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Sunday July 8, 2012
10:30 am
Imam Askia Muhammed Aquil
The Basis Of All Religion is Faith
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Worship Associate
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Music
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About Sunday's Service
When the scriptures commonly known in the world as the Holy Qur'an were revealed through the angel Jibril/Gabriel, they were not revealed to Muslims. There were no Muslims proper in 610 AD. The scriptures were sent to all people of faith, to any people who believed in a supreme being, a creator, a power greater than everything the human mind can conceive or imagine. Faith is the common bond that unites all believers.
Imam Askia Muhammad Aquil is a native of St. Petersburg. His faith was nurtured from early childhood in the city's oldest African-American congregation - a 117-year-old Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. He systematically and gradually began studying and practicing the Muslim way of life after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968. He has headed several mosques and Islamic centers, and coordinated Islamic training activities for mosques in six southern states. He is the former Executive Director of the St. Petersburg Housing Authority.
This is Share the Plate Sunday. Our recipient is Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida. | |
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UU Theism Study Group
Every Tuesday
7-8:30 pm
Anastasia Maxwell Library Contact: Katherine Torres, 727-482-6171 (text)
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Open Issues
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Jesse Whitewolf
Invisible Imprisonment: Life Wearing The Ball and Chain of Chronic Pain
| | Jesse is a new member of UUC. She is an RN, Clinical Social Worker and a person living with a life sentence of chronic pain. She wants to share her story, describe the inadequacies of approved medical treatment and to appeal for your support to decriminalize medical marijuana in Florida. Petitions will be available for signatures, in the Social Hall, following services. |
Religious Education Happenings |
Please join us for faith, friendship and fun!
Summer is in full swing here at UUC! Please join us this Sunday as we discover a little more about Judaism through food and fun. Suzanne Arkles is our special speaker and will be sharing her knowledge and stories about Judaism with us.
Our high school youth group will meet from 12-1pm for open discussion. Religious Education Information |
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 Click here to see the ABC TV news coverage of the St. Pete Pride Parade with footage of UU's marching in the parade. This is what Sue Boone spoke of Sunday. |
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 Jumping Jehosophat! SUUSI is almost upon us. Now remember folks, with the coming apocalypse this could be your last chance to attend this one of a kind event. July 15 is the start date. Act now to sign up by going here. There will be more fun and excitement than you can shake a sharp stick in the eye at at SUUSI. Everyone is welcome to this most wholly remarkable event. |
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Hot on the heels of SUUSI come SWUUSI, a wonderful event starting July 22 and running through July 27. But don't take my word for it (after all I said SUUSI was unique). Check this out. |
Interweave Movie Night & Potluck |
 Friday, July 136:30 pm
UUC Social Hall
This month's movie is Go Fish. Potluck at 6:30 followed by discussion and Movie. Lynette Wood says her family made this movie. Rose Troche, the director, is her daughter-in-law. Lynette's son, Scout, was a producer and is in it. Lynette helped with fundraising. This was a break through movie.(And a very good one. I saw this during its extremely limited run in Huntsville Alabama when it first came out--Ed.) It won first place at Sundance Film Fest, Samuel Goldwyn picked it up and it went around the world. Please RSVP to Joe Weinstein before the evening. And bring a dish to share for potluck. If unable to bring food please bring a $5 donation. |
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 I send you warm greetings from the Gulf Coast and trust you are enjoying the never ending summer that can only be found in the land of orange groves!
As you know, the 2013 UU district choral festival will be held this year at the Unitarian Universalists of Clearwater on February 16-17. For your information, this is President's Day weekend.
With the close proximity of the festival to Valentine's Day, this year's theme of LOVE seems rather fitting. I am writing to you today in order to solicit compositions for the event.
