Category: The Meridian

The UUCT newsletter, The Meridian, is digital and is emailed to subscribed congregation members, guests, and friends.

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All the articles and announcements contained in the newsletters are below.

Have You Heard of The Vera Institute?

The Vera Institute, an organization with 200 workers and founded in 1961, has a mission of trying to mitigate mass incarceration. Think of what will happen when billions of dollars in the big budget bill lead to rounding up thousands of immigrants. And most of these will be put in for profit prisons where profits […]

The Safety Corner

At some point in time, we will need to have a fire drill from the sanctuary… Yikes! Where will you go? Who will you help? Where are the fire extinguishers? Who does what? Who do we listen to? Or, what happens if there is a shooter? What if ICE agents visit? Right now, we don’t […]

UUMFE Community Read Schedule

The Schedule for the community read of “What if We Get It Right? Visions of Climate Futures” is available at this link: https://www.uumfe.org/community-read-2025-26/ More information is at this link and you may also use this to register for the Zoom link for the nine week sessions. Hope you are able to join for all or some […]

Treasurer’s June 2025 Report to the Congregation

Fiscal year 2024-25 ended in June with pledge income of $23,696 that was almost $2,900 over the  monthly budget. Current year pledge receipts are 96.3% of annual budget when prepaid pledges are  included. Since June 30 was the end of our fiscal year, it was time to record income from the Endowment Fund that was needed […]

Message from the DRE: August 2025

Hello beloveds! My first month balancing Director of Religious Exploration responsibilities with Worship Leader responsibilities has been an exciting adventure! I am so grateful for the lay leaders who are eager to share, support, and serve our community.  Participate in UUCT Worship! There are so many ways to participate in worship! We need Worship Associates, […]

Changes to Minister’s Discretionary Fund

Minster’s Discretionary Funds are funds available to a minister to help those in need.  These funds which are supported entirely by donations, have historically been distributed at the discretion of the minister.  In the absence of a minister, Sally Andersen, member of the Board and the Care Team, and Phyllis Thomson, member of the Committee […]

Natural Burial: The Interdependent Web in Tallahassee

Natural (green) burial offers the means to return our bodies to nature while avoiding the environmental costs of traditional burial or cremation: the ultimate act of being part of and respecting the interdependent web of all existence. We now have the opportunity to do so in the Tallahassee area by joining the founders of the […]

UU Ministry for Earth Community Read 2025-26

A portion of our April Earth Day Service at UUCT was based upon a reading from the book, What if We Get it Right?  Many of you said you would love to read the book and discuss. Announcing that the UU Ministry for Earth is having a Community Read of this book starting in September! Here’s the link […]