BLUU is in the News! – First Unitarian Church of Honolulu

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April 2023

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The BLUU Housing Initiative was featured in The Star Tribune, the largest newspaper in Minnesota. The Tribune story chronicles our journey to create affordable housing for Black and Indigenous people in Minneapolis and how zoning issues make that a challenge.

Read the Article

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UU World featured a Q&A with Lena K. Gardner, BLUU’s Executive Director, in its spring/summer issue. Lena shares about the BLUU Housing Initiative.

“It fits into BLUU’s work under our umbrella of justice-making and liberation through our faith, which we see as connected to making changes to the material conditions that Black folks face in the world [including] housing insecurity,” Lena says in the story.

More from UU World

BLUU Communications Director, Marchaé Grair, was featured on the podcast “Faith from the Margins” discussing the spiritual work of becoming an abolitionist and what that journey has been like for them.

Listen to the podcast

BLUU Worship, Sunday, April 9 at 4 p.m. Eastern or 1 p.m. Pacific.

Join us for worship on Sunday, April 9 at 4 p.m. Eastern.

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.

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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.

BLUU is blessed with a community filled with pastoral and spiritual leadership. Please don’t forget that the BLUU Ministerial Network has a pastoral care line available for Black folks. You can text or call 984-219-8711 to schedule a time to speak with a BLUU chaplain.

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First Unitarian Church of Honolulu

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April 2023

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