Get Involved

As a result of our growth, our church is evolving from a pastoral church (one in which the minister manages most aspects of the church) to a program-based church--one in which church members actively manage the church through board actvitiy and committee leadership. Volunteering is a great way to get to know other members of the congregation, and our church needs your help so that we can be a dynamic force in the community.

Contacts	Committee or Group
Sam Guss armedsvcswelcome	The Armed Services Welcoming Committee seeks to reach out to veterans, family and friends of veterans, to welcome them to a spiritual home and ensure that they are needed, wanted and accepted at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Birmingham. We will do so first through in-reach within our own congregation and afterwards through outreach to our broader community.
Bob Clifton chair.building	Building & Grounds Committee administers plans for the building and/or grounds. Volunteer opportunities are available to anyone who is willing to paint, rake, sweep, dig, wash and do minor repairs around our building and grounds.
chair position is open	Campus Ministry Committee
chair position is open chair.canvass	Canvass Committee organizes and implements annual pledge drive.
Alice Lizee chair.care	The Care & Share Team is now chaired by Alice Lizee. This committee helps provide vital services— visiting, phoning, transportation, food, etc.--to each other.
John Powell & Pam Powell chalice.lighter	Chalice Lighter Representatives coordinate the Chalice Lighter Program, a fund-raising program that helps to foster growth in mid-south district congregations.
Audrey Maynor child.care	Childcare Coordinator
Dr. Gary Packwood dir.music Terry Hall & Angela Pruitt childrens.choir	Our Choir , directed by Dr. Gary Packwood, provides special music most Sundays. Contact Terry Hall or Angela Pruitt at childrens.choirto ask about our children's choir.
Chauma Smith cuups.group	A group is in the process of forming a Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (CUUPS) chapter. The group works to explore and share knowledge and experience regarding our sixth source, the earth-based traditions, both with each other and with the congregation. The group meets quarterly, dates to be determined soon.
Elisa Aboatiyeh chair.coffee	The Coffee Committee ensures that we have fresh coffee after Sunday worship services.
Barbara Koehler & Susan Markovitz chair.decorating	Our Decorating Committee makes the church attractive and inviting by bringing harmony and unity to spaces in which we worship, socialize and work together.
Bob and Marcia Clifton denomination	Denominational Affairs serves as a liason between our church and the UUA and the UU MidSouth District. Their charge is to let us know about UUA and MidSouth meetings, send congregational members to conferences, and to keep the national organization abreast of what our church is doing.
Gerry Garrick chair.endowment	Endowment Committee oversees investing and management of Endowment Funds. Contact any member of the committee to make a donation or to include the Endowment Fund in a will or trust.
Terry Hall chair.finance	Finance Committee oversees church's accounting and financial planning.
Debra Burrell & Gerda Carmichael chair.flower	Flower Committee provides Sunday podium flowers and arrangements for other special occasions.
Jim Albea chair.fundraising	Fundraising Committee helps raise funds for the church.
Terry Hall Lea Davis interweave.group	Coming soon to the Unitarian Universalist Church of Birmingham. Magic City Interweave, a diversified group of LGBT members. See our Welcoming page for more information.
Bob Dyck chair.justice	Justice Committee provides outreach to the wider community. See Justice page for details.
Elisa Aboatiyeh chair.kitchen	Kitchen Committee members take turns arriving before Sunday services to ensure that kitchen is orderly, clean and well stocked. Kitchen committee also organizes First Sunday Lunch.
	Life Enrichment Committee has merged with SEEC (Spiritual and Ethical Enrichment) Committee
Bob Clifton	Logistics Committee
Juanzetta Flowers chair.ministry	The Committee on Ministry serves as a liaison between our minsiter, the congregation and board of trustees, helping us build an effective ministry together.
Angela Pruitt chair.music	Music Committee helps provide high-quality music for this church and promotes music in the community at large.
Jeff Fried editor	Newsletter Editor provides monthly newsletter to keep members and friends informed about church events and issues. Note: Please use news to send news for newsletter, Friday email and web site.
Kim Spidell chair.nominating	Nominating Committee
Beverly Nelson chair.personnel	The Personnel Committee deals with human resource issues regarding church staff.
chair position is open chair.pr	Public Relations Committee communicates and promotes significant church events to the press and public through the media.
	Religious Education Committee has merged with SEEC (Spiritual and Ethical Enrichment) Committee.
Anthony Hamley chair.seec	The SEEC (Spiritual and Ethical Enrichment) Committee's mission is to support our congregants in their search for meaning and spiritual growth in an accepting environment that is nurturing and loving, yet challenging and stimulating.
Cathy Taylor chair.social	Social Activities Committee plans and coordinates holiday parties and other social gatherings such as Circle Suppers. See Social Activities page for more details.
Tim Day chair.technology	Technology Committee
Debra Burrell webdeb	Webmaster designs and maintains web site to keep members, friends and potential visitors informed about church events and issues. Liaison between Public Relations and Technology committees.
Barbara Koehler & Lea Davis chair.greeting	The Welcome Committee's Greeting/Welcoming Team welcomes visitors to services, offers information forums, provides socials for new members, compiles membership packets for new members, sends notes to visitors, and attempts to make visitors and new members feel welcome at our church.
Chauma Smith chair.worship	Worship Partners Committee helps plan and conduct lay-led services and provides services leaders and other support to the minister as needed. The Worship Partners Committee is actively seeking new members to help plan lay-led services and to aid in facilitation of minister-led services. If anyone (including youth) is interested in being a member of Worship Partners, please contact Chauma Smith or Susan Silvernail by e-mailing them at chair.worship.
Fred Wagner & Susan Silvernail youngchalicelighters	Young Chalice Lighters is a youth group led by Fred Wagner that provides a role for our youth in the worship services, lighting the chalice and reciting the words for chalice lighting.
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For more information on committees, see the committee/board liason chart.

