Seven members of First Church attended PIIN’s Intro to Faith-Based Organizing on January 21. At that training, First Church members (Joan Adibi, Linda Fleming, Laura Gallagher, Joan Harvey, Bob Mitchell, Karen Burns, and Sandy Woolley) learned about a community organizing tool called 1-1s. This tool is a way to get to know the people we work with. … Continue reading PIIN News
March 24-26, 2023 Register Now The Jubilee-3 is a Zoom-based diversity training for this moment in time. It is unlike any other! Eleven people from our congregation have attended over the past year and a half. We can attest that it is eye-opening, powerful, intense, and inspiring all at once. The experience will allow you … Continue reading Jubilee Three Anti-Racism Training: Learning Together About Systemic Racism
We believe that if you get good at improv, you get better at life. Please come attend an evening of Improv on Saturday evening, March 25th @ 7:00 pm. We will be down in the Undercroft Gallery awaiting your arrival. Learn how our brand of applied improvisation can expand your comfort zone, make new friends … Continue reading Steel City Improv
We have raised about half of the $9600 to support BOTH of the two teachers we have been sponsoring at the Annie Margaret Barr Higher Secondary School in Kharang, India. Lamborlang Syiem and Altresha Marbaniang are the teachers we sponsor in the expanded school so that students can graduate high school locally rather than move … Continue reading Meet our Khasi Hills Teachers
“It has become my community, my family in Pittsburgh, and my source of strength. I find that I can do more about things that matter to me (issues of climate change, social justice, diversity) through First Church than I can alone and that I am truly not alone.” “This is my Forever Church – this … Continue reading 2022 Congregant Testimonies
We are Unitarian Universalists video
February 6, 2023 The Theme of the Month is “Life and Death” In Sunday’s sermon, February 5, I encouraged people to break down the barriers that prevent us from talking about dying and death. I proposed that the strong cultural and religious fears come from our personal fears about dying and prevents healthy private and … Continue reading Pastoral Care and Connections Message
Our congregation has been in partnership with the Unitarian-run Annie Margaret Barr Higher Secondary School in the rural village of Kharang in the Khasi Hills of North East India since 2003. Our financial goal continues to be to support the two additional teachers that were needed following the inauguration of the new high school in … Continue reading First UU Share the Plate Charity for February 2023 is our Khasi Hills Partnership School in India
Your Art Committee Communications person has been absent for all of January, and for that, I apologize. Hopefully, I will do better reporting for the rest of this year. I have been gone in January and have yet to see the phone photo show in the Undercroft. I hope that many of you have had … Continue reading From Your Art Committee Feb. 2023
Envisioning our future can be a frightening experience in these days of uncertainty and chaos. Where to begin? To help focus our thoughts and energies, First Church is offering a free Collage Workshop designed to explore our values and deepen our commitment to the future. As Tiya Miles writes in her book, All That She Carried, “. . . nothing is … Continue reading Envisioning Our Future
Article II Study Commission Report
