Category: News

Welcome Jessica Clay: Visiting UU Minister

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For those of you not in attendance at the Membership Dinner, I announced that we will have a special guest minister this summer. Jessica Clay will preach June 5, June 12, & July 3. Jessica has been a candidate for Fellowship with the UUA and a seminarian at Starr King School for the Ministry. She graduates this month with her Masters in Divinity. She will be spending her summer in Salt Lake City. She has preached     extensively in churches in the San Francisco Bay Area. Occupational therapy was her first career. She worked with children with special needs in the Los Angeles School District. While in seminary Jessica volunteered at San Quentin … Continue reading Welcome Jessica Clay: Visiting UU Minister

Welcome new CVUU Music Coordinator!

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The CVUU Personnel Team and Board of Trustees is pleased to announce that we have hired a new Music Coordinator.  A friend of outgoing Music Coordinator Michelle Wiltgen, Ms. Lyndi Perry is from Tremonton and is a Masters student at Utah State. She sings and plays guitar with the folk-rock band Solduro and sometimes serves as MC at Open Mic at Eagles. Starting June 1, Lyndi will be responsible for the musical component of Sunday services throughout the year, sometimes performing herself, sometimes leading us in song, sometimes inviting in a guest from her network of fellow musicians. Please welcome Lyndi as she learns her new musical gig.

Welcome Summer Citizens!

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Whether you are returning to our community or coming here for the first time, welcome! We love having you here for the few summer months that you take off to escape the hot southwest. Summer Citizens at USU: Live and Learn at the Top of Utah

Transgender 101

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Transgender 101: Identity, Inclusion, and Resources Unitarian Universalism honors diversity of genders and gendered experiences. This page offers ways you and your congregation can increase your welcome and inclusion of transgender people, basic definitions, and further resources. Read more…    

In New Orleans, UUs join protest against Gulf drilling

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In an effort to stop new oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, at least two dozen Unitarian Universalists joined over 200 Gulf Coast residents and climate justice groups for a major rally inside the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans during a federal oil lease auction on March 23. Read more… https://www.uuworld.org/articles/uus-protest-gulf-drilling

Activate for Social Justice!

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Don’t just learn about justice — do justice! This one-week training for high school youth offers interactive social justice education and meaningful work with local organizations engaged in the climate justice movement. Participants will see firsthand Boston’s historic roots as a harbor city built primarily on landfill, and how that pushes up against the city’s future as climates change and sea levels rise. In a program grounded in UU values and practices, participants will learn about systems of privilege and oppression and how we are called to respond to our world’s changing needs. This program will run from Saturday, July 9 to Sunday, July 17, 2016. Youth who attended high … Continue reading Activate for Social Justice!