Our Mission:
“We gather as a welcoming, caring community to nurture mind and spirit, celebrate diversity, and work for justice.”
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A New PrairieUU Tradition
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A New PrairieUU Tradition
Let's start a new PrairieUU Tradition, celebrating together differently.
I am putting together a music video for church and would like contributions from the entire congregation. The choir will be providing the singing parts. If you watch this video (Grateful), you'll see that singing is only a small part of this project.
If you're interested, you can contribute a video of...
1. Dancing (solo, duet, trio, quartets, pets, family, friends, etc.
2. General goofiness
3. Signing - hearts, gratitude, love, happiness (see the video)
4. Lip-sync singing - YES, you can pretend to be singing in this video
5. Rapping - real or lip-sync'd
This is EASY and hopefully FUN and I encourage everyone to send me something, even if it's just a few seconds.
Please contact Paul E if you plan on contributing. Deadline for contributions is Friday, December 11. Thanks!
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Sunday Morning Experience
Join us for Worship Online at 10:30 am
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Sunday Worship - The Christmas Story
Sunday, December 13th, 10:30 am
The Christmas Story, the birth of Jesus, is meant as a story of hope and light for all humankind. Our tradition for 20+ years is to have a live pageant exploring this story. As we are in this time of social distancing and safekeeping, we will have this service slightly different in a virtual manner. I invite everyone to join us in making this service special – see the instructions “HERE”
Please join us on December 13th for our Christmas Story worship service filled with familiar faces and wonderful music.
Join us for Conversation:
Beginning at 10:15 via Google Meet . This will be our space to chat and socialize before and during the service. We will also share Candles of Community immediately following the service in this same meet.
Watch the Worship Service:
Our Sunday morning service will be available live
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Sunday, December 13, 9:30 am
Kids (and their grown-ups), join us this Sunday for our K-5 religious education program! All through the month of December, will be exploring the theme of stillness. Our Soul Matters curriculum is specifically designed to keep kids engaged and curious over an online platform. So come along for stories, activities, and fun!
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Sunday, December 13, 11:45 am
Welcome to our Middle and Senior High Youth from our PrairieUU and local community to gather together. Join us for conversation, spiritual growth, and social activities.
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Sunday, December 13, 11:45 am
All are welcome! The December theme is Stillness.
The Soul Matters Adult Small group meeting is December 13 and 20th. It is helpful to do a spiritual exercise from the monthly packet, prior to the group meeting so you can share your experience.
Below you will find information to get the monthly Soul Matters small group packet.
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If you have an active PrairieUU email account click here to access the December packet.
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If you do not have a PrairieUU email account and or cannot find the packet, please contact Rhonda.
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You may also contact Janet S with any questions.
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Justice League Meeting
Sunday, December 13, 1:00 pm
All are welcome to join us after fellowship. We’ll prep for Service Sunday, share IDP progress, and so much more! Visit PrairieUU.org to learn more about our passions and initiatives. Contact the Justice League if you have any questions!
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What You Missed:
If you missed Worship over the last few weeks, you are invited to visit our Facebook page, YouTube or on our website to view our services.
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Ralph Waldo Mouse Says:
"Christmas, my friend, is love in action ."
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To get the most up to date information visit us on Facebook. Register here. Download the PDF of the Speaker series here
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From the Board ...
It's December! Let's bring our Thanksgiving gratitude of hope for a healing and healthy 2021!
Update on Board Activities:
Revised Nomination Policy and Procedures: The Board recommended more work on the revised policies developed with revisions from the COSM and Board members. The COSM is now working another draft for Board approval in December. We hope to introduce the new policy and procedures at the January 31, 2021 Congregational Meeting.
Prairie UU Handbooks: There are 5 in development or revision. The Board's goal is to have written policies, procedures, and clear job descriptions for all leadership and committee positions. These will be in one place, on our Google documents and accessible to the members and visitors. If you are interested in helping let me know. We will be seeking advice from those of you who have leadership roles. Watch for an email from me to provide input to your and your committee's role and responsibility.
Board Liaisons: The Board has defined the role of Board Liaisons to Standing Committees. The Liaison position is identified in the Bylaws, but needed definitions and responsibility. Committee Chairs should watch for this description soon. The Liaison position is designed to be supportive of each committee's work and to keep the Board informed of Committee's needs and activities.
January 31, 2021 Congregational Meeting: Mark your calendar and send suggestions for agenda items to me. The Congregational meeting will take place after the Sunday Service.
In Covenant,
President Board of Trustees
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Annual Pageant Service
Hello Prairie & Friends.
