September 18, 2012 Board Meeting Minutes
Healthy Relations Covenant
The Church’s Gift Healthy Relations Covenant was approved at the Congregational Meeting on May 5, 2013. A copy can be viewed and/or downloaded using the link above.
New Group Application Form
To request formation of a new First UU Group, please download this application form. This will download a MS Word document to whatever folder you have set up for downloads; the file can be opened for viewing and filled out in MS Word on a Windows computer, and in Apple’s TextEdit or Pages programs on a Macintosh.
2013 Sermon Index
2013 Sermons
| Surplus anxieties | Rev. Marisol Caballero | 12-29-13 |
| A Sudden Flame, an Extraordinary Journey | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 12-22-13 |
| Christmas Pageant | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 12-15-13 |
| A UU Faith Story: John Murray | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 12-08-13 |
| How did we get the bible? | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 12-01-13 |
| Guest at Your Table Kickoff | Rev. Marisol Caballero | 11-24-13 |
| A Juicy Slice of UU History: The Iowa Sisterhood | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 11-17-13 |
| Dismantling Racism | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 11-10-13 |
| Creating Community | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 11-03-13 |
| Mystery, Spookiness, Magic and Wonder | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 10-27-13 |
| Walking between the raindrops | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 10-20-13 |
| I’m a believer | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 10-13-13 |
| Join what move | Rev. Marisol Caballero | 10-06-13 |
| Bedrock Values at the heart of humanism | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 09-29-13 |
| Not so good at mindfullness | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 09-22-13 |
| What if you can’t keep your promise | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 09-15-13 |
| Water Communion | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 09-08-13 |
| The serious business of play | Rev. Marisol Caballero | 09-01-13 |
| Margaret Sanger | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 08-25-13 |
| Life of Pi | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 08-18-13 |
| The Oversoul | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 08-11-13 |
| Defense against the dark arts | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 08-04-13 |
| UU Minister – Some dis-assembly required | Nell Newton | 07-28-13 |
| That little four-letter word called Hope | Chris Jimmerson | 07-21-13 |
| What is prayer? | Rev. Marisol Caballero | 07-14-13 |
| Who or what is God? | Rev. Nathan Ryan | 07-07-13 |
| Like Slow-Growing Trees in a Ruined Place | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 06-30-13 |
| Joseph Priestley: The most hated man in Britain | Luther Elmore | 06-23-13 |
| Amazing Grace | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 06-16-13 |
| The Rose | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 06-09-13 |
| Tales of the tribe | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 06-02-13 |
| Flower Communion | Rev. Marisol Caballero | 05-26-13 |
| Youth Service | Audrey Lewis, Max Wethington and our youth | 05-19-13 |
| Mother of all services | Rev. Marisol Caballero | 05-12-13 |
| The right thing to do | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 05-05-13 |
| Fiery and Fearless: Olympia Brown | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 04-28-13 |
| The Gaia Psalms | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 04-21-13 |
| Lies, gossip and fighting words | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 04-14-13 |
| Will you harbor me? | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 04-07-13 |
| Only life and death | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 03-31-13 |
| Afri-kin | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 03-24-13 |
| Good question | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 03-17-13 |
| We’ve come this far by faith | Marisol Caballero | 03-10-13 |
| As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 03-03-13 |
| Large is beautiful, too | Rev. Stefan Jonasson | 02-24-13 |
| Recovery from Fundamentalism | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 02-17-13 |
| A Juicy Slice of UU History: Theodore Parker | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 02-10-13 |
| God the huntress | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 02-03-13 |
| Abandon Hope and Fear | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 01-27-13 |
| This new thing called Universalism | Marisol Caballero | 01-20-13 |
| The delicate art of forgiveness | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 01-13-13 |
| Burning Bowl Service | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 01-06-13 |
Agenda & Packet for Congregational Meeting December 9, 2012
The agenda and a packet of information for the Congregational Meeting on Sunday, December 1, 2012 is available here.
Stewardship Moment-Nell Newton-24 October-
Stewardship Moment-Nell Newton-24 October-
2011-5-Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes
2011-4-Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes
2011-3- Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes
2011-2- Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes
To view minutes please click here.
FUUCA Policy for Serious Covenant Breaches
This policy was adopted by the Board of Trustees in December 2010. A copy can be found at http://www.austinuu.org/boarddocs/CovenantBreachesPolicy1012.pdf.
January 2011 Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes
To view minutes click here.
February 2011 Board of Trustees Meeting Agenda
FUUCA Board of Trustees
Meeting date: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM Location: FUUCA
Agenda: 1. Committee business
1.1. Call to Order
1.2. Board Covenant
1.3. Process Evaluation
1.4. Consent Agenda Resolution #:
1.5. Adopt Agenda Resolution #:
3.1. Board Activity Timeline
There are a large number of important board activities coming up March-May. Brendan will guide us through the forest of dates.
3.2. Fiscal Year 2010 Recap Sean Hale / 10 min
3.3. Update on DRE and VC hiring process Ed Brock / Ed will give an update on where we are in the process of finding suitable candidates for the Director of
Religious Education and the Volunteer Coordinator positions.
3.4. Report on progress toward an internal audit
3.5. Governance Task Force Reports and Exercise
3.6. Linkage updates
3.7. Break
3.8. Policy Approval
3.9. By-laws revisions
3.10. Executive Session
4. Committee business
4.1. Process Evaluation
4.2. Board-Executive Team Covenant Reading
December 2010 Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes
View minutes by clicking here.
