by UUAvl-WebAdmin | May 27, 2015 | Weekly Message
A few years ago, spurred by Linda Kooiker’s retirement from her good work as Membership Coordinator, we began a period of assessing and adjusting our membership processes. The change in staffing was a wonderful opportunity to regroup and see how things were...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | May 26, 2015 | Sermons
Rev. Mark Ward, Lead Minister It was the summer after my first year in seminary, and I was sitting at the bedside of a man roughly my age who had just undergone heart bypass surgery. I had never met this man before. His room was merely on the floor that I had been...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | May 21, 2015 | Weekly Message
It’s hard to believe, but the last day of Lifespan Religious Education (until Fall) is approaching. Last Sunday marked the perennially popular and deeply moving Coming of Age service, when 9th graders shared their credos (“what I set my heart to”) after a year of...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | May 14, 2015 | Weekly Message
We work together. We nurture each other’s search for meaning. We are a Unitarian Universalist community. The Board and I heard through the year how vital making and deepening connection is to your experience of UUCA. We like eating, learning, singing and working...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | May 7, 2015 | Weekly Message
So, how are we doing? It’s a question that every organization needs to ask on a regular basis to make sure that what it is doing aligns with its mission and values and connects with those who it serves. One of the chief ways that we have developed to get feedback from...
