BREAD & SOUP

Join us on Wednesday nights each week in the social hall from 6pm to 7:30.  Delicious meals -- sometimes with soup! You may make a donation in the same basket to which contributions are made for dinner, on the serving table in the social hall.

WELCOME NEW MEMBERS and NEWCOMERS

In an effort to more warmly welcome new members and friends, and help them connect more quickly and meaningfully to the life of the church and opportunities for service, the Membership Committee along with the Minister offers an Introduction and Welcome to Unitarinian Universalism. This will be offered several times during the year.

Pastoral Care Associates
A selected group of volunteers completed training as Pastoral Care Associates in February. The Pastoral Care Associates (formerly called Pastoral Friends) will work with our minister to provide pastoral care to members who are facing isolation, personal tragedies, bereavement, or various health conditions, including acute or chronic illness. The role of the Pastoral Care Associate (PCA) is to care, listen, accept, and comfort. All PCAs have been trained in confidentiality, listening, and other pertinent skills. PCAs also participate in ongoing regular training and supervision meetings. Examples of care available include visits in the home, hospital/ nursing home or another agreed upon meeting place; support to members experiencing crisis or illness; contact with members unable to attend church due to illness or disability; assistance to friends and family involved in care giving; comfort to the bereaved; and assistance in arranging temporary meals, rides and household help. The PCAs provide volunteer care that is in addition to, not in place of, care provided by Victoria Safford, by family and friends, and by professional health care and counseling. WBUUC members may request a PCA visit by contacting our minister.

Women’s Book Group
The Women's Book Group meets on the third Monday of every month. Contact the office for more information.

Men’s Support Group
The Men’s Support Group meets at 7 p.m. on the second and fourth Monday of every month at the church. We share mutual listening as well as discussions of topics and books of interest to us. We encourage a commitment to on-going participation, but all men in the WBUUC community are welcome.

Last Monday Discussion Group
The Last Monday group meets at noon on the last Monday of every month to discuss a book, article, or idea. They will begin again in September.

Sharing Circles
Sharing Circles are small groups of 8-10 adults which gather about 5 times over several months for focused conversation, for sharing, and for listening. Since the fall of 2002, 33 circles have been cast-around topics ranging from "Forgiveness" and "Aging and Transformation" to "Peace and Patriotism" and "The Purposes of Religion." Sharing Circles are not adult education classes and they are not support group; they are opportunities for connection to one another, to our own thoughts and convictions, and to Unitarian Universalism. Each circle is led by a volunteer facilitatior. They are held on weekday evenings and during the day, on Saturday mornings (sometimes) and sunday afternoons; participants sign up for the circle most convenient to their own schedule, and most groups meet here at the church. These circles are a great way to meet others over meeningful conversation in an informal, firendly format. New Sharing Circles will begin in early October-watch the newsletter and Orders of service for information. Volunteers will be available in the Social Hall most Sundays between services to answer questions and tell you more.

WBUUC Girl Connection

Girl Connection is a group for 10 to 12 year old girls that meets regularly throughout the year at WBUUC. The goal of the group is to create a place for the girls to gather together and share experiences in a spriitually centered environment. Each session revolves around a particular theme or activity. The planning for this coming year is in the initial stages. Meeting times will be about one Sunday afternoon per month from 4 to 5:30. Please look for more detailed information in upcoming Orders of Service. If you are interested in participation or if you have questions, please feel free to call the church office.

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Come into this place which we make holy by our presence.  Come in with all of your vulnerabilities and strengths, fears and anxieties, loves and hopes.  For here you need not hide, not pretend, nor be anything other than who you are and who you are called to be.

Come into this place where we can touch and be touched, heal and be healed, forgive and be forgiven. Come into this place where the ordinary is sanctified, the human is celebrated, the compassionate is expected.Come into this place, together we make it a holy place.
-Rebecca Edmiston-Lange