March 2019 Dear Members, Visitors, and Friends, Thank you for visiting our website! You’ll find helpful information and resources here as well as links to videos, recommended reading, and ongoing updates. Thanks to your goodness and generosity, we finished 2018 on a very strong and positive note. We were finally able to set aside some […]

It has long been a dream of the Piedmont Progressive Preschool to be able to expand their enrollment to include a multi-age or transitional kindergarten class. Because the classrooms within the church building house the three classes the school already offers, another space is needed. A creative and functional solution currently being explored in detail […]

Greetings, Beloved Community. Unitarian Universalism is a covenantal faith. “We covenant to affirm and promote” the Seven Principles. We also create covenants of purpose in forming churches–as when ours was formed long ago. The Covenant of Purposes names what we pledge to do or offer as a church. It’s part of who we are. Our […]

A Letter from Your Minister We need to see…that what we seek already lives within us and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, […]

Several members, including Susan Burns, Becky Schisler and Anne Laukaitis are planning a special service on Sunday, March 24, to recognize Piedmont Progressive Preschool (PPP) and to celebrate children, in advance of April, observed nationally as The Month of the Young Child. Susan will talk briefly about her efforts to establish the school, Michele Deese, […]

Dear Folks, Welcome to March and to a new monthly theme of Journey! February was a rich month. We welcomed Dr. Rodney Sadler to a combined service in Charlotte to dedicate our new Black Lives Matter banner. We also welcomed Ngakma Yeshé Zértsal who offered a Dharma workshop on a Saturday and a service on […]

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships. ~ Stephen R. Covey Dear Folks, Welcome to February and to our monthly theme of Trust. If Stephen Covey was right in saying that trust is the glue of life, then it’s no […]

Each month, we seek to give back to our surrounding communities by partnering with agencies who are doing good work in various areas of social justice. For example, in 2018, we shared our offering plate (i.e., we gave away 50% and kept 50% for operations) with agencies that are working to address issues that range […]

The new calendar year has just begun and the Music Program at Piedmont Unitarian Universalist Church is already hard at work preparing for the experiences that lay ahead. By now you have heard the choir kick off the year with a new song,  Avril Lavigne’s inspiring ballad Keep Holding On, as it was performed on […]

I dwell in possibility. ~ Emily Dickinson Dear Folks, Happy new year to you! The last month of the year held extra services for us at Piedmont. We had our candlelight Christmas Eve service (with no Yule Log fires this year) and a beautiful installation service on December 30th. My deepest gratitude to everyone who […]