Under the Umbrella

Inspired by our UU principles, we are a vibrant, intentionally diverse congregation that models and promotes both locally and globally: love, spiritual growth, service, right relations, and sustainable living.

Contacting Our Minister

Reverend Ellie's email: RevEllie@uufsd.org.

To make an appointment: calendly.com/revellie

Please remember, Rev. Ellie does not use an "@gmail" email account. These are phishing emails attempting to obtain your personal info. Do not respond to them. Report them to your email host or delete them. Also be suspicious of text messages signed with her name.

FELLOWSHIP LIFE

Spring to Life Fair and Feast: Food, Music, Auction

It's here! The Spring to Life Fair and Feast: Food, Music, Auction is tomorrow. If you haven't RSVP'd to come, do so now. If you don't get to it, come anyway! Remember to bring a drink to share, alcoholic or non-alcoholic.

If you have a silent auction item or gift certificate, please drop it at the fellowship between 2-4 on Saturday. If they don't sell (but we hope they will!) we'll store them in the office overnight and you can pick them up on Sunday. If you can stay Saturday evening and help us take things down before the Sunday service, please do.

A big shout-out to all of you who have already put in hours of your time to bring this event to our beloved community. Everyone come! Eat! Drink! Chat! Bid! to make this a wonderful event for all!

Volunteers get FREE Opportunity Drawing tickets

We’re saying ‘THANKS’ to UUFSD volunteers with 3 FREE opportunity-drawing tickets for every volunteer activity during March 1 – April 19.

Here’s how it works

1. A selection of Gift Baskets and Silent Auction items will be designated for Opportunity Drawings.

2. Volunteers are recognized with 3 FREE opportunity-drawing tickets for every volunteer activity March 1 – April 19.

For example: Volunteer in the kitchen: 3 tickets. Assist with RE class: 3 more tickets. Work on Building &Grounds project: 3 more tickets.

3. Ticket Distribution: Envelopes with volunteers’ names and their tickets will be at the event Registration Table on April 20. The event is also FREE.

4. Opportunity Drawing Tickets will also be sold before and during the Spring to Life event.

5. Drawing Entries: Deposit one or more tickets in the Opportunity Drawing boxes.

6. Winners: Drawings/announcements will take place at approximately 7 PM.

7. Must be present or have a friend prepared to take home your prize.

Questions?

Contact Wenda Alvarez or Mary Ann Trause | wenda@cox.net trause@comcast.net

Forum on the Future of UUFSD

Sunday, April 21, 2024, 11:15am – 12:00pm

Founders' Hall

Sunday, April 21, after the service, you are invited to a forum to consider the future of our beloved Fellowship. We are at a crossroad, an inflection point, where we must choose to invest in making our sacred space a safer, more accessible, and sustainable space for ourselves and for those who come after us.

Thanks for the founders of UUFSD and many who came after them, we have been given a unique and extraordinary campus for our beloved community. Over more than sixty years, time has taken its toll on our facilities. As our congregation has evolved, so have our needs, as well as the rules and requirements for safety, accessibility, environmental protection, and sustainability.

Learn how much we have already accomplished, and how you can invest in the future of the Fellowship. It’s our time to make sure our facilities work for us and will be here for the next generations. Pledge now and we can begin work in September!

We will also offer a guided tour of the “upper campus” to see the renovated RE classrooms and the work underway to rebuild the administration building.

Please join us Sunday, April 21 after the service. Snacks will be provided. Contact Lisa Shaffer at Lshaffer@ucsd.edu.

Promoting Justice: Amplifying Voices at the Intersections of Race, Class, & Environment

Pacific Southwest Service Area Assembly

-and-

PSWSAA Spring UU Youth Con 2024

Friday, April 26 - Monday, April 28, 2024

At the Pacific Southwest Service Area Assembly, Regional lead, Rev. Carlton Smith, will present UUA updates and hold open discussions with board presidents and leaders. The weekend is packed with meaningful keynote topics, an assortment of workshops, youth con activities, music, worship, meals and more!

Plenary speaker, Hop Hopkins has been a catalyst, thought leader and social change strategist for over 25 years. Plenary speaker, Lucas Zucker, the Co-Executive Director of CAUSE (Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy) will discuss creating grassroots power through community organizing.

Youth Con is a weekend youth conference and overnight gathering for UU youth in grades 7 through 12. The weekend is being planned and led by some amazing Camp de Benneville Pines Leaders, UU Religious Educators, Youth Advisors, and Adult Volunteers.

Long-time UU favorites Emma's Revolution, the musical duo of Pat Humphries and Sandy O, will perform on Saturday night.

There are two ways to attend this Assembly: In Person or Virtually via Zoom.

To register visit Camp de Benneville Pines website, and for more information click here to see the PSWSAA Assembly flyer.

Hosted by UU Church of Ventura, and supported by Chalice UU Fellowship of the Conejo Valley. Rooming in the home of a fellow UU makes the trip to Ventura quite affordable

“Planet-Healthy Potluck“

hosted by UUFSD’s Climate Action Task Force (CATF)

Sunday, April 28 2024, 11:00am - Noon, Core Area

Let’s ALL participate!

Bring a healthy plant-based dish for a fabulous outdoor luncheon. If you want to eat a more plant-based diet, this potluck makes it easy. If you discovered a delicious plant-based dish, this is when to share it.

What we eat every day makes a difference in the health of our planet, ourselves, and all life. This small action cultivates a new mindset. Doing it with friends is an adventure.

