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Meet and Greet Happy Hour and Sing-Along
2023-12-10 16:00 - 18:30 UTC | Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder
Meet and Greet Happy Hour and Sing-a-Long
Sunday Dec. 10, 2023 4:00-6:30
We will meet at the home of Diana and Michael King.
Please bring a snack for 6-8 and your choice of beverage, if desired.
If you have any questions, please contact Mary Pierce at maryhelenpierce@gmail.com.

Finding Your Way at UUCB
2023-12-10 12:30 - 14:30 UTC | Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder
Ready to find your next steps for connection and growth and UUCB? Join us for lunch and Finding Your Way at UUCB.
These bi-monthly classes are an opportunity for you to learn more about Unitarian Universalism, to help find the next steps in your own spiritual journey at UUCB and to connect more deeply with others in the congregation. Please email membership coordinator, Irene, at membership@uuchurchofboulder.org to learn more and/or RSVP.

Kindling Light in Darkness
2023-12-10 11:00 - 12:00, 2023-12-10 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Denver) | Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder
The Jewish holiday of Hannukah is a celebration of freedom and self-determination… and it’s a lot more complex than that. We retell the story, and hold it together with the conflict in Israel and Palestine today.

Family's Night Out
2023-12-08 18:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder
Family’s Night Out is a quarterly, catered event where caregivers and parents eat dinner in the Sky Room while kids have dinner separately.
We’ll be having our second Family’s Night Out of the year on December 8. This time parents and caregivers will get to enjoy a leisurely meal with lots of great conversation (and maybe some games).
Kid and Youth will also have dinner, make holiday gifts for parents, and watch classic Christmas movies. Climate Action Ministry will also be helping kids make reusable gift bags for gifts.
Cost is $20/family to cover the cost of food. If this presents a financial burden please pay what feels good. Please RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScNTRceQHW0Ief4D7VvCs7mGyw9EfdQvPQf1-heTxUrur22lg/viewform?usp=sf_link
You can pay at the event via cash or credit/debit card.
If you’d like to help in any way please reach out to Rachel Alba our Director of Religious Education at dre@uuchurchofboulder.org

Friday Afternoon Books
2023-12-08 13:30 - 14:30 UTC | Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder
The December Friday Afternoon Books will be meeting at UUCB on Friday, December 8 at 1:30 in the Sky Room. We will be discussing “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret,” by Judy Blume. We will also be voting for books to be read January through June. Contact UULaurie@gmail.com

Women's Spirituality Circle: Solstice Blessings
2023-12-06 18:00 - 21:00 UTC | Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder
We welcome all who identify as women. Welcome to our joyous, contemplative Solstice Blessings circle. We will have a potluck dinner at 6 pm in the Emerson room, followed by our solstice blessing circle in the Earth room, followed by a Book Gift Exchange. Please bring a book that has meaning to you, that you would like to pass on – and yes, please wrap it! Please bring a potluck dinner item, and we could also use some evergreenery and candles (pillar candles only, with a fireproof base of metal or glass preferred) for the spiral we create on the floor. Think about the upcoming winter solstice and how the deepening dark this month affects you and blesses you. Call Debbie Davies for more information. 720-233-3922

Senior Salon
2023-12-06 10:00 - 12:00, 2023-11-15 10:00 - 12:00, 2023-11-08 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | Offsite/Zoom
Senior Salon is an open discussion group for seniors. We meet “in-person” in the Sunshine Canyon Room, at Fraiser Meadows Retirement Center (350 Ponca Place, Boulder) on the second Wednesday of each month; from 10:00 – 12:00 am.

There is no lower-age attendance criteria; members simply self-select. Existing members declare that “The purpose and mission of the UUCB Senior Salon is to openly, respectfully and lovingly share among ourselves, relevant stories, and information about facing and thriving in the later stages of life.”
Senior Salon also meets (via Zoom) on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month. from 10:00 – 11:00 am. (See the most recent Messenger for the link) It is very informal, with a chalice lighting and reading thrown in, just to remind us we are UUs.
Contact seniorsalon@uuchurchofboulder.org for more information, or to get involved.

The Endowment Committee Presents: Tax Smart Giving
2023-12-03 12:30 - 13:00 (America/Denver) | Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder
The Tax Smart Giving event will be a 30 minute meeting open to anyone who wants to learn how to save the most money on their taxes while giving to charity. In particular, we will focus on the most tax beneficial giving strategies. We will explain why it is more tax efficient to do a qualified charitable distribution (QCD) than a required minimum distribution (RMD); why you should hold a highly appreciated stock for at least 1 year before donating; and how donation bunching can save thousands of dollars on your tax bill.

