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Thousands of survivors of Hurricane Dorian are at risk of being sent back to dangerous conditions. Congress must act now to grant Temporary Protected Status (#TPS)! #LetThemInhttps://www.uusc.org/initiatives/tell-congress-hurricane-dorian-survivors-deserve-protected-status/ …
Me and my mother on Red Cross blood donation. I have the rare blood type O- and my mom O+ :)) @ Unitarian Universalist Church of Studio City https://www.instagram.com/p/B3N7uz7gxrw/?igshid=1q1y5qa1d6vk9 …
Background: I'm half Unitarian Universalist. I had an elementary school teacher tell me you can't be half Mormon and half UU, which was super inappropriate to say to a student of any age/situation but especially a young child of divorce. I did every other weekend visits!
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Wednesday, 10/23 from 7-9pm. RVA Clippers, 914 N. Arthur Ashe Blvd. Saturday, 10/27 from 4-6pm. First Unitarian Universalist Church, 1000 Blanton Ave. On-site childcare WILL be provided!
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**TODAY** First Friday Coffee House at the New River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship! 10/4/19 from 6-9PM 911 S Kanawha St, Beckley. Snacks, Games, Conversation and of course, COFFEE! *FREE* (donations are appreciated) pic.twitter.com/zBpOOrQRqv
From our Lead Minister
Oct. 1, 2019
“So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height. For the people had a mind to work.” Nehemiah 4:6
I had never read the book of Nehemiah, one of the biblical Jewish histories, before I heard several African American preachers telling its story to rousing affect at NOAH (Nashville Organized for Action and Hope) gatherings. It is a history of different Jewish families and professions coordinating their efforts to rebuild the city of Jerusalem after it was destroyed by the Persian Empire and most of the Jewish people were sent into exile. NOAH came together to rebuild the city of Nashville after rapid development was sending many of our poorer and mostly black neighbors into exile.
In the ancient story, varying small Jewish groups joined as allies, each re-building one gate and a section of the wall. They were mocked by the other cultural groups in the area, just like in Nashville when NOAH was mocked at its formation by the Chamber of Commerce who saw only the upside of development decisions that brought in money and jobs for a few, but not for the many. The Chamber then predicted NOAH would only last six months. For five years since that prediction, some 60 faith communities including historically black and white churches, mosques, and synagogues, as well as labor unions and community organizations plus a couple of colleges, have persisted restoring falling walls and rebuilding city gates. Now the Chamber of Commerce admits that the growth in Nashville has been very uneven. For instance, in those few years, the wages of whites have risen, the wages of Latinos remained the same and the wages of African Americans have fallen 10%. The rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten poorer.
In the Nehemiah story, the builders of the city blow a trumpet when they are attacked by others. That trumpet calls us all to come forward as allies, each building our own section of the wall even as we help others to build theirs. The people of our community have a mind to work to both build our part of the wall, and to work with all our allies for justice as we rebuild the whole city for us all.
With faith and love,
Gail
leadminister@firstuunash.org
The Unitarian Universalist crew at #ot19 - orange tour Lancaster. 5 volunteers. 3 ministers. 5 religious educators. One regional staffer. Big group and it’s spectacular.pic.twitter.com/SQGy2fXK7D
Cantor Barbara Ostfeld, at First Parish Unitarian Universalist in Bedford, sharing a message about Yom Kippur http://www.thebedfordcitizen.org/2019/10/slippery-words-and-sticky-words-teflon-and-velcro-in-the-month-of-elul/ …pic.twitter.com/3aK8mXuA2V
Thank you so much to the youth group of the Unitarian Universalist Church of the North Hills for hosting a potluck for Literacy Pittsburgh students and tutors. Through games such as Bingo and Pictionary, students got to practice English, have fun and meet some new neighbors. pic.twitter.com/yNcOZadmIq
Join us for Ambassador Training this Monday, 10/7 at 6:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church & lots more great events in our weekly newsletter! - https://mailchi.mp/6c0ec2e15176/fxtct3cvz7 … #bethechangepic.twitter.com/QUcqfn3M0A
Am I alone in disliking responsive readings? It's not just the UU church, I didn't like them in the church I grew up in, either. It's not the readings I mind, it's the way they are read by the congregation in a monotone. I would rather hear one speaker read the excerpt with a meaningful presentation, than hear 50 voices read in a monotone. I have tried reading my parts in a dramatic voice, but then I just sound like I'm on something. :D
I know it's a small thing, and it doesn't detract from my overall love for the UU church. I just wondered if I was the only one. :D
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About the size of a beach ball and carrying nothing but a rudimentary radio transmitter, the Soviet Union's Sputnik satellite threw Americans into a scare. |
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The New York Times headlines were more restrained than some American newspapers but noted ominously that the USSR got into orbit first with an object heavier than the planned US satellite and that its orbit took it over the States. |
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President Dwight Eisenhower had boasted that the United States would put a satellite in orbit during the much ballyhooed International Geophysical Year sending the Soviets into a scramble to get into space first. |
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A life size model of Object D--Sputnik--in the Moscow Space Museum shows its simple construction. |
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After the spectacular explosion of a Vanguard launch vehicle on it pad, President Eisenhower went on TV to calm the American people and assure them that the US would rapidly catch up in the newly christened Space Race on December 10, 1957. |
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Bill Pickering (left), James Van Allen (center), and Wernher von Braun (right) triumphantly held a model of Explorer 1 above their heads the day after it became the first U.S. satellite to orbit the Earth on January 31, 1958. Von Braun was America's "good German" and was the chief designer of the Jupiter-C rocket. Van Allen put radiation detecting Geiger tubes into the payload that discovered the Radiation Belt named for him. The scientific discovery not only one-upped the Russian's essential dumb satellite but briefly threw the Soviets into a panic of their own--they suspected that America may have exploded a nuclear device on the mission, essentially created the radiation belt. |
The UUSS Caring Team is interested in learning who is willing to be part of a Caring Network, a list of people who are occasionally contacted by a member of the Caring Team to respond to folks in our congregation who need a little extra help or connection (eg: a ride, a visit, a meal). CLICK HERE! to see a list of Caring options, and to check any boxes that feel like things you want to do to help. Also, if you find yourself in need of some help or connection, please contact Rev. Lynn or Rev. Wendy or a member of the Caring Team (Mike MacLaury, Carol Neff, Nancy Tobiessen, Suzanne Brunelle, Lisa Temoshok, and Kristin Cleveland).
