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.
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Join Us for Worship, Sundays at 10 a.m.
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November 10th –
A Healing Touch
Please join us on Sunday when Melissa Bishop and Andrew Paschetto will lead our service as we continue to look at physical self-care. For many of us, a caring touch can be one of the most powerful forms of healing that we can experience. Join us as we discuss this phenomenon and how to reach out to others and to request physical support in ways that respect each other's boundaries and promote physical care and wellness. We will also appreciate the important ways that Veterans have both sacrificed their physical health supported the physical health of those serving our country. If you are a Veteran, we hope you and your family will join us so that we might show our appreciation to you.
Learning Hour - Self-Care of our Bodies
Please join us for Learning Hour following the service, this week we will have to wonderful learning opportunities. For those of you who would like to do some deeper spiritual exploration you can join in Reiki with Kyra Storojev where you can learn more about this practice of energy healing by learning what it means to bring Reiki into your own spiritual practice on your own and how to connect with practitioners. For those who you like to explore healthy ways to care for our bodies you can join in our All Ages Justice Class as we explore healthy ways to care for our bodies so that we have the energy and stamina for our important justice work in the world.
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Choir Schedule
11/10 Rehearsal, 9:15 am
11/17 Rehearsal, 9:15 am
11/24 Rehearsal and Performance
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Ralph Waldo Mouse Says:
"We should all shake the hands of our VETs, who have sacrificed lots for us!"
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Notes from Pastor AJ
On behalf of the Board, Committee on Shared Ministry, and myself, I would like to thank all of you who attended the “Change is in the Air” Town Hall Meeting this past Sunday. It was wonderful to receive your feedback, support, and questions.
I would like to share some thoughts with you about the most recent changes in the worship service. As some of you may have noticed, this past week our worship leader, Michael shared with you some new verbiage regarding the Candles of Community and Offering. We have made this change to reflect symbolic changes about the importance of both of these acts in worship. First, we want to set “Candles” as sacred time. A time when we come together as a community to share our personal journey and story. Our stories are sacred and unique and we would like to see them held in this space of honor. Second, we have updated the words around the offering. The goal of this is to start to think of our contributions in time, talent, and treasure as offerings and spiritual practice. As we move forward, we will be making some other tweaks and shifts in the Sunday Morning Experience. We know that some of this is not always comfortable and therefore we encourage you to give feedback via both the
Suggestion Box
and
Sunday Notes
online or by connecting with the COSM, Board or myself.
As you will see this week and in the coming weeks, there are/will also be some changes to our
Weekly News
. We have made some formatting changes, and now have a short leadership directory at the bottom of the Weekly News so that it is easier for you to connect with our leadership team members. We have also added a
Calendar & Upcoming Events
The section just under the Ministry Opportunities Section. As you know, PrairieUU and its members are very active in the community as both collective and individuals. We will do our best to get as much information out as quickly as possible but we do ask that you recognize that all information is subject to being edited and that the
Calendar & Upcoming Events
sections are reserved for PrairieUU activities and that local and community activities will be added as space is available. If you have any announcements please email our
Communications Team
by Tuesday at 12:00 pm.
In Service,
Pastor AJ
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Prairie UU Church's New Mailing Address
Mailing Address:
Prairie UU Church
P.O. Box 1684
Parker, CO 80134
We would like to let you know that we are transitioning our Mailing Address to the Parker Post Office. Please update your contact information for the church. Any mail sent to the old mailing address will be forwarded. If you have any questions or concerns please let me know.
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Childcare Providers Needed
We need a new team of providers. We are looking to hire 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, if you can help please contact
Susan E.
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Hospitality Help
Looking for something to do Sunday Morning? The hospitality team would welcome your help. We are looking for volunteers to help one Sunday a month. Please contact
Cindy W
and
Fran L
if you can help.
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Calendar & Upcoming Events
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Lone Tree Library, Lone Tree
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Bridge House/Ready to Work - Thanksgiving
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Justice League Meeting
November 10, 12:45 pm
Vivian’s Home, Parker
All are welcome to join us after fellowship 12:45 – 3:00 pm. We’ll prep for Service Sunday, share IDP progress, and so much more! Visit our
website
to learn more about our passions and initiatives. Contact the
Justice League
if you have any questions!
