The Unitarian Universalist Church of Manchester welcomes you to our next Sunday Service! February 8th at 10 AM we will be continuing this month’s theme of Resilience in its many forms. After the service we will have coffee and snacks in our Fellowship Hall downstairs. For members, we are also hosting a class about Church Center, our new management software’s congregation facing side. This class will be in Fellowhship Hall at noon, taught by our office administrator.
Announcements
What the heck is Church Center? (Class Sunday!!)
We are officially moved over to a new church management platform, which brings many new opportunities to incorporate a new series of tools into our workflows. This also involves having to learn new tools. Join Tesseract on February 8that noon in Fellowship Hall for a class on Church Center, the new church calendar, and the key features of the new church management platform! She has spent the past few weeks both setting up the new software, as well as creating guides and lessons as she progressed in the setup. The class will follow coffee hour in the same Hall, and all are welcome to join!
This first class will cover: login, how to install the app, profile setup, website and app navigation, and if there is time we will go over Groups and how committees can start to use the platform to connect to each other. There will be multiple classes, so if you cannot make it to this first one, don’t worry! There is also a fully detailed multi page guide, so if you don’t make it to class but still want some detailed explanations, please email admin@uumanchester.org for the PCO Class Guide Packet.
This Week In RE
All month long, we are exploring sources of resilience. This week, we are exploring how we find resilience through grit.
Next week we will explore how we find resilience through community. As we do that, we will have the chance to lift up and learn about Ramadan (Feb. 17 – March 19 2026)
Winter Weather Information
As the winter weather season is upon us, there may be times we will move Worship to zoom only. In the event of a storm, we will send announcements by email, and broadcast over WMUR Weather cancellation notices, as well as on our Facebook page.
Please keep these resources in mind. Also, feel free to join our zoom service any time the weather may be iffy, we have a vibrant group online!
Welcome To Planning Center!
One of the perks to being a member to the UUCM is an invite to our church management platform. Over the past several months, our office administrator Tess has been working hard in facilitating the switch between Breeze and Planning Center. Over this past week, all members should have received an email with an invite link, a QR code for easy access, and a single page introduction guide for how to navigate through the new website/app. If you are a member of the church and did not get that email, please email admin@uumanchester.org to get that set up. Even if you are not actively using the platform, ensuring your address and information are correct helps us keep our church running smooth! Data safety is a priority of both the software as well as the admin. Your information will not be published without your consent.
Hospitality News
Thanks to everyone, we have achieved a great deal in our kitchen practices this year! But for 2026 we must move forward with the next phase to maintain our kitchen license.
These changes are:
- Gloves are a must when handling food, clean or dirty dishes. They should be changed between new tasks or if touching your body or other surface.
- Hair coverings: Staff must wear hair always covered, whether a clean baseball cap, hairnet, or other cap. Long hair must be tied back and hat worn. Hair nets are on order. If you choose a cap, we can keep them at church in a zip lock bag with your name on it. I will find a location for them
- Monthly manager inspection: Each month I must observe and document hospitality conditions, practices, sanitation, and dishwasher temperature. Forms are filed in the kitchen and checked during a Health Department inspection.
- Illness Agreements are to be signed by volunteers and kept on file. It indicates volunteers should not come to work if they are sick with a communicable illness, including flu, Covid, vomiting, diarrhea, and open sores. If you have not completed one, they will be kept at the end of the food table. I am communicating with UNH Cooperative Extension to hold a food safety and sanitation in-service for volunteers and other interested congregants. Hopefully it can be a Zoom presentation. More to come with details.
Anyone new to doing hospitality can contact me for “on the job” training.
Barbara