What does the Path of Delight mean? Click HERE to find out.
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Sunday Service
In-person and Online
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June 4, 2023 @ 10:30am
Delighting in Community: Member Sunday
rev. mandi huizenga
At the end of our program year, let us delight in our accomplishments, in our new members, in the anniversaries of our members, and in our first year together! The service will be followed by our Annual Congregational Meeting.
June 11, 2023 @ 10:30am
The Question Box
rev. mandi huizenga
Got a question? rev. mandi might have an answer! Or at least a thought! Submit a question (serious or funny!) to rev. mandi via email or by placing a note in the box outside her office - with your name in case she needs to follow up. She'll try to answer as many as she can during the service.
June 18, 2023 @ 10:30am
Service Leader: Swamini Adityananda Saraswati
June 25, 2023 @ 10:30am
“The Ministry of the Pews” is our theme for the service on June 25th. Drawing on distant and current examples, DUUC member and UU historian Cynthia Tucker will celebrate how our rank-and-file have helped tend the needs of their congregational families.
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Are you interested in how it all works?
The Governance Committee, Board, and Staff will hold an Onboarding session on June 10 (9:00 am through lunch) for current and incoming members of leadership committees. You, too, are welcome to join - out of curiosity or especially if you are interested in joining an elected or appointed committee or program team in the future! We'll cover our organizational structure and roles, where to find all the good guidance materials available that make things hum in our beloved community, what "shared ministry" means for us, best practices for lay leaders, and more. If you are interested and able to join please submit the Onboarding rsvp form so we can manage space and food needs!
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Chalice Circle Facilitators Wanted!
rev. mandi and Steve are looking for members who would like to be Facilitators for our small group ministry, Chalice Circles, beginning in August and running through May of next year. For more information or to sign up, please click here.
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CALLING ALL DUUC MEMBERS AND FRIENDS WHO ARE US MILITARY VETERANS
As our Memorial Service approaches, we sense that we do not know the names of all our members and friends who have served in the US Military. We would like to have a complete list prior to Veterans Day. To achieve this, we are creating a Masterlist of all Members and Friends of DUUC who have served in the US Military Active and/or Reserve.
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During June our special offering will benefit Youth Outlook of Naperville, nominated by
the DuuGooders Chalice Circle. Youth Outlook is the first social service agency in
Illinois solely dedicated to the support of LGBTQ+ youth, offering drop-in centers for
youth, parent support, and community education. Drop-In Centers meet weekly and are
a social setting for youth to meet other LGBTQ+ young people and talk about a variety
of topics that really matter to them. Whatever the topic, Youth Outlook’s Drop-In centers
provide a place for LGBTQ+ youth to feel safe, supported, and celebrated. All groups
welcome youth ages 12-20. This is a truly unique organization in our area. It provides a
support network for LGBTQ+ youth and for parents. Participants can feel safe and
supported in an environment that lets them express their feelings and be themselves, as
well as have fun and be social. More information can be found at their website
During April $1898.98 was collected for ARF, the Animal Rescue Foundation.
Additionally, $2040.29 was collected for UUSC on Sunday, April 16th.Thank you for
your generosity.
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The DUUC Haiku Walk project -- June!
Do you love nature and poetry? What better way to celebrate the grounds and gardens at DuPage UU Church? Several members of our church have written haiku about our unique property. SOOO, you won’t want to miss the DUUC Haiku Walk project starting in June.
Here are the first three haiku posted along the walks and paths. Look for them!
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rain drenched stone bench
anchored to the earth
memory’s resting place
~Suzanne Pallak
summer fans
for the small geisha dolls
emerging Gingko leaves
~Bev Becker
festively colored benches
circling the firepit …
waiting
~Robert Skrocki
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DUUC Library Monthly Book Recommendations - June
Throughout the year, the DUUC Library will have monthly book recommendations based upon a monthly holiday or historical significance. Information about these featured DUUC Library books will be available on a book list flyer in the Library Alcove area in Kreves Hall. For June 2023, LGBTQIA+ Pride Month will be celebrated.
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Happy Pride from DUUC’s Accessibility and Inclusion Ministry Team!
June is Pride Month for the LGBTQIA+ community. The disability community and LGBTQIA+ community intersect in ways both expected and unexpected. As about 25% of adults in the U.S. have some type of disability, people in the LGBTQIA+ community will naturally experience various types of disability as well. Less expected though, according to the Autism Society of Minnesota, is a recent study showing that 15 to 35 percent of autistic people who do not have an intellectual disability are gay, lesbian, or bisexual in comparison with approximately 5 percent of the general population. Another recent study found that those who are transgender (that is, people whose gender identity does not match the sex registered for them at birth), are 3 to 6 times more likely to be autistic than people who are cisgender (that is, people whose gender identity matches the sex registered for them at birth). These statistics indicate how important it is for the disability community to welcome gender and sexual diversity, and for the LGBTQIA+ community (and all communities) to be as accessible and inclusive as possible for people with disabilities. We are stronger together!
