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WORSHIP SERVICE AT THE LANCASHIRE BUILDING
July 14th through September 1st
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SUNDAY July 14 through September 1
Worship Services will be held at the Lancashire Rd building (2728 Lancashire Rd, Cleveland Heights) which has air conditioning! There is also a stair lift, but no elevator.
Parking at the building is limited, but there is a lot of street parking, as well as a few nearby city lots. In case you need them, bring quarters for parking in the city lots which are on both sides of the Lancashire building.
We'll return to the sanctuary in Shaker on September 7th for the big Reunification Service and the Water Communion on September 8th.
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This Week's Worship Service
Hyde Park Service
Lead by Dr. Allan Georgia & The Congregants of UUCC
with musicians
Michael Carney, Becky Burns & The Watkins Family
Sunday, July 14th at 11:00 am
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Religious Education This Summer!
Our religious education programs tend to take a Summer break as the congregation comes and goes during the warm season. However, we’re going to have a few opportunities to engage our minds and our spirits this Summer! At the same time, please be in touch with me if you have other ideas for how to learn and explore this Summer!
High School and Middle School Events!
School is out, but there’s still plenty of time to have fun! After taking a poll of people’s schedules, we’ll be organizing some youth events this month and next for our High school and Middle school youth, as well as for those in late elementary.
The Junior High youth will be invited for a mini-golf outing and ice cream on July 28
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in Chagrin Falls! Chaperones and drivers still needed, so parents and other volunteers can reach out to
allan.georgia@uucleveland.org
if you are available and interested. Other parents, please RSVP as you are able!
Family Board Game Night!
July 19th
We have some serious and dedicated board game players in our midst at the UUCC, and we’re going to celebrate the fun of gathering over cardboard, cards, dice and plastic pieces with a family board game night on July 19th! We’ll have more than 25 games to choose from, and you are welcome to bring your own. You can also jump in and learn a new game!
This event will take place in the Fellowship Hall at the Shaker building from 4 - 7pm. Pizza and Popcorn will be provided, but everyone is invited to bring desserts, drinks and snacks.
Chalice Lighter’s And Friends Get Together!
July 21st
Are you in 4th -- 6th grade, have been a chalice lighter or might want to be one? We’re getting together on July 21st to hang out, eat some pizza, play some games and generally have a great time. Everyone in 4th -- 6th grade is welcome! Any questions, please ask Amy Glesius or email Allan Georgia. And please RSVP if you can with
allan.georgia@uucleveland.org
if your child will be joining us!
A Chance to Chat while Beverage and Banter Is on Hiatus for July!
Rev. Joe and Allan will not be meeting in the community this month because of Rev. Joe’s WELL-DESERVED vacation.
But Allan finds it difficult to shut up, and certainly not for a whole month. So, he’s asked Mark Weber to meet with him on Sunday mornings to chat informally about important and/or big topics. As with beverage and banter, EVERYONE is welcome to sit and chat, joining that ongoing and never-really-ending conversation that occupies the curious. We’ll gather at 10AM around some tables in the fellowship hall. Feel free to bring coffee or tea and we’ll hope to have coffee available as well.
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Sunday Book Group Summer Potluck
July 14th
Join the Sunday Book Group on July 14 for our annual potluck when we will make our selections for next year's book list.
We usually try to have a picnic outside, weather permitting, and start at 6 PM instead of our usual 7 PM. Each person can make up to 2 nominations and we then select 9 books.
If you cannot attend the potluck, you can send an email to Brian Larson (
BLarson44@hotmail.com
) with your recommendation(s). Contact Brian by phone at 216-371-8163 if you have questions.
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Just for fun...
Drum Circle on July 22nd
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No experience necessary! There will be extra drums for all(or bring your own). Relieve stress with hand drumming; enjoy the meditative quality of the vibrations. We will meet Monday, July 22nd at 7:15. Fellowship hall.
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UUMFE Ministry for Earth Update
"Connecting and inspiring an active community of UUs for environmental justice, spiritual renewal, and shared reverence for our Earth home.”
If this calls to you, please join us at our next meeting and learn how you can become involved with the Ministry for Earth. Our next meeting is Sunday 7/14/2019 at 12:30 in the Baker Room. We are a group of individuals working in many “In my own back yard projects” making the world better one step at a time. Join us! We teach kids to grow food, protect pollinators, read about and learn how to garden, promote renewable electricity, and create community through concern and reverence for all life.
