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 8th –
The Divine Within
Continuing our quarterly theme of Self Care, Pastor AJ and
Andrew P will be leading a service exploring Self Care of our Spirit. We will be honoring Bodhi Day in fellowship with our Buddhist siblings by focusing on
what it means to achieve enlightenment through a deep exploration of how we celebrate our identities.
Learning Hour
All are invited to help prepare for our annual
Kwanzaa
celebration and parade by making Kwanzaa puppets! Everyone – not just children and youth – are invited to attend one or both puppet-making workshops with
Maurice M
on 12/1 and/or 12/8!
Puppetry arts have helped to facilitate a sense of belonging for countless people around the world and is a perfect expression of Kuumba, one of the
Seven Principles of Kwanzaa
, which promotes using creativity and imagination to strengthen communities.
Discussion with Pastor AJ
Join Pastor AJ for a conversation on identity based small group ministry. 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 in 2020.
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Please bring your gift for Bridge House/ Ready to Work THIS SUNDAY!
For those of you participating in the holiday gift drive for Bridge House/Ready to Work, if you haven’t done so already, the last day to bring your wrapped gift this Sunday, 12/8. Please contact
Justice League
(
Kim M
,
Nancy L
,
Melissa B
) with any questions!
The Justice League
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12/8 - Rehearsal @ 9:15 am
12/15 - Rehearsal @ 9:15 am
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12/22 - Rehearsal @ 9:15 am
12/24 - Rehearsal & Performance
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Ralph Waldo Mouse Says:
"Knowing others is wisdom...knowing yourself is enlightenment."
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Notes from Pastor AJ
Thank you to everyone who helped with this past Sunday’s Service you really made the service special. Additionally, I want to offer once again a great big welcome to our newest members Margaret, John, Michael, and Beth. This coming week we will be focusing on personal identity. I would like to invite you all to remain after the service for a discussion about identity and the establishment of future identity small groups in 2020 and going forward.
Finally, I would like to thank you all for the warm welcome you gave
Rhonda W
, our new administrator. Rhonda is off to a running start and happy to be part of the PrairieUU community. Rhonda’s contact information is listed below.
In Service,
Pastor AJ
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Thank YOU!
Thank you so much to the 20+ PrairieUU folk who showed up on
Thanksgiving Day
and cooked, served, decorated, and/or had lively conversations with interns at Bridge House/Ready to Work. The holiday season can be a lonely, isolated time for many of the people there, so it’s important that we keep our love strong and visible this month!
The Justice League
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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 are able to 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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Youth Cookie Baking & Decorating
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Pine Grove Elementary, Parker
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Lone Tree Library, Lone Tree
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Christmas Pageant & Caroling
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Pine Grove Elementary, Parker
and L
ife Care Center of Aurora
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Polar Express Sunday & Gingerbread Decorating
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Pine Grove Elementary, Parker
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Christmas Eve Celebration
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Pine Grove Elementary, Parker
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Pine Grove Elementary, Parker
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Youth Cookie Baking & Decorating
December 7, 3:00 pm
Francis Home, Centennial
Calling all youth!!! Coni is getting the kitchen ready and the oven warmed up. Join us for our annual cookie baking & decorating party. For more information and to RSVP contact
Joe F
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Justice League Meeting
December 8, 12:45 pm
TBD
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
PrairieUU
.org
to learn more about our passions and initiatives. Contact the
Justice League
if you have any questions!
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Youth Brunch Bunch
December 8, 10:00 am
Pine Grove Elementary and then who knows???
Have you ever wanted to sneak out of church halfway through service and grab brunch? Well, once a month our youth do just that. Our youth start the morning in worship and slip out in the middle for brunch. If you are planning to attend RSVP with
Molly M
or our Youth Advisors
Allyson G
and
Dom G
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Prairie UU Board Meeting
December 11, 6:30 pm
The Prairie Board of Trustees will next meet on Wednesday December 11 at 6:30 pm at the
Lone Tree Library
. The draft agenda for the meeting should be available by December 4th. For more information contact
Clark H
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Christmas Pageant & Caroling
December 15, 10:00 am
Start practicing now! Right after our shortened service, we will travel to
Life Care Center of Aurora
(
14101 E Evans, Aurora, 80014
)
and carol to our beloved Cory L and all her friends. All families and friends of Prairie are invited to attend, as we encourage everyone, even our youngest community members, to share holiday cheer. Dress festively and please bring holiday cookies to share!
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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 F
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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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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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
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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, 5:00 pm
PrairieUU is invited to celebrate Bridge / House Ready to Work (
3176 S Peoria Ct, Aurora
, CO 80014
) Aurora's 1st Anniversary and Holiday Celebration on Thursday, December 12th from 5:00 - 8:00 pm. If you can help out by bringing an hors d'oeuvre,
great, if not ~ just bring your festive self! They have been so grateful for PrairieUU's partnership and generous support this past year. Email the
Justice League
with 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 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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