Our Senior Minister, Rev. Bill Gupton, will be on vacation and study leave from July 1 to July 27. He may be reached only in case of emergency, via his cell phone.
Our Director of Lifespan Faith Development, Laci Lee Adams, will be on study leave from July 17 to July 25.
Due to the transition in our church office staff, the office will be closed through July 12.
2022.
A time-honored Unitarian Universalist tradition is here once again! This summer, be sure to collect some water from a special place, near or far, in preparation for our annual Ingathering Sunday Water Ceremony, which will officially mark the “end of summer” on Sunday, September 11. As you travel this summer (or simply as you’re enjoying a local stream, river or pond), please remember your Heritage UU Church community and gather a small amount of water from any place that has personal or spiritual significance for you.
Then, on Ingathering Sunday, everyone will pour their collected waters into one common chalice, for use (after sterilization, of course!) in our February Water Healing Service, and in baby dedications, memorial services and other rituals and rites of passage throughout the upcoming church year. The ceremony symbolizes our shared, human connection, while emphasizing our oneness with nature and our Universalist belief that the individual ultimately merges with the whole.
June 2022.
If you go to the HUUC website on any device (you may need to Refresh or Empty Cache), you will see that the menu has a new item on the far right, named “TOUCH MENU.” If you touch this, you will go to a webpage that has all menu item choices laid out on the page, so that all that you need to do is touch a single link to go to the desired area of the website. This should make it easier to navigate the website on a phone or tablet.
5/4/2022.
Please update your contacts info/address book to use the email addresses shown at the left. (The one for Rev. Bill is very new.) (The old email addresses have occasional technical glitches which we can’t seem to resolve.) Thanks!
You can now hear again many of the UU hymns that have been featured on the HUUC homepage during the pandemic. On the website’s main menu at the top, point to WORSHIP, then point and click on UU HYMNS. Unfortunately, the early featured hymns are not available, but over 30 of the recent ones are.
2/13/2022.
Heritage UU Church Gathering PolicyThis and all policies regarding meetings in the church building will be periodically reviewed and potentially updated by the Board of Trustees.
The following applies to HUUC-affiliated gatherings regardless of location.
We strongly request the use of masks in indoor spaces to protect our most vulnerable and our children without access to vaccines.
Any meetings should:
Staff and volunteers working directly with children will still be required to wear masks for their protection.
HEPA air circulators located in the sanctuary and Great Hall should be turned on to increase airflow and ventilation for all meetings and should be operating in any meeting rooms.
Any persons exhibiting fever, cough, or shortness of breath, or other symptoms of COVID-19 should avoid any in-person meetings of any size. For their safety, we recommend unvaccinated individuals to avoid large indoor in-person gatherings and take advantage of remote options.
3rd-Party Use of HUUC Facilities (e.g. rentals) will be considered on a case-by-case basis by the Board with aligned expectations on personal safety that may not necessarily conform to the above policy designed for our HUUC community.
Posted 5/26/2020. Last revised by the Board of Trustees on 6/13/2022.
A church congregation is a community, and part of what strengthens community bonds is being together in real time during worship, whether in person at the church building or connected during a Zoom service.
If your schedule doesn’t allow you to participate in real time in a Sunday morning worship service, you will soon be able to watch the service at a later time. Danny Goldstein, our technical Zoom and video wizard, will be creating videos of worship services, whether they were in person or via Zoom. To protect privacy, some aspects of the worship service, such as Candles of Community, will not be in the video.
The videos are likely to become available during the week following the service. The latest worship video will be viewable at the bottom of the Heritage UU Church homepage, at huuc.net. The website will also keep the various prior worship videos over time. To find these, on the website menu bar, point to WORSHIP, then point and click on WORSHIP VIDEOS. The first worship service video will become available in late September or early October, 2021.
Any questions can be relayed to our webmaster, Russ Araujo, at:
The church year runs from July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2022. Shown here, left to right, are the members of the Board of Trustees: Michael Wilhite (President), Michelle Kelly (Secretary), Kay Inskeep, John Sandman, Meredith Meyer, Julie Kane (Vice President), and Mark Buckley.
As we continue to be mindful of the safety and security of our members and friends when they are in the Heritage building, we’ve discovered that information for many of our families is incomplete.
Security professionals have urged us to have emergency contact information for everyone who attends programming in our church, especially on Sunday mornings. In January and February, you may receive an information form via email. We urge you to fill it out as completely as possible and assure you that all information collected will remain safe and secure from hacking or other unauthorized access.
Paper forms will also be available at the Religious Exploration recruiting table on Sunday mornings.
Please help us ensure the safety of our Heritage children and youth!
January 2020.
In response to discussion at our annual congregational meeting in June, Heritage UU Church has started placing its financial statements on a password-protected webpage on the church website.
To go to the financial statements, on any church webpage find the main menu bar, point to CONGREGATIONAL LIFE, then point and click on MEMBERS’ AREA. On that page, scroll down and click on the Financial Statements link. This will take you to the Financial Statements page.
You will need to enter the members’ area password if you have not entered it recently. If you do not know the password, please talk with the Church Administrator either in person or by phone.
If you have questions about the content of the financial statements, please talk with Reid Hester, or email him at:
September 2019.
