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• Missouri UU Advocacy Day scheduled April 23 March 30, 2025
  Join UUs from across the state on April 23 for the first-ever Missouri UU Advocacy Day to build power for the world we dream about as Missouri Unitarian Universalists. Gather at the UU Fellowship of Jefferson City, 1021 Northeast Dr., or carpool there with your fellow UU Churchers. Wear your favorite UU gear. Snacks and lunch will be provided ...
• Help needed for playground platform March 30, 2025
  We are going to be getting new wooden playground equipment this spring, but the Facilities Team needs your help putting it all together. Three workdays over three consecutive Saturdays in April (12, 19 and 26) will be devoted to putting together a wooden platform and associated equipment in the area to the northeast of the building. ...
• Church leaders’ April messages March 30, 2025
  President’s Perspective – Ruth Milledge, 2024-25 President Love is the spirit of this church, and service is its law. UUCC’s Board of Trustees is recruiting people to serve the church on a few of our committees. If you have experience in the area of finance, we welcome your help on our Audit Committee and the Investments and Endowments ...
• SIJT plans “rights training” March 30, 2025
  Be on the lookout for a “Know Your Rights and Accompaniment Training” organized by the Sanctuary and Immigrant Justice Team (SIJT). We all have certain constitutional and legal rights in this country, no matter whether we are U.S. citizens or not. It is important for all of us to know what our rights are. The SIJT has ...
• Social Action Team April report March 30, 2025
  Faith-to-Action The Faith-to-Action recipient for April 2025, is Heart of Missouri CASA. You will hear more about this worthy organization during Sunday worship service Faith-to-Action collections. Please donate as you are able, either online or in the old-fashioned way….in the collection plate! Recent Faith-to-Action collection results: July: $862.06 for Mobility Worldwide August: $1,174.25 for No More Deaths September: $1,325.27 for the ...
• Together, on UU grounds March 30, 2025
  In early March, ten of us UUs, some long-timers and some new explorers, gathered at the church to learn more about our rich North American ecosystems, and to add to our respective bags-of-tricks for native gardening. It was good to be together! Did you ever think about how many caterpillars it takes to feed one clutch ...
• Stewardship campaign was a big success March 23, 2025
  Annual Giving Chair Christine Heath and Rev. Molly report that our stewardship campaign for the 2025-26 fiscal year was extremely successful. The total pledged exceeded the aggressive goal of a 9% increase over current year pledges, allowing us to increase our budget from $327,000 this year to more than $356,000 for the next fiscal year ...
• Lay preaching workshop set April 5 March 1, 2025
  Do you have a sermon in you? You almost certainly do. Join Rev. Molly and your Worship Associates in the Sanctuary from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 5 for an afternoon to talk about the art of preaching, ponder big and beautiful questions, play with writing prompts and ideas, and discover the sermon in you. There ...
• March messages from church leaders March 1, 2025
  Rev. Dr. Molly Housh Gordon Dear UU Churchers, One of the things we are seeing, as our federal government is systematically dismantled, is the culmination of a decades-long campaign to divest from the collective. Public services have been privatized or simply removed. Public spaces have been enclosed or sometimes destroyed. And our shared life has suffered deeply. So ...
• New playground structure planned March 1, 2025
  We are excited to finally be moving ahead with construction of a playground for our kids, and we’re looking for ways to help fund this project. We will be doing a bake sale event at the end of March, but would love to hear your great fundraising ideas! Please email DRE Jamila Batchelder if you ...
• Bayside UU Family Camp July 6-12 March 1, 2025
  Looking for a great summer experience? Join us at Bayside UU Family Camp held at Wesley Woods Conference Center on the shores of Geneva Lake in Williams Bay, WI. This year camp will take place July 6-12. This special week includes adult workshops, activities for children, free time for family fun and relaxation, and intergenerational activities. For ...
• March news from the Social Action Team March 1, 2025
  Faith-to-Action The Faith-to-Action recipient for March 2025, is MADP (Missouri Alternatives to the Death Penalty). MADP works to stop executions by working with legal teams to advocate for justice for those condemned to death and to uplift the humanity of those on death row. As an active execution state, Missouri needs your help in this important work. You ...
