Upcoming Dates
| Feb. 5
Crab Dinner
UU Partner Church Council Party at UUSM
Feb. 6
UU Salon
Feb. 10
Readers' Theatre
Feb. 11
Remarkable People
Feb. 12
AcoUUstic Cafe
C*JAM Jazz Quartet
Feb. 16
Book Club
Feb. 17
Kirtan
Feb. 20
New to Unitarian Universalism
Jan. 16 - Feb 24
Non-Juried Art Show
Feb. 24
Readers' Theatre
Feb. 29
Rev. Lazar
March 4-6
Women & Religion UUA Retreat
March 27 & April 10
Class on Islam
Adult ed. after service
12:30 - 3:00
More Dates
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Visitor's Box
| Planning a Visit to UUCM
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We cherish
diversity and
welcome among us
people of all races,
cultures, ages,
abilities, sexual
identities/
orientations, and
faith perspectives.
GUESTS are always welcome.
Sunday worship is a time for
inspiration, renewal, and connection.
CHILDREN AND YOUTH
Join adults during the first part of the
service, and then attend Religious
Education classes. Nursery and
toddler care is provided during the
11:00 service.
REFRESHMENT HOUR
in the Courtyard or
Fireside Room follows the services.
Come, join us!
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Staff Links
| Minister:
Rev. Chip Wright
minister@uumarin.org
415-479-4131
Director of Religious Education:
Linda Haumann
dre@uumarin.org
Administrator:
Janette Morrow
office@uumarin.org
President, Board of Directors:
Jennifer Gennari
board@uumarin.org
Director of Music:
Philip Hildreth
music@uumarin.org
Pianist:
Milton Wong
milton.wong@goaaa.com
Pastoral Care:
Chair: Carol Littrell 883-9676
Partial Resource List
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Minister's Schedule
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Rev. Chip Wright
Office Hours
Tues., Wed., Thurs.
10:00am to 3:00 pm.
Or available by appt.:
or
phone (415)479-4131
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 Sunday Worship Service
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Feb. 6, 11 am: "Why the Trinity?"
Rev. Chip Wright with Worship Associate Rodney Gothelf
Unitarian, originally coined as a theological term which identified folks who did not believe in the concept of the trinity, literally means 'unity of the trinity.'
View and Print February Services Read Past Sermons Online Basket Share Calendar Sunday, February 13 is a Basket Share Sunday, featuring another amazing local nonprofit. Lifehouse serves people with developmental disabilities by providing a lifetime of compassionate support in an atmosphere of respect, inspiration and purpose. Come to church that day ready to contribute: your financial support is a great way to serve your church and your local community! |
Contemplative Service
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Our Lay led Contemplative Service is from
9:00-9:50 am on Sundays (not available in summer).
Readings introduce a silent period to reflect on a topic or idea, followed by an opportunity to share individual thoughts.
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President's Letter: A Turn at the Helm
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 Jennifer Gennari
President of the Board of Directors
February, 2011
We have been busy up on the hill! Events like the AcoUUstic Cafés and the Crab Feed are joyful ways for us to raise our profile and funds. The Open Doors homeless shelter and the Sock Hop are meaningful ways to share our gifts. When we work together, our bonds strengthen and our burden lightens.
I am profoundly moved by the generosity of our volunteers-the people who teach our children, who orchestrate events, who tend the garden and clean the kitchen. I encourage all of us to thank individuals when you see them giving their time to make our sacred sanctuary and our world a better place.
If you have been looking for a way to increase your gifts to UUCM, now is your chance to help. We will be recruiting new leaders to the board and to committees. If you are interested, email me or let me know. In addition to leaders, we always welcome people to take on small tasks like bringing a Touch of Beauty or participating in the upcoming landscape work party. To volunteer visit our new UUCM task/leadership list page.
Busy lives sometimes isolate us from each other; volunteering may surprise you-and connect you with our intergenerational community. Join in!
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Education Connection
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 Linda Haumann Director of Religious Education
2/1/11
It's wonderful to see so many new and visiting families and keep bringing your friends too! For those who are visiting please know that there will be a "New to UU" (Unitarian Universalism) session on Sunday February 20th after service from 12:30-2 in the Clara Barton room. In this session you will learn more about our faith and about many of the programs at our congregation. Light snacks and childcare are provided. It's preferable if you sign up with me by Feb. 15th at dre@uumarin.org so we know how many are attending.
