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Share the Plate for 2024-2025

The Share the Plate program is one of the principal ways UUCT members interact with community non profit organizations. This year we will be supporting 10 organizations which serve the Tallahassee and Big Bend Area.  The 10 organizations and their champions are: We thank you in advance for your continuing support. For more information, email […]

Treasurer’s April 2024 Report to Congregation

After three consecutive months of pledge income above the budgeted amount, we fell short by almost $7,800 in April. The typical springtime spike in prepaid pledges has yet to materialize. Current year pledges received this fiscal year total 69.2% of the budgeted amount. When prepaid pledges are included, total current year pledges are at 84.7% […]

Food for Thought Makes a Date with Death

This month our Green Sanctuary’s Food for Thought discussion group will be doing something completely different. We’re launching into a collaboration with the adult religious exploration’s Date with Death discussion group. This month we will be listening to a presentation on the various ways bodies are dealt with after death – from conventional burials to […]

Your Brain on Art

I have been impressed by the book “Your Brain on Art,” which I have heard on an hour- long radio program. I cannot improve on that, so I will tell you how to access it. On your computer, put in this link.https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2023-07-31/ivy-ross-and-susan-magsamen-your-brain-art

To Nurture Each Other and the Earth

You may remember the video we shared at our first meeting of Date with Death Club about the Coffin Club. Did it make you wonder about greener options to a standard coffin and a traditional cemetery? This month Date with Death Club and Green Sanctuary have teamed up together to offer three opportunities for folks to […]

Green Sanctuary’s Good News Corner

Renewable Energy Gains GroundMore than 30 per cent of the world’s electricity is now generated using renewables and the European Union is well ahead of this global average, a new report has found. Energy think tank Ember found that major growth in wind and solar helped push global electricity production past this milestone in 2023.  […]

Board Minutes for March 2024

Board minutes for the March 2024 UUCT board meeting were approved at the April meeting. Those minutes, along with the March 2024 Financial Reports can be viewed using the links below: March 2024 Board Minutes March 2024 Financial Reports The Executive Board meets the fourth Thursday of each month in Room C and via zoom […]

Treasurer’s March 2024 Report to Congregation

In March, for the third month in a row, pledge income exceeded the monthly budgeted amount, this time by $2,242. In order to reach our total budgeted pledge income for this fiscal year we will need to collect pledges at an average of almost $2,800 per month more than our monthly budgeted amount of $20,439. […]