Author: UUCWC

Meet Your 2024-2025 Finance Team

By Sandee Steinberg, Chair, Finance Committee

The Finance Team is lucky to have many returning members this year, as well as an excellent addition. The returning members are Barbara Drew (Auction Team), Scott Blaydon and Jane Root (Stewardship), Mike Hanson and Bonnie Gilbert (Endowment), George Faulkner … read more.

All Aboard for GA 2025!

by Holly Bussey, Liaison, Denominational Affairs

Many ideas were generated at this year’s General Assembly (GA). Whether or not a congregation wishes to further study, discuss, and take action is up to them. UUCWC will be working to incorporate our Values statement into all we do … read more.

Keeping Love at the Center Even When It’s Hard

By Lisa Schilansky, Ministerial Intern

An adage says, put three Unitarian Universalists into a room, get four opinions. One thing I’ve learned in my seven years attending General Assembly (GA), is that we are a gloriously pluralistic faith. We talk a lot about religious pluralism, but to … read more.

Highlights from a Historic Virtual General Assembly

by Holly Bussey, Liaison, Denominational Affairs

With love centered as a core value of the faith, more than 3,400 Unitarian Universalists from around the country and world gathered for an all-virtual Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly (GA) 2024, June 20–23. GA brought together 2,757 credentialed delegates … read more.

Endowment Fund Announces Awards

by Bonnie Gilbert, Co-chair, Endowment Committee

The Endowment Committee is pleased to announce that, due to the growth of the fund during 2023, grants could be awarded this year. After reviewing applications from various committees and ministries, the Endowment Committee made these awards:

To the Earth and … read more.

Watch General Assembly Via Livestream

by Holly Bussey, Liaison, Denominational Affairs

General Assembly (GA) general sessions will be livestreamed this year. As our delegates represent all of us, we can watch the process here.

Curious about what your UUA is doing? Tune in. Want to hear the discussion and see the … read more.

Celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride

by Julie Rigano, Director of Family Ministry

My first Pride in Philly in 2018 was one of the most transformative experiences of my life. The queer and trans community in the city helped me reach new levels of growth. With their continual support since I moved … read more.

We Are the Church that Matters – A Word From Finance

by Jim Sanders, Outgoing Chair, Finance Committee

After a wonderful review of our congregation’s year by Reverend Kim at the Annual Meeting on June 2, we presented, and the congregation overwhelmingly approved, our Church’s budget for the new year that begins July 1, 2024.

The continuing good … read more.

Where to Start?

by Lisa Schilansky, Intern Minister

I was having a conversation the other day about how Generation Z and those younger are growing up in a completely different world than Generation X, Baby Boomers, and the Silent Generation. The early 2000s brought the “Breaking News” panic crawl … read more.