Your auction team is planting ideas for teas, dinners, BBQs, lessons, lakeside gatherings, hikes, artistic creations! What have you been mulling about? Time to turn those ideas into auction offerings! Do it yourself, or enroll a friend, or your small group or committee!

Help us raise $15,000. We have a goal of 100 listings by April 27th. May 6 at 6pm. Woo Hoo!!!

http://www.togetherauction.com/fuusb

 

We ask that each family bring in one dozen filled plastic eggs per child participating. Due to several life threatening food allergies among the children, please fill the eggs with non-food items only. Ideas for egg-fillers are: stickers, tattoos, chalk, flower bulbs, coins, bouncy balls, small toy figures, and rings/bracelets. Get creative! It's fun to see all the great ideas that pop out of the eggs.

Regardless of weather, the hunt will take place in the Memorial Garden at 10:15 AM on Easter Sunday, April 16th. We need some volunteers to hide eggs and to help run the event. Please contact Tracy Titchner at tracy@jimlawson.org.

 

Stemming from an important conversation about institutional racism in our UU faith and larger world, following recent concern around our Association's hiring practices, the Black Lives of UU (BLUU) organizing collective has issued a call for congregations to to participate in an upcoming teach-in on racism and white supremacy in the next few weeks. As some of you know, the BLUU includes many UU religious professionals and lay people of color. In keeping with our own mission of spiritual growth and acting for justice, and building on our ongoing racial justice ministry, we at FUUSB are joining this call, for which over 300 other UU congregations have already signed up.

Rev. Mara, Andre, Martha, and leaders from our Racial Justice Task Force are working to plan our Society's participation in that teach-in on Sunday, April 30, which will include both our Sunday service and an after-worship event. Rev. Mara was already scheduled to be out of that pulpit that Sunday in order to attend the People's Climate March in Washington, DC., but will be helping to plan the service and contributing to its content.

We recognize that people of color in our community may have particular needs in processing these recent events, as well as for the upcoming teach-in. We welcome people of color in our Society to share your ideas about how our community can best support you as we collectively work to address this critical issue. You can share your ideas directly with Andre ( andre@uusociety.org) or Zoe, co-chair of our Racial Justice Task Force, ( zoe@hartwood4.net) or meet with us on Sunday 4/23 after the 11:00 service. (Exact time and room will be posted and announced that morning.) We also welcome any questions or wonderings about the ongoing happenings in our larger UU world and our upcoming teach-in! Please be in touch with Zoe, Andre, or Rev. Mara to discuss or find out more.

 

April showers bring May flowers! I hope the crocuses and daffodils are coming up in your yards.

The Bonilla family needs support for meals right now and, as of today, we are great need of volunteers for the rest of the month.

Please consider cooking a little extra one of these nights and taking what you don't need over to Kathy and her granddaughters. Here is the link to the meal train.

 

The Racial Justice Task Force will hold its regular monthly meeting on Thursday, April 20 in the Parlors from 5:00 to 6:30. This month's meeting will include brief updates on recent local events and then focus primarily on our two major initiatives - discerning FUUSB's racial justice work and establishing FUUSB support for Black Lives Matter. We'll be focused on identifying next steps and action items to drive progress in both these areas. If you're curious about or interested in the task force's work, feel free to join us. 

 

Join us after the service in the community room for these must-see, social-justice oriented films, a simple vegan lunch, and conversation! Free, bring the whole family (see age guidelines and check Commonsense media), invite friends!

Sunday, May 21 @ 12:30: "Where to Invade Next"  To discover what we can learn from other countries, Michael Moore playfully "invades" them to see what they have to offer re: prison reform, school lunch, work policies, gender discrimination, and more. Hilarious and moving, the BBC called it a "guerilla act of humanity." (Age 15 and up, younger for politically aware teens)

Sunday, June 11 @ 11:30: "What The Health" is a surprising, and at times hilarious, investigative documentary that will be an eye-opener for everyone concerned about our nation's health and how big business influences it. (All ages.)

Contact Suzie McCoy ( suziemccoy1@gmail.com) or Valerie Wood-Lewis ( Valerie@burlingtontelecom.net) for more info!

 

HOLD THE DATE - "Mamma said there'd be days like this". Coffee House and Potluck - May 13th from 6pm-9pm.

The music committee and a small planning group are bringing back a Coffeehouse to FUUSB, thinking that in these tumultuous times it would be good to get together, sing, play and feed each other. Join us for a potluck and coffee house in the parlors for members and friends of all ages. If you sing, play an instrument, want to recite a poem, etc. there will be an open mic. More details to follow as we get closer to the actual date, so for now make sure to put it on your calendar.

$5 donation at the door.

 

Click here to read the poem.