Dear Members and Friends,   As we approach the end of the church year, I want to share some thoughts about my tenure as your Board President and express thanks to all of you who have contributed to maintaining our church community over the past two...

Dear Mrembers and Friends,   This is a good time to look back over the church year and reflect on where we are.  We have survived another challenging year.  COVID fatigue was settling in when we entered the current church...

June will be a very busy month at the UU Church of Ventura.Lo many years ago, many Unitarian and Universalist churches would actually close down for the summer. UU Ventura has always been a ‘year-round’ church, yet every church year has its rhythms.Summer does tend to...

  My mother lived a long and interesting life but I did not know very much of it. In fact, I have only parts of stories of my mother. Although she was living with me for the last two years of her life, she was fully in dementia. And because we had been estranged...

Good People, As the pandemic is receding and/or we are learning to live with the changes it has wrought in our lives, we get to see what life will be like AC – After COVID. I will continue to resist speaking of anything as ‘normal’ again – neither in the sense of...

Dear Members and Friends, The past six weeks have been challenging for me.  During the first three weeks of February, three friends died unexpectedly.  The first was Joe Hutchins, a beloved member of the UUCV community.  Joe and I were in the same men’s...

Good People,Our church community is beginning to ramp back up as the risk of catching and spreading Covid is falling. With any luck, the church will be able to open up in person more and more over the next weeks and months.  None of us will be quite the same...

Dear UUCV Community, The UUCV Religious Education program has a new safety policy to continue keeping our children safe as COVID-19 risk factors & restrictions are easing in California. See below for a summary of the most important changes. From the very beginning...