Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, reveling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community.

Bell Hooks– Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope, 2003

 

Sunday Worship, January, 2022 

 

We Explore Commitment

The theme this month is Commitment and we are exploring what is important to us. It’s called what we are committed to. Here is what is important to us as Unitarian Universalists:

● We are committed to curiosity.

● We are committed to change.

● We are committed to conscience.

● We are committed to compassion.

 

Commitment means that we act on what we value and hold important. What does your faith encourage you to commit to? 

 

 

 

Join us this Sunday January 9, 2021, at 10:30 a.m., for a live service on our YouTube channel.

 

"We are the Church"

 

Worship Associate: Betsy McMillan and Preston McMillan

Worship Leaders: Brian Moon, Chris Tackett, Bert Meek, Jody Bergedick, & Kassandra Kline

 

 

Social Hour right after worship:

Join by computer: https://zoom.us/s/7025890260

Password: 483148

 

Did you know you can also phone into social hour? Yes! Simply:

 

2nd Hour After Social Hour

Jan. 9, 12:15-1:15pm. On Zoom.

 

Please join us for 2nd Hour: a once -per -month afternoon of a variety of educational, spiritual, interesting, and fun workshops.

 

See the UU Quest websitefor links and descriptions!

 

 

**Seeking 2nd Hour Workshop Leaders**

Right now I’m building a schedule of workshops for 2nd Hour and would love to include you in the line up. What do you have to share with the world? Bring me an idea and we’ll work together to develop it! No need to worry about technical support. I’ll have assistants available to manage the Zoom, so you can simply lead.

 

If you have any questions or want to lead a workshop, please contact Jamili at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 

 

HeartSpace: an Evening Worship

Jan. 13 | 6:15pm | Zoom

Evening Worship returns! In this dynamic, all-ages worship, we will experiment and play with different ways to be in a reverent community together. While we are still online, we’ll listen to music, listen to words, explore, and experiment. There will be creative, hands-on time and time for reflection, laughter, and joy. Please join us!

 

The room opens at 6:15pm for some social time and a heart-felt worship to follow at 6:30pm.

 

For questions email Jamili Omar at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

Zoom in at: https://zoom.us/j/5716364277

Meeting ID: 571 636 4277

Password: 973902

Holland Foyer and ADA Remodel with HVAC Replacement

 

The heating and cooling unit in Holland Sanctuary is 50 years old, contains asbestos and Freon, and frequently breaks down. When it breaks down repairs are expensive and slow as parts need to be found. The cost to replace and remodel is estimated at $260,000 and this is not in the budget. An anonymous gift of $100,000 gave us the courage to try and raise the rest of the funds to do the job.

Replacing the old HVAC, which is large, releases a lot of space which can be used to remodel the restrooms off the foyer. These are small and non–ADA compliant and new restrooms could include baby changing tables and a family restroom. 

People with mobility issues have a hard time or are unable to access the eastern platform in Holland. Providing a ramp or other means of access would display our radical hospitality; All are welcome here.

To make a donation to this project, go here  and indicate Holland Project with your amount. To make pledge send it to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Watch us grow to meet the goal with the thermometer below! 

 

How to Give to the Church

 

You are asked to use our credit card service (which can be reached by the link or the On-line Giving button on our website), the very easy to use Text-to-Give (1-833-361-5796), or checks may be sent to the office. The on-line giving gives you the option to identify the contribution and use the memo line for checks. A tutorial video on Text-to-Give is here. After setting up an initial “profile” these options are easy to use for subsequent donations.

 

Our Share the Plate for the month of December is TiHan

 

Ways to stay connected to UUCT

 

 

Meeting List: The front page of our website now lists the Zoom links for every congregational event happening online: uuct . Youmay list your event there by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. To book a "Zoom Room" for your group's meeting, contact Rev. Bethany at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

 

Zoom Meetings

 

Come Join the Choir 

 

For more information, please contact Dr. Brian Moon, our Director of Music:

 

Yard/Rummage Sale! 

 

Yes, it is happening. Friday February 4, and Saturday February 5. We still need your treasures, and help. Items may be dropped off M-Th, 10-1, or other times by appointment. Please contact Margo Newhouse for details: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

Jan 6 @ 7pm: LGBTQAI+ Meeting

 

Dear Friends and Family,

We hope you can join us on Thursday evening, January 6th at 7 - 8:30 pm. The meeting agenda will include:

 

 

There will be some time for socializing too!

Kathy and Eve

 

Join Zoom Meeting

Meeting ID: 971 4871 7957

Passcode: 973902

OR

Dial by your location

+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)

Meeting ID: 971 4871 7957

Passcode: 973902

 

On The Patio

Mondays from 6-8pm,

Tuesdays from 9-11am, and Saturdays from 3-5pm | On the UUCT Patio at 4831 E. 22nd Street

 

Introducing, Open Patio Hours! Come enjoy some fellowship and community on the patio at UUCT. The focus of these events is mostly social with optional participatory activities and the occasional opportunity for causing some holy trouble. The Saturday event will be created with families with young kids in mind; UUCT will pay for playground monitors so the kids can play while parents and guardians take a break. The first Saturday event will be on December 18th, and then will resume on January 1st. As soon as our policies allow, these gatherings will move indoors into Holland so that all can enjoy some time in our sacred space. Please wear a mask. All are welcome! 

 

We will be taking a break between Christmas And New years. Hope to see you before, or after. 

 

UUCT Book Club

 

The UUCT Book Group has selected the books for November, and December, so that participants will have time to acquire and read the books.

 

 

Jan 13, 2022: The Overstory by Richard Powers, 2018

Discussion leader: Marge H

 

“The Overstory” is a complex novel that begins with several apparently unrelated stories about people throughout the country and across the centuries: There’s a Norwegian immigrant who travels to Iowa and begins homesteading before the Civil War. There’s also a video game pioneer, an intellectual-property lawyer, an amateur actress and a soldier in the Vietnam War whose life is saved when a 300-year-old banyan catches his body falling from a plane. “He owes his own life to a tree,” Powers writes. That, in short, is the point of “The Overstory”: We all owe our lives to trees, these massive air purifiers and soil conditioners that have made human civilization possible. – Wash Post review

 

The Zoom meeting opens by 9:20am, book discussion starts at 9:30am.

 

ZOOM LINK:

 

Meeting ID: 884 1260 4078

Password: 484848

 

We meet the second Thursday of each month via Zoom Meeting opens by 9:20am, book discussion starts at 9:30am.

 

LINK:

Save the Date! 

 

Oct 8-16: TEXnewMEX TUUR

 

"Come with us to West Texas where Judge Roy Bean was “the only law west of the Pecos,” and to southern New Mexico to visit an old-style Mexican Plaza and the research center for the spaceship landing in Roswell! The highlight will be Big Bend National Park where we will stay in the only lodging within the park. On the way we will be looking for the mysterious “Marfa Lights,” which have appeared to many since 1883, and see the mural art and the galleries of the tri-county area near Fort Davis."

 

Registration is now open for the next exciting UUCT TUUR. Join a group of adventurous wanderers as we travel to New Mexico and West Texas to see amazing examples of the region's culture, art, history and the paranormal from the aliens of Roswell to the mysterious Marfa lights. See the attached itinerary for all the details!

LFDT Newsletter

 

At the end of every week, your Lifespan Faith Development Team (programming for people of all ages) sends a newsletter. You haven’t heard of this, you say?. Well, now you have the chance to register to receive it! We send fun activities for adults who interact with children, resources for deepening your spiritual practices, and information on coming events. 

 

To sign up for the newsletter, send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..