New color in the memorial garden.

Click to “Read More” below to read the latest news from the Healthy Congregation Team!

Bella's latest testing shows no evidence of disease!

This Sunday afternoon, is the NOAH public meeting of the mayoral runoff candidates, 15th Avenue Baptist Church (1203 Ninth Ave North). Come hear what the two candidates, David Briley and John Cooper have to say about NOAH’s key issues: Affordable Housing, Education, and Economic Equity and Jobs. To carpool from GNUUC, gather near the main entrance, at 2:00 pm.

The congregation is invited to meet Dr. Mugilan during the Credo meeting, 9:30 to 10:45.

We are now accepting donations for GOAL 2 August Beautification of the Building. If you would like to donate to the Beautification efforts, please write a check to GNUUC and put “FLUSH” in the memo line. The amount needed for GOAL 2 is $2,310 ($3,110 less $800 from B&G). We have commitments from individuals and other congregational accounts for $750! Thank you to those individuals and team leaders who have stepped forward. That leaves us with $1,560 that still needs to be generated for GOAL 2. Please be generous!

Rachel Sumner presents a six-week program on literacy skills for children 3 to 5 and a grown-up. This is done thru music, movement and drama at Bellevue Library.

“At Urban Green Lab, we teach communities how to live sustainable lives ... working to ensure all of us have access to sustainable living education ... a focus on classrooms, households, and workplaces -- places where culture begins -- transforming spaces into “labs” ... connecting institutions with services, and encouraging people to feel good about being part of the solution." Urban Green Lab - Kroger Compost Pilot, MNPS

Click for details on who is hosted lunch each Sunday. We still need volunteers to host lunch on August 18. Starting in September a new Lunch Coordinator is needed to recruit teams and/or people to provide lunch on the 2nd to 4th/5th Sunday of the month. The first Sunday will remain Potluck Sunday! If you are interested, please talk to Kristin R, Shared Ministry coordinator.

Dr. Robert William Bogen, 92, died Monday, May 20, 2019, at his home in Nashville, Tennessee. Robert (Bob) was born on November 23, 1926 in Cleveland, Ohio.

Green, red, and white!

The Memorial Garden is in bloom this summer!

Our Share the Plate partner for July is Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi. Planned Parenthood's mission is to improve health and well-being by providing high-quality, nonjudgmental sexual health care, honest and accurate sexuality education, and reproductive health and rights advocacy.

Roy Zimmerman brings his clever and timely songs to Nashville again. The topics are always current, and his slant on them is often devastating. Hear him Friday, July 12 at 7:30 at First Unitarian Church.

Nashville Chapter Americans United for Separation of Church and State thanks you for sharing the collection plate. We came close to defeating school vouchers and will be vigilant next legislative session for attempts to expand them.

GNUUC was well represented at the NOAH Issues Convention, with 15 of us in attendance! Delegates listened to two-minute “pitches” for each of the ten proposed problem areas and then voted for the three problem areas for NOAH to focus its work on going forward: Affordable Housing, Economic Equity & Jobs, and Education.

Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, TN, has trained generations of organizers in the labor, civil rights, and other movements working for social justice and human dignity. Highlander serves as a catalyst for grassroots organizing and movement building in Appalachia and the U.S. South. Click to watch slide show!

If you would like to share an announcement or event with the congregation through the weekly eblast or Order of Service, please use the forms on the website to do so.

Thank you to all the members, family, and friends who joined us for the “People as Populations, Politics and Prophets” workshop sponsored by the GNUUC Social Action committee.

Here is the garden in late spring.