Our Share the Plate recipient this month is The Sunrise Movement.

The UUA is offering a year-long "gathering of ideas" to help Small Congregations reach our greatest potential. GNUUC is all registered, and any number of our members and friends may take part in the webinars. Click to find out more.

Here is the garden in late Summer.

Now you can text to pay for lunch!

GNUUC's Building Beloved Community Covenant Group kicks off a new year with two new sources for discussion and reflection: * 1619 Project from the Pulitzer Foundation and White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Professor Robin DiAngelo. Both are powerful resources as we seek to grow as beloved community. All are welcome.

Rachel, Patrick, Bella, and Chloe are moving to Spring Hill this Saturday, and they could use your support and muscles. If you are available to help for any amount of time on that day, please contact Rachel. Her number can be found in Breeze.

Additionally, if you know someone who would be interested in a short-term housing in Mt. Juliet, please have them talk to Rachel.

Thanks for your support as Bella continues to grow stronger and Rachel works to keep everyone growing, learning, and healing.

Do you have a love of storytelling?

Our Time for All Sages Team is recruiting new members. Consider volunteering to prepare the Time for All Sages story once a month or once a quarter. To find out more come to the Sunday, October 13th, Time for All Sages Meeting at 9:30 AM in the Sanctuary. Or contact Jennifer Cates-Seidel or Caren Spencer-Smith, members of the team.

The Women’s Covenant Group will be open to new members at its next meeting, September 12, beginning at 2:30 PM and meeting in the RE building. The group uses the Soul Matters curriculum and meets twice monthly. Members make a commitment to prepare for each meeting, to attend all meetings for the upcoming quarter if it all possible, and to treat the conversations at meetings as confidential. See Sandy Blanz, Carol Looney, or Denise Graves for more information.

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!