November 27

Thanksgiving Pitch-in

Dinner

5:00 p.m.

 

Age of Reason Ceremony- Sunday, November 9th 

Monday Shambhala Meditation is Every Monday at Noon 

Join us at 12 noon every Monday in the Meeting Room for an hour of Shambhala Meditation with Sarah Flint. Please bring your own cushion; sitting in one of the Meeting Room chairs is also fine.

Our Congregational Themes for 2014

How does the idea of Possibility help you Seek the Spirit, Build Community, and Change the World?  

Bylaw changes for vote at Congregational Meeting in December

White Elephant Items for the Holiday Bazaar

The White Elephant knows that all UUs have valuable items they no longer need or want but that will be desired by others shopping at the Bazaar.   If you have items such as holiday decorations, children's toys, exotic collectibles, or truly (but not actual) White Elephants, please donate them to the White Elephant's Trunk at this year's Bazaar. We can receive donations starting Nov. 30. Want to help organize and price items? please contact Doris Wittenburg, (336-4993 or dwittenb@indiana.edu) 

Read and Recycle

Support the Holiday Bazaar Book Sale!  Cull through your library and find those books you are ready to pass along to another reader.  DVD's and CD's also welcome but please no VHS tapes, magazines or sheet music. For ease of shelving, please sort books by fiction/nonfiction.  Drop your items off at the church beginning Sunday, November 30 at 1:00 p.m. You may continue to bring books until Thursday, December 4. No book donations after December 4, please! Questions? Contact Abby at abdowney45@gmail.com or 812-824-7755.  

"C" Is For Cookies!

We hope you enjoyed the Preview Cookie Tasting and thanks to all who signed up!  We will keep the sign up sheets in Fellowship Hall until the week of the event (Dec. 5th and 6th) Looking through old family recipes or thinking of new ideas is all part of the fun of Bazaar Baking. Our cookie buyers like all shapes and sizes: classics, drop cookies, rolled cut-outs, bars, chips and lots of icing and decorations.  Questions,  Mary Jo Conley at 988-6130 or email brwnbeyond@msn.com.   Thank you!  The Cookie Walk Committee

Get ready for the  Gourmet Galaxy!  If you can bake it, can it, cook it, or create it, we would love to have it to sell at this year's Holiday Bazaar.  We're looking for breads - both sweet and savory - candy, fudge, biscotti, chocolate covered goodies, canned pickles, and most anything you can think of for the Gourmet Galaxy.  We would also love sugar free, gluten free, or vegan goodies.  Sign up between services in Fellowship Hall!  You can also sign up there to help staff the booth during the Bazaar!

 -- Ann LeDuc, Molly Gleeson, Co-chairs of the Gourmet Galaxy

New Pathway for Off-site Parkers

The grounds crew and a bunch of helpers made a new path from the corner of the Bypass up to our west parking area on Saturday, November 1. This will make it easier for us to hike up the hill if we have helpfully parked off-site on Sunday mornings! Many thanks to all who helped, and to Molly O'Donnell and 

Rhonda Baird who facilitated the project. 

Gratitude Project

Gratitude opens the door to love and takes us out of our ego-centered selves and reminds us we are part of something larger. Members of the Second Sunday Davis-Beauchamp Chalice Circle have created a Mobile Gratitude Cart as an opportunity for the UU community to thank ministers, staff, and volunteers who keep our community operating and vibrant. It will be available on the second Sunday of each month.   

Author of Corporations Are Not People to Sign Books at Barnes & Noble

The Just Peace Task Force invites you to a panel discussion Nov. 11

HOLIDAY MIRACLE FOOD BASKETS

C'mon! Admit it! You know you feel warm and fuzzy as you wander up and down the grocery store aisles trying to decide - hummmmm . . . blueberry pancake mix or butter­milk, tuna in water or oil, cranberry sauce smooth or lumpy. Yep! That's because you're buying food to fill a Monroe County United Ministries (MCUM) Food Basket. And once again you have the opportunity to join in the UU annual holiday food drive that shares our many blessings with families who are less fortunate than we are.

Food shortage is an ongoing struggle for MCUM - the demand is up and the supply is down. In fact, to ensure they don't turn any hungry families away, MCUM has been forced to REDUCE the amount of food given to each family from a 5-day supply of food per week to a 3-day supply of food per week.

Please sign up on the Holiday Food Baskets contributors' sheet found in the Commons by the Social Justice table. Grocery lists with careful instructions are placed with the sign up sheet. Be sure to take all the information you will need.  Thank you!  Read more...

https://www.facebook.com/notes/unitarian-universalist-church-of-bloomington/holiday-baskets-for-monroe-county-united-ministries/794137417312820

Unitarian Universalism in the Wider World--Traveling in 2015? 

