from Karen Harder, Leadership Develoment Team Member It’s almost time to elect new church leaders. Where will they come from? A group here at Foothills has been busy envisioning a new way of growing our own. Instead of scrambling to find leaders to fill a nomination slate every year, a Leadership Development Ministry Team is […]
Following Up on #MeToo
It’s been a little over 3 weeks since our #MeToo worship service, and the conversation is just beginning. A few of our Senior Sisterhood groups have been taking up brave and tender conversations around #MeToo – sharing their own experiences and reflections with one another. The small group conversations for women to reflect on problematic […]
Why I’m Grateful We Won’t Be Sponsoring a Black Lives Matter Event This Weekend
It started the way that so many Unitarian Universalist actions start: with a question. One of our members asked on a progressive social media site, why there had not been any response in Fort Collins to the most recent shooting death of a Black man by police officers – in this case, Stephon Clark in […]
An Update on Music Visioning and Music Director Search
From our Music Visioning Task Force Sue Sullivan, Gretchen O’Dell and Herb Orrell After a busy autumn conducting interviews with notable music ministers across the country, holding feedback circles with choir members and other groups inside the church, and gathering feedback from the congregation at large via an online survey that was completed by 88 […]
#MeToo
Over the last year, we have been inspired and strengthened by the the rising #MeToo movement, which seeks to end the silence around sexual assault, harassment, and misconduct that people of all genders, and especially women, have experienced, and to draw attention to the magnitude of the problem. On March 25th, we will be holding a […]
Board of Trustees Winter Update
Foothills Unitarian Board of Trustees Informational Forum and Update Date: Sunday, January 22, 2018 You can view the video recording of the forum by clicking on this link and choosing the January Board Forum in the video player menu. Following is a summary of the meeting. Announcements: ● Recognition and thanks to the Auction Committee this […]
No Room at the Inn?
Images of Mary and Joseph haunt me. Not the ones you find in most churches mind you, those ones that get commissioned to be placed in stained glass that feature the immaculately white and pure Mary looking all European and very definitely not pregnant or Palestinian. No, the images that haunt me this time […]
Breaking Bread Together
by Anne Hall Last summer several of us on our Sanctuary team heard a wonderful speaker, Rev. Alexandria Salvatierra, speak to the community-based Sanctuary Coalition. She spoke about the importance of broadly defining how we provide sanctuary to those in need within our community. While she recognized the importance of the traditional, physical sanctuary in […]
Board Update #3: Board Leadership Transition
We’ve been a busy Board already this year! Because we have so much to share, we are offering it in three parts, this is the third (you can find the first here and the second here). This one provides news about a recent transition on the Board. Last in our news roundup is a change in leadership. […]
Board Update #2: Space Exploration
We’ve been a busy Board already this year! Because we have so much to share, we are offering it in three parts, this is the second of these (you can find the first here). This one provides an update on our space task force. As you have likely experienced and heard, our church has grown […]