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Image description: Daniel Quasar’s 2018 design of the Progress Pride Flag. From left to right, coming to a point in the middle of the flag is a white, pink, light blue, brown, and black striped chevron.
From top to bottom, there are horizontal red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple stripes.
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The DUUC Accessibility and Inclusion Ministry Team strives to increase awareness of issues surrounding disability and disability rights and to help make all church programs and spaces as accessible and inclusive as possible. If you have questions about AIM at DUUC, have accessibility or inclusion questions, suggestions, or concerns at church, and/or would like to join the DUUC AIM Team, please email us at aim@dupageuuchurch.org. |
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Hello again, SMILE supporters! Thanks so much for the many positive responses we have received from you with the monetary evidence that you also believe in SMILE! We must let you know that we have had enthusiastic responses from 28 students at Waubonsie Valley High School and at least 6–8 students from Metea Valley High School. This is a larger number of students than we can accommodate with the financial goal of 25 students we had set when you last heard from us.
The cost for one student to complete SMILE is $692, so if you haven’t made a donation yet, or can make an additional one, we can avoid reducing the number of student applicants we can include in SMILE this year. We would like to include them all, but the cost may be too high. Thanks for doing what you can comfortably do. Our Orientation for the mentors and students is June 24.
If you have questions or want more information about the SMILE project, you may contact any of our team members:
Lynn Clark, Pat Kocher-Cowan, Carolyn Drake, Jane Gano, Jan Moretti, Elaine Waite
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Please note: The Meditation Group will be taking a summer break the entire month of July.
Mindfulness Meditation
Mondays 7:00pm - 8:45pm
This mindfulness meditation group is open to anyone who has interest in meditation from beginners to more advanced. Our time together consists of sitting meditation, walking meditation (when we meet in person), a short teaching and responsive group sharing.
For more information, go to our website:
We are meeting Hybrid in the DUUC Learning Center and on Zoom.
Meeting ID: 885 7102 1238
Passcode: 512058
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Sunday Flowers Needed
Celebrate a person or event by providing flowers for a Sunday service. Flowers are still needed throughout the summer months. You may request to have Sunday Flowers order a $35 standard arrangement for you from Phillip’s Flowers. Or, if you are planning to attend the service in person, you may choose to bring in your own arrangement from your garden or favorite flower shop. The arrangement should be brought to the sanctuary by 10:20 a.m. Your dedication will be printed in the email with the link to the on-line version of the Order of Service as well as in the printed Order of Service. The flowers are yours to take home after the service. If you are not attending service, you may pick up your flowers either on Sunday 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m., or contact Sheri, office@dupageuuchurch.org or (630) 505-9408, to make arrangements for pick-up during office hours. Payment may be made by sending a check made out to DUUC for $35 to the church office (write “flowers” on the memo line), through the DUUC Payment Portal (select “other” under donation, and write in “flowers”), or VANCO (select “flowers fund”). Contact Kristen Tang at flowers@dupageuuchurch.org or (630) 305-7771 for more information and/or to request a date. Thank you!
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Newsletter Deadline
The deadline for the July newsletter is Monday, June 26, 2023 @ 9am. Please email your submissions to office@dupageuuchurch.org.
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Full Moon
June 3 @ 7pm
Come celebrate the full moon in all its glory and release your intentions for this moon cycle with Hearth of Life. Fellowship to follow.
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Litha Summer Solstice
June 17 @ 7pm
Come join us for Litha Summer Solstice with a potluck to follow. Please bring a dish to pass.
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In the Wider Unitarian Universalist World |
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General Assembly 2023 - Pittsburgh, PA!
Join us June 21-25, 2023 in-person or virtually to worship, witness, learn, connect, and make policy for the Association through democratic process.
This year's Ware Lecturer is Imani Perry, the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and a faculty associate with Gender and Sexuality Studies and Jazz Studies. In the summer of 2023 she will join the faculty at Harvard University as a Radcliffe Professor. Perry is also a contributing writer for The Atlantic and the author of seven books. The Ware Lecture will take place on Saturday, June 24 at 7 pm ET and requires registration to view the live stream or attend in-person.
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Please consider making a donation to support
DuPage UU Church and all of its programs.
Thank you!
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DuPage UU Church
630-505-9408
office@dupageuuchurch.org
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