Note about Breeze: The company which hosts our church database has been undergoing a system migration this week. While it was scheduled to be completed on Monday morning, there have been issues which are being addressed by their engineers. A majority of our registration forms and the church directory database haven't been accessible for the last few days so we opted to delay sending our regular Wednesday eNews until this morning as Breeze appears to be mostly functional, but you may still encounter some delays or issues. We apologize for any inconveniences this may have presented. 

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

Sunday, Oct 2 The Courage to Forgive and Atone with Rev. Roger Bertschausen

Special live music from Harmonia

Sunday, Oct 9 Discerning the Path with Rev. Sara Goodman

Special live music from The OK Factor + Jaerv

Sunday, Oct 16 The Courage to Stay Put with Rev. Roger Bertschausen

Special live music from The WBUUC Choir

***If you are a regular attender, there is no need to pre-register anymore. Please just check yourself in at an iPad when you arrive.

If you are visiting for the first time or bringing a guest or returning after an absence, please register for in-person worship here: 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

Thanks to all members and friends who attended Saturday's workshop with Rev. Keith Kron. Missed it? No worries - you can watch it here: https://youtu.be/hti4Apk5xFA

Registration is now open for all programs for children and youth for the 22-23 program year, including Our Whole Lives, Coming of Age, Nursery Care, Sunday Circles, and more! To find out more and to register, visit www.wbuuc.org/re/

MUUSJA, the Minnesota UU Social Justice Alliance, is coordinating #UUtheVote with 30 congregations statewide and will be in our Atrium on Sunday between and after services where you can find out more about their Good Neighbors partnership with Somali and Latinx organizers (CAIR-MN & COPAL) for reaching apartment renters in MN through call lists, a postcard campaign and door knocking as well as other UUtheVote initiatives for 2022: See more here. Questions or interested in participating in UUtheVote? Contact Karen Wills 612-270-6559 or director@muusja.org or stop by the MUUSJA table on Sunday.

Can WBUUC pay for 50 additional solar collectors on the roof with revenue from members voluntarily buying carbon offsets at the rate of $.05 per pound of carbon emitted through vacation or leisure travel by car, plane or boat?

To find out how feasible this is, WBUUC’s Board of Directors requests that members of our community respond to a survey. Learn more about this project and participate in the survey by clicking here.

We're looking for coffee hour set-up and clean-up and teams to cook/facilitate potlucks on Wednesday nights. You pick the dates and how often you want to help. It’s pretty easy!

Coffee sign up: 

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/805094AAAAF2EA4FE3-sunday

Wednesday Night Cook Teams sign up: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/805094AAAAF2EA4FE3-wednesday

On September 18 and September 25, we had two special collections, Project Home Meal Team and The People of Pakistan. You can still contribute!

Project Home Meal Team - keyword: Team

Help fund the food our new Project Home Meal Team cooks on rotating weekends for people in the Project Home shelter at the Provincial House of the Sisters of Carondelet in St. Paul. Until the pandemic, WBUUC was one of several area churches that provided a month of overnight housing space and volunteers for the families who were experiencing homelessness. Meal Team volunteers are needed as well. Contact Margie Schmidt (madierschmidt@comcast.net) if you can help prep meals.

The People of Pakistan - keyword: IRC

Pakistan has experienced extreme rainfall since the monsoon season began in mid-June, with about three times more rain than the national 30-year average. This has led to severe flooding impacting more than 33 million people. Family homes are being destroyed and crops ruined. Over 1,300 people have been killed by flooding; nearly 460 of them were children. The rainy season isn’t over — more monsoon rains are likely in the coming weeks. Donations will be sent to The International Rescue Committee (IRC), an organization that works in more than 40 countries and in 28 U.S. cities to help people affected by humanitarian crises to survive, recover and rebuild their lives. 

Thank you for sharing in WBUUC’s commitment to social justice by donating to these special collections.

You can donate in 3 ways: 

• Online: http://bit.ly/give-to-wbuuc – indicate IRC or Team
• Send a check to WBUUC with IRC or Team on the memo line
• Text to Give with text to 651-615-5551 and the “amount IRC" or "amount Team"(ex, if you want to give $20, put this in the text: 20 IRC or 20 Team)

Oct 4 | 7 to 9pm | Wheatley Room and via Zoom

WomenSpirit meets the first Tuesday of the month, October through May. Focused on exploring our spirituality, WomenSpirit is open to all who identify as women. Join us in-person or on Zoom to kick off our theme of Self-care through SoulCollage® - an intuitive, creative process of creating cards which represent aspects of our being and enable us to tap into inner knowing and guidance. Contact Carol at 651-253-4200 / carol.marsyla@gmail.com to RSVP so I can get the Zoom link or materials to you.

First Thursday evening of each month starting Thursday Oct 6, 6:30-8:30 pm 

Third Sunday afternoon of each month starting Sunday Oct 16, 12:30-2:30 pm    

Room TBD

Let’s gather, create and get to know each other better! 

Feel free to bring your own creative project, painting in process, knitting, needlework, quilting or other artistic work! This will be very informal. You can even come and watch others. Drop in anytime.

Oct 8 | 9am-1pm

Please join the Land Stewardship committee for a morning of fun, work, food and fresh air as we undertake our annual Fall cleaning effort. Grab your work gloves, tools, water bottle and head on over to church. Come work outside on the gardens and woodlands of our church property. Families are welcome. Lunch will be provided by Men’s Programs.(Rain date: Saturday October 22nd) Direct questions to Jerry Condon at gerald.condon@gmail.com.

Oct 9 | 12:30-2:00pm | Wheatley Room and on Zoom

In the first of WBUUC's two-part membership series, we explore the history and theology of Unitarian Universalism. Participants will get a chance to meet each other and articulate what has been meaningful to them about finding this community.

Contact Rev. Jack (revjack@wbuuc.org) if you plan to attend or have any questions.

My deepest thanks to WBUUC for ordaining me to the ministry, and so warmly celebrating my work as a hospice chaplain.

May the affirmation, challenge, and blessings spoken that day strengthen us, individually and as a congregation, as we live out our liberating faith!

The offering of $2,155 will be split between Project Home and The Living Tradition Fund. Thank you for generously supporting these important causes. - Jill

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