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Sunday Services are Currently Online
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14th
10:30 am
(Arizona Time)
Making a Message
Led By:
Children's Ministries
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Katie Resendiz
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UUCP's Community Kids have been on screen a lot these past few months. School on google classroom, church on zoom, socializing on facetime, we're constantly on camera, but what happens when we ask "what do you want us to know?" and give them the tools and skills to create media? Here about fame, compassion, identity, and how it feels to be heard.
UUCP's Worship Service via Zoom
Meeting ID: 995 9332 5640
Coffee Hour via Zoom
Immediately Following Service
Meeting ID: 995 3802 5240
Password: 402721
You may use a computer, tablet, or smartphone. If you are asked to install the Zoom application, say yes. Feel free to share this link with friends and family!
If you have problems with Zoom, you may view the service live on YouTube.
Or after the service, you can watch it at any time.
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Programming February 14th - February 19th
Enter Meeting ID & Password
or
Click on the Activity Title to Join
ALL Programming is in Arizona Time Zone
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Feb 14th
Immediately
Following Service
Meeting ID:
995 3802 5240
Passcode: 402721
Immediately
Following Service
Meeting ID:
928 1137 3038
Passcode: 379145
1:30 pm
Laurel Hardin
Meeting ID:
929 0550 6684
Passcode: Earth
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Feb 15th
8:30 am
Katie Resendiz
Meeting ID:
912 6050 2489
Passcode: 086063
6 pm
Children's Ministry
Meeting ID:
981 5533 3922
Passcode: 085320
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Feb 16th
6:30 pm
Katie, Jezz & Chris
Meeting ID:
944 1700 2431
Passcode: 647963
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Feb 17th
12:00 pm
Joan Gale & Bill Snowden
Meeting ID:
924 5107 9822
Passcode: 4027
4:00 pm
Ms. Cherilyn
Meeting ID:
991 5092 8417
Passcode: 083754
7:00 pm
Benjie Messer
Meeting ID:
953 0097 9968
Passcode: 812013
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Feb 19th
K thrUU 5th Grade
4:00 pm
Meeting ID:
920 8484 9174
Passcode: 036500
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If you don't have access to a computer, laptop, or smartphone
OR don't want to be on video, you can simply call in to
346-248-7799 and enter in the Meeting ID number and numeric passcode.
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Rev. Christine Dance Vacation
Rev. Christine Dance is will be on vacation next week. She will be out of the office until 2/22/21 with no access to email. If your request is urgent or you need immediate assistance, please contact our Business Administrator,
Otherwise, Rev. Christine will follow-up during the week of 2/22 upon her return.
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Nominating Committee Announcement |
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Each year, the Nominating Committee searches for willing members to fill the following year’s open positions in leadership. We are seeking candidates to fill two positions on the UUCP Board of Trustees, two positions on the UU Foundation Board, and three positions on the Nominating Committee. Are you interested in getting more involved in leadership at UUCP? Or is there another member you would like to suggest to us? If so, please fill out this form.
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Registration is now open for UUCP's 2021 Virtual Adult Faith Education. Below is what is being offered:
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Rise Up and Call Her Name (starts Feb 16)
- UU Encounters with the Bible (starts Mar 24)
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Would you like to learn more about our congregation, our principles, what we do how to get involved?
Join Rev. Dance for a get-together on
Sunday, February 21st
Immediately Following Service
Meeting ID: 978 2968 3264
Passcode: 428835
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Board of Trustees Meeting
The Next Board of Trustee's meeting is Tuesday, February 23rd at 6:00 pm!
The meeting is open to all. We are delighted when members and friends join!
Meeting ID: 959 0652 4221
Passcode: 002180
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Congregational Mid-Year Meeting |
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Sunday, February 28th
immediately following service
Our mid-year update on the business of the congregation—the budget, goals, and other general business of UUCP.
Meeting ID: 994 2498 2437
Passcode: 798166
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Adventure Tales – A Radically Inclusive Evening was by all accounts a rousing success! Thank you to all who made it happen, to all who tuned in and watched the stories, and to all who so generously gave to promote the mission and vision of this congregation.
