Announcements

Please note that the HUUC office will be open only limited hours between December 23, 2024 and January 6, 2025. The office will close at 3 p.m. on December 23. It will reopen for limited hours on December 30. January 5, the office will be open 10 a.m. to noon. Normal hours resume on January 6, 2025. For more details, contact Martha in the office at:

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Putting up a Christmas tree is a traditional delight of this winter holiday season. However, taking it down is often viewed with sadness or at least it is considered a chore. Not so at Heritage! For this activity, we become “Christmas Tree Angels.”

Come join us on Sunday, January 5, 2025 immediately following the morning service, as we retire the sanctuary’s Christmas tree for this season. Everyone can participate. You don’t want to miss this amazing cooperative choreography.

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Thank you to those who have donated “cute” flowerpots that I requested for my project of preparing pretty pots of plants for our fall/winter bazaar. I have now been “enlightened” as to how to make ordinary clay pots actually very attractive and so am asking for no- longer-needed clay pots!   

I have collected a wonderful variety of colorful fabric scraps, and will be purchasing something called Modge Podge to coat them with to transform them into the pictured “cute” pots. I’m also going to set up a couple dates to join me at church if people want help in creating these gems, once I collect enough of the clay pots. Or, if anyone wants to create them at home, I’m happy to share the supplies. We then can use them for the plants we hope to sell at our fall/winter bazaar or, if we make more than we have plants for, I think they would sell without plants!

It should be fun!  Watch for the upcoming “Modge-podging Party” dates!

 – Joann Meyer

For further information, Joann can be reached at

Update:

There is a plan in the works to have a craft making day sometime in August for anyone to come and help create items for our joint bazaar in late fall with Ten Thousand Villages. Joann Meyer’s suggested project is on “display” in the back hall and there is also a container for clay pots if anyone wants to donate some for that project. There will be other items to make as well, so stay tuned for further details. And all crafty ideas are encouraged and welcomed!

– Joann

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Our area UU churches are officially re-launching citywide OWL this year with Sr. High and K-1 OWL offerings, along with a possible adult or senior adult collaboration with a Cincinnati UCC church. If you love OWL and want to support our expanding citywide partnership, please consider these opportunities:

1. Do you have a Sr. High youth who hasn’t completed OWL? To receive information about our Sr. High OWL class starting in 2025, email Laci at:

2. Are you an adult who would like to take OWL? Make sure to fill out the Adult RE Interest form found at:  https://huuc.breezechms.com/form/b7b9a8

3. Are you a trained Jr./Sr. High OWL teacher? We are still building our Sr. High OWL 2025 teaching team. The commitment includes teaching once or twice a month on Sunday afternoons at Heritage.

4. Might you be interested in teaching a future OWL course? We are planning to host OWL teacher trainings for both K-1/Grade 4-6 and Jr./Sr. High teachers in the coming year. 

Best,
Laci Lee Adams
HUUC Director of Lifespan Faith Development

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 This fall, did you get a text message from “Breeze-huuc” with an event reminder? That’s because we began using the text option in our directory database, Breeze. But new regulations require that cell phone carriers receive “double opt in” to transmit SMS messages from HUUC via Breeze. That means you need to reply YES when you receive a request from Breeze to transmit messages on behalf of Heritage even if you have already given a member of the church staff your permission to receive text messages. 

If you received a text message on October 23, 2024 from 87447 asking you to opt-in to messages from “Heritage Universalist Unitarian Chu…”, you may still reply “YES” to that message. If you think you deleted that message or replied “stop” by mistake, try sending a text to 87447 with the message “Start.”

If your cell number is not in our database, and you would like to receive text messages, please contact Martha in the HUUC office, give her your cell phone number, and state or email your express permission to receive text messages from Breeze on behalf of the church. You will then receive a text asking you to confirm your request, and you will need to respond to that text message to complete the double opt-in process.

If you aren’t certain that Heritage has your mobile number in our database, please contact Martha in the HUUC Office by calling (513) 231-8634 or emailing Heritage UU Church at:

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