What’s Happening

Within the next week, UUCF staff will email tax statements to congregants detailing their 2019 contributions. Please keep an eye out for your statement, checking your spam folder if you don’t see it in your inbox. If you do not receive a statement by Jan. 23 or would like to have a hard copy mailed […]

Please remember to turn off the lights and lock the doors after meetings in the Sanctuary or Program Building, especially if your group is the last one in the building.

This year’s plastic bag collection campaign is off to a tremendous start! UUCF and partners Unity of Fairfax, 350 Fairfax and the Woodburn Homes Civic Association have collected more than 100 pounds of plastics toward the congregation’s six-month goal of 500 pounds. Continue to bring plastic grocery, produce and food storage bags to the marked […]

Development of UUCF’s Adult Programs spring classes is underway and teaching is one of the best ways you can Grow, Connect and Serve. The Adult Programs Committee is seeking program ideas, teachers and facilitators to help UUCF fulfill its strategic goals of increasing the depth and impact of Unitarian Universalism, growing our cultural competencies and […]

The Share the Plate recipient for January is FACETS, a nonprofit organization that responds to the diverse needs of people impacted by poverty in Fairfax County. FACETS meets their emergency shelter, food and medical needs; helps them gain safe, sustainable and permanent housing and works with them to end the cycle of poverty through educational, […]

For people wanting to get directly involved in Sanctuary in Northern Virginia and the DC area, the Congregation Action Network is an interfaith coalition working to end criminalization, detention and deportation of immigrants in the DC Metro region. Most DC Metro UU churches are members. For more information, go to congregationactionnetwork.org or email Mary Lareau.

If you play trumpet, saxophone, trombone, piano, guitar, bass or drums, are interested in jazz and can read music, contact Dave Anderson or Brian Cole.

Each winter, UUCF partners with Vale United Methodist Church, Unity of Fairfax, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Oakton and others to participate in FACETS’ winter shelter program by hosting homeless individuals from Fairfax County for 1 week. Volunteers needed for the 2020 shelter, which will be Feb. 9-16. This effort takes […]

Please bring your ideas and energy to help plan and coordinate adult classes at UUCF. Group meets the first Monday of each month at 7:30 p.m. in the Program Building. The next meeting is Feb. 3. For more information, email Elise Cutler.

Longtime UUCF member Bob Hatfield died on Jan. 16 after battling cancer and pneumonia. Bob is survived by his wife, Joy, and their children, Brad, Brian and Victoria. A celebration of Bob’s life will be held at UUCF. Details will be shared when they are known.

Condolences to Frank and Debby Roberts on the death of their son, Ken, of a heart attack on Jan. 1.

Thank you to all who participated in the UUCF Religious Exploration’s Guest at Your Table program late last year. The $708 the congregation collected will help the UU Service Committee and its partners advance women-led humans rights initiatives around the world.