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
The
Caring Circle
provides support 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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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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February 2 - Faith, Love, and Service
Worship
Join us this Sunday as we open our month-long theme of Agape ~ Unconditional Love. We will be exploring what it is to build the beloved community around us in Parker and beyond. Pastor AJ will ask us what it means to live in a world that we live in covenant
with but does not necessarily covenant
back to us.
Fellowship
We gather together and snack in the fellowship hall on delicious treats prepared by our Hospitality Committee. Whether you’re sipping on a cup of tea or savoring a tasty slice of cake, this is an excellent opportunity to make friends, reflect on the day’s service, and just talk.
Learning Hour
Adults: Pastor AJ will be leading a conversation targeted to visitors and newer members of the congregation and community but all are always welcome. In honor of Black History Month, the conversation will be centered on the role and history or People of Color in Unitarian Universalism.
Youth:
We're going to make Valentine's cards for our partners at Bridge House. Come get your crafting spirit revved up!
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2/2: No Rehearsal
2/9 Rehearsal - 9:15
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2/16: Rehearsal/Performance - 9:15
2/23: No Rehearsal
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Ralph Waldo Mouse Says:
"A dog (and a mouse) will teach you, unconditional love."
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Notes from Pastor AJ
Hospitality Help! After several conversations with the hospitality team as well as members of the Board and the Committee on Shared Ministry. We have come up with a new proposal for a test run on how to accomplish our hospitality tasks on Sunday mornings. We propose that each Sunday there will be a hospitality Team member and a committee or team assigned to handle hospitality. The Hospitality Team member will work with the committee chairperson to coordinate tasks. There are three basic tasks: Setup, Teardown, and bringing supplemental refreshments members will be asked to participate in ONE of these tasks each Sunday. The basic schedule (subject to change and adjustment) will be as follows:
1st Sunday - Cindy with the Board & Finance
2nd Sunday - Fran with the COSM & LifeSpan
3rd Sunday - Brenda with CoreTeam & Communications
4th Sunday - Iris with Membership & Justice League
5th Sunday - Full Community
In Service,
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President's Corner
One of the most critical times for our PrairieUU community is the annual canvass in the spring. Before we can finalize our budget for the upcoming year, we must first understand our anticipated income. This is the time when we ask members to pledge their financial contributions to PrairieUU for the upcoming fiscal year (2020-2021). If you are inclined to volunteer with assisting on the team and/or chairing our canvass effort, please let me know.
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Rhonda’s Ribbons
New Hours - My office hours have changed to M-Th from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm. This change is to better meet the workflow needs for Prairie.
If you have any announcements that you would like included in the weekly newsletter or announcement for the week of January 26, please email our
Communications Team
by Monday at 12:00 pm.
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Beginning the week of
January 26th,
the deadline for announcements to be included in the weekly newsletter, Sunday announcements and Order of Service will change to
Monday at 12:00 pm
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This will allow us more time to change the many places that these events are being publicized.
Thank you,
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Auction Item Available
Winter Park Ski Weekend
Dates: February 28, 29, and March 1, 2020
Item #109 - Winter Park Ski Weekend with Joe & Coni Francis
Enjoy a weekend as our pampered guests in our Winter Park condo. Expect a great weekend of downhill skiing, cross-country skiing, and/or snowshoeing in addition to dining and relaxing in front of a romantic fire. Also enjoy the new recreation center within walking distance, featuring indoor and outdoor hot tubs and indoor pool. We purchase the food and do the cooking! Six meals provided, Friday dinner through Sunday lunch.
Bid PER PERSON. Minimum bid per person $75
Retail value $200 per person
Maximum: 6 people
Lift Tickets are NOT Included.
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Associates and Appreciative Inquiry Visioning
Are you interested in the direction of the mission of PrairieUU? Is long term mission and vision important to you? If so we would like to hear from you. The
Committee on Shared Ministry
and
Pastor AJ
have consulted with several members of congregational leadership as well as the former Appreciative Inquiry Visioning Team to assess how to move forward with both of the Appreciative Inquiry process and the Associate's program. If you are interested in becoming an Associate and continuing with the
Appreciative Inquiry Visioning
process please let Pastor AJ know.
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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 Help
Looking for something to do Sunday Morning?
