Upcoming Dates
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March 12
Labyrinth Walk
March 16
UUCM Book Group
March 17
Kirtan
March 26
Landscape Work Party
April 2
Transylvania Tea
Starr King School
March 27 & April 10
Class on Islam
Adult Ed. after service
12:30 - 3:00
April 29-May 1
UUCM Congregational Retreat
October 8
Partner Church
Inauguration Ceremony
Sovata, Transylvania
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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 Trustees:
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
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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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March 10th, 2011
Issue #108 |
 Sunday Worship Service |
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Daylight savings time begins- Move your clocks ahead 1 hour
March 13, 11 am: "Saints and Leprechauns"
Rev. Chip Wright with Worship Associate Jay Thurmond
With Saint Pattie's day coming up we take a little journey to the Emerald Isle to visit some sprites and learn a bit about Leprechauns. New members will be recognized during the service.
View and Print March Services
Past Sermons Online
All new sermons on the web sermons index are audio. Older sermons are text. If you want a text version of an Audio sermon please contact the minister.
March 6, 2011:
AUDIO "Life, Love and War: Real and Earnest" by Norman Solomon.
Also, AUDIO Reading by Joan Nelson:I Remember Pearl Harbor.
Feb. 27, 2011:
AUDIO 'The Transylvanian Unitarian Symbol and its Meaning for Us' by the Rev. Lázár Levente.
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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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| March Is Pledge Month! | Have you turned in your pledge yet? An annual pledge is the best way for all members and friends to support UUCM. Return your pledge form to the office by March 31, or visit the pledge table at coffee hour on Sunday. Janette will be available in her office after Sunday's service to help congregants navigate our online donation page or fill out the Authorization Form. Questions? Check out our new Pledge Drive web page!
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Remarkable People on March Hiatus
| | Remarkable People will not meet this month. That would be March 11th. Please contact Marge Hollinger or Steve Webster if you would like to be a presenter in April.
Thanks, Marge and Steve
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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 meeting is on March 10.
New members are welcome. Contact Jan Seagrave for more information.
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Labyrinth Walk Event - San Rafael Saturday, March 12, 7-9pm
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Please invite your Marin friends. We hope to see you at our labyrinth walk installation and music/art performance this Saturday.
Spring Labyrinth Walk with Live Music and ImagesMartin Gregory, Piano
Cindy Pavlinac, Sacred Places Photo Projection & Viola
Saturday March 12th from 7-9pm!
Come walk a labyrinth with us
Martin Gregory and Cindy Pavlinac will bring their multimedia labyrinth extravaganza to the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Marin's Fellowship Hall. They will install a canvas labyrinth and surround it with contemplative music and photos. Martin sets the mood with his keyboard compositions while Cindy adds viola and projects her photos of sacred places to illuminate hanging veils. Cindy will present a brief introduction to the labyrinth walk, then music and images will flow continuously during the evening. Come to walk the labyrinth, listen to music, watch images, and linger by the labyrinth. Join us for an inspiring evening experience of joyous reawakening and connection. Plenty of seating and refreshments available. Families welcome. Celebrate spring with this special fundraiser for UUCM.
Admission: $15, $5 youth (under 18) |
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Pastoral Care Corner
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The following is a great opportunity for anyone with elderly parents etc. or those of us in our last quarter of life to gain the info needed to seek good care for our loved ones or ourselves before there is an emergency!
Marin Center for Independent Living Presents
CAREGIVER OPTIONS: SUCCESSFUL HIRING STRATEGIES
Thursday, March 10, 2011, 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
San Rafael Community Center
618 B Street, San Rafael
Bring your questions and concerns to an interactive discussion with experts in various aspects of home care. Learn how to assess an agency, registry or caregiver to avoid making a bad choice. Don't wait until a sudden illness or decline in health requires you make a decision under stress. Find out how to determine quality of care, responsiveness to your concerns, payroll responsibility, liability, background checks and more.
Pre-registration is requested. To register call San Rafael Goldenaires at 485-3348.
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Adult Education: UUCM Book Group
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Our UUCM Book Group meets the third Wednesday of each month, 7:30 to 9 PM, in the Clara Barton Boom. New members are welcome to come and participate in our lively discussions! Our book for the March 16 meeting is Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose. This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel covers four generations in the life of an American family in the West. The protagonist, an offspring of the family, is an aging historian whose discoveries are both historically and personally significant. Wikipedia summary
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Landscape Work Party
| | Come clean the Fishpond Saturday, March 26th.
The Landscape Committee is having a work party March 26th to clean the pond and do odd jobs around the garden. The pond has to be emptied and cleaned once a year. The fish are caught and placed in a barrel before being returned to their renovated home. This is a huge job and
lots of fun.
Learn the Secret of Pond Pump from the Master: Be the next in a venerated lineage. We need a UUCM member to come to the Work Party to learn the operation of the fish pond pumping system from Art Derby. I believe this will be Art's last year to work on the system so we need a new expert for the future.
A delicious lunch will be provided.
We start at 8:30 am and usually finish at 2:00 pm.
Come and bring the kids.
John Quinley, Chair Facilities Committee
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Kirtan continues
| | Kirtan, March 17 7 to 8:30 PM (Approx.), Fireside Room Also April 21, May 19 (Third Thursdays through end of May).
