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All Souls Unitarian Universalist E-Letter
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This week's editor:
Beth Woods
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Currently All Souls has no office hours, in keeping with the best health and safety practices during the COVID-19 pandemic. Links to email our minister or office admin are provided above.
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 service this week
07/05 ~ Muhammad goes to heaven
Join us via Zoom: Join us as community minister, Rev. Roger Butts, celebrating his 18th year of ministry in the Unitarian Universalist tradition, preaches about one of his all time favorite stories. In the story, Muhammad, God, and Moses decide how many times a person should pray every day, at least for one part of the beloved community. Abraham, Jesus and a whole lot of others are part of the scene too. It is a story of mutuality and respect and love, love, love. And it says a lot about one dream of God and one dream of humanity. Muhammad takes quite a journey, and has quite the cheerleaders along the way.
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all souls news
socially-distanced soirees
Beginning 7/2, Nori will be holding socially distanced soirees in the front garden of the church at 10am on Thursdays. And by soirees she means bring your own lawn chair and come sit a spell, 6 feet apart, with a mask on! Just because we can't go inside our beautiful building, doesn't mean we can't enjoy the beautiful garden that our B&G Team has been keeping up so faithfully this summer. We will begin with an hour together and see how it goes! Hope to see you soon!
youth coordinator position
Our Religious Exploration Team is happy to announce that we will be hiring a Youth Coordinator this summer! All Souls and High Plains UU churches are joining forces once again to create a Colorado Springs YRUU (Young Religious Unitarian Universalists) Group! You can find the job description and how to apply
here.
affinity and covenant group update
It's been a while since our small groups have met! If your affinity or covenant group is interested
in resuming meetings on Zoom, we currently have a church account that can be shared by multiple groups; meetings just need to be one at a time. If your group is interested in meeting on Zoom, please
contact A.B. to receive instructions on proceeding further with our Zoom account.
little free library
Our little free library in front of the church is running low on books. If you have books to donate, you can put them through the mail slot in the front door of the church, and A.B. will make them available to whichever book club member is tending the LFL this month.
reflections from the frontline
Contemplative Light asked Rev. Roger Butts, Staff Chaplain at Penrose St. Francis Health Services and Affiliated Community Minister for All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church in Colorado Springs, to write about
how he is coping these days.
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religious exploration
e-re
This summer, e-RE will meet before service, 9:45-10:15am! This will be the e-RE time for June, July, and August. Join us this summer for some fun days in June and Summer Story-Time beginning in July. Click here to access e-RE, or click the link from our website.
Zoom links have been updated on the website and emailed to registered parents. Please contact Beth Green with any questions.
monthly calendar
To keep track of what's going on in e-RE, a monthly calendar that will be emailed to parents, and
available here to reference or to print from home.
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children
07/05
Today is a day off for e-RE! Enjoy your holiday weekend and stay safe!!
monthly calendar
To keep track of what's going on in e-RE, there is a monthly calendar that will be emailed to parents, and
available here, to reference or to print from home.
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youth
youth coordinator position
Our Religious Exploration Team is happy to announce that we will be hiring a Youth Coordinator this summer! All Souls and High Plains UU churches are joining forces once again to create a Colorado Springs YRUU (Young Religious Unitarian Universalists) Group! You can find the job description and how to apply
here.
summer hiatus
Youth Group is officially on summer hiatus from meeting. Please stay tuned for exciting new things coming to Youth Group in the fall. Enjoy your summer!
This year, PWR is holding a virtual week-long multi-faceted event for Middle and High School Youth (rising 6th - class of 2020). This event will be held July 5-12 and registration opens this week! Fees are starting at $115 with small increases for additional tracking and programming. Scholarships are available and can be
found here. No interested youth will be turned away! Join FUUsion this summer: 4 districts, 1 region, virtUUally together! Please contact Beth at
DRE@asuuc.net if you have a youth interested in attending.