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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Constructive Theology & Creative Expression
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Parker Library, Event Hall A
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Habitat Interfaith Alliance Soup Cook-off
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First Universalist Church
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New UU/Pathway to Membership
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Pine Grove Elementary School
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Living Well with Mental Health Issues
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South Metro Fire Station 42
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Committee on Shared Ministry
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Constructive Theology & Creative Expression
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Parker Library, Event Hall A
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Habitat Interfaith Alliance Fundraiser
Soup Cook-Off
February 1, 6:30 pm
Soups needed!!!! Registration deadline extended. We desperately need more soups for the HIA Soup Cook-off -- vegetarian, non-veggie, international, chili, basically anything that can be served in a bowl! Creativity welcome. Each congregation is asked to enter six soups. At this point, we only have two (maybe three). Can you please help? If you don't have a crockpot, we can arrange to get you one. Also, if you are of more a baker than a soup-maker, we would use welcome your dessert.
Click here
for details and to sign up.
We also could use more dessert contributions, if you are more a baker than a soup-maker.
Click here to sign up.
Click here
to help the day of the event, if you would like to help the day of the event.
Questions? To attend, or carpool there with friends, contact PrairieUU’s liaisons to the Habitat Interfaith Alliance,
Deena Lawrence
or
Jim Rogo
. Buy tickets at the door ~ $15/person or $35/family.
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NewUU: Pathway to Membership
February 2, 11:30 am
Pine Grove Elementary
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. In honor of Black History Month, the conversation will be centered on the role and history or People of Color in Unitarian Universalism.
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LifeSpan Team
February 3, 6:30 pm
Parker Library
Are you interested in working in our religious exploration program? Our LifeSpan Education Team is comprised of two groups of volunteers. All are welcome to join us at any time. For more information and to RSVP, please contact
Susan E.
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Living Well with Mental Health Issues
February 5, 7:00 pm
South Metro Fire Station 42
Join us on the first Wednesday of each month from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm 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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Justice League Meeting
February 9, 1:00 pm
Parker Library, 2nd Floor Conference Room
All are welcome and please bring a snack to share! We’ll catch up, prep for Service Sunday, share IDP progress, and so much more! Visit our website to learn more about our passions and initiatives
PrairieUU Justice League
Contact
Nancy L
,
Melissa B
, or
Kim
M
if you have any questions!
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Committee on Shared Ministry
February 10, 6:30 pm
Parker Library
We would like to invite members to share thoughts, concerns and, kudos with us at our monthly meeting. If you have input regarding the Vision of PrairieUU, living in covenant and right relations, or overall ministerial concerns. All are welcome to join us for the 1st 30 minutes of our meeting after which we will enter a closed meeting session to discuss matters that respect member's concerns etc in confidence. If you have any questions or concerns please contact our co-chairs,
Marjorie B
and
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Reading with Pastor AJ
Learning Hour
February 16, 11:30 am
Pine Grove Elementary School
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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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PrairieUU Men's Group Forming
We will be starting 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
or call 303-895-5771 if you're interested.
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Small-Group Ministries Forming
If you are interested in forming a small group ministry please contact
Pastor AJ
. Groups now in discussion and forming are a men’s group, people of color, Wiccan/Pagan group, environmental group (under the Justice League), and a healthy eating/living group.
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Restorative Listening Circles
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. If you have a concern that you would like addressed please contact
Pastor AJ
or the
COSM
with any questions or to request a circle.
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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 contact 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 Events
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Justice League Thanks YOU!
Prairie stays true to its covenant! Thank you to everyone who contributed to meal kits for the homeless and to everyone who helped build them – we made more than 100 kits for our friends at Aurora Warms the Night!
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Racism & White Privilege Workshop
February 8, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
First Universalist Church of Denver’s Racial Justice Task Force invites us to a workshop to explore our inner landscapes in the framework of white privilege by using the language of spiritual formation which will include story-telling, silence for personal reflection, and the opportunity to share experiences. If you have questions please contact
Holly Fulton.
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Social Justice Film Series:
Crisis in Leavittown
February 14, 5:30 pm
The Black middle-class Myers family moves into an all-white suburb of Levittown, PA in August 1957, and are snubbed and mistreated, in this powerful landmark documentary showcasing racism in the United States. Join in a robust conversation during the potluck and film discussion at First Universalist,
4101 E Hampden, Denver
5:30 to 9. Bring something to share! Contact
Nancy L
or
Kim M
for more details or if interested in carpooling.
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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 that 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 Monday 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 - M-Th 11:00 am - 2:00 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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