THIS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2019
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Longing For Belonging
Two services:
9:30 am
and 11:15 am
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Service Leader: Rev. Christine Dance
Brené Brown says that our desire for connec
tion and love runs deep but that “when we ‘fit in’ instead of actually ‘belong,’ we mold ourselves to the situation instead of standing for our authentic self.” We will explore this month’s theme of Belonging and exploring how we both belong AND be authentic.
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Music:
This Sunday, the music will be provided by Lynne Haeseler, who was UUCP's pianist for many years.
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Rev. Christine Dance shares a beautiful Survival Meditation by Nathan Walker.
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To help you plan, we wanted to pass along some general information about Sunday services. Our typical service lasts 1 hour and 15 minutes, so the 9:30 service will end at approximately 10:45, and the 11:15 service will end at 12:30.
There are refreshments in the Johnson Room after each service. Also, several meetings and activities are scheduled after the early service, so be sure to check the
UUCP online calendar
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Social Justice Opportunities
Sunday, October 13 at the back of the sanctuary
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Earth Justice Ministry sponsors a Justice Lunch Talk, this Sunday, 10/13 in the Sanctuary after the second service. At about 12:30, we will present:
"Solutions NOW! Greening Planet Earth, Abundant Food, Clean Waters."
UUCP member and worker cooperatives author Carol Manetta will explain and show videos about quickly greening wastelands of Earth. The solutions also include growing ongoing organic food for people and wildlife and cleaning ponds, streams and rivers. All this will be done by coordinated trios of worker owned cooperatives. Exciting! -- Refreshments will be served and all are welcome.
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Opportunities to Connect and Serve
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Thursday evening October 17
Join us in building a “Spiritual Community for our Time” every Thursday at 6:00 pm in the Johnson Room. This year, our Community Dinners will truly be community coming together as we create a potluck meal.
(Once a month, we will still have a meal sponsored by one of our groups so you can still participate in that way!)
You can participate by bringing a dish or taking a setup/cleanup/cashier role (this is your "admission!") If you would rather donate by paid admission, the price is $6 per adult/teen, $3 per child, or $12 per family (or pay what you can!)
To sign up, simply go to
this link at signup.com
where you will find a list of spots to choose from. You can select Help with Set Up, Dessert, Main Dish Meat, Main Dish Vegan, Side Dishes, Salads, Cashier, or Clean Up.
Thursday 10/17 at 6:00 pm
Pasta Bar and Salad Potluck.
Bring your favorite sauce or salad to share. Pasta provided.
Chalice Kids 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm, Room 15
Open Small Group Ministry 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm, Annex C
LOVE Class: Kernels of Character 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm, Annex B
Women’s Ritual 7:00 pm-8:30 pm, Sanctuary
Looking ahead
October 24:
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talian Potluck. Bring your favorite Italian dishes to share! Ruth Crowley and Linda Vance will be providing meat and vegetarian lasagna.
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With a record turnout of 30 people at the cookout, 22 people on the hike, including 5 children, and 5 dogs, the weekend in Flagstaff was declared a success by all. The weather was picture perfect. Flagstaff has the bluest sky on the planet! The aspens were in their full fall glory. The daytime temperatures don’t get any better, and the nighttime temperatures were not as cold as everyone expected.
The next hike is going to be a grand one as well. On October 28 Phil Slater and Dan Hunn are leading a very popular hike to Horton Springs. Fall colors should be at their showy best. Plan on joining us for a beautiful morning of hiking followed by lunch together in the picnic area after the hike. Click on the link below to get the full details on the hike.
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Racial Justice Collaborative
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You are invited to join UUCP’s Racial Justice Collaborative. The next meeting will be Monday, October 14 at 6:30pm -8:30pm in Annex B. We focus upon sharing our experiences with racial oppression and with anti-racism efforts. We reflect on events of the day and are informed by the book
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism,
by Robin DiAngelo and other sources. Questions? Contact Sandy Weir,
maphappy@cox.net
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BLUU Worship Service Watch
Sunday October 20
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at 1 p.m.
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Room 22 (upstairs near Ministers office)
Are you a Black Unitarian Universalist feeling in need of connection with other Black UU’s?? We invite Black Unitarian Universalists and all Black people to join us for online worship. BLUU worship is built specifically for black UU’s as a Sacred Black Space. This is an opportunity for black UU’s to come worship together with one another. It is a smaller more intimate gathering. Please join us for this special time together as black UU’s fostering community. For more information contact Sydney A. Harrison at sydneyha@usc.edu
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Open Drop-in Small Group
(October-April)
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This group meets monthly, on the 3rd Thursday, from 7-8:20pm, starting Oct 17, in Annex B. This is an opportunity, to be with others and focus on the congregation’s monthly theme. Members, nonmembers, and friends are welcome to share perspectives, have conversations, or chose to sit and listen. Prior to the monthly meeting, information on the designated theme, will be sent to those participating in the group. Registration is not required to join this open attendance group.
Contact Linda Vance
(elphant@msn.com)
with questions.
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NEXT SUNDAY - OCTOBER 20, 2019
From Communism to Community
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Join Us For The Fall Fundraiser
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The fall 2019 fundraiser on Saturday, October 19th is a “Celebration of Community and Earth,” a musical concert starring former New Christy Minstrel Igor Glenn, plus Alisa Phoenix and Carolyn Allenby along with folk instrumentalists.
