Caring Neighbors Committee

Our goal is to foster a loving and caring community in which VUU Members and Friends nurture, support, and assist each other through life’s joys and trials.

To accomplish this the members and friends of our congregation have been divided into localized neighborhoods based on zip codes.

Each area has a dedicated Coordinator ready to be of assistance. Each Coordinator acts as an intermediary to help individuals in their neighborhood to get assistance and to encourage deeper bonds with nearby members and friends.

To contact your coordinator, send an email to caringneighbors@vuu.org with a message including the reason for the contact and your zip code. Your message will be forwarded to the coordinator for your neighborhood.

We owe our VUU Caring Neighbors program to Bev Rogers and JoAnne Smith who started it in 2021. We thank them for their long-term commitment to VUU congregational care.

The Caring Neighbors Committee exists to work with the minister and the staff to identify VUU Members and Friends who need short-term assistance, and mobilize the resources of the congregation to meet those needs. To this end, the Committee works to ensure that when VUU members are experiencing a joy or sorrow such as the birth of a child, a sudden or long-term illness, divorce, a death in the family, or other life event, we reach out to them as a loving and caring church community. The Committee identifies and employs a variety of means to provide assistance including card, phone calls, meals, transportation, visitations, and whatever else our members are able to give.

Caring Neighbor’s Co-Chairs

Nancy Wittenberg

(Co-Chair)

Joyce Donahue

(Co-Chair)