UUCOD Weekly Newsletter
June 10, 2022
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves."
John Muir
Services
June 12, 2022
"Everything is Holy: A Religious Naturalist Spirituality"
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Bob Rancourt
Just what is a Religious Naturalist and why does it matter? Join us as we explore what it means to understand the whole of the universe, including us, as holy.

June 19, 2022
"The Wide Circle of Universalism"
Worship Leader: Rev. Don Stouder
Worship Associate: Bryna Blum
Since Rev Don preached several times about the “Widening the Circle” report in the summer of 2020, there has been much talk in UU circles of the need for new, liberating theologies. In this sermon, Rev Don calls us back to our Universalist roots, and how, on this Sunday honoring both Father’s Day and Juneteenth, we can celebrate and reclaim the freedom, reason, tolerance, and love that our Universalist faith represents.

June 26, 2022 @ 9:30am
"Sunday Morning Worship from UUA General Assembly"
Worship Leaders:  Rev. Gretchen Haley, Senior Minister of the Foothills Unitarian Universalist Church in Fort Collins, CO, Rev. Sean Neil-Barron and Shari Halliday-Quan
UUCOD Coordinator: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Join us as we share in the Sunday service from the 2022 Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly shared with Unitarian Universalists around the country and around the world.
Please note the 9:30am start time
Plate Collections for June 5, 2022: $114.44
Staying Connected
Sunday, June 12
10:00am-Worship Service Link to Live-Stream
11:00am-Sunday Together Zoom Link
11:30am-Finance Committee Meeting Zoom Link
4:30pm ICD Meeting
Monday, June 13
6:00pm-Monday Meditation
6:00pm-Women's Nite Out
Tuesday, June 14
5:30pm-Membership Committee Meeting
Social Justice
Want to take action on gun violence, but don't know where to start?
Feeling angry, overwhelmed, & numbed by the number, magnitude, frequency, & complexity of these murders? Channel your feelings by reading this blog and taking action.
Take Action for a Future Free from Gun Violence

Our legislators must act and laws must be passed to end the gun violence crisis in our country: stronger background checks, semi-automatic weapons regulations, elimination of high-capacity magazines are just a few of the issues that we are...

Read more
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Socks on the Second is this Sunday, June 12th

Living unhoused in the Coachella Valley throughout this Covid pandemic has become even more challenging than at any other time in history. It’s not just that homeless people have nowhere to go, difficulty finding safe places to sleep or nourishing food to eat, it’s that fewer people are donating items they desperately need to survive.

Let’s not let socks be one of these items. 

Please bring your socks to June 12 Sunday service or anytime the church is open & put them in the brown bin in the lobby. They will be delivered to Well in the Desert at one of their 5 lunchtime sites & given to anyone in need. 

Thank you for your generosity.
Galilee Center is June's Share the Plate

Located in Mecca in the eastern Coachella Valley, Galilee Center serves many community needs, from food and household items to rental and utility assistance. They serve families, seniors and individuals. They also operate the Our Lady of Guadalupe overnight shelter, where they provide their guests with meals, showers and laundry service. Those served at the shelter range from migrant workers coming to our area in season to work the local crops to asylum seekers who are in transit to join their family members in the US.

On June 19, Father's Day, please give generously to help Galilee Center to serve the community of the east valley.

Find more information on the Galilee Center here: Galilee Center
Announcements
WE’RE MARCHING AGAIN!!

MARCH FOR OUR LIVES RALLY!

When: Saturday, June 11, 2022 @ 9:00am
Where: Frances Stevens Park, Palm Springs(500 North Palm Canyon)

Join your fellow UUCODers on Saturday, June 11, as, together, we continue our demands for common sense gun laws at the 2022 March For Our Lives Rally.

Wear your Standing on the Side of Love or an orange t-shirt and bring a sign to join the Palm Springs rally as part of the 2022 March that is happening throughout the nation. Parking is available in the parking lot on Alejo, ½ block west of Palm Canyon. Look for Gloria Kapp in her yellow UUCOD t-shirt at Frances Stevens Park. Contact Gloria Kapp for more information.

If you will be marching someplace else, be sure to take a photo and email it to Gloria.

In 2018, more than 26 UUCOD members and friends joined with more than 500 others at the March that Stoneman-Douglas High School students created to tell legislators we demand common sense gun laws & safe schools.

Sadly, school and gun violence has only increased. So we march again. As the students describe it: “Yes! March For Our Lives is again marching on June 11, 2022. After countless mass shootings and instances of gun violence in our communities, it’s time to take back to the streets and march for our lives. We marched in 2018 after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland, Florida, and now we’re headed back to DC. Join us on June 11th in Washington, D.C., or in one of our hundreds of local marches on the same day, across the nation.
Going, going, gone!

Just a reminder that most of the Zoom meetings on the Admin calendar (not the Board Zoom calendar) expired at the end of May unless I was told to extend it. If you do want to extend your meeting, please contact Katy. Thanks!

June is here and that means WNO shenanigans for the Desert Rats who stick around for the summer. I hope you'll join me Monday, June 13 at 6pm, at Legends & Icons in Palm Desert (near the I-10W exit at Washington). We will be inside and they do provide separate checks. Please RSVP to Katy.
Emergency Forms

Your Care Team is hoping to collect Emergency Contact forms from congregants. These forms tell us who to reach out to in case of emergency and what some of your wishes are around illness and death. Completed forms are confidential and only our minister will have access to the information. To fill out a form see one of our Care Team members at a table on the patio over the next few weeks. You can also click on the link below to download the form, which you can print and fill out or complete directly in the pdf.

Please send completed forms to Rev. Ian at minister@uucod.org or put in his mailbox or mail to the church office.

If you have trouble accessing the form, let us know and we will get one to you. If you need assistance filling it out, help is available for that too.
Any questions, contact Rev. Ian or Bryna Blum.
Social BUUterflies
Office Administrator Hours:
Monday-Friday 9:15am - 2:00pm

(There are times Pam may be on errands. Please call the office to ensure she is there)

Newsletter Deadlines: The deadline for the Weekly Newsletter is Wednesday morning before noon. The deadline for the Monthly Newsletter is Monday morning before noon. If you are going to be late, call or email Pam asking to reserve space.
Unitarian Universalist Church of the Desert
72425 Via Vail - Rancho Mirage CA 92270 - (760) 321-0694