• Working to Improve through Self Employment –

• Happehatchee Center,
• Sanibel-Captiva Zonta Foundation,
  
• Organización Internacional para Latinos en el Exterior - OILE, and
  
• the Women’s Legacy Fund of the Southwest Florida Community Foundation

• Laws for Peace, Leyes para la Paz
  

• Happe Summer Eco-Camps   for Farmworker Children

• GUATEMALA workshops and legal advocacy
  
• 
            a. Workshops for teachers and community leaders (over 3,000 participants since 2006) on:
                     1. Reproductive health and rights
                     2. Human trafficking prevention
                     3. Laws for protection from violence and abuse
  
            b. Scholarships for Gabriela Magdalena Bravo Gonzalez, a law student
  In her third year of the six-year Law Degree Program at San Carlos University. First Mayan woman in her village to attend university.

All undesignated donations in our Sunday offerings this month will be given to GRACE Project.  Please be generous with your offerings this month.  The GRACE Project thanks you!

Where Do We Come From?

Who Are We?

Where Are We Going? 

Please plan to join us for the Florida Spring Gathering March 12, 2016, at the Unitarian Universalists of Clearwater for fun, networking, cooperative learning, and covenant!

Our morning Keynote on Covenant will be presented by Connie Goodbread, Congregational Life Staff, and Margie Manning, Elder.  Lunch will be served before an afternoon of topical workshops. Our closing worship will send us on our way feeling connected and revitalized! We will offer a portion of the Unitarian Universalist film series "Long, Strange Trip" as an optional evening activity. Please feel free to stay over Saturday night and join us for worship on Sunday morning!

Workshops:

---Social Justice/Witness/Black Lives Matter with Rev. Carlton Elliott Smith

---Stewardship with Rev. Kenneth G. Hurto

---Intro: Leadership as Spiritual Practice with Connie Goodbread

Youth (age 12 and over) are welcome to join any workshop which interests them, as all are intentionally open to all ages, abilities, and learning styles in the spirit of whole family church. 

Child-care is available on the registration form for those 12 and younger. 

Registration:

Regular registration (ends 21 February): $50 for adults, and $10 for youth (17 and under)

Late registration (begins 22 February): $75 for adults

Firm registration deadline: 07 March

>>>Register here!

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_women's_ordination_in_the_United_States
  
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoinette_Brown_Blackwell
  

• http://www.nwhp.org/
  
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_History_Month
  
• http://www.nwhp.org/about-2/our-history/
  

A Man Invented The Title "Ms."

Most people would be surprised to learn that the term "Ms." did not originate with the Women's Movement.  "Ms."  is pronounced (miz).  It is a title of respect prefixed to a woman's surname .  Unlike "Miss" or "Mrs.", it does not depend upon or indicate her marital status.

The term "MS."  actually dates back to 1901.  A male writer for a newspaper in Springfield, Mass., complained that:  "Everyone has been put in an embarrassing position by ignorance of the status of some women.  To call a maiden Mrs. is only a shade worse than to insult a matron with the inferior title of Miss."

He suggested that "Ms." be used.    That proposal was made off and on for many years.  In 1952, the title of "Ms.", was recommended in a  Business Writing handbook.

~ Joy F. Sokeitous 

Famous Women UUs
Of the list of 83 famous Unitarian Universalist women, the following have appeared on postage stamps (in most cases, US stamps): 

·         Abigail Adams

·         Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

·         Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)

·         Clara Barton (1821-1912)

·         Dorothea Dix

·         Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)

·         Lucy Stone

·         Emily Stowe

To see the full list and find more details on each woman, go to:  /www.famousuus.com/women.htm

~ Joy F. Sokeitous