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In the Know
January 11, 2024
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Sunday, January 14, 2024
10:00 am worship service
Whose Dream are we Dreaming?
Rev. Anastassia Zinke, Minister
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Martin Luther King, Jr. perhaps is most famous for his "I Have a Dream Speech," but he wasn't the originator or the last owner of this dream. This MLK Sunday, let's consider the history and future of the collective movement of dreamers. Rev. Anastassia preaching, music by Josh Long, and the Worship Ensemble. | |
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Thornell Jones: This Year’s Humanitarian Award Recipient!
Thornel was chosen by the City of Annapolis Human Relations Commission to be this year's recipient at the Martin Luther King Dinner on 1/11/2024. Normally the HRC presents this award at the MLK breakfast which was cancelled this year. Fortunately, the awardees were included in the dinner event and Thornell gets positive recognition.
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To learn how, please visit their blog post on our website.
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Join the Worship Ensemble!
Do you love to sing and cultivate Beloved Community? Join the Worship Ensemble Tuesdays 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm! Attendance to all rehearsals/services is not mandatory to participate. To learn more about this joyful opportunity, please contact Josh Long at jlong@uuannapolis.org.
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Mindfulness Practice Group
8:30 am - 9:30 am
Young Room
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Come Paint the Multigenerational (temporary) Mural!
Meet outside the front entrance to the narthex. No talent is necessary.
11:15 am - 12:15 pm
Narthex
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Mistakes and Miracles Discussion (Zoom only)
We will explore what happened at five UU churches, including ours, in their attempts to become more welcoming, anti-racist, and diverse institutions.
11:15 am - 12:15 pm
Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 969 9065 7143
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ACT County-wide Action Team Meeting
Thu. 1/11 at 7 pm on Zoom
Register HERE
Join leaders from ACT's member organizations for our Annual Meeting. During the meeting, they'll be sharing updates from their Action Research Teams and approving the 2024 budget. They encourage 2-4 representatives from different organizations to register and attend this meeting.
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Spiritual Practices for White AntiRacists Rescheduled to Thu. 1/18 at 6:30 - 8:30 pm.
Join Rev. Anastassia in the Young room as we explore spiritual practices that invite us to bring our whole-hearted selves to anti-racism and anti-oppression work. With the goal to stay engaged in this work and our own humanness in a sustainable, resilient, compassionate, creative, and generative way.
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Get ready, Two Services are Happening in January 2024!
Starting on 1/21/2024, we will be going to two services. The first service is at 9 am, the Middle Hour is at 10:15 am, and the second service will be at 11:15 am.
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Jubilee Kids: Jan. 21 - Mar. 3
Jubilee Kids offers worship, education, and social action efforts that help children, youth, and their families learn more about being actively anti-racist in their lives and congregation. We will offer 8 sessions to upper elementary and middle school children. Email Sarah.
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Mindfulness Book Club XII | On Zoom Mondays at Noon or 6:30 pm, from Jan. 22 - Apr. 10 (also a UUA Common Read from their Beacon Press). Rabbi Ruttenberg's Repentance & Repair: Making Amends In an Unapologetic World. Its core is the Rabbi's reading of 12th c. Maimonides She covers relationships, plus national & world events. An alternative to Christian “forgiveness.” Contact uubuddhist@live.com to receive the Zoom links via e-mail or message the MPG’s Facebook page. | | | | |
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UUCA Library Help Needed!
Do you like quiet meaningful tasks to help your church? Do you like to handle books? Do you want a task that takes minimal time each month? Then this is the volunteer task for you.
Our library needs updating, organizing, and suggestions for new books with assistance in the beginning from Lisa Fleeharty. An estimated 2-3 hours per month will be required after the initial reorganization. Please consider this important task. Lisa has given us years of work in the library and has taken on other duties. Thank you to Lisa and our new volunteers!
Contact Dianne Moreau.
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Join the Tech Team!
We are seeking Zoom-savvy congregants who can serve as Zoom Moderators for our Sunday Worship Service and Middle-Hour. Zoom Moderators help welcome our online community and keep the service running smoothly online. The commitment would be once a month. With 40-60 online attendees each Sunday, this is an important role! You can remote or be in the library. If you are interested in serving, please contact Melanie Keller.
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Providing Flowers for the Sanctuary
Did you know you can honor someone or a special event by providing flowers for a Sunday service? It's the perfect way to recognize a birthday or anniversary, express gratitude, memorialize someone special, or simply beautify the sanctuary. Contact Julia Tower at least three weeks in advance to reserve a specific Sunday. On the designated Sunday, bring a floral arrangement for the front of the sanctuary in advance of the Service. Thank you!
