This past Sunday there was a video planned as part of the sermon, Nevertheless They Persisted. Unfortunately our sound system wasn’t working and so the wonderful testimony by the Music director at the Portland UU church was missed. Click here to watch this powerful testimony from De Reau Farrar.
Update 12/3/17: an updated clarification about the Board’s decision in May regarding use of Hewlett-Packard equipment and supplies can be found here. The UUSS Board of Trustees at UUSS voted to make the church Hewlett Packard (HP) free. We tabled for several months in the welcome hall, gathering 81 signatures of members and friends of
Our first term of Mommy & Me ESL classes at UUSS ended May 23 with a joyful garden picnic and celebration. Thank you to all the staff who joined us this term from Meg Burnett, the UUSS coordinator for our successful class to: Joan Rubenson; Nancy Lust; Susan Lange; Kathy Styc; Barbara Meierhenry; Doris Janes;
June 4 we launched another year of summer Sundays with our Art Works! program for children at our church. Nearly every Sunday our kids are joined by an artist, crafts person, musician, or a volunteer making use of a ready-made activity for learning a bit about the art and the passion of the artist. They
About 100 people came, and Pennie Opal Plant helped us to begin to learn about the deep connections indigenous communities have long-had with our Mother Earth and the Native American movement that is forever changing how we work to protect water, our planet and our future generations. Fossil Free California showed us how we can take action
This event is about indigenous people’s environmental movement and about removing investment in fossil fuels from our taxpayer-funded retirement systems CalPERs and STRS, our local governments’ finances and our personal savings. Featuring Pennie Opal Plant from Idle No More SF Bay, a group of Native Americans and allies rising up for the rights of indigenous