July 3, 2022
“Communion in the Tangled, Interdependent Web”
Rev. Holly Lux-Sullivan, guest preaching
In a country founded on independence and individualism that continually experiences preventable horrors, it's easy to overlook our connections in favor of pitting Us against Them. The Rev. Holly Lux-Sullivan invites us to consider how to stay in relationship and remain true to our Unitarian Universalist faith without necessarily believing someone else to be alien.
The Rev. Holly Lux-Sullivan is a full-time hospice chaplain in Alamance County. She's also an experienced grief counselor. She lives in Mebane with her husband Kevin and their two rescued greyhounds. She's in the final months of training to be a spiritual director with the Haden Institute and loves to read and sing as a spiritual practice.
MUSIC NOTES: All the music for Sunday's service will be provided by Paul Eskildsen, Jane Provan and Scott Provan. Both before the service and during it, they will sing songs by Bob Dylan, Stephen Foster and Graham Nash, as well as the traditional classic, Wayfaring Stranger. So come early for the Gathering Music. They will also be leading the Hymns for the service.
If you wish to have a joy or sorrow named in the service, please send your joy or sorrow to Rev. Thom or text him (919-259-2009) by 9AM on Friday.
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Regular Sunday Offerings
- 9:30 AM - Live Religious Education Service on Zoom
- 10:30 AM - Livestream and In-Person Service
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11:30 AM - In-Person Sunday Social
- 12PM - Sunday Small Group Social
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SUNDAY SMALL GROUP SOCIAL AT NOON ON SUNDAYS Please join Rachel Rose for this important time of connection. We meet here, at this new, secure link via Zoom at 12PM on Sundays. We have an icebreaker, randomly-assigned groups (it's fun!) time for sharing and fellowship, then a closing reading. We hope to see you there!
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TRY A CHALICE CIRCLE IN JULY -- IN PERSON -- STARTING SUNDAY JULY 10 If you have been wanting to try Chalice Circles or just missing Chalice Circles over the summer, please try one of our drop-in groups. Sundays at 3 PM. It is a great way to get to know people and have a thoughtful discussion.
JULY 10: What do you worship?
JULY 17: Simplicity
JULY 24: Risk Taking
JULY 31: Gratitude
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WHAT'S HAPPENING THIS WEEK IN CHILDREN AND YOUTH MINISTRY? In July, children are Experiencing Art as their theme. Each week, we will focus on a principle of art. This week, we begin with texture and will read A Snowy Day and make sensory summer snow in Zoom worship at 9:30AM and in person at 10:30AM.For more information about our Religious Education Program, contact Marion Hirsch or Kat Good.
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ARE AT RISK IN OUR STATE If you want to see reproductive rights protected in North Carolina, our elected officials need to hear from you. Call your members of the NC General Assembly and tell them to pass HB 1119 and SB 888 - bills currently in the NC House & Senate respectively that would codify abortion rights in our state. Find your State Representative and State Senator's contact information.
QUUILTERS Our monthly meeting is Saturday, July 2, in The Gathering Room: 9 to 11:30AM. Bring your sewing machine and sewing tools to work on our service projects - totebags, lap quilts, and placemats. or come to help cut and iron fabrics. There will be a few lap quilt kits available - you could start one at the meeting or take it home to work on. Wear your facemask. We'll take time to check-in with each other and to share other projects. Contact Laurie P-D to be added to our email list.
ART IN THE SANCTUARY, JULY AND AUGUST sarah graham's show of her paintings, love letters, will be on display from July 3- August 28. Her creative process is receptive to "the nuanced exchange between spirit and matter," resulting in impressionistic celebrations of trees, clouds, earth formations, and of the Haw River near which she lives. She spends time in nature and loves storms, birds, singing, reading, dogs, the ocean, and good food. She will host a reception at church, July 16, 11AM-2PM. View more of her paintings.
COMMUNITY CLICKERS Our group of folks that knit and/or crochet, will get out of the heat by meeting in the Gathering Room this Wednesday July 6 from 2 - 4PM. We will design a shawl or two for Hospice, depending on our block supply. We still need many more blocks to enable us to meet our 30-shawl goal for the 2022 year. If you cannot attend, perhaps you can make a block or two. Blocks or newborn hats (for UNC) can be left in the box in the Commons. Check the webpage for additional information.
COMMUNITY SERVICE MINISTRY Each summer, The Community Church collects money to purchase school supplies for children in Chatham and Orange counties. We purchase backpacks, binders, notebooks, pens, pencils, highlighters, crayons, glue sticks, etc. Last year, we filled about 150 packs. The packs are distributed by the Hargraves Center at a special event, and by school social workers in Chatham. On July 11, Share The Plate will be collecting for this worthwhile cause. Please consider donating. Questions? Contact Teri Brooks.
OUTDOOR CONNECTIONS: ROBERTSON MILLPOND, SAT. JULY 16, 9 AM Wake County’s best outdoor surprise? Picture a blackwater swamp with kayak trails winding among giant cypress knees you can touch on either side. Overhead are squawking heron rookeries and the whistling golden flashes of prothonotary warblers. Half a day away, near the Outer Banks? Nope, 45 minutes, near Wendell. Rental kayaks can be reserved through Tar River Life or bring your own, along with a sharable picnic lunch. Meet there at 9AM. RSVP
NONFICTION BOOK DISCUSSION FOR JULY On Saturday, July 16 from 10:30AM to 12PM, the Nonfiction Readers will discuss White Trash: the 400-Hundred-Year Untold History of Class in America, by Nancy Isenberg. Ed Steffes will be leading our discussion, which will be held via Zoom. New members and drop-ins are welcome. Contact the group to ask questions, or to be placed on the distribution list for meeting information.
