02 / 17
Start: 11:00 am
End: 1:00 pm
The Wednesday Forum is held every Wednesday in the Knatvold Room from 11am - 1p, with people bringing bag lunches and discussing the topics of the day. All are welcome and invited to attend the stimulating and provocative discussions. | ||
02 / 18
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02 / 19
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02 / 20
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02 / 21
Start: 9:30 am
End: 12:30 pm
Two services at 9:30am and 11:15am Rev. Jon M. Luopa will give the sermon this morning. Music will be provided by the Intergenerational Choir. | ||
02 / 22
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02 / 23
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
FRIENDSHIP AND CARING Let’s create a community of friendship and caring! All women from UUC are invited, so if you know someone who might be interested in coming, please let her know. Come gather for conversation, connection, and food. Bring a dish to share. Meetings start with a potluck, then conversation and group discussion. It’s a great way to meet UUC women and get to know each other on a deeper level. Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Spiritual Practices for Real Lives Have you wondered what exactly is a spiritual practice? Or pondered how you might bring greater meaning into your everyday? This introductory class will explore six spiritual practices that we will then commit to experimenting with in our own lives. The course will be a spiritual sampler that you’ll take home and try on. And if it doesn’t fit, returns are a breeze. Sessions: 3 Tuesdays Fee: $15 Dates: Feb. 23, March 2, 9 Time: 7:00-9:00 Facilitator: Rev. Dr. Alicia Grace has been a parish minister at UUC since 2004. | ||
02 / 24
Start: 11:00 am
End: 1:00 pm
The Wednesday Forum is held every Wednesday in the Knatvold Room from 11am - 1p, with people bringing bag lunches and discussing the topics of the day. All are welcome and invited to attend the stimulating and provocative discussions. Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Do the complexities of climate change issues promote feelings of inadequacy? Does peak oil produce images of returning to a more primitive existence? Through readings and group discussions, participants in this class will learn about the interaction between Peak Oil and Climate Change, and then envision a resilient community approach to resource depletion, financial downsizing and climate instability. Using The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins as a resource, class members will combine their own thoughts and experiences with information from reading to explore discussion questions with a trained facilitator. Prior to class, participants must purchase the book The Transition Handbook at the UUC bookstore. If purchase of the book is problematic, please consult with the instructors about a scholarship or book loan. Sessions: 6 Wednesdays Fee: $25.00 | ||
02 / 25
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02 / 26
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02 / 27
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02 / 28
Start: 9:30 am
End: 12:30 pm
Two services at 9:30am and 11:15am A former colleague of Jon's from Connecticut, the Rev. Kathleen McTigue will preach and Rev. Jon Luopa will conduct the service. Music provided by the Loft Choir. | ||
03 / 1
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
This class will use writing on war as a springboard for writing and discussing personal responses to war and its legacy. Participants will examine the historical settings of literary texts and consider how the authors’ circumstances inform their work and our responses. Facilitators will offer writing assignments that are meant to be evocative, not prescriptive. Before the first class, participants should read Part 1 in A Long, Long Way, by Sebastian Barry, and acquire Fugitive Pieces, by Anne Michaels. Sessions: 4 Mondays, every other week Fee: $25 Dates: March 1, 15, 29, April 12 Time: 6:00-8:00 | ||
03 / 2
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03 / 3
Start: 11:00 am
End: 1:00 pm
The Wednesday Forum is held every Wednesday in the Knatvold Room from 11am - 1p, with people bringing bag lunches and discussing the topics of the day. All are welcome and invited to attend the stimulating and provocative discussions. | ||
03 / 4
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03 / 5
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03 / 6
Start: 9:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
UUC LANDSCAPE WORK PARTY Saturday, March 6 9 am –noon Let’s get weeding, mulching, and pruning and look for signs of spring! Bring gloves. Wheelbarrows, tools and refreshments provided. Contact Nancy Bowen-Pope Start: 9:30 am
End: 2:30 pm