I am looking for pieces that a choir of about 100 amateur, semi-professional and some professional musicians can perform as part of a service focusing on the theme of love. The pieces should be written for SATB. There can be some further splitting (ie.SSATTBB). However, the pieces are performed by a majority of amateur musicians who, though they learn the pieces ahead of time, have limited rehearsal time at the festival itself. The duration of the piece should be between 3-6 minutes. We do have some fine instrumentalists at our church so if you wanted to incorporate some sort of instrumental obligato, you can e-mail me privately regarding the possibilities.
The deadline for submission is September 30, 2012. If you are interested in submitting a work, please e-mail me the manuscript to me as a PDF attachment. Also, if you are able, please attach an MP3 formatted recording of the work as well. If your piece is selected, you will need to provide MP3 formatted recordings of all separate voice parts as well as the complete piece. You will also be giving UUC permission to post these recordings as well as the manuscript on its website and allow participants of the festival to download this material and use it for free. The choral festival service at UUC on Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013 will be streamed via the World Wide Web and in knowing that, you give us permission to include your piece as part of that streaming. Please understand that you will not be compensated in any financial form for its performance during the 2013 festival. However, you will have the thrill of hearing your wonderful creation of music performed in a fantastic musical space
Finally, please pass this information along to anybody within our UU family in Florida.
Thank you ahead of time for considering the sharing of your gifts in this very special and personal way.
Personally, I can't wait to see the results.
Blessed be and Shalom,
Dr. David Katz
Director of Music
Unitarian Universalists of Clearwater, FloridaOptional Link
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Be Prepared This Storm Season |
 In light of our recent events, the first Tropical Storm of the season, Walgreen's Pharmacy Stores are offering a free Hurricane Preparedness Booklet available to everyone at all of their local stores. Please let the front office know your emergency information or if you have a change in your contact information by calling Tues-Fri, 9 a.m. - noon, 727-531-7704. |
Summer Book Club Starting |
A Summer Book Club will meet weekly for the next few months at 10 a.m. each Friday, in the Chorale room. All are welcome. No fee. For more information, contact Alicia Addeo at 727-579-0548 or email Alicia. |
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Our Web Site's Social Justice page can be found here.
Here is report on July's Share the Plate recipient.
Human Rights
Human Rights Planning Meeting
The Human Rights Team will be having a planning meeting to determine the issues we will be dealing with in the coming year. Our meeting will be following the service at approximately noon on July 1 in the Chorale room.
If you have any questions please contact Sandy and John Hoover at 727-398-9639 or email. Environmental Justice
Be A Repsonsible Steward
Don't take a vacation from conserving energy, recycling trash, and otherwise being a responsible steward of our environment.
Green Team in Action
In the Fall we will be scheduling a major environmental workshop, utilizing curriculum from the UU Ministry for the Earth. Look for more information as we get closer to scheduling it. We will also hold a fun "Trash to Treasure" workshop, where you will learn to make gifts and wrappings from recycled materials. Stay tuned and stay cool.
The Environment Justice July meeting has been canceled. Economic Justice Safe Harbor Tour Report
Click here to read Linda Stoller's report on a recent trip by UUC members to Safe Harbor. |
PUBLICATION DEADLINES OCTAGRAM - WEEKLY EVERY THURSDAY The Octagram is intended to focus on activities taking place at UUC or those of interest to UUC members and friends. Send items in brief with a link to more information to Octagram. PLEASE DO NOT SEND INFORMATION FORMATTED, OR IN A FLIER. Provide text in an email, or as an attached Word file with any pictures/graphics attached to the email. Deadline is 10 a.m. every Wednesday. Prepared by Jeff Anderson, assisted by Leslie Conrad.
Not much time to reflect this week. Just glad to be alive and enjoying life with Katherine this summer. ORDER OF SERVICE/ANNOUNCEMENTS - WEEKLY EVERY SUNDAY SERVICE: Deadline is 6 p.m. every Wednesday. Send appropriate items to Order of Service/Announcements. Prepared by Pat St. Clair. ITEMS RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINES WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE FOLLOWING PUBLICATION, IF APPLICABLE. Octagram headline artwork of the UUC courtyard pond by Lynette Wood. |
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