Please be sure to check the service description each week and double check for the sign on Sunday mornings indicating whether RE is available during that week's service.

Please send your joys or sorrows to joysandsorrows@uucuc.org any time before the Joys and Sorrows portion of the service. They will be read aloud.

Join our online Zoom Fellowship Hour after the service this Sunday

Join us at 11:30 (or immediately following the service) for an in-person fellowship with coffee, beverages, and treats in the Fellowship Hall.

As of Thursday, August 4, 2022, the COVID-19 transmission level in Champaign County is HIGH. That means masks will be required in UUCUC's building for all activities until the transmission level drops to Medium or Low. When In-Person Fellowship Hour is scheduled, it will also be moved outside as the weather permits. Please visit this link for UUCUC's current COVID Safety Guidelines.

Your contributions and support allow us to continue to respond with love and resources to the needs in our congregation and the wider community. We couldn’t do it without your support and we are grateful to each of you.

Bookmark our UUCUC Events and UUCUC Calendar webpage for future reference.

Join us after church for a potluck picnic lunch and all-ages fun at UUCUC. There will be food, art, and a fort-building extravaganza on the church’s south lawn, fueled by dozens of giant cardboard boxes, duct tape, and our imaginations.

August book: The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race. Wealth, and Power by Deidre Mask

Women and folks who identify as women are welcome to join us!

Registration of children and youth ensures:

Please consider donating to the Little Free Pantries run by Julie Laut (Urbana) and AJ Herzog (Champaign), which they have maintained year-round since March 2020. Their Amazon wish list has been updated to include unique summer items. The wishlist can be sorted to identify high priority items. All orders sent through Amazon are delivered to Julie's house and split between the two pantries. You are also welcome to drop off items in person at both locations. Questions? Contact Julie (jlaut@hushmail.com) or AJ (zogs92@gmail.com).

JOYS AND SORROWS sent to joysandsorrows@uucuc.org for last Sunday, July 31, 2022.

From Barbara, Carol, Claudia, Gail C., Kathleen, Kristi and Pat: Many thanks to our ex-officio covenant group member Cindy Loui for hosting members of her former circle with a dessert extravaganza at her home recently. It was literally and figuratively one sweet get-together!

From Sam Beshers: Our son Max's father in law, Bill Forbush, is back in the hospital with another in a series of severe heart episodes. Our hearts with Max and the Forbush family.

From Chris Hoefler: I've not been able to work due to my mental health. I hope to get better.

From Barbara Jauhola: A double joy for my niece Lisa who celebrates her 37th! birthday and her 12th wedding anniversary with husband Matt.

From Debbie Karplus: I celebrated my 70th birthday this week. I have had an amazing and joyful run. Am hoping to keep the magic going!!!!!

From Joan Taylor: Tragic loss of Tyler, Sarah and Lula Schmidt and my brother Carl Bessman in the same week. Joy = Arlo Schmidt survives

Please send your joys or sorrows to joysandsorrows@uucuc.org any time before the Joys and Sorrows portion of the service. They will be read aloud.

UUCUC Social Action Offering. Each month a selected organization is chosen to receive offerings from our congregation. You may donate to the social action offering for the month in one of the following ways:

The Education Justice Project (EJP) is the UUCUC Shared Offering organization for August. 

The Education Justice Project (EJP) is a college-in-prison program based at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. EJP offers college courses for credit, as well as extracurricular activities, at Danville Correctional Center, a medium-security men’s prison about 45 miles from the Urbana-Champaign campus. 

In addition to our work in the prison, EJP works to support people leaving prison and reentering society. Our Reentry Guide Initiative produces guides and other resources and distributes them to incarcerated individuals, family members, and service agencies across the state and beyond.

You can learn more about the Education Justice Project here.  

During the month of June, our shared offering was able to raise $1,883.75 that was donated to Concerned Citizens of Carbondale.

Beginning in 2005, the Concerned Citizens of Carbondale gained attention when residents made their case for a full remediation of the Koppers site to the US EPA and the City of Carbondale. Because the northeast side of Carbondale is a historically Black, segregated community, they feared that environmental racism would influence their plea. Environmental racism manifests itself in policy, practice or directives that expose people of color to environmental hazards.

Read our policy on publications for details.

Please send your submittals to pubs@uucuc.org and not to the admin email.

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