Wildflower member Brandy Nichols displays our first harvest of corn this year from our Faith Garden (a community garden shared by Faith Presbyterian Church, Wildflower Church, and our community friends and neighbors).
The corn is the first crop from our Three Sisters garden plot (which consists of corn, beans, and pumpkins or squash), which was planted in partnership with Central Texas Cherokee Township’s Three Sisters Program.
Gratitude to all the gardeners, including youth and children of Wildflower, who have planted, watered, and tended our crops, together. We are also especially grateful to CTCT’s Doug Martin, for his generosity in sharing gardening knowledge and Cherokee heirloom seeds with our community.
The corn is currently being dried and will later be ground into flour during a food sovereignty workshop which will be planned at a later date in the fall.
Gratitude post for Wildflower youth Tulio for volunteer a few weeks of his summer for a refresh of our library. He spent a few weeks cleaning our community room bookshelves, cataloging books into an online database, moving some of archival materials into storage, and starting to reorganize the collection.
This is such a helpful project, which will help our our staff, worship team, CYRE, ARE, and others find more easily find some of the resources we have. (It’ll also help us to make the collection more accessible to members in the future.)
Hosted by BRAVE Communities, please join us at Wildflower Church and our Community Room on Sunday afternoon on June 29, for a compelling discussion with a dynamic panel of local leaders, advocates, and policy experts to break down the 2025 Texas Legislative Session – the good, the bad, and what it means for our future. Together, we’ll explore how recent policy decisions are impacting our communities, and how we can take BRAVE steps toward a more just, compassionate, and inclusive Texas. ✨
🏳🌈 In honor of Pride Month, we’re especially proud to uplift several incredible LGBTQ+ voices who continue to lead with courage and heart, even in the face of legislative challenges.
Whether you are a student, parent, activist, educator, tech professional, or simply a neighbor who cares, this event is for YOU! Let’s Build Relationships Awareness Voices and Engagement – together!
Juneteenth celebrations have begun! There is no shortage in observances, history, and celebrations of Juneteenth this month, so there are plenty of opportunities to celebrate and learn (both online and in-person), throughout Texas, and throughout the United States.
Join us for DRUUMM’s (Diverse & Revolutionary UU Multicultural Ministries) Public Worship, entitled “There Will Always Be Dancing,” Thursday, May 15, 7 pm Central (8 pm Eastern). This event is open to all.
Through the destruction and the devastation, something enduring resides within us that cannot be stamped out by bigotry, greed, or exploitation. No matter how much injustice we face and the burdens we carry, there will always be movement. There will always be music. There will always be dancing.
From this inner well, we sing, pray, resist, rejoice, dream, and rebuild—because our liberation is bound up together, and our spirits are uncontainable. Let us gather to remind one another of our sources of courage, joy, and power.
This virtual service is open to everyone and features religious professionals of color from across our Unitarian Universalist Association. DRUUMM is the oldest and largest UU People of Color Collective.
The Rev. Joan Javier-Duval (she/her) has served as Minister of the Unitarian Church of Montpelier, VT since 2015, is a member of DRUUMM, and previously served on the APIC Steering Committee. She finds great fulfillment in the deeply relational nature of both parish ministry and organizing for social change in a small community. Joan will always join a line dance at any party, and she is happy to be skiing on mountains and through forests this winter with her spouse and eleven year-old child.
Dr. Jolie Rocke is the Director of Music & the Arts at First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston. With a deep passion for using the arts to uplift and heal, she shares her vocal talents and inspires creativity in many forms. A renowned professional singer across a variety of genres, Jolie also serves as a Lecturer of Music at Prairie View A&M University. She is the founder of HBCU Arts, an initiative dedicated to preserving culture by promoting entrepreneurial growth and amplifying the creative expressions of students, alumni, and faculty from historically Black colleges and universities.
Rev. Christina Shu is a long-time DRUUMM leader who served on our Chaplain Team. She is a Lead Interfaith Chaplain at Cedars-Sinai who offers compassionate support across diverse faiths, specializing in palliative care, grief, and long-term illness. A board-certified chaplain, she advances spiritual care research and education. She holds a B.A. from Stanford and an M.Div. from Harvard. Her ministerial journey has included work in urban chaplaincy, university spiritual care, and hospital settings across the country.e are grateful for her presence in this year’s service.
