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Friday, February 26th, 5-7 pm
Safety doesn't start or end with police. It comes from strong communities, supported by affordable housing, mental health care, programs for drug users, job training, and education. We have work to do in Arizona around engaging our peers in discussions about community safety and policing.
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Sunday Services are Currently Online
Sunday, February 28th
10:30 am (az time)
Round Table On Life's Big Questions
Rev. Christine Dance & Carrie Lifshitz
Along with Our Youth:
Colin Lifshitz, Mary McManus, &
Chloe Stephenson-Brown
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Rev. Christine and several of our youth will have conversations on what theological topics are important to them.
Meeting ID: 966 2749 0933
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immediately following service
Meeting ID: 994 2498 2437 | Passcode: 798166
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Having problems with Zoom? Miss a Worship Service?
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Programming February 28th - March 5th
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ALL Programming is in Arizona Time Zone
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February 28th
10:30 am
Meeting ID: 966 2749 0933
immediately following service
Meeting ID: 994 2498 2437 | Passcode: 798166
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March 1st
8:30 am with Katie Resendiz
Meeting ID: 912 6050 2489 | Passcode: 086063
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March 2nd
6:30 pm with Katie, Jezz & Chris
Meeting ID: 944 1700 2431 | Passcode: 647963
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March 3rd
12:00 pm with Rev. Christine Dance
Meeting ID: 924 5107 9822 | Passcode: 4027
4:00 pm with Ms. Cherilyn
Meeting ID: 991 5092 8417 | Passcode: 083754
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March 4th
No Activities Scheduled
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March 5th
4:00 pm for K thrUU 5th Grade
Meeting ID: 920 8484 9174 | Passcode: 036500
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If you don't have access to a computer, laptop, or smartphone
OR don't want to be on video, you can simply call 346-248-7799.
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Participant ID just Press #, Record Your Name, Press #.
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If you're having COVID-19 Symptoms:
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Calling All UUCP Community
#UUAnywhere
Join in the Fun and share your Love for UUCP!
Create a 20 sec to 2 min video in the next 10 days answering the following statements:
1. I came to UUCP because I was looking for _________.
2. I stayed at UUCP because I found ______________.
They’ll be available to watch online and share during our
upcoming Stewardship Campaign.
Let’s celebrate our Community and each other!
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Nominating Committee Announcement |
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Each year, the Nominating Committee seeks out willing members to fill the following year’s open positions in leadership. We are seeking candidates to fill two positions on the UUCP Board of Trustees, two positions on the UU Foundation Board, and three positions on the Nominating Committee. (Learn what’s entailed in each position by clicking on the blue links.) Are you interested in getting more involved in leadership at UUCP? Or is there another member you would like to suggest to us? If so, please fill out this form.
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UUA's PWR Newsletter
Edition: February 25, 2021
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Navajo Nation
continues to need our support
Gratitude abounds in a situation of continuing COVID infections, lingering long-term effects, difficult infrastructure, long distances, scarcity of supplies, long lines. Many thanks to all those who were able to contribute cash, supplies, shopping to this effort. We look forward to hearing about a new effort they have begun in response to a need to improve nutrition: baking their own bread, for which we sent up ingredients. Don't we wish we could help test the results!
Many thanks for your assistance – spreading care and concern is a small way we can help provide an antidote to a spreading virus.
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Civic Engagement Announcements |
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Are you in Legislative District 15 or 23? If so, your reps are supporting bills that 1) suppress the vote and 2) strip the general fund with tax breaks, leaving schools underfunded, roads falling apart, etc. LD23’s Senator Ugenti-Rita (LD23) is also pushing to remove the P from PEVL (permanent early voting list) in newly numbered SB1485. Please check here to find out what district you are in. Put in your address. Your AZ legislative district will be the number on the right. If you are in LD15 or LD23, speak out! Find contact info at azleg.gov.
There is only one month left to learn to use the powerful RTS system so you can weigh in on the bills that are being considered. Email us at civicengagement@phoenixuu.org.
UUCP is helping the downtown UCC church collect basic medical supplies for asylum-seekers. Please help by dropping off any of the following items at UUCP on Saturday, March 13 from 2:00-4:00 p.m.: cough drops, vitamins, pain relief (aspirin/ibuprofen/Tylenol), first aid supplies (band-aids, Q-tips, wound care), stomach relief (antacids, anti-diarrheal, Pepto-Bismol), and gallon size ziplock bags. NOTE: all should be in small, unopened containers, not expired.
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Earth Justice Ministry Announcements
The Earth Justice Ministry would appreciate your writing a Love Letter to Nature (or some part of it) because what we love, we will protect! Please send both the letter and a video of you reading the letter to EJM at uuejministry@gmail.com. You can also send it to Doug Bland, as the article suggests, so we both can archive and use them in services and other events.
