by uuasheville | Sep 3, 2015 | News 4 Leaders
When UUCA began giving away every Sunday collection to Share-the-Plate recipients last year, we essentially began a year-round “ask” for money from our congregants. Nearly everyone is in favor of this community support program, but it drastically changes the “giving...
by uuasheville | Mar 10, 2015 | News 4 Leaders
As you may recall, last spring the RE Committee announced a new way to offer Spirit Play to our kindergarten-5th graders. The Spirit Play curriculum is already an outstandingly interactive, age-appropriate, fun way to encourage faith development in our youngest UUs...
by uuasheville | Feb 7, 2015 | News 4 Leaders
An extremely important UUCA workshop for Congregational Leaders Friday, February 27 5:00-8:00 pm and Saturday, February 28 9:00 am–3:00 pm Generally speaking, it’s always good to set a destination before you set off on your journey. Now that our new Director of...
by uuasheville | Dec 30, 2014 | News 4 Leaders
There is an excellent presentation on YouTube by Rev. Scott Tayler, UUA Director of Congregational Life, and Mark Bernstein, Growth Consultant, CERG (Central East Regional Group of the UUA covering most of OH and WV, all of NY and parts of PA and NJ) addressing four...
by uuasheville | Oct 20, 2014 | News 4 Leaders
An early post laid out the communications issues that we deal with on staff. This post continues the conversation. We have now converted our monthly newsletter to an electronic format and created a one-page UUCA Communique that we mail to our non-electronic members...
by uuasheville | Oct 14, 2014 | News 4 Leaders
Yesterday was an awesome, awesome day at UUCA! (And technically it was a memorial service, not a funeral, but “Ten Weddings and a Memorial Service” doesn’t sound nearly as good, right?) Here are just some of the amazing things that I witnessed (more or less in...