A Personnel Committee is being formed. Do you have experience working with personnel issues? Members needed! Personnel Committee: The mission of the Personnel Committee is to support the hired personnel, Board of Trustees, and membership by providing consistent and fair definition and implementation of personnel policies. The Personnel Committee develops and recommends to the Board … Continue reading Personnel Committee
Greetings from your Intern I am very excited to be here and am looking forward to meeting and getting to know this wonderful congregation. So what is it that an Intern does and what is it that I will be doing? Well, during my time in seminary I learned all of the academic things that … Continue reading Intern Insights
Power Does the word make you shudder? Make you anxious? Secretly thrill you? Make you wish you had more of it? What is power, anyway, and why do so many of us think it’s a bad thing? Does all power corrupt? Should we all avoid having or using power? This month at Tree of Life, … Continue reading The Minister’s Mind: Power
Friday, September 20th, 7:00 pm We are excited to welcome songwriter Namoli Brennet back to Tree of Life UU Congregation for a wonderful night of live music, along with local favorites RUNE. Namoli has been touring the country with her own brand of moody and inspiring folk music since releasing her first CD in 2002. … Continue reading Haystacks Presents Namoli Brennet with RUNE
Ordinary, Everyday Mindfulness We’ve all experienced moments of wonder and bliss: a beautiful sunset engages our rapt attention, an act of loving kindness fills us with joy, a nighttime breeze bathes us in deep peace. And then the moment is gone and in its place is an ever so small longing to have another … Continue reading Ordinary, Everyday Mindfulness
On Saturday, September 7 at 7:00pm, blues artist, Andy Cohen returns to kickoff our Haystacks concert series with an evening of entertainment that will benefit the Monic Children’s Center in Jinja, Uganda. he will be joined by fellow blues artists Donna Herula and Andrew Calhoun. Andy Cohen is a fellow Unitarian Universalist from Memphis who … Continue reading Haystacks Presents Andy Cohen and Friends
Rev. Sean and the Board of Trustees are excited to announce that we will welcome an Intern Minister to our congregation for the 2013 – 14 church year. (September 1 – June 1) Ja Rickard, a student at Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago, will be our Intern Minister. Ja (pronounced “jay”) is originally from … Continue reading Welcome Our New Intern Minister
Hi members and friends of Tree of Life UUC This is an important reading so stick with it to the end! The Stewardship Committee is going to have a Service Auction Fundraiser on November 2, 2013. If you’re not sure what a service auction is, here’s the skinny: A service auction is an auction where … Continue reading Service Auction Fundraiser
In July, my son Jacob and I had another wonderful experience at the Midwest Unitarian Universalist Summer Assembly, otherwise known as MUUSA. The camp used to take place in Lake Geneva, but for the past 5 years, takes place in Potosi Missouri. I highly recommend it, whether you have children, are empty nesters, or are … Continue reading From the Director of Religious Education
“Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.” ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Dear Friends, In the last few weeks, the Board has been made aware of an opportunity to obtain grant money for the church, which would enable us to make some improvements to our building. We are in the process of applying … Continue reading “Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor”
