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This Week's Sermon

Life is More than A Vision -Joni Brand

This year's Justice Sunday will address economic justice. We will stand up with UU congregations nationwide to put our principles into practice. Our worship will spotlight issues affecting workers both close to home and around the world. We can be advocates for social justice by undertaking meaningful efforts to turn vision into results, including the Guest At Your Table program.   Invite a friend to this service.

Coming Topics...

March 21st, 2010 - Keith Kron
"Risking Resurrection"

March 28th, 2010 - Welcome for new minister

 

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Family Night

Date : March 6 (Saturday)       From : 4:30   To : 6:30 p.m.


Event Description :

Please join us at the church for the next Family Night on Saturday, March 6th from 4:30-6:30. There will be games, activities, good food and great company. It's the perfect opportunity to get to know families of all types from WUUC. Bring your favorite games and a dish to share. Drinks and dessert (ice cream sundaes) will be provided. We'll play for an hour then the potluck will begin at 5:30.

If you have any questions about this event or would like to receive the evite, please contact Adam and Kerrie at familyorganizers@wuuc.org

 

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Reverend Lois E. Van Leer

The WUUC Search Committee is honored and delighted to introduce you to the Reverend Lois E. Van Leer, our new minister!  She has signed a contract with the Board of Trustees to work 55% time as a consulting minister, whom we will have the option to call as our settled minister after two years, if she and we agree.   

We will introduce her to the congregation during a Welcome Weekend March 26-28, and Lois will be in the pulpit that Sunday.  She will officially join us as our minister on August 1st. 

Rev. Lois E. Van Leer comes to us from the UU Fellowship of Bozeman (Montana), where she has been the minister for the past six and a half years.  During that time she received Final Fellowship, which is the highest level of accreditation the Unitarian Universalist Association can grant to a minister.  However, Lois is not new to the ministry, having been a United Church of Christ minister for more than 20 years before “converting” to Unitarian Universalism.  Her UCC career included campus ministry, youth ministry and general parish ministry.  She was with First Congregational Church United Church of Christ of Corvallis (Oregon), a 400-member church, for ten years. 

Lois is a native of White Plains, New York, the youngest of four children born to parents who were German and Dutch immigrants.  She graduated from Ripon College in Wisconsin in 1978 and received her M. Divinity from Yale Divinity School in 1983.   

While with the United Church of Christ, Lois took youth groups on mission trips to many different parts of the world.  In 2000 she co-led a youth trip to Transylvania with the Rev. Jill McAllister, the former president of the International Council of Unitarians and Unitarian Universalists.  There she was exposed to the roots of Unitarianism, visiting historic sites as well as learning about Transylvanian Unitarianism.  That was a turning point for her as she realized that, like so many of us, she had probably been a UU her entire life, but didn't know it.  She began the process of becoming a UU minister. 

Lois and her partner of 9 years, Lori, look forward to living in the Pacific Northwest, so that they can be closer to their 16 month-old grandson, Jackson, and his parents, Kelcey and Ryan (Lori's son), who live in Kingsgate.