Activities & Events

What Kind of Events Does This Congregation Host & Participate in?

Also, we do various local events dealing with social action throughout the year. In 2004, this has included participating in the CROP Walk and sponsoring a family from CASA to provide a Christmas for.

Current Activities and Events

• Spiritual Wholeness: Mind Body Spirit - Prayer and Meditation March 30 to April 1
  Rev. Tom Capo and Martha Capo will be leading a prayer and meditation workshop at the UBarU Retreat Center. This workshop will be both didactic and experiencial. Come to this beautiful hill country retreat center and share in prayer and meditation from various spiritual traditions. Click here for information on the event.
• Planned Living Assistance Network (PLAN) of Southeast Texas - Mental Illness Housing
  One of our members is Chairman of PLAN and is working to get an assisted living housing complex for those who suffer from a mental illness set up in Orange, TX. They need letters of support, which you can find more information about where to mail it to and what should be included, here. They also have a needs survey to be printed and filled out, here. These can either be given to one of the Putnums at church or mailed to the address on the top for the survey, or for the letter, the provided address towards the bottom. With your help, we can finally have a great place to help those with mental illness in this area.

Past Activities and Events

• UU Christmas Outreach CASA Family
  We help every christmas a family from CASA to provide a Christmas for.
• Wine & Cheese Gathering.....
  Heartfelt thanks to Sharon Colbert for arranging a delicious variety of cheeses and crackers and assorted fine wines for our enjoyment. The tables were beautifully adorned with bowls of strawberries and fragrant roses. Those attending the event: Bob Mark, Laura Polich, Donna Birdwell, Karen Corwin, Tom Capo, Lyle Gaulding, Lynn Delage, Sharon & Butch Colbert, Hank & Ria Lihs, Corky Cullins & John Smith.
• We would like to give a special thanks to Mike & Rod who played beautiful acoustic music at the Spindeltop Coffee House. We made $300 which will be donated to a local charity. Congratulations to our newest member, Mariah Colbert, for winning the TV (dontated by Ria Lihs)! Also thanks to Tom Harlan for arranging the performance, Sharon Colbert for donating the goodies, Kari Ballance for distributing flyers and BIG thanks to the following Spindletopers for coming out and supporting the cause: Ria & Hank, Laura, Lynn, Lyle, T J, Bob M., Enrique, Matthew, John & Corky, Sharon & Butch, Rev. Tom, and Karen.
• We also have many reoccuring Covenant Group meetings, which you can see the meeting times on our Events Calendar to the right, or read about them in our Groups section of our website.

Spindletop Recycles

You can help the environment while helping our church. thanks to president, Corky Cullins, we now have an account at Gulf Coast Recycling, located 1995 Cedar at Fourth St., in Beaumont. You can bring your recyclable items there, and Spindletop will get the credit. Here are the items they will accept:

• Aluminum cans
• Newspapers
• Cardboard
• Office paper (no carbons), including envelopes without plastic windows
• Computer printout paper

The Recycling center is open 9-4 pm Monday through Saturday.