Under the Umbrella

Inspired by our UU principles, we are a vibrant, intentionally diverse congregation that models and promotes both locally and globally: love, spiritual growth, service, right relations, and sustainable living.

Contacting Our Minister

Reverend Ellie's email: RevEllie@uufsd.org.

To make an appointment: calendly.com/revellie

Please remember, Rev. Ellie does not use an "@gmail" email account. These are phishing emails attempting to obtain your personal info. Do not respond to them. Report them to your email host or delete them. Also be suspicious of text messages signed with her name.

FROM THE BOARD

UUFSD Board Meeting

Sunday, April 14, 2024, 11:30am - 1:30pm, Founders' Hall - West

All are welcome to attend and observe.

FELLOWSHIP LIFE

Spring to Life Fair and Feast: Food, Music, Auction

The time is NOW! RSVP for our Fellowship Fair, Feast and Auction on Saturday April 20. We want you to preregister so we can feed you. Louise, Charlotte and Trent are preparing a feast (for free!) and need to know you'll be part of the festivities. We want you to be there.



We can also put a few volunteers to work helping with food, with set-up and take-down. Be part of the team. Let Mary Anne, Rich or Andi know if you're available. Enthusiasm is growing!

Great food! Great items to bid on! Great music and song-writing competition! Great fun and fellowship! Even Opportunity Tickets that make some items available without paying a penny. Can't wait to see you there! RSVP on our website.

Volunteers get FREE Opportunity Drawing tickets

We’re saying ‘THANKS’ to UUFSD volunteers with 3 FREE opportunity-drawing tickets for every volunteer activity during March 1 – April 19.

Here’s how it works

1. A selection of Gift Baskets and Silent Auction items will be designated for Opportunity Drawings.

2. Volunteers are recognized with 3 FREE opportunity-drawing tickets for every volunteer activity March 1 – April 19.

For example: Volunteer in the kitchen: 3 tickets. Assist with RE class: 3 more tickets. Work on Building &Grounds project: 3 more tickets.

3. Ticket Distribution: Envelopes with volunteers’ names and their tickets will be at the event Registration Table on April 20. The event is also FREE.

4. Opportunity Drawing Tickets will also be sold before and during the Spring to Life event.

5. Drawing Entries: Deposit one or more tickets in the Opportunity Drawing boxes.

6. Winners: Drawings/announcements will take place at approximately 7 PM.

7. Must be present or have a friend prepared to take home your prize.

Questions?

Contact Wenda Alvarez or Mary Ann Trause | wenda@cox.net trause@comcast.net

Save the Date: Forum on the Future of UUFSD

Sunday, April 21, 2024, 11:15ish – noon

Founders' Hall

Thanks to the founders of UUFSD and many who came after them, we have been given a unique and extraordinary campus for our beloved community. Over more than sixty years, however, time has taken its toll on our facilities. As our congregation has evolved, so have our needs, as well as the rules and requirements for safety, accessibility, environmental protection, and sustainability.

Will we find the will and the commitment to keep on moving forward? How can you help? Let’s talk and listen and create the path to a safer, more accessible, more sustainable UUFSD.

Please join us Sunday, April 21 after the service. Snacks will be provided. Contact Lisa Shaffer at Lshaffer@ucsd.edu.

Promoting Justice: Amplifying Voices at the Intersections of Race, Class, & Environment

Pacific Southwest Service Area Assembly

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PSWSAA Spring UU Youth Con 2024

Friday, April 26 - Monday, April 28, 2024

At the Pacific Southwest Service Area Assembly, Regional lead, Rev. Carlton Smith, will present UUA updates and hold open discussions with board presidents and leaders. The weekend is packed with meaningful keynote topics, an assortment of workshops, youth con activities, music, worship, meals and more!

Plenary speaker, Hop Hopkins has been a catalyst, thought leader and social change strategist for over 25 years. Plenary speaker, Lucas Zucker, the Co-Executive Director of CAUSE (Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy) will discuss creating grassroots power through community organizing.

Youth Con is a weekend youth conference and overnight gathering for UU youth in grades 7 through 12. The weekend is being planned and led by some amazing Camp de Benneville Pines Leaders, UU Religious Educators, Youth Advisors, and Adult Volunteers.

Long-time UU favorites Emma's Revolution, the musical duo of Pat Humphries and Sandy O, will perform on Saturday night.

There are two ways to attend this Assembly: In Person or Virtually via Zoom.

To register visit Camp de Benneville Pines website, and for more information click here to see the PSWSAA Assembly flyer.

Hosted by UU Church of Ventura, and supported by Chalice UU Fellowship of the Conejo Valley. Rooming in the home of a fellow UU makes the trip to Ventura quite affordable

“Planet-Healthy Potluck“

hosted by UUFSD’s Climate Action Task Force (CATF)

Sunday, April 28 2024, 11:00am - Noon, Core Area

Let’s ALL participate!

Bring a healthy plant-based dish for a fabulous outdoor luncheon. If you want to eat a more plant-based diet, this potluck makes it easy. If you discovered a delicious plant-based dish, this is when to share it.

What we eat every day makes a difference in the health of our planet, ourselves, and all life. This small action cultivates a new mindset. Doing it with friends is an adventure.

List your main ingredients. Gluten free? Nuts? Dairy? We’ll supply cards to label your dish Vegetarian or Vegan. Or bring a recipe card. Salads & fruit plates welcome.

Plant-based Vegan: no poultry, meat, fish, dairy, egg. Vegetarian: includes dairy and eggs.

Those who arrive at 10:00am enjoy an Earth Day Service with a guest speaker, singers, and a guest musician! Contact Linda Luisi at lindamluisi@gmail.com.

