Editor: Margaret Batschelet, typea45@swbell.net
Nosotros, las congregaciones miembros de la Asociación UU, convenimos en afirmar y formentar el valor y la dignidad propria de cada persona.
We find ourselves running short of hymnals these days, with barely enough for all the people attending services. If you'd like to contribute a hymnal to the church, you can order them directly from the UUA bookstore site http://www.uua.org/bookstore/product_info.php?products_id=490&PHPSESSID=7bca4a14efb5973dd6318375cb8d1095, or either of the Worship chairs (Mary Grace Ketner or Margaret Batschelet) will order one in your name or as a memorial for someone else. Hymnals cost $28, plus postage. And, of course, if you have a hymnal at home that you're not using, please return it.
We will be implementing the READ to FEED program this summer developed by the HEIFER international organization as a way to give students an opportunity to create positive change around the world.
Children ask reading sponsors to help them raise money to buy gifts of livestock for impoverished families. The idea is simple and it works. Heifer International provides a "living loan" of an animal and the training to take care of it. The family "repays" the loan by passing on one or more of their gift animal's offspring to another family in need...and on and on. It has the potential to transform entire communities.
We hope you will support our children's efforts by pledging a minimal amount per book read over the summer that will be collected in September. Each participating child MUST agree to read and get parental approval of books read. They must also agree to request donations from adults, families and friends. SHOULD YOU BE ASKED, we hope you, too, will participate. Several lessons are available to demonstrate to the children the value of this program. --Joan Bradshaw, Coordinator
During the summer months, we alternate traditional services with shorter services followed by potluck brunches. Dates for these "summer brunch services" are June 20, July 4, July 18, August 1, August 15, and August 29. Please sign up to host a brunch (bring a main dish and coordinate other dishes) on the sign-up sheet in the coffee room. And please join us for our summer brunches!
For all the information you could ever possibly want about Toastmasters International and what it can do for you, visit http://www.Toastmasters.org/
It has been suggested we form a club at the CUUC and meet every other week on Mondays so we alternate with the Women's Group. Membership will be open to the public
Benefits to one and all will be more or less as follows:
We will need at least 15 to 20 CUUC members to sign up to be the initial core group / critical mass, (no pun intended) to launch to club.
The name for the club that I am leaning towards is "Say It" derived from the acronym SAET which is from an idea for a club that Sonya and I had to be called San Antonio Environmentalist Toastmasters. Bit of a mouthful, so "Say It" seemed to work better. If anyone else has a name they'd rather have then lets have it.
All interested parties show yourselves and be known immediately. Lets rock!
June 20 - "Marriage in Music and Metaphor," Presenter: Margaret Batschelet
June 27 - "Celebrating Poetry," Presenter: Steve Botts
July 4 - Presenter: Henry Halff
July 11 - "Helping Carol (Rylander) Out: What Is a Religion?" Coordinator: Margaret Batschelet
he Women's Support Group will meet at the church at 7:00 p.m. on the following dates: June 14, June 28, and July 12.
I am writing to let you know of a easy way to raise funds for our church. This method has a number of advantages: you do not have to shoulder any of the funds raised, you do your shopping at some specific stores in town including Sun Harvest, Whole Food, OfficeMax, Payless Shoe Source and eat at a small number of restaurants and you use one of your credit cards registered to pay for your purchase. A small percentage of all the purchase from all of us who register will go to the church.
If you are interested in registering with the EScrip system (the Californian company that handles this program), please go to their web site at www.escrip.com You will find that our church is registered with them. The Group ID # for the Community Unitarian Universalist Church is 1030041. It is important that you include this ID number in your registration so that our church will receive the credit. If you are not so certain about participating in this program, you may wish to check out their demonstration page at: http://www.escrip.com/program/demo/step1.html
You do need to register in order for the program to work. You may skip the Grocery Store Club Cards and Retail Credit Cards pages when you register.
Please contact me if you have any questions. I have registered myself in about five minutes.
If we all sign up and purchase our goods and meals at the stores and restaurants in the program, we can all help strengthen the financial health of our church. In my opinion, the fresh fruits and vegetables at Sun Harvest compares very well in price and quality with other stores in this town.
Thank you in advance for your participation in this program.--Clem Chow
The Building and Grounds Committee is looking for volunteers to cut the grass at the church during the summer months. A sign-up sheet will be available in the coffee room.
