Strengthen your faith and connect with our community.
Join us for worship, Sundays at 10 a.m.
Pine Grove Elementary School
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When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities.
-The Dalai Lama
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Join us for worship!
August 19th:
Finding Spirit in Community, 10 a.m.
A faith community celebrates not only the care, learning, and action created through personal relationships–-it also celebrates the life-giving connection to what Rev. Jann Halloran calls the vertical dimension: the Spirit.
Don't forget to bring your backpacks!
Rev. Jann and the Prairie community will have a special blessing for all those returning to school this Fall.
There is something that makes us more than the sum of our parts. Love, joy, compassion, gentleness, creativity and kindness grow in a spiritual way within a faith community. In this service, we will explore the many ways that Spirit and Mystery add to our experiences and create our religious home. Eric Moon providing music.
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Nurturing Community Through Justice - August 26
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Don't miss our upcoming
August Service Sunday
where we'll have a shortened worship service and then head out for some social justice work in our community.
All ages welcome!
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Friendly Reminders:
- Children must have adult supervision at all times and should only be in designated areas rented by Prairie in the school.
- All doors are to remain shut and locked from 9:30am - 12:30pm (end of service)
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Pastoral Care Training Workshop - THIS SATURDAY
August 18, 10am - 2pm
This training is for anyone; whether you are part of the Caring Circle or just interested in how to better approach loss and grief in your personal life.
Bring a brown bag lunch or snack; coffee, tea and water will be provided.
Location: Rev. Jann's home.
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PARKER TASK FORCE FOOD DRIVE:
Parker Needs Prairie-NOW!
As the cost of living skyrockets, more than 600 families from Parker, Elizabeth, and Franktown have approached Parker Task Force (PTF) for assistance and their pantry is dry!
There is no waiting for the holidays - they need food STAT.
Here's How Prairie Can Help:
- Sunday 8/19: Kim will have PTF bags with lists of what’s needed – please grab some and either fill them yourselves or distribute in your neighborhood and pick them up later – instructions will be included with the PTF bags! Bring the filled bags to church with you on 8/26.
- Wednesday 8/22: Melissa will be coordinating with Prairie Youth to distribute PTF bags in the Stonegate Community. If you are youth or parent of youth and have not yet connected with Melissa, please do so now: 720.471.0853
- Service Sunday 8/26: You can help collect filled PTF bags in the Stonegate Community, bring them back to church and/or help sort the canned goods after Fellowship 11:30 to 1.
Questions? Contact Melissa at 720.471.0853 or Kim at 720.636.1912
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AIDS Walk/Festival of Life, Saturday, August 18
Location: Cheesman Park. An all-day event.
Let’s make sure that Prairie UU joins thousands of people from around Colorado who come together annually to support agencies and programs providing services to people living with or impacted by HIV. They do this through fundraising, increasing awareness, and remembering those we have lost to AIDs.
Learn more:
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HIA and HH of Metro Fundraiser
Il Fornaio’s Grill Greenwood Village
September 6, 4-8pm
Il Fornaio is partnering with Prairie and Habitat for Humanity for Non-Profit night on September 6, from 4-8pm. On this night and during this time frame, II Fornaio will donate back
10% of our food proceeds to the Habitat for Humanity
of Metro Denver (Happy Hour not included).
Il Fornaio’s award-winning authentic Italian cuisine is a favorite.
Specialties include house-made pastas, wood-fired pizza, grilled fish, authentic risotto, rotisserie meats and fresh artisan breads. Using the freshest ingredients and traditional cooking techniques, Il Fornaio offers a wide variety of premium-quality Italian food paired with great wines and cocktails.
If you would like to carpool or get more information on this fundraiser, contact Kyra Storojev at:
kyradwn@gmail.com
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Territorio Liberado 2018: Music Community, & Resistance Saturday, September 15, 3pm-dark, Goosetown Tavern
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Prairie Auction Needs Your Donations!
It's time to think about what you can donate to the 2018 Prairie Auction...
A dinner? Murder Mystery? Activity? Is there a special talent you can share with others? Maybe a Saturday afternoon course on Underwater Basket Weaving... Or a Sunday evening dinner and movie for 8 where you serve
shrimp on the barbie
. The options are limitless.
Contributing is EASY! You can pick up a form at church, or look on the website and soon a form will be available for downloading.
Are you a past contributor?
If you want to donate something similar to what you donated last year, just let us know, and we can copy the listing from last year. Just pick a new date!
Picking a date is SUPER IMPORTANT so that we do not double book events! Send all questions and contribution details to Jan Spooner:
megjpt@comcast.net
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Pictures Needed!
Please send us your favorite pictures of Prairie! We need activities, events, places and faces. We are putting together a memory lane for the September 29 auction. Our theme for this year's auction is:
The Journey Continues... Keep Dreaming!
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Marketing Committee Meeting
Tuesday, August 21, 6-8pm, Parker Library
The Marketing Committee will meet at the Parker Library (the “Loft” meeting room). We are calling anyone and everyone interested in helping spread the word about Prairie! If you are a writer, artist, or are just generally have interest/expertise in traditional, web, and social media marketing, you are encouraged and welcome to attend!!
