Minister’s Note Sep. 7, 2022
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
~Mary Oliver
Dear ones–
Lots of wild and precious life going on right now at GNUUC! So much is different from this time last year: I’m not new here anymore, we’re not as limited by worries about COVID-19 as we were, we have survived a few umm.. interesting challenges to our physical spaces and emerged with upgrades and new ideas and closer relationships with some of our neighbors and trust in our abilities to solve problems together.
I’m having fun these days not knowing exactly what our wild and precious church year will look like, but there are a few things on our shared horizon to which I’d like to draw your attention:
This Saturday, Mary Early-Zald, whom some of you remember as a ministerial intern at GNUUC, will be ordained in New Jersey. The service will be live-streamed (Youtube & Facebook; find more information below), and it will include a couple of familiar faces.
Nashville’s Room In The Inn Winter Shelter program will start; will GNUUC participate this year? If yes, we need to identify a coordinator/contact person very soon. See more below…
The Worship Team is hosting a retreat on Saturday, September 17, to which anyone who cares about Sunday services at GNUUC is invited! Guess where you can read more.
Nothing to read about this yet, but plans are brewing for a special Sunday service on October 16, to bless and rededicate our campus. It will probably be an in-person only Sunday (no Zoom), so maybe put it on your calendar now.
So much more in the announcements this week–take a quick peek.
For now, I’m looking forward to this Sunday–it’s Startup Sunday! The Board will present our 2022-23 Vision of Ministry, Children’s RE (which never really stops) will officially begin for the year, and we will share a potluck lunch. I hope to see you this Sunday.
Yours in newness and reconnection,
Rev. Denise
Rev. Denise Gyauch
Minister, Greater Nashville UU Congregation
RevDenise@gnuuc.org