Upcoming Events

• Saturday, March 25, 10:00am, Meditation ~ on Zoom. Contact June Sidman (junesey2000@yahoo.com).

• Friday, March 31, 7:30pm, Evening Women’s Group ~ on Zoom. Contact Diane Guernsey (dianeguernsey.uu@gmail.com).

• Friday, March 31, 7:30pm, Men’s Group ~ on Zoom. Contact Paul Gross (pgross@pulsevoices.org) or Art Lowenstein (artlowenstein48@gmail.com).

• Thursday, April 6, 12:00pm, Daytime Women’s Group - see below

Upcoming Worship

• Sunday, April 2, 10:00am, “TBA” ~ Dr. Mahjabeen Hassan

• Sunday, April 9, 10:00am, “I’m Spiritual, Not Religious” ~ Rev. Arlin Roy

About Our Guest Worship Leader

Rev. Kimberley Debus is a community minister based in Takoma Park, Maryland, inspiring an artful and art-filled faith. She consults with congregations and religious professionals throughout the denomination. She is joyfully affiliated with the Unitarian Church of Lincoln, Nebraska, and has previously served at the Church of the Larger Fellowship as well as congregations on Long Island and Key West.

Share The Plate Updates

Our March Share the Plate recipient is Family-to-Family, Inc. (https://www.family-to-family.org/), a grassroots nonprofit 501(c)(3) hunger and poverty relief organization dedicated to providing food, personal hygiene products, and other basic life essentials to American families struggling with the challenges of poverty. By connecting donors one-to-one with specific families in need, Family-to-Family’s mission is to bring a large and seemingly intractable problem – poverty – into personal focus, making concrete and meaningful results possible…one family at a time. We collect for our Share-the-Plate partner throughout the month. Visit the Donation page on fusw.org, click “Donate,” and select “Share the Plate.”

Reading Black Lives

The FUSW Reading Black Lives book group is reading Harlem Shuffle, the latest from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Colson Whitehead. The group will meet in April (date TBA) to discuss the novel, which NPR called "a suspenseful crime thriller" and "a powerful tale of a man's love for his family and the neighborhood where he lives." All are welcome. Please contact Denise Woodin (dcw2@optonline.net) if you would like to join in.

Gentle Reminder from the Safe and Sacred Committee

We are thrilled that more and more of us are feeling comfortable enough to return to services in person. It is so good to see everyone. However, a reminder for all of us: let's be respectful of each of our boundaries and our degree of comfort with close physical contact in these continuing COVID times. If you want to give someone a warm, welcome back hug, do ask first if that is okay. Some people may not feel safe and comfortable with physical contact (and that doesn't mean they're not delighted to see you!)

Daytime Women's Group

"First Friday" Women's Group, Thursday, April 6, 12:00-2:00pm, Lenoir Preserve

Please join us for our first in-person gathering of the group, to be held on the first Thursday in April. We are so excited that we will have the lovely rooms at the Nature Center building of the Lenoir Preserve at 19 Dudley Street in Yonkers (914-968-5851). The Preserve is located just off North Broadway, just north of Executive Boulevard. Please bring your own lunch. Dessert and coffee will be provided by Marilee Scheuneman and Theresa Reynolds. For more information contact Marilee (marilee@scheuneman.com) or Theresa (ntdelise@optonline.net).

Online Donation Reminder

Thanks to all who have made contributions online by going to fusw.org and clicking Donate. To be sure we allocate your donations to the fund you wish, please remember to follow these steps:

1. Go to fusw.org, scroll down, and click the gray DONATE button to open the GIVING page. 
2. Click the yellow “Donate” button on the bottom of the GIVING page to open the PayPal donate form. 
3. Type in the dollar amount you would like to donate. 
4. To direct your money to a specific account, click the drop-down “(Optional) Use this donation for” and choose your fund: Regular Pledge for Annual Budget; Weekly Collection Basket; Share the Plate; Minister’s Discretionary Fund; End of Year Gift; or Other. Then select the Donate button for PayPal or credit card.
5. You can type additional instructions by clicking the gray pencil icon "Add/Write a note," just under your dollar amount, on either the PayPal or credit card "Donate Now" page. 

If you have any questions, please contact Rina (admin@fusw.org).

FUSW Contacts & Information

Questions, Concerns, or Compliments for FUSW? Reach out to any member of our Board of Trustees, fusw.org/board-of-trustees (place cursor over the picture, then right-mouse click to copy the email).

Board of Trustees - The Board usually meets on the third Tuesday of each month via Zoom at 7:45pm. Click here to join our meeting on Zoom. Meetings are open to any member of FUSW. For confidential matters, non-Board members will be asked to leave temporarily. At the end of the meeting, there will be an open forum, moderated by the President, during which non-Board members can speak about topics of concern, limiting remarks to two minutes. Please contact any Board member if you have questions or comments. To access the minutes from previous meetings, visit the Members page of fusw.org and click on Board Minutes Archive. 

Scheduling Zoom Meetings or Submitting Information for The Scoop and FUSW Calendar - Contact our Administrator, Rina Schunk (admin@fusw.org). For Zoom meetings, please include the purpose and preferred date/time. Articles for The Scoop are due by Wednesday at 10:00am. 

The Scoop e-newsletter is sent out each week. Have news to share? Submit articles to our administrator, Rina Schunk (admin@fusw.org), by Wednesday at 10:00am. To schedule events on the FUSW Calendar, contact Rina Schunk at admin@fusw.org.