October 2025
October 5: Celebration of the Animals
by Rev. Bethany Russell-Lowe
In honor of the Feast Day of St. Francis, this multigenerational service will celebrate the animals in our world and honor the pets in our lives. If you would like your pet to be honored in a virtual slideshow, send a picture of your beloved pet and their name to Rev. Bethany at brusselllowe@buffalouu.org. If your pet died this past year, you may send a picture and approximate birth and death dates/years to Rev. Bethany to include at the end of the slideshow.
October 12: Indigenous Peoples' Day
by Rev. Bethany Russell-Lowe
On this Indigenous Peoples' Day weekend, we will turn our attention towards the indigenous peoples who have lived and currently live on our land. What can we learn from local indigenous history and present practices? How might we be in more intentional relationship with indigenous siblings?
October 19: Disability Justice: Living Our Values
by Ginny Vaughn and Steve Wixon
Join the UUCB Access and Inclusion Ministry (UAIM) to explore and consider how the Disability Justice principles relate to our UU values. We will consider ways for UUCB to embrace the work of Disability Justice (and you can check out the cool tee shirts that we designed for the Disability Pride event at Riverworks July 2025). The Music Ministry will offer music written by disabled artists as we “...dream wild disability justice dreams”, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.
October 26: Stewardship Sunday
by Rev. Bethany Russell-Lowe
Come celebrate our beloved community and all the people who make up UUCB! This stewardship season, we ask ourselves: What would it mean to get serious about Unitarian Universalism, and UUCB's legacy and future? This Stewardship Sunday will include an opportunity to hand in your pledge card, if you haven't already.