Everything Is Holy Now
2023-12-03 11:00 - 12:00, 2023-12-03 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Denver) | Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder
Even if there is nothing supernatural to the world whatsoever — even if the world is all there is with no divinity — nonetheless religious naturalism invites us into gratitude, humility, reverence, joy, and wonder which remain at the heart of a spiritual life well lived.

Community Night
2023-12-01 18:00 - 20:00 UTC | Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder
Join us for Community Nights on the first Friday of each month from 6:00-8:00pm. Bring food to share, and stop by UUCB for a potluck dinner and activities for all ages!
Carols, Ugly Sweaters, and Gingerbread Houses! Enjoy a potluck dinner for all ages with carols led by Paula Stafford on the keys. Prizes will be available for the ugliest Christmas sweater!
While we will not have designated childcare, the nursery will be open for children and their families to use.

Climate Action Ministry Meeting
2023-11-29 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Denver) | Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder
The UUCB Climate Action Ministry (CAM) is focused on enacting justice by educating our members and the community on the impacts of climate change and its solutions, and by providing opportunities for our members and friends to act to solve it. Each year, we plan a cycle of activities which might include advocacy and direct action, education for the congregation and community, and tools to make tangible change.
We meet monthly, August – May, usually the fourth Wednesday of each month. All are welcome!
Contact rachel.peterson.5683@gmail.com to be put on our mailing list to receive meeting notices and/or to let us know that you are planning to attend an upcoming meeting so that you can be notified of last-minute schedule changes due to weather or otherwise.

The Grammar of Inclusion
2023-11-26 11:00 - 12:00, 2023-11-26 09:00 - 10:00 UTC | Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder
We live in a culture that tends to recognize just two genders, male and female. The idea that there are only two genders is sometimes called a “gender binary.” Yet, non-binary identities have been recognized for millennia by cultures and societies around the world. While our culture is starting to deconstruct the gender binary, our linguistic structure reinforces the very division and discrimination that we seek to end. Together, we will explore how we as Unitarian Universalists–and as a church community–can create a culture of belonging through pronouns and a new grammar of inclusion.
“We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be.”
—Laverne Cox

Rev. Teri Schwartz (she/her) is a UU Minister and the founder of Spirit+Strategy, a pastoral care, coaching, and consulting practice, and currently serves as the worship minister for the Juneau UU Fellowship. Formly, she served as Senior Co- Minister of First Unitarian Church of Chicago, along with her husband and colleague, our Rev. David Schwartz. As a clergy couple and partners in crime, the Schwartzes (mostly) stay out of trouble by staying in church. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School and Brown University, she has formerly served as a chaplain in hospitals, palliative care, hospice, and to UU seminarians. She lives in Longmont, with David, their two kids, ages 15 and 12, a giant 170-pound St. Bernard dog, but it’s really their three cats that run the household.

Thanksgiving Dinner Service
2023-11-24 17:30 - 19:30 (America/Denver) | UUCB Teen Room, 5001 Pennsylvania Avenue, Boulder, CO, 80303-2739, United States
LUUP Campus, Longmont UCC Church, 1500 9th Ave, Longmont
Come and experience a dinner service format, which will weave meaning-making with the sharing and eating of the meal. This non-traditional worship is all ages inclusive. Revs. Teri and David Schwartz will be leading the service. Because of the nature of a dinner service, participants will not be wearing masks for most of the time together.
This dinner service lifts up gratitude for the many peoples of our American story: indigenous Wampanoags, English Pilgrims, and many more—and the causes for gratitude in each of our own lives.
The meal will be potluck – a chance to use up those Thanksgiving leftovers or make a favorite recipe. It is helpful if you mark your food items, and if you have dietary restrictions please consider bring a meal that works for you. Or just come and enjoy – there will be plenty for all.

