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UUC WEEK AT A GLANCE

Help Amendment 4 Get Passed!
Join us in phone banking at UUC.
in the Surti Hall
Bring your cell phone AND laptop or tablet. (be sure to bring your power cord for your device.) Go HERE to sign up at the Second Chances Website.
-- Next phone banking session is Sunday,Sept. 30th, 12:30-3:30 pm
--Tuesday, October 9th, 5:30-8:30 pm
--Sunday, October 21st, 12:30-3:30 pm
--Sunday, October 28th 12:30-3:30 pm
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September 23rd, Sunday...

Open Issues:  9:30-10:30, Patio Room
Joe Barkley. “Public Transport ”. Joe is the Vice Chair of the Board of PCTA (Pinellas County Transit Authority) since 2012

Sunday Service:  10:30-11:45
Service Leader: Rev. Patrice Curtis: "Sacred Words."

This week's Pastoral Associate: Drinda Lombardi

September 23rd, Sunday - The "One Blood" bus will be at UUC. Eat a good breakfast and give blood.

Exhale!!  Wednesdays at 6:00-6:45 pm in the Maxwell Library
Come sit or walk with us in a simple format that focuses on breath. We meditate for 20 minutes or so, stretch, then meditate again. Late-comers welcome, enter softly. Stay for hearty appetizers (we love your offerings too!) and conversation afterward. Contact Kathy Krohn at:  uuc.kathykrohn@gmail.com  

September 30th, Sunday. ..Open Issues:  9:30-10:30, Patio Room -- Open Issues.  Dani Hall. “Marijuana works, even for Autism?! 

Thursday, September 27th  - Social Justice "Evening Issues" and the Environmental Justice Committee presents "Chasing Coral,"6:30-9:30 pm, Community Center.
An extraordinary documentary about our disappearing coral reefs around the globe. What's happening to them and what can we do to save them.

Thursday, October 4th, Women's Lunch 12:00 PM - 2:00 pm (Benedict's Family Restaurant, 768 N. Belcher Rd, Clearwater (near intersection of Belcher and NE Coachman) RSVP Marie Chapman harborhome38@aol.com




Meet with Rev. Patrice Curtis
If you would like to meet with Rev. Patrice contact the office at 727-531-7704. If you wish to contact her, please call
(510) 852-9304.



Rev. Patrice Curtis
This Sunday
September 23rd, 2018
 Service 
Sunday, 10:30-11:45

Service Leader:
Rev. Patrice Curtis

" Sacred Words "

  Pastoral Care Associates

UUC has a strong team of lay Pastoral Associates who offer confidential, emotional support and spiritual companionship to fellow church members. You can access pastoral care by contacting Rev. Patrice Curtis at 727-531-7704 ext. 5 or revpatrice@uuc.org .
Please note that emails sent to the front office are not confidential; emails to Rev. Patrice are.
This week’s pastoral care associate is Drinda Lombardi and she is available at
727-531-7704 ext. 5.  
Open Issues
9:30-10:30 am
Patio Room
J oe Barkley. “Public Transport”. Joe is the Vice Chair of the Board of PCTA (Pinellas County Transit Authority) since 2012
  Flowers for Sunday Services
If you would like to supply the flowers for an upcoming Sunday service in honor of a special event or person in your life, please email Laura Daniel at flowers@uuc.org . She will help you coordinate your contribution. 
Vote YES on Amendment 4
Help spread the word! Sign up to phone bank
with us this coming Sunday!
Make a difference in our state! Be part of this important rights restoration movement!
On September 30th at 12:30 join the UUC phone bank to pass Amendment 4 this November.
First -- Click HERE to sign up at the Second Chances website. Then, bring your tablet or laptop and cell phone. We will be in the Surti Center. A light lunch will be served. We
want to have enough food for everyone so please register. If you would rather phone bank from your home at the same time and date you can sign up at the same place. Join us!
All About UUC -- an invitation to learn more
about our community
I f you are new to UUC, this is an invitation to join Rev. Patrice and others to learn more about our spiritual and religious community - fellowship groups, pastoral care, child dedications, a bit of history about our Sanctuary and community, what it's like to be a Member, opportunities to join in the goings-on, and more! 

Please join us this Sunday, September 23, at 12:30 pm in the Maxwell Library (in the same building where we hold Coffee Hour). We will wrap up no later than 1:45. 

RSVP to the Administrator so we can be sure to have enough materials for everyone, or call the office at 727-531-7704. 
Attention New UU's! A 3 week program just for you!
You, The New UU
This is an invitation to newcomers, those who have been attending UUC up to two years.   
The 3-week program is designed to welcome and orient newcomers to our Unitarian Universalist spiritual community. It will help you learn more about who we are and what we believe. You'll hear from some of our current members what it means to them to be a Unitarian Universalist. It will provide you with a chance for you as a newcomer to our congregation to connect with long-timers and our minister, Rev. Patrice. Finally, it will give you a chance to examine your own personal stories in the light of our Unitarian Universalist tradition and heritage. Snacks included!