Our next field trip to Country Villa for grades K-8 is planned for Valentine's Sunday, February 13th. The children in RE will be making cards on February 6th to bring to the residents when they go there on the 13th. This time we'll be walking and we can always use a couple of extra parents to help. Please have your child wear comfortable shoes for the trek!
For adults, the small group circles have welcomed new members and we have room for more! Please contact me if you'd like to join at dre@uumarin.org.
We launch our Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry (UULM) course on Healthcare Reform on Wednesday, February 2nd with a very informative presentation by the UULM. Then Joan Nelson and I will provide 5 follow-up sessions using the UULM curriculum called "Voices for Healthcare". Please see the flyer and announcement in this e-weekly. Please contact me at dre@uumarin.org to register for the program.
Rev. Chip will also offer two informative classes on Islam immediately after Sunday services from 12:30-3pm on March 27th and April 10th. Mark your calendars and plan to attend!
Happy almost Spring!
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Sign Up to Volunteer Online!
| | All events need helpers.
To sign up online click on the appropriate address:
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UUCM 4th Annual Crab Dinner!
| February 5th at 6:30. All you can eat Dungeness crab! Cleaned and cracked by
Reverend Chip &
Bill Pryor (crab piece breaker and cracker extraordinaire!). Dinner Host and Menu Designer Sher will prepare her
Boston clam chowder.
Caesar salad & sourdough bread for all!
No host wine and beer.
Crab is a bargain at $30.00.
Kid's price for crab is $20.00 and
vegetarian/vegan pasta is $10.00. Corkage $15.00.
Reservations required.
Childcare provided by request.
Please make reservations as soon as possible but deadline will be February 2nd.
Volunteer to help:
Online Job Form
Job Descriptions
Invite your Friends:
FLYER
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UU Voices for Health Care Reform
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Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry presents:
"UU Voices for Health Care Reform"
February 2nd
7-8:30 pm in Fellowship Hall
Flyer
Five follow-up sessions
co-facilitated by Joan Nelson and Linda Haumann, DRE
Weds., Feb. 9 & 16, March 2, 9 & 16.
Register with dre@uumarin.org
Topics include history of health care reform, health equity,
access to mental health care,
how to make a difference both locally and globally.
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It's Easy to Help Out at UUCM!
| | Have you ever wanted to help out at UUCM but didn't know what needed doing? Now you can go to our web site uumarin.org and click on the white and red volunteer button or directly. It will take you to the UUCM task/leadership list. You can check any task you are interested in and the information will go to the webmaster who will give the appropriate person your name. Then you will be contacted.
New items will be added and deleted from the list as needed. |
UU Salon
| February 6 from 12:30-1:30 pm in the Fireside room:
The UU Salon, a quarterly Brown-Bag lunch discussion: UUCM members and guests to gather (families welcome) to share their lunches while the adults discuss an announced topic.
TOPIC:
This Salon's Topic comes from ongoing UUCM sermons
God Talk - Defining a common spiritual vocabulary
SUGGESTED READING:
Rev. Chip's sermons:Last week's sermon (Jan. 23, 2011 - coming soon...) & "To Believe Or..."
&
Sharon Wylie's sermon: "Tiptoeing Into God Talk"
Bring your lunches, bright thoughts, open minds and curious hearts. Reading is recommended, but not required, and copies will be at the Salon as well. Please feel free to bring other articles and books on this topic that you'd like to reference during the discussion.
For childcare RSVP by Jan 30 to dre@uumarin.org.
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Got an Eye for Future Leaders?
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The leadership development committee is looking for volunteers to help identify our future board and other leaders for UUCM. The time commitment is February to April with the goal of presenting a slate of leaders to be elected by the board at the April 25 meeting.
Please email jengennari@earthlink.net if you are interested!
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AcoUUstic Cafe -
something for everyone |
Preview the music.
Listen to clips of Andy playing keyboard
&
Shelby singing Yesterday and Black Coffee.
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February 12 7:30-9:30 (doors open at 7 pm)
C*JAM Jazz Quartet
Special guest Vocalist Shelby Anguiano
We will have a fabulous quartet performing unusual jazz and pop tunes with innovative arrangements and an edgy but gentle feel.
