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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Candles of Community
If you have a pastoral concern to share, please let us know at
Pastoral Care
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The Suggestion Box
If you have a kudos, suggestion or concern. Please let us know.
Suggestion Box
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Join Us for Worship, Sundays at 10 a.m.
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December 22nd – Solstice Celebration / Polar Express Sunday
Come in your PJs!!!
Join us this morning for two special events a moving and interactive Solstice Meditation and reading of Polar Express.
Solstice Meditation
All are invited to join us in the Sanctuary for a time of quiet meditation led by Pastor AJ and Andrew P. There will be an extended time to reflect during Candles of Community, and Dave L will grace us with two lovely Solstice songs from Jan Garrett.
Polar Express
For the young and young at heart, please join us in the Art Room for an uplifting reading of Polar Express by Susan E and the Life Span Team.
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Fellowship Time
The morning is not complete without hot cocoa! Turn up the holiday magic for us all with a fun-filled session Gingerbread House Decorating. Cindy W will be helping our children decorate their tiny houses! She will bring gingerbread for the community. We will need help with setup and cleanup, please contact
Cindy W if you can help.
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Christmas Eve: A Celebration of Miracles
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December 24
6:00 pm Gathering and Social
7:00 pm Worship Service
8:00 pm Cookie Reception
Pine Grove Elementary, Parker
Merry Christmas! Join us for a wonderful Christmas Eve Celebration. We will begin with a community social and gathering at 6:00 pm. Our Worship Service will be opened with a reading from our own PrairieUU “Mr. Rogers.” It will be filled with music led by the PrairieUU Band and Choir under the direction of Paul Ermish and Eric Moon with an inspirational message from Pastor AJ. Our evening will be rounded out with our annual cookie reception hosted by the hospitality team. Please bring your family and friends for a wonderful evening and celebration.
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Please join us after Services for our traditional Prairie Cookie Reception. Hospitality is decorating with “The Nutcracker.” Please help decorate our Christmas Tree with your favorite Nutcracker. This is a full Community Event so bring your favorite Christmas treat to share with our Prairie family and friends…..and dig that tutu out of the closet, young and old, to celebrate Nutcracker style! If you have questions, please contact please contact
Cindy W
and
Fran L.
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December
12/22: Rehearsal 9:15 am
12/24: Rehearsal 5:30 pm & Performance
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January
1/5: No Rehearsal
1/12 & 1/19: Rehearsal 9:15 am
1/26: Rehearsal 9:15 am & Performance
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Ralph Waldo Mouse Says:
"Gingerbread and hot cocoa are some of
my favorite things."
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Notes from Pastor AJ
Need to know what’s happening??? Well, there is one easy way to find out ~ Visit our new
calendar page
. Please let
Rhonda W
know if you have any updates or changes. Communication is our goal! We are looking forward to 2020 with more activity and involvement in all we do. Don’t be left out, schedule with us today.
Coming Soon!!!
I am happy to announce that we will be starting our Constructive Theology and Creative Expression Class beginning on Saturday, January 11th. The workshop will run for approximately 10 weeks and culminate on Sunday, April 19th with an Art Show.
In Service,
Pastor AJ
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Rhonda’s Ribbons
If you have any announcements that you would like included in the weekly newsletter or announcement please email our
C
ommunications Team
by Tuesday at 12:00 pm.
Thank you,
Rhonda W
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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, if you can help please contact
Susan E
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Multimedia and Hospitality Crews
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.
Pastor AJ
and the
Core Team
are looking for help with our running our multimedia slides, sound, and video/audio recording our services. Please contact
Pastor AJ
if you can help in any of these areas.
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Calendar & Upcoming Events
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Parker Library, Event Hall A
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Solstice Meditation Service/
Polar Express & Gingerbread Decorating
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Pine Grove Elementary, Parker
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Holiday Party & Sanctuary Decorating
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Pine Grove Elementary, Parker
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Christmas Eve
6 pm Social & Gathering
7 pm Worship Service
8 pm Cookie Reception
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Pine Grove Elementary, Parker
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Pine Grove Elementary, Parker
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Pine Grove Elementary, Parker
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Prairie Quilters
December 21, 9:00am
Parker Library, Event Hall A
We are excited to announce our new Prairie Quilters group. Anyone who is interested is welcome to join us! We will be starting a beginner's project using 10" squares. Please contact
Carol F
for a supply list or more information.
