ITLOTC
(In The Life Of The Church)
UBC Kids - Compassion Camp VBS!
Good afternoon friends! Next week is VBS (are you signed up for VBS? If not send me an email at taylor@ubcwaco.org and get signed up!) and so, as you can probably imagine it is the thing that most of my professional energy has been focused on for the past few weeks! Normally I look forward to VBS because it is a week when I get to spend so much time with all of our UBC kids as well as with all of our volunteers and youth volunteers. And I really love every moment I get to spend with our kids at UBC!!
But this year – obviously – we aren’t all going to be together physically. We are all going to be in our separate homes doing VBS together but apart! We’ve been recording videos and preparing supply boxes for everyone to come pick up so that everyone can experience VBS! And I have found that even though being together is normally my favorite part that there are still so many reasons that I’m excited for VBS this year! And so, I wanted to share those reasons here with you!
Reasons I am excited about UBC Compassion Camp VBS:
1) I am so excited about the theme! Compassion Camp is all about learning about all of the different gifts of compassion – how compassion helps us welcome and accept each other, how it helps us be brave and reach out to our neighbors, how it helps us show gentleness and kindness to ourselves, how it helps us follow God’s spirit, and how it can help us give fresh starts to ourselves and others!. I am so excited to learn more about the gifts of compassion – and I’m particularly excited to learn about it alongside all of you!
2) I am excited about the music! You can click here for a link to the Compassion Camp Album. When I tell you that these are the sweetest songs I truly truly mean it!! They have already taught me so much about how to be brave and compassionate with myself and with others! And to trust that God’s love gives me the ability to love myself and everyone I encounter. Go listen to them!
3) I’m excited to see all of the amazing things that our families learn together and all of the fun things that our kids and families create as we learn more about the gifts of compassion! I can’t wait to see all of the cool things that we learn and create as we walk together through our Compassion Camp VBS! Make sure that you tag @ubcwaco on social media so that we can see all of things you are learning and making!
So, those are just some of the reasons why I am so excited about VBS next week! I hope that you’re excited too! And don’t forget to email me (taylor@ubcwaco.org) to sign up so that we can have a supply box ready for you to come pick up on Sunday Afternoon!
Sign-Ups for The Color of Compromise Groups:
On July 15th, we will begin discussing Jemar Tisby’s book: The Color of Compromise, and if you are a part of the UBC family we would love for you to join us. We will be hosting two different discussion times; 6:30p and 8:15p. These discussions will be held over zoom, and you must have read/watched/listened to the book/video series. On July 15th, we will be discussing the first three chapters of Tisby’s book.
As we navigate this book and the conversations that follow, it’s important not only to see the ways we, the American Church, have been complicit towards racism but the ways we as individuals have been complicit to racism. If this is the first book you are reading that directly talks about racism in America, or if you are new to the journey of becoming/being anti-racist, we would ask you to sign up for the 6:30p group. If you have been on this journey for a while, have read multiple books and have been doing the hard work of examining your own racial biases and tendencies, then please sign-up for the 8:15p discussion time. The first group will probably not be a safe space for BIPOC, as we recognize the ways in which white people beginning to process their own racism can trigger past traumatic events in BIPOC lives.
We are so thankful you are willing to engage and discuss the white church’s complicity in racism in America, to begin/do the hard work of being anti-racist.
If you have any questions, email toph@ubcwaco.org.
Family Resource Pantry
Thank you to everyone who has been volunteering and everyone who has donated so far. This is our week to donate and buy supplies for the pantry, so please use the link below to see what still needs to be bought this week. If you have any questions, please email toph@ubcwaco.org. Here's that link:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/508084eacae2aabff2-community
Work is Worship
Greeters: No Greeters this week
Coffee Makers: no coffee makers this week
Mug Cleaners: no mug cleaners this week
Money Counter: no money counters this week
Leadership Team
If you have a concern or an idea for UBC that you’d like to share with someone that is not on staff, feel free to contact one of our leadership team members.
Chair: Kerri Fisher: Kerri_Fisher@baylor.edu
Luci Hoppe: lhoppe@gmail.com
Jeremy Nance: Jeremy.J.Nance@L3T.com
Joanna Sowards: jo.sowards@gmail.com
Kathy Krey: kathykrey@gmail.com
Jose Zuniga: jzgrphix2002@yahoo.com
Taylor Torregrossa: Taylordtorregrossa@gmail.com
Student Position: Davis Misloski
Student Position: Maddy O’Shaughnessy
UBC Finance Team
Do you have a question about UBC’s financial affairs? Please feel free to contact any of your finance team members.
Catherine Ballas: catherine@refitrev.com
Jen Carron: jen.carron78@gmail.com
Mike Dodson: financeteammike@gmail.com
George Thornton: GeorgecCT1982@gmail.com
UBC HR Team
If you have concerns about staff and would like contact our human resources team, please feel free to email any of the following members.
Erin Albin: erin.albin1@gmail.com
Sam Goff: samuelgoff92@gmail.com
Rebekah Powell: rpowell671@gmail.com
Kristen Richardson: wacorichardsons@gmail.com
Craig Nash: Craig_Nash@baylor.edu