EXPLORING MEMBERSHIP CLASSES: 8/7 & 8/14 9AM - - Are you considering Membership? Interested in learning more about Unitarian Universalism, or our church community? On Sunday mornings, immediately preceding service, Rev. Thom & Rachel Rose offer a two-part Exploring Membership class, in person and via Zoom. The class will provide an introduction to Unitarian Universalism and our congregation, the meaning of Membership, provide an opportunity for reflecting on our spiritual journeys, and give you a chance to meet others who are newer to The Community Church. Classes will be held from 9AM to 10:15AM in person, in the Kirby Room, as well as via Zoom. Please RSVP by sending an email to Rachel Rose, here. Please let Rachel Rose know if you need childcare to attend - childcare will gladly be provided.
SIDE WITH LOVE FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS! If you want to know how our faith community can help women in a post-Roe world, Side With Love will help you assemble a Women’s Rights Working Group, starting with participation in a three-session Reproductive Justice Congregational Organizing series where we will learn what is needed, discern what we are able to do, and get organized to do it. Contact us for more information.
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FRANS VERHAGEN, M.Div., M.I.A., PhD
"The UU spirituality that is based upon orthopraxis rather than orthodoxy" brought Frans to our church. He previously attended The Community Church in New York, and believes that "working for monetary justice as an important part of economic justice."
Welcome, Frans!
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COVID POLICY AT CHURCH In light of Orange County lifting its mask mandate, we wanted to let you know that we are currently maintaining our masking requirement to make sure our community remains accessible to our youngest and eldest congregants, as well as to ensure safety while singing. We will have ongoing discussions about modifying masking requirements for smaller groups of adults and food/beverage consumption over the next few weeks. If you have questions or concerns, please contact Dana & Harrison here.
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2022 PHOTO DIRECTORY: Get your photos taken after services! Members and Associates are invited to have their photo taken for our 2022 Photo Directory - Please schedule an appointment with Rachel Rose if you'd like to be included. It takes fewer than five minutes, and it helps us connect as a community! Already had your photo taken, but you'd like a new picture? No problem! Rachel Rose would be happy to give you another session.
SUNDAY SERVICES FLOWER DONATIONS Would you like to donate flowers for The Community Church Sunday Services? Flowers can be shared to commemorate an anniversary, remember a loved one, or celebrate an important occasion. Please use this form to donate flowers to help make our Services more beautiful. Thank you!
SUNDAY SOCIAL (COFFEE HOUR): (MASK-OPTIONAL) FELLOWSHIP & TABLING, FOOD & BEVERAGES OUTDOORS Masks are required indoors, while coffee, tea and masks are optional outside! Please sign up here to Table during Coffee Hour - that is, have a table set up to share your important work with our community!
SUNDAY TABLING: Tabling is an opportunity to share your group's activity with our congregation during Coffee Hour on Sunday mornings. Tables need to be set up by 9:30 AM and taken down after 11:30 AM. Please sign up by Wednesdays at noon for the following Sunday. Here is the form.
SUNDAY SMALL GROUP SOCIAL (formerly Online Coffee Hour) CONTINUES! Please join Rachel Rose for the return to this important time of connection. We will be meeting via this new, secure link here, via Zoom at 12PM on Sundays. We have an icebreaker, be assigned into random groups (it's fun!) and have a time of sharing and fellowship, followed by a closing reading. We hope to see you there!
COMMUNITY SERVICE MINISTRY Church volunteers will take the donations to the Inter-Faith Council for Social Services Community Market on Main Street in Carrboro. Containers for donations to the IFC Community Market have been set up in The Commons so that the collection of food and personal hygiene items can resume. What are most needed are canned chicken, pasta and sauces, cereal, packets of powdered milk, baked beans and bar soap. Church volunteers will take the donations to the IFC (Inter-Faith Council for Social Service) pantry in Main Street in Carrboro.
FEATURED EVENTS IN THE ORDER OF SERVICE: These are the "ads" in the paper Order of Service we hand to parishioners on Sundays for Services. Submissions are due by noon on Wednesdays for the following Sunday. Please include any preferred images in a separate email to Rachel Rose, here. For convenience, here is the form.
LECTIO MEDITATION GROUP We meet at 12 noon every Friday on Zoom. Using readings from poetry and the sacred traditions of world religions, we practice meditation through deep listening. If you’re interested in joining or would like more information, contact Barb Chapman here. (Please put LECTIO in the subject line of your email.) All are welcome!
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BEYOND OUR WALLS
SUGGESTED BY MEMBERS & GROUPS
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TOWN OF CARRBORO JULY 4 COMMUNITY READING OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS' ESSAY Join the Town of Carrboro for its 9th Annual Community Reading of the Frederick Douglass essay, “The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro” on July 4. Reading will occur from noon to 1:30PM at the Carrboro Century Center, 100 N. Greensboro Street. Douglass’ essay reflects a sobering point of view about what is commonly considered to be America’s Independence Day & captures the irony that the 4th of July is a celebration of liberty. Learn more and read Douglass’ speech. Submitted by Joy Blevins
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