The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Now in our third year, Racial Justice and True Accotink Colors host a monthly Banned Book Club on the second Tuesday of every month. Our next discussion will be about The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. You are welcome to read the original novel or the graphic novel adaptation, as both have … Continue reading Nov. 12 – Read & Discuss Banned Books

We are Grateful! As we enter the month of Thanksgiving Day, we thank everyone for your generous donations of food and time to fill the meal packs for our 35 children at Halley Elementary children identified as experiencing food insecurity. Our next meal pack assembly will be here soon: Sunday, Nov. 17th. Some of us … Continue reading Nov. 17 – Meal Packing

The Women’s Book Discussion Group will meet via Zoom on November 19 to discuss Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond. Members of the group will receive a Zoom invitation before the meeting. Coming up 12/17/2024 The Shipping News / E. Annie Proulx 1/21/2025   The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine … Continue reading Nov. 19 – Women’s Book Discussion Group

All are invited to AUUC’s family-friendly Friendsgiving celebration, hosted by True Accotink Colors, on Saturday, November 23 at 4pm. Bring your favorite side dish or dessert to share. We will enjoy fellowship and food, read out this year’s gratitudes from the Gratitude Jar, and choose a movie to watch together to end the night. If … Continue reading Nov. 23 – Friendsgiving

There’s still space in our gratitude jar! Add a recent joy or blessing in your life to the jar in the gallery. Gratitudes can be big or small, general or personal. They can be words, sentences, or even drawings. Members, visitors, youth, and children are all welcome to add gratitudes. We will read them out … Continue reading Share Your Gratitude

Our outreach collection recipient for November is O.A.R. This nonprofit restorative justice organization provides opportunities, alternatives, and resources for those involved with the courts in Fairfax, Loudon, and Prince William Counties. O.A.R. has a long relationship with AUUC, including a number of congregants volunteering. This includes volunteering with O.A.R. for years and also during the … Continue reading November Outreach Collection: O.A.R

VICPP encourages civic engagement by supporting congregations to become 100% Voting Congregations.  Because of our work supporting registration and encouraging voting, for the third year AUUC was identified as a  “100 Percent Voting”. To meet our pledge, our voting actions included: Weekly articles on voting in AUUC’s “This Week” which provides information along with links … Continue reading 100% Voting Congregation

This year the traditional reading of names included in Accotink Memorials will be during the November 3rd All Souls Sunday service. 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” and mail to the church at 10125 Lakehaven … Continue reading Nov. 3 – All Souls Sunday

All newcomers, new members, and anyone at all wishing to learn about some of Accotink’s history and the design of our current sanctuary are welcome to join us for a “Traveling Tour of Accotink” where we will walk around the sanctuary and a few of our other spaces to talk through the art, materials, and … Continue reading Nov. 3 – Traveling Tour of AUUC