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Upcoming Events
Please note that all meetings, worship services, and gatherings will be held online until further notice. Please check our Facebook page and website for updated information and links.
Thurs. May 21
Coffee Chat with LaDawn
3:00 p.m.
Meeting ID: 815 1458 1576
Sun. May 24
Worship Service Amanda Schuber
Meeting ID: 229 305 601
Children and Youth Zoom Gathering
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Tues. May 26
Lunch Chat with Amanda
11:30 a.m.
Meeting ID: 865 7313 2824
Web of Life Garden Group
4:00 p.m.
Meeting ID: 895 841 687
Password: 447671
Board Meeting
6:30 p.m.
Wed. May 27
Happy Hour with Susan
5:00 p.m.
Thurs. May 28
Coffee Chat with LaDawn
3:00 p.m.
Meeting ID: 815 1458 1576
Sun. May 31
Sunday Worship
Southern UU Congregations
10:45 a.m.
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UUCH's Free Food Pantry is installed in the parking lot and is now stocked. The Social Justice Committee will restock the pantry with non-perishables, as needed, and you can, too.
See the Social Justice Committee for more information on what items are in need.
Sponsored by the Social Justice Committee
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UUCH 2019-20
Board Members
President:
John Schulz
Vice President:
Denise Runnels
Secretary:
Nick Wilbourn
Treasurer:
David Bollinger
Trustees:
Ed Bernstein
Jack Long
Bryan Walls
Interim Minister:
The Rev. Edward L. Brock
Do you have an agenda item for the Board?
The Board respectfully requests that all agenda items for the meeting be submitted to
Board President John Schulz
via email no later than one week prior to the meeting (i.e. the Tuesday before). The next board meeting is scheduled
for
Tuesday, May 26.
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The Overlook is a publication of The Unitarian Universalist Church, 3921 Broadmor Rd., Huntsville, AL 35810
Interim Minister:
The Rev. Edward L. Brock
Board President:
John Schulz
Editor:
Nick Wilbourn
Office Hours:
Tuesday:
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Thursday:
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
* Please email office if you need building access outside of the posted times.
Minister's Office Hours:
By appointment only.
Office Phone:
Sunday Services are held 10:45 a.m. to
12:00 p.m. Children's Religious Education held concurrently.
Nursery available for ages 3 years and under.
For more info on any event, contact the church office.
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Upcoming Service
"With a Little Help from My Friends"
Amanda Schuber
May 24, 2020
It's been a little over two months since we've been together in the same physical space, and in many ways it feels like a year. Despite our distance we have found a million ways to reach out and to reach in. This Sunday we will celebrate all the ways we connect with the world around us and within us.
This Sunday we will also celebrate the many thresholds that continue to permeate our lives despite our distance.
Click here to join our virtual worship service at 10:45 a.m. this Sunday, May 10; Meeting ID: 229 305 601
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This Sunday in Children and Youth Religious Education (CYRE)
Families, please join the Children and Youth Religious Education program for Virtual CYRE this
Sunday, May 24, at 3 p.m. We will go on a Memorial Day Weekend Adventure together. Let's have some fun! Come dressed in a costume that represents where you'd most like to go on an adventure.
The Zoom link and password will be sent by email. If you are interested in attending and you're not on our email list, please send a note to
Erin Reid.
Let's go on a trip together while we are still at home!
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This week I'd like to share a meditation in our hymnal from Unitarian Universalist William Henry Channing:
To live content with small means;
To seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion;
To be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich;
To study hard,think quietly, talk gently, act frankly;
To listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart;
To bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never.
To let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common.
This is to be my symphony.
Pam Siegler
UUCH Certified Music Director
Submitted by the Music Director
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Pictures Needed
This Sunday, May 24, our Worship service will be in celebration of transitions that are happening during this time of physically distancing: graduations, weddings, births, funerals, etc.
As life marches forward, despite our distance, it is important to take the time to honor and celebrate the lives and milestones that make up the human experience.
The Worship Committee invites you to share photos of loved one who are graduating (all ages and stages of graduation are welcome), new babies (pregnancy pictures welcome), friends and family we have lost but been unable to properly celebrate, weddings, etc. Photos will be used in a slide show during our service.
Please submit photos no later than May 20 by clicking
HERE. Please put
May 24th Photo in the subject line.
Submitted by the Worship Committee
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Let's Get Social
Coffee Hour Updates
Every week we have three opportunities to come together via Zoom and catch up with friends, old and new. Please note that two of the chats have changed times.
Tuesdays at 11:30 am, join Amanda Schuber for a lunchtime chat.
Wednesdays at 5:00 pm, join Susan Coddington for a Happy Hour visit.
Meeting ID: 847 8458 5916
Thursdays at 3:00 pm, join LaDawn Edwards for a coffee chat.