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Join One of Our
Covenanted Groups
These groups are open to new members:
- Annapolis, 4th Mondays @ 6:30 pm
- Crownsville (ZOOM), 4th Mondays @ 7 pm
- Severna Park, 4th Thursdays @ 6:30 pm
Email Rev. Anastassia to join.
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UUCA Group Photos Requested
A new display of all the groups at UUCA is being developed. We need a group photo of your group, whether it be a covenanted group, practice group, or interest group. Submit a printed or digital photo that is 5x7 (or 8x10 if a very large group like the choir). Submit to Sarah's mailbox OR sdevlintremble@uuannapolis.org. Due by the end of January.
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Learning Our Land (LOL’fers)
We meet on the 3rd Saturday of every month to care for our grounds. Please join up! 8 am - 10 am, and beyond. Notify Margaret Martin.
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Amnesty International
Group 284
Second Sunday of the month
12:30 - 3 pm
Angebranndt room
Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 10 million people who are committed to creating a future where human rights are enjoyed by everyone. United by our shared humanity, we know that the power to create positive change is within all of us.
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Mindfulness Practice Group
There are multiple events on different days that happen each week.
Stay updated!
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Thursdays
in the Sanctuary
6:30 pm- 8:30 pm
Sundays
in the Young room
8:30 am - 9:30 am
Sundays
via Zoom
4:30 pm to 5:10 pm
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Wider Community and UU News | |
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Jubilee 3 Anti-Racism Training Offered
A Community Experience:
Building Capacity to Dismantle Systemic Racism
Paula Cole Jones leads an updated version of the unique and acclaimed program partnering with experienced UU trainers Dr. Leon Spencer and Lutricia Callair.
Do you wish to deepen your understanding of how race and ethnicity play out in our institutions and our daily lives? Are you ready to take a leading role to nurture a multicultural future in the face of opposing cultural currents? Come Join Us for this Life-Changing Weekend!
January 12-14, 2024, sponsored by the UU Church in Akron, OH. Do note this can be taken online or in person with a team at your home congregation.
Registration is open!
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Cedar Lane UUC is Hosting
a Special MLK Interfaith Service
on Sunday, January 14 at 3 pm In-Person and Online
RSVP
We would be honored to have you and your community join us to commemorate the life and prophetic legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Sunday, January 14, 2024 at 3 PM, as together we join our communities in prayer and recommit ourselves to living into Dr. King's vision of the Beloved Community, "an interconnected, interdependent "world house in which we have to live together black and white, Easterner and Westerner, Gentile and Jew, Catholic and Protestant, Muslim and Hindu - a family unduly separated in ideas, culture and interest, who, because we can never again live apart, must learn somehow to live with each other in peace." The service will be in held our sanctuary and live-streamed on YouTube.
We are excited to welcome U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin and interfaith leaders - Rev. Anne Derse, Rabbi David Shneyer, Imam Refai Arefin, Rev. Bill Sinkford, Ani Miranda - to our pulpit this year! The service will also be graced by musical offerings from Fariduddin Johnson, Aaron Shneyer, Dr. Rajwant Singh & members of the Sikh Youth Group, the Cedar Lane Choir, Zaynab Ensemble, and classical Indian dance by Neha Srinivasan.
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Featured Resource:
30 Days of Love Resources
This annual event offers a month of spiritual nourishment, political grounding, and shared practices of faith and justice.
30 Days of Love runs from Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (January 15) through Valentine’s Day (February 14).
Each week, you can expect to receive several different kinds of offerings, each from a different voice within Unitarian Universalism. Within each weekly theme, which will connect with one of our intersectional justice priorities, we plan to offer prayers, blessings, grounding, and meditative practices, a story or time for all ages, as well as a reflection from one of Side With Love's program and field staff.
To get an idea of what to expect or to enjoy some meditative breaks during your lunch now, see last year's offerings at the Side with Love website.
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Final Proposed Revision to Article II
The final version of the proposed revision to Article II of the UUA Bylaws is now available! The deadline for submitting an amendment is 11:59 p.m. ET on February 1, 2024.
All qualified amendments will be considered at 2024 General Assembly.
Learn More
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Meet with Your Ministers
Rev. John: You can set up a meeting by emailing him.
Rev. Anastassia: You can see her availability and self-schedule using this link - calendly.com/revaz.
- Join a small, informal group for some spiritual direction and reflection time on Wednesday mornings at 9 am
- Set up a 30- or 45-minute individual meeting
- Set up a 90-minute committee or leadership meeting.
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UUCA Calendar
The button below will take you to our calendar.
Please note that only public events will appear in this calendar.
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OFFICE HOURS
The church office is open during these hours.
Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.
Wednesday, 8:30 am to 12:30 pm.
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(410) 266-8044 | 333 Dubois Rd, Annapolis, MD 21401 | | | | |
