Pastoral Care, Healthy Relations & Recovery Support at SUUSI

We pack a lot in to our SUUSI week which can lead to extra individual stress and inter personal conflict. The Nurture team offers multiple spaces and support practices to meet the needs of SUUSI participants throughout our week together.

To learn more about our worship and other spiritual services, please visit the Spiritual Life page.

Recovery Room & Meetings

The Recovery Room is open throughout SUUSI as a safe space for those in recovery programs. There will also be meetings. The first meeting time and room location will be posted in the NUUS, and then the Recovery Room Coordinator, Karen (Kay) Judd, will post a schedule at the room and in the NUUS for the rest of the week, based on what the first group's wishes for meeting times are.

Pastoral Care - Ministers of the Day

Should a need arise for pastoral care during SUUSI, you can call the SUUSI helpline (540-534-1575) to connect with a Minister of the Day (MOD).

Conflict Resolution (Healthy Relations Team)

Should a conflict arise with another person at SUUSI that you would like help in resolving, contact the Healthy Relations Team (HeaRT) through the SUUSI helpline (540-534-1575).

SUUSI 2025 Nurture Events

Event #	Event	Type	Date & Time	Age Range
Sunday 20th July 2025
	Ingathering Banner & Drum Parade Bring your noisemakers, your banners, and your awesome selves to our Banner Parade to Ingathering! Please note that folks should take their banners with them after Ingathering (they will not be hung). Location: Price: FREE	Nurture	Sun 6:30-7pm	0+
	Addiction and Recovery Support Space Meditation room for those in 12-step recovery programs Location: Price: FREE	Nurture	Sun 7-11pm	14+
	Ingathering Welcome to SUUSI! Our first full gathering of our SUUSI community. Tonight we celebrate our 75th anniversary of SUUSI and launch our week together. Location: Price: FREE	Nurture	Sun 7-8pm	14+
Monday 21st July 2025
	Group Meditation Join Kimi Reigel for 20 minutes of relaxation and centering. Location: Price: FREE	Nurture	MTuThF 8-8:30am	0
	Monday Morning Multigen Worship We are excited to once again begin our SUUSI worship week with a multigenerational worship service. The service will start earlier than usual - at 8:30am - in order to include our children, youth, and parents before morning programming and mandatory parent meeting. More details to come! Location: Price: FREE	Nurture	M 8:30-9:15am	0+
	Prayer and Reflections for our Nation Gather to support one another in spiritual community amidst national turmoil. Location: Price: FREE	Nurture	M 5-6pm	14+
	Addiction and Recovery Support Meeting Connect with others in recovery and determine times to meet during the week (note there is one meeting already schedule on Wednesday) Location: Price: FREE	Nurture	M 5:30-6:30pm	14+
	Monday Evening Worship Join us for our first evening worship service of the week: "Love at the Edges," led by Rev. Bill Neely. Love is at the center of our denomination's new Shared Values. This reflects our tradition as well as who we are becoming, as we are a faith rooted in love that is still ever-growing in it. How does this love that remains central to who we are, lead us beyond ourselves to neighbor, stranger, and newcomer? How can our "center" strengthen us for ministry at the edges? Bill Neely is one of five Neelys who love SUUSI. He began attending in the 90's at the invitation of someone he would eventually marry. They now bring their kids, and it's their favorite week of the year. Bill is the Parish Minister at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton, NJ. He previously served congregations in Detroit and Memphis, and his first UU congregation was the Unitarian Church of Norfolk, Va (now Coastal Virginia Unitarian Universalists). He enjoys mud runs, coffee, the moon, pizza, and all Pittsburgh sports. Location: Price: FREE	Nurture	M 7-7:45pm	0+
Tuesday 22nd July 2025
	HeaRT Room Used for mediation and team meetings Location: Price: FREE	Nurture	MTuWThFSat Midnight-Midnight	14+
	Group Meditation Join Kimi Reigel for 20 minutes of relaxation and centering. Location: Price: FREE	Nurture	MTuThF 8-8:30am	0
	Tuesday Morning Worship Join us for Tuesday morning worship led by Rev. Edie Love, our YA chaplain. More details to come. Location: Price: FREE	Nurture	Tu 9-9:45am	0+
	12-Step Recovery Meeting Come share experience, strength, and hope in this all-Program 12 Step meeting. We're here for you! Location: Price: FREE	Nurture	Tu 10-11am	14+
