Dear Members and Friends of UUCV, We are again reopening our church doors to in-person, indoors Sunday services on February 20th. Using our reservation system, up to 75 people will be allowed in the sanctuary. After the pandemic emerged in early 2020 and forced...

Dear Ones,    The Omicron wave has crashed upon the shore and is receding again. So, let’s celebrate by coming together for an All Generations, In Person, Outdoors Animal Blessing service fittingly called Puppy Love on the Sunday before Valentine’s...

Good People,   On the next two Sundays after church, we are going to have meetings about our long-term and immediate financial sustainability. The meetings are important and related, and I want to give you some overall context for them both. UUCV has...

Dear Ones, We’ve gotten so good at turning on a dime with the latest news of Covid spread. We’ve gotten good enough that sometimes we forget how exhausting it is. We forget to check in with ourselves in body, mind, and spirit.  So, this is a...

Dear Members and Friends of UUCV, Your Board of Trustees has consulted with the Reopening Team about the surge of the Omicron variant we have all been learning about in the news.  Rev. Dana also consulted with the Worship Team and Fidelity checked with the...

Good People,   I write to bring you up to date about reopening and risk factors and where we stand.  Scientists have discovered over the course of the last 21 months that Covid-19 spreads most through aerosols, which are even tinier than sneeze droplets....

Dear Members and Friends,     Recently, I’ve been hearing that some UUCV folks using the building are no longer wearing masks or social distancing consistently in their small group activities.   I think I get it.  The...

The Voices of Our Elders: The Stories That Become Our Memories      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 for many...