Good People,
An Oversight… It happened just as I predicted…
I forgot to thank one of our teams at the Annual Meeting, who are among those who did marvelous work to keep the church active and thriving throughout Covid Time. I asked that people let me know if I had forgotten anyone, and the folks of our newly-named Programs and Activities Team (PACT) graciously let me know that they felt left out…
I am so grateful for their letting me know both directly and ever-so-kindly. I apologize to them and to you all for missing an opportunity to thank them and highlight their work over these past months.
So to make up to them, I thought I would use this space to let everyone know what they have been up to.
PACT (formerly the former Adult Programs Team) has worked assiduously to be sure that the activities and groups that sustain our community through the weekdays had the support they needed. They turned on the same dime we all did and immediately reached out to our small groups about meeting online. With their help, most of our groups found their way onto Zoom and kept on meeting. This included Covenant Groups, men’s and women’s groups, the Humanists, Movie Night, and more. The Weekly Watercolor group morphed into an Artists Chat. Book groups kept humming along as did Open Mic Night. A few groups just didn’t want to transfer over to Zoom, and PACT has stayed in touch with them, too. They help shepherd a couple of new groups into being: a group for caregivers of people Navigating Memory Decline and LGBTQ support group. Oh, and the Hiker’s Group kept on hiking.
Because our programs and activities are important ways for newer people to get connected, PACT worked with Membership Coordinator Jimmy Vasquez to get information about ALL our programs onto our website. You’ll find them on this page on our website. On a parallel track, our Administrator Jen Luce revamped our calendar with information linked to all these groups.
It’s been impressive work by the members of PACT, with their nifty new acronym, who are: Kathleen Wheeler, Xenia Young, Todd Collart, Jo Ann Stark, and Keith Koch. When next you see them, please thank them.
An Opportunity
We will be using our church building more and more over the summer, anticipating being together in person for worship on Sunday, Sept. 12 for Water Communion. In anticipation of greater use, the whole building has been deep cleaned. Yet over the course of these last few months there are several spots in the church that have become very cluttered – especially the garage and a couple of our storage closets.
All are hereby invited to the Great Straightening Up and Reorganization of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ventura. This will be held in tandem with the Buildings & Ground month work day this Saturday, June 19 from 9 am to Noon.
Some of our spaces have become so cluttered as to be downright hazardous. It will be so lovely to reinhabit our space, let’s do what we can to offer our building – inside and out – the TLC it needs to be ready for our members and friends of all ages.
With gratitude and anticipation,
Rev. Dana
