This year, the traditional reading of names included in Accotink Memorials will be during the Nov. 2nd All Souls Sunday service. This year’s service will be an “all music” format. Stay tuned for the details. At the service, we will be asking for donations to support the ongoing maintenance costs of the Memorials. Please make checks payable to “AUUC Memorial Fund” … Continue reading Nov. 2: All Souls Sunday
Register Now for CROP Hunger Walk and More CROP Walk is an opportunity to work together with twenty other congregations and organizations in the Burke area to help Church World Service assist the people of foreign countries and here in the United States who are in crisis due to lack of food, water, shelter and basic necessities. … Continue reading Nov. 2: CROP Walk
Every week at church, we are spotlighting a different LGBTQ+ individual you might or might not know about. Check the table during coffee hour to see the latest one featured. Not able to attend church in person or missed a week? We have them for you online as well. Learn and be inspired! In September, we featured … Continue reading September’s Do You Know Spotlights
West Coast Swing, Thursdays at 7:30pm Hosted by RJ Dance Co. (renting space at AUUC) Looking for a fun way to move, connect, and belong? Join us every Thursday at 7:30pm for an evening of West Coast Swing—a welcoming, newcomer-friendly dance experience designed for all ages and backgrounds. For just $15, you’ll enjoy a beginner-friendly class and a two-hour social dance where … Continue reading West Coast Swing
What an enthusiastic and skilled crew of all ages participated last month in our first meal packing of the church year! Thanks to everyone who helped assemble the 140 meal packs and to all who donated food to fill those bags. Food donations for our Oct. 5th meal packing are needed now, and will be greatly appreciated. Please … Continue reading Oct. 5: NCGH/Accotink Meal Pack Assembly
Starting Point is an opportunity to explore Unitarian Universalism while deepening your connections with other Accotinkers. These four 1.5-hour sessions offer an experience of community, deep listening, and spiritual journeying through stories and reflection. Starting Point is designed for those new to Unitarian Universalism but is open to all Accotinkers. The next session, and last offering of Starting Point in 2025, … Continue reading Oct. 7: Starting Point Series Starts
A huge thank you for all the donations of school supplies for Beacon House. The children and youth get so excited to start the year with fresh supplies. It happened because you care!
Every week at church, we are spotlighting a different LGBTQ+ individual you might or might not know about. Check the table during coffee hour to see the latest one featured. Not able to attend church in person or missed a week? We have them for you online as well. Learn and be inspired! August was Transgender History … Continue reading August’s Do You Know Spotlights
What better place than Beacon House’s Camp Leap for urban children and teens to go during the summer to learn how to swim, visit Helix Center for Innovation, enjoy sports and crafts, serve as counselors, and have computer time! Then, once school resumes, what an opportunity for these young people to participate after school in … Continue reading September Outreach Collection: Beacon House
We’re looking forward to Sunday, Sept. 7, AUUC’s first meal packing assembly event of this church year. As an AUUC community, we will put together 140 weekend meal packs which we will deliver to 35 children identified as experiencing food insecurity at nearby Halley Elementary School. All children, youth, teens and helping adults are invited to participate … Continue reading Sept. 7: No Child Goes Hungry Meal Pack
Now in our third year, Racial Justice and True Accotink Colors host a monthly Banned Book Club on the second Tuesday of every month. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer is about a nine-year-old boy named Oskar Schell. Oskar discovers a key in a vase that belonged to his father, who died a year earlier … Continue reading Sept. 9: Banned Book Club
