UUCSC News and Updates
Weekly on Fridays
|
|
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of South County, RI
All are welcome!
|
|
Reverend Denis Letourneau Paul, Minister
|
|
This Sunday, April 24, 2022 |
|
 |
Worship
In Person 10:00 am,
Zoom "Coffee Hour" at 11:30 am
|
"As We Consider
This Season"
Marlon Carey
April 24, 2022
To celebrate National Poetry Month, poet and spoken word artist Marlon Carey will enliven and enlighten the April 24th service at UUCSC. Carey blends theatre, hip-hop, poetry and storytelling in his presentations, and his themes reflect his Jamaican immigrant background, his growing-up years in Brooklyn and his life in Providence, as he balances his artistic career with being the father of three. The Time for All Ages will feature his popular “Chocolate Tacos,” and his sermon, “As We Consider this Season,” will reflect on the times we are living through, particularly this spring.
|
|
|
|
Religious Exploration
In-person
10am-noon
|
Peas in the Garden!
We will begin upstairs with a Time for All Ages with poet, Marlon Carey.
After we enjoy our time in the sanctuary, we will go outside for a short sharing circle. Then we will plant peas in our raised bed and practice wrapping a May pole for our May Day celebration the following week!
Here is our April newsletter with the theme "Awakening"
|
Lee Cowan, Director of Religious Exploration |
|
|
|
From the President… This and That
As more Covid restrictions lift, I feel suddenly very busy. Though I am still very careful, I am visiting more friends and I have seen extended family in larger groupings and spent more time with grandchildren. Spring also brings many tasks along with the longer days and warmer temperatures. There is just so much more to do.
The UUCSC Board is also busy. Planning for our Annual Meeting, this year on June 12th, is in full swing. The Finance Committee is preparing a budget for next year that the entire congregation will be asked to approve. A budget meeting will be held (date to be announced soon) so that we all get a chance to understand our finances and have a chance to ask questions. Please consider attending.
I have been excited to see more folks coming to in person to Sunday services and to see faces that I haven’t seen in a long while. A reminder though…masks are still required in the sanctuary.
Today is Earth Day. What are you doing to recognize Mother Earth? The weather is supposed to be lovely. I hope to get out to do some cleanup along a few of my favorite paths. At the very least I will take a good long walk and reflect on how very lucky I am live here in this beautiful place. And how lucky I am to be a part of this amazing community.
Peace and joy,
Elizabeth Donovan
|
|
UUCSC Antiracism Group
April 25, 2022 * 7:00 PM
Working to undo racism in ourselves, our families,
schools, communities, and government. Join us!
Also found on the church calendar on the website.
|
|
The Jonnycake Center has moved into its new home at 22 Kersey Road! They are hosting an open house on Saturday, April 30th from 10:00am to 1:00pm. Members of the community are welcome to learn about the new initiatives planned for this year, see what food is offfered in the Jonnycake Market, and learn about volunteer opportunities.
|
|
Adult Education and Experience |
|
· Open Forum to Culminate Earth Day 2022
Friday, April 29, 2022, 7PM, via ZOOM
The Green Team and Social Justice group at Peacedale Congregational Church will hold an open forum to discuss points emphasized in the full length documentary, Kiss the Ground, narrated by Woody Harrelson. The movie sheds light on an “new, old approach” to farming called “regenerative agriculture” that has the potential to balance our climate, replenish our vast water supplies, and feed the world. Please watch the video on NETFLIX or here at Kiss the Ground at any time prior to the forum.
Submitted by Johnnie Rodriguez
|
|
April 27, 2022 at 7:30 pm Eastern.
|
|
YOUTH v GOV, is a powerful film that follows 21 young Americans suing the world’s most powerful government to protect their constitutional rights to a stable climate.
|
|
New Yorker writer and Columbia University Professor of Journalism Nicholas Lemann, editor of Library of America’s new anthology American Democracy: 21 Historic Answers to 5 Urgent Questions, leads a conversation on the controversies and flashpoints that will shape the future course of our democratic experiment.
Submitted by Johnnie Rodriguez
|
|
Sunday, April 24th, 2022, 1-3pm
LANGSTON HUGHES
COMMUNITY POETRY READING
|
|
On April 28th at noon, the Immigrant Coalition of Rhode Island, in partnership with Dorcas International, will present a Zoom info session to learn how to help those migrating to RI. Request the Zoom link at Riscc@councilofchurchesri.org
|
|
|
|
Upcoming Intergenerational Activity |
Save the Date for a UU Beach Clean-up with other RI congregations on April 30th at 2pm! We will meet at the Scarborough Beach pavilion.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Memorial Service at UUCSC Sanctuary
for Victoria Shinagel
Daughter of Ann Seemann
Saturday, May 7, 2022
1:00 pm
|
|
Please join the Antiracism Group on Monday, May 23, (note change of date) 2022, at 7pm on Zoom. We will be discussing Firekeeper's Daughter, the 2022 Reading Across RI book, by Angeline Boulley. We highly recommend reading it, but if you do not read the book feel free to join us and listen in on the conversation.
|
|
|
If you donate to the Unitarian Universalist Association before May 31st, your gift will be doubled! More information here.
|
|
The UUCSC Share the Plate committee recommends one of these four organizations that are providing support to Ukrainians in crisis. |
|
Bethany Sorrentino, Helping Hands Coordinator
Don't be afraid to ask for help - helping hands are here!
Helping hand volunteers are also needed.
|
|
|
|
Find where you might contribute and join a committee today!
|
|
List of Black owned businesses from RI Monthly magazine. Patronize these businesses all year long. This small effort can help undo racism. Please send pics and reviews to Etta for sharing here and on website.
|
|
June 22 - 26, 2022
View the most recent
Ibram X. Kendi is the 2022 Ware Lecturer
|
|
Includes lists of Black-Owned Businesses
Your search for truth and meaning begins here.
|
|
How to Submit Info to This Newsletter |
|
Send announcements and news with Newsletter Item in the subject line to Etta Zasloff, Editor, at zasloff.etta@gmail.com and Sara Kaplow, Congregational Administrator, at uucscri@yahoo.com by Tuesday Noon
to assure publication by Friday of that week.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
