A little bit about being a part of our community: Membership with Wyoming Valley CUUPS does not require any kind of financial cost currently. We are donation based and volunteer. Creating an inclusive space and events for the local Pagan community is our focus and we believe that shouldn’t come at a cost. Our events are open to everyone and do not require membership with us either.
Also, being a member also does not require becoming a member of the UU Church of Wyoming Valley (although quite a few of us are).
The only requirements of membership with Wyoming Valley CUUPS are, in any given calendar year, members are expected to attend a minimum of 5 of our events and give a minimum of 1 contribution of time or talent. Time or talent could be a lot of things including but not limited to:
Volunteering in one of our events or rituals (online or in-person) by any of the following
Contributing to the creation or facilitation of one of our rituals
Helping with clean up after an in-person event
Helping create our labyrinth for the full moon or doing card readings at one
Being a Zoom co-host/tech at one of our online events
Attending / Participating in our online monthly meetings (currently the 2nd Saturday of each month at 8PM EST via Zoom)
Those are just a few examples. There is a very strong chance if you are doing this survey and have come to a few of our events, you have probably jumped in to help.
What membership gives (other than a community of a bunch of empowering and accepting magickal folks) is voting power. We truly believe in the Right of Conscience and the Use of the Democratic Process within our chapter. Wyoming Valley CUUPS members elect a Manager annually to serve for one year. The Manager then selects a number of officers from a pool of willing participants. This team is responsible for the behind the scenes work needed to create and facilitate our events (along with Wyoming Valley CUUPS Members and Friends (lovingly dubbed the WVCUUPS Crows) that help as well. It really does take a community.). All Managers of WVCUUPS though must be a member of the UUCWV for at least one year as well as a few other important details (feel free to reach out and ask if curious).
Our Bylaws are currently in the process of being updated now and will be voted on in 2024.