Give freely, take freely!
You’ll find a Valentine Exchange station in the gallery through the Sunday after Valentine’s Day. Bring or make a valentine for a member in our church community. Your valentine could be chosen by anyone. Put your heart and kindness into it then … read more.
Make Your Voice Heard! The Virginia General Assembly started Jan. 10 (adjourns March 9) and it’s moving fast (~2500 bills).
Gun Violence Prevention
Join us at the NRA Wednesday, Feb. 14, 10:00 AM
Join us for our vigil at the NRA that we hold on the 14th of every month as we meet on the anniversary of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary Dec. 14. Our … read more.
Sunday, Feb. 11, will be our sixth Meal Packing Sunday of this school year! Please join AUUC children, youth and helping adults after the Sunday service to assemble meal packs for 35 Halley Elementary School children identified as experiencing food insecurity. We welcome everyone’s help!
True Accotink Colors & the Racial Justice Committee invite everyone to join us for a movie night on Saturday, February 10 at 6:30pm. Together, we’ll watch the recent film, Rustin, a biopic about gay civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, who helped Martin Luther King, Jr., … read more.
Fairfax CASA served 367 Fairfax children this past year. Fairfax CASA Executive Director Darcy Hubbard notes that well over 50% of their cases in the past two years involve domestic violence (up from 30%), with increased cases involving substance abuse and mental health issues. She … read more.
The next Board of Directors meeting is Feb. 7 at 7:00 PM. All are welcome to attend and may contact the board president (boardpresident@accotinkuu.org) or Rev Levwood for the Zoom link. Board meetings are open and include a time for members’ comments/concerns.
Are you a poetry lover or are you interested in becoming a poetry lover? This group is open to anyone with an interest in reading and understanding poetry.
In February, we’re celebrating Valentine’s Day together! Each participant can bring one or two love poems to share with the group. This online discussion will … read more.
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Now in our second year, Racial Justice and True Accotink Colors host a monthly Banned Book Club on the second Tuesday of every month. Our next book is Beloved by Toni Morrison. Set in the period after the American Civil War, the novel … read more.
Our Whole Lives (OWL) is a comprehensive sexuality education curriculum created by the UUA to educate all ages about the spectrum of sexuality: physical, emotional, and social. We will be offering OWL for grades 4-6 in March – May (snow dates in June).
An informational … read more.
Sacred Wheel invites you and yours to the first Holy Day of 2024, Imbolc, the halfway point between Yule and Ostara, the Spring Equinox! Sunday, Feb. 4th at noon in the sanctuary we will celebrate Imbolc, the Celtic welcoming of the Goddess Brigid, and Roman … read more.
Join Green Sanctuary on the rescheduled date of Friday, February 2 for a Soup Supper and Movie night, 6:00 – 8:45 pm at the church sanctuary.
We will be showing a compelling episode on Waste from the Netflix documentary “Down to Earth” with Zac Efron, with discussion following.
Be inspired! … read more.
