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April 2024
April Worship: Love is Our Salvation

 

Mrs. Tina Turner, of Blessed Memory, was right when she asked, “What’s love got to do with it?” While it’s almost too simple of a question, the answer is, love has everything to do with it. It is the force which both holds us and entices us to be whole. At the end of the day, love is our salvation, and our pathway to wholeness.

Black Sacred Space:

BLUU’s online worship services are Black Sacred Space in their entirety – by and for Black people, with the words and voices of Black folks across the diaspora – and we hope that Black UUs and Black UU-adjacent folks (who share our values) from far and wide will join us!

For our non-Black siblings in faith, please DO share this invitation with Black folks in your life and community. Getting the word out about BLUU’s gatherings and other programming is one powerful way of lending your support, and we deeply appreciate it!

For all of our services, feel free to come into our BLUU Zoom Room as early as 15 minutes before the start of the service to get settled, say hello to the folks who are already gathering, and listen to the music softly playing as we all prepare for our time together.

Sign up for worship here: https://bit.ly/3wYfnjb.
Register for Worship

Rockville Worship Recap
Earlier this year, BLUU hosted its first in-person worship service since the start of the pandemic. The worship service titled “Ungrounded in Our Faith,” was also BLUU’s first-ever hybrid worship.
Worship Recap

Join the Worship Associates Team
BLUU seeks more participants to serve on a new Worship Associates Team! You will have an opportunity to introduce elements of the service such as opening and closing, readings, children’s stories and music, and participate in the ongoing planning of worship.

If you are interested, please email albie@blacklivesuu.org, and include your telephone number.
Join the Worship Associates

BLUU Housing Initiative Update
In February, Lena K. Gardner spoke at First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis. Her presentation titled “Community is The Gift of Equity and Justice” highlighted BLUU’s work and shared updates on the BLUU Cooperative Housing Initiative. See the full presentation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAoeY-ouoVc

Matching Gifts for BLUU Housing Initiative
Thanks to a generous UU member dedicated to affordable housing and racial justice, donations to the BLUU Housing Initiative will be matched dollar for dollar up to $10,000 now through June 2024. Support the housing initiative today and your gift will be matched!
Donate to the Housing Initiative

Support BLUU Programming
Do you want your gift to support BLUU programming and operations? Click the button below to make your donations.

Share your suggestions for BLUU programming here.
Donate to Programming

Become a BLUU Beloved Today!
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BLUU Beloveds are Black Unitarian Universalists and other Black spiritual people who want to deepen their connection with each other and their commitment to BLUU by becoming members of BLUU.
Become a BLUU Beloved
This has been a particularly rough season in our lives, our communities, and the world. So in addition to folks being able to leave a voicemail or text message on our pastoral care line, BLUU is reinstituting regular office hours to serve the needs of our community. This will be a set time frame during which a Black UU or Black person who shares our values can call into our Pastoral Care Line (984-219-8710) and speak to someone directly, or leave a message to schedule pastoral or spiritual care if the staff person on call is already speaking with someone else. Please note the following office hours:

Albie Johnson, Commissioned Lay Minister:

Fridays at 11a.m. – 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. – 12 noon CT

Rev. Mykal Slack, Community Minister:

Tuesdays at 2-4 p.m. ET/1-3pm ET

Pastoral care is a model of emotional and spiritual support that can be found in all cultures and traditions. People who provide pastoral care offer support to people in their joys, sorrows, and uncertainties associated with specific life events occurring while part of the community in which pastoral caregivers serve. Spiritual care is a multi-faceted model of support in individuals’ search for meaning, purpose, wholeness, and connection in day-to-day life.
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