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Prairie Stitchers
December 21, 3:00 pm
Community Room at Iva’s
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. We meet from 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm and locations vary. Learn more about
Prairie Stitchers
or join our
facebook group.
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Calling All Christmas Decorators For Christmas Eve!
December 23, 5:30 pm
Pine Grove Elementary, Parker
Come for a festive time of decking the halls. We need your help in decorating and preparing our Sanctuary for Christmas Eve service. We will also need some help with transporting decorations to and from, the church, if you are able, please email
Pastor AJ.
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Kwanzaa Celebration!
December 29, 10:00 am
Pine Grove Elementary, Parker
Kwanzaa and why do we know so little about it? Maurice and Kim will guide us as we experience how the sights, sounds, and aromas of cultural celebrations like Kwanzaa help us nurture our intercultural sensitivities even while our nation grows more polarized. Through thoughtful exercise, we will explore how honoring our ancestors and celebrating tradition helps us nurture self-love as we work toward the goal of a world community grounded in compassion and respect. Special African-inspired music will be provided and a delectable Kwanzaa feast to follow during fellowship.
Karamu Feast (Potluck)
On December 29th, all are encouraged to bring African inspired foods (any of the 50+ countries) for an early Karamu, which is the Kwanzaa feast usually held on the last day of Kwanzaa but that we will be holding during Fellowship on Sunday. It can be as simple as fresh fruit or as elaborate as a peanut stew.
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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.
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Housing Wanted
I'm Beth, one of your new members at the Dec 1st ceremony and daughter of longtime PrairieUU members Beckie and Al Cowart / Vivona. It's been a pleasure getting to know so many of you already, at Sunday services, Bridge House events, potlucks, etc!
I hope you might be able to help me. I relocated to Denver last month to be closer to my parents and I'm looking for a place/room to rent in the SE Denver metro area. Please let me know if you know of anyone who may be interested in possibly having a housemate? I'm a single woman in my 50s, cheerful, quiet, non-smoker, no pets. I'm happy to discuss possibilities. I'm reachable by
email
. I'm grateful to you for considering it! - Beth C
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Prairie Men's Group Forming
We would like to start 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
if you're interested.
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Caring Circle
The
Caring Circle provides compassionate support to members of PrairieUU during life transitions, hospitalizations or other crises.
If you have a pastoral concern to share, please let us know at
Pastoral Care.
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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 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.
Please contact
Pastor AJ
or the
COSM
with any questions or to request a circle.
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The Justice League Thanks YOU!
Thank you for an awesome gift drive for the interns at ready to Work/Bridge House! We collected a huge number of gifts, as well as holiday décor, extra gloves, and hats handmade by Susan R! Nancy and Kim sure enjoyed playing Santa!
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Guest at Your Table
We have begun our participation in
Guest At Your Table
with other UUs to raise funds for the partners of the
UU Service Committee
, doing justice work internationally. As we discussed during our service this past Sunday, we hope you will welcome these "guests" to your table, hear their stories and make a donation.
This week, get to know Pelenise Alofa though
Stories of Hope
. Pelenise is working to support the people living on her home island of Kiribati. Being so low to the sea, the people of Kiribati are already being severely impacted by the climate crisis that they did little to create. They experience coastal erosion, salinization of fresh water sources, and damage to infrastructure.
If you need a collection box please stop by the Justice League table after the service or see a Justice League member. We will collect boxes and donations on Christmas Eve.
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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
member for more information.
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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. 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.
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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 & Announcement Contributions
All requests for Weekly News, Sunday Morning Announcements, and Orders of Service are due on Tuesday at 12 pm.
(PLEASE NOTE: All submissions are subject to editing for content and space.)
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General
Office Hours
Mon-Thur - 10:00 am – 9:00 pm
Office Hours - MWF 12:00 pm - 4:00 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
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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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