• Membership Team welcomes 14 new members March 1, 2025
  Thirteen new members officially joined UUCC on Feb. 2, 2025 in an Ingathering Ceremony during the worship service. A 14th new member was unable to attend the ingathering. This was the largest group of new members since 16 people joined in December 2014. The 13 new members at the ingathering are Donna Brockmiller, Catherine Cooper, Dennis ...
• 13 new members join UUCC February 2, 2025
  Thirteen new members officially joined UUCC on Feb. 2, 2025 in an Ingathering Ceremony during the worship service. This was the largest group of new members since 16 people joined in December 2014. The new members are pictured in a group photo below as well as in individual photos that are in alphabetical order by last ...
• Membership Team hosts successful Newcomers’ Retreat February 1, 2025
  On Jan. 26, the Membership Team and the Rev. Dr. Molly Housh Gordon hosted the first “Getting to Know UU Newcomer Retreat.” Fifteen newcomers got to know each other and the church through discussion, videos and songs. Approximately 20 members and friends then joined the newcomers for a light dinner. Our next Newcomers Retreat will ...
• Grounds Team introduces Hamamelis vernalis February 1, 2025
  Have you met Hamamelis vernalis? …also known as Ozark Witch Hazel? Several of these woody shrubs live on our church grounds, one in front of the building and a few out back. Each year, they are the first of our native plants to bloom, even before spring arrives! On warmer winter days (January-March) they can ...
• Please park at Shepard school if you can January 3, 2025
  Have you noticed our parking lot and the street filling up quickly on Sunday mornings as our attendance increases? We are able to park in the Shepard Elementary School lot across the street from the church. If you have been attending for some years and are able to, please park there to help welcome newcomers with ...
• Election concerns boost attendance, spark strategy brainstorming January 3, 2025
  Our worship attendance spiked in the Sundays before and after the Nov. 5 general election, bringing our average attendance for November to 111, a 28% increase from the October average of 87. We held an initial congregational strategy meeting after worship on Sunday, Nov. 17 to imagine how we can deepen our solidarity in this time. ...
• Please provide complete ingredients list for potlucks January 3, 2025
  Potlucks can be challenging and sometimes downright frustrating for those with food sensitivities and allergies. For many, checking a box indicating “gluten-free,” “vegan” or “nondairy” is not enough. For instance, one of our members is gluten-free but also sensitive to arrowroot and sorghum flour. Let’s support each other by completing an ingredient list for our food ...
• Chalice Circle signups now open for 2024-25 September 8, 2024
  Chalice Circles Signups for 2024-2025 The time has come once again to sign up for new and continuing 2024-25 UUCC Chalice Circles. You can use the button link above, or the button links that appear on the Home page and Chalice Circles page. Chalice Circles are a small-group ministry of the church designed to build community, foster ...
• Living Our Love for Our Trans and Gender Expansive Siblings July 7, 2024
  By the Rev. Dottie Mathews When Rosie and I moved to Columbia in 2015, we were thoroughly delighted to find this vibrant, committed faith community to join, and it has been my honor to serve as your Affiliated Community Minister for these eight and a half years. For those who may not know, that role simply ...
• Help UUCC when you sell on EBay or Facebook February 23, 2024
  When you sell items on EBay or Facebook, you can now donate some or all of the proceeds to UUCC using the Paypal Giving Fund. You will need to select an option in EBay or Facebook to donate a percentage of sale proceeds to charity. When you do that, at the time you complete a sale ...
• Water Bearers Society is launched February 4, 2024
  The Planned Giving Work Group of the Stewardship Team has been busy this past year and has launched a renewed planned giving program at UUCC. During many past Founder’s Day celebrations, we have shared the story of how our founders hand-carried water to nourish the young trees on the site where they planned to build our ...
• Please feed our Food Barrel February 4, 2024
  Thanks to everyone who put non-perishable food items in the barrel at the upstairs elevator doors over the last few months. Joan and I took 90 pounds to the Food Bank Market on Jan. 26. The need continues. Please, everyone, continue to feed our barrel, which helps feed our neighbors, and maybe some of us. Steve Mudrick Social ...