Author of The Four Stages of Hope, Cathleen Fanslow-Brunjes is an internationally acclaimed expert in the fields of death, dying, grief, and hospice care. This workshop will introduce a process that enables families, friends, and professional caregivers to understand and assist the dying on their journey. UUC’s Care Team is co-sponsoring this event as a training for its members, and it is open to other interested members and friends of UUC. Sessions: 1 Saturday Fee: $15; scholarships available Date: March 6 Time: 9:30-2:00 with light lunch provided | ||
03 / 7
Start: 9:30 am
End: 12:30 pm
Two services at 9:30am and 11:15am The Rev. Dr. Alicia Grace will preach. Jon will be speaking at the PortTownsend UU congregation. Music provided by the Loft Choir. Start: 1:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
ART RECEPTION SUNDAY, MARCH 7 The Art Committee invites everyone to a reception for our March artists on Sunday, March 7 from 1-3 pm. Dick McMahon takes gorgeous, up-close and intimate color photos of natural and manmade objects, among other subjects; all of his photos are shot on film. Doughlas Remy creates abstract 3-D mixed-media wall-art composed of fused glass, resin, and small objects that showcase the artist's delight with color, texture, form and pattern. Refreshments will be served, artwork is for sale, and a portion of each sale benefits the church. Start: 1:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
This class has been cancelled and will offered again in the future Start: 2:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
Rituals are a great way to give you and your children some anchors in this fast paced challenging world of ours!! Jan Faull, a local parenting educator, believes that traditions and rituals help solidify the family unit and ground children to know “this is who I am and this is what I do.” With this 2 hour session you can learn the process for giving your family this sense of place and self. Sessions: 1 Fee: $5.00 Dates: Sunday March 7 Time: 2:00-4:00 Facilitator: Beth Herrild, UUC Director of Religious Education. Beth is the author of Comfortable Chaos: Forget Balance and Make Career and Family Choices That Work for You, published in 2005. She wrote an article on family traditions and rituals that appeared in Parent Map magazine in 2008. She is also a freelance writer for Parent Map magazine. | ||
03 / 8
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03 / 9
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03 / 10
Start: 11:00 am
End: 1:00 pm
The Wednesday Forum is held every Wednesday in the Knatvold Room from 11am - 1p, with people bringing bag lunches and discussing the topics of the day. All are welcome and invited to attend the stimulating and provocative discussions. | ||
03 / 11
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03 / 12
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03 / 13
Start: 1:30 pm
End: 4:00 pm
MARRA FARM WORK PARTY Saturday, March 13th 1:30 - 4 pm Come join youth from UUC’s SPAG CON in an intergenerational effort to help get the farm ready for a new growing season. The Giving Garden at Marra Farm provides produce for a South Park food bank. Contact Nancy Bowen-Pope for details, carpooling and driving directions. | ||
03 / 14
Start: 9:30 am
SUNDAY, MARCH 14 CELEBRATE REV. JON M. LUOPA’S 10th ANNIVERSARY AT UUC On Sunday, March 14, our congregation will be celebrating Jon's 10th anniversary at University Unitarian Church by making that Sunday “Jon Luopa Day.” The celebration will include two very special morning services at 9:30 and 11:15 am with an all-church reception for Jon between services, beginning at 10:30 am. In addition, we will be hosting a potluck dinner in the chapel that evening to toast Jon's anniversary with stories, song, and celebration, looking back on the wonderful gifts Jon has shared with us over the past ten years. Please save the date for Sunday, March 14, “JON LUOPA DAY” Start: 9:30 am
End: 12:30 pm
Two services at 9:30am and 11:15am JON LUOPA DAYCelebrate Rev. Jon M. Luopa’s 10th Anniversary at UUC. All-church reception between services at 10:30 am. In honor of Jon, the Sunday collection on this day will be on behalf of Sound Alliance. Music provided by the Loft Choir, Intergenerational Choir, Lori Blythe, organ, Dawn Stremel and Erin McBride, trumpets. | ||
03 / 15
Start: 11:00 am
End: 1:00 pm
The March 15th Senior Focus will feature UU member Amanda Lane sharing her experiences in Jordan where she lived for 7 years and was involved in humanitarian work. Presentation at 11 am and lunch at noon. Please register in office for lunch. Senior Focus is a monthly program (September-June) that nourishes our brains with a speaker for one hour, and our bodies with a buffet lunch afterward. We usually meet on the third Monday of the month. | ||
03 / 16
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03 / 17
Start: 11:00 am
End: 1:00 pm
The Wednesday Forum is held every Wednesday in the Knatvold Room from 11am - 1p, with people bringing bag lunches and discussing the topics of the day. All are welcome and invited to attend the stimulating and provocative discussions. | ||
03 / 18
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03 / 19
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