Looking for Alaska by John Green
Now in our third year, Racial Justice and True Accotink Colors host a monthly Banned Book Club on the second Tuesday of every month. Celebrating the start of a new school year, our next discussion will be about Looking for … read more.
Explore our monthly themes through the practice of writing in the UU Writers group! This will be our second year of meeting, and we’re open to a few more writers joining us. This Soul Matters Writing group meets online the second Thursday of each month … read more.
Join us on Saturday, Sept. 14, 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon, for a Fall Garden Workday. Learn about what’s growing in the nearly native garden and how you can help. All ages and abilities are welcome. RSVP to Kristina at auucgarden@accotinkuu.org.
Posted on September … read more.
Mark your calendar for Sunday, Sept. 29, AUUC’s second meal packing assembly event of this church year. Our No Child Goes Hungry/Accotink weekend meal packing delivers to 35 Halley Elementary children identified as experiencing food insecurity. We are excited to have our AUUC children, youth, … read more.
Circle ‘Round for the Auction
Open for Submissions Now!
The auction is officially live and ready for all your generous, creative, exciting donations! Visit the auction site now to submit your offerings, register for an account (or make sure you know your password from last year), … read more.
AUUC’s Outreach Collection for August is for VOICE, Virginians Organized for Interfaith Community Engagement. The focus this year is Youth and Family Behavioral Health in Fairfax County. VOICE and its key allies will focus on passing groundbreaking housing reform on the state level during the 2025 … read more.
Email Photos and Get Ready to Submit
One more call for photos! Our promotional banners, posters, and slides are full of circles… but so many of the circles are empty. Help us fill these circles by sending us photos of popular items you have donated or … read more.
The Women’s Book Discussion Group will meet via Zoom on Aug. 20 to discuss Horse by Geraldine Brooks. Members of the group will receive a Zoom invitation before the meeting.
Coming up
9/17/24: The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder / David Grann
10/15/24: Lessons in Chemistry / … read more.
The dog days of summer are wearing on, but that just means it’s time for the AUUC choir to begin again! Are you a singer? Join us! Don’t think you sing? Come join us anyway! A choir is for more than singing. It’s for socialization, … read more.
Are you a poetry lover or are you interested in becoming a poetry lover? This group is open to anyone with an interest in reading and understanding poetry.
In August, we’ll be discussing poems by John Donne, scholar, soldier, and secretary. He is considered the preeminent representative of the metaphysical poets. This online discussion will be Wednesday, … read more.
Did you miss your opportunity to see the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C. perform at the Kennedy Center in June? Not to worry because now there will be a FREE screening of GMCW’s concert “Portraits” on the evening of Aug. 23 at 7 pm … read more.
Postcard Writing Opportunity
For our next postcard campaign, we’ll be writing cards for Virginia. This is a WRITE, HOLD, and MAIL LATER campaign. Mail date is Sept. 1 through Oct. 4. We will distribute postcards to you by end of August.
For our third and last postcard … read more.