• First Aid supplies now located in Sanctuary December 2, 2023
  Staff and volunteers successfully completed a CPR and AED course with the American Red Cross on Oct. 29, so we are feeling more prepared for any medical emergencies that may come our way. UUCC staff members have been working on creating a visible area for the supplies needed in these life-saving treatments. The photo at right ...
• Lock system for exterior doors has changed June 30, 2023
  In the past UUCC used a key system for exterior doors. We have now fully transitioned to an automatic lock system to make our church more secure. Each week, Church Administrator April Rodeghero will update the schedule so the exterior doors will unlock and lock for scheduled activities. Staff members, lay leaders and organizations that rent ...
• UUCC-sponsored African American Heritage Trail Marker dedicated June 30, 2023
  Our church sponsored one of the markers on the African American Heritage Trail in north-central Columbia. The marker commemorates the historic Douglass High School football field, four blocks west of Douglass High School. A dedication ceremony was held on Tuesday, June 13, 2023 at the marker location at the corner of Oak Street and Unity Drive. ...
• Rev. Dottie Mathews recognized for immigrant work November 6, 2022
  Dottie’s recognition certificate Click to enlarge During our Oct. 23, 2022 worship service, our Affiliated Community Minister, Rev. Dottie Mathews, was recognized for her past work as coordinator of the Congregational Accompaniment Project for Asylum Seekers (CAPAS), a program of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC). As part of the recognition, it was announced that the UUSC has ...
• Welcome to our meadow! October 29, 2022
  By the time you see this article, the backyard meadow at church is likely to have received its maintenance-mowing and may look like a blank space or a poor excuse for lawn. But, I hope you have seen, can imagine, or will see the wonderful plants that are still alive and well beneath the ground. There ...
• We love our trees! November 28, 2021
  The Grounds Team would like to introduce you to some of our trees and invite you to share your love of our trees and woods on the UUCC Facebook page. Shingle Oak – Wood from this oak can be split into thin sheets, which used to be made into shingles. White Oak – These oaks can live ...
• Easy text and online donations now available September 26, 2021
  We are excited to announce that we have launched a new system giving our members and friends the ability to give to the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia by: Text message from your smartphone, or Online This new system has been arranged through the Breeze Church Management System, our new church database. It replaces our previous Paypal portal, ...
• UU Life Writers’ Group publishes its second anthology February 28, 2021
  The UU Life Writers’ Group is pleased to announce the publication of its second anthology, Stories, Just Stories. The stories are mini-memoirs about family, growing up, social activism, romance and pets. A big section of poetry is included. The anthology also contains tributes to those writers no longer with us. Copies are $8 and can be ...
• Fragrance sensitivity? We’ve got you (or at least your chair) covered! May 26, 2019
  On Sunday, March 24, the Accessibility and Inclusion Ministry (AIM) Team presented the lay-led service, “Living Up to Radical Welcome,” and made a small change in the sanctuary while we were at it. As we’ve heard a number of questions about this change, we thought it was about time we shed some light on it. If ...
• Social Action Team makes UUCC T-shirts available February 18, 2019
  After a two-year lapse in the availability of UUCC T-shirts, the UUCC Social Action Team now has three designs of T-shirts available for purchase at $20 apiece. The shirts are perfect for rallies and other activities and events. Look for them in the Greeting Area. Some of the shirts feature the design that first became available ...
• 2018 UUA General Assembly August 5, 2018
  https://youtu.be/xhwFDxJVe_Q Our YRUU youth carried our church banner in the banner parade at the opening session of the UUA General Assembly in Kansas City, Mo. on June 20. In the first part of this short video, they are seen on their first pass through the convention hall. After the transition, they are seen on their way out of the ...
• UUA has first elected woman President July 2, 2017
  Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray was selected by delegates as the first elected woman President of the Unitarian Universalist Association at the June 21-25 General Assembly in New Orleans. She had been the lead minister of the UU Congregation of Phoenix, Ariz., where she became well known for her work on behalf of immigrants, since 2008. Read ...