Join UU's from around the country at either the regional UU Assembly, the national UUA General Assembly, or both!  If you are a member of our congregation, you can be a delegate to the Mid-America Regional Conference in Naperville, April 17-19 (http://www.midamericauua.org/) or the national UUA General Assembly June 24-28 in Portland Oregon (http://www.uua.org/ga/). Please contact Iris Kiesling at ifkiesling@aol.com if you are interested. 

UU History for You

BELA BARTOK AND HUNGARIAN UNITARIANISM

Bela Bartok (1881-1945) was born in what is now Romania. His father died when he was 7 and his mother, a piano teacher, recognized his early musical aptitude. He began composing when he was 9.  His mother made an effort to find teachers for him who could enhance his talent. He adored Dohnanyi when they moved to Budapest, and he became a concert pianist. In 1904 he heard a woman singing folk songs and he began collecting folk music.  Although raised Roman Catholic, Bartok described it as "a fairy tale" and he became an atheist.  He said "If I ever cross myself it would signify 'in the name of Nature, Art, and Science.'"  He taught at the conservatory in Budapest and inspired Kodaly to collect and use folk music in his compositions. He married twice and had a son with each marriage. Bartok first encountered Unitarianism in 1907 while visiting Transylvania and became a Unitarian in 1916.  A major figure in 20th century music, he abhorred fascism and refused to perform in Germany or Italy.  He came to the US in 1940 and supported himself with commissions including some of his most admired works.  In 1943 Bartok developed leukemia and he died in New York City in 1945.  After the Cold War, his son Bela, Jr had his body returned to Budapest.  

Contact a Minister

   Reverend Mary Ann Macklin, our Senior Minister, can be reached at 812-332-3695, ext. 201 on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, or macklin@uubloomington.org. For pastoral emergencies, please call her mobile, 812-322-0205. Reverend Macklin will be away from the office November 3-11. In her absence please contact Reverend Wadkins.

   Reverend Doug Wadkins, our Interim Minister, can be reached at 812-332-3695, ext. 207 on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, or email wadkins@uubloomington.org. For pastoral emergencies, please call his home study number, 812-369-4179.

Both ministers have voicemail on their numbers so that you can leave a private message.  

Phone Number Erratum For Rev. Wadkins

The numbers to use to contact Reverend Doug Wadkins are 812-369-4179 (home study number and for pastoral emergencies) or 812-332-3695, ext 207, which is his number at the church. Both these numbers have voicemail so you can leave a message. We inadvertently printed an incorrect phone number for him in the recent directory.

It's Not Too Late to Pledge!

If you have not yet pledged for the fiscal year that started on July 1, it is never too late! You may make a pledge at anytime during the year. Please call 812-332-3695, ext. 200 to let us know the amount of your pledge, or send the info in an email to Church Administrator Carol Marks at admin@uubloomington.org or pledge online. See our Stewardship webpage at   http://tinyurl.com/uustewardship or go to the Donate page (tab to the far right at the top of the page) at www.uubloomington.org and click on "I want to make a Pledge."  Please call the office if you have questions, 812-332-3695.   

Attendance and Membership

Current Membership: 514     Certified Membership as of 2/1/2014: 492

Attendance

Sunday, October 26               9:15:    108;     11:15:  144;     RE:      88        Total:   340

Sunday, November 2             9:15:    114;     11:15   172;     RE:      154      Total:  440

Online Livestreaming

10/26/14                               9:15  31            11:15   42

Non-Pledge Offering

10/26 - $337;  11/2- $735        Total to be donated to Susie's Place - $268.01

October 26      $2,025, income to UUCB $101.25

Crew of the U.S. Starship UUCB

Office Closed November 11 to Honor Veterans Day

Our church offices will be closed Tuesday, November 11 to honor Veterans Day.

BULLETIN BOARD

WAGNER PROGRAM NOV. 9 "I love Richard Wagner," 3:00 pm on Sun Nov 9, Monroe Library Auditorium. Presenters will be Velda Kaune, Lecturer, and Guest Artist, Roy Samuelsen.  Dedicated to the late Prof. Dr. Ulrich Weisstein, the program will include The Flying Dutchman and Tristan and Isolde.

Calendar of all our congregational events can be found at www.uubloomington.org  Click on "Full Calendar" and then on the date you are interested in. You can also search for a specific event! Our facebook page also has scads of useful information: www.facebook.com/uubloomington

Next issue, Monday, November 17. Deadline for articles about congregational events and projects is 10 a.m. on 11/17/14, to Carol Marks at admin@uubloomington.org  

Unitarian Universalist Church of Bloomington, 2120 N. Fee Lane, Bloomington IN 47408, 812-332-3695