Our building will be closed on November 24-26 but open for services on Sunday–

Happy Thanksgiving from your staff at WBUUC!

Our Sunday services are at 9 and 11am, in-person and on Zoom,

followed by in-person and Cyber Social Hour, immediately after both services.

Read WBUUC's Current COVID Protocol

Nov. 27 Changing History: A Thanksgiving Revision with Rev. Sara Goodman and live music from Margo Berg and Laura Stone-Jeraj

Dec. 4 Words, Metaphors, and Pluralism with Rev. Roger Bertschausen and live music from Harmonia

Dec. 11 The Mystery Beyond All Knowing with Rev. Roger Bertschausen and live music from the WBUUC Choir

If you are visiting for the first time or bringing a guest or returning after an absence, feel free to register below so that our welcome teams can prepare for your arrival.

https://wbuuc.org/sunday-worship/.

The Nursery is available during worship to care for children ages 6 months through 3 years. Registration is required: https://wbuuc.breezechms.com/form/22-23RE

Bidding for the auction is underway but will close on Wednesday, November 30. There are many great items still available and special bargains and sales may appear at any time, so keep checking! 

If you don't fall in love with an item to bid on, you can still participate. Our Fund-A-Need portion for direct donations is dedicated to raising money for the next year's Lead Minister anticipated moving expenses.

As for the Bazaar—your donations can be dropped off next week during church open hours (Tue/Wed/Thurs: 10am – 5pm, Fridays: often open – best to confirm before arriving) and on Saturday between 3-5 pm. And please join us in the fun with your family - we will see you there on December 3 from 5:30-8:00pm!

Other questions, contact the committee: auction@wbuuc.org

A celebration of Nancy’s life will be held Saturday, December 3, 2022, 11:00am at Bradshaw Celebration of Life Center, 2800 Curve Crest Boulevard, Stillwater with visitation one hour prior to the service. Interment Oakland Cemetery, Marine on St. Croix. In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred to donor’s choice.

November is National Native American Heritage Month and a good time to highlight and confront stereotypes and racism about Native Americans. Thanksgiving is an opportunity to go beyond falsified narratives and focus on common values: generosity, gratitude and community.  

Learn more from the nonprofit Cultural Survival by clicking on this link: https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/8-ways-decolonize-and-honor-native-peoples-thanksgiving

Join us for an upcoming Supper & Soulwork – These evenings of fellowship and food provide all-ages with a chance to share a meal, participate in various activities and/or special programming and most importantly, be together. Meals will be either potluck or prepared by a cook team.

Wednesday, November 30

This will be a meal prepared by a cook team. Click here to RSVP for this event!

There will be a basket out for people to contribute to the cost of the dinner. This is a free-will donation with a suggested sliding scale of $5-10/person and $20-25/family. Cost should never be prohibitive, and all are welcome regardless of ability to contribute.

5:30pm - Dinner prepared by cook team

6:15-7:30pm - Drop-in Nursery Care available for ages 6 mos.- 4yrs.

6:30-7:30pm - Choir Rehearsal

6:30-7:30pm - Special Programming: The Paths That Brought Us Here Where do you come from? What has been your journey of faith? Join Revs. Shay MacKay and Diana McLean in exploring these questions through poetry, story, and song.  

Click here to RSVP to attend this program.

Wednesday, December 7

This will be a potluck meal. 

If you'd like to bring a dish, click here to add what you'll be bringing!

5:30pm - Potluck Dinner with the Social Action Committee (see description below)

6:15pm-7:30pm - Drop-in Nursery Care available for ages 6 mos.-4yrs.

6:30pm-7:30pm - Choir Rehearsal

6:30pm-7:30pm - Drop-in Soulwork for ages 5 & up

6:30pm- 7:30pm - Parent Circle meets

Members of the Social Action Committee will be available during dinner to discuss the numerous ongoing social action programs in our church. This is a great opportunity to learn more and get involved in this core tenet of WBUUC.

I'd love to tell you a little bit more about our Welcome Teams. The job is pretty easy, involving arriving 30 minutes before the service and sticking around for another 30 minutes after the service. This team helps to greet people, to orient newcomers to the building, to help people find their name tags, to hand out Orders of Service, and to help folks with the check-in process. This team also has a few roles during and after the service, making sure that the service itself and the social hour run smoothly. We're not looking for extroverts only. There are many different tasks of the Welcome Team, and there are many different ways of providing welcome. We hope you'll consider this opportunity to make our community a more welcome and inviting place.

Learn more about this and other opportunities: www.wbuuc.org/service

Doctors Without Borders is active in 70 countries around the world and responds to medical humanitarian emergencies. They provide access to healthcare, needed medications, and teach management of common health conditions to local care organizations. They respond quickly to existing and emerging medical needs to provide needed care and save lives. Our special collection on November 20 goes to support Doctors Without Borders. If you didn’t donate yet, please take a few minutes now and help WBUUC provide funds for this organization. 

Thank you for sharing in WBUUC’s commitment to social justice concerns by donating funds to Doctors Without Borders.

You can give in three ways:

• Online: http://bit.ly/give-to-wbuuc - indicate DOCTORS
• Send a check to WBUUC with DOCTORS on the memo line.
• Text to Give with text to 651-615-5551 and the “amount DOCTORS" (e.g., if you want to give $25, put this in the text: 25 DOCTORS)

If you would like to have a joy, a sorrow, or a life event shared in our time of meditation and prayer in the Sunday service, please complete this form. You may also use this form to request prayers, ask for support from the congregation, and just to let us know what is going on with you. https://wbuuc.breezechms.com/form/MeditationRequest

Meeting with Ministers

We invite you to contact us directly to make an appointment for an in-person or Zoom meeting. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays are the days on which we concentrate appointments though we will also make available other times if these weekday times don't work for you. Questions or to make an appointment with one of us, contact us.

Building Hours

Tue/Wed/Thurs: 10am – 5pm

Fridays: often open – best to confirm before arriving

Mondays: typically closed or open by special arrangement only