The fun isn’t over yet! Want to hear ALL the stories? Didn’t see the show, and want to know what everyone is talking about? Click HERE: Adventure Tales and choose a story to listen to.
If you haven’t donated yet, there is still time to do so:
- Donate via - PayPal
- Donate via - Realm
- Donate via Text - You can Text UUCP$ to 73256 (select General Donation and note Fundraiser in the memo line)
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Donate via Check - Write a check to UUCP (note Fundraiser on memo line) and mail to 4027 E. Lincoln Drive, Paradise Valley AZ 85253
- Donate via QR Code -
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UUA's Pacific Western Region Newsletter |
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Edition: January 28, 2020
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Navajo Nation
continue to need our support
In the midst of snow and really cold temperatures, a heaping pickup truckload of food, cleaning, and health supplies arrived in Holbrook for our Navajo Nation neighbors at the beginning of February, thanks to the generosity and efforts of our UUCP congregation. Gratitude abounds in a situation of continuing COVID infections, lingering long term effects, difficult infrastructure, long distances, scarcity of supplies, long lines. Many thanks to all those who were able to contribute cash, supplies, shopping to this effort. We look forward to hearing about a new effort they have begun in response to a need to improve nutrition: baking their own bread, for which we sent up ingredients. Don't we wish we could help test the results!
Many thanks for your assistance – spreading care and concern is a small way we can help provide an antidote to a spreading virus.
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Support Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Phoenix by shopping at AmazonSmile
Did you know that you can generate donations while shopping for no extra cost? Simply start your shopping at smile.amazon.com/ch/86-0188971 to confirm "Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Phoenix" as your charity of choice, and AmazonSmile will donate a portion of your eligible purchase price to our organization.
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Civic Engagement Announcements |
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Are we reaching you? We are looking for your feedback. Things are DIRE at the AZ Legislature, especially in regards to voting rights. This is a list of all the voting rights bills being considered. If you find it as alarming as we do, get engaged! Email us with any questions at civicengagement@phoenixuu.org.
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SB1452 (see this for details), despite a history of strong public opposition to private school vouchers, proposes a massive expansion of the voucher program. The bill has passed in the Senate and now goes to the House. Now is the time to contact Speaker Bowers, who has the power to either let it proceed to the House or hold it. Urge him to keep it from moving forward! rbowers@azleg.gov AND/or 602-926-3128.
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Earth Justice Ministry Announcements |
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Earth Justice Ministry invites you to a special presentation by Vicki Myers Sunday at 1:30 pm. She will speak about her "survivor" experience: "Environmental Science: Memories from a High School Experiment". All are welcome! Please Click HERE to join our zoom meeting. Our regular business meeting will follow her approximately 45-minute story.
Please advocate!! Currently, two bills especially (HB 2248 and SB 1175) need your attention. This LINK will take you to our part of the UUCP website to find information that supports your request to your legislators to OPPOSE these bills.
Eat Plants for the Planet - Some tips from Carolyn Allenby- Now that I bake sourdough bread almost weekly, I experiment with roasting other foods while the oven is on: Produce like carrots in chunks or strips; red cabbage in leaves or grated; apple skins (while making applesauce; broccoli and cauliflower florets; peppers in strips; slices of eggplant; sweet potato in rounds. Pay attention! Do not leave them alone in high heat. Some can be left in the oven for a couple of hours after it is turned off.
- Oatmeal: Make oatmeal for the morning by soaking it in boiling water, juice, or tea. Or microwave or bake it with other ingredients for granola or a savory snack.
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Sunday Services are Currently Online
NEXT SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21th
10:30 am
(Arizona Time)
Are You An Apocaloptimist?
