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- Meet Our Music Director Candidate
- Ministry Transition Update - March 4, 2022
- 2500 Hours of Love: A Special Message
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- An Update from Afghan Family Support Project
- Rev. Brett Voted as New Lead Minister
- Candidating Week: Group Sessions, General Sessions and More!
- January 20: Update from the Music Director Search Team
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- 2500 Hours of Love: Stories of Members in Action!
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- The Nominating Committee Needs Your Help!
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- 2500 Hours of Love is Here!
- Ministerial Search: Beyond Categorical Thinking Workshop
- New Offering! "Reflect & Respond:" A Post-Service Discussion
- Worship Exchange This Fall
- ERUUF's Ministerial Search Survey
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- Update On Ministerial Search Process
- Program & Worship Update - September 3, 2021
- An Update from the Music Director Search Team
- Help Create a Radical Welcome Back to ERUUF!
- Summer 2021 Guest Preacher Series
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- ERUUF Land Acknowledgement
- New Initiatives: Sister Communities of San Ramon, Nicaragua
- Update: Transgender Inclusion Program at ERUUF
- Solar/Tree Shading Update
- Special Message from Rev. Cayer
- New! Transgender Inclusion Program, Discussion Sessions
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- Transgender Inclusion in Congregations
- Clicking for a Cause, Meals on Wheels Partner for Veterans
- The Holidays at ERUUF
- Election 2020 is here. Concerned Citizens Needed!
- Connecting With You: ERUUF's 2020 Connections Fair!
- Staff Transition from LeLaina Romero
- ERUUF Ministerial Fund Supports Mask Brigade Mission
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- ERUUF Mask Brigade Hits 10,000 Milestone
- ERUUF 30-Day Racial Equity Challenge
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- Take the Survey: Returning to Campus in 2020
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- An Update from ERUUF's Mask Brigade
- Spring at ERUUF: A Virtual Garden Tour
- Audrey's Mask Brigade
- Bored? Missing the Gym? Need a Break?
- April Updates from Religious Education
- Request from an ERUUFian on Front Line of COVID-19 Pandemic
- Help Us Check the Pulse of ERUUF!
- Important Dates: 2020 Election at ERUUF
- Come Sing with Us!
- ERUUF Christian Fellowship adopts new Statement of Faith
- Donate Sanctuary Flowers in 2020
- Practicing Generosity Beyond the Holiday Season
- Celebrate the Holidays at ERUUF!
- An Update from the Aesthetics Team
- World Aids Day Activities at ERUUF
- Poet Jimmy Baca to Perform at ERUUF, Carolina Theater
- ERUUF Fundraising Raffle 2019, Oct. 27 - Dec. 8
- Connections Fair 2019
- Celebrate Pride Week 2019 with ERUUF!
- Volunteers Needed: Aids Memorial Quilt Display
- Help the MCT Create an AIDS Quilt this Fall
- Announcing Leadership Series 2019-2020
- Do You Appreciate the Power of Live Music to Inspire?
- All Ages Invited! Submit to 2019 Literary Journal
- Announcing R.E. Youth Staff Internship!
- Do You Love Our Beautiful Campus?
- Earth Justice Action Group Announces 2019 Youth Scholarship
- Update on Bylaws
- MSYG Bake Sale Helps Local Families
- Nominating Committee Announces 2019 Nominees
- Help Furnish Apartments for Refugees
- Becoming a Justice-Making Congregation Workshop
- All 2019 Creative Proposals Due March 11!
- Register for the UUA Common Read
- Your Input Needed! Youth Programming at ERUUF
- A New Chalice for the Sanctuary
- Thank you, Fundraising Raffle Participants!
- ERUUF Approved for Green Sanctuary Candidate Status!
- Successful 2018-2019 Pledge Drive
- COVID-19 Updates
- Art Gallery Exhibits
- 2D and 3D by Emily Eve Weinstein and Catherine Kramer
- Works by the Art Gallery Committee
- The Art of Karin Neuvirth
- WORDS OF PEACE AND KINDNESS by Kathy Hopwood
- Announcing ERUUF Art Gallery Annual Holiday Show!
- The Art of Mary Balfour Humbaugh
- SHIFTING VIEWS - weaving by Trudy Thomson
- "JUST ICE" - Photography by Peter Burch
- WATERCOLORS by Sally W. Gilloolly
- BIRDS IN ACTION - Photography by Maxine Okasaki
- Spiritual Threads
- Photography by Peter Filene
- Annual Show of the ERUUF Art Galleries Committee
- Round and Beyond - Woodwork by Steve Criscenzo
- WATERMARKS - textile art by Dawn Hummer
- FOSSILS - lithographs by Delia Ware Keefe
- BURSTING INTO BLOOM - paintings by Debra Wuliger
- PEOPLE OF CUBA - photography by Peter Aitken
- CHINESE BRUSH PAINTINGS - by Jinxiu Alice Zhao
- ERUUF GALLERY COMMITTEE ART SHOW
- HIDDEN PATTERNS - woodturnings by Gene Presson
- ANGELS OF REPOSE - paintings by Pamela George
- THREADS OF LIFE - textiles by Spiritual Threads
- CAREFUL TO CAREFREE - watercolors by Carol Liz Fynn
- CONNECTIONS by Elllie Edwards-Smith
- ABSTRACT PAINTINGS by Jarrett Burch
- ANNUAL HOLIDAY EXHIBIT BY THE ART GALLERY COMMITTEE MEMBERS
- BEAUTY BY NATURE - photography by Sol Levine
- SPIRIT AND TRANSFORMATION - paintings by Richard Scherubel
- BY THE SEA - works by Robert Harrison
- THE ADVENTURES OF TWO RED BICYCLES - paintings by Phyllis Golden Andrews
- REFLECTIONS AND REFRACTIONS - works by Trudy Thompson
- ERUUF HISTORY CELEBRATION
- CONTEMPORARY SEWN TEXTILES - works by Alice Levinson
- SHALL WE DANCE? - drawings and paintings by Linda Passman
- ART GALLERY COMMITTEE ANNUAL SHOW
- PATTERNS AND COLORS - Peter Aitken Photography
- INTERCONNECTED - a series of figurative paintings by Debra Wuliger
- WHITE BLAZES SERIES 1: ART FROM THE TRAIL - acrylic and collage by Galia Goodman
- WHAT COMES FROM – paintings by Sandra Elliot
- MyERUUF
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