|
|
NOTE CHANGE:
Monthly virtual meetings are
every 3rd Wednesday, 6:30-8:30 pm.
|
|
|
|
This is the first of my weekly video messages. The leadership of our church is asking us to stay home this Sunday and watch the worship service online, rather than coming to the Sanctuary as has become our habit in recent weeks. Please help us spread the word: stay home, stay safe and stay connected.
Blessings,
Rev. Ben.
|
|
Children's Religious Education |
|
 |
August: Meet Ms. Trish
"My name is Patricia Harding, though I have many nicknames. Most people call me Trish, while young students usually called me Miss Trish. I was born in St. Pete, Florida, and raised (mostly) in this area. After high school, I traveled a bit and settled in Boulder, Colorado, where I eventually graduated from CU with a BA in English literature and a diploma and education, thanks to receiving my first 6 credits as an employee benefit while I worked at the University." Learn more by clicking the RE Newsletter!
As we mentioned in earlier newsletters, our RE is undergoing deep cleaning and restoration. We are seeking new volunteers for our nursery and some volunteers to join us during the year 2021-2022. Parents, our Parent Covenant group is looking to start back up next month as well. Click here to get connected!
|
Thought of the Week
“Our seventh Principle, respect for the interdependent web of all existence, is a glorious statement. Yet we make a profound mistake when we limit it to merely an environmental idea. It is so much more. It is our response to the great dangers of both individualism and oppression. It is our solution to the seeming conflict between the individual and the group.
“Our seventh Principle may be our Unitarian Universalist way of coming to fully embrace something greater than ourselves. The interdependent web—expressed as the spirit of life, the ground of all being, the oneness of all existence, the community-forming power, the process of life, the creative force, even God—can help us develop that social understanding of ourselves that we and our culture so desperately need. It is a source of meaning to which we can dedicate our lives.”
|
|
|
|
Check out our RE Newsletter for more helpful family resources!!! |
|
|
|
Sunday 9:15 am Discussion Group
To Join John Motter and Cynthia Patterson and the summer discussion group email list, please email John or Cynthia. John will lead in-person sessions at the church while Cynthia leads Zoom sessions while on her research trip north."
-
August 22: Chapters 9-12, pp. 167-234
|
|
Check out our Calendar on our website to check out what's going on here at our
UU St Pete!
|
|
|
|
Southside Bridge Program Brings Smiles & Supplies to Student and Teachers |
A Huge THANK YOU to UUSP members & friends, for the trunk full of supplies and artistic motivational notes to students.
Virginia Fox coordinator.
Note: Tuesday, September 14 will be the next drive for high protein non-perishable easy-to-open food donations.
|
|
|
|
|
Santa Needs Our Help - Santa Wezago that is
|
Not all of us at UU St. Pete know that our Social Justice Group has been looking after two Congolese families who sought asylum here in the U.S. One of our Social Justice families; Santa Wezago and her four children: Aaliyah, Erisa, Gabriella, and Divine, need our help. To learn more about her family, please click here.
Does anyone in the congregation know of a car that could be donated to UU St. Pete? The donor would receive a tax deduction for a charitable donation, and we could make the car available to Santa’s family. A gift like this would mean so much to Santa and her children, and we could feel as if we had helped their family in a really big way.
|
|
|
Ways of Giving
We give in gratitude for each other, for our time together, for our sacred space, for those in our wider community, and for those who lead us to be our best selves.
|
|
Members and friends set up a plan to make a gift from their estate to the Endowment Fund of UU St. Pete. Leaving a portion of the assets one has accumulated over the course of a lifetime ensures the continuation of the spiritual home that they have come to cherish and perpetuates our UU values. |
|
|
|
Click here for the August Newsletter.
|
|
Thank you for your interest in
Unitarian Universalist Church of
St. Petersburg!
Stay Safe and Stay Well!
Kelli DeGraw,
part of your Communications Team.
|
|
Thank you to our
UU St Pete contributors & many volunteers!
|
|
|
|
Our mission is to be an inclusive, evolving religious community
that inspires spiritual and intellectual growth to make our world a better place.
|
|
Unitarian Universalist Church of St. Petersburg
727.898.3294
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
