November 20, 2020
a whole-hearted community,
feeding body, mind & spirit

Theme for November: Spirituality
UCH Community Calendar: Nov 21 - 27
Saturday, Nov 21@ 4:00pm: UCH 2020 ZOOMraiser. See info below. Join HERE

Saturday, Nov 21@ 8:00pm: ARC with Friction Farm on WFMT

Sunday, Nov 22@ 10:00am: How Does Your Garden Grow? See links below

Sunday, Nov 22@12noon: join us in writing holiday card to someone in prison. Join HERE

Monday, Nov 23@ 7:00pm: Buddhist Inspired Mindfulness Meditation, contact Lenny Edgin

Tuesday, Nov 24@ 3:00pm: Conversations with our Wise Elders, contact Tracey Olson

Thursday, Nov 26@ 8:00am: Breakfast Group, contact Pat Miller

Caring Corner
The ripples of our lives touch those around us. We keep in mind all of our members and friends including...

  • Please keep Scottie Soria and her family in your thoughts and prayers as she has now entered Hospice.
  • Wishing a blessed holiday to everyone including peace, love and fullness to those who cannot gather with loved ones this year. We hold out hope for gathering again before too very long and send blessings of health and safety to all church members and their families. Together we will make it through. Let us know if you need help!


Please let us know of folks we should add to our list and share with our Caring Circle Coordinators by going to our Caring & Comments page on our website.
 

Thanksgiving
It is with deep sadness that we share that UCH will not host Thanksgiving dinner this year to keep folks safe from the Coronavirus. Fellow church member Steve Trout has offered to bring a meal to anyone who might be left celebrating alone this year. If you would appreciate a home-cooked meal, delivered to your door, please contact Steve. If you are interested in helping him provide meals, also contact Steve.  
Search your toolbox for this week’s tool- - a Hammer! Watch the lesson video HERE and listen to the story HERE
Join us on Saturday November 21st from 4:00 to 6:00pm. ZOOMraiser will be a virtual goods and services live auction event with great items and services to bid on, games, and some silliness!
Rev Pam is taking time off this week and will be back on Dec 1st. 
Harvest The Power Justice Convergence and Teach In, Nov. 19-26
In 2016, Unitarian Universalists voted to pay special attention to learning our history and rethinking Thanksgiving in the year 2020, in observance of the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims landing in Plymouth. READ ON
The 2020 November Touchstone is Here - check your inbox or click HERE to read this month's issue.
Please share what your group is doing in the church or the world. Deadline for December Touchstone is Tues. November 24.

“...Without systemic and structural-level change, health inequities will continue to exist, and the overall health of the nation will suffer,” said AMA Board Member Willarda V. Edwards, M.D., M.B.A.
Join us...Write a holiday card to someone who is in prison. 
Join us for a zoom session at noon Sunday, Nov. 22 to write holiday cards to those people who will be spending their holidays in our Illinois prisons. Most of the people we will write to are in the UUPMI pen pal program. There are six other UU churches doing this also so we are a part of something bigger. 
 

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Prison Industrial Complex 101: Virtual Training
Saturday, January 16, 2021, 10:00am - 11:30pm CST and
Saturday, January 23, 2021, 10:00am - 11:30pm CST
Register HERE
Worship this Week
Nov 15 - How Does Your Garden Grow? 
As Thanksgiving nears, we celebrate the harvests of many gardens and the blessings that can be found. We invite everyone to send in a picture of you and your family - and something you are grateful for. Share a picture from a past thanksgiving or simply sharing a meal with loved ones. Or share anything in your life which keeps you grounded as life swirls around. Let us be grateful together for this community of love and care and hope. ~Rev Pam Rumancik
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