Upcoming Events
Please note that all meetings, worship services, and gatherings will be held online until further notice. Please check our Facebook page and website for updated information and links.
Fri. June 19
The Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival (PPC)
9:00 a.m.
Sun. June 21
Worship Service
Rev. Ed Brock
10:45 a.m
Soul Circle Small Group, Group D
12:00 p.m.
Mon. June 22
Social at the Church Garden
10:00 a.m.
Tues. June 23
Board Meeting
6:30 p.m.
Wed. June 24
Happy Hour with Susan
5:00 p.m.
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UUCH's Free Food Pantry is installed in the parking lot and is now stocked. The Social Justice Committee will restock the pantry with non-perishables, as needed, and you can, too.
Sign up
HERE to help provide items and fill the pantry.
Sponsored by the Social Justice Committee
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UUCH 2019-20
Board Members
President:
John Schulz
Vice President:
Denise Runnels
Secretary:
Nick Wilbourn
Treasurer:
David Bollinger
Trustees:
Ed Bernstein
Jack Long
Bryan Walls
Interim Minister:
The Rev. Edward L. Brock
Do you have an agenda item for the Board?
The Board respectfully requests that all agenda items for the meeting be submitted to
Board President John Schulz
via email no later than one week prior to the meeting (i.e. the Tuesday before). The next board meeting is scheduled
for
Tuesday, June 23.
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The Overlook is a publication of The Unitarian Universalist Church, 3921 Broadmor Rd., Huntsville, AL 35810
Interim Minister:
The Rev. Edward L. Brock
Board President:
John Schulz
Editor:
Nick Wilbourn
Office Hours:
Tuesday:
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Thursday:
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
* Please email office if you need building access outside of the posted times.
Minister's Office Hours:
By appointment only.
Office Phone:
Sunday Services are held 10:45 a.m. to
12:00 p.m. Children's Religious Education held concurrently.
Nursery available for ages 3 years and under.
For more info on any event, contact the church office.
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Upcoming Service
"The Serenity Prayer, Part 3"
Rev. Ed Brock
June 21, 2020
10:45 a.m.
This week I will give the third and final in a series of sermons about the Serenity Prayer.
This week will also be my last service and sermon at UUCH in my capacity as Interim Minister.
It has been a great honor and privilege for me to serve this congregation as Interim Minister.
I leave knowing that you are about to begin a great chapter in the story of this congregation.
Meeting ID: 229 305 601
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This Sunday in Children and Youth Religious Education (CYRE)
Every other Sunday this summer, we use a UU LEGO curriculum to piece together our six UU sources. Families, join us this Sunday in Virtual CYRE, from 3-4 p.m., to build a better understanding of "the wonder we all share. Meeting links will be emailed to registered families.
More details and a summer schedule can be found on our CYRE Facebook page and will be emailed to registered families.
If you are interested in joining us but you're not registered in the CYRE program, send an email to
DRE Erin Reid
. You can also
click here
to register your children and youth. We'd love to include you in our joyful and welcoming community of all ages.
Sincerely,
Harper Goodman
Children and Youth Religious Education Assistant
Submitted by the Children and Youth Religious Education Committee
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Book Discussions on Anti-Racism
One of the things we can do to address systemic racism is learn more, understand more, and open our eyes to new information. Educating ourselves is a social justice action. UUCH Adult Religious Education (RE) will be sponsoring some book discussion groups to look at some important contemporary books addressing ways to dismantle racism in our society and world. These meetings, like all our current church events, will be held online via Zoom. Everyone is welcome to attend and strengthen our understanding of these vital social justice issues.
The first book we will examine is White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Dr. Robin DiAngelo. The book invites conversations about how race, either interracially or among white people, can -- whether one is aware or not -- reinforce racial hierarchy. It is an excellent point of departure for conversations on how we can learn skills to disrupt racism as a Unitarian Universalist faith commitment and practice. The discussion is scheduled for July 2 and July 9 at 6:30 p.m. Nancy Finley and Brad Korb will facilitate.
This book can be purchased in e-book or audiobook formats online, but paper copies are hard to find right now since this book is selling fast. We have several copies on order to share, so contact the Adult RE Committee
if you cannot locate a book. We will try to help people find access to one.
The second planned book is Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Dr. Joy DeGruy, and it will be discussed later in July. Summer Peters and Sally Locklear will facilitate this book discussion. More information on the book will be coming in future newsletters, but you might wish to
watch
this short video by Dr. Degruy. We hope these books will be the beginning of future other book discussions on the topic as well.
