Category: News

2024 Faithify Campaign for Compassion For Campers

As temperatures plummet here in McHenry County, IL, the homeless and unhoused are still sleeping outside, in cars, or in unheated spaces like storage lockers, garages, and vacant buildings. Compassion for Campers, a ministry of Tree of Life, will once again be distributing critical survival equipment at the Community Resource Day at Willow Crystal Lake, … Continue reading 2024 Faithify Campaign for Compassion For Campers

Join Our Woodwind Group

With a song in your heart, you’re never alone – especially if you have friends you can make music with! A small group of woodwind musicians invite you to play music with us. Currently we are all flutists, but we are open to playing with other woodwinds. We are working on music for summer solstice and for … Continue reading Join Our Woodwind Group

Rummage Sale Returns to Tree of Life

Save the date! Tree of Life will be offering a one-day rummage sale set up flea market style. Like always though, a portion of our proceeds will go to benefit our Compassion for Campers ministry that distributes essential survival gear to the unhoused of McHenry County. In addition, this year we will also be offering a plant sale with some of the best organic tomato plants around!

No More Caps

Thank you to all our friends and neighbors that participated in our caps and lids collection. We have now completed this multi-year program and are delivering our last load of caps for re-use.

Multicultural May Potluck & Music Event

Join us for fun and fellowship following service on May 5th! Bring an ethnic dish to share! We’ll have live music Live music from 12:30 pm – 1:15 pm featuring Jeff & Janis’s “Gourmet Folk Music Show” from traditions around the world. 

Easter Egg Hunt After Service

Service will be held at our sister congregation, Prairie Circle Unitarian Universalist Congregation in The Colby Barn located at 1561 Jones Point Road, Grayslake, IL. The service begins at 10am.

Conference Announcement

CAUUC Spring Conference (in person and online) CAUUC stands for Chicago Area Unitarian Universalist Council Date:  Saturday, April 13   9am-2pm  Location: Unitarian Church of Evanston and Zoom Fee:  Free, recommended donation $15 Welcoming Congregation Renewal: The Work of Welcome is Never Done The UUA Welcoming Congregation program came about in the late 1980s in response … Continue reading Conference Announcement