Meeting ID: 815 1458 1576
Submitted by the Care Committee
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Worship Service Recording
May 18, 2020
Did you miss our virtual worship service last Sunday? Want a midweek re-watch?
Fear not, you can
click here to see the recording.
Remember, the building is closed,
but CHURCH is open!
Submitted by the Worship Committee
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To give a plate offering to UUCH from your mobile device, text the amount (without dollar sign) to 833-559-0257, and follow the instructions.
Like our other online and mobile giving options, this is through Vanco, is secure, and has a good option for "plate" donations.
Text giving is by debit or credit card only. To give from your bank account, you can still use the UUCH website or the GivePlus+ mobile app.
Submitted by the Finance Committee
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Little Food Pantry Needs You
The outdoor food pantry is being heavily used with an estimated 12 visitors per day, both families and homeless. YOU can help keep it stocked by signing up on the SignUp Genius.
Items to consider buying include the following:
c
anned meats, cereals, mac and cheese, pasta, peanut butter and jelly, ravioli, energy bars, fruit cups/cans, pasta and alfredo sauce, soups, packets of dried potatoes, beef stew, canned milk, instant ramen, baby wipes, peanuts, canned veggies, beanie weanies, oatmeal, onions, bananas, potatoes, etc.
Please
contact the church office if you would like to schedule a drop-off and request assistance. Or feel free to stop by and stock the pantry on your own. It would help if you checked the SignUp Genius and maybe come on off-days. There is a black storage box located just outside the door in which you can place extra pantry supplies. Thanks to everyone who has helped keep the pantry stocked for our hungry neighbors.
Submitted by the Social Justice and Care Committees
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Cooking in Hard Times
This week Audrey Fox shares her recipe for Coffee Chip Muffins. Audrey says, "I occasionally like to bring these muffins to CYRE Committee meetings."
Coffee Chip Muffins from Vegan Brunch
by Isa Chandra Moskowitz
Makes 12 muffins.
- 1 cup almond milk (or your favorite non-dairy milk)
- 1 heaping tbsp. instant coffee crystals
- 1 tsp. apple cider vinegar
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tbsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/2 cup canola oil
- 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 F.
- Lightly grease a muffin tin.
- In a large measuring cup, measure out 1/2 cup of the milk. Stir in the coffee crystals, and mix to dissolve. (A few undissolved crystals are okay.)
- Stir in the rest of the milk and the vinegar, and set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, stir together the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
- Make a well in the center, and add the milk mixture, oil, and vanilla. Mix together until the batter is just moistened, being careful not to over-mix.
- Fold in the chocolate chips.
- Use an ice cream scoop to drop the batter into the muffin tin, filling it about three-quarters full.
- Bake for 22 to 26 minutes, until a knife or toothpick inserted through the center of a muffin comes out clean.
Let cool a bit until you can remove the muffins and transfer them to cooling racks to cool the rest of the way.
Submitted by the Hospitality Committee
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Care List
This Sunday, May 10, 2020,
at our Circle of Candles:
The Community
lit a candle of Remembrance: Candle of Remembrance: for
Kenneth Barry, who passed away this week at age 95. Ken and his late wife Jo were active members of UUCH for about 40 years. He was father to many sons, a Navy veteran of WWII and Korea, a free thinker, and man with many stories -- he was a good guy and interesting person.
Deb Delacey
lit a candle of Joy:
My son,
Vincent
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and his fiancée, Crystal, are joining us from Las Vegas!
Paul and Bridgit De Moor
lit a candle of Joy: Hello, everyone! Today is our 7th year anniversary! Yeah! We made it past the 7-year itch!
Nancy Finley
lit a candle of Concern: Concern for all those in our community and country that are getting so angry at each other for how we react to this virus. May we all find peace and ways to care and understand each other.
Vincent
lit a candle of Joy: A great joy joy for my moms; siblings Ana, Richie, Benjamin; and my fiancée, Crystal.
The Hitts
lit a candle of of Joy and Sorrow: Our granddaughter,
Adah, graduated from high school virtually this weekend. It was bittersweet because we couldn't be there in person.
Rachael Schieb
lit a candle of Sorrow: For my tribe member who died last Tuesday from the COVID-19 virus. In NYC, he had been in a ventilator for two weeks when he contracted pneumonia. Peace to a man that supported his people.
Kathy Fisher
lit a candle of Double Joy: Yesterday I held my first ever virtual spring recital with my students. They did a beautiful job! And it was also my birthday.
Rita Scholes
lit a candle of Gratitude: Thank you for allowing me to share your service via Zoom (thanks to Angela). Peace and love to all.
Angela Arnold
lit a candle of concern: For my cousin
Jennifer in Austin, TX. She is a physician's assistant and got a staph infection and cellulitis on her face -- from wearing a mask. Be careful, everyone. Keep that mask clean, and keep our medical community in your hearts.
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