Sunday Service
Looking Backward-Part 1
The future is uncertain, but we have hopes and desires. Often our hope arises from our memory of what we have experienced-or at least what we think was good in the past. Can we embrace the future with our expectation that it'll be like the past in our memories?
Worship Leader: Russ Menk
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Sunday Hospitality Schedule
If the initial of your last name
is on the list below for this week, bring a dish ready to serve or ingredient for salad or soup.
Please help with the clean-up after hospitality hour.
Note new assignment schedule.
8/21 I-L
8/28 M
9/4 N-S
9/11 T-Z
If you will be absent on your week, please trade with someone for their week or contribute the next week. Thank you!
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Fellowship Monthly Calendar
To access the Fellowship's monthly calendars,
click here
The calendar may also be accessed from our Fellowship Web Site under the "News" drop-down menu.
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TGIF Potluck for Friday, August 19th
Aug. 19th, Ron Garcia's home, w/Jayne McCreadie co host
3841 Mission Dr., Soquel
Ron Garcia cell: 831-998-1090
3841 Mission Dr. Santa Cruz 95065. It's at the top of the hill above Dominican Hospital. Mission Dr is the intersecting traffic light that borders Soquel ave. and the Rabo Bank/Erik's Deli and Physician Offices near the Dominican campus. Proceed up the hill where it splits and go to the left (if you go to the right it will dead end). As you get to the top of the hill, curve to the left. The house is the only hacienda-style, single story home on the left with spanish-tiled roof.
Mark your Summer Calendars!
Aug 26th, Jan Taylor & Robert Aegerter, Capitola
Sept 16th Devi Tong, with special guest Karin Ireland, Aptos
Sept 23rd. Ginny Aragon, Santa Cruz
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Proposal to bring minister to full-time salary
Several Sundays ago, Ian Hunter made a presentation about the financial implications of the proposal to call Rev. Russ Menk as our full-time settled minister.
This will be voted on at a congregational meeting in two separate votes: the first (scheduled on Sunday, September 11) will be to increase the minister's salary in the current fiscal year to be "seven eighths" of the mid-point salary for a UUA minister in this region, and, in the following fiscal year (2017-2018), to bring his salary to the mid-point level for a UUA minister in this region. The second vote (date TBD): To call Russ to be our settled minister. For the full text of this presentation,
click here
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About Faith, Acts of Faith and a Plan
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t Sunday, Ginny Aragon made a presentation about the priority for numerical growth (growth in numbers) and maturational growth (growth in depth and commitment) as a foundation for supporting our full-time settled minister, along with some of the plans that are already in place to support this.
There will be two separate votes at a congregational meeting after the service: the first (scheduled on Sunday, September 11) will be to increase the minister's salary in the current fiscal year to be "seven eighths" of the mid-point salary for a UUA minister in this region, and, in the following fiscal year (2017-2018), to bring his salary to the mid-point level for a UUA minister in this region. The second vote (date TBD) will be to call Russ to be our settled minister. For the full text of this presentation, click here.
Other pulpit editorials from previous Sundays about aspects of the call and its financial implications are posted on the members only site of the UUF Website at uufscc.org.
There will be a special meeting after the service at 12 noon on Sunday, August 28 in the Gallery to provide an opportunity for members and friends to speak with members of the Mutual Discernment Committee, the Board and the Committee on Shared Ministry, to ask question and share any concerns about the process to call Russ as our full-time settled minister.
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Pulpit
Editorials
As the Fellowship contemplatives Calling Rev Russ Menk to be our settled minister, members are presenting a series of pulpit editorials to help inform the Congregation about our progress. The current transcript of each of these editorials is posted above and the past editorials can be found by clicking the links below:
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Mark the date: Special Congregational Meeting
Sunday, September 11, 12:00 after Service
This is a special congregational meeting. The main agenda item will be to vote on the proposal to increase the minister's salary in the current fiscal year to be "seven eighths" of the mid-point salary for a UUA minister in this region, and, in the following fiscal year (2017-2018), to bring his salary to the mid-point level for a UUA minister in this region.
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September Book Club
Look for September's book choice next week!
We usually spend about an hour talking about our book of the month.
We would love to have you join us!
For questions, call Linda Monk at 724-4089
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Inter-Faith Shower Project - Chili Cook-Off next steps!
It's been several months since we came together as a community to make and then eat fabulous chill to raise funds for the area "Showers for the Homeless" project. Over $11,000 was raised. This interfaith collaboration is moving along! A small group from the Fellowship has been meeting monthly with members from other local churches and temples to plan and realize next steps...
Read more here.
For more information contact:
Bob Bates - [email protected],
Michele Pomroy - [email protected] or
Ginny Aragon - [email protected]
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New Fellowship Directories Available
The
Member's Only
website is being rebuilt. Over the coming weeks and months more information for our Members and Friends will be made available on this private website.
To start with, there are new directories available on the Documents page.
To access this website, you must first login. To login, you must have an account on the system. Unfortunately, we were not able to move the accounts from the old Members site to the new one, so you will need to create a new account. Just click on the "
Create a New Account" button from the
Member's Site menu on the public Fellowship website (
www.uufscc.org ).
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Thoughts from Rev. Russ
Click Here
for some of my thoughts about our Fellowship and/or the world.
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Other Community Events
To learn about and engage our community and world:
UPCOMING: Sunday, August 20. Food Not Bombs. Volunteer to share vegan meals for the hungry in downtown Santa Cruz. 12-3pm at 418 Front Street to help prepare; 4-6pm to serve at the Post Office, 840 Front Street.
UPCOMING: Sunday, August 28, 11am, Watsonville Gay Pride Parade and Festival, Town Plaza, Watsonville. For more information: https://www.evensi.us/watsonville-pride-2016-somos-lgbt/180803377
UPCOMING: Sept. 10 &11, 9-5pm. Conference to "Explore Your Social Justice Community". Geared to young people interesting in diverse issues and community involvement i.e. Community organizing, food justice, mass transportation, LGBT rights. Sliding scale/scholarships available. Through Resource Center for Non-Violence. More information here.
*ONGOING: Help send students back to school ready to learn.
Two local programs support students who are homeless or experience extreme financial hardship
with a backpack and needed school supplies . Make a huge difference to these students and support their learning.
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Lynda and Kidz Backpack Project: Serving various communities and partnering with Barrios Unidos, local shelters and more. Donate funds ($25 suggested) and/or bring by back packs and requested supplies. Special promotional events. For more info and to donate
Click Here.
Submit announcements to this section (or Helping Hands) for community events which relate to our mission: Spiritual Growth and Social Justice
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Contacts
Office Phone: (831) 684-0506
Fax: (831) 685-6736
www.uufscc.org
| Minister: Rev. Russ Menk |
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Office Hours by appointment Wednesday-Saturday
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| Office Administrator: Makai Powell |
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Office Hours:
Tue, Wed, Thurs. 10AM - 3PM
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Anything to do with the Fellowship website; edits, new content, questions, or comments
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Current Happenings is published weekly by Editors:
Bob Bates, Bruce Fihe, Sylvia Forsyth, and Devi Tong
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