The Earth Ministry and Stewardship committees have joined forces to collect and recycle scrap metal to encourage greater recycling and to raise funds for UUCW. Please bring in beverage and food aluminum and stainless-steel cans that have been thoroughly cleaned. Other metal products that you no longer need are also accepted, such as metal shears, [...]
From Phil Kroner, Build 2020 Task Force Chair The Build 2020 Team knows that many of our members and friends have questions about what's happening with our upcoming renovations. Here are some that folks have asked, and our current answers. I’m new to UUCW. What are we planning to do to the building, and why? [...]
Happy New Year, UUCW! November and December have been a whirlwind of activity in Religious Education, especially for our middle school groups. As a group, we’ve been working hard, and learning about how “shop local” and “shop black” movements can both uplift and sustain our neighbors within the greater Milwaukee community. But our explorations have [...]
Sunday, January 20, after 9:15 and 11:00 am services - "Freedom Walk" Unitarian Universalist Church West, follow the signs to UL4 This month, while exploring the impact of the Black Church Experience upon the Civil Rights Movement, and the continuing “Call to Justice” of the Poor People’s Campaign and Black Lives Matter Movements, UUCW’s middle school [...]
Split the Plate is one of UUCW’s programs of outreach and generosity. Each month we give half of all undesignated offering monies to a non-profit organization as a way to help us live our Unitarian Universalist values and serve our community. For January our Split the Plate partner organization is Laundry Love MKE, which began [...]
A message from Genevieve Daniels, RE Transition Team Member What is the most important purpose of a good Religious Education program? More than 40 UU’s from Milwaukee, Madison, Fox Valley and UUCW (12 members, ministers, and staff), gathered at First Unitarian Society in Milwaukee on December 8 for a workshop to explore trends in Unitarian [...]
The January Food Pantry items will be given to the Hebron House of Hospitality in Waukesha. It has two emergency shelters that allow homeless people to stay for 30 to 45 days. It also has a shelter for 32 families who are allowed to stay 6 months to a year. Also admitted are drop-ins for [...]
DUUversity is a UUCW affinity group of members and friends who support diversity in the Milwaukee area by attending local theater productions that feature different cultural and ethical themes. Following the play, all those who are interested gather at a local restaurant for stimulating conversation about the performance and its meaning for us as individuals [...]
We are a People of Possibility. That's our January Soul Matters theme! The New Year often feels like a time of possibility. A turn of the calendar from one month to the next and suddenly there's a blank slate, a clean page, 365 fresh, new days awaiting our adventures…. But is the turning of a [...]
You have many options for giving at this time of year… But why not choose UUCW? Your year-end gift is tax-deductible, and it can do a world of good in helping UUCW offer life-saving spiritual support and inspire action for the greater good. YOU are the force that allows UUCW to welcome those who are [...]
What do Board Members Do? Most boards of trustees of congregations, associations, and nonprofits are made up of people from different walks of life and varied professions. People join our UUCW Board because they want to contribute in a meaningful way to our beloved community. And we are grateful for their time, energies and talents. [...]
FROM REV. SUZELLE: UUCW members and friends are some of the kindest, most compassionate and hardworking people I know. And you are generous with your time, your skills and your money, too. That's what allows our spiritual community to offer life-saving spiritual support to one another. YOU are the force that allows us to welcome [...]
Now You Can Give Online to UUCW! Our Stewardship Team is proud to announce that we now have Online Giving and Text2Give at UUCW. This Sunday, December 16, Stewardship Team members will be in the Community Room after both services to provide instructions and more information. Online Giving for Everyone can be done via the [...]
Each year about this time the Nominating Committee begins seeking a slate of candidates for the board, nominating committee and endowment committee, to be installed the following June at the annual business meeting. This year we are seeking 3 for the board for 3-year terms, 3 for the nominating committee for 2-year terms and 2 [...]
My spirit lifts as I look out the window at a winter wonderland. But I know there are some among us who do not see the beauty surrounding us. Some are lonely, others might be grieving. Still others have problems that seem insurmountable. All of them can be helped by reaching out to the Lay [...]
