May 23, 2019
Issue #501

The message is about knowing ourselves deeply. About living deeply and authentically as to whom our Creator called us to be. We are called to "Know Thyself" and Love our neighbor.

 

Jordan Decker is a National/International Speaker, Nonprofit Founder, and Accidental Activist. Having known the depths of bullying, suicidal ideation, fear for his life, and his learning that 57% of trans youth will attempt suicide, threw him into the spotlight and out of the closet once again, this time as an Accidental Evangelist! His non-profit "Trans HeartLine" builds bridges between Faith, Spirituality, and Gender using education and advocacy to provide safe post-op housing for gender-affirming surgeries.

Dear ones,

Our search process for our next Director of Family Ministries has begun! Please help spread the word by sharing the following job announcement widely. The Search Committee (Susan Mathews, Rich Cohen, Sarah Tiederman, Tiffany Rowe, and myself) will be reviewing applications, conducting interviews and hopefully recommending a candidate to the Board in June.

We know that this new staff member will be vital in continuing to grow our community and support the spiritual lives of our children, youth and families. Thank you for helping us find the right fit!

With you on the journey,

Rev. Marcus Hartlief

revmarcus@uumarin.org

Starting new things can be both exciting and terrifying.  Leaving the familiar and heading out into the relative unknown, the liminal space, the creative pregnant in-between is both familiar and strange. My preparation to take leave of UUCM is personal and spiritual growth in and of itself. In ministerial language, it is sometimes called "leave-taking." I/we have a chance to practice healthy goodbyes and relationship endings. Most of us have had plenty of the other kind of relationship endings with dangling closures. So, I invite you to join me in practicing healthy leave-taking. If you have anything that needs to be shared with me in order to have closure, I am open to a letter, call, or a face-to-face moment. Hugs are always welcome too. 

Upcoming dates link to the UUCM calendar for saving on iCal, Outlook, etc.

 

How do you act out the title of the "Game of Thrones"  TV series without speaking? How quickly could your teammates guess "Middlemarch" if you stomped in place in the middle of the room? The "War" part of Tolstoy's novel might be easy to portray, but what about the "Peace" part? (Would it "sound like" peas or piece?)

Come release your creative side in a low-key pickup game of Charades. Carol and Doug Kerr and Jan Seagrave will be the ringleaders of this tomfoolery, which is being added to the regular Family Games Night beginning Friday, June 7, from 7 to 9 pm. We will gather in the Fireside Room with the rest of the board and card-gamers, but will move shortly thereafter to the Dream Room for our antics. Instructions and the few supplies needed will be provided. Adults and teens are invited to join in. Please bring your ideas for movie,TV, play, song, and novel titles, and very short quotations, for a member of the opposing team to act out silently and for their teammates to guess. Bring potluck snacks to share with all the gamers, to the Fireside Room, if you wish. 

For more information, contact Jan Seagrave or Carol Kerr.

General Assembly is the annual meeting of our Unitarian Universalist Association.  Attendees worship, witness, learn, connect, and make policy for the Association through democratic process.  Anyone may attend; congregations must certify annually to send voting delegates.  The 2019 General Assembly will be June 19-23 in Spokane, Washington. Most General Assembly events will be held in the Spokane Convention Center. https://www.uua.org/ga

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