Special Events
Notice to the Membership of the Annual Meeting for the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston
June 4, 2023
1:00 PM
The annual meeting is scheduled for Sunday June 4, 2023 at 1:00 pm in the Sanctuary.
Hopefully you have made plans to attend, but if you cannot attend Absentee Ballots are available for you to make your voice known at the Office or at the Healthy Communications Table.
Please email Tawanna HERE to get an absentee ballot if you cannot attend on June 4th or pick one up at the Office.
On the agenda will be reports from the President of the Board and the Senior Minister. The Annual Plan of Ministry and the budget for 2023 – 2024 will be presented for your review and comment. Minutes from the 2022 Annual Meeting and the March 2023 Called Meeting will be presented for your review and approval. The slate of candidates for open positions on the Nominating Committee and the Board will be presented for approval.
Open the link HERE to see information about the nominees. The 8th Principle will be considered for adoption, “Journeying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse and multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions.”.
Be sure to join us for the next Pan-African Forum with our guest, Omowale Luthuli. Omowale Luthuli-Allen is an international human rights activist and a veteran of the struggles for peace, justice and democracy during the 1960’s and 70’s. Currently, he is one of the local community involvement coordinators for My Brothers’ Keeper MBK Houston.org. My Brother’s Keeper MBK is a POTUS (Obama) initiative to improve outcomes for boys of color. He also cofounded the International Youth Fellowship and Development Program, a community for mentorship, friendship, and education through travel and outreach experience.
Along with a core group of student activists, he co-led the fight to bring democracy to the University of Houston, graduating from the University of Houston in 1970- B.A. Political Science. He was engaged to stop the Vietnam War and a supporter of the Nuclear Freeze movement. He is proud to have been a delegate at the 40th Anniversary of the End of World War II and the defeat of fascism in Moscow, USSR 1985.
He is the recipient of the first Annual Living Legends Award in 2017 presented by the Tri-Chamber Black County Chamber of Commerce.
He is the co-recipient of the Greater Houston Fair Housing Committee 2018 Outstanding Contributions to Civil Rights.