Understanding the Web of Oppression
Service Leader: Rowdy Duncan
Sunday, May 6, 10:30 AM
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Continuing to explore our challenge to White Supremacy, we explore the systems of socialization that condition us to be, act and perform to keep oppression in place. This service, and the workshop that follows, engage us in going deeper to be justice-centered in a complex and changing world.
ASL Interpreter at this service.
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Web of Oppression Workshop
Sunday, May 6, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in the Sanctuary
Facilitator: Rowdy Duncan
What does it mean to be white in America; what does it mean to be a person of color -- what are the expectations in those roles? This workshop explores the Web of Oppression: what it is, how it works and how it is held in place, unconsciously keeping “the other” feeling welcomed but still at times like an outsider. It is up to us to damage this web of oppression and separation, and there are daily tasks we can adopt to carry this work forward.
Rowdy Duncan has worked in the field of diversity and inclusion for over a decade. He has developed workshops informing about issues related to “colorblindness,” Interest Based Negotiations, Nonviolent Communication and Conflict Resolution, Positive Masculinity, and seeing People as Possibilities. Rowdy mentors and teaches young people and their leaders about power, privilege, equity, and inclusion. He directs the Paradise Valley Community College’s Diversity, Incorporated., a program that teaches students how to present the MOSAIC inclusiveness program, and he is an active member of the Healing Racism Public Dialogue Series, winner of the 2008 National League of Cities Promoting Inclusive Award. Rowdy produces and delivers his Inclusive Activism Podcast bi-weekly to his thousands of listeners about how the intersections of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity work are a form of Personal Leadership.
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Love in a Bouquet (Multigen)
Service Leader: Rev. Margret A. O'Neall
Sunday, May 13, 10:30 AM
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The Flower Communion celebrates our common unity in all our beauty and diversity, the love that holds us in active covenant, and our bright presence in the world. Today we also bridge our youth into their adult UU identity. Please bring a flower to share in our annual flower exchange.
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Share the Plate with
The Welcome to America Project
Sunday, May 13, 10:30 AM in the Sanctuary
The Welcome to America Project (WTAP) creates community connections and builds bridges of neighborly understanding by providing furniture, basic necessities, education, and additional resources to newly arriving refugees. But WTAP delivers more than furniture. We deliver welcomes. We’ve provided warm welcomes to more than 2,500 Phoenix area refugee families, helping to turn fear into hope. The shared plate will help us furnish the homes of refugees and enhance future welcomes.
The Welcome to America Project offers a simple welcoming gesture, but it is one that lasts a lifetime.
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As of today we have raised 82% of our Stewardship Campaign fundraising goal for next year's ministry priorities to live into our vision.
Thank you to the 222 households who have returned their pledge form and renewed their commitment to Live Into Our Promise.
If the remaining households who have yet to renew their pledges do so at the same level as last year, we will reach 94% of our goal.
That is an achievable gap to fill, if those who have already pledged will make an additional one-time gift or modest pledge increase. Your additional gifts or pledge increases can make it happen!
If we reach our fundraising goal these are the mission priorities we can achieve:
- Increase the capacity and frequency of the Our Whole Lives (OWL) program for children and adults
- Expand the Children’s Ministry curriculum for depth and engagement, and rebuild programs that connect across the generations
- Build on our work in anti-racism and anti-oppression through speakers, programs, workshops and other opportunities for learning and engagement
- Expand capacity development and deepening spiritual exploration for those in leadership positions
- Deepen connections among ourselves through service, social action and community-building
- Increase access and participation in Adult Faith Development opportunities
- Sustain and expand American Sign Language (ASL) translation for greater inclusion
- Support Living Wage and Fair Employment practices by fully implementing them with our own staff
- Assure a powerful presence for social justice through strong partnerships and showing up
- Prepare a strong foundation for the next ministry
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Green Sanctuary Group
Tuesday, May 8, 6:30 PM in Office #2
We will be planning a goal-setting/charter renewing potluck, possibly partnering with a new outside group, maybe starting a Farmer's Market at UUCP, and reviewing on-going projects such as sale of LED bulbs, connections with ECC and CHISPA, and speakers about environmental topics. Visitors are welcome, and light refreshments are served.
