CARING & CONNECTED
To sustain our community during uncertain times, let's share ways to
stay connected &
show compassion to others
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Don your elegant Easter bonnets, cool caps &
hilarious homburgs
to awe and amuse us!
Email your photo
to Sharon by Easter morning - we'll publish photos a day or two later
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HOW CAN I HELP?
From Your Social Justice Team
* Many UUSP members are actively engaged in the faith-based coalition,
Celebrate Outreach
. Checkout their
homepage
where you can also make a donation.
Email Sabine
to sign-up for weekly enewsletters for specifics on how you can help.
* FAST
(Faith and Action, Strength Together): Strategy teams have been meeting virtually on Mental Health/Criminal Justice, School Suspensions and Affordable Housing issues. To get involved email
Dave Coale
,
Bud Murphy
or
Pat Fling
.
* Hundreds of potential asylees remain trapped in Mexico awaiting court dates.
Team Brownsville
continues to provide 1,000 breakfasts and dinners daily. Click
here
to donate.
-- stay safe and thank you
for caring!
Give to the Unitarian Universalist Association's COVID-19 Pandemic Response Fund
to financially support those religious professionals and communities most in need. Grants will be awarded through the Disaster Relief Fund to congregations and UU entities partnering with local organizations to provide assistance in their communities. Grants to meet the financial needs of ministers, religious professionals and congregational staff will be disbursed through the Living Tradition Fund.
Donate today.
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HOW CAN I STAY CONNECTED?
SPECIAL EVENTS:
UUSP Play Reading Group: The Passion of Henry David Thoreau
Author Joyce Carol Oates describes her stage play as ‘a dream play, yet for the most part realistically portrayed: my vision of H.D. Thoreau is that of the quintessential artist who creates a pure art out of the heterogeneous materials of his or her life—the “passion” of genius which is as mysterious as any phenomenon in nature.’
The play takes place in and around Concord MA, Walden Pond, and inside Thoreau's head. The principal characters and themes will be of interest to the UU congregation. Much of the text is from the writings of Thoreau and Emerson.
Click
here
to read a short synopsis.
Jean & Denis Calandra will host the series of virtual readings, splitting the play into 3 sessions at 4pm on consecutive Sunday afternoons April 19, 26 and May 2. Five female and five male readers will be best for casting purposes. Click here to
RSVP
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ONGOING ACTIVITIES:
Join 10-Minute Contemplative Meditation Sessions
led by Pastor Jack. Click
here
for a direct link to sessions posted on our YouTube channel.
Join Citizens' Cafe
Thursdays
at noon for lively conversation about public issues of our times, hosted by Pastor Jack. Just go to
meet.google.com/utm-vngj-hpb
for a video connection via webcam or dial in by phone to 318.490.8210 (pin 949711621). The website and phone # are good each week.
Watch Weekly Worship Services and Religious Education classes
on UUSP's
Y
ouTube channel
.
Past sermons are
posted on our website
.
Share a Joy or Concern with the congregation by
emailing
it to Pastor Jack before 7pm Thursdays and he'll share it during our weekly online service.
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The
il coro che non c'e
, a choir of high school and university students in Rome,
perform
a moving a cappella version of this Crosby, Stills and Nash classic.
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HOW ARE
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the Johnsons?
RE Coordinator Jeanay Johnson writes: Jaide and I are learning together how the forces of gravity effect our everyday lives. She was instructed by her teacher to illustrate, on her own, how she perceives gravity. We have been doing more science experiments together, more baking and quality time. It has been a challenge but we are learning more and more everyday.
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HOW IS
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the Hammersley/ Fritsche family ?
Kaitlin writes... We don’t have the privilege of fully isolating, and have been longingly reading accounts of families holed up together, limiting their exposure and finding a new rhythm. Peter continues to work such long hours on his “essential” hotel construction project in Tampa, trying to adapt and keep up with ever-changing directives, that he often goes days without seeing the kids. With childcare help no longer an option, Kaitlin is now home solo with brilliant, energetic Mac (2) and sweet, inquisitive Idi (5 mos), and is thus unable to work. Our days at home are an exercise in juggling needs— diaper changes, breastfeeding (for Idi), snacks and meals (for Mac), lots of reading and outside time, refereeing, soothing and snuggling, calling loved ones on FaceTime, attempting to clean up, and repeating. There is no escaping into a good book or binge-watching Netflix for us. It is equal parts difficult and special for me, and mostly just difficult for Peter. We are very grateful for one intact income, our health and that of our loved ones, and our comfortable home and yard, but we are stressed, deeply exhausted, and quite anxious about what is to come
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For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weights so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
- Milan Kundera
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Email
your announcements and ideas on "how I can help" and
"how I can stay connected" to
Sharon Winters, Communications Team lead
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