Happenings Mar 30, 2022 – from AZ Back in Arizona and appreciating spring. Up north, as many of you remember from your years prior to AZ, spring is fleeting. Or rather, winter hangs on as long as possible. The day I got back to MI it was 60, but every day after that was below…
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Happenings Mar 23, 2022 – From MI As I write from Michigan, the reliable political theater of Supreme Court hearings is going on. I am not watching because it is both predictable and infuriating. Of course, there are a lot of things that are now predictably infuriating about our politics; but that is not my…
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(Yes! We Have Just a Little Longer to Wait) March 31 This is the day the MSC will make an offer to a minister-in-search to become VUU’s Candidatefor Settled Minister. April 3 If the MSC’s offer has been accepted, we will announce this to the Congregation. Once contractagreement has been reached, MSC will be able…
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Happenings Mar 15, 2022 – From MI “Beware the Ides of March!” We all learned that in Junior High or Middle School, along with “Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.” Shakespeare’s retelling of the Julius Caesar story is probably better known than the history itself. Stories are powerful. And like the example I cited,…
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N0W — March 31 Waiting Period According to UUA guidelines, no UU search committee may make an offer to a minister to become their Candidate for Settled Minister until March 31 at noon EDT. March 31 VUU Ministerial Search Committee (MSC) will make an offer to our preferred candidate to become VUU’s Candidate for Settled…
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Happenings Mar 8, 2022 – from AZ News! News! As you may have heard, our Covid policies have changed. Our Covid team (Alison Cantley, Kody Holmes, Lloyd Harrell and Doug Campos-Outcalt) met last Friday and made the following recommendations: 1. We need not limit the size of public events at VUU.2. At all public events,…
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