The UUCS Women’s Group will meet via Zoom at 6:30 pm on Thursday, June 24. The discussion subject this month will be “Best places to visit in Oregon” Click here to join the meeting. For more information, Janet Stevens at uuwomensgroup@uusalem.org
What is Share the Plate? During each Sunday service, we take a collection. This voluntarily given money is then shared between our congregation and an organization from the local community which has goals that align with Unitarian Universalist principles. This month’s Share the Plate recipient is the Thompson-Patch Scholarship Fund. The Nellie Thompson-Dorothy Patch Scholarship … Continue reading Share the Plate Recipient for June 2021 is the Thompson-Patch Scholarship Fund
It came upon a Sunday morn, white flowers looking like stars resting on a green bush under the swaying green leaves of a tree offering shade to parked cars. One arrived and then another, getting there early to prepare for the big day, the reopening of UUCS. Chalk drawings on the sidewalk cautioned social distancing … Continue reading UUCS Reopening-May 23, 2021
Flower Communion is just a bloom away – June 6 – and we need pictures—your pictures of beautiful flowers in all sorts of settings! We want to create a larger video of flowers than we we did last year for this year’s live stream service and to do so, we need your help! Send 1-2 … Continue reading Calling for Flower Communion Pictures by May 31
The UUCS will once again host the bi-annual Cordon Rd. clean-up day on June 5th from 9 am to noon. This a rain or shine event. Anyone interested in this fellowship building activity is asked to pre-register using this link so that we can get safety vest sizes and participant numbers for the county. You … Continue reading Cordon Road Clean Up June 5
As a member of the UUA, our congregation is entitled to have 5 voting delegates at our GA. GA will be held online with video streaming, on June 21-27, 2021. There is still time to request to be a delegate from our congregation. The UUCS Board of Directors is charged with appointing these delegates and … Continue reading Become a Delegate to the UUA General Assembly
At the annual meeting held via Zoom, the Treasurer confirmed that a quorum was present. The slate of Board Officers and Directors and Nominating Committee candidates were approved. The budget recommended by the Board was approved as presented. The land lease agreement between UUCS and Habitat and Hope Village was not yet available. The Congregation … Continue reading Results of the Annual Congregational Meeting June 13, 2021
The Membership Team needs volunteers to serve as hosts for summer services July 4 through September 12. An important part of every service is the friendly greeting by hosts as people enter. As we remain diligent about not spreading COVID, special protocols will still be in place. For each service hosts will monitor the line … Continue reading Looking for Hosts for Summer Services
Click this link to watch Irshad Manji’s remarks, which concluded our six-week workshop, “Diversity Without Division,” based on her book Don’t Label Me. The workshop, sponsored by the UU Congregation of Salem, and the UU Church of Spokane, provided opportunities to explore practices of Moral Courage that enable us to enter into authentic, life affirming … Continue reading Watch Irshad Manji on “Diversity Without Division”
Hi, my name is Rebekah Johnson. I am a mother of two, and a wife. I love to paint, do puzzles and be outdoors. For a decade, I balanced work and school with a focus on fashion design. After having my first child however my priorities changed to being a mother. Now I am starting … Continue reading Welcome Rebekah Johnson, Our New Custodian
