💜 A Note from the DRE
🤝 Religious Exploration Collaborative (REC)
🎃 HVUUC Annual Trunk or Treat!
🌟 Youth Group — Big Ideas Are Brewing!
❤️CPR Certification Training — Participant Reminder
🧸 Nursery Families — Please Register Your Littles!
🌎 Adult 1: Curious Conversations — An Exploratorium of Their Own!
🎂 Happy October Birthdays!
💜 Gratitudes Across the Bridge
If you have served and would like your name to be on our veterans plaque, please email veterans@hvuuc.org with your name, dates of service, and military branch.
Click through for a collection of upcoming news and events at HVUUC. Click the images to be directed to more information.
We are setting up a meal train for one of our new members, Kat. She fell and has a cast on both her right arm and leg, and we're trying to drum up support for this meal train since they are so new.
Here is the meal train link: https://mealtrain.com/w5dglq
Join us for church on Oct 18, 2026.
9:30am RE
11:00am Service
12:00pm Coffee Hour
4:00pm Youth Group
Is the story of Persephone and Hades just an ancient myth explaining the reason for changing seasons, or something deeper? Join Erin Jenkins in discussing this ancient story, and what we can learn from its strong female archetypes even in our modern world.
Let us know what kinds of social justice issues you’re interested in tackling as a congregation by taking this quick survey from the Social Justice Committee.
Email sjchair@hvuuc.org with any questions.
Join us for church on August 2, 2026.
Don’t forget to bring a backpack or school supply this Sunday for our backpack blessing for all students and teachers!
9:30 am Religious Education
11:00am Service
12:00pm Coffee Hour
Hear from a number of people in our community why they have chosen to be Unitarian Universalist. We will also have a backpack blessing to bless our students and teachers as they prepare to go back to school.
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Flamy Grant Concert
Church Picnic
Social Justice Survey
Church Yard Sale
Church Bake Off
Different Potluck Date
Women’s Retreat
Fall RE Registration
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You can also find a few printed copies at our visitors table in the sanctuary.
Registrations are officially OPEN! 🎉
🎒 Backpack Blessing — August 2
💜 Volunteers Make the Magic Happen
👶 Paid Nursery Caregiver Substitute Opportunity
🌈 Join the HVUUC Families Facebook Group
🌟 Religious Exploration Collaborative (REC)
✨ Wonder Worship Begins August 9!
🌞 Summer All-Ages Religious Exploration
Join us for church on July 26, 2026.
9:30 am Religious Education
11:00am Service
12:00pm Coffee Hour
12:30pm Social Justice Committee Meeting
When Rev. Tiffany attended an Interfaith Day of Prayer, she learned a lot about building interfaith community, and about the nature of prayer itself. What do these lessons have to teach us about living our value of Pluralism?
Does anyone have a chess or checkers set (or two) they'd be willing to let us borrow for the upcoming church picnic? We'd love to add a little friendly competition to the day. Bragging rights are free, but good sportsmanship is required. If you have a set we can borrow, please contact fellowship@hvuuc.org or talk to Debbie Vasut after a service.
🌉 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!
Join us for church on July 19, 2026.
9:30 am Religious Education
11:00am Service
12:00pm Coffee Hour
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!
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
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
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