UUCB Potluck Thanksgiving
2023-11-23 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Denver) | UUCB Teen Room, 5001 Pennsylvania Avenue, Boulder, CO, 80303-2739, United States
Bring your family and friends and celebrate Thanksgiving Day with UUCBers and Boulder Valley UU Fellowship members and friends at 2 p.m. at the Fellowship. The address can be found at https://www.bvuuf.org/. Sign up at UUCB or watch for on-line sign-up info to come. After Sunday, Nov. 19, call Dianne Ewing (303-776-0227) to sign up. It is important to know that if you decide at the last minute, you can still come, but bring a substantial dish to share. Maybe bring a roast chicken from the deli at the grocery store, or a large frozen entree.
The Fellowship would love to have you help with set up or clean up too, if at all possible! They help us when we host. We will alternate hosting, in the future, as we did for decades, now that the worst of the Covid pandemic is over.
We expect to have the traditional Thanksgiving foods, but nontraditional food is also welcome and encouraged! Bring enough to serve at least three times the number of people who are coming with you. A family of 5 could bring, for example, mashed potatoes for 15, or they could bring mashed potatoes for 7 or 8 and a gallon of cider. Are there traditional foods from your childhood that you’d like to see on the menu? Bring some to share! We are looking for a UUCBer to bring a turkey ready to serve. Usually each congregation provides a large turkey. We will have omnivores, but also vegans and vegetarians, and some who are gluten intolerant or lactose intolerant, so you will need to label ingredients unless they are obvious such as a tray of raw vegetables.
This is a great way to entertain your out of town guests and not have to prepare the entire meal yourself! Plan to record that football game and enjoy a wonderful feast with lively and friendly UUCBers and BVUUFers!

Your Board Is Listening
2023-11-19 12:15 - 13:00 UTC | Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder
Come chat with members of your Board of Trustees! Get updates about church matters, ask questions, and let us know what’s on your mind.

The Curiosity-Driven Life
2023-11-19 11:00 - 12:00, 2023-11-19 09:00 - 10:00 UTC | Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder
What would it look like if instead of a purpose-driven life, we embodied a curiosity-driven life? How could that change the way you move through the world? We’ll also observe a Transgender Day of Remembrance ritual to name and hold the reality of violence rooted in transphobia.

Wine and Spirit November Potluck
2023-11-17 17:30 - 19:30 UTC | UUCB Teen Room, 5001 Pennsylvania Avenue, Boulder, CO, 80303-2739, United States
Join us and bring a dish to share at a potluck affinity group for those in their 30s-40s-ish to discuss spirituality and UU themes. November’s theme: Generosity. Please be courteous and stay home if you feel sick.
RSVP to ckwolf@gmail.com for address and parking information.

Congregational Meeting
2023-11-12 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Denver) | Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder
UUCB members will gather in-person and online to vote on next steps for our building!
For the full call to meeting, please reference the latest weekly Messenger email.

Gratitude
2023-11-12 11:00 - 12:00 UTC | Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder
It has been said that religion is primarily an affair of gratitude, not of right belief. After our church breakfast at 10:00, join us for this all-ages service of gratitude as we explore and move into a spirit of appreciation.
(Note: There is no 9:00am service this week!)

All Church Breakfast
2023-11-12 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Denver) | Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder
The UUCB staff will offer a pancake breakfast to say thanks to all of our members participating in this huge next step for our building.
This breakfast will include regular and gluten/dairy-free pancakes, sausage, veggie sausage, scrambled eggs, fruit, coffee, juice, and of course syrup (both sugar-free and regular).
Stop by to eat, drink, and visit!

UUCB Live Auction & Dinner
2023-11-11 18:00 - 20:00 UTC | Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder
Auction dinner will take place in the Sky Room on Saturday, November 11, 6-8 p.m. Tickets are available for adults and children online at https://virtualauction.bid/uucb2023.

Friday Afternoon Books
2023-11-10 13:30 - 14:30 UTC | Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder
The November Friday Afternoon Books will be meeting at UUCB on Friday, November 10 at 1:30 in the Sky Room. Our book is “The Measure,” by Nikki Erlick. We will also be nominating books for our Winter-Spring reading. For more information, contact Laurie at UULaurie@gmail.com.

Forum on the Next Step for Our Church Home
2023-11-08 10:00 - 11:00, 2023-11-07 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Denver) | Various Locations
Please plan to attend one of the upcoming Forums, presentations of data gathered by the Strategic Initiatives Committee and the Board over the last year on the possibilities, resources, challenges, and options for our next step with this building. We now know there’s a realistic path to expanding on site — and we know it’s possible to move. At a special congregational meeting on November 12th, the whole congregation will decide which path to take. The Forums will dig into what we’ve learned and answer questions you might have to get ready for the vote.
10/22 12:15 pm – Forum
10/23 7:00 pm – Forum (Online – Zoom link will be in Messenger)
10/29 10:00 am – Forum
10/29 12:15 pm – Forum: Deep Dive with Si! Committee
11/5 12:15 pm – Forum
11/7 7:00 pm – Forum (Online – Zoom link will be in Messenger)
11/8 10:00 am – Forum at Frasier Meadows
Each Forum will share the same presentation (except for Si! on 10/29, with many more details), and all will have an opportunity for discussion. These dates are offered to give you options. Join us for one or more Forums!