Led By:
Rev. Christine Dance
&
Worship Associate:
Gary Ezzell
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The definition of an Apocaloptimist is someone who knows it's all going terribly, but still thinks it will turn out okay. Given everything, why are we so hopeful? I don't know, but we are. |
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UUCP's Upcoming Share the Plate: |
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Poder in Action is an organization led by youth, womxn of color, and immigrants that builds power to disrupt and dismantle systems of oppression and determine a liberated future for people of color in Arizona. Our programs are based on members’ lived experiences with injustice, especially within the criminal and immigration systems (crimmigration). This Share the Plate donation on behalf of UUCP would support our work as we grow our leadership development programs, focused on supporting people impacted by these systems to attain the skills and knowledge necessary to learn how to organize and build power within our programs:
- Youth Poder: Preparing young people with skills and knowledge to organize their communities.
- Barrios al Poder: Investing and providing undocumented women with the knowledge and skills to organize their neighborhoods.
Interested in learning more about Poder in Action?
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Missed a Worship Service?
Prior Worship Services are always available to view
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Sunday, February 7th
Sanctuaries in our Home
Led By: Sam Kirkland & Joseph Benesh
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Feb 21: Get to Know UUCP / After Worship
Feb 23: Board of Trustee / 6 pm
Feb 24: Choir Rehearsal / 7pm
Feb 25: Death Cafe / 11 am
Feb 25: Sangha Gathering / 7pm
Feb 28: Congregational Mid-Year Meeting / 11:30am
Mar 11: Sangha Gathering / 7pm
Mar 25: Sangha Gathering / 7pm
Mar 25: UU Encounters with the Bible / 7pm / Sign-up
Mar 28: Get to Know UUCP / After Worship
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Receiving Suspicious Emails |
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 scammers have been sending out fictitious emails claiming to be Rev. Christine. Please be aware of emails asking for assistance or requesting you to purchase something.
Rev. Christine will NEVER ask for money or gift cards over email. If you receive an email like this, please delete it.
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Unitarian Universalist Justice Arizona (UUJAZ) |
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Our Vision
To energize people of faith to create an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just life for all those who live in Arizona.
Our Mission
To engage Arizona Unitarian Universalists in justice-making through:
nurturing congregational social justice ministries;
connecting UU activists and congregations across the state;
partnering with like-minded justice organizations;
empowering UUs to work for socially just public policy.
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Multikulti: Removing Unconscious Debris From the Soil of the Soul
Still time to join!
Thursdays, Feb 4th-March 11th, 6:30-8 pm
In our present Time of Tumult, Rev. Anthony Mtuaswa Johnson offers a container and powerful methods for exploring the “Ism’s” of race, gender, class, religion and more, that challenge our culture, our communities, and our relationships. Six sessions of learning, unlearning, feeling and sharing about our differences; moving us toward creating change - in ourselves and the world around us.
This course is free to all our monthly sustaining donors. If you wish to join but aren't a donor, you can contribute a suggested donation of $10 per group meeting. There is also an opportunity to contribute to racial justice organizing at registration. If you aren't financially able to donate, join us anyway! Register here.
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Beloved Conversations: Spring 2021
Registration has started
Register Feb 1st - Feb 26th, course begins March 16th
Beloved Conversations curriculum developers at Meadville Lombard Theological School have responded to the need to learn how race and ethnicity shape our personal and collective lives and practices, in a virtual format. In 2020, 93 UUs from Arizona joined 1200 UUs in participating in the first half of Beloved Conversations: Within.
The first phase within focuses on the internal work that each of us needs to do as we engage in racial justice. This work is different for White folks and for Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) and will be done entirely in race-based caucuses. You do not need to have taken the Fall session to register for Spring: the two halves of Within can be taken in any order.
Within work will include individual Lessons, using videos, music, and readings, accompanied by reflection prompts and suggested conversations with Critical Friends chosen by the participants; bi-weekly small group conversations in a Learning Pod; and larger, monthly, facilitated Meaning-Making Sessions on Zoom. You can expect to spend 3-5 hours each week.
We hope you join us to embody racial justice as a spiritual practice, to heal the impact of racism on our lives, in order to get free together. Register here.
