Join us for a joyful morning of worship, music, and community as we celebrate diversity and belonging. Everyone is invited to wear your best and brightest rainbow colors in honor of Pride Month!
This Sunday's Share the Plate will go to the Minister's Discretionary Fund. The Minister’s Discretionary Fund enables our minister to quietly provide financial assistance to members of the Unitarian Church in Charleston who are facing financial hardship, offering one of the most tangible ways we care for one another.
Carolyn Parker will be our Worship Associate,
Rev. Rebecca will give the Time for All Ages,
with music provided by our Chancel Choir, Bill Gesin, and Ryan Pagels.
9:45 AM - Meditation, Upper Gage Hall Participants gather for an hour to practice insight meditation and discuss various aspects of the meditative path and its interplay with our lives. 10:30 AM - Nursery Opens, Annex - For the summer, children ages 7 and under are welcome in the nursery 10:30am - 12:15pm.
- If you need childcare to be able to attend meditation or morning choir rehearsals this summer, please email office@charlestonuu.org and emily@charlestonuu.org to let us know.
12:00 PM - Coffee Hour, Gage Hall Immediately following the service you are invited next door to join us for coffee and light refreshments in our fellowship hall.
6/4 - Millennial-Z Social, Santi’s West Ashley, 6:00pm 6/6 - Eden Keepers,Churchyard, 9:00am 6/7 - Farewell Potluck, Gage Hall, 4:00pm 6/13 - Family Circle, North Charleston, 5:00pm 6/15 - Death Cafe, Lower Gage Hall, 7:00pm 6/18 - Third Thursday UU Happy Hour, The Garden by Charles Towne Fermentory, 5:00pm 6/18 - Church Office Closed for Juneteenth 6/20 - Low Country Foodbank Volunteering, 2864 Azalea Ave, 9:00am 6/21 - 250 Celebration Service, Reception, and Concert, Sanctuary
and Gage Hall, 11:00am - 2:00pm 6/21 - Books & Coffee, Mt. Pleasant, 4:30pm 6/25 - Vestry Meeting, Zoom, 6:30pm 7/5 - Independence Day Intergenerational Potluck, Lower Gage Hall,
11:00am (no regular worship service or nursery)
THIS WEEK AT CHURCH
Tonight: Millennial-Z Social Thursday, June 4; 6:00pm Santi's West Ashley, 1660 Savannah Hwy
Join us for dinner and drinks at Santi's in West Ashley!
Eden Keepers Churchyard Work Day Saturday, June 6; 9:00am - 12:00pm Churchyard
Bring gardening tools if you have them, gloves, water to drink while working, and insect repellent. Open to new gardeners! If you can't get there at 9, come when you can.
June will be one of the busiest months for visitors in our Churchyard, so we need your help in getting it ready for our summer activities!
Farewell Potluck Celebration Sunday, June 7; 4:00pm Lower Gage Hall
With several members moving, we are hosting a farewell potluck to serve as an opportunity to say goodbye and shower our outgoing members with love. Bring a dish (including a serving utensil, the church's are packed away for the kitchen renovation) and a memory to share!
Happyland Musical June 2026, various dates Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim
Our friends at KKBE have shared a promo code to their upcoming production of Happyland running June 4 - 14. You can purchase tickets here and use the code HISTORY for a discount. The performance will featuring our very own, Ryan Pagels on the organ!
Inspired by historical events, Happyland examines a community struggling to define what progress means in a place built on profound moral contradiction. During the 18th century, Charleston was one of the most religiously tolerant cities in America. It was home to both the largest Jewish community in the country and one of the wealthiest slave ports in the nation. This contradiction is not incidental; it is the heart of a story that honors the city’s complexity while asking us to reckon honestly with what it means to call a place “home.” In a time when the struggle for belonging and a reckoning over national identity dominate public discourse, Happyland serves as an urgent theatrical interrogation of moral compromise. Tickets are expected to sell out so purchase them online soon!
SAVE THE DATE
Books and Coffee Sunday, June 21; 4:30pm Mt. Pleasant
We have one more meeting, in June, when we will discuss the non-fiction book, “Careless People” by Sarah Wynn-Williams, a bestselling 2025 memoir by former Facebook (Meta) executive Sarah Wynn-Williams. W will be at the Goldberg’s in the Franke retirement campus in Mt. Pleasant.
SCUUJA Fall Festival Saturday, September 26
UU Congregation of Columbia
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION NEWS
🌷Call for RE Volunteers Be part of the fun, wisdom, and connection of our RE program! We are looking for volunteers to teach or support our Elementary and Youth RE programs next year. Previous teaching experience is not required.
Lesson plans and materials are provided. Just show up, facilitate, and be a supportive presence. 🙏
Flexible schedules and different levels of involvement are welcome. Email Emily, emily@charlestonuu.org if you're interested or have any questions.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
UUSC: Pride in Action Update
Pride has always been about more than celebration. It is also about resistance,
solidarity, survival, and public witness in the face of political hostility and erasure. This Pride Month, UUSC, the Unitarian Universalist Association, and Trans Religious professional UUs Together (TRUUsT) invite you to put faith into action through a national public comment campaign. Together, we are submitting unique public comments to the Department of Housing and Urban Development opposing a proposed rule that would strip safety protections from federally funded shelters for transgender, nonbinary, two-spirit, and intersex people.
In the words of UUSC partners Advocates for Trans Equality who are helping guide the vision for this campaign:
Instead of allowing providers to care for those in need, the new rule would force providers to turn away members of the trans community who do not follow narrow definitions of gender. Under the Trump administration’s proposal, members of the trans community who are experiencing homelessness would have to risk their lives in shelters that are not safe for them, on streets that do not welcome them, or with people who might further isolate them from reaching out for support.
The Worship Service Team is looking for new members to join us in planning meaningful and engaging worship experiences for our congregation. If you have a heart for worship, enjoy working collaboratively, and would like to help shape our services, we would love to hear from you. If you are interested or have questions about what serving on the team involves, please contact Maureen Porter, Scott Morgan, or Reverend Rebecca at minister@charlestonuu.org
Blessing box donations can be placed directly in the box, if there is room, or in the storage cabinet in the back storage area of Gage Hall (where the folding chairs are stored.) Throughout the week, staff will refill the box outside as space allows.
To share a significant life event (births, deaths, celebrations, transitions and other joys and sorrows) send to Marcia Castano at BookOfLife@CharlestonUU.org by Saturday evenings at 6:00 p.m. or write them in person on Sunday morning.
The physical book is kept at the front of the church near the pulpit.
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