This month, active supporters of our Heritage Acres Memorial Sanctuary project will be contacting each member of the church to ask you to join them in our 2019 Capital Fund Drive. The Board of Heritage Acres – our church’s unique green burial project – has identified a beautiful 40-acre parcel of land in Pierce Township, and we have made an offer to purchase that property. But in order to make those lovely, rolling hills and woodland the site of Heritage Acres, we need to raise $250,000 in the next several weeks.

The good news is that a dozen generous donors have already given nearly $75,000 of that goal, getting us almost a third of the way to our goal. Consider these gifts to be the roots that will hold our tree firmly in the earth as we grow our funding upward and outward, and plant the seeds that will allow us to open Heritage Acres to you – and to the public – by this summer!

Please be prepared to speak with a representative of Heritage Acres and to offer your contributions and/or pledges of financial support for this worthy cause.

February 2019.

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The American way of dealing with death is fraught with problems. For several years, Rev. Bill Gupton and others at Heritage Universalist Unitarian Church have worked on many fronts to develop an end-of-life ministry. This ministry has included:

• Hosting a Death Café on numerous occasions, providing a safe space to talk informally with others about that most-taboo subject, death.
• Holding worship services that honor those who have died during the past year.
• Hosting the Death-Positive Film Series, showing each month a movie—fictional story or documentary—that deals in some important or unusual way with death.
• Arranging for the public, Cincinnati debut, at a local theater, of the movie In the Parlor.
• Holding multiple workshops and lectures to increase awareness of the natural burial option.
• Founding the organization Heritage Acres Memorial Sanctuary, which will eventually provide a place for natural burial.
• Training a select group of church members to perform in-home preparation of a body, for family mourning and natural burial.
• Hosting a performance of threshold singers, who provide song to a person slipping over the threshold of death.
• Providing memorial services to church members and relatives.

For more information on out end-of-life ministry, contact our Senior Minister, Rev. Bill Gupton, at:

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