:15 AM–12:15 PM.

As we continue nurturing an intergenerational church community, we invite families to pick up their children promptly following the worship service so they can join the congregation for coffee hour, potlucks, and other opportunities to connect across generations.

If you anticipate needing childcare beyond 12:15 PM on a particular Sunday, please reach out to our Director of Religious Exploration, Jess Ox, at hvuucdre@gmail.com in advance so we can explore available options together.

Thank you for helping us create a caring and connected community for all ages!

Join us for church on July 12, 2026.

• 9:30 am Religious Education

• 11:00am Service

• 12:00pm Potluck

Back Numbers are Useful for Lighting Fires

HVUUC member, Wanda E., explores ideas of worth and dignity as we age. Retirement doesn't mean uselessness. It enables us to find new ways to offer our many life's experiences and dispel the negative nomenclature of aging.

MUSIC LOVERS: James Shawcross and Sierra Stratton-Ramsay will be preforming a flute sonata for our special music this Sunday.

I'm inviting anyone who is interested to join the Wonder Worship Task Force!

Join the Wonder Worship Taskforce!

This will be a short-term, collaborative team focused on:
🌟 Exploring the overall structure of Wonder Worship
🌟 Brainstorming ideas and possibilities
🌟 Helping think through how everything comes together in practice
🌟 Reflecting on our first few weeks after launch and recommending any helpful revisions

When you pay your Pledge using PayPal, PayPal keeps 3% of your pledge. The Church doesn't receive your full donation. If you’re using Paypal, please increase your pledge payments by 3% so the Church can receive your full pledge. If not, we ask that you please use Zelle.

Please make your donations to the Church using Zelle or a direct bank deposit. Ask Stewardship@hvuuc.org for the Zelle Link or how to do a direct bank deposit.

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Join us for church on July 5, 2026.

• NO RE

• 11:00am Service

• 12:00pm Coffee Hour

• 5:00pm RE Collaborative Meeting

Soapbox Sunday

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.

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• 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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Join us for church on June 28, 2026.

• 9:30am Religious Education

• 11:00am Service

• 12:00pm Coffee Hour

And Your Best Advice Is?

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

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Join us for church on June 21, 2026.

• 9:30am Religious Education

• 11:00am Service

• 12:00pm Coffee Hour

• 4:00pm Youth Group

Don't Forget Me When I'm Gone

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.