Donate Items Charter House Coalition (CHC) Emergency Shelter is looking for the items listed below. Please be sure items are usable, clean and place them in a bag. Donations may be delivered to 27 N. Pleasant St (at the door on the side porch) between 8 am and 4 or call 989-8621 to arrange pick … Continue reading Charter House Support Expanding

Monthly Online Death Café with Reverend Christina Sillari (2nd Wednesdays of month) A Death Cafe is a group directed discussion of death with no agenda, objectives or themes. It is a discussion group rather than a grief support or counseling session. At its core, Death Cafe is a group-directed discussion where participants are encouraged to … Continue reading CVUUS Explores Death and Dying

A PROJECT OF THE BREAD LOAF MOUNTAIN ZEN COMMUNITY What’s Gather, you ask?  Gather is a comfortable, welcoming, and free-of-charge gathering place that serves the neighborhood. Gather is a comfort zone for everyone, but especially those who deal with isolation, loneliness, or who could just use a listening friend. It is a hub of healing community. At Gather, … Continue reading Middlebury’s Community Living Room: GATHER

CVUUS Worship CVUUS worship opens with a ringing of the bell and saying: “We recognize that CVUUS gathers on land seized from the Western Abenaki people by European colonizers. We respect the Abenaki’s spiritual relationship to the land and waters of the Champlain Valley. We are committed to building a peaceful and more just relationship … Continue reading Honoring Indigenous Peoples

50th annual Addison County CROP Hunger Walk took place Sunday Oct 5. Thanks to Marnie Wood who was our team captain  and walked along with Alan Moore, Carol Harden, Kimberli Gray, Ted Scheu, Claire Tessier, Mary Hadley, and Laura Asermily. Marnie Wood and Mary Hadley received your cash and check donations or you could donate … Continue reading 50th Annual CROP Hunger Walk Sweetness

Contact office@cvuus.org to be added. If you’ve been added and find it missing, check your spam folder to see if you can find it there and mark it as not spam. If not in spam, perhaps you “opted out” of getting a CVUUS communication at some earlier point in which case you get opted out … Continue reading Not Getting the CVUUS Weekly Email Blast? 

America’s foster system is in crisis, and Vermont is no different.  And the kids are the ones that pay the highest price with family and human service systems struggle. Around the breakfast table or during the commute to soccer or piano practice, parents tell their kids, “You can be anything you want to be.”  “Work … Continue reading Supporting Foster Families

CEAC’s Energy Navigators program is gearing up to offer our first Energy Navigator On-Boarding for individuals who are interested in volunteering with us as energy coaches.  There are only a few more days to sign up for this session. Steve Maier, Richard Hopkins, and Jean Terwilliger currently serve on the board of Climate Economy Action Center of … Continue reading CVUUS Climate Engagement: Become an Energy Navigator!

Churches are often targeted by scammers, especially UU ones. One of their favorite scams is to impersonate the Minster, and ask for money. They may also impersonate other church leaders and staff. This impersonation scam is a type of “phishing”–getting you to bite, and hooking you for money. Here’s a quick way to protect yourself … Continue reading Protect Yourself from “Phishing” Scams

A new year of shared ministry is beginning!  Our focus this year shifts into the work of the “interim” – a time between settled ministries when change and growth abound, and the future comes into focus. In our report to the Annual Meeting in June, we reflected on the successes and challenges of our first … Continue reading Big Questions for CVUUS