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Weekly Message
for Friday, July 10, 2020
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 Greetings!
Summertime and the living is not as easy as it used to be! Here I am enjoying a beer at a local brewery on some long ago day in another time when we could come and go as we please.
Despite limitations I hope you are finding time for summer pleasures. There is no quarantine on tomatoes or summer melons, barbecue, or the delta breeze. Life calls us to find our joy where and how we can, to celebrate, to connect and to love.
Rev. Roger and I are working on ways to keep us connected during this time of physical separation. We are delighted to offer a new weekly gathering on Wednesday evenings at 7:00 for 60 to 90 minutes. This new happening replaces the Exploring UUism classes and the Ministers' Open House (Friday mornings) we have held weekly for the last four months.
Wellspring Wednesday will be a time for community with fun, learning, sharing, and connection. We are planning a variety of interesting sessions in the coming weeks, with guests, video presentations, and discussions. We welcome your ideas and suggestions. The online format allows us a lot of flexibility and we plan to take full advantage. So join us in the UUSS Zoom space at 7:00 p.m on Wednesday, July 15, for the inaugural session and every Wednesday thereafter.
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Coordinating our Communication
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We don't want you to miss a thing! So we are making some change to streamline and coordinate our communication. For these times when we are sheltering in place here are our main forms of communication:
Weekly Message will come to you via email on Thursday or Friday of each week. You can also access it from the front page of our website. This will be the primary source of information about what's happening at UUSS including words from your ministers, upcoming services, classes, meetings and groups. If you are reading this from your inbox then you are on the list of recipients. If you are reading this on the website and would like to be subscribed, please send an email to
krystal@uuss.org and we will put you on the list.
Weekly Calendar
is the go-to place for dates and Zoom links for the coming week. It will be posted on our website on Friday. Check out the current edition here.
Committee Chairs, Activity and Group leaders:
To get your meeting or activity on the calendar or in the weekly message send it to weeklymessage@uuss.org. Please be precise and concise so we can make sure to get your message across.
Need a Zoom link for you meeting?
Contact krystal@uuss.org. Please tell her if this is one meeting or a recurring meeting, open to all or for a closed group.
RE Outreach is a bi-weekly email for for RE volunteers and families and all who wish to be informed about our ministries to children and youth. to get on the list contact:
miranda@uuss.org.
Stay in Touch
Have questions? Though our buildings are closed, our office staff is available during regular business hours M-F 8:30 - 4:00. Call the office 916-483-9238 or email
office@uuss.org
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Jackbox Family Game Night
Friday, July 10 6-7 PM
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 The Family Ministry Team & Religious Education Program are hosting an online games night using the Jackbox platform. We will be playing two Jackbox games over the course of the evening.
To participate, log into the main zoom room we use for Tuesday and Sunday service. We will walk through additional instructions on how to access jackbox and explain game play on the call. You will need a web browser, in addition to the zoom window, open during the call to participate in either the player or audience roll.
We look forward to getting silly with you.
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Sundays at 11:00 a.m.
Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m.
This Sunday Morning, July 12, 11:00 a.m.
Tee-Shirt Spirituality: Wearing our Commitments on Our Sleeves 
Rev. Dr. Roger Jones, with Rev. Lucy Bunch, Worship Associate Larry Boles, Music Director Keith Atwater, Pianist Irina Tchantceva, Flutist Dawn Walker.
This service features a Credo statement by Coming of Age youth Jade Lewis-Boles, introduced by her mentor, Terrie Ray. We will have the annual procession of tee shirts as a slide show. Please send a picture of yourself in a tee shirt with a message, spiritual value, or ethical conviction that's important to you. Send by Friday 1:00 p.m. to Krystal in the Office.
Tuesday, July 14, 7:00 p.m.:
Thresholds
We cross many thresholds in we make our way through life's passages. However, thresholds take on additional meaning now when everyday we make decisions about leaving home and entering different spaces.
Join Rev. Lucy and Worship Associate Karen Sparrow as they explore the special meaning that thresholds have for our lives.
Sunday July 19th: Embodied Spirituality led by Rev. Lucy
Tuesday July 21:
Vespers and the S
pirituality of Silence led by our Music Director, Keith Atwater
Sunday July 26: Navigating Change led by Rev. Lucy
Be our Chalice lighter!
We invite you to be an
on-screen chalice lighter--as individuals or as families--at a Sunday service.
If any of you have a home chalice or candle, you will light it for all of us at the beginning of the service.
All you have to do is
sign-up
We'll Zoom you into the service as our official chalice lighters for the morning's service. We hope to see more beloved and familiar faces.
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Shared Offering Recipient for July
Mercy Pedalers
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Every month we give half of the Sunday offering to a local not-for-profit group. UUSS members vote every year to choose 12 community partners that embody our values and reflect our mission to be a force for healing in the world. Our July Sunday offerings will be shared with Mercy Pedalers , who reach out by bicycle to unhoused people on our streets and parkways, offering respect, friendliness, resources and nutrition. Several of our UUSS members are regular peddlers, serving this community with love. Thank you all!
