On Saturday, June 21st, BASE will host their annual Juneteenth celebration at Pear Blossom Park in Medford from 11am – 8pm. This family-friendly event will be an outdoor cultural celebration for the entire community featuring food, education, music, and live entertainment. More information here
UU members pause for a photo with Mariah Roker, spokesperson for the of Oregon Black Pioneers history project this week. Her talk was sponsored by the Ashland Sunrise project at the Oregon Shakespear Festival’s Carpenter Hall. Rocker’s talk was a chronology of the state’s earliest black settlers and the hardships they faced through black exclusion acts, prohibitions … Continue reading RVUUF Represents
Intern QuianaDenae Perkins will be in Southern Oregon for her Winter visit Wednesday December 1 through Sunday December 4, 2022. She has been working with teams across SOUUP to create an interactive, social, spiritual and constructive experience that matches the needs of each community. Each community will have a chance to participate in UU Cornerstone, … Continue reading Update- Intern QuianaDenae visit
General Assembly continues to be a time for us to gather, in body and spirit, to honor our history, celebrate who we are, and forge our future together. The General Assembly and Conference Services Team leads the initiative to ensure that diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) are woven throughout, from planning to fruition. Over … Continue reading Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging: Let’s Start The Conversation
Starting in a new role (intern minister) in a new place (Southern Oregon) in a new way (remote with planned visits) was not easy. However, before I arrived Dawn, the RVUUF Congregational Administrator, ensured I had electronic access, Rev Sean and members of my internship learning committee made plans to meet those first few days. … Continue reading New Kid on the Block-Weekly Open Zoom Hour
From the UUA: “In September 2022, with the assistance of our new Outreach Team, we’re scheduling ten Zoom sessions at various times for people to look at draft language and discuss it. Hopefully, one of them will work with your schedule. We’ll have a link available for feedback. Another round of revision will follow, with … Continue reading Give Your Opinion on the Draft of the Updated UU Principles
Thu, Sep 22 – Klamath Falls Fri, Sep 23 – Grants Pass Sat & Sun, Sep 24-25 – Ashland The SOUUP Community is excited to host Intern Minister QuianaDenae Perkins for an in-person visit. She will be at RVUUF on Saturday September 24, 2022. There will be two opportunities to meet, engage our intern minister. … Continue reading Intern Minister QuianaDenae Visits All 3 SOUUP Communities Next Week
The 2022 totem pole journey aims to inspire, inform, and engage Pacific Northwest communities through intergenerational voices, ceremony, art and science, spirituality, ancestral knowledge, and cross-cultural collaboration in support of the indigenous-led movement to remove the Snake River dams and restore to health the Snake River salmon runs and our relatives, the Southern Resident Killer … Continue reading Heal and Defend the Snake River for all our Relatives! Spirit of the Waters Totem Pole Journey
We are grateful for the donations made by this congregation during our Third Sunday offering in January to Native Woman Share. $160.00 was collected. What is Native Woman Share? Originally named Womanshare, what began as a radical project to hold safe haven for lesbian women in the woods during the 1970’s until today has lovingly been acquired … Continue reading Gratitude for Native Woman Share Donations
Last September, participants in the anti-racism study group presented a worship service in which they described what they had learned. The designated recipient for the plate collection that day was the Southern Oregon Coalition for Racial Equity, a local group whose goals coincided closely with those of the study groups. Since that time, the Coalition … Continue reading 3rd Sunday Donations from Sep Anti-racism Service
