Day: July 10, 2020

Good News: UU Messages of Hope for Today (worship series)

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]If you’re following COVID trends, it’s not such good news.

If you watched the supreme court this week and its decision around access to birth control, also….not good news.

If you are looking for leadership around kids in school this fall, it’s definitely not good news.

The search for hope and happiness these days can be a hard haul. Which is why we decided to spend the next few weeks focused on messages of good news!

Over the next six Sundays we’ve invited Unitarian Universalist colleagues from all across the country to share their UU message of good news for today. Each of our colleagues responded to this invitation in their own way, locating hope in a different source, and yet still grounded in the living tradition of Unitarian Universalism.

Each of the services will be co-hosted by one of our ministers, and we will continue to feature testimony and offerings from you, our Foothills community. And – this is a great opportunity for you to hear from ministers from other congregations about where they see hope in our faith.

We start this Sunday with a message from Rev. Hannah Roberts Villnave. As a lifelong UU, Rev. Hannah shares her perspective on the gifts and the challenge of being given no constraints on the notion of God.

We hope this series will offer you an anchor and some constant encouragement in the midst of this summer’s continuing uncertainty – and we also hope it’ll provide some foundations for any newcomers. In other words, this is a great series to invite a friend who has been UU-curious for a while to join us. We’ll kick it off this Sunday at 9 & 11.

See you there for some much needed good news!

With love,
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Introducing Our New Director of Finance and Operations!

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I am so thrilled to share that we have hired Katie Watkins as our new Director of Finance and Operations. 

Katie most recently worked as the Director of Operations for Base Camp, the organization that provided before and after care for children across PSD.  Her experience in financial administration and oversight, systems-building and strategic planning and implementation are the tangible and foundational skills that make her the right person for this position.

But even more, our conversations throughout this process revealed an alignment in values, vision, as well as her capacity to lean in to all that we’ve built so far and to support it, and help it grow even more. I am especially excited about her understanding of and commitment to the particular challenges and opportunities in Northern Colorado. Because of her work at Base Camp, she has particular insights to the needs and challenges for families in our community, and a strong commitment to creating systems that allow all of us to flourish.

You can find out a lot more about Katie at her website here.

Katie will start officially on July 27th, and between now and then will be beginning to learn more about our church and our systems. We will be setting up conversations with our finance and stewardship teams, as well as some open conversations so that you can get to know her as well.

I really couldn’t be more excited about Katie joining our team, and I really look forward to you all getting to know her – and her getting to know you.

Rev. Gretchen

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