Dear UUCV Members and Friends,     As your Board President who is of Japanese ancestry, I have felt increasingly compelled to speak out against the increasing, horrific racism and violence against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI).  A...

Dear Members and Friends, Recently, many of you participated in a survey from the Re-Opening Team intended to obtain your input about the re-opening of our church facility.  The following is a summary of those responses.  Part of the survey had questions...

Good People,  Folks keep asking if we have a date set for reopening for worshiping in person. The answer is, Kind of…. Here is the Big Picture background and tentative plans.Our Reopening Team has been looking closely at the details of how and when we will...

Good People, Writing to let you know that I have been selected as a member of the General Plan Advisory Committee for the City of Ventura. I applied because giving input into the cities General Plan means I can address a confluence of issues that are of great...

Good, Patient, Persistent, Resilient People,   Yes, it’s March 2021, and we approach the anniversary of the days that our lives flipped upside down.  In one of my first missives about the shutdown, I shared that the Board had ‘decided to cancel all...

Dear Ones, What an amazing and auspicious day has dawned.  Yet into this new day I still carry the image of 400 pillars of light lining the Reflecting Pool between the Washington and Lincoln Memorials at dusk last night.  Each light representing 1,000...

Dear Ones,  Be sure to stick around after church this Sunday for our 3rd annual Mid-Year Budget Review, at 11:30am. It will be in the same Zoom Room as the Sunday service, accessible through the same link.    When we did this review just...

Dear UUCV Community, I am overjoyed to share with you all that UUCV's long anticipated Children's Chapel is on it's way! I hope to see our Religious Education community on Jan. 17 at 9 AM for our very first Chapel titled "Imagining A New World" in celebration of the...