All-Church Book Club
The Seabeck Book Club in partnership with the Visiting Theologian Program is hosting an all-church book read of The Color Purple by Alice Walker. The sessions will be Monday evenings at 7:00 pm throughout October and facilitated by Rev. Yolanda Norton. The final session on October 25 will be a hybrid session with Rev. Norton teach on-site at UCUCC. For meeting information contact Beth Bartholomew at Beth.Bartholomew.208@gmail.com or zoom@universityucc.org.
4-Day Community Organizer Training
Thursday, November 11, 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Friday, November 12, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Saturday, November 13, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Saturday, November 20, 9:00 am – 2:00 pm
Are you looking to take your passion for justice and connect it with strategies for real and sustainable change? Do you want to develop a practice that is faith-based, place-based and looks explicitly at racial and economic justice?
Organizing For Mission Network is hosting a 4-day online training designed to equip leaders with the tools to begin building teams, launch listening campaigns, build powerful public relationships, and essential fundraising skills. Participants will workshop with experienced community organizers and trainers, network with other faith leaders, and invest in their own development as organizers in their communities. Participants will develop a context-based 90-day plan and will receive 3 months of accompaniment with OFM organizers following the training sessions.
If you are interested in signing up please schedule a conversation with Pastor Steve at https://calendly.com/revjerbi
Spiritual Practice for October
How do you describe University Congregational UCC? What are the stories, spaces, objects, and traditions that shape your experience in the church? How does your voice blend with the voices of others? This series we are inviting the church to write We Are poems. The prompts are general, capturing your vision of who we are collectively as a congregation. One form could be:
We are…
We hope…
We believe…
We love…
We come from…
We gather…
We want…
We give…
We cry…
We dream…
We are…
Once you’ve written your poem you can email it to worship@universityucc.org or upload a recording or picture of it to our dropbox link: https://www.dropbox.com/request/3yS3LS3tqcqAoRGHyEbx