June 22nd, 2018
June 24th, Sunday...
Open Issues
:
9:30-10:30, Patio Room
Don Ekberg. “Airline Passenger Safety”.
Don spent 30 years in the U.S. Air Force as an aviation physiologist. He has a PhD in physiology and is a long-time member of UUC.
Sunday Service:
10:30-11:45
Service Leader: Ray Williamson hosts a video from the UU General Assembly
This week's Pastoral Associate: Susan Hegner
Religious Enrichment:
UUC Religious Enrichment invites kids of all ages to attend our summer RE program
Passport to Peace
!
Come get your passports stamped for adventure as we explore a different country each Sunday and learn about what makes them unique."
Share the Plate Recipient for June: ShelterBox
The selection for the June Share the Plate is ShelterBox
. ShelterBox is an international disaster relief charity that provides emergency shelter and life saving supplies to displaced families following a natural disaster or humanitarian crisis. In April 2000, a Rotary Club in Cornwall, England adopted ShelterBox as its millennium project. Little did they know that it would become the largest Rotary club project in the world . Right now, around 85 million people around the world have been displaced by natural disaster and conflict. ShelterBox is working to change this. Since ShelterBox was founded, they have responded to over 300 disasters and humanitarian crises in more than 95 different countries and provided emergency aid for 1.2 million people. ShelterBox aid is tailored to a disaster but typically includes a disaster relief tent for a family, thermal blankets and groundsheets, water storage and purification equipment, solar lamps, cooking utensils, a basic tool kit, mosquito nets and children’s activity pack. The ShelterBox solution in disaster response is as simple as it is effective. They deliver the essentials people need to survive and begin to rebuild their lives in the aftermath of a disaster. Please give generously. For more information go to
www.shelterboxUSA.org
Covenant Group Sign Up
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to sign up for a Covenant Group or to stay in your current group.
If signing up online is not for you, call the office at 727-531-7704.
Exhale Now Weekly!! Wednesdays at 6:00-6:45 pm in the Sanctuary
By popular demand, Exhale - Mindfulness and Meditation is going to run weekly.
Come sit or walk with us in a simple format that focuses on breath. Our large sanctuary has room for both sitting and walking meditation. We meditate for 10 minutes or so, three or four times. Late-comers welcome, enter softly. Stay for tea and conversation afterward. Contact Kathy Krohn at:
uuc.kathykrohn@gmail.com
UUA 2018 General Assembly online
from Wednesday June 20 to Sunday June 24
Many GA 2018 events and lectures will be live-streamed from Kansas City. Be sure to account for the fact that here in Florida everything will be an hour later than in Kansas City, which is on Central Time.
In particular, the Black Lives Matter Committee recommends:
Ware Lecture, Saturday June 23, 2018, from 8:30 to 9:30 pm Eastern Time. (7:30 to 8:30 pm Central Time)
Brittany Packnett is an African American woman and leader at the intersection of culture and justice.
From the Refugee Committee:
UUC will be collecting backpacks and school supplies for refugee students again this summer!
The 2018-2019 collection will focus on the children of families who have participated in ESL classes at UUC with overflow to be distributed to local schools (Belcher Elementary and Oak Grove Middle School, both of whom have populations of ESL and Title 1 students).
Volunteers will be needed to organize and distribute the backpacks following Backpack Blessing Sunday on August 5. The collection point will be located by the Social Justice table in the Social Hall; feel free to leave your donations in the bin!
Please see the list of backpack supplies needed at this
link
Hard copies will be available on Sunday.
June 24th, Sunday: Humanists Monthly Meeting
12:30-1:30, Octagon
The UUC Humanist Group is co-sponsoring with the
Center for Inquiry
, a special guest for our next meeting on June 24
th
. Ron Cooper, author of a new novel titled
The Gospel of the Twin,
will be our speaker.
About the Speaker:
Ron was born in South Carolina. He received a BA in philosophy from the College of Charleston, an MA from the University of South Carolina, and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University. He moved to Florida in 1988 and since 1995 has taught at College of Central Florida in Ocala where he lives with his wife Sandra (also a CF faculty member) and their three children. Ron is a past president of the Florida Philosophical Association, has published philosophical essays, and his fiction has appeared in several publications. His novels
Hume’s Fork
and
Purple Jesus
are available from Bancroft Press.
June 27th, Wednesday:
A second chance to see the movie "
This Changes Everything
"
The movie, filmed in nine countries and five continents over four years, "
This Changes Everything
" is an epic attempt to re-imagine the challenge of climate change. 7:00 PM in the Patio Room.
June 28th, Thursday: Meet the Editor--our own Susan Gore-- of "Coming Out in Faith"
6:00-8:30 pm, Surti Center
Coming Out in Faith: Voices of LGBTQ UU's
shares 15 stories by UUs about their lives at the intersection of being LGBTQ and a person of faith. It has been named one of three “must reads” on the topic and is currently the June GoodRead for the UU Social Justice book group.
Her goal for Thursday, June 28 is to create a safe space where anyone may ask the questions that concern them, as well as sharing their own experiences, in a mutually respectful learning community.
A little about Susan...Those of you who know Susan probably think of her as a high-energy co-chair of the annual canvass and someone who seems to love the spotlight - as “Zippy” (Moses’ wife) in a recent canvass skit and a Vagina Monologues dominatrix, a hugger who loves the “greet your neighbor” part of the service, a recent Texas transplant to Gulfport, a house painter (with brushes and rollers, not easels and palettes), and, in general, a smiling face in our beloved community. In her introduction as a new member of our congregation in Oct. 2015, we learned she is single, has 3 cats and lives in a condo overlooking Boca Ciega Bay. Susan also drives the MiniCooper convertible you see each Sunday wedged between the fire hydrant and “visitors” parking.
All of that is true, except the spotlight part. Susan says the Vagina Monologues was her first time on stage – and a REALLY BIG personal stretch.
In addition, Susan holds a PhD in psychology, a Masters in Theological Studies and is co-editor of the book for this discussion.
July 3rd, Tuesday
-- UUC Office will be closed on the 3rd AND 4th of July. Happy holidays everyone!
July 5th, Thursday: Women's Lunch Out
2:00 p.m. at Benedict's at Belcher and Old Coachman Road, Clearwater
Please email, text, or call me to reserve a seat at the table. Lunch is a busy time, and we need to let them know how many to expect in order for them to save us enough room so we can all sit together. Marie Chapman
harborhome38@aol.com 727-647-4089
July 5th, Thursday: End of Life Choices Meeting
1:30-3:00 pm, Patio Room
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Readers Forum: On Summer Break.
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