Current Volunteer Opportunities

Help Create our Church's Covenant

Do you have ideas about what our organizing principle should be? If so, please join us for discussion of the book, Redeeming Time: Endowing Your Church with the Power of Covenant. Each person who signs up will receive a copy of the book for $10.60.

We will meet after church three times: Sunday, December 13th , Sunday, January 10th , and Sunday, January 24th. Sign up in the book in the back of the sanctuary or contact Carrie Crenshaw. Sign-up deadline is Sunday, November 22 nd . We will have a 15 person limit. Childcare is available. Please contact Melissa Hamley, child.care, to make arrangements.

Help with Religious Education

Please see RE volunteer page or contact Sharron Mendel Swain, dre.

Calling UU Youth to Join Young Chalice Lighters!

UUCB teens, this is your chance to begin taking part in services and making your mark in our community. Join us after the service on August 23rd to help form a new group for UU Youth that will regularly participate in services by lighting the chalice and speaking the chalice lighting words. Bring your creative thinking caps, bring your calendars, and bring your parents. Let's start a new tradition!

For more information before the meeting contact Fred Wagner.

Playground Maintenance

Like to play with power tools outside? We need you! Thank you to everyone who helped build our wonderful new playground. Now we need a few good volunteers to come out and keep it weeded. Now that most of the ground is covered in wood chips, it is so much easier than before! Interested? Please sign up on the back table in the sanctuary, or contact Sharron Mendel Swain at dre or 945-8109.

Kitchen Volunteers needed

Please contact Elisa Aboatiyeh to make coffee, clean up , and/or help with First Sunday Lunch Clean up.

Logistics Coordinators Needed--1st Sundays

If you are interested in serving the church as a logistics coordinator on the 1rd Sunday of each month, please contact Bob Clifton. A logistics coordinator does sometimes go unnoticed but always does essential jobs, such as making sure the sound system is on and ready for the service, the A/C is on, and the hymnals have been supplied equitably to the congregation for the service. If you haven’t been trained as a logistics coordinator but you’re still interested, don’t worry—we’ll train you!

Make a Casserole for Pathways

March 18 kicked off the UUCB Casserole Drive. Feed the homeless and make a difference!

Committees Seeking Help

As a result of our growth, most committees are actively seeking new members. Even if you can't attend the meetings, there may be ways to help on an ad hoc basis. Contact the committee chair from the list above and ask how you can help.

Unitarian Universalist Church of Birmingham
A Welcoming congregation of the Unitarian Universalist Association

Location: 4300 Hampton Heights Drive · Birmingham, Alabama · 35209 · U.S.A
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 19786 · Birmingham, AL 35219
Phone: (205) 945-8109 · Fax: (205) 945-8111
E-mail: office 'at' uucbham.org

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