List your main ingredients. Gluten free? Nuts? Dairy? We’ll supply cards to label your dish Vegetarian or Vegan. Or bring a recipe card. Salads & fruit plates welcome.

Plant-based Vegan: no poultry, meat, fish, dairy, egg. Vegetarian: includes dairy and eggs.

Those who arrive at 10:00am enjoy an Earth Day Service with a guest speaker, singers, and a guest musician! Contact Linda Luisi at lindamluisi@gmail.com.

Singalong with Steve Milloy

Sunday, April 28, 2024, 12:00pm - 1:30pm, Founders' Hall

After the Planet-Healthy Potluck hosted by UUFSD’s Climate Action Task Force (CATF) on Sunday, April 28th, join the choir for a Singalong hosted by Steve Milloy. This is a Fundraiser for UUFSD from the 2023 Auction catalog.

Whether you're a shower singer, a karaoke pro, or just someone who loves to have a good time, get ready to sing your heart out with us. Mix your voice with the dulcet tones of our own Music Director Steve Milloy! We will sing a little of everything from folksongs to Broadway showtunes!

Ticket Price $25 ** 18 and under FREE** (Those who paid for tickets in 2023 have been notified by email.) Questions? Call or text Cathy at 650 224-1974.

Stick with our Principles and Sources? Or move to new Values and Covenants? That is the question.

Sunday, May 5, 2024, 11:30am

Founders' Hall

Article II of the UUA bylaws contains the core of our faith—our "Principles" and "Sources". A dramatic revision to Article II will be voted on this June at the UUA General Assembly. The revision replaces our “Principles” with "Values and Covenant”— Interdependence, Equity, Justice, Generosity, Pluralism, and Transformation, with specific Covenants to action for each Value. Our Six "Sources" are eliminated and replaced by a paragraph about "Inspiration."

Learn more about the revision with the video “Much Ado About Article II”.

On May 5, after the service, Rich MacDonald (“YES” to revision) and Mark Tuller (“NO”) will face off in an epic battle of reasons and rhetoric! Then we’ll begin a confidential voting process that will ultimately determine if our UUFSD delegates to GA will vote for or against the revision. The voting process will remain open through May, and we will be encouraging every member to cast their vote.

Mark your calendar! This important event will also be streamed and recorded. Contact Mark Tuller tullermark@gmail.com.

2nd Monday Book Club

Monday, May 13, 2024, 6:30pm Founders' Hall

At 6:30pm on May 13th, here at UUFSD (West end of Founders Hall), the 2nd Monday Book Club will be discussing

Underland: A Deep Time Journey (2019) by Robert Macfarlane.

In his latest book, the nature author explores subterranean spaces. Descending below the Earth's surface, he says, brings us into the realm of deep time, a chronology "kept by stone, ice, stalactites, seabed sediments and the drift of tectonic plates."

Deep time should be experienced, he says, "as a radical perspective, provoking us to action not apathy."

Email bookclub@uufsd.org or call/text Cathy Leach-Phillips at 650 224-1974 if you have questions.

MUSIC SUNDAY

Sunday, May 19, 2024, 10:00am

SAVE THE DATE! Our Music Sunday this spring is on May 19th at the normal service time of 10am.

The theme is Make a Joyful Noise.

Guest musicians and vocalists will be included in this celebration along with the choir, pianist Katie Klarich and Music Director Steve Milloy.

Please make a note of the date and come join us to listen and sing along. Contact Cathy Leach-Phillips cathy@leachphillips.com

April 2024 Quarterly Magazine

The April 2024 Quarterly Magazine “Dialogue” is now available on our website. I hope you enjoy this issue which features several poets in our UUFSD community. You can also learn about the State of the Fellowship, from the Board of Directors, and what’s happening in our Religious Exploration and Fellowship. We have a summary of our Social Justice undertakings, our ongoing programs, upcoming events and also introduce several new members.

You can access the April 2024 Quarterly Magazine by clicking here: UUFSD Quarterly Magazine. Contact Irv Himelblau at ihimelblau@gmail.com.

GOOD NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST

“Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.”

– St. Augustine

• In World First, Scientists Share What Was Almost Certainly a Conversation with a Humpback Whale.
• Bioengineered Corneas Stand to Cure Blindness For Millions of People Around the World.
• The Car Fueled Entirely by the Sun Takes Huge Step Towards Production

“Israel and Gaza: The Question of

Genocide, International Law,

and the Struggle for Palestinian Liberation”

Talk Hosted by First UU Church of SD Justice Team

Via Zoom

Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 6:00pm

The Palestine-Israel Justice Team of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego invites you to join us for a virtual talk titled “Israel and Gaza: The Question of Genocide, International Law, and the Struggle for Palestinian Liberation” with guest speaker Prof. Raz Segal, Israeli historian, Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and Endowed Professor in the Study of Modern Genocide at Stockton University. For more information click here.

The event will take place via Zoom on Tuesday, April 30^th, at 6pm PDT.  You can register for the event here.

Want to Learn More About

What's Happening at the Fellowship?

Visit our website at uufsd.org.

Share information, ideas and conversation with other UU's at our NextDoor Page here.

Watch your email inbox for our weekly "Stay Connected" update. It arrives on Saturday mornings.

Our Dialogue Quarterly Magazine is available in both digital and print form.

You can find us on Facebook at facebook.com/uufsd.

Note: those who use the Le Port School parking lot on Sundays: the gate code is 152