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 1st –
A Chalice of Faith
Pastor AJ and Allyson Gunn will be leading an interactive service centering on our UU chalice and principles. We invite you to come prepared to share your thoughts on our 7 principles. (If you have a chalice that you can share with us for use in the service please let
Pastor AJ
know ASAP)
NewUU: Pathway to Membership
All are welcome! Join us after fellowship for a conversation with Pastor AJ and our membership team. This time is targeted to provide time and space for visitors and newer members to discuss and ask questions about Unitarian Universalism and living in covenant at PrairieUU.
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.
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12/1 - Rehearsal @ 9:15 am
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:
"Even a mere mouse can use spiritual practices to
bring joy to his/her life."
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Notes from Pastor AJ
I would like to thank you all for a wonderful Thanksgiving Celebration and I want to wish you all a time filled with the love of family and friends as we enter this holiday season. I know that for some the holidays bring mixed emotions. Some are struggling to make ends meet, with estranged family members, loss, and much more. I want to reaffirm with each and every one of you that you are not alone. Please feel free to reach out to me anytime if you would like support, a listening ear or to share a cup of “coffee.” I am only ever a phone call, text or email away.
I hope you all have joyous thanksgiving and look forward to being with you on December 1st.
In Service,
Pastor AJ
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Welcome to Rhonda W.
We are happy to announce that we have a new Administrator. We would like to welcome Rhonda W to our PrairieUU community, staff and team. Over the past month or so we received over 65 resumes from a collective of very qualified and talented applicants for the position and after sifting resumes, phone interviews, in-person interviews, and even assessment testing, the Search Committee, including Pastor AJ, Clark H, Janet S, Vivian L, and Samera B identified Rhonda as the best fit for us at PrairieUU.
Rhonda will be joining us beginning on Sunday morning December 1st. Rhonda comes to us with many years in church administration and religious exploration both in and out of UU communities. Rhonda will be handling items such as our base office functions, assisting our G-Suite administration and other Congregational software, communications, and scheduling our Childcare Providers.
Rhonda’s hours will initially be: MWF 12pm-4pm
We invite you all to give Rhonda a warm welcome and help her ease into the community. If you have any questions or concerns please contact
Pastor AJ
or
Clark H.
With Gratitude,
Your Search Committee
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Thank you! Thank you!! Thank you!!!
Our Hospitality team would like to heartfully say "Thanks" to all who feasted at our Friendsgiving with a special hat tip to those who helped set-up, cleaned-up and cooked our feast! If you are missing something, please let
Cindy W
know! She has quite the assortment of potluck odds and ends. Our next community event is our
Christmas Eve Cookie Reception.
This year's theme is "The Nutcracker." An informational poster and a sign-up sheet will be available in Hospitality this Sunday.
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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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NewUU: Pathway to Membership
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Pine Grove Elementary, Parker
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Living Well with Mental Health
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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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Bridge House/Ready to Work Needs a Great Thanksgiving!
November 28, 10:30 am - 1:00 pm
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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NewUU: Pathway to Membership
December 1, 11:30 am
Pine Grove Elementary, Parker
All are welcome! Join us after fellowship for a conversation with Pastor AJ and our membership team. This time is targeted to provide time and space for visitors and newer members to discuss and ask questions about Unitarian Universalism and living in covenant at PrairieUU.
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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
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Weather and Attendance permitting.
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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. Join us for our annual cookie baking & decorating party. For more information and to RSVP contact
Joe F
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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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Christmas Pageant & 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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Gerry Brinkers
Alina Demont Heimich
Frank Foster
Allen McCorkle
Walter Nelson
Eloise Nelson
Andrew Paschetto
Jan Spooner
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Cindy Williams
Samantha Bishop
Keri Barber
Andrew Reardon
Michael Rodman
Ross Walker
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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 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
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.
Prairie has passed out collection boxes. If you need one please stop by the Justice League table after the service or see a
Justice League
member. We will collect boxes and donations, as is our tradition, 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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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 an elf tag from the Justice League Tree during fellowship. Each tag 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 to Prairie WRAPPED with the tag of the person's name attached by December 8th.
Contact 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
.
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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Call, Text, Smoke Signals?
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
Office Hours - M-Th 10:00 am – 9:00 pm
Phone/Text - 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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