This is the major fundraiser for this year. There will not be an auction. Tickets are on a sliding scale from $15.00 - $60.00. $15.00 will get you in the door; however, if you can dig deeper, please know your generosity will be greatly appreciated by all in the UUCP Congregation!
To encourage family participation, 18 and younger are free! Please consider
bringing your friends and relatives!
Wine, beer, soft drinks, and water will be available at modest prices as will desserts to sweeten up the evening.
UUCP Doors open at 6:30 PM. Music from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM.
To volunteer to assist with the evening’s event or to donate a dessert, please call or text Bonnie
White 562-889-9404 or e-mail bwhite95065@yahoo.com.
Tickets are on sale now and will be available at the back of the sanctuary this Sunday!
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Dia De Los Muertos Service October 27th
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October 27th is our Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) service. This is an opportunity to remember the good qualities and memories of our loved ones who have died. Please feel free to bring in photos of people in your lives who have died—with just that person in the photo—to add to our altar. You will have an opportunity to share something positive about that person with a small group during the service.
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Membership Weekend—November 1 and 2
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Are you interested in becoming a Member at UUCP? Are you returning after an absence and interested in re-joining? Or just interested in learning more about our congregation?
We will have a concentrated New Member Weekend for anyone interested. It will be on Friday, November 1
st
from 6pm-9pm and on Saturday, Nov 2
nd
from 9am-12pm. Ideally, participants will be there for both sessions. It will be an excellent opportunity to meet others who are new or re-joining UUCP as well as learning more about Unitarian Universalism, UUCP, our organization and structure. At the end of the weekend, you will have the opportunity to decide if you are interested in joining UUCP. New Member Sunday will be Sunday, November 10
th
. To sign up for the weekend, please register here:
https://forms.gle/e7Fmd27FtcX2mnvG8
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Upcoming: Share The Plate
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The Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Urban Farm Program
The Urban Farm Program consists of 3 farms within the Metro Phoenix and surrounding areas that provide 3 acres of organic fresh fruits and vegetables (and sometimes fish!) to serve in five dining rooms around the Valley. In our farms, we not only provide a space for community members to give back, but also a space to learn about growing their own food in a sustainable way.
With your Share the Plate funds, our Urban Farms will be able to obtain additional and higher quality tools; we do not have enough for all the youth who may be with us at one time. We can also obtain seeds for our fall planting as well as gloves and masks.
To volunteer, contact Samantha Ansell by email:
sansell@svdpaz.org
or Phone: 602-850-6734.
For more information, see
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Trust and Estate Planning Workshop
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We can agree that
adulting
is not all fun and games. We can also agree that it is never too soon to plan for your family's future. With that in mind, the UU Foundation Board invites you one of two sessions of a Trust and Estate Planning Workshop on either the evening of Thursday, October 24th in Annex B following the Community Night dinner or the morning of Saturday, October 26th at 9 am in the Johnson Room. Each session will run about an hour and a half. Refreshments and childcare will be provided.
Please sign up on the clipboards on the counter in Office 2, or by emailing the Foundation Board at
uufp@phoenixuu.org
. If you have any questions you want to submit in advance to make sure they are answered as part of the workshop, please email those to the Foundation Board as well.
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Sanctuary Holiday Decorations
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The Sanctuary Art Team is looking ahead to the coming Holiday Season and would like to include decorations that are personal to you. Whether you decorate for the holidays with wreaths, menorahs, candle arcs, spider webs or Krampus masks we would like to show it. A future Saturday will be announced to bring your hangable art to the Sanctuary to be displayed for about 2 months. For questions please email Bill Snowden at
surfdream25@gmail.com
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Have you noticed that some members have blue, yellow, or purple ribbons attached to their name tags?
These ribbons, which may say Theological Diversity, Radical Inclusion, or Justice Centered, are areas of personal study available to us in the form of on-demand classes, books, articles, videos, podcasts, social media, and other ways to reflect and discuss each topic. UUCP is in the process of organizing this program for fall 2019. Sign up to get a ribbon and be contacted about classes at a table in the back of the Sanctuary before and after each Sunday Service.
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10/14 • Open Arts & Crafts Studio • 9:30 AM-Noon, Johnson Room
10/14 • Racial Justice Collaborative • 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, Annex B
10/16 • Choir Rehearsal 7:00-9:00 PM, Sanctuary
10/16 • Children’s Ministry Parent Group • 6:30-8:00 PM, Annex B
10/17• Community Night Pasta Potluck • 6:00 PM-7:00 PM• Johnson Room
10/17• Chalice Kids • 6:30 PM-9:00 PM• Room 15
10/17 • LOVE class: Kernels of Character 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, Annex B
10/17 • Open Small Group Ministry Class 7:00 pm-8:00 pm
10/17 • Women’s Ritual 7:00 pm -8:30 pm, Sanctuary
10/19 • Advanced Level Meditation • 10:00 AM- 12 PM, Annex B •
10/19 • Fall Fundraiser • Doors open 6:30 PM
Music from 7:30 PM-9:00PM, Sanctuary
10/20 • Book Group • 11:00 AM-12:15 PM • Annex B
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