Our Mission:
“We gather as a welcoming, caring community to nurture mind and spirit, celebrate diversity, and work for justice.”
Sunday Worship:
Have a friend who would enjoy our community? Invite them to join our
mailing list.
|
|
 |
Candles of Community
The
Caring Circle
provides support during life transitions, hospitalizations or other crises. If you have a pastoral concern to share, please let us know at
Pastoral Care
.
|
|
|
|
The Suggestion Box
If you have a kudos, suggestion or concern. Please let us know.
Suggestion Box
.
|
|
|
|
Join Us for Worship, Sundays at 10 a.m.
|
|
February 9 –
In My Time of Dying
Worship
Often when we talk about the death of a loved one we talk about death with dignity and allowing a person to make a decision to die on their terms. Sometimes the most difficult thing that any of will have to do in our lives, to let go of someone we love. Join us this Sunday as Pastor AJ shares his personal journey of letting go.
Fellowship
Join us after service for our Valentine’s Celebration.
Learning Hour
Adults:
Please join us..durning Death Cafe,
we will have a rare opportunity to ask questions and participate in discussions about a topic rarely dealt with in typical daily conversations ~ our own death, and the death of our friends and loved ones. Special snacks will be available, making this gathering seem more casual, more ordinary, more common...as it probably should already be, in our society today. Dave and Fran L will facilitate our time together, after having attended several Death Cafe's in the Denver area, and facilitated many Death Cafes at Prairie.
Youth & Middle:
Brunch Bunch!
Elementary:
We'll talk about loosing things and make tributes.
|
|
|
2/9 Rehearsal - 9:15
2/16: Rehearsal/Performance - 9:15
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ralph Waldo Mouse Says:
"Death is like a door. Time is like a window."
|
|
Notes from Pastor AJ
I want to thank you all for your patience as we make updates to the format of our Sunday Worship. I realize that over the past few weeks we have run long. I hope that this hasn’t been too burdensome on your schedules and bodies as we sit in our metal chairs. Please know that I am aware of this concern and we will do better as we refine our new flow. If you have any questions. If you have any questions please let me know.
In Service,
|
|
Rhonda’s Ribbons
My office hours have changed to M-Th from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm. This change is to better meet the workflow needs for Prairie.
If you have any announcements that you would like included in the weekly newsletter or announcement, please email our Communications Team by Monday at 12:00 pm.
Thank you,
|
|
Auction Item Available
Winter Park Ski Weekend
Dates: February 28, 29, and March 1, 2020
Item #109 - Winter Park Ski Weekend with Joe & Coni Francis
Enjoy a weekend as our pampered guests in our Winter Park condo. Expect a great weekend of downhill skiing, cross-country skiing, and/or snowshoeing in addition to dining and relaxing in front of a romantic fire. Also enjoy the new recreation center within walking distance, featuring indoor and outdoor hot tubs and indoor pool. We purchase the food and do the cooking! Six meals provided, Friday dinner through Sunday lunch.
Bid PER PERSON. Minimum bid per person $75
Retail value $200 per person
Maximum: 6 people
Lift Tickets are NOT Included.
|
|
Associates and Appreciative Inquiry Visioning
Are you interested in the direction of the mission of PrairieUU? Is long term mission and vision important to you? If so we would like to hear from you. The
Committee on Shared Ministry
and
Pastor AJ
have consulted with several members of congregational leadership as well as the former Appreciative Inquiry Visioning Team to assess how to move forward with both of the Appreciative Inquiry process and the Associate's program. If you are interested in becoming an Associate and continuing with the
Appreciative Inquiry Visioning
process please let Pastor AJ know.
|
|
Fellowship and Hospitality
Hospitality Reminder!
Fran L. is the Hospitality mentor and COSM and LifeSpan are the setup-cleanup teams.
Hospitality Help! We have come up with a new proposal for a test run on how to accomplish our hospitality tasks on Sunday mornings. We propose that each Sunday there will be a hospitality Team member and a committee or team assigned to handle hospitality. The Hospitality Team member will work with the committee chairperson to coordinate tasks. There are three basic tasks: Setup, Teardown, and bringing supplemental refreshments members will be asked to participate in ONE of these tasks each Sunday. The basic schedule (subject to change and adjustment) will be as follows:
1st Sunday - Cindy with the Board & Finance
2nd Sunday - Fran with the COSM & LifeSpan
3rd Sunday - Brenda with CoreTeam & Communications
4th Sunday - Iris with Membership & Justice League
5th Sunday - Full Community
|
|
Childcare
Providers Needed
We are happy to welcome Bobby and Katie to our team of providers. We are well on our way with our new team but we are still looking to hire 1-2 more childcare providers for Sunday mornings and other events.
