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Welcome to the Web Site of The Community Church of Chapel Hill Unitarian Universalist

 If you have never been to our completely revamped buildings and grounds, follow these directions. Services held on Sundays at 10:30AM; scroll down for details.

**Statement of Purpose**

 * The Community Church of Chapel Hill Unitarian Universalist is a fellowship of Judeo-Christian origins which seeks inspiration in all faiths. It is a spiritual home of open membership dedicated to the celebration of life and dignity of every person. We are committed to religious education, and service both to each other and the larger community.**


 * View the entire Vision Statement** **here.**

[|see this article on the UUA web site]**.
 * For more on Unitarian Universalist principles,

Members and friends, if you have not already completed our involvement survey (the 2010 Gifts and Interests Survey), please click on the following address:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BFJDZ2W

Minister: Maj-Britt Johnson

 * Maj-Britt Johnson assumed the role of settled minister on August 15, 2008. She was installed as minister of the Community Church of Chapel Hill in a ceremony on March 1, 2009. At the installation service, we read and affirmed a covenant between Maj-Britt and the congregation.

An [|article] about Maj-Britt and the installation service was published in the February 25, 2009, edition of the Chapel Hill News.

For more information about Maj-Britt, go here.**

Order of Service and Announcements for Sunday, June 13, 2010 -- One Service, at 10:30


=Services in June 2010=

===June 6th: The Annual Rising Up service which honors rising 6th graders, 9th graders and graduating seniors for the momentous transitions in their lives, will take place June 6th at the 10:30 service. The service will be followed by a reception to honor the graduating seniors and their families. If you have a 5th grader, 8th grader or 12th grader that you would like to be included in the service please let Marion Hirsch know: hirsch.marion@gmail.com.=== ===June 13th: "Asking for Help" - Maj-Britt. (This is the covenant group theme for the month of June) Do you have an easy time asking for help? I suspect most of us don't. It's been a "growing edge" for me, but I think I'm learning that not asking for help is actually a surer indication of weakness in me than asking for it. What do you think?=== ===June 20th: "The Last Lecture" (Rev. John L. Saxon). When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was diagnosed with terminal cancer, he had to decide how he would live his life in the months he had remaining and what he would say to his wife, his children, and his students about what he believed and what mattered most to him. He told his story of his "last lecture" on NPR and in a bestselling book that asks some of life's most important questions. How would we live our lives if we knew our days were numbered? What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? What would we want as our legacy if we were to vanish tomorrow?=== ===June 27th: Faith vs Good Works -- Marion Hirsch, Director of Lifespan Religious Education explores faith as a religious virtue. In the Christian tradition there is a tension between the importance of faith and good works for salvation. As heretics, mostly Unitarian Universalists fall intuitively in the Good Works camp believing that we are "saved" by the good work we do, not by fealty to some doctrine or faith in a divine being. Does faith have anything to offer us as religious people?===

Maj-Britt's Sermons on the Web

 * Maj-Britt's recent sermons are available in [|text form in our Sermon Archive] or the audio MP3 ("podcast") in our "Content From the Sanctuary" web page.**

Local Peace and Justice Events: Check out a listing of important local events, on the Peace and Justice page
 Dedication of Freedom Riders Marker

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On Saturday, February 28, 2009, our church participated in the unveiling a permanent State Highway Marker at Columbia and Rosemary streets. This is the site of a bus stop where Freedom Riders endured arrests and mob violence when they defied segregated seating on a Trailways bus**.** The event was sponsored by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP and The Community Church. Speakers were George Houser, 1947 Freedom Rider;Karen Abbotts, Granddaughter of the Reverend Charles M. Jones; The Reverend Charles Kast, Minister Emeritus Community Church of Chapel Hill Unitarian Universalist; and others.** ======

What's New?
New to our web site since the second half of 2008:
 * Content from the Sanctuary: audio files from recent sermons, and other special events, in our Sanctuary
 * Information on our new minister shared during the search process
 * Visit the Covenant Group page for frequent updates to our "Current Covenant Group News".

__Contacting Our Church__
If you are new to our church and believe you could volunteer your special talents in service of our progressive religious movement, please contact our church. For more details on working on this Wikispace, join our [|C3H ITS eGroup] and post a comment or [|send a message to our Wikimaven]. And if you have never been to our completely revamped buildings and grounds, follow these directions.

__Sections in this C3H Web Site__
C3H Project and Group Wikispace pages : Links to project web pages and other Wikispaces pages for C3H Groups
 * C3H IT Services Change Requests and Problem Reports: Log and track C3H IT Services problems here
 * C3H Web Sites: Other C3H Web site links
 * C3H Archive (box.net) : Archive server with sermons, audio files, newsletters, and more
 * Other UUA Web Sites : Other C3H Web site links
 * C3H Site maps and drawings : Maps and drawings useful on web sites and as reference material

__Being a UU Video__
Our [|Unitarian-Universalist Association] has produced a short video to explain our Progressive Faith and Being a UU. media type="youtube" key="wezp1W2HKlU&hl=en" align="right" height="355" width="425" Other related content to this video may be seen on [|YouTube.]

__Wiki Intro__
This web site on Wikispaces.com provides an online place for individual members, committees, and other church related groups to collaborate and post information in support of [|The Community Church of Chapel Hill Unitarian Universalist] (aka C3H or C3HUU). C3H programs and operational documentation are collected here along with a repository supporting the recently formed [|C3H Church Council]. This C3HUU Wikispace is the official link and outreach to our members and the public.

This C3HUU.Wikispaces.com site was originally setup for coordination and collaboration among staff, board, and various committees who had requests for IT Services. This web site has grown to include outreach organizations involved with C3H as well as communication with the public on our activiites at C3HUU. Note that you can search for keywords or "tags" in any page in c3h.wikispaces.com by entering words in the "Search" box at top left of any page. On all pages there is a navigation menu with major subject areas on the left and many pages have a Table of Contents for that page toward the upper right corner.

The Wiki format allows for the IT Services group to create pages and then give them to individuals or groups so that they maintain their own content and format. This allows for more timely update of the Wiki Web site so there is no need to wait for someone else to post information. If you are a member of C3H working on an outreach project or a member of a committee or group sanctioned by C3HUU, sign up here and go post your information yourself! For those who want to get going, here is a section on Getting Started on the C3HUU Wiki

C3HUU Affiliates with

 * [|InterFaith Council (IFC) for Social Service] local food and shelter for those in need
 * [|Orange County Habitat for Humanity]
 * The [|Recycles.org] project to reuse and exchange reusable computer and electronics equipment