Please send your joys or sorrows to joysandsorrows@uucuc.org any time before the Joys and Sorrows portion of the service. They will be read aloud.

Your contributions and support allow us to continue to respond with love and resources to the needs in our congregation and the wider community. We couldn’t do it without your support and we are grateful to each of you.

This Sunday the 27th, due to expected lower attendance after the holiday, REE will only have two classrooms open. Youth are welcome to attend service upstairs with their families.

Join our online Zoom Fellowship Hour after the service this Sunday

Join us at 11:30 (or immediately following the service) for an in-person fellowship with coffee, beverages, treats, and good conversation in UUCUC's Fellowship Hall.

As of November 17, 2022, the COVID-19 transmission level in Champaign County is LOW. That means masks continue to be required during services (both in the Sanctuary and Fellowship Hall) as well as in all RE&E program activities. Masks are welcomed (but not required) in UUCUC’s building for non-RE&E activities before and after the service. Food and beverages are also permitted in the building when transmission levels are medium or low. Please visit this link for UUCUC’s current COVID Safety Guidelines.

Bookmark our UUCUC Events and UUCUC Calendar webpage for future reference.

We are excited to welcome Kelly Skinner as our incoming Manager of Religious Exploration and Engagement (REE)! As manager, Kelly will coordinate our programming for children and youth over the next 18 months as we complete our search for a settled minister and then ready ourselves to search for a permanent Director of REE.

Please consider donating to the Little Free Pantries run by AJ Herzog (Champaign) and UUCUC (Urbana). Their Amazon wish list has been updated to include the most high priority items. All orders sent through Amazon are split between the two pantries. You are also welcome to drop off items in person at both locations. Questions? Contact AJ (zogs92(at)gmail.com) or Penne Beckett (penne.beckett(at)uucuc.org).

JOYS AND SORROWS sent to joysandsorrows@uucuc.org for last Sunday, November 20, 2022.

From Sam Beshers: Mourning for Club Q and the people there in Colorado Springs

From Anthony Brienza: Joy that my mom is out of the hospital and getting stronger. Also joy that she will soon move into a safer environment with the proper care.

From Gail C: Happy birthday to Joe Biden - now officially our oldest! Thanks for doing a great job! 

From Jerry Carden & Tim Temple: We are terribly upset and angered to learn of another shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub. This one in Colorado. On the other hand, it makes me thankful to enjoy another birthday this Wednesday. 

From Abrita Chakravarty: My first visit to the sanctuary today. I am so excited and grateful! 

From Jennifer Ellis: My heart took a joyful leap when I heard the church bell ring this morning. It's been a long time since I heard it and the sound reverberated through my heart. Thank you o the bell ringer. 

From David Gross: Today, Nov 20, is my 79th birthday. Today is President Joe Biden's 80th birthday. I am retired. Joe Biden is still employed.

From Kelly Halcom: Sharing a sorrow for all the students, teachers, and parents who continue to experience traumatic disruptions to education at Urbana High School. May our world find a way to create safety for those who have already had to endure so much.

From Paul Kaiser: Joy for all the love and help Beth Simpson has received during her first year of stroke recovery. A year ago today, November 20, Beth was on the floor, alone, confused. Thanks to all your care and support, and Beth's daily hard work, we've made it another trip around the sun! Shazam!

From Madhu & Smitha: Our sister-in-law Uma is in India as she undergoes therapy. 

From Mick McEnroe: It's a joy to be back in this sanctuary after a long time away.

From M.R.: As small as it may seem, marking the hymnals, crossing out women and men was AMAZINGLKY powerful for me as a non-binary person. Thank you! Thank you so much.

From Peggy Patton & Todd Kinney: During this season of Thanksgiving, we are grateful for the efforts of our ministers and lay leaders - including the important Transition and Settled Minister Search Teams. Thanks for all you do for our UUCUC community. 

From Lan Richart: 51 years of marriage. What a trip! Happy Anniversary my dear - to Pam Richart. 

From Melissa Shep-line: A joy that M.R. has revived the childrens' choir. It's joyous to hear all sages singing.

From ElizaBeth Simpson: This is the Nov 20 when I first experienced stroke. Now, a year later, I sing! I sing! I sing! 

From Mia Trevino: Happy first heavenly birthday to my Uncle Bill.

From Lynn Wiley: Joy that brother-in-law Neil traveled to France to meet his new grandson Elio.

Please send your joys or sorrows to joysandsorrows@uucuc.org any time before the Joys and Sorrows portion of the service. They will be read aloud.

UUCUC Social Action Offering. Each month a selected organization is chosen to receive offerings from our congregation. You may donate to the social action offering for the month in one of the following ways:

November's Shared Offering recipient is the School of the Americas Watch (SOAW). SOAW was founded in 1990 to denounce the massacre of religious leaders in El Salvador by graduates of the U.S. Army's School of the Americas. The U.S. school made headlines in 1996 when the Pentagon, under intense pressure, released instruction manuals used to train Latin American soldiers to torture, extort and execute political dissidents. Among the list of graduates from the SOA are some of the worst violators of human rights in the continent, including nearly a dozen Latin American dictators. Among those targets by SOA graduates are educators, union organizers, religious workers, student leaders, and others who work for the rights of the poor. Hundreds of thousands of Latin Americans have been tortured, raped, assassinated, "disappeared," massacred, or forced into refuge by those trained at the School of Americas.

Over the past 30 years, SOA Watch has grown to become the largest grassroots Latin American solidarity organization in the United States. In 2016 SOA Watch moved to Nogales Arizona/Sonora to call attention to US foreign policy as an important root cause of migration, as well as to the devastating impact US security and immigration policies have on refugees, asylum seekers and immigrant families all over the continent.

The training at the School of the Americas (now called Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation) is among the root causes of migration that forces people to flee their countries in Latin America. SOA/WHINSEC-trained soldiers are the military muscle that keeps in place a system guaranteeing profits for the elites - and exploitation for the poor. Many immigrants to the United States are victims of U.S.-sponsored military training and atrocities in Latin America.

SOAW continues to provide education and advocacy supporting the closure of the School of the Americas, exposing the corruption, human rights violations and culture of racism and violence characterizing the border Patrol and joins in solidarity with organizations and movements seeking justice and peace throughout the Americas.

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