To contribute by PayPal or cellphone text, visit
www.usss.org/donate. Be sure to make a note: "Shared Offering." You may also use U.S. Mail and send a check to UUSS 2425 Sierra Blvd., Sacramento 95825.
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Gather for reflection and discussion on Racial Justice: First and Third Mondays
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 Our next racial justice conversation is Monday, July 20, at 7:00 p.m., using the main Zoom link on the UUSS website.
Join us for a discussion of the proposed 8th principle for Unitarian Universalism focused on diverse multicultural Beloved Community. Check out the 8th principle website
here. Get the background and deepen your understanding of the proposal.
If you missed the conversation from July 6, you can still check out the materials.
Also, check out the very powerful video of a woman describing the broken social contract from her perspective. Here is that link.
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Connections: Classes and Gatherings
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Wellspring Wednesday with our Ministers
Join us every Wednesday at 7:00 p.m.
Come one come all to our new Wednesday night offering for community, celebration, learning and fun. We gather at 7:00 for 60-90 minutes. This Wednesday, July 15, we kick it off with Rev. Roger leading
Show-and-Tell! Introduce us to your pet or a favorite object that gives you comfort or keeps you company or an instrument you're learning or a book you really want to tell others about. All ages welcome!
InterPlay led by Rev. Lucy and friends
Takes place every
second and fourth
Saturday morning
of the month at 10:30 - noon.
InterPlay is a series of forms that combine movement, storytelling, stillness, and sound to access your body wisdom. Take an opportunity to tune in, connect with others, give yourself moments of ease, and be playful! If you are looking for a way to have fun and insights all at once, come join us!
Next session is July 11. Link here.
Ted's Webb
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very Tuesday at 10 AM
join the group for a discussion of the politics of the day.
Zoom Link
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Theology on Tap
August
7 at 7:00 p.m. The first Friday of each
month following. Bubbly conversation on yeasty topics of a UU flavor. Bring a beverage of your choice to your computer screen. Greet others in the large room, and then we go into small breakout rooms to reflect and share on one of many deep topics.
Link here. Cheers!
Parent Voices
Sunday, August 2, 8:00 p.m. The first Sunday of the month, with parents and grandparents, hosted by Miranda Massa.
Get link here.
 Reading and Responding to Poetry
with JoAnn Anglin.
Monday July 20 at 10:00 AM. First and third Mondays of the month via Zoom link here.
Meditation & Mindfulness Practices
Monday, July 13, 6:00-6:30 p.m.
with teacher Ann Kronser and host Judy Bell
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Religious Education for
children and youth
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Spirit Play
every Sunday at 9:30 a.m. for those in
grades K-5
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With RE
Coordinator Miranda Massa and adult volunteers.
Maintaining our connections, remembering our Rainbow Promises, and sustaining our sense of wonder, online together. Get links here.
Junior High Youth Group
1st and 3rd Sundays at 4:00 p.m for those in grades 6-7-8.
Making friendships, finding support and joy, online together.
Senior High Youth Group (SHYG)
SHYG is taking a pause in these warm summer months. Perhaps we'll have a new offering in the fall, in addition to some occasional youth or family game and movie nights in summer. Stay connected through the weekly RE Outreach by writing Miranda at
re@uuss.org.
Parent Voices
Sunday, July 5, 8:00 p.m. The first Sunday of the month, with parents and grandparents, hosted by Miranda Massa.
Get link here.
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Need More Books--or Coffee?
Missing the Bookstore at UUSS?
F
riday Morning Socially-distanced shopping
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Many of us miss browsing in our beloved UUSS Beacon Bookstore. Our volunteers have a solution for those needing new books to read or a bag of coffee, a hymnal, or a CD by a UUSS musician.
Here's how it works:
Sign up for a 30-minute time slot for your exclusive shopping visit, between 9:00 and 11:00 a.m. on Fridays.
Sign up by email
with our Office Staff, or call in advance. We will add shifts if Fridays aren't sufficient.
A Bookstore volunteer will be on duty but will keep a safe distance. Wear a mask and wash your hands before and after your visit; consider wearing gloves. If you need a bag, please bring one. All the merchandise has been untouched for weeks, and new books donated won't be sorted or shelved until a week after donation.
Our selection features affordably-priced used fiction and non-fiction, children's  books, and new books related to Unitarian Universalism. There are new books written by UUSS poets, ministers and other authors, plus CDs by Ross Hammond and Linda Dawson and other beloved UUSS musicians.
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lso, you can buy a fresh bag or two of UUSS Chalice Blend Coffee while in the Bookstore! ($12 each, "coffee" in memo line of check)
The Bookstore is accepting book donations but is not accepting magazines now.
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We come together to deepen our lives and be a force for healing in the world.
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