At the November 2024 Cologne Retreat, EUU president Karen Kyker and secretary Bonnie Friedmann announced the appreciation awards for 2023. The tenets of notable contributions to EUU are Visibility, Fun, Project satisfaction, and Recognition.Thanks to president-emeritus Carolyn Burlingame-Goff for starting this lovely tradition. And thank you to everyone for contributing to nurturing our community in … Continue reading EUU Appreciation Awards for 2023
Welcome, everyone, to 2025 – a new year, a new slate of officers, and new opportunities for our EUU community to support each other and shine the light of our values in the world. My mom said that even as a baby I was fascinated by twinkling lights and fireworks, so the December holidays have … Continue reading President’s Column — Welcome from Your New President
A new page has been created on our EUU website to improve organizational transparency and awareness for all EUU members. You will be able to find our official EUU Bylaws (in English and in French), our much more detailed operations manual (“EUU Policy Handbook”) and our “Safe Community Statement”. Here is the page containing these … Continue reading EUU Organizational Transparency
President Bonnie Friedmann Bonnie Friedmann found Unitarian Universalism in 2002, when she moved to San Diego and wanted to find a religious community for her infant son without the baggage she grew up with. She joined First Church San Diego in 2004 and remained active there until moving to Germany in 2012. She found EUU … Continue reading Our New Officers – 2025
Impressions from a First-Timer, now a New Member by Claire MacDonald Perhaps it was Brexit that did it — the feeling that we in the UK are more and more anchored offshore in our lone island – or possibly it was meeting Karen Kyker last midsummer and hearing from Paris Unitarians about EUU. Whatever it … Continue reading Reports from the EUU Fall Retreat 2024 in Cologne
The end of 2024 was a whiplash experience – a super retreat in Cologne (thank you Derek and the rest of the retreat planning team); our online AGM (thank you, Marcie McGaughey for writing about it for this Unifier); a final CC meeting, and then a quick-paced rush into the end of the year, with … Continue reading The End of 2024 – Past-President’s Report
by Casey Burkhardt The final EUU Coordinating Council meeting of 2024 took place on December 3rd. This was also Karen Kyker’s farewell meeting as the sitting EUU president. The meeting opened with the traditional lighting of the chalice and sharing of joys & concerns, followed by the treasurer’s report. In this case, it was Jutta … Continue reading Dec 2024 Coordinating Council (CC) Meeting Report
by Marcie McGaughey We held our Annual General Meeting (AGM) as a Zoom meeting and had about 32 members attending. President Karen Kyker welcomed us and then started the meeting. The first major item on the agenda was voting for new officers. The nominating committee, Matt Gilsenan and Peter Jarrett, found us a good slate … Continue reading Summary of EUU Annual General Meeting for 2024 on Sunday, November 17
Last fall, our friend and well-loved UUA Ambassador to EUU, Diane Rollert visited NUUF in Amsterdam and UUFP in Paris last October. Although she has retired from her role as minister with the Unitarian Church of Montreal, she continues in this role of supporting our various European fellowships and our EUU, on behalf of the … Continue reading UUA Ambassador to EUU
