Weekly E-News, April 8, 2021

Unitarian Universalist Congregation

of Fort Myers

Weekly E-News

April 8, 2021

Join us this Sunday!

Special Invitation to Family & Friends

This Sunday's Zoom Service, April 11th, is one you don't want to miss. Special music and members' reflections will highlight what it means to belong to our congregation. A new slide show will illustrate the beauty and variety of our 12 acre campus. It will show your family and friends what we have here at UUCFM.

We encourage you all to invite your Family and Friends who are new to Unitarian Universalism or to UUCFM. We will explore the basis of Unitarian Universalism and what it means to belong to UUCFM and the deep relationships that can form here. All ages are encouraged to attend. Please send this zoom link all across the country to family and friends to join with us this Sunday. We celebrate 60 years and growing. SHOWTIME: 10:30 am this Sunday

Join Zoom Meeting Sunday at 10:30am

https://zoom.us/j/98733916229

No password needed

Or follow the link on our webpage for audio only: uucfm.org

Thank You to Sunday's Participants:

Mary Cline Golbitz, Lay Minister

Suellen Kipp, Director of Music

Helen Leddy, Worship Associate and Membership Team

Judy Burget, Speaker and Membership Team

Suzanne Ziemer, Speaker and Membership Team

Carole Latino, Membership Team

Peter Golbitz, Musician

Lesley Peterson, Musician and Tech Team Member

Mark Brandon, Tech Team Member

Walter Peterson, Tech Team Member

Jill Carville, Tech Team Coordinator

Dialogues Host, Carole Latino, Membership Team

Dialogues Host, Albie Johnson, Lay Minister

Community Sharing in April: Planned Parenthood

The mission of Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida is to provide affordable access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care and accurate health information through patient care, education and advocacy. Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida, an affiliate of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. began operations in 1966. Many of our members and friends have advocated for our local Planned Parenthood facilities throughout the years.

Vespers Service

Join Albie and Mary via Zoom bi-weekly Thursdays from 6:30PM-7:00PM. The next Vespers Service will be this evening, April 8th.

Join Zoom Meeting

https://zoom.us/j/91800250314?pwd=MmRRenNOUjNUdjcvU1Y3VTIxNFBTQT09

Meeting ID: 918 0025 0314

Passcode: 743236

Mother's Day Photos!

The Worship, Music, & Tech Teams are looking for pictures of your Mom! We are creating a musical slideshow to honor our mothers and need your help. Please send a jpg image of your mom as an email attachment to [email protected] by April 30th. If you don't have access to a computer you can bring a photograph into the office from Apr 20-30, and we'll convert it for you. Thank you!

Connection Circles

Would you like to be more connected to others in UUCFM? This is your chance to get to know others and yourself better by joining a Connection Circle. The Circles are a ways of exploring spiritual topics in a deep way with others.

New circles are forming soon on Mondays and Thursdays at 1:30 pm. Please contact Leslie Gatto at [email protected] or Mary Cline Golbitz at mary@uucfm.org if you are interested. Let us know of your interest even if those times don't work for you. We are looking forward to connecting with you.

The UUCFM Book Group

The UUCFM Book Club will meet via Zoom April 12 to discuss Ch. 8 & 9 from The WEIRDest People in the World, by Joseph Henrich. If you’re joining for the first time, please email Mary Studer. She will send you the link. [email protected]

UUCFM/Caloosahatchee Mindfulness

The Caloosahatchee Mindfulness and UUCFM Meditation Book Group is reading The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness by Rhonda V. Magee.

The author "reveals that the work of racial justice begins with ourselves. The practice of embodied mindfulness--paying attention through our thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations in an open, nonjudgmental way--increases our emotional resilience, helps us to recognize our unconscious bias, and give us the space to become less reactive and to choose how we respond to injustice."

The group meets from 10 to 11:30 a.m. on Wednesdays. Contact Helen Leddy at [email protected] or Mary Robinson at [email protected] for more information.

Social Issues Book Group Resumes

Starting Wednesday, April 21 from 1:00-2:30 PM and continuing weekly

Book: My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem.

My Grandmother's Hands is a call to action for Americans to recognize that racism is not only about the head, but also about the body. The author introduces the reader to an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide. He takes the reader through a step-by-step healing process based on the latest neuroscience and somatic healing methods.

Coming to the Table (CTTT)

We are Inviting interested members to join together in the formation of a Coming to the Table chapter in Southwest Florida. CTTT provides leadership, resources, and a supportive environment for all who wish to acknowledge and heal wounds from racism. For further information about CTTT, following this link: https://comingtothetable.org/.

Contact Helen Leddy for details on the book group or CTTT: [email protected]

LIFE

LIFE Rally

Monday, April 12th

7 PM

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMldumtqTgsGdXSpq1itaG7pEvUikr_-HRe

LIFE Nehemiah Action

Monday, April 26th

7 PM

Join via facebook, youtube, or Zoom

To invest in LIFE

CashApp: $LIFEJustice

or checks to LIFE sent to PO Box 62692 Fort Myers FL, 33906

60th Anniversary Pave the Way Fundraiser

We are celebrating our 60th year here by offering commemorative, personalized bricks to line the walkways leading into the sanctuary.

GOAL: 100 bricks @ $100 each to raise $10,000 for the General Budget to take the place of not having a Service Auction this year which raised that amount or more.

Order your personalized 4" x 8" brick of up to 3 lines, up to 13 characters/spaces per line.

Idea examples: IN MEMORY OF... REMEMBERING... YOUR NAME(S) DATES...A

SAYING...GRANDCHILDREN...

Examples of Bricks already ordered:

GRACE PROJECT, MAYA, COSMOVISION,

RESET, ESTABLISHED, JUNE 2020,

ALBIE & MARY, LAY MINISTERS, UUCFM 2021

LOVE ENTER EVERY, MIND & SOUL

TERI & MEL COOPER, PEACE & LOVE

JILL & ALISON CARVILLE, LOVE UUCFM

As of April 7th, there are 43 commemorative bricks donated toward our goal of 100. One member donated 10 bricks to take the place of her usual money spent at our Annual Service Auction Fundraiser which we could not have this year because of the Covid Pandemic.

To get a brick order form, Contact Project Manager, Ways & Means, Suzanne

Ziemer at [email protected] or 239-463-9020.

Needed: Brick Layers

We will be laying the 2011 50th Anniversary commemorative bricks at the walkway to the sanctuary at 10 am, Thursday, April 15th. We have the materials and know-how. Contact Brick Project Manager Suzanne Ziemer, 239-463-9020, [email protected] to help.