Singalong with Steve Milloy

Sunday, April 28, 2024, 12:00pm - 1:30pm, Founders' Hall

After the Planet-Healthy Potluck hosted by UUFSD’s Climate Action Task Force (CATF) on Sunday, April 28th, join the choir for a Singalong hosted by Steve Milloy. This is a Fundraiser for UUFSD from the 2023 Auction catalog.

Whether you're a shower singer, a karaoke pro, or just someone who loves to have a good time, get ready to sing your heart out with us. Mix your voice with the dulcet tones of our own Music Director Steve Milloy! We will sing a little of everything from folksongs to Broadway showtunes!

Ticket Price $25 ** 18 and under FREE** (Those who paid for tickets in 2023 have been notified by email.) Questions? Call or text Cathy at 650 224-1974.

Stick with our Principles and Sources? Or move to new Values and Covenants? That is the question.

Sunday, May 5, 2024, 11:30am

Founders' Hall

Article II of the UUA bylaws contains the core of our faith—our "Principles" and "Sources". A dramatic revision to Article II will be voted on this June at the UUA General Assembly. The revision replaces our “Principles” with "Values and Covenant”— Interdependence, Equity, Justice, Generosity, Pluralism, and Transformation, with specific Covenants to action for each Value. Our Six "Sources" are eliminated and replaced by a paragraph about "Inspiration."

Learn more about the revision with the video “Much Ado About Article II”.

On May 5, after the service, Rich MacDonald (“YES” to revision) and Mark Tuller (“NO”) will face off in an epic battle of reasons and rhetoric! Then we’ll begin a confidential voting process that will ultimately determine if our UUFSD delegates to GA will vote for or against the revision. The voting process will remain open through May, and we will be encouraging every member to cast their vote.

Mark your calendar! This important event will also be streamed and recorded. Contact Mark Tuller tullermark@gmail.com.

MUSIC SUNDAY

Sunday, May 19, 2024, 10:00am

SAVE THE DATE! Our Music Sunday this spring is on May 19th at the normal service time of 10am.

The theme is Make a Joyful Noise.

Guest musicians and vocalists will be included in this celebration along with the choir, pianist Katie Klarich and Music Director Steve Milloy.

Please make a note of the date and come join us to listen and sing along. Contact Cathy Leach-Phillips cathy@leachphillips.com

April 2024 Quarterly Magazine

The April 2024 Quarterly Magazine “Dialogue” is now available on our website. I hope you enjoy this issue which features several poets in our UUFSD community. You can also learn about the State of the Fellowship, from the Board of Directors, and what’s happening in our Religious Exploration and Fellowship. We have a summary of our Social Justice undertakings, our ongoing programs, upcoming events and also introduce several new members.

You can access the April 2024 Quarterly Magazine by clicking here: UUFSD Quarterly Magazine. Contact Irv Himelblau at ihimelblau@gmail.com.

SOCIAL JUSTICE

Fill A Belly - The Picture Tells It All - Get Involved

The UUFSD Sacred Circle, facilitated by Lisa Shaffer, along with other members and friends of the Fellowship provided an abundant meal to approximately 40 guests at our March monthly Fill a Belly Dinner. We served the meals and then served ourselves and joined and interacted with our guests. We encourage members and friends to sign up and would love to have more participation from UUFSD. For more information email Terry Goan at terrygoan@gmail.com

URGENT CALL: Fill a Belly has a call out for a used baby stroller, car seat, etc... Two of the guests are expecting a baby in May! Contact Lee Auerbach at LeucadiaLee@gmail.com

GOOD NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST

“Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.”

– Herodotus

• Mexican Wolf Numbers Growing for 8th Consecutive Year, Soon to Be Howling at a Reserve Near You
• 'The Javan tiger still exists': DNA Find May Herald an Extinct Species' Comeback
• Global Life Expectancy Rises by 6.2 Years After Drop in Deaths from Stroke, Diarrhea, and Respiratory Infections

“Israel and Gaza: The Question of

Genocide, International Law,

and the Struggle for Palestinian Liberation”

Talk Hosted by First UU Church of SD Justice Team

Via Zoom

Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 6:00pm

The Palestine-Israel Justice Team of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego invites you to join us for a virtual talk titled “Israel and Gaza: The Question of Genocide, International Law, and the Struggle for Palestinian Liberation” with guest speaker Prof. Raz Segal, Israeli historian, Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and Endowed Professor in the Study of Modern Genocide at Stockton University. For more information click here.

The event will take place via Zoom on Tuesday, April 30^th, at 6pm PDT.  You can register for the event here.

SpiritRest Silent Retreat

August 4-9, 2024

SpiritRest is a facilitated five-day silent retreat for Unitarian Universalists and other spiritual seekers. Our 2024 gathering will be August 4-9 in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA. This retreat is led by UU ministers Lucy Bunch, Batya Dale, Tania Márquez, Arvid Straube, and Sharon Wylie.

Retreatants meet with a spiritual director for a half hour each day. In addition to the practice of silence, there is guidance for meditation, labyrinth walks, prayer, art journaling, Qi gong, and InterPlay. There is also time for singing together. Each day closes with a vespers service at sundown.

Learn more at www.spiritrestretreat.com.

Want to Learn More About

What's Happening at the Fellowship?

Visit our website at uufsd.org.

Share information, ideas and conversation with other UU's at our NextDoor Page here.

Watch your email inbox for our weekly "Stay Connected" update. It arrives on Saturday mornings.

Our Dialogue Quarterly Magazine is available in both digital and print form.

You can find us on Facebook at facebook.com/uufsd.

Note: those who use the Le Port School parking lot on Sundays: the gate code is 152