| Our next Sunday Services will be at 9:15 AM on |
| 5/11/2008 |
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| Rev. Jay Leach, Minister |
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| Second Sunday Series: SPIRITUALITY |
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[T]his is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.
from a July 12, 1976 speech by Congresswoman Barbara Jordan | |
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Mission and ENDS Statements Unitarian Universalist Church of Charlotte Approved May, 2006 Our mission is to inspire children, youth and adults to discover and articulate deeper spiritual meaning evidenced in lives of integrity and compassion and stewardship of the earth. AS A CONGREGATION, WE COURAGEOUSLY NAME THESE ENDS TO WHICH WE ASPIRE: We are a joyful, dynamic community of people who care about and are connected to each other. Here people are welcomed, heard, included and respected. We are a sanctuary for those on a liberal religious path and a beacon of progressive thought and action in the larger Charlotte community.
We cultivate lives of generosity and responsibility, sharing our personal abundance. . We are intentionally growing in our diversity as a congregation, each of us working with others to overcome the barriers that divide the human family. We strive for peace, justice and equity in our hearts, our interpersonal relationships, our community and our world.
Your Coordinating Team Our Coordinating Team—Jay Leach, Minister; the Associate Coordinator for Community, Arts and Justice; and Jeter Walker, Director of Administration—continues to meet on a weekly basis to carry out its charge to provide the day-to-day management of our congregation. You'll find minutes of the Coordinating Team meetings posted on a bulletin board in the office area. Here's how the areas of our congregation's ministry are now divided: Jay Leach Minister Congregational Care Denominational Affairs Open Door School Music Religious Education Visitor and New Member Relations Worship
Jeter Walker Director of Administration Communications Finance Information Memorial Endowment Trust Property/Facilities Stewardship Associate Coordinator for Community, Arts, and Justice Community Building Creative Arts Membership Involvement Social Outreach |
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| Inside the Open Door Did You Know That. . . . Open Door School opened in September, 1966, with three teachers, two half-day classes for kindergarteners and pre- schoolers. In the same year, Ella Dutch, a retired kindergarten teacher and mother of a church member, donated $2500.00 to construct the first playground for all children of the church and the school. In its first several years, Open Door School was sponsored by the Church's Religious Education Program. The Unitarian Church was one of the first to offer a racially integrated weekday school. There were no public kindergartens in North Carolina until 1977. In 1972 the demand for kindergarten spots was so great, that Open Door School sponsored three classes for five-year-olds, one held in the afternoon. Church members are given priority registration, with a reduction in the registration fee. Open Door's parent cooperative two-year-old program began in 1975, and the full-day program opened in 1976. In 1989 The National Association for the Education of Young Children accredited Open Door School, the first preschool in Mecklenburg County to receive such distinction. In 1999 the Division of Child Development of the State of North Carolina awarded Open Door School's Full Day Program A 5-Star Rating. |
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