On the first Sunday of each month, we Share the Plate during the offering, Share our lunch with each other during Potluck, and Share our Bounty by filing the Food Basket! Please don't forget to bring non-perishable food and hygiene items for the food basket, to be donated to HAP. All donations are welcome and appreciated!
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Chili Cookoff
Saturday, Feb 4. Hold the date!!
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Pick Up Your UUCH Picture Directory
The long awaited UUCH Picture Directory has arrived and is available for pick-up in the Fellowship Hall after church this Sunday. If you had a picture made or included in the directory, pick up your free copy after the Sunday service.
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Do You Have Trouble Hearing During Worship Services?
UUCH has purchased a number of devices to help hard-of-hearing members of the congregation listen to services. Need one? Just ask the greeter Sunday as you come in and return the device after the service!
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December's Theme: Presence
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Upcoming Services
January 1st: "Annual Fire Communion Service," a time to consider what to leave behind, and what to carry forward into the New Year.
The Reverend Alice Syltie
Upcoming Services for Your Holiday Planning
January 8th: "Imagined Edges," Huntsville Feminist Chorus presents songs from their Solstice Program.
Also this Sunday we Share the Plate with Manna House. For more about this organization, see the article below.
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This Sunday in Children and Youth Religious Education
Game Day!! Bring your favorite table games to play with your friends at church.
Nursery care (ages 0-3) will be provided as usual.
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New Year's Day Lucky Potluck!
New beginnings make New Year's Day a special time. Bring your traditional and lucky foods to our New Year's Day potluck. Share with us and tell your stories!
Hosted by your Hospitality Committee
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What's Next? A Task Force!
Your Board of Trustees has been deliberating on how best to make use of the proceeds from the sale of the Governors Drive property in the continuing transition to our new home. To that end, we have appointed a "Next Steps Task Force" to help research our options and to develop a process for getting input from the congregation. In the meantime, we have invested the money in short-term CDs to maximize the money we'll have available for the uses we, as a congregation, decide best. Stay tuned!
Laurel Bollinger, 2016-2017 Board President
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Building Your Own Theology 
Do Unitarian Universalists get to believe anything they want? Can they keep the easy stuff and ignore "religion" when it gets hard? We as UUs profess a free and responsible search for truth and meaning. This means while we all covenant to affirm and promote our 7 principles we do not all follow the same path to that truth and meaning. Though Unitarian Universalism is its own theology, it encompasses many personal theologies we each have as individuals. Our UU community is where we carry out the process of building our personal theology.
Join Adult Religious Education facilitators Shiela Burrows and Denise Runnels as we walk through UU Richard Gilbert
'
s "Introduction to Building Your Own Theology." This workshop will "provide some tools for building a theology based on the materials of individual life experiences."
Gilbert
'
s program is "designed to provide a systematic, disciplined, and communal approach to the process." As he says "we have gathered together not to believe alike, but, to love alike, to live religiously together."
We will meet Sunday evenings in January beginning January 8th. This four week workshop will meet each Sunday through January 29th from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. If you need childcare, please let Denise or Nancy Finley know at least one week in advance, Adult.RE@uuch.org.
Hosted by your Adult Religious Education Committee
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UUCH Family Movie Night
January 21, 2017 at 6:15 p.m.
Although our annual chili cook-off is being held on Feb. 4th instead of Jan. 21st, come join the UUCH Children's and Youth RE Committee as we celebrate a different type of food.
CAN YOU GUESS THE FILM? The chickens on the farm are in danger when their owners decide to transfer the farm's focus from egg production to chicken pot pie production. Will the plucky American rooster be able to help the chickens escape before they end up in the freezer section of the grocery store? Find out in this fun animated film for any age!
Please bring your favorite movie snack to share. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. with the movie starting at 6:30 p.m.
Hosted by your UUCH Children and Youth Religious Education Committee.
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Adult RE SoulCollage® Workshop
This Coming Monday!
SoulCollage® is a creative process that requires no artistic ability. Using collage techniques, cards are designed based on intuition. The cards reflect our inner self and help us get to know ourselves better, discovering our own wisdom.
This journey begins with the first card so it is never too late to get started with your own SoulCollage® cards. The process is designed to allow each person to work as deeply and intensely as they are comfortable doing, knowing the pace is right for them.
The only skill needed is the ability to use scissors. That's it! Just cut and paste images from the hundreds we've pulled from magazines to your 5" x 8" card.
