We wanted to make sure to share a few important notes about this week's service.

Please be sure to check the service description each week and double check for the sign on Sunday mornings indicating whether RE is available during that week's service.

Please send your joys or sorrows to joysandsorrows@uucuc.org any time before the Joys and Sorrows portion of the service. They will be read aloud.

Join us at 10:15, before service, for an in-person fellowship with coffee, beverages, and treats in the Fellowship Hall.

As of Thursday, June 23, 2022, the COVID-19 transmission level in Champaign County is HIGH. That means masks will be required in UUCUC's building for all activities until the transmission level drops to Medium or Low. When In-Person Fellowship Hour is scheduled, it will also be moved outside as the weather permits. Please visit this link for UUCUC's current COVID Safety Guidelines.

Your contributions and support allow us to continue to respond with love and resources to the needs in our congregation and the wider community. We couldn’t do it without your support and we are grateful to each of you.

Bookmark our UUCUC Events and UUCUC Calendar webpage for future reference.

July 20, 2022 via zoom @ 1:30

Ever been asked to pray for or with someone, and didn’t know what to do?

Rev. Sally is here to help, with a simple 4-part guide to praying in a sincere and meaningful way, no matter your theology (or lack thereof).

Take a moment to visit our NEW Planned Giving page!

You can find information about naming UUCUC as a beneficiary of your estate, making a gift now, and our bequest intention form.

Please consider donating to the Little Free Pantries run by Julie Laut (Urbana) and AJ Herzog (Champaign), which they have maintained year-round since March 2020. Their Amazon wish list has been updated to include unique summer items. The wishlist can be sorted to identify high priority items. All orders sent through Amazon are delivered to Julie's house and split between the two pantries. You are also welcome to drop off items in person at both locations. Questions? Contact Julie (jlaut@hushmail.com) or AJ (zogs92@gmail.com).

JOYS AND SORROWS sent to joysandsorrows@uucuc.org for last Sunday, June 19, 2022.

From Sam Beshers, Lynn Wiley, and Booker: We went out last night to walk amid the glittering carpet of fireflies in Meadowbrook Park. They will only be here for a few weeks.

From Rev Karen Bush: Joy for all the visitors with us today - blessings for the path that led you to our door - we are GLAD you are here!!

From Marsha Clinard and Charlie Boast: Yesterday we learned of the sudden death of our cousin, Dan, with whom we had spent a wonderful weekend in St Louis just days before. We are in shock and grieving for his family, and we, too, are grieving. It is doubly sorrowful as Dan’s brother, also Marsha’s cousin, had died just two weeks before after a long illness.

From Barbara Hudgings: My granddaughter, Jade, graduated from Wellesley, MA High School. She will attend RPI next fall.

From Gail Hueting: I now have air conditioning again after repair on Friday!

From Ellen Jacobsen: For such a beautiful weekend with lovely temperatures, and for wonderful visits with many members of my family including 3 grandkids and a grandniece over the last month.

From Tim Voelker & Abbie Frank: We are overjoyed to share the happy news that we are expecting our second child in December.

Please send your joys or sorrows to joysandsorrows@uucuc.org any time before the Joys and Sorrows portion of the service. They will be read aloud.

UUCUC Social Action Offering. Each month a selected organization is chosen to receive offerings from our congregation. You may donate to the social action offering for the month in one of the following ways:

Sadly, the community’s call for accountability for over 100 years of exposure to toxins has gone largely unanswered. Concerned Citizens of Carbondale believe this is because the City is attempting to redevelop the property, and add it back to their tax base. Imposing additional requirements for cleanup affects their ability to attract new businesses. Concerned Citizens of Carbondale also remain skeptical of the effectiveness of cleanup by the US EPA. Most recently, after public pressure, the agency discovered deadly dioxin and furan compounds on 15.8 acres of the Koppers site had not been fully remediated. They required 8.4 acres to be excavated and removed to a landfill, but allowed the remaining 7.4 acres to be covered with 12 inches of soil. Calls for additional testing south of the plant’s boundary fence have gone unanswered from the EPA and Carbondale, who say the site is remediated. However, residents who live near the site believe otherwise. The Concerned Citizens of Carbondale is asking for a complete study of the area’s soil profile, because liquid creosote could be in bands 2 to 12 inches wide in the soil several feet deep. Read More

During the month of May, our shared offering was able to raise $2,077.03 that was donated to The Lakota People's Law Project.

The Lakota Law Project was started in 2004 when a group of Lakota grandmothers asked for an investigation of South Dakota Social Services, which was removing large numbers of Lakota children from their homes. The Lakota Child Rescue Project found that social services had a pattern of drugging and removing native children from their families, and subjecting them to mental and physical abuses in foster care, leading to high levels of youth suicides. This first project continues today, along with several others.

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