Our church facilities need your help! We will be holding a property work day at our old facility on Governor's Drive on Saturday, May 16th from 9:00 a.m. to noon. There will be indoor and outdoor projects available for all ages and abilities. Please bring work gloves, loppers, clippers, rakes, cleaning supplies, and an eagerness to spruce up our beloved old place so we can get it sold!

We will also be holding a property work day at our Broadmor facility in June (tentatively scheduled for June 6th). Stay tuned for more details in a future newsletter.

We look forward to seeing you at one or both of our upcoming work days!

George Fletcher and Brad Korb 

Property Committee Co-Chairs

Meeting begins in the Fellowship Hall shortly after the worship service ends. Light luncheon to be provided.  

In addition to our usual election of new officers, votes will be taken on three proposed bylaw amendments:  

(1) our new address,  

(2) the new name of our organizational unit (Mid-South District is now UUA Southern Region), and  

(3) in our ongoing efforts to be more environmentally conscious, that written notice of future Congregational Meetings be delivered electronically with the option of requesting a hard copy if preferred.  

Everyone is welcome, and Members are especially encouraged to attend--we need a quorum!

In the summer months, the Children and Youth Religious Education Program takes a special turn from the regular fall and spring curricula. We invite UUCH members and friends to plan a class session for the children and youth. You'll be part of a teaching team as either the lead teacher or a helper, and we'll be sure to have a regular RE teacher there as support. Even children and youth can partner with an adult to lead a session!

We invite you to sign up to lead a session that shares a special talent, hobby, skills, or learning area of yours. Here are some topics to get your creative juices flowing: music, finger painting, scrapbooking, nature walks, gardening, yoga, science, paper airplanes, drawing, Lego, origami, fossils, friendship bracelets, mythology, sidewalk chalk, pottery, cookie-making. The possibilities are limitless!! What's a joy to you can be a joy to others.

Leaders will prepare a topic/activity that is adaptable to children ages 4 to 12. Senior high youth are invited to participate as leaders and helpers, or to attend the regular worship service in the sanctuary. Because of our exciting program growth, we'll need even more leaders and helpers this summer than before! So, don't be shy! We have room for the sharing of your gifts. There's nothing like spending time with the children and youth at our church. Their energy, creativity, and intelligence are contagious. And they benefit from interacting with caring adults who make an investment in them. This is what multi-generational community is all about!

For the next month, we'll have a poster standing in the church foyer and fellowship hall where you can sign up for a summer Sunday session. Or, you can contact Erin Reid, Director of Religious Education, at eereid@hotmail.com.

Together with the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashville, we of UUCH will be ordaining Denise Gyauch, who served as our Ministerial Intern Fall 2013 through March of this year, in just a couple weeks.

When: Saturday, May 23rd

Service starts at 2:00 p.m., Reception to follow.

Where:

First Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashville

The ordination-planning team absolutely guarantees a good time. Highlights include:

• Anthem by the joint Huntsville and FUUN choirs
• Peter Mayer (really--THE Peter Mayer) singing twice in the service
• A sermon by Dan McKanan, Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Senior Lecturer in Divinity at Harvard University (and an old friend of Denise)
• Cake (because you can't have a party without cake!) provided by UUCH

Questions: 

Please email Denise at denise.gyauch@gmail.com.

Most of all, please join us!

If you will not get enough of Peter Mayer (of "Blue Boat Home" and "Holy Now" fame) during Denise Gyauch's ordination, consider extending your road trip to Nashville to attend a concert in the sanctuary of First UU Nashville that evening, Saturday, May 23rd, at 7:30 p.m. Peter's latest CD, Third Street, was released in November and this concert will highlight a mix of new songs as well as some old favorites. Tickets are $15 advance, $20 at the door.

Huntsville guests may reserve tickets at the advance price by emailing UUCH administrator Deedee Moore (uuch@uuch.org) by Wednesday, May 20th. Include the word TICKETS in your subject line, with your full name and the number of tickets you plan to purchase in the body of the email. You will then be able to pay the advance price at the door.

At our Circle of Candles on Sunday, May 10th, candles were lit for: