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May 12, 2019 – The Goddess Blesses All Forms of Love
A service for all ages celebrating the Pagan holiday, Beltane, featuring an interactive play adapted from Circle Round story, “The Goddess Blesses All Forms of Love.” While Beltane services traditionally focus on celebrating fertility and sacred unions, our service will honor all those who love and nurture others.

 

March 11-12, 2019 – UUCP Social Justice team in Tallahassee
Paula Montgomery and Patti Gunderson represented the UUCP Social Justice team in Tallahassee on March 11 and 12. We joined forces with UUJustice Florida, Indivisable and a public school advocacy group in an evening of fellowship at the Tallahassee UU Church on Monday. Tuesday morning bright and early after a photo shoot in the rotunda, we met with our legislators. Paula and Patti met with Representatives Mike Hill and Alex Andrade and the staff of Senator Doug Broxson to present our case. The particular emphasis of this trip was environmental concerns as well as the needs of the Panama City Area after Hurricane Michael. There was a press conference on Tuesday noon on the same topic with several speakers from the UU group.

 

March 9-10, 2019 – Trip to Africatown
Some members of UUCP joined members of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship for a pilgrimage to Africatown to learn more about that historic community. Africatown, or Plateau, AL, is a community near Mobile that was founded after Emancipation by former slaves kidnapped from Benin, Africa. Founders of Africatown were brought to Alabama on the last slave ship to arrive to the U.S., the Clotilde. The trip to Africatown featured the stories of locals and congregants of Union Missionary Baptist Church, including direct descendants of the former slaves of the Clotilde.

The Clotilde, the last slave ship to arrive to the U.S.
A bust of Cudjoe Lewis, or Kazoola, stands outside Union Missionary Baptist Church.
Cudjoe Lewis, the last surviving former slave of the Clotilda and a founder of Africatown died in 1935.
Men’s Choir performs a traditional Negro spiritual

 

 

 

 

 

 

UUCP members Lauren Anzaldo and Scott Satterwhite listen to Rev. Harvey Dubose at UMBC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

January 21, 2019 – MLK Parade
Members of UUCP participate in the Martin Luther King Jr. parade in downtown Pensacola.

 

September 21, 2018 – Soil Gathering Ceremony
UUCP members attend a soil gathering ceremony in Plaza Ferdinand where two black men were lynched in the early 1900s.