Sunday Service
In-person and Online
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Sunday, May 28, 2023 @ 10:30am
rev. mandi huizenga
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Annual Meeting 2023
For forums, ballot information, and
Zoom links -
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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. Look for an rsvp form (for space and food purposes) in the June newsletter, but save the date now - Saturday, June 10 - if you'd like to join!
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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 May our special offerings will benefit Unsinkable/BR Ryall YMCA, nominated by Brigid Coleman. Unsinkable's mission is to make swim lessons more accessible and affordable to local children in the foster care system. Water safety is a critical life skill, and being safe and comfortable in the water helps build kids' self-esteem and enables both independence and fun. Many of us take for granted that kids will learn how to swim, but oftentimes foster children not only lack this opportunity but are actively afraid of the water. When we saw the joy that learning to swim brought to our own foster kids, we started the Unsinkable program to create that opportunity for other kids, too. Since its founding in 2017, it has provided 93 sessions of swim lessons to 25 youth at the Glen Ellyn Y (and that's despite a long COVID-related break). It expanded to the Rockford Y in January of this year and has already served 17 foster kids over 22 swim sessions. This program serves kids in our community and adjacent communities. It was founded by a DUUC family that saw a specific need in a specific population and attempted to fill that need. Kids in the foster care system have so much stacked against them. This is a concrete way to make them safer and hopefully happier, and a small amount of money can have a great impact in their lives. For more information, click here.
To make a donation, please click here.
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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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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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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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