This year, we will have our annual Pageant service in a slightly different way….it’s in keeping with our virtual services we’ve been having since March. This service is scheduled for December 13th. We still want this to be a community involved event so it means getting your wonderful faces and voices recorded. I have outlined the areas we’d like input and stories. And you have options:
- Record your favorite memory about the Christmas story
- Record what parts of the Christmas story mean to your or have mesmerized you
- You can share art in the video
- You can share your thoughts along with your family
Once you have recorded your message or story (1-5 minutes in length), please send back to me or save here:
Please send me a note that describes which section your feel your video fits by the number listed below.
- The overall story of Jesus’ birth about beginnings and renewed possibility
- Hope and Light for all humankind
- How Prairie and your service bring hope and light to others (work with Bridge House, Habitat for Humanity, Parker Task Force, MUUved to Action, and other events)
- our favorite characters in the story (relate to, adore, think about, like the sound, etc.)
- The STAR
- Wise Men
- Angel Gabriel
- Mary and Joseph
- Animals: camel, donkey, cow, sheep, doves
- Jesus – birth in the manger
Our service will be more magical, the more people participate. Please send your video by December 8th to Susan E.
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Polar Express
PrairieUU Friends and Family.....it's that time of year! We will be hosting a movie night virtually. POLAR EXPRESS. Since we can not be together in person for our usual PJ morning reading of the Polar Express, we'll gather virtually for the movie. Join us here on Saturday, December 19th at 5:30pm. For all those who RSVP, we'll drop off hot cocoa and candy canes to enjoy during the move.
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PrairieUU's Family Christmas
As is our tradition, PrairieUU is adopting a family in our community that is in need of support this holiday season. This year we help a family of 7 with close ties to our community. They have faced many challenges from job loss to the difficulties of remote learning while coping with learning differences.
Please sign up here to purchase and wrap a gift or make arrangements for someone else to do the shopping and/or wrapping for you. You may drop off gifts at our Open Space (Twenty Mile Rd/Ponderosa Dr) on Sunday, December 13 between 7:30-9:00am, or contact Kim (720) 636-1912 or Melissa (720) 471-0853 to arrange a pick-up. Thank you for your generosity!
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The election is not over - for more information on what you can do - click here.
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Rethinking Thanksgiving
Let’s rethink Thanksgiving- read Melissa’s important message here.
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Auction Update
I wanted to thank everyone who participated in the Auction this year, we made our goal even with Covid!
We also want to thank everyone who helped in this years Auction! It was more successful than we had hoped. It took the entire team, donors, and bidders to get us over the $10,000 mark! I hope you all enjoyed the Virtual bidding and auction.
All Donors and Winners, should have gotten an email receipt on Sunday 11/15 about 4:00 pm with the contact info needed to exchange products or services etc. It would have come from : Prairie UU Church<noreply@auctria.com>
If you did not get it, or need a new one, please contact me directly at : jans@prairieuu.org
Thanks again!
PrairieUU Auction Chair
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Support PrairieUU - Amazon Smile
If you shop on Amazon, please remember to use the special link and Amazon will donate 0.5% of your purchases to PrairieUU! This is through the Amazon Smile program. http://ow.ly/8zJi50BOssx
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Support PrairieUU - King Soopers Rewards Program
Our assigned Non-Profit Organization (NPO) number is UC596.
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DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION ADVOCATE
Board Liaison to the Nominations Committee
The Board is recruiting an individual to serve as a Board appointed advisor to the Nominations Committee. Our work with the COSM to create a more inclusive, diverse slate of nominees for Congregational Elections has led the Prairie UU leadership to recognize the need for an individual with experience and understanding of how bias can influence our choices and prevent a wider representation of diversity in our Prairie UU leadership. If you or someone you know is interested in serving in this role, please let Vivian Littlefield, President of the Board of Trustees know. The position should begin in time for our nomination process in March 2021.
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COMMUNITY SAFETY ADVISOR/S
The Board is seeking an individual or three individuals to serve as Advisors to our Prairie UU Community on Safety in three areas:
Pandemic Safety
Personal and Cyber Safety
Sexual Misconduct
The role/roles as currently envisioned is that the Advisor/s would search the local, state and national information sources for evolving information, review the UUA resources in these areas and provide regular, timely information to the congregation and the church leaders. The specific role and activities can be proposed by the individual/s who assume the role/s. If you are interested in serving in this important position/s, contact Vivian Littlefield, President Board of Trustees.
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MUUved to Action
Tuesday, December 8, 6:30 PM
Join us for our next MUUved to Action meeting. MUUved to Action group is a sub-group of our Justice League that meets weekly as a result of being called by our members to "not sleep through the revolution". We meet to address the urgent and immediate calls for justice action in our community. We are also joined by other Denver Metro UUs and community members.