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Prairie UU Board Meeting
November 13, 6:30 pm
Lone Tree Library, Lone Tree
The Prairie Board of Trustees will meet on Wednesday, November 13 at 6:30 pm at the Lone Tree Library. The draft agenda for the meeting should be available by November 6th. For more information contact
Clark H.
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Prairie Stitchers
November 16, 3:00 pm
TBD
The Prairie Stitchers meets on the third Saturday of each month to stitch and chat. Whether you knit, crochet, spin, embroider, cross-stitch, quilt, loom knit, or would like to learn any of these needle arts, you are welcome to join. Time 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm, locations vary. Learn more about
Prairie Stitchers.
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Service Sunday
November 17, 10:00 am
PrairieUU, Parker
10:00 am Sunday Worship
12:00 pm Bridge House Lunch
2:00 pm Tattered Cover Bookstore
After our shortened worship service, we will travel to Bridge House/Ready to Work in Aurora for a day of holiday cheer (11:45 am – 2:00 pm) where we will prepare and serve food, and then engage in holiday card-making and music.
All families and friends of Prairie are invited to attend, as we encourage everyone, even our youngest community members, to work for justice. Please bring a dessert to share and sack lunch if you think you’ll need it! Click here to learn more about
Service Sunday
.
After fun times at Ready-to-Work, we will head over to the Tattered Cover Bookstore
(2526 East Colfax Avenue)
for the
Journeys Out of Homelessness
Book Signing and Reading. This conversation will touch on at least two of our justice initiatives: justice the homeless and for the chronically ill. In this book, the authors gather the first-person stories of some who have not only survived but thrived, going on to find positive home situations. Learn more
here
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Circle Suppers
November 23, TBD
Various Locations
The 4th Saturday of every other month, (January, March, May, July, September, and November) is the time to get together with friends from church and enjoy an evening of good food and friendship. Circle Suppers are a wonderful way to get to know each other in a more personal way and to create a support network of lifelong friendships. We take turns hosting a pot luck dinner in our homes with 4 to 10 other PrairieUU friends.
To get on our mailing list, email
Gerry B
or call at 303-495-0765.
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Bring A Friend, Neighbor, Work Colleague To Church
November 24, 10:00 am
PrairieUU, Parker
Let's showcase what PrairieUU has to offer: our faith, our community, our new minister and our activities in social justice! This includes youth and teens as well. Invite a friend, a classmate.
The Membership and Communications Committees invite you to join us into engaging in activities that create a stronger UU presence in Parker and surrounding communities.
Let's join together to increase the number of visitors present and encourage our visitors and friends to stay for a potluck after the service! Share what Prairie UU means to you!
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Bridge House/Ready to Work Needs a Great Thanksgiving!
November 28, TBD
Bridge House, Aurora
Five families have indicated interest in helping plan, prepare, serve, and clean up a Thanksgiving meal on Thanksgiving Day November 28th – the more the merrier! Please let Kim, Melissa, or Nancy at
Justice League
know if you, too, would be willing to help!
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Calling All Quilters or Wanna Be Quilters!
New member, Lucille H, is an experienced quilter and would like to share her expertise and love of quilting with other interested folks. Carol Foster is excited about this opportunity and is exploring the idea of a monthly "PrairieUU Quilter's" group. Please email
Carol F
or Lucille H to her at service if you're interested. Let's get stitching!
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Caring Circle
If you have a pastoral concern
to share, please let us know at
Pastor AJ
.
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Restorative Listening Circles
We will be engaging in a new process that will be available to our members, a Restorative Listening Circle. Based in UU values, the goal of the spiritual Restorative Listening Circle is to facilitate deep listening, learning, and trust, promoting living in covenant as a community.
The underlying goal for Prairie’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.
Please contact
Pastor AJ
or the
COSM
with any questions or to request a circle.
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The Suggestion Box
As we continue this adventure of transition together,
Pastor AJ
and the
Committee on Shared Ministry
want to let you know that they are very interested in your feedback. We want to encourage you to communicate with us in a variety of ways ~ meetings, phone, email, etc.
We also want to invite you to give feedback through our new online
Suggestion Box
in addition to the physical suggestion box available Sunday mornings. Please take a moment to let us know how we are doing. All information will be collected and reviewed by Pastor AJ and the Committee on Shared Ministry and then passed on to the appropriate committee or team, as necessary.
