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Live Oak
Unitarian Universalist Church
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April 3rd 10:00am - In Person or online
Finding purpose through the side door
Chaplain Kye Flannery
We are meaning-seeking animals. This means we can sometimes find ourselves looking for our purpose in our lives and communities. It’s simple if we’re just looking to increase what’s ours, raise our status, and beat our competitors into submission. But when we value healing — when we are looking to mend the world with our lives — finding our mission is a more complicated process. Sometimes finding purpose asks us to be alchemists — taking a painful, destructive, or just unsatisfying situation and finding, in that, our call to wholeness. We’ll take some time to consider this for our own lives and explore stories of alchemists current and past.
Bio: Chaplain Kye Flannery is a chaplain and metal sculptor in the Austin area. Kye does part-time work with Wildflower Church as a pastoral care consultant.
Join us in person (or online) for Worship at 10:00am. The link will be on the Live Oak homepage: www.liveoakuu.org.
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Share the Plate
A legal helping hand
The Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services is our Share the Plate recipient for April. RAICES provides free and low-cost legal help to immigrant children and families and to refugees in Texas. Its clients, including children, would have to go to court alone with that representation. The nonprofit also provides social programs, bond assistance for release from detention centers and advocacy personnel.
Go to the Donate link on the Live Oak website’s home page. Use the drop down menu to designate your donation for “Share the Plate”.
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A Few Words from the Minister
What Are The Relationships You Will Make Or Strengthen Over The Next Five Months?
Oh, Lordy, have I been slacking on my closest friends. Read more
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Kiya Heartwood Ordination
First UU of Austin, UU Church of the Brazos Valley, and UU Church of Victoria are ordaining Kiya Heartwood. Saturday, April 2nd, 11 am at First UU Church of Austin 4700 Grover Avenue. Live Music, Food, Worship, Celebration, Serious Fun!
All are welcome!
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Spring Campout Almost Here!
Making Connections: Our spring campout is coming up soon, the weekend of April 8-10!
If you made a camping reservation, you should receive a Reservation Reminder email from Recreation.gov about 2 days before your reservation begins. This is an important document because it contains the GATE CODE. On the email, scroll down to the section highlighted in blue and you'll find the code. Read more
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All New Construction Photos
Click here every week for more photos! The elevator tower is complete! The new hallways are done!
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Share the Plate
It's time to choose next recipients.
Do you know of a worthy nonprofit you’d like Live Oak to support by sharing our offering plate one month this year? Nominations will be considered every four months in 2022 and the Social Justice Ministry Team will choose recipients for May-August at its upcoming meeting. Organizations nominated in December do not need to be resubmitted.
Send nominations with your name (not just your email address) to sharetheplate@liveoakuu.org by April 7. Make sure the group is a 501(c)(3) charity and explain how its work reflects Live Oak UU’s values.
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Important Dates to Know
The Voting Rights Team wants to make sure you know these dates:
April 7 Last day to register for the May 7 local election*
April 25 First day of early in-person voting for the May 7 local election
April 25 Last day to register for the May 24 primary runoff election
April 26 Last day to apply for Ballot by Mail (received not postmarked) for the May 7 local election
*The May 7 ballots will have 2 state questions and city races including those in Austin, Round Rock, Leander, Georgetown, and Cedar Park for example
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The Easter Bunny Needs Your "Hop"
Help stock our Easter hunt.
The annual Live Oak Easter egg is back on this year but we need the whole congregation to be involved, by donating prizes for the hunt.
Items are needed for children of all ages, from babies to preteens. These gifts do NOT need to be able to fit into eggs--children will be able to cash in their found eggs for what they want. Some suggested treasures are mini packs of crackers, stickers, sidewalk chalk, seed packets, coins, or even homemade items like bath bombs.
Please bring these items to church no later than April 17 (that's Easter).
The hunt begins at 11 am. Babies and preschoolers will hunt in the playground and elementary students by the back picnic tables. Teens are needed to work the egg-exchange table and to help hide the eggs during service.
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Why Does LOUU Exist?
To fulfill our mission! Is it time to update our mission to reflect our current congregation? That’s up to you. We are looking for 4 volunteers to work on reviewing and revising the church mission. Contact Karen Santhanam if you would like to be on this team!
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Calling All Crafters
In conjunction with Selfies with Santa Live Oak will be hosting a Holiday Craft Bazaar of handmade items. It is a great way for us to use our creative talents and donate to LOUU. Start planning your projects now for this December!
In addition to items, we need people to help plan, organize and assist at the event. If you are interested in helping with the event, please email me at alisonlmcpherson@gmail.com.
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Hungry?
Are you looking for a way to help feed the millions of Ukrainian refugees?
The CROP Walk is an inter-faith, multi-generational fund raising event sponsored by Church World Services to combat hunger. Twenty five percent of the funds will be allocated to the host countries for the refugees, i.e. Romania, Moldova, Georgia.
Youth, teens, littles and adults have several ways to take one step at a time on the paved one mile (one-way) walk: complete the total 2 miles, drop out when you need to, cheer the walkers on at the one mile mark, push your stroller, use a walker or wheelchair. Just do it!
What: The Leander/Cedar Park Hunger CROP Walk
When: April 24th @ 1:30 pm CDT
Where: Pavilion at Twin Lakes YMCA 205 E Little Elm Trail, Cedar Park, TX
Who: You!
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We Want You!
The Live Oak UU Church Chorus invites ALL to sing with us!
The Live Oak UU Church Chorus is extending a loving invite to all those interested in vocal music. Our ensemble is searching for singers of all types and no previous experience is necessary. If you have a willingness to learn, grow, and sing, then we would love to have you join us.
We rehearse weekly on Wednesday nights from 7:30-9:00 pm with bi-monthly performances. For more information or if you are interested in joining us, please email the Music Director, Curtis White. We hope to hear your voice alongside ours!
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LiveOakUU.org Pages to Visit:
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The deadline for the weekly e-newsletter and the Sunday announcements is midnight on Tuesday. The submission form can be found here
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Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Church
(737) 240-3455 | 3315 El Salido Pkwy, Cedar Park, TX 78613
www.liveoakuu.org
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