Green Sanctuary/Climate Justice Team want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who came and supported our Locavore Lunch last Sunday. We look forward to this annual celebration of the local harvest and we know many of you do too. Your generous donations make it possible for us to continue our programs, such as purchasing carbon offsets for the youth service trip to Guatemala and paying for books, speakers, films etc. We hope you continue to support local farms by visiting them and buying their products. Thank you, Nancy Peterson, Green Sanctuary Chair at gs.uuss06@gmail.com.
Welcome to /r/UUReddit's Weekend Coffee Hour. Let's get to know each other. Chat about current events (global, national or local), something going on in your personal life, or whatever you feel like discussing. Are you working on a cool community service or activism project? Have you written or created something online that you want to share? Tell us about it. Topics do not have to be strictly related to Unitarian Universalism.
Later this month, everyone high school aged and up is invited to attend a workshop with C.B. Beal. (see more info below). And newer folks have an opportunity to take the Getting to Know UU classes in which we hope you will experience more connection to Unitarian Universalism and consider making a commitment to joining this congregation, formally, as a member.
A couple of resources you may find interesting are: teaching community-a pedagogy of hope by bell hooks and Community: The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block.
Those are the words of my first covenant process in this congregation in 1998. I was a teacher in the RE program, working with preschool age children. This month I am deeply engaged in a covenant process as a member of the Board of Trustees and as a Senior Youth Advisor.
Is a covenant a noun or a verb? Is it a process or a product? Yes.
As you are reading this, perhaps take a moment to reflect on covenants you may be creating with others this month. Verb or noun? Process or product?
Consider how a covenant is “both/and”: generous and strong, providing a spacious structure for mutual accountability and safe inquiry. The Board of Trustees engages with covenant by reading it aloud at the beginning of each meeting. At the end of each meeting, we turn toward the covenant to provide a moment of closure and reflection.
As we engage with one another, with our community and with our world and as we grapple with our Open Questions, may we, as a beloved community and as individuals within a beloved community, choose to embody our covenants, including the simple covenant of the “Share. Care. Listen” with love, faith and joyful play.
Lisa Temoshok
The Nursery is available for children five and under during services. As always, all Children and Youth are welcome to attend worship services.
Parents and Guardians, please take a moment after RE to ask your child or youth what they did in RE that day. Leave it open ended and listen to what they have to say about their lesson, their classmates, and their teachers. Our UU kids have SO much insight to share!
This past summer we chose to focus some of our time and energy on deepening our connections to New York, and to the capital region. We intentionally devoted time to exploring the Finger Lakes and the Adirondacks. We enjoyed many of the free local concerts at Music Haven in Central Park, and saw In the Heights at the outdoor theatre in Albany.
We finally got library cards, and explored the many resources available at the downtown Sch’dy branch. We walked in parks, and hiked more of the local trails. We learned more names of the local birds, flowers, and trees. We learned more about the history and present of the First Nations of this region.
We went on a guided tour with the Schenectady Historical Society of the GE Realty Plot. For the second year in a row, we grew vegetables and flowers in our backyard garden, and have been eating something from the garden almost every day. Just last night we made a batch of vegan pesto from the last of the basil and enjoyed it tossed with pasta and fresh-picked cherry tomatoes.
As we begin our third year here, we are feeling more connected to the people and places of this beautiful, diverse, and complex state. Connection is a key element of people wanting to make commitments and through our connection and commitments, we can create a sense of belonging in community. This is a new October theme! See more below!
Time is a precious, irreplaceable commodity that we cannot help but spend. Sometimes we sacrifice how we want to spend our time for how we should spend it. Sometimes we unthinkingly let our time spill out without really choosing where to spend it.
What feels like the most valuable use of your time?
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Time is a precious, irreplaceable commodity that we cannot help but spend. Sometimes we sacrifice how we want to spend our time for how we should spend it. Sometimes we unthinkingly let our time spill out without really choosing where to spend it.
What feels like the most valuable use of your time?
The Daily Compass offers words and images to inspire spiritual reflection and encourage the creation of a more loving, inclusive and just world. Produced by The Church of the Larger Fellowship, the Unitarian Universalist Congregation with no geographical boundary. Please support the publishing of The Daily Compass by making a $10 or $25 contribution (more if you can, less if you can't)! Thank you for your support!
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