Her voice was raspy, and it was relentless; what’s more, her talk was not leavened with the slightest bit of humor. She looked to be somewhere in her 70s. She was speaking to us, in the time of COVID, from her tidy living room somewhere out in Oklahoma, I believed.
Continue readingMy name is Rachel Bevins and I have been attending the UUFP since before our oldest was born. Over the years I have served in a variety of small roles, such as teaching in RE, organizing holiday events, helping on various committees when I can, chairing some fund raisers, speaking
Continue readingApril Kelsey's sermon On Embracing the Joy of Response-Ability. Reflections on the meaning of Response-Ability.
Continue readingOn Sunday, February 10, I gave a sermon called: “The Garden Grows the Community.” The idea of creating a community garden was introduced in part as a response to what I saw happening in the Children’s Religious Education (RE) Program and in part as a way to live our mission:
Continue readingAND IT IS IMPORTANT FOR 10 YEARS AFTER THAT EVERYONE BE COUNTED. BE AWARE. DO YOUR PART. Sponsored by the UUFP Social Justice Committee The NAACP, Hampton Branch, and the United Way hosted a meeting with community leaders to kick-off awareness of the upcoming decennial census. Politicians led with the
Continue readingPresented by Joanne Dingus August 21, 2019 By the early 1900's there were three local Universalist Mission Schools--Norfolk, Suffolk and Ocean View, which were led by African American ministers. Two of them closed shortly thereafter but one, the Suffolk Mission, continued into the seventies, sometimes serving as many as 300
Continue readingPresented by Kathleen Caywood June 30, 2019 Join Kathleen, a member of Equality Virginia’s Transgender Advocacy Speakers Bureau, for a morning of fellowship and learning as she shares her story as a transgender woman, followed by a time for dialogue and questions. Kathleen Caywood grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, but
Continue readingheme: Evangelizing Unless otherwise noted, services include sermons preached by Rev. Andrew Clive Millard and take place at 9:30am and 11:15am on Sundays. June 2nd: “You Are Beautiful” Unitarian ministers Norbert and Maja Čapek created the Flower Communion in 1920s Prague as a spiritual celebration of the beauty of each
Continue reading"For all that is our life" by Rev. Andrew (Read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.) We began our last day at Stony Point with a further discussion about GreenFaith itself, which is currently reorganizing on a global scale in order to more effectively address the climate crisis. Specifically,
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