Denise Runnels and Nancy Finley will co-facilitate the workshop. We will meet in the UUCH fellowship hall Monday evening, January 2nd, at 6:00 p.m. and create until 8:30 p.m. Check out
soulcollage.com
for more information about the SoulCollage® process we are following developed by Seena B. Frost. Or ask Denise (Adult.RE@uuch.org) for more information about the process and / or the workshop.
Hosted by your Adult Religious Education Committee.
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We Share the Plate* with Manna House
The Social Justice Committee selected Manna House as the First Quarter Share the Plate Charity.
Manna House provides families in the Huntsville/Madison County area with food, clothing, hygiene & baby items.
*When we "Share the Plate," all cash collected on the first Sunday of each month in the quarter (January, February, and March), along with any checks noted as "Share the Plate," will be halved with Manna House.
Tonia Betts (Social Justice Co-Chair)
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Christmas Service & Potluck
Thank you!
Following a wonderful Christmas Day musical service, led by Mari Hinckley, UUs adjourned to the Fellowship Hall for the Christmas Day Potluck. Many thanks to Shiela Burrows, the potluck lead. Shiela, Mari, and Gail Williams decorated and set the tables with china. Approximately 50 people enjoyed the meal and fellowship. A wonderful way to spend Christmas Day!
Hosted by your Hospitality Committee
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A Rewarding Bid!
Lynda Lamitie, Denise Runnels & Monica Speed painted a holiday design on wine glasses the afternoon of December 17th. This activity was offered as a service during the 2016 UU auction.
Service Auction sponsored by your Finance Committee
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Soul Circles are Forming!
Don't forget--Soul Circles are forming! We are bringing small groups into the Soul Matters shared thematic ministry alongside our Worship and Religious Education ministries. Our "Soul Circles" will meet monthly. Each month, prior to meeting, group members will receive preparatory information designed to help them engage more deeply with the monthly theme we are experiencing in our congregational worship. Group members covenant with one another to practice deep listening, speaking from both the heart and the head as they share their soul-journeys through living into the monthly themes. Monthly meetings are scheduled to last no more than two hours.
If you would like to join a Soul Circle please contact John Czachurski at johncz711@comcast.net and let him know which of the following times you can be available:
- Sunday Afternoons (after Sunday Worship or Potluck)
- Sunday Evenings
- Wednesday Afternoons
- Wednesday Evenings
Please indicate all of the days/times that could work for you, so that we can more smoothly match available group members with available facilitators.
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Care List
At our Circle of Candles on
Sunday, December 25th:
Cheri Smith
, a candle of concern: "I am having surgery this Thursday for a torn rotator cuff."
LaDawn Edwards
, a candle of joy: "Last night my husband and I entertained his daughter Lizzy, her mother and little brother. I can literally say 'I never thought I'd see the day!'"
Mike Carson
, a candle of joy: "My parents are in town and are here with me today."
Abigail Nielsen
, a candle of joy: "I got a mouse for Christmas!"
If you have pastoral care needs, please contact the Reverend Alice Syltie at Minister@uuch.org. Barbara Hitt is Chair of the Care Committee, and may be reached at home, (256) 881.2531; on her cell, (256) 348.5845; or by email at care@uuch.org.
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UUCH 16-17 Board Members
President: Laurel Bollinger
Vice-President: Denise Runnels
Secretary: Ed Bernstein
Treasurer: Greg Howard
Trustees: Susan Coddington, Kathy Heath,
and Lynsie Lamitie
Do you have an Agenda Item for the Board?
The Board respectfully requests that all agenda items for the meeting be submitted to
Board President
Laurel Bollinger, no later than one week prior to the meeting, i.e. the Tuesday before.
You may leave a copy of your request in her Mailbox at the church office, or contact her at
President@uuch.org.
The next UUCH Board Meeting will be held
on Tuesday, January 24th, 2016 at 6:30 p.m. Thanks for your cooperation!
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From the Overlook is a publication of
The Unitarian Universalist Church,
3921 Broadmor Rd. Huntsville, AL 35810
Minister: The Reverend Alice Syltie
Board President: Laurel Bollinger
Editorial Board: Laurel Bollinger, Kathy Heath
Newsletter deadlines are each Monday at midnight!
Please send submissions to news collator Willette Battle at uuch@uuch.org.
Office Hours: 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Mon-Fri.
Minister's email: Minister@uuch.org.
Website: www.uuch.org
Sunday Services are held 10:45 a.m. to 12:00 noon;
Children's Religious Education held concurrently.
Nursery available for age 3 years and under.
For further info on any event, call the church office:
256. 534-0508.
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