	Tuesday Evening Grief Worship Our SUUSI community is its own congregation that annually comes together. Part of our worship week includes marking certain important passages. Our Tuesday evening worship is the time we set aside to grieve our losses since our last time together. We gather to name and grieve SUUSI family members who are no longer with us. We also grieve other losses: of relationships, jobs, physical or mental abilities, cultural shifts. Location: Price: FREE	Nurture	Tu 7-7:45pm	0+
Wednesday 23rd July 2025
	HeaRT Room Used for mediation and team meetings Location: Price: FREE	Nurture	MTuWThFSat Midnight-Midnight	14+
	Wednesday Morning Worship We've hit the middle of our week together at SUUSI. This morning's worship will give us space to recommit ourselves to love, ourselves, and one another. The service will include a Love Feast of fair trade chocolate: a nice morning pick-me-up! Worship led by Elizabeth Schell, SUUSI's worship coordinator. Elizabeth Schell and her family have been attending SUUSI since 2010. Elizabeth attending Union Theological Seminary in NYC many eons ago and presently deals in the ministry of crafting, running a yarn shop in Asheville, NC. She especially enjoys being able to support the worshipping life of her SUUSI family. Location: Price: FREE	Nurture	W 9-9:45am	0+
	Wednesday Evening Worship "The Love Boat," worship led by Rev. Dr. Michael Tino Midway through this cruise we call SUUSI, there have probably been some plot twists that you weren't expecting. How do we re-center ourself in the radical love to which Unitarian Universalism calls us so that SUUSI can be the transformative experience of loving community that it is meant to be? We will meet on the Fiesta Deck after Water Aerobics to explore this with joy, faith, and warmth. Michael Tino has dedicated every spare neuron in their brain to SUUSI for almost 30 years, having discovered a call to the ministry as a Teen Staff member here. Twice the SUUSI Director, they are attending this year with their husband and Middler daughter, who looks forward to "SUUSI Party" (aka Community Time) all year. They serve as part of the Lead Ministry Team of the Church of the Larger Fellowship and in multiple volunteer roles around our faith. Location: Price: FREE	Nurture	W 7-7:45pm	0+
Thursday 24th July 2025
	HeaRT Room Used for mediation and team meetings Location: Price: FREE	Nurture	MTuWThFSat Midnight-Midnight	14+
	Group Meditation Join Kimi Reigel for 20 minutes of relaxation and centering. Location: Price: FREE	Nurture	MTuThF 8-8:30am	0
	Thursday Morning Worship Join us for Thursday morning worship. More details to come! Location: Price: FREE	Nurture	Th 9-9:45am	0+
	Thursday Evening Rites of Passage Worship Each year our SUUSI community takes time to dedicate our children, bridge our teens, and bless community members who have transitioned in their gender identities. A significant event in the life of our SUUSI community. More details to come. Location: Price: FREE	Nurture	Th 7-7:45pm	0+
Friday 25th July 2025
	HeaRT Room Used for mediation and team meetings Location: Price: FREE	Nurture	MTuWThFSat Midnight-Midnight	14+
	Group Meditation Join Kimi Reigel for 20 minutes of relaxation and centering. Location: Price: FREE	Nurture	MTuThF 8-8:30am	0
	Friday Morning Worship Please join us for our final worship service of SUUSI. Our Friday morning ritual draws upon earth-centered traditions to help ground and center us for taking leave of SUUSI. Stay tuned for more details, including possible location change from our other weekday worship services. Location: Price: FREE	Nurture	F 9-9:45am	0+
Saturday 26th July 2025
	HeaRT Room Used for mediation and team meetings Location: Price: FREE	Nurture	MTuWThFSat Midnight-Midnight	14+
	Closing Circle Join us to say goodbye to SUUSI and look forward to next year! Gather at Pocohontas end of Moffet Quad for Closing Circle at 9am. Location: Price: FREE	Nurture	Sat 9-9:30am	0+
Sunday 27th July 2025
	HeaRT Room Used for mediation and team meetings Location: Price: FREE	Nurture	MTuWThFSat Midnight-Midnight	14+

SUUSI 2025 Volunteer Opportunities

Event #	Event	Type	Date & Time	Age Range
Sunday 20th July 2025
18935	Ingathering Usher Be part of a Hospitality team for Ingathering on Sunday night: help at the door (including directing people to accessible entrances), assist participants in finding seats, etc. Position reports to Dana Taylor, lead usher. Location: Price: FREE	Nurture	Sun 6:30-8pm	14+