Jay Stapleton Andy Dudnick Mike MacKenzie Shelby Anguiano |
Remember all events need helpers. To volunteer please fill out the job form online.
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Readers' Theatre
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UU Readers Theatre always meets the second and fourth Thursday of the month, 7:30 to 9 pm, Fellowship Hall.
The next meetings are February 10 and 24.
New members are welcome. Contact Jan Seagrave for more information.
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Remarkable People or Tell Us Your Story
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Remarkable People or Tell Us Your Story will meet Friday February 11 at 7:30 in the Fireside Room. Scott Merrick and Ken Hutchins will be our speakers.
Refreshments will be served. Call your hosts Marge Hollinger or Steve Webster if you have questions or would like to tell your story in the coming months. We have 2 speakers every month who kindly share their lives with us.
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UUCM Book Club
| | Our UUCM Book Club meets on third Wednesday evenings at 7:30 in the Clara Barton Room, and is open to new members. Our selection for February 16 is The Sea by John Banville. This novel was published in 2005 and is a winner of the Man Booker Prize.
Contact person: Nani Ranken, 898-8558.
Book Reviews of The Sea
Buy it from your local independent bookseller: Book Passage
Support our libraries: Marinet
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New to Unitarian Universalism
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Sunday February 20th, 12:30-1:30 in the Clara Barton room.
"New to Unitarian Universalism"
This session is geared for those visitors who are interested
in learning more about Unitarian Universalism
and about our congregation specifically.
Light finger food and childcare is provided. Please contact Linda Haumann, DRE at dre@uumarin.org for further information.
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Thank You Letter from the Parks
| Dear UUCM:
We want to thank the UUCM community for their generous response to our family's recent health crisis.
When I was still in the hospital, Carolyn Planakis and Art Rosvold came into the city during a difficult period. When we came home from the hospital, there were Sally and Steve Schroeder at the door with a full meal. And the meals kept coming, from dozens of people, plus cards, letters, books, emails and visitors, and offers of help, for a month and a half.
This community should be proud of the leadership of the Pastoral Care Committee in times like this and of the outstanding response by so many members.
Dick and I thank everyone who has reached out to us from the bottom of our hearts. Thank you for the most delicious food and all the work that went into its preparation and all the caring sent our way by so many.
Marje Park
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Social Concerns News
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UUCM hosts a Social Concerns Information/Action Table during coffee hour after Sunday services.
Social Concerns Committee encourages congregants to put their UUPrinciples to work in the world. Please let us know when this happens. Otherwise we might have to read it in the news, as was the case this week with Susan Mathews, who has joined the IJ ediorial board as its new public member.
The Social Concerns Committee also hosts information/action speaker luncheons several times a year. Congregants are invited to bring suggestions for Social or Environmental Justice issues and speakers to: socialconcerns@uumarin.org.
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Weekly Shelter Report
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Jan. 30 shelter volunteers included: Betty Dalrymple, Grace (& Owen) Dearborn, Lee FitzGerald,Marge Hollinger, Sean Prendiville, Linda Stoneall, Diana and Peter Vine.
Also: A brave Amy Likover who joined Joan for the before-dawn clean-up and lock-up. The shelter staff person phoned later in the day saying the ladies "really grooved on" the "silver sliver" of a moon in the sunrise. A special thanks to Megan, a newcomer to UUCM. It was announced at the Sunday morning service that Sara Hummel (who was going to do hands-on Reiki healing at this week's shelter) had a fall, and wasn't able to come. Megan jumped right in to take her place.
On deck next week (Feb. 6) will be: Don Beck, Thomas Ervin, Andrea Hildreth, Joyce Rhodes,Valerie Taylor and Karen Spalding.
Please...when you leave your food contribution in the kitchen ahead of time, use identifying labels. Shelter labels are on the refrigerator door. Need (literally) hands-on volunteers: Our sleep-over guests could use a lot of caring and morale building. Anyone interested in grooming including haircuts? manicures? pedicures? How about massage? Sleep over? Other churches have called it to our attention that our guests are more likely to have a peaceful night IF A MEMBER OF THE CONGREGATION IS SLEEPING WITH THEM. Anyone interested in this kind of spiritual practice? The program needs more volunteers to wash sleeping bags. (This involves a trip to a laundromat.)
