With a new year come new routines. Church office hours – aka, Church Administrator Vali Dugan’s office hours – are now Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Vali also works at the church a couple of Sunday mornings each month, from about 10 a.m. to noon. Please note the change. Thank you!
1/25/2022.
Clockwise from top left: UUA logo, MidAmerica emblem, HUUC logo.
If you want to learn more about what is going on in the UU world, and might like to represent Heritage Church in governance, consider becoming a delegate for our congregation at the regional and/or national level.
The MidAmerica Region of the UUA is having its annual Regional Assembly (RA) on Saturday, April 30, 2022, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Attendance is online. The registration cost is on a graduated scale of $25, $35, or $50. Some scholarships are available. More information is at the Regional Assembly page and linked pages.
The Unitarian Universalist Association is having its annual General Assembly (GA) from June 22 through June 26, 2022. Attendees have a choice of attending in person in Portland, Oregon, or online. Registration fees vary depending upon several factors, but can be as low as $0 for online attendees participating in only the business meetings. More information is at the General Assembly page and linked pages.
If you have questions about what participating in GA is like, talk with prior attendees, which include Rev. Bill Gupton, Rae Jane Araujo, Russ Araujo, Peg Fay-Feder, Bob Lamb, Ellie Lamb, Bill Lyon, and Rebecca Pace.
If you are interested in being a delegate for either or both of these assemblies, contact Rev. Bill Gupton or Board President Michael Wilhite. You can contact Michael at:
1/22/2022.
This 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.
Masks are required whenever two or more persons are together indoors. For guidance, different spaces in the building have different meeting number limits. All meetings should be masked and appropriately socially distanced. We strongly recommend using KN95 masks to be effective against the current Omicron strain.
Any meetings should:
Group singing with masks is allowed indoors for any gathering adhering to the outlined requirements. Choir members are still expected to use the special choral singing masks that they have been given for rehearsals and performances.
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.
To provide additional protection, HUUC requires COVID vaccination for all employees.
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 1/10/2022.
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.
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.
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.
