View the 2025 General Assembly Schedule Grid!
Get ready to Meet the Moment at the 2025 General Assembly! We’re thrilled to share the first look at our schedule grid, featuring a blend of in-person and virtual programming designed to connect, inspire, and empower our Unitarian Universalist community. From transformative worship experiences to thought-provoking Learning Labs, powerful featured speakers, and the always-anticipated Ware Lecture, this year’s program will have something for everyone.
We’ll share more details in the coming months as our program takes shape! Remember, this schedule is subject to change, so stay tuned for updates and get ready to make the most of GA 2025 in Baltimore and online. We can’t wait to connect with you!
Quarterly Beneficiary Share the Plate
NAMI Citrus is our local affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. It is an organization of people whose lives have been affected by mental illness. They offer support groups, classes and educational programs. They promote mental health wellness in our community to remove the stigma still attached to mental health and are dedicated to helping improve the quality of life for individuals affected by these conditions and promote awareness through education, support and advocacy. NAMI Citrus celebrated its 25th birthday on 4 April.
Social Justice Committee
In April, volunteers from NCUU and League of Women Voters got together at the Fellowship to address and stamp postcards to be sent to help felons who have completed their sentences to start the process to regain their ability to vote. This is an ongoing project, so if you would like to help, watch for future announcements.
NCUU people were among the approximately 300 individuals who lined the downtown streets in Inverness on April 5 and Crystal River on April 19 to protest the extreme cuts in essential Federal programs now taking place.
Qigong classes
Nature Coast Unitarian Universalist Fellowship is offering Qigong-Mindful Movement classes on Wednesdays, 3 PM, at 7633 N. Florida Ave. Citrus Springs.
Qigong (pronounced chee-gong) is similar to a moving meditation. This ancient practice consists of gentle movement patterns, breath awareness, and a focused mindset designed to enhance vitality, deepen inner connection, and create space for your highest potential.
By gently moving stagnant Qi (life force energy) you can release blockages and feel balanced with effortless effort !
Our teacher, Alicia Martinez, is a Qigong Associate instructor as well as certified Yoga Instructor for adults and children.
Come join us for this weekly practice. No experience is required and instructor will provide modifications if needed.
Sunday Service Committee
If you would like to give feedback on any or all our speakers, please click the link and do so at any time. The Sunday Service Com. appreciates your input.
Thanks,
Pam
NCUU Calendar
Please send additions, deletions, updates, and edits to Gordon Hart, [email protected], so that he may keep the calendar updated on our website, ncuu.org.
Announcement E-mail Address
Our email address for announcements: [email protected].
Special Request from Art Jones
The Social Activities Committee is slowing down for the spring and summer.
Plans for the upcoming months, please add in the Dunnellon Springs Festival on July 5th and 6th. We will need volunteers to help with some of the entry gates. All volunteers will earn in kind sponsorship credit at $31.61/hour This will go towards matching the original $1,000 sponsorship the board of Directors of the NCUU approved at the last board meeting that supported the One Rake at a Time Restoration Project on the Rainbow River.
All members of the NCUU who sign up to put in volunteer hours will help us bump up the sponsorship level for the NCUU by using in-kind support to bring us up to the $2,500 level of being a Bass Sponsor; That adds vendor space included, large logo promotion. Shout out from stage 6 time’s each day plus 3 minutes on stage at the microphone each day.
I am also donating the hours I am putting in as in-kind donations for the NCUU.
Please, people who are going to be here this summer please sign up at the What’s up Table or via email or phone, and commit to hours that they can work. We will need front gate people from 11am to 10pm Saturday and from 8am to 5pm Sunday. Volunteer shifts are 2 hours and people can sign up to do multiple shifts.
Please support the cleanup and restoration of the Rainbow River
Thanks very much, Art Jones
Social Activies Committee
The Social Activities Committee is slowing down for the spring and summer.
We have had fun doing a lot of different activities again this year. We are always open for new ideas! We will continue with our Sunday Service refreshments through July. We hope everyone has a wonderful summer and safe travels in August.
Bonnie Anderson
Membership Committee
Membership has a new program called “I Can Help” to offer rides too those congregants in need of transportation to doctor’s appointments, etc. Volunteers can sign up for various Citrus or Marion County neighborhoods.
Jeanne Wright and Connie Hart, Co-chairs, Membership
WILDLIFE CLUB
WILDLIFE CLUB MEETING – TUESDAY, MAY 27, 2025 – 7PM
THE LIFE OF OTTERS
Learn all about the “Life of Otters” from Linda Wilinski, Conservation Photographer, who will give her visual presentation through videos and photos taken in the wilds of Florida, at the Wildlife Club meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 27, 2025, at the Nature Coast Unitarian Universalists (NCUU) fellowship hall at 7633 N. Florida Ave. (RT-41), Citrus Springs, FL 34434.
The doors will open at 6:30 p.m. for many free wildlife handouts and information and light refreshments. There will be a door prize, raffles, and a 50/50 drawing held to benefit the NCUU. Wildlife Club meetings are always free and all are welcome. The presentation will begin at 7 p.m.
For more information contact: Brenda L. Roberts – President and Founder of the Wildlife Club at 352-746-2384 or [email protected] – June, July and August 2025, the Wildlife Club will be on summer break returning in September 23, 2025, with another entertaining and educational wildlife program
Grounds Committee
Chas invites you to come rake, weed, mulch, prune, plant and help beautiful the church grounds. First Fridays of the month, 10 AM – 12 noon.
Wildhart Photography
The photographs on the walls of the sanctuary can be purchased with 50% of the purchase price going to NCUU.
Talk to Gordon Hart if interested.
Please check out wildhartphotography.com for more of Gordon’s photographs.
The same deal will be honored if someone from the congregation wants to order a photo from the website.
Website Section for Members Only
Are you a member who has a business or service? If you would like to share the information about your business or service to the Members Only section of the website, please write what you would like and let Connie or Amy know. Amy will add it.
– Connie Hart
Newsletter Deadline
Please Remember That The Deadline For Next Newsletter Is
May 23, 2024 .
Please Adhere To This Deadline; Otherwise, your material won’t be included in the newsletter.
All request entries should be sent to the email address [email protected]. That will make it easier to keep all requests organized in one place. I have been getting emails sent to several of my email accounts, and it makes it very difficult to organize the items to will be in the monthly issues. I can only guarantee that it will be in the issue, if it’s sent to this email address. Please send the proofread text and photo attachments. In addition, please keep your text to a maximum of three short paragraphs. If it is longer, we will edit to shorten the announcement.
