In her 2019 Sophia Fahs Lecture at the UUA General Assembly, titled “Building A Community of Communities,” Paula Cole Jones articulated a vision of governance grounded in awareness of the many smaller communities that make up the larger community of each congregation.
By Cil Knutsen, Board of Trustees Member-at-Large Reflecting on my previous experience as UU Board Member and President at another congregation, my visceral reaction was one of dread and trepidation. There was STRICT adherence to the overly ambitious Agenda. Our Co-Minister time-keeper ended discussion right at the appointed time. Okay, there were times we got...
From Peter Arian and Rae Dumont, Co-Chairs of the RO-IT Changes to Worship and Ingathering Events The situation with covid infection rates, variants, transmission and immunity is changing. Our primary concern remains the safety of our congregation, and of our larger community. We recommend modified procedures, while we aim to return to in-person worship and...
From Nick Lewis on behalf of the Board of Trustees Please mark your calendars for UUCM’s Virtual Annual Meeting on Sunday, June 6, 2021, at 11:00 AM. As you should know, Unitarian Universalism is a faith in which the individual congregations are responsible for their own governance and determine how they will operate. It is...
From Matt Silverman on behalf of the Board of Trustees As we all know, the COVID-19 Pandemic has put a real damper on all UUCM in-person activities. But as Board member Lauren Carlton wrote in this column last month, “We cannot safely touch physically, but the warmth that is flowing from our congregation spreads a...
From Chris Corbett, Treasurer of the Board of Trustees In this year of firsts, this month the Congregation will take on a unique challenge: a pledge drive in the midst of a pandemic. Last spring, the onset of the pandemic cut short our pledge drive and its fallout caused a significant reduction in pledges (40...
