The church has two front doorbells, and it can be a little confusing as to which one you should ring.

If you come to the church for a gathering of some sort and there is no one standing there to let you in, ring the bottom doorbell. It is small, a vertical rectangle, and has a little notice that says “Push Here for Main Building.” This doorbell rings a buzzer throughout the building, so that anyone who has already arrived for your gathering should be able to hear it and come let you in.

(There is also another doorbell—square, larger, and higher—that rings in just the church office, and that is meant for persons delivering packages, etc., during the Church Administrator’s office hours. Don’t ring that one unless you know for certain that the Church Administrator is in. People in the rest of the building can’t hear it.)

If you have questions, please contact our Church Administrator at 513-231-8634, or email her at:

June 2019.

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As we prepare to leave spring behind, and fully enter summer, our monthly Vespers Services take a short break from June through August. We encourage you to take time from your busy schedule for a few precious moments of peaceful, calming reflection, meditation or silence during each month. Maybe even sing one of your favorite chants, hymns or songs over and over until you can feel it warming you from within.

Vespers will return on Wednesday, September 25, from 7:00-8:00 p.m., and will continue to be held at the same time during each month: October 23, November 27, December 25 (Nov and Dec dates may change), January 22, February 26, March 25, April 22 and May 27. If you have any questions, or are interested in joining the Vespers team, please contact Steph Tacy and Mimi Sinclair at:

June 2019.

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The Thursday afternoon gathering formerly known as Stitchers is now CREATING COMMUNITY.

All crafters (and crafter wannabes) can gather to knit, crochet, sew, craft in all manners, or just hang out and get to know each other in a relaxed setting. We craft to connect with our loved ones who taught us and also to connect with one another. It is full of love and thought and care.

This is also an opportunity to provide outreach from Heritage UU Church to the wider community by creating: caps and blankets for newborns, lap blankets and slippers for shelters or nursing home residents, Project Linus blankets for children in need, Caps for Kids (and scarves and mittens too), caps and shawls for cancer patients, Warm Up America blankets for the homeless, or Red Scarfs for teenagers leaving foster care at age 18.

Join us when you are able, stay for as long as you have time. We meet in the Heritage Room on Thursdays in the period of time of 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. For more information, contact Lou Kerr at 513-300-9345 or email him at:

May 2019.

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Heritage Church members are encouraged to attend and participate in our annual congregational meeting on Sunday morning, June 2, before the worship service, in the sanctuary. We will vote on representatives to our Board of Trustees, the Cincinnati UU Council, and other leadership teams and groups. We will adopt our operating budget for 2019-20. Those who have given outstanding service to our community will be recognized.

Members, the favor of your presence is requested – June 2, 2019, from 8:30 to 10:15 a.m., at Heritage UU Church. Thank you!

If you have questions about this upcoming meeting, please speak with Rev. Bill Gupton, or email him at:

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In the sanctuary, great room, youth room and office, those thermostats lose time on their “time of day” clock. This is shown in the upper left corner of the display.

This happens because the furnace shuts down after being on for about ten minutes and this also turns the thermostat off. When the furnace starts again (in about one minute) the clock resumes at the time when it shut down. Over time, with multiple shut-downs, the clock has “lost” the shut-down time.

Finally, the clock may be inaccurate by minutes or even hours.

Adjustment of the clock is very simple, following the instructions inside the door.

Additionally, when the above happens when the “Override” feature has been used, the furnace will go through only one cycle since shutting the thermostat down turns off the “Override”.

If you have questions on this, please talk with Bob Booth.

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Heritage UU Church (HUUC) uses a number of email “forwarder” addresses, whereby email sent to the forwarder address (“something@huuc.net”) gets forwarded automatically to one or more personal email addresses.

The Heritage Church webmaster / Heirloom editor is in the process of taking several steps to help prevent these forwarder email addresses from being collected from the website by unknown people through automated means.  The result will be new and different email forwarder addresses that are harder to collect.

The steps taken will improve email safety and security, but they will also mean that a person will no longer be able to click an Email link on the website or in the Heirloom and have it open their email application with a new email ready to go. In the present circumstance, it is felt that email safety and security outweigh the convenience of clickable email links.

