October 1, 2021
Worship Service
Sunday,
October 3, 2021
10:30 am

Join us on our UUSP YouTube Channel




"Domestic Violence Awareness Month"




We have discontinued any indoor gatherings at our church until further notice. We continue to monitor the COVID ActNow metrics and look forward to gathering outside. Our worship services continue to stream online on our UUSP YouTube Channel Sundays at 10:30. Please join us!
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The next monthly virtual meeting is October 20, 6:30-8:30 pm.
To receive the agenda or link in advance, contact Bill Motter.
Weekly Message from Rev. Ben

Blessings, Rev. Ben
Please write to Rev. Ben for any reason - joys, concerns, etc. He would love to hear from you. Feel free to email him here.

Please help us spread the word:
Stay home, Stay Safe, &
Stay connected.
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Watch for Scammers!
New scammer alert! Just in case you see something in your inbox, please be advised, Rev. Ben's email is not (replymail75@gmail.) In this era of calls regarding extended warranties, I want to assert the importance of double-checking email addresses requesting funds, gift cards, etc. Whew! Those scammers sure try every angle! Be digitally safe out there!
Religious Education
Children's Religious Education
This month we are exploring ways that our faith invites us to Cultivate Relationships.
One of the ways we are cultivating relationships is hosting a community event called the Drive Thru Trunk-or-Treat & Food Drive. If you would like to play a part in our Drive Thru Trunk-or-Treat & Food Drive, please take a look at this video! We are looking for more cars to be decorated, candy/trinket donations, and volunteers to help set up and clean up. Please reach out to Jeanay at re@uustpete.org to set a time to drop off candy!

Dinner will also be served to those who volunteer!
This month we are exploring ways that our faith invites us to Cultivating Relationships.

Welcome to the Soul Matters month of October. This year our monthly themes invite us to think about not only what values our UU faith calls us to but also the key actions and skills that our times require of us. Pandemic time exposed the need for humanity to change and adjust in key ways. So each month we will explore a different skill that we develop so that we don’t just return to normal but actually bring about a “new normal.”

So this month we explore the ways in which our times call us to “Cultivate Relationship.” And just as we grow a garden, we need a whole basket of tools and skills to cultivate, deepen and mobilize the key relationships around us.

We are so excited about exploring this together! 
UU St. Pete Connects
Meet Dave Meeker
Volunteer Appreciation

"He comes in religiously to tidy up e.g. pulling weeds in inside patio and keeping those untended plants going, and vacuuming up all those darn dried up palm leaves that get tracked in at every door.
He’s just a gem." -Sharon Wood
Looking for Bell Ringers!
Want to have a lot of fun and learn a little about reading music???
Our UUSP BELL RINGERS are planning to get together to play soon. Please email Jon Arterton at jon@jonandjames.com if you're interested. 
Social Justice
"Most Floridians believe that all people, no matter what we look like or where we come from, deserve the rights, freedoms, and opportunities to control our lives at the most basic level: our bodies, our families, and our life’s path... click the links to learn more. "
Ban's Off Our Bodies:
We Are Marching!!
Join National Call to Action!
Rev. Ben, Karen Coale, and a few more of our members have already joined the movement.
To know how many folks to prepare for, we ask individuals to register here.
Two links to sign up to volunteer:
Courageous Conversations About Race is back and being offered virtually in response to the pandemic. This is your chance to join hundreds of other local leaders who have started a courageous conversation about race. Intentional dialogue and self-reflection around race have the power to shape practices, policies, and outcomes. Race matters, and more than ever, the capacity to understand and communicate how race impacts our lives is essential for those in leadership positions. 
Courageous Conversation™ is an award-winning protocol for effectively engaging, sustaining, and deepening interracial dialogue. This powerful two-day seminar examines the impact of race in our lives and fosters the development of essential literacy and competency through which to experience our personal, professional, and organizational ways of being. 
This experience was life-changing for me last year. I highly recommend it to family, friends, community leaders, and residents. 
Register below!
Our September 14 Food Drive collected two trunkfuls of food donations!

Thank you UUSP Family!!

Watch for more information about October's needs. Join us for Trunk or Treat, where donations will go to the Food Bridge and Day Star Center.
UUSP Ways To Give
Update - GivePlus
September 30th Vanco Mobile will the GivePlus Mobile App
 
We’re excited to announce UUSP is upgrading our mobile app! Vanco, our eGiving provider, has launched an updated mobile app called Vanco Mobile to replace GivePlus Mobile. 
 
Get started today by downloading the Vanco Mobile app for free from the App Store or Google Play. From there, you can make a one-time donation or set up recurring giving right through the app. Just select your fund and amount, enter a payment method and complete the donation.
Ways of Giving

We give in gratitude for each other, for our time together, for our sacred space, for those in our wider community, and for those who lead us to be our best selves.
Members and friends set up a plan to make a gift from
their estate to the
Endowment Fund of UU St. Pete. Leaving a portion of the assets one has accumulated over the course of a lifetime ensures the continuation of the spiritual home that they have come to cherish and perpetuates our UU values.
UUA Corner


Click here for the September Newsletter.
Thank you for your interest in
Unitarian Universalist Church of
St. Petersburg!

Be Safe and Be Well!
Kelli DeGraw,
part of your Communications Team.

Thank you to our
UU St Pete contributors & many volunteers!
Our mission is to be an inclusive, evolving religious community
that inspires spiritual and intellectual growth to make our world a better place.
Unitarian Universalist Church of St. Petersburg
727.898.3294