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.
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UUCM Congregational Retreat
Walker Creek Ranch April 29 - May 1, 2011 | |  Save the dates for the wonderful UUCM Congregational Retreat at Walker Creek Ranch. Registration has begun. Drop by the information/registration table in the foyer. Nonmembers pay a $50 extra fee per family. If you are considering joining this would be a good time to do so.
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 are 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. |
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Wesley Grant Awards
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Available funding from the Wesley Endowment this spring is $6,500. The Board of Trustees at their meeting Monday, February 28, decided to split the amount between 2 applicants.
The Fireside Room Renewal Project , submitted by Carol Kerr on behalf of the renewal project committee, will receive $3,250 for new furniture and design features for the room, which will also be used for the contemplative service beginning in the next church year.
A media systems upgrade proposal, submitted by Ray Meluch, will receive $3,250 for sound and video equipment in Fellowship Hall, and a portable cart for smaller equipment to be used in the Fireside room and other spaces in the building.
Many thanks to Carol and Ray and their committees for their proposals.
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Social Concerns News
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Sunday, March 20: Social Concerns Luncheon, Fellowship Hall. "In Our Own Voice," featuring two trained public speakers from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). They will share compelling stories about living with mental illness and achieving recovery. All are invited. Suggested donation $6.00. Nobody turned away.
The Social Concerns Committee 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.
----------- UUCM hosts a Social Concerns Information/Action Table during coffee hour after Sunday services.
We UUCM members and friends often put our spiritual values to work in the world in ways both large and small. If you care about, or are involved in, some kind of social justice endeavor that you want us to know about, contact socialconcerns@uumarin.org. to reserve a Sunday for your table. No candidate or individual party can be promoted or denigrated. Any political stand or position MUST be about issues not political figures, candidates or party affiliations.------------
Click on the links below to learn more about how YOU can get involved with both of these great programs:
Social Concerns
Green Sanctuary
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Weekly Shelter Report
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| Shelter report: Last chance to participate
Next Sunday, March 13, will be the last chance to provide food for this year's Women's Emergency Shelter.
We need: Vegetarian main dish...Salad...Fruit...
Beverage.
Contact Joan Nelson (453-6221)
Extra treat: This week, our stressed-out ladies will be soothed by an aromatherapy specialist!
Last week's shelter guests want to thank volunteers: Grace and Owen Dearborn, Amy Likover, Katie Mansergh, Sita, Brian and Chloe Hunwick, Lori Smith, Diana and Peter Vine. A couple of the ladies wanted to know what our 7 Principles are. Chloe sang the principles as taught to our kids to the melody of "Doe-a-Deer."
The March 20 shelter will be covered by members of the UUCM Small Group Circle.
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Missing Tablecloths
| | The kitchen is missing some of the round tablecloths.
If you took them home for laundering please return.
Thanks, Hospitality Committee
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| Balázs Transylvanian Tea on April 2 | | |
The Balázs Scholars Program at Starr King School for the Ministry invites you and your friends to our Spring Transylvanian Tea.
This Fundraiser to support the visiting scholar program will be held on: Saturday, April 2 at 3:30pm at
Starr King School
2441 Le Conte Avenue, Berkeley
The suggested donation is $25.
RSVP to Arliss Ungar 925-283-3288.
Featured guests will be
 the 2010-2011 Balázs Scholar and minister in Sovata and Csokfalva, Transylvania,
Rev. Levente Lázár
(UUCM's Partner church minister)
and
 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake,
Dean of the Faculty and Visiting Professor of Spirituality and Prophetic Justice at Starr King School and pastor of the San Francisco Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples, an interfaith, interracial, intercultural community of seekers dedicated to personal empowerment and social transformation.
They will speak on "Prophetic Voices."
Each year the Balázs Scholars Program brings a young Transylvanian minister (and family) to study at Starr King School and the Graduate Theological Union, and to preach at Unitarian Universalist churches throughout the Bay Area and the country.
If you would like to help sustain this program please make a check to Starr King School with Balázs on the notation line, and send it to Starr King School, 2441 Le Conte Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94709.
Flyer
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Pacific Central District Assembly 2011
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Pacific Central District of the Unitarian Universalist Association's
District Assembly 2011
May 13-15, Newark Fremont Hilton,
The Transient and the Permanent
Come join us as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the consolidation of the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church of America into our Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations!
This year's event will take place May 13-15, 2011, at the Newark Fremont Hilton Hotel. Click on the hotel link and make your room reservations now!
Registration is now open! Please note that the deadline for the Early Bird Special of $75 is April 12, 2011. This is a $20 savings over previous year's registration fee!
Please see the PCD DA2011 web page for all of the information!
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WINE COUNTRY HOLIDAY
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Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of North Bay
WINE COUNTRY HOLIDAY
The UU's of Napa, California proudly announce the sixth season of our Wine Country Excursions. Again, we offer a variety of options for an inside look at one of America's most beautiful areas, internationally known for fine wines, gourmet dining and spectacular vistas.
The program runs from April through October. Our fees are below market rate for comparable services and all proceeds go to our small fellowship. More info.
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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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| It's the Year of the BAFS! | |
 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: 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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