Exciting news: OUUC is now offering two worship services each Sunday morning! Starting January 12, 2025, there will be an early service at 9 am (onsite only), a late service at 10:45 am (also available on Zoom & YouTube), and the after-service forum will move to 12:15 pm (both onsite and online as always). Watch […]
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Faith in Action
The Washington legislature started meeting this week to do the people’s business. Despite protests, the first-ever all online session began on Monday. This is a long session, meeting through April 25, with many bills and the biennial budget on the table. Just like at OUUC, the budget is the way we put our values into […]
What’s Advocacy?
Last Fall, those who participated in OUUC‘s Faith in Action Visioning gave input for the FIA Leadership Council to create a matrix to help organize and structure the congregation’s justice efforts. The Council created an OUUC Justice Matrix that looks like this: The matrix has three areas of focus and three modalities to address the […]
Sabbatical of Rev Mary Gear 2024
About the Sabbatical The Rev. Mary Gear will be taking a sabbatical from June 16 to October 31, 2024. Sabbaticals are a vital and necessary element of healthy long-term ministries. Rev. Mary’s employment contract with OUUC clearly defines the frequency, length and purpose of sabbaticals as part of her overall compensation package, however, it is […]
May Monthly Spiritual Theme: Embrace
The spiritual theme for this month of May is “embrace.” This is one word in the new OUUC mission to welcome and wonder, embrace and empower, bridge and become. Embrace has two meanings; the first is to hold close, enfold, encircle, enclose. It means literally to take to heart, as in a hug. The second […]