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Sangha Buddhist Group
Tuesday, May 8, 7:00 PM in the Sanctuary
We will start the meeting with 30 minutes of meditation followed by a dharma reading and discussion. You need not be a Buddhist to attend, just interested in your spiritual growth. If you have questions, contact Donna Featherston at 602-997-7996.
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Phoenix Restoration Project: How you can help
Immigrants are released from detention almost every day, often with children, to travel by bus to relatives in the U.S. as they await resolution of their legal cases. They are given next to nothing for their journeys. We are collecting supplies to take to the volunteers who meet them at the Greyhound station to give them provisions and wish them well.
Most needed items are:
Granola bars, Ritz crackers, single-serve peanut butter/cheese crackers, single-serve mixed fruit cups, single-serve applesauce in squeeze packets, small bags of nuts, plastic utensils, and
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eusable shopping bags to hold all! Please place your donations in the plastic bins under the Advancing Justice tables at the back of the Sanctuary.
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RE Program Summer Sunday Sessions!
Each year, community members from UUCP lead the kids in wild, wonderful, fun-filled journeys into our UU faith. This year, we ask that folks volunteer in pairs to lead a two week session. Together you work to build connection across families and generations. Curriculum and materials are all prepared for you. All you have to do is pick a topic you like and sign up at the Children's Ministry Table on Sunday morning. (Or email Katie at
KatieResendiz@phoenixuu.org
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Final Traveling Second Friday of the Season
Friday, May 11, 7:00 PM-8:00 PM in the Sanctuary
Claude Guldner will present THE WORLD: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. In our beautiful world there is also a beastly side operating. World Health Organization attempts to deal with these issues unknown to most travelers. Claude will share some of these world concerns and our process of dealing with them. Claude Guldner has a PhD in psychology with a specialty in child abuse and exploitation issues and consulted with WHO since 1984. Questions call Barbara at 480-994-1452.
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Radically Inclusive Yoga Movement Class
Wednesdays 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM in the Sanctuary
Join long-time yoga instructor Lora Gustafson for an all-ages, all abilities yoga session. Sessions will cater to who shows up. Goals include building a greater mind/body connection through breathing, increased circulation, stimulation of the nervous system, greater range of motion and sense of peace. Extra mats available.
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Calling All Artists!
The Sanctuary Art Team is calling all artists who are members and/or friends of UUCP to participate in the 2018 fall art show. It’s time to get your artwork ready. Set up for the show will be Saturday September 1, 2018. For forms and information about how to participate contact Bill Snowden at 623-341-6189 or
SanctuaryTeam@PhoenixUU.org
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Open (Drop-In) Small Group
Thursday, May 17, 7:00 PM in Annex B
Small Group Ministry is an ideal way to connect to others and tend to your heart and spirit at UUCP. Life can feel like a frenzied struggle against a materialistic world, which leaves us feeling disconnected from our deepest selves and without the energy to reach out in love and service to others. They follow the monthly worship themes and offer a way to engage the themes in your daily life and grow and learn with a group while sharing your own story, insights and learnings.
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VIF Ensemble at UUCP
Saturday, May 19, 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM in the Sanctuary
Clarinetist Erin Finkelstein is joined by violinist Karen Sinclair and cellist Melita Hunsinger from the Phoenix Symphony for an afternoon of chamber music featuring works by Haydn, Raphael, Hindemith, Connesson, Kovacs, and Dahl. This eclectic program will delight your senses and expose you to lesser known gems in the chamber music repertoire! Ticket at
http://www.phoenixuu.org/vif-ensemble-at-uucp/
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Annual Congregational Meeting
Sunday, June 3, 11:45 AM after service in the Sanctuary
Mark your calendar for the Annual Congregational Meeting. All members are encouraged to attend to elect leaders and approve the operating budget, get updates on everything going on and the plans for the coming year.
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