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 15th
Christmas Pageant & Caroling
Join us for our annual reading and acting of the Christmas Story; all ages invited to join in the fun.
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After our pageant service, we will travel to the
Life Care Center of Aurora
to spread some holiday cheer to Cory L and her friends from noon to 1:30 pm! Wear something festive and warm up your vocal cords for boisterous Christmas caroling! All families and friends of Prairie are invited to attend. Feel free to bring cookies to share, and if you cannot make it church, you can still meet us there at noon:
14101 E Evans Ave, Aurora 80014. Click here to l
earn more about
Service Sunday
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Hospitality will be taking all leftover Social Hour Cookies to share with the residents during caroling. This is an all Community event for cookies. Carolers, please be green and remember your refillable water bottle! If you are not going to caroling, we are would love help with cleanup.
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12/15 - Rehearsal @ 9:15 am
12/22 - Rehearsal @ 9:15 am
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12/24 - Rehearsal & Performance
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Ralph Waldo Mouse Says:
"Can I be part of the Christmas Pageant?"
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Notes from Pastor AJ
We are excited to begin planning for our 2020 services and events. If there are any events that you would like us to include in our official PrairieUU calendar and communications please send it to
Rhonda W
before 12/18. We will be publishing our new calendar for January 1st on 12/24.
If you have any announcements that you would like included in the weekly newsletter or announcement please email our
Communications Team
by Tuesday at 12:00 pm
.
In Service,
Pastor AJ
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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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Christmas Pageant & Caroling
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Pine Grove Elementary, Parker
and L
ife Care Center of Aurora
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Meditation Service/
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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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
TBD
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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Polar Express Sunday & Gingerbread Decorating
December 22, 10:00 am
Pine Grove Elementary, Parker
Meditation
and Polar Express for the young and young at heart. Join us for the reading of the Polar Express and decorating gingerbread houses. The morning is not complete without hot cocoa! Come in your PJs!!!
Cindy will be helping our children decorate their tiny houses! She will bring gingerbread for the community, but we are needing setup and cleanup help and treats. Please contact
Cindy W if you can help.
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Christmas Eve Cookie Reception
December 24, TBD
Pine Grove Elementary, Parker
Please join us after Services on Christmas Eve 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
Cindy W
and
Fran L.
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Kwanzaa Celebration!
December 29, 10:00 am
Pine Grove Elementary, Parker
Hospitality is coordinating with The Murray's to celebrate Kwanzaa with a potluck. North African foods are featured in this full Community event!
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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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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
or call 303-895-5771
know 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!
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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
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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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Justice Film Series at First Plymouth Church:
Not in Our Town
December 13, 5:30 pm
5:30 Potluck supper (bring something to share)
6:30 Film begins, lively discussion afterward
In this documentary, citizens of Billings, Montana found common ground against hate-based attacks against their African American, Native American, and Jewish families and congregations. Religious and community leaders, labor union volunteers, law enforcement, the local newspaper and concerned residents united in action and spoke loudly against hate and intolerance.
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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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