If you are interested in attending, please email
to register and we will send you the Zoom link. We would like for people to register so that we can create enough Zoom meeting rooms to accommodate good discussions.
Submitted by the Adult Religious Education Committee
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COVID-19 Relief Funds Available
Funds are available for members of the congregation who have been negatively impacted financially by COVID-19.
Submitted by Rev. Ed Brock
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To give a plate offering to UUCH from your mobile device, text the amount (without dollar sign) to 833-559-0257, and follow the instructions.
Like our other online and mobile giving options, this is through Vanco, is secure, and has a good option for "plate" donations.
Text giving is by debit or credit card only. To give from your bank account, you can still use the UUCH website or the GivePlus+ mobile app.
Submitted by the Finance Committee
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Need a Nature Break and a UU friend? Welcome to the Socially Distanced Church Social!
Times are tough and likely to get tougher before we are together again in our building on Broadmor. But this is a chance to sit in the front yard, listen to birds, and get a tour of the budding vegetables in the garden. We hope this may be enough reward to lure people out.
LaDawn Edwards of the Care Committee is hosting a gathering every Monday at 10 a.m. (weather permitting). Bring your lawn chair, or be willing to pull up a bucket. Please note that access to the church itself is limited during this time. Bring poetry, crafts, or just your problems to share. We'll see you there!
Submitted by the Care Committee
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Using Zoom at work? Put those skills to good use!
As we adapt to our new digital form of communion, the Technology Committee is looking for volunteers to help facilitate our congregational Zoom meetings on Sunday mornings. Training will be provided, though some experience and familiarity with Zoom or other web-meeting platforms is desired.
Submitted by the Technology Committee
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Little Food Pantry Needs You
Our outdoor food pantry is being heavily used, with an estimated 12 visitors per day, both families and homeless individuals. YOU can help keep it stocked by signing up on the SignUp Genius.
Items to consider buying include the following:
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anned meats, cereals, mac and cheese, pasta, peanut butter and jelly, ravioli, energy bars, fruit cups/cans, pasta and alfredo sauce, soups, packets of dried potatoes, beef stew, canned milk, instant ramen, baby wipes, peanuts, canned veggies, beanie weanies, oatmeal, onions, bananas, potatoes, etc.
Please
contact the church office if you would like to schedule a drop-off and request assistance. Or feel free to stop by and stock the pantry on your own. It would help if you checked the SignUp Genius and maybe come on off-days. There is a black storage box located just outside the door in which you can place extra pantry supplies. Thanks to everyone who has helped keep the pantry stocked for our hungry neighbors.
Submitted by the Social Justice and Care Committees
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"Side with Love" and protect yourself and others. We have found a way to have our yellow social justice slogan on a protective, cloth face mask. We thought some of you might like to have one. If you are interested in placing an order, email the church office. We will be selling them at cost, which will be $8.00 each. We will place the first order on June 12, so notify us by then if you are interested. Remind the world wherever you go that you Side with Love.
Submitted by the Board
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Instead of a recipe, Jessica Schulz shares one of her favorite food-related poems, "How to Stuff a Pepper," by the talented poet and author Nancy Willard, wherein the cook considers the miracle that is a green pepper:
Now, said the cook, I will teach you
how to stuff a pepper with rice.
Take your pepper green, and gently,
for peppers are shy. No matter which side
you approach, it's always the backside.
Perched on her green buttocks, the pepper sleeps.
In its silk tights, it dreams
of somersaults and parsley,
of the days when the sexes were one.
Slash open the sleeve
as if you were cutting into a paper lantern,
and enter a moon, spilled like a melon,
a fever of pearls, a conversation of glaciers.
It is a temple built to the worship
of morning light. I
have sat under the great globe
of seeds on the roof of that chamber,
too dazzled to gather the taste I came for.
I have taken the pepper in hand,
smooth and blind, a runt in
the rich evolution of roses and ferns.
You say I have not taught you
to stuff a pepper?
Cooking takes time.
Next time we'll consider the rice.
'How to stuff a pepper' from Nancy Willard's Carpenter of the Sun, Liveright, 1974.
Submitted by the Hospitality Committee
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Care List
Joys and Sorrows will return next week.
This week we light a candle for our country as we support the protestors standing in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
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