News You Can UUse (01/23/2022) Roe V. Wade Sunday with Rev. Kohlmeier; Music Videos on YouTube, Plant Sale Preview, and more!

Unitarian Church of Harrisburg

NEWS YOU CAN UUse

January 23, 2022

Virtual Sunday - Live on Zoom and YouTube at 10:30am

Roe v. Wade Sunday

Rev. David M. Kohlmeier

The fate of abortion rights hangs in the balance. Many feel that this year may be the year Roe v. Wade is overturned. In this annual service, we will remember and reflect upon our faith’s long-standing commitment to reproductive justice, and seek a path forward together. This service will be held in special solidarity with UU congregations around the country who are also observing a Reproductive Justice Sunday on this day.

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Join on Zoom - Check your email for the link Sunday morning and join us live at 10:30 am. Reminder: Join us in the Virtual Coffee Hour Room @ 11:30 am following the Service.

If you can't join us at 10:30am, don't worry! Recorded versions of our services are available on the UCH YouTube channel. You can also livestream the service from YouTube!

January Services

Given the rapid rise of Omicron, the growing number of our UCH friends, family, and members who are currently sick, and great stress being put on local hospitals, we are choosing to suspend all in-person events and in-person worship for remainder of January. Worship services will be entirely virtual during this time.

Joys & Concerns

During this time, while we are apart, we want to continue to hear from you. Members and friends can click here to submit joys and/or concerns to be read (with your permission) during a Sunday service.

Music for Reproductive Justice

As we approach Roe v. Wade Sunday, I encourage you to check out this music resource: https://sidewithlove.org/reproductive-justice-worship-resources-hymns-and-music. You can search for many of the hymns on YouTube to listen and sing along. There are also many songs listed that are not in our hymnals (both mainstream and original music) and even a metal/hardcore playlist, if that’s more your style!

UCH Music on YouTube

If you subscribe to our UCH YouTube channel, you may have noticed the addition of a music playlist featuring songs performed by our wonderful musicians!

Check it out at youtube.com/uchbg

Music will continue to be added over the coming weeks and many of the hymns will be available for other congregations to use for their own virtual worship services. If you have a favorite song that we have aired during virtual services in the past couple years, email yvonne@uchbg.org to request it for upload. Enjoy!

submitted by Yvonne DuVal, Director of Music

Website Update

Thank you for your patience as we continue to work on our site!

We moved the church website to a new hosting company at the end of 2021. The website has the same information, the same pages, the same everything, but the files are now hosted by a different company and will have an updated look.

Forms are now available to use on the site. If you have any issues or notice anything that you feel needs to be updated, please contact Tavia in the office. (Note - The Gift Card Page is still being updated at this time.)

From Your Director of Religious Exploration - Cory Ness

Children & Youth RE -

LIVING WITH INTENTION!

RE for Pre K–6th Grades at 9:30 am on Zoom

Sunday, January 23: It Takes Accepting Mistakes: Noticing the Impacts of Our Intention
Sunday, January 30: It Takes Pausing: The Replenishment and Sorting of Our Intentions

Click here to join our Sunday morning Zoom meeting at 9:30 a.m.

Meeting ID: 876 8056 8420 Passcode: 059374

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RE for 7th–12th Graders and Families

No RE classes this month, however we hope to see you at our worship services in person or online!

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Our Children & Youth RE Newsletter

Click here to view the latest Children and Youth RE Newsletter filled with additional activities and information for our families and friends.

Adult RE

Stitchers Group – Gathers via Zoom each 2nd Friday of each month at 10 a.m. No agenda – just building connections. Contact Cory if you would like to join this group.

Garden Team News

"Anyone who thinks gardening begins in spring and ends in the fall is missing the best part of the whole year for gardening begins in January with the dream." ~Josephine Nuese

And the gardeners at UCH are dreaming of a Marvelous Garden Makeover! The garden beds around our church need to be refurbished and we would like to enhance the mid-century modern architecture of our church building with a mid-century landscape design. The beds have been cleared of last year’s growth and we’re working on the weed problem. Two of the beds will soon be regraded and seeded into grass this spring. We’ve identified native shrubs and perennial plants to be planted in specific areas of each garden bed which will require minimal care (after the first year). So, if you would like to take a peek at our wish list before the February sale begins, open this pdf and browse through the slide show.

If you’re curious about what we’re proposing please join our next Gardeners' meeting on Wednesday, February 9, 2022, at 6:30 via Zoom.

Questions? or to receive the Zoom link to the meeting - Contact Anita Mentzer.

EFP - 2nd Annual Golf Tournament

Click here for information on our 2nd annual charity golf tournament coming up in May. Last year's event was supported very well and was very successful. We hope you can participate in any fashion possible to help us continue our efforts to provide food to those in need. Please also visit our website efoodpantry.org for more information.

Thank you again for all you do to support the effort to combat hunger.

Submitted by Phil Mackey, EFP Board Chair

Share the Plate

January 2022 - Rebuilding Together Greater Harrisburg

For the past 25 years Rebuilding Together Greater Harrisburg (RTGH) has been providing free home repair and modification services to local low- income homeowners such as the elderly, disabled, families with children, and veterans in Dauphin, Cumberland, Perry and upper York counties. RTGH's goal is to make a sustainable impact and preserve affordable homeownership. UCH member Dave Powell has volunteered at RTGH for many years and would welcome the company of any other UCH member who owns a toolbox and knows how to use it.

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To nominate a local non-profit organization who would be a deserving recipient, just fill out this form and mail it (to the office) or email it (to the church treasurer, Lois Voigt.) Your nomination will be reviewed at the next monthly Finance Committee meeting, and you'll be notified of our decision.