This was the format of a Spirit Circle for the Sierra Club's Environmental Day at the Legislature 2/3/21. Click HERE to see the video of people reading their letters.
Eat Plants for the Planet - Why? It reduces pollution from meat production. How? Another recipe, for "Savory Oat Crunch" it can be found HERE. It has no sugar and is made in a microwave.
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Support UUCP by shopping at AmazonSmile
Did you know that you can generate donations while shopping for no extra cost? Simply start your shopping at smile.amazon.com/ch/86-0188971 to confirm "Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Phoenix" as your charity of choice, and AmazonSmile will donate a portion of your eligible purchase price to our organization.
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Sunday Services are Currently Online
Next Sunday, March 7th @ 10:30 am
(az time)
Community #UUAnywhere
with
Rev. Christine Dance
&
Amy McKlindon
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As we kick off our Stewardship campaign, we will talk about the revolutionary feats we've accomplished in this unbelievable year and dream about what that will mean for our community in the next year. We look forward to being together, but we will also explore how this year of virtual time has shaped us to be a more diverse, radically-inclusive community. |
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Upcoming UUCP Events:
Mar 10: Choir Rehearsal - 7 pm
Mar 11: Great UU Sermons - 3 pm
Mar 11: Sangha Gathering - 7 pm
Mar 14: Earth Justice Ministry Meeting - 1:30 pm
Mar 17: Choir Rehearsal - 7 pm
Mar 23: Board of Trustee - 6 pm
Mar 24: Choir Rehearsal - 7 pm
Mar 25: Death Cafe - 11 am
Mar 25: Sangha Gathering - 7 pm
Mar 25: UU Encounters with the Bible - 7 pm - Sign-up
Mar 28: Get to Know UUCP - After Worship
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Receiving Suspicious Emails
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 scammers have been sending out fictitious emails claiming to be Rev. Christine. Please be aware of emails asking for assistance or requesting you to purchase something. Rev. Christine will NEVER ask for money or gift cards over email. If you receive an email like this, please delete it.
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Beloved Conversations: Spring 2021
Registration has started
Register Feb 1st - Feb 26th, course begins March 16th
Beloved Conversations curriculum developers at Meadville Lombard Theological School have responded to the need to learn how race and ethnicity shape our personal and collective lives and practices, in a virtual format. In 2020, 93 UUs from Arizona joined 1200 UUs in participating in the first half of Beloved Conversations: Within.
The first phase within focuses on the internal work that each of us needs to do as we engage in racial justice. This work is different for White folks and for Black, Indigenous, other People of Color (BIPOC) and will be done entirely in race-based caucuses.
Within work will include individual Lessons, using videos, music, and readings, accompanied by reflection prompts and suggested conversations with Critical Friends chosen by the participants; bi-weekly small group conversations in a Learning Pod; and larger, monthly, facilitated Meaning-Making Sessions on Zoom. You can expect to spend 3-5 hours each week.
We hope you join us to embody racial justice as a spiritual practice, to heal the impact of racism on our lives, in order to get free together. Register here.
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Love & Justice: Abolition and Alternatives to Policing
Every 1st Wednesday 6:30 pm
Register for our next meeting, March 3rd, here.
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Book GroUUp
3rd Fridays, 12-1:30 pm
Here we will use reading, conversation, and writing to answer these questions. Register here.
March 19: Discuss Between The World And Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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DACA Clinic:
Volunteers Needed
2nd & 4th Saturdays
First Church UCC Phoenix, 12-4 pm
If you cannot volunteer, but you would like to donate you can do that here.
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Race Matters and the Supreme Court
On Tuesdays:
Mar 9th @ 5-6:30 pm, Mar 16th & 23rd @ 4-5:30 pm
As UUs, we recognize the existence of many realities and even more so, how those realities are interwoven. The connection between law and race is one of these ever-present truths. Join Political Science Professor Emeritus and UU, Howard Tolley, for three 90 minute sessions examining Supreme Court caselaw involving slavery, native American rights, racial discrimination, segregation, mass incarceration, the death penalty, affirmative action, rights of protesters, and qualified immunity for law enforcement personnel. In this course taught through UUJAZ and UUJO, Tolley considers the impact of race, political ideology, legal principles, and personal preference on the selection of Justices and the decisions they reach. Register here.
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Trans Inclusion in Congregations from Transforming Hearts Collective
UUJAZ is thrilled to provide access to this online course on radical welcoming for all AZ UUs, thanks to a generous grant from the UU Funding panel. This course on transformational culture shift counts towards your annual Welcoming Congregation renewal. Contact us for your free login code (usually $125 per person) to explore this course at your own pace, or create a group at your congregation to take it together!
Granite Peak - Scheduling soon - Contact: Lena Hubin
Surprise UU - Scheduling soon - Contact: Juliet Gustavson
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