November 9, 2020 Greetings! At Prairie UU we address the challenges and issues within our faith, principles and touchstones. We commit to covenant to each other in love and support. The business of the church continues and is steady. The last meeting of the Board on October 20, 2020 was productive and active. We approved 2020-2021 goals (here). Please review … Continue reading Updates from the Board – November 2020
November 16, 2020 The CoSM (Committee on Shared Ministry) team is beginning to integrate our AI visioning and Widening the Circle goals together. This will be a challenging project and very exciting. The Right Relations projects are nearing completion soon. We look forward to continuing to help Prairie accomplish our many worthy goals! Have a … Continue reading Updates from COSM – November 2020
On November 4, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could allow private agencies that receive taxpayer-funding in order to provide government services — such as foster care, adoption, food banks, homeless shelters, and more — to deny services to people such as LGBTQ+, single women, Jewish, Muslim, or Mormon. They claim they have … Continue reading Updates from the Justice League – October 2020
October 19, 2020 CoSM is proud to announce that Susan Ermisch has agreed to be the co-chair of our team. She will be learning the ropes and will be ready to chair CoSM in the next fiscal year! Yay, Susan and thanks so much!!! Our next new project will be to review the Visioning section regarding … Continue reading Updates from the CoSM – October 2020
October 26, 2020 Greetings! On Tuesday, October 20, 2020, we had a meaningful, thoughtful, and challenging discussion about Theology based on the ideas presented in Widening the Circle of Concern. We missed those of you who didn’t attend. We need wide congregational feedback and sharing of ideas and ways forward to be more inclusive, in … Continue reading Updates from the Board – October 2020
September 21, 2020 We have been working hard on making recommendations on the draft for the Nominating Committee policy/procedures and have sent our suggestions to the Board. We are currently working on the Listening Circle presentation for the October 11th PrairieUU Town Hall. In Faith, Fran L COSM Chair September 9, 2020 The CoSM and … Continue reading Updates from the CoSM – September 2020
September 28, 2020 Greetings! The Board has several projects underway that we hope will make our governance and business work more smoothly and transparently. We are developing handbooks for Members, Personnel, and the Board. Let me know if you have suggestions for what would be helpful to have in writing and available on our shared … Continue reading Updates from the Board – September 2020
Dear Prairie UU Church, Over the weekend, news broke that the Homestead Child Detention Center was emptied of all migrant children. This was quickly followed by tragic news of a racially-motivated mass shooting in El Paso and last night’s massive workplace raid in Mississippi (the single largest statewide ICE raid in over a decade). We … Continue reading An open letter to Prairie UU Church from Love Resists
