by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Oct 29, 2015 | Weekly Message
As a member of UUCA, you are also an employer of 10 “regular” staff members and about 13 other support staff members (music, sound system, childcare, bookkeeping). Operating expenses devoted to personnel salaries and benefits amount to 68% of the budget. Although our...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Oct 26, 2015 | Sermons
Rev. Mark Ward, Lead Minister Seven months ago I recounted to you an amazing moment in my life and ministry that embodied in the photo you see on the cover of your order of service. Having come for the 50th anniversary celebration of the Civil Rights marches in Selma,...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Oct 22, 2015 | Weekly Message
For the past two days, Joy Berry and I have been in Morristown, NJ for a two-day module of Beloved Conversations, “an experiential curriculum that provides a space to re-form/fuse the brokenness of racism into new patterns of thought and behavior ushering in...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Oct 22, 2015 | Sermons
Rev. Mark Ward, Lead Minister It’s funny how some words can ignite great controversies. Some years ago, just as I was ending my training in seminary, reverence turned out to be one of those words for us Unitarian Universalists. The controversy was prompted by a 2003...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Oct 15, 2015 | Weekly Message
Our youth program for senior high students has undergone a renovation as valuable and as transformative as our church construction project this year. After a decade of discernment and data analysis, the UUA has grouped youth ministry with young adult ministry at the...
