Barbara Barnett Stewart, Board Member We are halfway through our 2024-2025 church year, so by making this month’s worship theme love, UUCCH has, in keeping with our recently recontextualized UU values, quite literally put love at the center. If you’ve been attending our recent services, you’ve heard quite a lot about love. Today, it’s your … Continue reading Board Connection for February 23, 2025
Karen Nowicki, Board Member You’ve been hearing a lot about how we’re moving towards a leadership by policy governance structure and about this guy named Dan Hotchkiss; the names and acronyms have changed but are they REALLY different? In education we used to call multiple choice, true-false, and fill in the blank “objective” questions … Continue reading Board Connection for January 26, 2025
Kate Sloan, Board Member Good morning, Happy Yule! My name is Kate Sloan. For visual accessibility, I am a cisgender, stout like Santa Claus, blue haired woman nearing 70, who is occasionally merry, often jolly and who loves Christmas cookies & mince pies, like the big man himself. I am wearing a black shirt … Continue reading Board Connection for December 22, 2024
Bill Warner, Board Member For visual accessibility, I’m a cisgender white male with balding brawn hair, a short mostly grey beard & glasses wearing a blue shirt, and black fleece vest. And my ears can use a little help so I’m a grateful user of our assistive listening devices. Deciding what to say … Continue reading Board Connection for November 24, 2024
Linda Coolsen, Board Member The Power of Listening Circles at UUCCH Good morning, everyone! I’m Linda Coolsen, a white haired woman of a certain age wearing black rimmed glasses, a blue floral blouse and a salty attitude. I’m a member of the UUCCH Board of Trustees and today I’d like to explore a practice … Continue reading Board Connection for October 27, 2024
Jimmy Franklin, Board Member Good morning! My name is Jimmy Franklin, and my pronouns are he/him. I’m honored to be the newest member of the Board of Trustees, elected in June of this year. Today, I’d like to share some of the work the Board has been doing and what it means to me to … Continue reading Board Connection for September 22, 2024
Jennie Stone, Board President Good morning! My name is Jennie Stone. I am a middle-aged light-skinned female-presenting person whose pronouns are she/her. I have layered salt-and-cinnamon hair and glasses. Last year at this time I announced my gratitude for being given the opportunity to be your Board president. In case you haven’t seen the Newsgram, … Continue reading Board Connection for August 25, 2024
Kate Sloan, UUCCH Board Member Six years ago, this coming August, I was vacationing up on Lake Bomoseen in Vermont. I was sitting on the porch, listening to the waves splashing up against the sea wall, when I got a phone call from then Board President Ed Fox. Now, a week or so before, I … Continue reading Board Reflection for June 16, 2024
Carol Suboleski, UUCCH Board Member Church is not an organization you join; it’s a family where you belong, a home where you are loved, and a hospital where you find healing. I read this quote by Nicky Gumbel recently, and it struck me that this is the way that I feel about UUCCH. Last … Continue reading Board Reflection for May 26, 2024
Bill Warner, UUCCH Board Member Driving to church today, enjoying the signs of spring, I kept thinking about the environmental theme of today’s service. My worries about the health of our planet came rushing in. Forever chemicals. Climate change. Species loss and the prospects of mass extinction. Toxins at highest levels in poor and underserved … Continue reading Board Reflection for April 21, 2024