You can find new email addresses here:

• Church Ministers and Staff
• Board of Trustees Officers
• Social Justice roles
• Committees, Teams, Groups, and Special Roles

It will take some time to implement this. If you have any questions, feel free to contact the webmaster at the email address below.

February 2019.

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Candles of Community is our weekly worship ritual for the public sharing of milestones in our personal lives – joys such as births, new jobs, visits from loved ones who live far away, successful surgery or good medical news, etc.; and sorrows such as deaths, illnesses, etc. As our worship leaders often say, “you are welcome to light a candle in silence as well” – which can include joys or sorrows that are too difficult or private to say aloud, or that perhaps would fit more into the categories of “concerns” or “announcements.”

This solemn worship ritual is not the appropriate place to make statements of opinion (particularly partisan opinion in this heated political season).

When you are sharing at the altar during Candles of Community (or any other time), it is important to use the microphone properly, so that everyone can hear you, and to state your name, enunciating clearly. The proper distance from the microphone to your mouth is much less than most people think (an inch or two only), and you should always hold the microphone near the top, leaving the bottom (where the wireless transmitter is located) open.

Remember that everyone is welcome at our Universalist altar. One does not need to be a church member or regular attendee to share during Candles of Community; much more important is the spirit in which we share. Thank you!

October, 2018.

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Have you noticed that our sanctuary is often full on Sunday mornings, at least until the children leave for their religious education classes? We are trying an experiment on select Sundays in March — creating a “Soul Space” for children and youth in the area normally reserved for the choir. The space will have floor seating (on a rug) plus some fidgeting items such as pipe cleaners and stress balls. Most of all, it will provide an up-front view for our littlest UUs! Watch for more details coming soon or contact Rev. Leslie.

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Yes, our sanctuary is often quite full on Sunday mornings. With each passing month, more and more people are seeking out a new religious home, and are being drawn to Heritage by our unique blend of grounded spirituality, warm and welcoming community, and inclusive acceptance of diverse beliefs and backgrounds. Church membership is now 50 percent higher than it was 20 years ago. This is something to celebrate!

In order to make more room for everyone, our Worship Committee and Board of Trustees have instituted a few new procedures that you may have noticed already. On Sundays when the Choir is not singing, we are turning their chairs to face the pulpit; you are invited and encouraged to sit there. This frees up nearly two dozen more seats on those Sundays.

In addition, we recently purchased half a dozen new, armless chairs to make a new back row on the right side of the sanctuary, and moved some folding metal chairs into the sanctuary to go along the back walls. We continue to leave one or two “empty” spaces in rows, at the aisle, for those in wheelchairs or who otherwise require special seating accommodations. And you are always encouraged to “move to the middle” and “come to the front row” so that each row can fill in completely with folks who would like to experience our worship services.

We recognize these are short-term solutions. Conversations have resumed about more permanent possibilities to address our abundance of attendance and participation. You are invited to participate in those discussions as they unfold in the months ahead. But rest assured: There is room for you, at Heritage!

February, 2018.

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The church now has a special email address where you can send short announcements of upcoming events—announcements that you want to appear in the Sunday Order of Service handout and in the Monday “Our Heritage Connection” email. Send your announcement by email to the address below and the email will be forwarded automatically to both of these communication channels.

The length for these announcements is targeted at 40-60 words. For the next “Our Heritage Connection,” send email by Sunday evening. For the next Order of Service, send email by Thursday at noon.

Using the Weekly Notice email address has two advantages. One, it lets you control exactly what is the key information you want communicated in the Order of Service and the weekly email. Two, it reduces the burden on the “Our Heritage Connection” editor, Steph Tacy, who has been getting announcements from various sources and then editing them down herself for the shorter Monday email length. (On occasion, an announcement may still need to be edited down if space is limited on the Order of Service announcements.)

For the longer versions of announcements that you want to appear in the monthly newsletter, the Heirloom, you can continue to send the articles to the email address shown below.

Articles should be attached as a Microsoft Word document or typed into the body of the email.

If you have any questions, just ask Steph Tacy, Denise Martinez, or Russ Araujo.

November 2017.

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