June Species of the Month is the Gila Woodpecker. This month we look at the Gila woodpecker. The Gila woodpecker is a Keystone species of the Sonoran Desert. On any given Sunday morning as you arrive at the UUCP campus you will surely see one of these classic desert woodpeckers atop a saguaro or pecking
Being engaged and committed to UUCP allows me to be my authentic self. UUCP has been and continues to be a workshop for me to work on me. Every activity and engagement with UUCP affords me the opportunity to gain knowledge, perspective, richer values, and a diversity of experiences. UUCP represents 13 years of a
Sunday, June 29 - 12:00pm MST The stitching and stashing group is meeting on June 29 in Annex H; we encourage all crafters and stitchers to join us for an hour of sharing projects, materials (maybe our stash) and patterns we love. The intent is to broaden the awareness of our home-grown crafting community and to discover ways to appreciate all the different
Recently, my new year’s resolution is to pick a word for the year as a way to explore opportunity, intention and purpose. This year I started with capacity, and added invitation. I’d like to reflect on how those words helped me find a calling and a community at UUCP. I was raised by secular
I’m Stephanie Breidel-Vigil, the Business Administrator at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Phoenix (UUCP). I’ve been at UUCP now for 5 years and it has been an incredible journey of connection, growth, and inspiration. UUCP feels like a second home to me, a place where justice and compassion are at the heart of everything we
A passing car stops by the modest house in the woods. The driver remarks on the flowers and asks what the gardener was growing. I reply, “Rocks, I am growing rocks.” Yes, I did grow rocks. That’s New England soil for you. My early childhood was spent in Norway, home to mountains, fjords and trolls.