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Life-Transitions Support Group
Wednesday, December 9, at 6:30
Contact: Dave L or Fran L.
This new Prairie online support group meets on the 2nd Wednesday of every month, from 6:30 to 8:00 pm. You can access this meeting from the Prairie Calendar, on our website.
If you, or a friend or relative of yours, would like to attend our support group, please contact either Fran or me, before the group's normal meeting time, so that we know how many attendees to expect. If we don't hear from anyone by the 2nd Tuesday of the month, we won't bother to initiate the online meeting for that month. Thank you for your understanding.
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Wednesday, December 9, 6:30 PM
This is space for Middle/Senior High Youth and 20something Young Adults from our PrairieUU and local community to gather together. Join us for conversation, spiritual growth, and social activities.
A working-class family man, Christopher Robin, encounters his childhood friend Winnie-the-Pooh, who helps him to rediscover the joys of life.
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Committee on Share Ministry
Monday, December 14, 6:30 pm
The COSM is dedicated to growing our Vision, ensuring we live together in Right Relation, and conducting ministerial oversight and connection. All of our PrairieUU community members are welcome to join us for the first 30 minutes from 6:30 pm to 7:00 pm. If you are unable to make it to our meeting, you can always leave a message in our Suggestion Box.
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MUUved to Action
Tuesday, December 16, 6:30 PM
Join us for our next MUUved to Action meeting. MUUved to Action group is a sub-group of our Justice League that meets weekly as a result of being called by our members to "not sleep through the revolution". We meet to address the urgent and immediate calls for justice action in our community. We are also joined by other Denver Metro UUs and community members.
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Finance Committee
Wednesday, December 16, 5:30 pm
Our Finance Committee is vital to the life of the congregation. The committee with the Board of Trustees oversees the overall financial health of the congregation as well as fundraising, canvass (pledge drive), and auction. If you would like more information or to RSVP please contact us.
Agenda items this month will include the current state of Prairie's finances, potential ways to generate additional income, and a discussion of initial plans for preparation of a draft budget for the next fiscal year.
Our Finance Committee is vital to the life of the congregation. The committee with the Board of Trustees oversees the overall financial health of the congregation as well as fundraising, canvass (pledge drive), and auction. If you would like more information or to RSVP please contact us.
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Board of Trustees
Wednesday, December 16, 6:30 pm
This Board Meeting is now at 6:30 pm to 8:15 pm. The Board will open the meeting to members/friends at 6:45 pm. All are invited to attend the entire meeting.
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Polar Express
Saturday, December 19, 5:30 pm
PrairieUU Friends and Family.....it's that time of year! We will be hosting a movie night virtually. POLAR EXPRESS. Since we can not be together in person for our usual PJ morning reading of the Polar Express, we'll gather virtually for the movie. Join us here on Saturday, December 19th at 5:30pm. For all those who RSVP, we'll drop off hot cocoa and candy canes to enjoy during the move.
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Healthy Living Small Group
Join Pastor AJ and others in our community as we engage in a healthy(ier) living time together. We will meet once a week to share ideas, recipes, what works and what doesn’t about exercise. This will be a time to connect Mind, Body and Soul. If you are interested, please join Pastor AJ’s facebook group UU Healthy Living. Finally, Pastor AJ is also joining Weightwatchers and is inviting you to join with him. If you are interested, there are a couple special promos that are now running but end tonight. For more information, check with Pastor AJ or sign up with Weightwatchers directly.
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Community
Information and Resources
If you have other community resources that we should share, please let us know.
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COVID Assistance Funds and Resources |
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Arapahoe County Rent and Mortgage assistance for Covid related loss of income, click here for more information.
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Douglas County is offering Covid-19 assistance funds to individuals and families. Please click here for more information.
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City of Aurora Covid-19 resources please click here for more information.
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Parker Covid-19 information and resources - please click here for more information.
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Support PrairieUU
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To connect via a computer simply click the links provided.
To connect via a phone or tablet you will prompted to need to download the Google Meet app.
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Newsletter & Announcement Contributions
All requests for the Monday newsletter and Orders of Service are due on Wednesday at 12 pm. (PLEASE NOTE: All submissions are subject to editing for content and space.)
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General Office Hours
Mon-Thur - 11:00 am – 4:00 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 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Phone/Text - 720-549-0531
Schedule an Appointment via Google Calendar
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Committee Emails
LifeSpan - Religious Exploration for all ages
Membership - Visitors, becoming a Covenantal member
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Mailing Address:
PrairieUU Church
P.O. Box 1684
Parker, CO 80134
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