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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November 24th – Happy
Friendsgiving
Join us this Sunday where Pastor AJ and Melissa Bishop will lead us as we celebrate community and gratitude with a Friendsgiving Service followed by a Pot-luck feast. The PrairieUU Band and Choir will be performing.
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We encourage you to bring a friend to 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 or a classmate.
Let’s all join together in engaging in activities that create a stronger UU presence in Parker and surrounding communities. All our visitors and friends are encouraged to stay for a potluck after the service! Share what Prairie UU means to you!
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Hospitality and Potluck!
If you have already signed up, Thank-you so much. If you have not signed up but still plan to attend, please email
Cindy W
or text call her at 720-305-3437 ASAP how many will be attending in your family so we can ensure enough turkey.
As we attempt to be as green as possible, please bring your own table service including a cup, plate and eating utensils for each family member.
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Choir Schedule
11/24 Rehearsal and Performance
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Ralph Waldo Mouse Says:
“Getting together with neighbors and friends
can be so much fun.”
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Notes from Pastor AJ
Time is moving quickly, quicker than most of us anticipate. We have been working on our PrairieUU calendar for the 2020 year. In doing so we have to look at scheduling conflicts, setup locations, and most importantly finding a balance between social, service, spiritual and scholastic activities. Please let me know if you have a need for regularly calendared time or special events that need to be added to the PrairieUU calendar.
Sunday Spoiler!!! On December 8th. We will be having a conversation about identity and spirituality. A part of the conversation that morning will be about how we identify both personally and as small group collectives, for instance, as Queer persons, People of Color, People with Disabilities, Gender, Age, Parents, Theology, etc. As part of this conversation, we will be looking at how we at PrairieUU can address your needs as an identity small group. I welcome you to let me know have any needs or questions.
In Service,
Pastor AJ
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Communications Update
Starting this week the “Weekly News” email address is
NEWS@PrairieUU.org
. Please update your address book so that you do not miss our Weekly News. For more information please contact our
Communications Team
.
For the week of Thanksgiving, the deadline for submitting information for the newsletter will be Monday, November 25th at 5:00 pm.
Thank you,
Mary S.
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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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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 are able to 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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Bridge House/Ready to Work - Needs a Great Thanksgiving
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Living Well with Mental Health
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Lone Tree Library, Lone Tree
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ife Care Center of Aurora
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Bridge House/Ready to Work Needs a Great Thanksgiving!
November 28, 10:30 am - 1:00 pm
Bridge House, Aurora
Please help us give our neighbors at Ready To Work/Bridge House Aurora their first and a memorable Thanksgiving. There are lots of ways to help. We will be at Bridge House (3176 S Peoria Ct, Aurora, CO 80014) from approximately 10:30 am-1:00 pm. Come for as long or as little as you'd like. You could also sign-up to make/purchase some food. Click here to
Sign-up online
. Let us know if you need someone to pick it up from you or if you'd like to bring it with you to Bridge House. And finally, you could make a donation to help with the purchase of turkeys and other traditional Thanksgiving meal favorites. Please contact
Melissa B
with any questions.
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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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Living Well with Mental Health Issues
December 4, 7:00 pm
Parker Road Fire Station
Join us on the first Wednesday of each month from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m to learn more about Living Well with Mental Health Issues. Parker Road Fire Station,
7320 S Parker Road
. Weather and Attendance permitting.
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Service Sunday Caroling
December 15th, 10:00 am
Save the date!
Our next Service Sunday will be December 15th. As Buddy the Elf so eloquently puts it, "The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!" We'll be heading out to the community to carol at the Life Care Center of Aurora. More details coming soon ...
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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 Quilters" group. Please email
Carol F
or Lucille H to her at service if you're interested. Let's get stitching!
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Announcements! Announcements!! Announcements!!!
Where are the Sunday Announcements ??? The Announcements page is now placed at the Greeter’s Table. If you would like a printed version of the Announcements page, please stop by the Greeter’s table to pick it up.
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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 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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Guest at Your Table
Guest at Your Table
has been an important part of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, and of UU culture, since 1975.
UUSC’s
program started after the Institutional Advancement Director Warren Salinger traveled
to the Netherlands and was inspired by a similar organization's program, entitled "Gast aan Tafel," to educate its supporters about its work and raise vital funds using colorful boxes the whole family could contribute to together. Today, we are proud to partner with women leaders who are increasing representation for women in their communities, while strengthening access to justice for all. During this year’s Guest at Your Table program, please join us to learn more about women leaders from UUSC partner organizations taking on some of today’s greatest human rights challenges. Prairie will be passing out boxes this Sunday during the service and will collect them as is our tradition on Christmas Eve.
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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
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
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Donations are tax-deductible and will be distributed by our Fund Administrator. Survivor and donor anonymity will be protected.
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Upcoming Justice League &
Community Events
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Holiday Gathering @ Bridge House
December 12, TBD
We can help our neighbors at Bridge House have something meaningful to open at their Holiday Gathering on December 12th. Simply take a snowflake from the Justice League Tree during our Thanksgiving Potluck. Each snowflake contains a person's first name and size. Please purchase one of the following: a t-shirt and gloves, thermal underwear or a hooded sweatshirt. Bring the gift back Prairie WRAPPED with the snowflake of the person's name attached by December 8th. Contact the
Justice League
with questions.
Prairie is invited to celebrate Ready to Work/ Bridge House (
3176 S Peoria Ct, Aurora, CO 80014
) Aurora's 1st Anniversary and Holiday Celebration on Thursday, December 12th from 6:00 - 8:00 pm. If you can help out by bringing an hors d'oeuvres
great, if not- just bring your festive self! They have been so grateful for Prairie's partnership and generous support this past year. Email the
Justice League
if you have any questions.
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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
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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 Wednesday at 12 pm.
(PLEASE NOTE: All submissions are subject to editing for content and space.)
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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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