Meets: in Classroom 2, Oct. 16, 23, and 30; 7:00-9:00 pm
Register here: 
Fair Trade Coffee Sales Is Back
Every 2nd Sunday at Social Hour!
The Social Justice Council will begin selling fair trade coffees and teas beginning on the second Sunday in September (the 9th) and every second Sunday throughout the coming year. This coffee is produced by a worker-owned enterprise that provides a fair wage directly to the workers. A portion of the proceeds supports both the local and the national level efforts of the UU Social Justice mission. We look forward to you becoming a regular monthly customer. There will be a variety of teas and coffee blends available. Payment can be done by cash, check, or credit card. We look forward to your participation.
The NAACP is bringing the documentary "13th" to UUC, Saturday, October 13th.

The film charts the explosive growth in America’s prison population; in 1970, there were about 200,000 prisoners; today, the prison population is more than 2 million. Although the U.S. has just 5% of the world’s population, it has  about 25% of the world’s prisoners , and about one in three prisoners are black men. More than 60% of the people in U.S prisons are people of color.
To read more and see the trailer click HERE
Refreshments and discussion to follow the film.
Honoring World Aids Day -- One City Chorus is coming to UUC Saturday, December 1st!
Save the date because this is going to be an exciting night of community and song.
One City Chorus sings about social justice, civil rights and equality. It attracts singers and audience members from the widest possible range of races, cultures, creeds and communities. Our philosophy is that the world would be a better place if everyone sang. That’s why the chorus has NO auditions. We welcome everyone – experienced and inexperienced singers alike.
Tickets will be going on sale in the next week or so. They will be $18.00 in advance and $20.00 at the door.
OCC has a repertoire that is near and dear to the UU's heart. Check out some of the possible songs on the program here: http://www.onecitychorus.org/our-music.html
Members and Pledging friends!!

The Membership and Welcoming Committee would 'welcome' some new faces behind the welcoming table. It's more than handing them a name tag -- it's engaging them and making them feel included in the UU experience. There are so many UUC'ers who are really good at that! Call the UUC office or speak to Barbara Brandt, or Sandy Hoover, or Helen DeVere and they will help you get involved.
Exhale is Weekly
Wednesdays 6-6:45 pm
A Gathering for Sitting and Moving Mindfulness.
Join us weekly in the Maxwell Library for meditation and some quiet moments of mindfulness and connection. All levels of meditators welcome. Stay for hearty appetizers.
FOOTNOTES FROM THE LIBRARY:
 BLACK LIVES MATTER AT UUC!
A new addition:

"When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir"   by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele

...from the Amazon review: 
Raised by a single mother in an impoverished neighborhood in Los Angeles, Patrisse Khan-Cullors experienced firsthand the prejudice and persecution Black Americans endure at the hands of law enforcement. For Patrisse, the most vulnerable people in the country are Black people. Deliberately and ruthlessly targeted by a criminal justice system serving a white privilege agenda, Black people are subjected to unjustifiable racial profiling and police brutality. In 2013, when Trayvon Martin’s killer went free, Patrisse’s outrage led her to co-found Black Lives Matter with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi.

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The Library is also expanding a shelf featuring UUC authors, but we need some help. The section is located just below the Unitarian Universalism section. Please stop by and see if your favorite UUC author is there, and more importantly, if you have copies of these UUC works, consider donating them to the Library.

Let me know about Books, CD's or other material that have had an impact on your Spiritual/Intellectual Journey!

Please let us know what they are because they might also be available to others.

Contact: 


Famous
UUs ...

NAACP Co-Founder, Mary White Ovington.  
In the wake of the 1908 anti-Negro riots in Springfield, Illinois, Ovington was inspired by a report by William English Walling which ended with the challenging question, “what large and powerful body of citizens is ready to come to [the Negro’s] aid?” She suggested to Walling that a new interracial organization was needed, and they, with a few others, formed a committee that issued a call for a national conference. Among the 60 signers of the Call were both blacks—DuBois, Francis Grimke, and Ida Wells-Barnett—and whites—Jane Addams, William Dean Howells, John Dewey,  John Haynes Holmes Jenkin Lloyd Jones Harriot Stanton Blatch , Anna Garlin Spencer, and Lincoln Steffens. They were for the most part recruited from Ovington’s various circles of acquaintance. The resulting National Negro Conference, held in New York in 1909, contained a series of anti-racist addresses by distinguished scholars and clergy. The second conference in 1910 transformed itself into the permanent body known as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
The engagement of DuBois was one of Ovington’s chief goals in helping to found the NAACP. During the first twenty years of the Association she exercised her considerable diplomatic powers to keep him as Director and editor of their periodical, The Crisis, in spite of personality clashes with other executive officers and alienation caused by his increasingly militant pronouncements. Ultimately DuBois’s and Ovington’s paths diverged. When in the 1930s he called for voluntary black segregation, she helped to keep the NAACP focused on the goal of integration.
I nheritors of the Spirit: Mary White Ovington and the Founding of the NAACP    Is available in the Anastasia Maxwell Library. Check it out!
Beyond UUC...