All are invited to dine at our Sunday evening tables. Food preparers and servers should arrive by 5:30. There is no food offering required in order to dine with our guests at 6:00.
The Chaplain has put out requests for sleeping bags and ponchos for homeless men.These can be left in the community room at any time.
To participate in UUCM's Sunday Shelter...contact Joan Nelson 415-453-6221
(cell: 415-595-6221)
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Save the Dates!
Walker Creek Ranch Retreat
April 29 - May 1, 2011
| |  Save the dates for the wonderful UUCM Congregational Retreat at Walker Creek Ranch. Request for Proposals. The Retreat Committee is asking members to begin thinking about workshops they could offer on Saturday, April 30, at Walker Creek Ranch. We are planning three workshop sessions, two in the morning and one after lunch, 1 and 1/4 hour each. All topics are welcome, as long as the format allows for plenty of participation! Proposal forms will be available on the Web and in the Retreat box on the wall of the Community Room.
We would also welcome suggestions on workshops you would be interested in as a participant. We will then try to find a presenter.
Online Workshop Proposal Form
More details will be coming. Visit our web page for general information and photos from previous years. |
Partner Church Committee News
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Partner Church Festival
With the UU Partner Church Council Board of Directors
Saturday, Feb. 5, 7:00-9:00 pm
Unitarian Universalists of San Mateo
300 E. Santa Inez Ave., San Mateo, CA 94401
Come learn more about what's new and exciting in the UU international partner church movement. The UU Partner Church Council Board of Directors will be sharing exciting news about partner church relationships. There will be wine and cheese, dancing and international guests. This event is free and open to all interested parties. Invite a friend!
Please mark your calendar for the service and potluck on Feb. 27. The sermon will be by Rev. Levente Lazar who is the minister of our Partner Church in Szovata and as you know is the Balazs Scholar this year. After the service we will host a potluck and we will have an opportunity to visit with Levente and his family.
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Women & Religion - Upcoming UUA Retreat
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WOMEN & RELIGION - UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST ASSOCIATION
"BUILDING THE WORLD
WE DREAM ABOUT"
MARCH 4-6, 2011
RETREAT @ ENCHANTED HILLS, NAPA
EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION DUE FEBRUARY 1ST
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UU United Nations Office
Intergenerational Spring Seminar
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The UU United Nations Office
2011 Intergenerational Spring Seminar
April 28-30
"Empower Women for a Better Tomorrow"
Details at www.uu-uno.org
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Kirtan!
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Feb 17 - 7:00 To 8:30 PM (Approx.)
On February 17th at 7:00 PM in the Fireside room, Kirtan, chanting & meditation services continue.
 These services offer a refreshing reentry into the heart-centered world of meditation and deep joy. If you haven't come to one of these services before and wish to deepen your spiritual life or find a space to just relax into, please come. Looking forward to seeing you there!
Rev. Chip
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Cooks Needed for Mill Street Shelter
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Volunteers needed for our first-Sunday-of-the Month dinner for Mill Street. You cook it and it will be delivered. Aluminum pans are available. Contact Junemfesler@gmail.com for details and to schedule.
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Non Juried Art Show
Fireside Room
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PEOPLE AND PLACES January 16 - Feb 24, 2011
Georgia Annwell
This is a wonderful show. Make sure you take a look. All work should be picked up Thursday, February 24, between 12:30 - 2.
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It's the Year of the BAFS!
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 And you are invited! BAFS? Well, that is 'Bring a Friend Sundays.' Bring a friend(s) to service at LEAST once a month--or have them bring you! And you can anticipate a reward beyond heaven, on earth: Gourmet dinner at the home of Rev's Chip and Lisa!
Here's how it works.
Please note the BAFS Sundays:
Second half: Feb. 13, Mar. 13, Apr. 10 & May 15
All BAFS will offer an opportunity for any new folks to meet with the Minister, the RE Director, our Board President and other leaders of UUCM informally after the service.
So start calling your friends and telling them what a great place the UUCM is and inviting these special people to our special Sundays on top of the hill. A fun time will be had by all!
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