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Justice League Meeting: Sunday, Sep. 9, 12:45-3pm
Lone Tree Library in "The Studio"
10055 Library Way, Lone Tree CO 80124
We’ll do a recap of our retreat and pick up where we left off! Details coming soon!
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Mark Your Calendar for These
Important Events in September!
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Town Meeting, Sunday September 9, 11:30
(after Fellowship)
Join us, after Fellowship Time!
President Janet Stevens and Treasurer Tom Heisler will explain the process involved in hiring an Interim Minister and once that position is in place, the steps to hiring a Settled Minister.
Additionally, at this meeting we will introduce you to the work that our Visioning Team, which was formed last March, will be doing with the Congregation.
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"Dream Our Future Church," Sunday, Sep. 23, 10-2pm
Please attend this important meeting where the
Visioning Team
will engage the congregation in a positive Appreciative Inquiry process. This is a very important Prairie UU meeting as we
Dream Our Future Church
. All Prairie UU members and friends should attend this special 4-hour meeting, at Pine Grove Elementary School, as we work together to form a positive vision for our future. This meeting will begin at our usual Service time – 10:00 am and continue until 2:00 pm. Lunch will be served and child care will be provided.
Please attend and help us build our dream community.
Your input is vital to our vision! For more information you can contact the Visioning Team co-chairs, Jennifer Drybread (H: 303-688-6620) or Susan Ermisch (c:303-619-8536).
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Suicide Awareness in September
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NAMI Aurora Education Night
– Monday, Sep. 10, 7-8pm
Medical Center of Aurora 700 Potomac, Aurora
Attend this insightful dialogue with the Aurora PD’s Crisis Intervention Team (CIT). The CIT model is an internationally recognized collaborative training for community and law enforcement in effective techniques for de-escalating mental health crises.
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Suicide Intervention Skills Gatekeeper Training
Tuesday, September 11, 6:30-8:30pm
This training helps you know how to: question, persuade and refer someone who may be suicidal. Cost is $5.00.
See
abidinghope.ccbchurch.com
for details and registration, or contact Timothy Bishop at 720.380.6426.
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Documentary Film Screening,
Suicide: The Ripple Effect
Wednesday, September 12, 7:30-9:30pm
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Empowering Our Children in Challenging Times
(Suicide Prevention) Wednesday, Sep. 19, 6:30-8:30pm
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Prairie Helped Change the Wording of Our Second Source
Dear Members and Friends,
We recently received a thank you note from Rev. Jami Yandle of Ohio who helped lead a movement to change our Second Source to make it more gender neutral and also include people of all ages.
In the Second Source, words and deeds of prophetic "women and men," now simply says "prophetic people":
"Words and deeds of
prophetic people
which challenge us to confront powers and structures of evil with justice, compassion, and the transforming power of love;"
Rev. Yandle's note to the Prairie Board of Trustees reads:
I am writing to thank you for being one of the 15 'sponsoring congregations' which helped pass an amendment to our bylaws Article II section C-2.1. I began this initiative over two years ago with a goal of updating our Second Source language, from the portion which read 'prophetic women and men,' to be replaced by 'prophetic people.' The update is now inclusive of children and youth, as well as persons of all gender identities and expressions.
The initiative had to first be approved by 15 congregations at board level; Richard Lubchenco was successful in completing the paperwork, making your congregation a sponsoring congregation. The initiative was then placed on the business agenda at General Assembly '17, where it passed preliminary vote thanks to our delegates. It then passed final vote at GA '18 and has since been updated.
A big thank you to your leadership and Rev. Kierstin Homblette Allen, who helped get the word out in the Colorado area. Thanks so much for helping change our Second Source!
-- Jami Yandle
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Singing with Nick Page at Sunrise Ranch: Aug. 24-26
Do you love to sing? Join Unitarian Universalist musicians from across Colorado to spend an uplifting and enlightening weekend of music and song with the multi-talented Nick Page (
http://nickmusic.com/
). The Colorado Unitarian Universalist Choir Retreat is August 24th – 26th, 2018 at beautiful Sunrise Ranch in Loveland, CO.
This event is open to everyone, you do not need to sing in a choir to participate!
Come for the whole weekend, or for just one day on Saturday, August 25th.
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Newsletter and Announcement Contributions
Your contributions are always appreciated! All requests should be sent to
prairie@prairieuu.org
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To streamline incoming notifications, please put the word 'announcement' and/or 'newsletter' in the subject line of your email.
Please make a note of our new production schedule deadlines for contributions:
- Weekly email newsletter deadline Tuesday at noon.
- Order of Service and Sunday Announcements deadline Wednesday by 5pm.
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There's nothing simpler than giving while you grocery shop!
Go to our fundraising table during Fellowship Hour
or see Margaux Jones to purchase your $20 re-loadable card.
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Prairie UU Church
7424 South University Blvd. Unit E-135
Centennial, CO 80122
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Our Mission:
We gather as a welcoming, caring community to nurture mind and spirit,
celebrate diversity, and work for justice.
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