A couple is to be married in our church on Saturday, August 7, 2004. Sandi Boyd will be catering. She has offered us the opportunity to be her helpers. If five of us volunteer, we may earn as much as $1,000 for the church. Some of the volunteer efforts will be on that day, and some will be in cooking prior to Saturday. And, men, don't assume that you are not being asked, because part of the work will be in setting up and taking down. If you can help with this project, please let me know. --June Kachtik
Barbara has alerted us to a new 4-page publication - written for small congregations. I highly recommend it. It is "talking our language" and has a lot of good ideas for small groups. To receive this newsletter, contact:
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It is also sent electronically. Contact: sky@vtlink.net
Do you need a little extra help or do you know someone who does? To contact the pastoral care sub-committee, please call any of the following individuals: Joan Bradshaw at 341-8506, Catherine McKee at 681-4197 Sally Wiesen at 256-9732 or Henry Halff at 493-7501. Our minister, Barbara Coeyman is more than willing to help in any emergencies were she might be of service. You can contact her at 512-453-2026 (home) or 503-806-7593 (mobile). You can also contact the pastoral care committee by confidential (but not anonymous) email to cuuc-cares@yahoogroups.com.
UU Summer Camp in beautiful Colorado! Camp Laforet (July 25 - July 31) is an annual gathering of caring people who cherish community and life's profound experiences. The camp is held at Rocky Mountain School in Carbondale, Colorado where the beautiful Crystal and Roaring Fork Rivers converge. The area offers warm days, quiet, cool nights under glorious stars and the powerful presence of 13,000 ft Mt. Sopris. The camp is a member of the Council of Unitarian Universalist Camps and Conferences. Camp Laforet welcomes all persons interested in attending. The brochure and registration can be found at www.camplaforet.com. Print off the registration and send with a deposit to: Mary Lane, Laforet Registrar, 4937 Powell Ave., Kansas City, KS 66106.
The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) is organizing two week-long non-partisan voter education and advocacy workcamps called the Defending Democracy Work Camps. UUSC will recruit, educate, engage, train and inspire Unitarian Universalists youth and young adults to become activists and to use their political power for positive change.
During the Defending Democracy Work Camps, participants will learn voter education and mobilization tactics, hear from leaders in diverse communities, engage in direct democracy, register new voters in Boston and New York, learn how to become active, activist members of their communities and work with community-based organizations on voter registration efforts in various neighborhoods throughout the cities of Boston (July 26-30) and New York (Aug. 30- Sept. 3). Or join the Freedom Summer Workcamp, A Civil Rights Journey to Atlanta, Selma, Montgomery, and Birmingham, from July 6-12. See the full-color flyer at http://www.uusc.org/news/v3b_flyer_WEB.pdf
For more information, please contact Nguyen Weeks at 617-868-6600 x201 or by e-mail, nweeks@uusc.org.
In addition, please consider making a donation to the Defending Democracy Work Camp 2004 to go towards scholarships for individual youth and young adults with financial need, phone banking and/or overall voter registration efforts during the New York or Boston trainings being organized by the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee as part of a non-partisan charge towards a more representative democracy in 2004 and beyond. For more information, check the UUSC website, www.uusc.org or the full-color flyer at http://www.uusc.org/news/v3b_flyer_WEB.pdf
Nguyen Weeks
Programs Associate, Youth Action
UUSC
130 Prospect Street
Cambridge, MA 02139-1845
June 13 - "Reincarnation," Sonya Graham
June 14 - Women's Group, 7:00 p.m.
June 20 - "Marriage in Music and Metaphor," Presenter: Margaret Batschelet, Summer Sunday Brunch
June 20 - Remarkable Film Series, "The Wild One," 6:00 p.m.
June 26 - "Celebrating Poetry," Presenter: Steve Botts
June 24-28 - UUA National General Assembly, Long Beach, CA
June 28 - Women's Group, 7:00 p.m.
July 1 - Presenter: Henry Halff
July 11 - "Helping Carol (Rylander) Out: What Is a Religion?" Coordinator: Margaret Batschelet
July 12 - Women's Group, 7:00 p.m.
July 5-11 - SWUUD Dwight Brown Leadership School, Austin College, Sherman, TX
July 18-21 - UU Niagara Experience
July 25-30 - SWUUSI, Lake Texoma, OK
July 25-31 - Camp Laforet, Carbondale, CO
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