Author: UU Berks Office Administrator

Coming Back Together: Moving toward a Multi-platform Church

The Multi-platform team will be hosting a Zoom conversation with the congregation immediately following the service this Sunday, June 20th.  Join us to hear what’s happening with the plans to move toward in-person gathering, as well as to create more robust virtual resources for FUUBC! Below, you can find the Introduction part of the meeting, recorded … Continue reading Coming Back Together: Moving toward a Multi-platform Church

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Learning Together about Race and Ethnicity. Our congregation has made a commitment to becoming more fully anti-racist and anti-oppression. This weekend we deepened this commitment and our understanding of how race and ethnicity play out in our institutions and our daily lives in the Jubilee III Anti-Racism Training. This morning Rev. Dr. Sandra Fees and participants will share how their minds and hearts have been changed as a result.

We need your input:

As we move towards fall, we are very excited to be making plans to be coming back together through multi-platform operations.  Multi-platform means that we are hoping to give families and individuals the option to attend worship services and meetings either in-person or online via Zoom.  Note: masks and distancing will be required for those … Continue reading We need your input:

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Bridging Service & Ceremony. Rev. Dr. Sandra Fees. This Sunday we mark the journey of youth in our church community into young adulthood. This is known as the Bridging Service, and it is a significant UU rite of passage for those who have reached 18 and/or are graduating from high school this year. Rev. Dr. Sandra Fees’ return from sabbatical this Sunday marks another passage, and she’ll be sharing a slideshow of “What I Did on My Sabbatical.”

Opportunity: Volunteer Interested in Social Justice for a Time-Limited Co-Chair Partnership

Ginny Chudgar, chair of the Social Justice Coordinating Team, is looking for a patient-but-enthusiastic social justice warrior who is comfortable with technology to share with her the administrative and leadership tasks associated with the SJCT until September 2021.  If you care a lot about the impact FUUBC can have and does have on our larger community, but don’t want … Continue reading Opportunity: Volunteer Interested in Social Justice for a Time-Limited Co-Chair Partnership

recess

by nadine j. smet-weiss spiritual director i have a friend who highly recommends the regular practice of recess most especially for grown ups a play full pause or two during the day for the soul purpose of experiencing the wonder of being embodied

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“Tell Me A Story”. How many of us have had our whole worlds changed by another person’s story? A moment of shared connection, a song, a moment of creating together? In this collaborative service, adults and children from our Growing Anti-Racist UUs program will open up their own spiritual toolboxes and ask you to explore yours, too. We’ll be joined by a special guest, Omar Mohamed, who has woven his own life story into an award-winning graphic novel. Together, we will open and explore the ways that story, art, connection, and spiritual attention can help us live lives of empathy, meaning, and justice.