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Prairie's 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 see a Justice League member for details and recommendations. Be looking for a growing Children's Section!
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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
for more information about how to get started. The Justice League spends time every meeting discussing IDPs and you are always welcome to join them. See the Prairie announcement and eblast for details about our upcoming meeting. Learn more about our efforts for racial justice and Prairie’s Intercultural Development Inventory
here.
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We Believe Survivors Fund
Prairie Unitarian Universalist Church is committed to centering the needs of survivors of sexual assault and abuse. We know that when sexual assault and abuse happens in relation to people in a position of trust, particularly through a church or other religious organization, that the trauma can be especially profound. Prairie is participating with other UU churches in Colorado to provide crisis support to help survivors navigate the various systems they may come in contact with legal, organizational, healthcare, etc.
Additionally, Prairie has established a dedicated We Believe Survivors Fund to assist survivors with the costs of mental health support and legal fees. While we recognize that this in and of itself is not likely to completely cover either the financial and emotional costs of survivorship, our hope is that survivors will know that here, they are believed and supported.
Donations are tax-deductible and while they are made to Prairie Unitarian Universalist Church, they will be allocated to the We Believe Survivors Fund to be distributed by our Fund Administrator or Prairie’s Executive Board’s designee. Survivor and donor anonymity will be protected.
If you or someone you know is a survivor of sexual assault or abuse at the hands of someone connected to a church and in a position of trust, please contact our Fund Administrator and fellow survivor
Melissa B
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Upcoming Justice League Events and Community Events
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Justice Film Series at First Plymouth Church:
Blood Memory
November 8, 5:30 pm
First Plymouth Church, 3501 S Colorado Blvd, Cherry Hills Village, CO 80113
5:30 Potluck supper (bring something to share)
6:30 Film begins a lively discussion afterward.
Battles over blood quantum and “best interests” resurface in this documentary featuring the untold history of America’s Indian Adoption Era – a time when nearly one-third of children were removed from tribal communities nationwide. As political scrutiny over Indian child welfare intensifies, an adoption survivor helps others find their way home through song and ceremony.
Contact
Nancy L
if interested in carpooling or for additional info.
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Two-Part Webinar on Quaker Social Change Ministry
November 13 & 20, 7:30 pm
This webinar provides the very background behind the format of our Justice League meetings! Learn more about collective spirit-based social change work, supporting folks most impacted by injustice, and the long-haul work needed to bring about deeper change. Review the model we have used over the past few years – a powerful model of small group collective social change work that brings mystics and activists together to support one another in long-term sustainable social change work.
The webinars will take place respectively on November 13 and 20, from 8:30 p.m. EDT// 7:30 pm CDT // 6:30 pm MDT // 5 pm PDT. The first session will focus on the spiritual practices, the second on accompaniment.
Find out more and register here.
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November 16, 6:00 pm
Savoy, 2700 Arapahoe St, Denver CO 80205
Support Habitat for Humanity in a Trivia Night Fundraiser on November 16th at the Savoy (2700 Arapahoe St, Denver 80205). Doors open at 6:00 pm, the game starts promptly at 7:00 pm.
The cost is $20/per person. If you preregister and prepay Deena Lawrence or
Jim Rogo
you get VIP status: skip the check-in line and go straight to your reserved team table.
Form a team of 4-6 people or register individually and we will get you on a team.
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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 which 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.
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We Look Forward to Hearing From You
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Newsletter and Announcement Contributions
Your contributions are always appreciated! All requests should be sent to our
Communications.
Please make a note of our NEW production schedule deadline. All requests for Weekly eBlast, Sunday Morning Announcements, and Orders of Service are due on Tuesday at noon.
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Call, Text, Smoke Signals?
General Office Hours
Mon-Thur 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Phone/Text at 720-549-0530
Office Hours - Mon-Thur 10:00 am – 9:00 pm
(If you need to contact him outside these hours please let him know.)
Phone/Text at 720-549-0531
Schedule an Appointment via Google
Calendar
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Sunday Worship:
Pine Grove Elementary
10450 Stonegate Parkway
Parker, CO 80134
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Mailing Address:
Prairie UU Church
P.O. Box 1684
Parker, CO 80134
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