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UU Day at the Legislature: VIRTUAL
February 15th, 9 am - 12 pm
UU Day at the Legislature is a tradition that's been around for years, even pre-dating UUJAZ. Hundreds of UUs from across the state come to the Capitol to voice our values to our State Legislators. This year, to keep everyone safe, DATL is going VIRTUAL! We have scheduled incredible partners and amazing speakers... and it's not too late for you to join us. Register here.
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DACA Clinic: Volunteers Needed
2nd & 4th Saturdays
@ First Church UCC Phoenix, 12-4 pm
DACA is back! and UUJAZ is proud to be partnering with Keep Phoenix Together to empower Dreamers by assisting them with their DACA application. This life-changing immigration policy was recently reinstated by court ruling, and your support can help give Dreamers the tools to apply for deferred deportation under DACA. Volunteers are needed at the Keep Phoenix Together clinic. Anyone who can spare a few hours on a Saturday afternoon can help, no special language or legal skills necessary. Sign up to volunteer here.
If you cannot volunteer, you can also donate to the scholarship fund for DACA applications and renewals. Dreamers pay $495 every time they renew and your financial support makes this possible. Donate here.
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Book GroUUp
3rd Fridays, 12-1:30 pm
What legacy will you leave your beloved: your children, grandchildren, congregation, community, and/or country about how you worked to dismantle systemic racism during your lifetime? What will you bequeath to your beloved? What is your hope for their future, for Beloved Community?
Join Rev. Tina Squire and Steve Kraynak on the third Friday of each month for a justice-centered book discussion from the perspective of our Unitarian Universalist values. Here we will use reading, conversation, and writing to answer these questions.
February 19, 2021: Discuss The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
March 19, 2021: Discuss Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
April 16, 2021: Discuss BREATHE – A Letter To My Sons by Imani Perry
May 21, 2021: Read aloud our own letters we've written to our Beloved.
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The Hearth: A Sacred Space for BIPOC UUs
February 24th, 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Come sit by The Hearth and share your heart. In this space for Black, Indigenous, and Persons of Color (including Mixed/Multiracial or Transracially adopted folx), we will share, support, and learn together as we journey towards spiritual wholeness. Register here.
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Race Matters and the
Supreme Court
- Tuesday, March 9th, 5-6:30 pm AZ time, 7-8:30 pm Eastern
- Tuesday, March 16th, 4-5:30 pm AZ time, 7-8:30 pm Eastern
- Tuesday, March 23rd, 4-5:30 pm AZ time, 7-8:30 pm Eastern
As UUs, we recognize the existence of many realities and even more so, how those realities are interwoven. The connection between law and race is one of these ever-present truths. Join Political Science Professor Emeritus and UU, Howard Tolley, for three 90 minute sessions examining Supreme Court caselaw involving slavery, native American rights, racial discrimination, segregation, mass incarceration, the death penalty, affirmative action, rights of protesters, and qualified immunity for law enforcement personnel. In this course taught through UUJAZ and UUJO, Tolley considers the impact of race, political ideology, legal principles, and personal preference on the selection of Justices and the decisions they reach.
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Love & Justice: Abolition and Alternatives to Policing
Every first Wednesday, 6:30pm
UUs proclaim that no one is outside the circle of love, therefore, our goals are also abolitionist goals. Join UUJAZ team member Thoi every first Wednesday of the month in actively resisting the systems of policing and incarceration while building relationships and community with other passionate UUs in Arizona.
Register for our next meeting,
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Trans Inclusion in Congregations from Transforming Hearts Collective
UUJAZ is thrilled to provide access to this online course on radical welcoming for all AZ UUs, thanks to a generous grant from the UU Funding panel. This course on transformational culture shift counts towards your annual Welcoming Congregation renewal. Contact us for your free login code (usually $125 per person) to explore this course at your own pace, or create a group at your congregation to take it together!
Sedona UU - Starts Feb 19th - Contact: Carolyn Kavanagh
Granite Peak - Scheduling soon - Contact: Lena Hubin
Surprise UU - Scheduling soon - Contact: Juliet Gustavson
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