UUCSC News and Updates
Weekly on Fridays
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Unitarian Universalist Congregation of South County, RI
All are welcome!
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UUCSC does not presently have a minister. If you are in need of pastoral services please contact any member of the Pastoral Care Committee. Rev. Betty Kornitzer, UUCSC Minister Emerita, is working with the committee and if professional ministerial support is needed, she will be called in. Please do not contact the Minister directly.
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This Sunday, October 3, 2021 |
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"The Wonder of Childhood: I see you"
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This service will be held outside in the RE backyard, with a strong mic and speaker amplification. Please bring your own chairs or blankets to sit on. Service will be held inside, if weather is rainy.
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The Wonder of Childhood:
I see you
In Person with Lee Cowan, DRE
I hope you will join us in a celebration of kids, families and our connection to each other.
What happens when we tell someone "I see you. I accept you. Just as you are." A powerful shift takes place in our relationships when we are able to say these words to the kids, youth, friends and loved ones in our lives.
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An Autumn Parade!
This week, like last week, worship is a multi-generational service outside! We will all start together in the RE backyard, then kids will go around to the side yard with Bethany and Jenny Rebecca to get ready for an autumn parade! We will have costumes, wand-making materials and noise makers to welcome in the autumn. The kids will parade back through the backyard to finish off the service in celebration! I hope you can join us!
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Share the Plate Sunday
Designated collections received by check or online
the first week of each month are shared with a worthy local nonprofit.
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October recipient of Share the Plate Sunday
Half of the collection at our service on Sunday, October 3, 2021 will be donated to South County Habitat for Humanity. If you send a check to UUCSC please note Share the Plate in the memo line. If you donate via Pay Pal please select Share the Plate from the drop-down selection.
Submitted by Barbara Beckwith, Share the Plate Chair
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Gathering Outside and Lessons Learned |
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It couldn’t have been more delightful. “Sacred Tales” was a lovely service; the weather was perfect; gathering outside felt safe and was just downright fun. Can we do it every week? Of course not, for many reasons. But we are inspired to do it again this week. Our RE Director, Lee Cowan, is excited to lead a multigen service in the sunshine and the choir is on board. This time, however, we will be gathering in the playground area adjacent to the RE rooms. Again, bring your own chairs.
Every week is a learning experience for me in my position as President of this Congregation. This week I gained a better understanding of what it means to be a member of the Lily Pads Condo Association as it relates to use of the grounds and common areas. Jean Burke has worked hard to negotiate the terms for us and to foster good relationships with the other partners. Though we do own all the grounds “in common” with the other owners we do have to be respectful and ask permission for events that may impact them. Any Sunday morning service held on common property outside our RE play area is one such event. Last week’s service was OK’d at the last minute but ideally we should follow a better time-line. As opposed to our shared ownership of all of the outside grounds together with the other Lily Pads owners, we do have exclusive use of the RE playground area where this Sunday’s service will be held. (I did still inform the other owners as a matter of courtesy.)
With permission from the other owners, we have erected a tent on a portion of the common property for the use of the RE program on Sunday mornings. The tent is located to the far north of the common property along the Pond. At the request of Bob DonFrancesco, who owns the yellow house which he has rented to residential tenants, we put the tent as far away from that house as possible. It may not be the perfect location for us and it may eventually be moved but we want to be respectful of the folks who live there and are grateful that the other owners have allowed this use. We told the other owners that they may use the tent when we are not using it. We anticipate that the Education Exchange may use it from time to time. The Education Exchange is another of Bob’s tenants. All questions about the Condo Association can be directed to Jean Burke.
Hoping you are all soaking up the good weather!
Learning every day,
Elizabeth Donovan
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Give Us Hope
This wonderful piece composed by Jim Papoulis was sung by members of the choir at the service two weeks ago but did not make it to the livestreamed and recorded video on Facebook. The choir did the same piece from home last September. Enjoy it again here:
Submitted by Elizabeth Donovan
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Tying Up Loose Ends from the
UUCSC On-Line Auction.
