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Sunday, December 6th

to submit@phoenixuu.org

Do you have a baby or child that you would like to have dedicated?

On Christmas Eve Rev. Christine will be doing baby and child dedications.

Let Rev. Christine know via email minister@phoenixuu.org

by December 19th

The Book Discussion Group will begin reading our next selection, Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria on Sunday, November 29.

If you would like more information or would like to join our Zoom meeting, please contact Paisley Rossetti at paisleyroz@gmail.com.

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Let’s take an hour each month to study a classic sermon from an important UU Minister from history. We will start with Emerson's Harvard Divinity School Address of 1838. This address, which was highly controversial at the time, brought concepts of Transcendentalism into Unitarianism. We will meet the second Wednesday of the month at 3 pm, starting Dec 10. Click HERE to register to get on the email list for the Zoom link.  If you have questions, please contact Roy at rmiller451@aol.com.

Each one of us has stories that we tell our friends and family about events in our lives that were adventurous, exciting, painful, embarrassing – and it is usually what went wrong rather than what went right that makes a good story. Learn how to tell a good story at the free storytelling workshop put on by Storytellers Project on either December 2 or December 12 on Zoom. This is not a commitment to submit a story to Adventure Tales – anyone can sign up that wants to improve their skills. 

Thanks to the generosity of so many of you we now have a truck load of blankets, quilts (new and used) and jackets/boots/hats/gloves to deliver to Tsaile and Many Farms Schools, as well as other families in the Navajo Nation the week of the 16^th. They have already had snow, temperatures way below freezing, so these will be so welcomed!

The latest report from leaders of the Native American Baha’i Institute Youth Group tells us that their fourteen teams of young people, from middle school to age twenty-eight, have traveled many miles, cut, delivered and stacked 150 loads of wood for stoves to keep people warm over the winter, fixing chimneys and stoves in the process. With your help we contributed funds for equipment to help them expand their teams of kids for this amazing work, supporting their community and building relationships, including many elders who live far out.

If you are able to help by making a donation for our ongoing work with the Navajo Nation, please click the link to sign up, and we will send you information. We have received such warm appreciation for our assistance – one auntie thinks of us as her “guardian angels.” UUCP is full of warm hearts and helping hands – Thank you for your generosity!

Please consider service to the congregation by joining the Governance Committee! If you want a direct voice in how the congregation pursues its goals and practices, please contact Francis Wiget at clonejack@gmail.com. We will meet once a month, to be determined by availability.

UUCP members have enjoyed the Camp and its programs since its founding in 1961 by our former minister, Rev. Ray Manker. The camp had to cease operations in March due to Covid-19 and in September, the El Dorado fire threatened to destroy it. An “Emergency Fund” was started to protect and preserve the camp until it can reopen. For more information, visit https://www.uucamp.org/covid-19-and-camp/

The Camp newsletter and a thank you letter from the Executive Director are available on our website at https://www.phoenixuu.org/stp/

on our YouTube Channel.

Learn more and sign up at uujaz.org.