Our next meeting on Sunday 7/14/2019 has been Canceled.
Our Sunday service has been moved to the Lancashire building in Cleveland Heights and the Shaker Heights building is closed that day. Plus it is summer and many of us are away. Our next meeting will be in September.
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More on Saving the Planet one Garden at a time:
Tom Gibson continues to help offer hope in these troubling times.: there is something you can do to improve the world we live in. Planting a garden which could support food for humans as well as the macro and micro biome.
Title: The Green North: A Holistic Garden For the 21st Century
Date: Friday, Jul. 12th
Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Branch: Cleveland Heights Library Noble Neighborhood Branch
Location: Library meeting room
Description: Tom Gibson of the Green North discussion group will give a talk about how people, within the confines of their own yards, address the multiple crises facing the 21st Century, such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions, declining nutrition in foods, and more.
Come to this talk or talk to Tom if you want to know more.
“The Way It Is” by William Stafford
There’s a thread you follow. It goes among
things that change. But it doesn’t change.
People wonder about what you are pursuing.
You have to explain about the thread.
But it is hard for others to see.
While you hold it you can’t get lost.
Tragedies happen; people get hurt
or die; and you suffer and get old.
Nothing you do can stop time’s unfolding.
You don’t ever let go of the thread.
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It’s summer at UUCC and the Welcome Office needs you!
Everybody seems to like to take a little break in the summer - even our office volunteers! With that we need some substitutes in the Welcome Office. You can help out as little as a single 2-hour shift to as much as a day each week. The work is easy – mostly answering the phone, helping out visitors, and making the occasional copy. We have a handy reference guide so even if you feel like you don’t know everything you can still be useful. It’s easy work, but extremely valuable – callers really appreciate having a person answer their call!
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White Like Me
- Racial Justice Film Series
The Authentic Diversity Covenant group is hosting a Racial Justice Film Series where we will screen thought provoking films followed by facilitated discussions. We’ll meet once a month at 6 pm on Friday evenings at the Lancashire building (it’s air conditioned!), share some pizza, and start the film around 6:30. Please join us! Contact Laurie Albright (
ljalbright@hotmail.com
) with questions.
White Like Me
Friday, July 19, 6:00 PM
2728 Lancashisre Rd, Cleveland Heights, OH (upstairs in the sanctuary)
Future Screenings (mark your calendars!)
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Friday, August 16 – Two Black Men in a Week
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Friday, September 20 – Crash
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Friday, October 18 – Race, the power of an illusion, part 2
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SECOND TUESDAY BOOK CLUB
AUGUST 13, 2019
The Second Tuesday Book Club is skipping July and our next meeting is August 13. We will be reading
Factfulness by Hans Rosling
. It has ten reasons we are wrong about the world and why things are better than you think. It is a hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases. This is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world. We will be meeting in the Library at the Lancashire Building at 7:00 pm.
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NO POTLUCKS
Please note, there are no potlucks on any first Sunday until September 8th.
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New Staff Phone Extensions!
We recently updated our phone system, so the extensions for staff members have changed.
Rev. Joe Cherry, Minister - 104
Dr. Allan Georgia, Director of RE - 106
Mike Carney, Music Director - 107
Shirley Nelson, Office Administrator - 103
Angie Coats, Bookkeeper - 105
Erin Justice, Community Relations Director - 102
Welcome Office - 101
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We've Launched our new Facebook page as UU Congregation of Cleveland!
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UUJO Update
July Newsletter &
Interfaith March for Peace & Justice
UUJO's July Newsletter is available now!
On Sunday, September 22nd, UU Justice Ohio (UUJO) invites you to join them and the Institute for Religios Tolerance, Peace and Justice for the Interfaith March for Peace and Justice.
Started in 2017, the Interfaith March for Peace and Justice is a peaceful, nonpartisan event that affirms equal justice and freedom of religion for all. The event seeks ways to collaborate across faith traditions and between communities of conscience to publicly re-assert these values as the foundation of a just, open and sustainable society.
For more information, please visit interfaithmarch.com
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WORSHIP SERVICE AT THE LANCASHIRE BUILDING
July 14th through September 1st
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