Please contact Mary Alice Kimball @ 203-733-5290 if you were not able to connect and receive your purchased goods or if you don't know who purchased your donated goods. Thank you to everyone for making this a very successful fundraiser for the UUCSC. We received almost $7,000 in direct cash donations and about $4,000 is the sale of donated goods! THANK YOU!
Submitted by Mary Alice Kimball
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Fundraising Chair Needed
UUCSC is in need of a person to oversee Fundraising. Do you have some innovative ideas to share? Are you the person that can take on this task? Please email me at elizdn@hotmail.com.
Submitted by Elizabeth Donovan
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In this ACLU's At Liberty podcast episode, you’ll hear from Kimberlé Crenshaw, pioneering CRT scholar and Distinguished Professor of law at Columbia University and UCLA, who unpacks the contemporary pushback against anti-racist education and connects it to the historical repression of civil rights movements. From the laws that worsened inequality to the rhetorical attacks against Black liberation, Crenshaw lays America bare and dares to envision a more equitable union.
Submitted by Etta Zasloff
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Become Involved...
The UUCSC Social Justice Team will meet via Zoom on Wednesday, October 6 at 7 PM. Any member of the congregation is welcome and invited to attend to hear of the work of this team of activists and to become involved. ZOOM LINK
There will be changes made to the focus of the subcommittees as well as a transition in leadership.
Submitted by Jean Bowen, Social Justice Chair
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Pastoral Care and Caring Connection
Ministries Are Reorganized
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The Pastoral Care Committee and the Caring Connection are two of the ministries that have served this congregation. For a few years the Caring Connection has been…less connected…for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the pandemic. Rides to appointments, meals and visits had been discontinued under advisement of UUCSC leadership, as well as the UUA, RIDOC and the CDC.
In short, the Pastoral Care Committee's job is to offer a ministry of presence to those congregants in need due to illness, loss, or difficult life transitions. Through the Covid lockdowns we continued this ministry as well as possible at a safe distance through telephone and electronics, with a few drive-by visits from curbside. Now, as we tentatively return to face-to-face connecting within our congregation, there is full awareness of the effect of the absence of the Caring Connection.
With a charge from the Board of Directors, the Pastoral Care Committee (PCC) is undertaking to reorganize the ministry of the Caring Connection—with the new name of Helping Hands. The name change is in part because there is a need to further distinguish the two, and their places in the life of UUCSC. Helping Hands will facilitate limited opportunities for rides, meals and will send cards of support to congregants. They will maintain a list of volunteers who can offer some meals and another list of volunteers who can give rides to appointments and other situations.
Although they are separate entities, the two ministries are alike in that they are both focused on supporting members and friends in important ways, and will communicate with one another regarding needs of our congregation. Helping Hands will also be under the guidance of the Minister.
The Pastoral Care Committee will continue in partnership with the Minister to visit and maintain supportive contact with those in more critical situations. During this absence of a Settled Minister, Rev Betty Kornitzer is partnering with the PCC in an advisory and emergency capacity. All wishes for Ministerial support are to be directed to the PCC.
Please feel free to contact any one of us.
Linda Whyte-Burrell, Chair
Sally Barney
Barb Beckwith
Sky Kimball
Submitted by Sally Barney
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Saturday, October 2, 2021
9:00 AM
The Sly Fox
Junction of Routes #2 and #112
Charlestown, RI
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Please complete THIS FORM if you want to volunteer for this event. |
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Tuesday, October 5, 2021
6 PM
Potluck In Person
The Village at Wordens’s Pond Club House
14 Little Pond Rd, South Kingstown
Bring your own drink, plates & utensils and a POT LUCK dish to share.
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Send announcements and news with Newsletter Item in the subject line to Etta Zasloff, Editor, at zasloff.etta@gmail.com by Tuesday Noon
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