If you know anyone who would be interested, please have them email our
Search Team
. Until we have recruited the team, we may need volunteers to assist on Sundays.
|
|
Multimedia Help
Contact: Pastor AJ
Looking for something to do Sunday Morning?
Pastor AJ
and the
Core Team
are looking for help with our running our multimedia slides, sound, and video/audio recording our services.
|
|
Calendar & Upcoming Events
|
|
|
|
Racism & White Privilege Workshop
|
|
First Universalist Church of Denver
|
|
|
|
Learning Hour: Death Cafe/Dave and Fran L
|
|
|
|
|
Committee on Shared Ministry
|
|
|
|
|
Social Justice Film Series: Crisis in Levittown
|
|
First Universalist Church of Denver
|
|
|
|
Constructive Theology & Creative Expression
|
|
|
|
|
Learning Hour: Reading with Pastor AJ
|
|
|
Justice League Meeting
February 9, 1:00 pm (Sun.)
Parker Library, 2nd Floor Conference Room
All are welcome to join us. We’ll prepare for Service Sunday, share IDP progress, and so much more! Visit our
website
to learn more about our passions and initiatives.
|
|
Committee on Shared Ministry
February 10, 6:30 pm (Mon.)
Parker Library, The Loft
We would like to invite members to share thoughts, concerns and kudos with us at our monthly meeting. If you have input regarding the Vision of PrairieUU, living in covenant and right relations, or overall ministerial concerns. All are welcome to join us for the 1st 30 minutes of our meeting after which we will enter a closed meeting session to discuss matters that respect members concerns etc in confidence.
|
|
F
inance Committee
February 12, 6:00 pm (Wed.)
Parker Library, 2nd Floor Conference Room
Our new Finance Committee is now forming.
|
|
Board of Trustees
February 12, 7:00 pm (Wed.)
Parker Library, 2nd Floor Conference Room
Would you like to know more about how the congregation’s governance is organized? All are welcome to attend our monthly Board meeting.
|
|
PrairieUU Stitchers
February 15, 3:00 pm (Sat.)
TBD
The PrairieUU Stitchers Group meets in a member’s home on the 3rd Saturday to stitch and chat.
|
|
Music & the Spirit
February 15, 6:00 pm (Sat.)
Ermisch Home
Come join an impromptu sing-along of fun & favorite songs with Paul. No rehearsal required - just bring your voice, your spirit, and a song or two to share. If you play an instrument, bring them along too.
|
|
Reading with Pastor AJ
Learning Hour
February 16, 11:30 am (Sun.)
Pine Grove Elementary School
|
|
Supporting Cory
Our dear friend Cory L loves to attend church and otherwise get out to socialize, but can't do so without our help. She has her own wheelchair van, so just drive your car over to her place and then go out with her in her van. Click here for more information and/or to
sign up
for a Sunday.
|
|
PrairieUU Men's Group Forming
We will be starting a special Prairie men's group.
We are hoping that members of this group would be willing to get into conversations about what's important in our lives...what's going on that we'd like to get off of our chests...what problems are we facing in our daily lives. The hope is that we can share at a deeper level than just talking about sports, politics, ailments, etc. We need, sometimes, to tell our own stories about our issues, our successes, our failures, and our worries. Guys have emotions, too...and it's healthy to talk about them in a trusting, confidential setting. Please email
Dave L
or call 303-895-5771 if you're interested.
|
|
Small-Group Ministries Forming
If you are interested in forming a small group ministry please contact
Pastor AJ
. Groups now in discussion and forming are a men’s group, people of color, Wiccan/Pagan group, environmental group (under the Justice League), and a healthy eating/living group.
|
|
Restorative Listening Circles
The underlying goal for PrairieUU’s culture is to maintain loving relationships, respect, listen, hear, understand perspectives of all by truly understanding grievances, compassionately identifying agreement, compassionately identifying disagreement; seeking consensus, developing a mutually respectful action plan which maintains/restores loving relationship, implements the action plan, and evaluates the effectiveness of the plan for achieving the goal. If you have a concern that you would like addressed please contact
Pastor AJ
or the
COSM
with any questions or to request a circle.
|
|
Justice League Library
Prairie's Justice League Library is now available. We have a wide variety of
Justice-related books are available to check out during Fellowship. Please contact a
Justice League
member for details and recommendations. Be looking for a growing Children's Section!
|
|
Individual Intercultural Development Plans
Prairie has committed to learning about and working toward eliminating systemic white supremacy and the culture that perpetuates it. To that end, we are encouraging our community to create Individual Intercultural Development Plans (IDPs.) The purpose of IDPs is to develop actionable goals and to work toward them by supporting and holding one another accountable. It’s an important first step in our justice work together. Please contact our
Justice League
member for more information.
|
|
We Believe Survivors Fund
Prairie Unitarian Universalist Church is committed to centering the needs of survivors of sexual assault and abuse. Prairie has established a dedicated We Believe Survivors Fund to assist survivors with crisis support to navigate the various systems they may come in contact with legal, organizational, healthcare, etc.
