UU Family News
🧡 Open Minds 🧡 Loving Hearts 🧡 Helping Hands
This Sunday - Mother's Day Service (No Sunday School)
Save the Dates - Neighboring Faiths Trip to St. Paul's Tabernacle 5/17, May Market 5/23, and more!
- Photo Highlights - Beltane Revelries and May Day Fun
Uniquely UU Events - Come Out and Support Our UU Community!
Dear UU Family,
This week, we celebrate so much... Lag BaOmer, Teacher Appreciation Week, Cinco de Mayo, Anti-Bullying Day, Mother's Day... and undoubtedly there are holidays I'm leaving out!
In the midst of all this revelry, I encourage us to stay grounded, to stay grateful, and to remember the many ways and the many people whose choices ensure that love prevails in our community.
Love around our UU takes on many forms, but chief among those is giving and volunteerism.
Thank you to all of you who have pledged for the 2026-2027 year! Your monthly contributions make the work of the Family Ministry staff possible.
Haven't pledged yet? No worries. It's not too late.
Please click here to set up an automatic monthly payment between your bank and UUFH's bank. Then, to make sure the pledge team is aware of your monthly contribution and can budget it in, fill out this form. The whole process takes 3-4 minutes tops, does our congregation a world of good, and in turn benefits our entire Hendersonville community.
UU's are also so good about volunteering! Big thanks to all of you and your helping hands! Volunteering looks like lots of things...picking up members who can't drive, guiding lessons for the Sunday school students, cleaning craft and snack tables, holding tiny hands, and gently guiding little people through big feelings.
Family Ministry simply would not bloom without the generosity of our volunteers, whose care creates a welcoming and joyful space for children and families every single week.
I'd like to offer special gratitude to the mothers and grandmothers among us who so often carry
invisible constellations of care, both within their own families and throughout our congregation.
Your wisdom, patience, humor, and steady presence helps shape a community where everyone
can grow. Thank you to every volunteer who gives time, energy, creativity, and heart to this shared work. You are the quilt-makers of our beloved community, stitching together kindness, connection, and belonging one Sunday at a time.
Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers, grandmothers, caregivers, and nurturing hearts in our UU family! At UUFH, you are loved and your children are cherished!
Love,
Sunday Shae
Mother's Day (No RE or Sunday School)
There will not be any staff or volunteer-led religious education classes or Sunday school lessons on this day. Parents are invited to visit the RE classrooms or play on the Shoemaker playground if they like. Many thanks in advance for being thoughtful stewards of our shared spaces. The Nursery will be open and staffed.
Mark Your Calendars
May 10 - Mother's Day (No Sunday School or RE Classes Today)
May 16 - Open Mic & Coffee House 6:30-8:30 PM in the FH
May 17 - Neighboring Faiths Trip to St. Paul's Tabernacle AME Zion,
Flower Communion Intergenerational Service,
Volunteer Fair during Coffee Hour
May 23 - May Day Market 10-2 in the UUFH parking lot
May 24 - Pottery and Principles Part 1 with Travis Watts
Neighboring Faiths Trip to St. Paul's
Join members of the Family Ministry for a Neighboring Faiths trip to St. Paul's Tabernacle AME Zion, a local congregation on 6th that is part of a historic denomination known for its legacy in civil rights and abolition. This congregation, like ours, is committed to faith, community, and social justice, values we share as Unitarian Universalists. This trip is a chance to say thank you and farewell to Rev. Terry Young.
Sunday Shae Parker, M.Ed
Email: sundayshaeparker@uufhnc.org
Phone: (828)435-2655
Visit the Family Ministry webpage: https://uufhnc.org/families/
Checkout the Family Ministry newsletter archives: https://app.smore.com/u/uufh-family-ministry