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joys & concerns
Join Rev. Nori EVERY Tuesday at 5:30pm for "Tuesdays with Nori." This remains an informal time to check in with one another, share our joys and concerns, and enjoy the beverage and snacks of our choice from our homes. This is the Zoom link, and it can also be found at the top of our homepage on our website.
joys
concerns
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local activism & awareness
Editors' note: Occasionally, changes are made to these events after publication. Please click on the links provided if you are interested in attending something, to make sure the details have not changed.
Thank you!
7/3, 5:30-7:30pm, at City Hall, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" The 3rd community read-through of Frederick Douglass' "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" will be held on the steps of City Hall. Readers from the community will voice this powerful text. Come hear Douglass through the voices of A.B. Lugo, Rachel Corman, Ovadoze Lemuel, Jerima King, Ashley Cornelius, Nico Alvarado, Jonathan Andujar, Jennifer K Yancey, Michael Ferguson, and more. Masks on and give each soul a wide berth if you're not reading.
Ongoing
If you have survived the COVID-19 virus, you may be eligible to help other patients by donating plasma as part of a statewide project. For more information, visit
https://coloradocovidplasma.org, or contact Kate Crow at
kate.crow@centura.org or Will Crow at
willpcrow@yahoo.com.
Ongoing.
To donate to the Colorado COVID Relief Fund, click here.
Ongoing.
COVID Mask Crafters, an international collective of stitchers making home-sewn masks for healthcare workers, needs your help. Needed: sewers, donations of material (sheets, pillowcases, etc), drivers to pick up and deliver masks, and financial support. If you are interested in helping, please visit
https://covidmaskcrafters.org/
or email
coloradomaskcrafters@gmail.com.
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community news
Editors' note: Occasionally, changes are made to events after publication. Please click on the links provided if you are interested in attending something, to make sure the details have not changed. Thank you!
virtual choir
Isabel Alvarado is starting a Colorado Springs chapter of the Resistance Revival Chorus, which is a collective of womxn/women identifying/gender non-conforming/non-binary peoples who are passionate about singing and social justice.
Click here for more information.
grief & justice
Thanks to Karla Crescenta for this comprehensive list of resources regarding Grief and Justice. She got them from Carolyn Baker's Daily News Digest.
Please take a look at them. There are resources for people of color as well as people who identify as white or have white skin privilege.
lady liberty
No-one can actually visit Lady Liberty at the moment, but thanks to the National Park Service you can
visit virtually and explore the interior, exterior, and museum. Happy 4th July!
museum virtual tours online
At the General Assembly, the UUs collected funds for the Tomaquag Museum in Rhode Island. You can view 5 different museum tours online at the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/tomaquagmuseum
El Paso County has compiled a lengthy list of local food distribution locations
here. The webpage also includes a link to a website where you can see student meal pick-up locations throughout the city.
free medical care & prescriptions
People sometimes face the stark choice between food and medicine.
As costs of prescription drugs continue to rise and the numbers of uninsured continue to rise, providing a source for life-saving prescription drugs becomes critical. In Colorado's El Paso & Teller Counties, Open Bible Medical Clinic & Pharmacy also serves as a Community Pharmacy dispensing free prescription medication to our neighbors who are uninsured. Residents of the county can qualify for our services if they are at or below 200% of the Federal Poverty Level. 10am-2pm every Thursday and 9am-1pm every Saturday.
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all souls board of trustees
Wendy Mike, President
Justin Lincoln, Vice President
Jim Michali, Treasurer
Kathleen Brannan, Secretary
Judie McMath, Past President
Terry Schultz, Member-at-Large
Sarah Bethke, Member-at-Large
Evony McKenna, Member-at-Large
Jay Hatfield, Member-at-Large
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e-letter deadline
The deadline for each week's e-letter is Wednesday at noon, barring something truly unexpected, such as a last-minute cancellation. Other items submitted after deadline will run the following week. Please help us inform you by honoring the deadline. Thank you -- Tamsin & Beth
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