If you or someone you know is a survivor of sexual assault or abuse at the hands of someone in a position of trust, please contact our Fund Administrator and fellow survivor
Melissa B
.
Donations are tax-deductible and will be distributed by our Fund Administrator. Survivor and donor anonymity will be protected.
|
|
Upcoming Justice League Events
|
|
Thank You!
A big thank you to all who participated in the Habitat Interfaith Alliance Soup Cook-Off. Whether you made soup, baked a dessert, volunteered, or simply attended, you helped support a very important fundraiser. We hope you enjoyed the interfaith fellowship with our partner churches and synagogues.
|
|
Special thanks to our Prairie "soup-er stars" for their contributions:
Fran L
Carol F
Cindy W
Nancy L
Brenda P
Andrew P and Deirdre T
(and to Kim R-M for good intentions!)
Extra thanks to Cindy and Nancy for also providing desserts.
Finally, congratulations to prize-winners Brenda P and Cindy W !!
The event raised over $4300 to help build this year's house. Thank you all for being part of that!
Deena Lawrence and Jim Rogo, Prairie's liaisons to HIA.
|
|
Racism & White Privilege Workshop
February 8, 9:00 am (Sat.)
First Universalist Church of Denver’s Racial Justice Task Force invites us to a workshop to explore our inner landscapes in the framework of white privilege by using the language of spiritual formation which will include story-telling, silence for personal reflection, and the opportunity to share experiences.
|
|
Adolescent Suicide Awareness and Prevention Class
February 11, 6:00 pm (Tue.)
The Parker Police Department would like to talk to parents about suicide awareness and prevention. They will be discussing the warning signs to look for, resources available for parents and teens and how to have these conversations with your family.
Time: 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Location: Parker Police Department
Address: 18600 E. Lincoln Meadows Parkway
Colorado had the highest increase, 58%, in the rate of teen suicides in the U.S. since 2016, 58%. Suicide is now the cause of one in five adolescent deaths in teens ages 15-19. These new numbers make us the sixth worse state in the nation. In pursuit of our mission to improve the mental health of our community, the Justice League encourages everyone to attend so we can learn how to better identify issues and help our children.
Please register
here
for this free class so they know how many people will be attending.
|
|
Social Justice Film Series:
Crisis in Levittown
February 14, 5:30 pm (Fri.)
The Black middle-class Myers family moves into an all-white suburb of Levittown, PA in August 1957, and is snubbed and mistreated, in this powerful landmark documentary showcasing racism in the United States. Join in a robust conversation during the potluck and film discussion at First Universalist,
4101 E Hampden, Denver
5:30 to 9. Bring something to share!
|
|
New King Soopers Rewards Program Benefits PrairieUU
PrairieUU is enrolled in the King Soopers or City Market Community Rewards Program. Our assigned NPO (Non-Profit Organization) number
is
UC596
.
To Use the King Soopers or City Market Community Rewards Program:
Please visit the appropriate link below..
Once logged you can search for Prairie Unitarian Universalist Church either by name or UC596 and then click Enroll. New users will need to create an account that requires some basic information, a valid email address and, a
loyalty
card.
*Customers must have a registered King Soopers or City Market
loyalty
card account to link to your organization.
*If you do not have a King Soopers or City Market
loyalty
card, please get one at the customer service desk at any King Soopers or City Market.
|
|
We Look Forward to Hearing From You
|
|
Newsletter & Announcement Contributions
All requests for Weekly News, Sunday Morning Announcements, and Orders of Service are due on Monday at 12 pm.
(PLEASE NOTE: All submissions are subject to editing for content and space.)
|
|
General
Office Hours
Mon-Thur - 10:00 am – 9:00 pm
Office Hours - M-Th 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Phone/Text: 720-549-0530
Schedule an Appointment via Google
Calendar
Office Hours - M-Th 10:00 am – 9:00 pm
Phone/Text - 720-549-0531
Schedule an Appointment via Google
Calendar
Committee Emails
LifeSpan
- Religious Exploration for all ages
Membership
- Visitors, Greeters, and becoming a Covenantal member
|
|
Sunday Worship:
Pine Grove Elementary
10450 Stonegate Parkway
Parker, CO 80134
|
|
Mailing Address:
Prairie UU Church
P.O. Box 1684
Parker, CO 80134
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
