Happy Fall! The weather is changing slowly and as we enter the season of cold and snow, we also enter a season of richness. The winter is a time to refresh our deep interior lives, and find sacred rest and holy gatherings that nourish us. In that vein, we invite you to celebrate Winter Solstice with us this December 20th! Our theme this year is “Light for All”.

UUMFE’s Third Annual Solstice Celebration

Wednesday, December 20, 2023 at 4 pm PT/ 5 pm MT/ 6 pm CT/ 7 pm ET

The Winter Solstice occurs when Earth’s axis tilts away from the sun, making it the shortest day and longest night of the year for those living in the Northern Hemisphere.

Let’s celebrate sacred light! UU Ministry for Earth is excited to invite you and your communities to our third annual Solstice celebration.   Join us the evening BEFORE the Winter Solstice for music, reflection, meditation, and spiritual grounding.

On this longest night, we will be featuring the work of the Energy Democracy Project and sharing a portion of our offering with them. Let’s work for light for all on the longest night of the year. Our service is part of the larger arc of Clean Energy as a Human Right being led by Side with Love.

You can sponsor this event!  As a sponsor, you will be recognized and named in the event order of service, in our newsletter, and during the night service. Your gifts will help sustain worship, small groups, and curriculum for all ages, spiritual support for activists and advocates, pastoral care for climate grief, and opportunities to gather in community online. Together, we can ensure a strong Unitarian Universalist spiritual grounding, compassionate chaplaincy and advocacy for change in the face of the climate crisis.

Action Reflection Circle

October 24, 2023  7:00 pm EDT – 8:00 pm EDT

As Unitarian Universalists, our faith calls us to be agents for change. However, sometimes this work can feel lonely, draining, daunting, or disconnected from our spirituality. If you are engaged in climate justice, join with other UUs on a regular basis to share stories about your actions and strategies, restore your resilience, deepen your solidarity skills, and tap into our UU faith tradition as a source of strength. 4th Tuesdays, Monthly.

Zoom link is always the same: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85999155355.

Weekly Live Meditation

October 26, November 2, 9, 16. 9:30 am ET/ 8:30 CT/ 7:30 MT/ 6:30 PT

Just four sessions left in this series. 

Full info about our meditation series can be found here. 

Leaders include:

• Rev. Erin Gingrich
• Rev. Kristen Psaki

Let us know about you. Recordings are available in a Vimeo library for ongoing use. https://vimeo.com/manage/folders/17744107

Join us on Zoom here

Visionary Approaches to Federal Clean Energy Funding 

Join us on October 25 at 7pm ET to learn how you can advance approaches to clean energy funding with justice at the center. UUMFE will provide spiritual grounding. Our faith calls us to work to ensure the people most impacted by climate change benefit most from clean energy funds.

Register Here

Full Moon Gathering–Celebrate Your Ancestors (biological, chosen and/or religious)

Saturday October 28, 7- 8pm ET/ 6pm CT/ 5pm MT/ 4pm PT

This is a powerful time of year, so join us to celebrate your ancestors. It’s a SATURDAY night, and we hope you’ll join us!

The Zoom link to join will always stay the same, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3248332840pwd=SXVScW1ESzJILy9PMWlkTXVkTnpjZz09.

Registration is encouraged. It helps us keep track of how we can serve you and helps us get to know you. Click on the button below to register.

UUAYCJ: Community Space for Organizers

November 9| Monthly on 2nd Thurs. until Dec 17, 2024
8:30 – 9:30pmET/ 6:30 MT/ 7:30 CT

UUYACJ has a new offering. We’ll be holding a community space for organizers. Our first gathering will be September 14th!

As relationships are vital to build networks of care and a world of liberation, we will be creating and deepening connections with other UU young adult organizers. The space will include time for socializing, sharing our experiences in organizing, learning from our comrades, and imagining what a UU political analysis looks like. Anyone who is doing justice work (environmental or otherwise) is welcome here.

From our Partner, Side with Love: Hubs of Climate Resilience

Join us on November 9 at 7pm ET to learn how you can turn your faith into action to create hubs of climate resilience for our communities. UUMFE provides the spiritual grounding.