Will YOU Become
a Chalice Lighter?
Let's do this. I'll be the first to sign up.
We need as few as twenty-four others!
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Sat., September 7
10 - 11 AM
Southwest Branch Library
6801 W 45th, Amarillo
Alan Abraham will be speaking to the NAACP Community Relations Committee on Your Fifteenth Amendment to Vote Regardless of Race or Color. This issue is important not only to African Americans, but to all Americans. These meetings are all open to anyone who wants to attend--you would certainly be welcome! Other items on the agenda for this meeting:
- Paul Harpole: Recreational Center
- Dr. Rosemary Gray, Chief Diversity Officer at WT: "Diversity on the WT Campus"
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Women's
Simply Salad & Soup
Fellowship
Wednesday, Sept. 11 -
meet anytime after 6PM; eat at about 6:30 PMThe Women's group will meet at AUUF on Wednesday, Sept. 11. You are invited to join them anytime after 6 PM; supper will begin about 6:30. Men's Fellowship
Wednesday, Sept. 11 - 6:30 PMThe Men's group will meet at Furrbie's restaurant, 210 SW 6th St. Everyone is welcome.
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For a number of years the Fellowship has exclusively brewed Equal Exchange fair trade coffee, and provided ceramic coffee mugs (donated by members) for serving. Every Sunday following our services - or after any event when coffee is served - coffee carafes, pump-dispensers, and several dozen mugs are washed by a volunteer from the Membership Committee. On occasional Sundays with higher than average attendance (an increasing phenomenon) we have run out of clean mugs!
As an experiment in water conservation, we will begin using 12-ounce paper cups starting Sunday, Sept. 8.
Provided by Equal Exchange, these biodegradable hot beverage cups use a corn-based lining instead of petroleum-based plastic and are made with fiber from sustainably harvested wood. They are compostable, and will be recycled along with our other used paper products.
Our hope is AUUF members and guests will enjoy using these "ecotainer" cups, and by eliminating the need to wash so many mugs, we will help do our part in conserving precious water.
However, your feedback is important. Please direct any comments or questions regarding our use of biodegradable paper cups to Cathy Proctor at office@uuamarillo.org
Interested in The Ethics of Water? Click here to read David Green's sermon from July 2012.
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Welcome to the Amarillo Unitarian
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Events at the Fellowship continue to move quickly. The Committee Fair held on Sunday, September 1 allowed those attending to learn more about the committees and their work, meet the chair (or a representative) of each committee, and sign up to work with one or more committees. We greatly appreciate that several committees have new members.
The feedback, both formal and informal, to our newly formatted website and newsletter continues to be positive. We've also received some suggestions for improving both. We take each suggestion seriously and have already implemented some of them. We welcome your input! Let us know how we could better communicate with you by calling our office, 806.355.9351 or contacting submissions@uuamarillo.org
Read on for the news and events of the upcoming weeks. Be sure to visit our website, uuamarillo.org, to view information about our Fellowship, news and events, a calendar, and a blog of recent news articles of interest to the liberal religious community. Also find us on Facebook!
With welcoming arms for all,
The AUUF Beloved Community
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Sunday Worship - 10 AM & 11 AM
David Green will be speaking on
Atonement: Yom Kippur, discussing the origins and theological importance of the Jewish "Day of Atonement" and its impact on contemporary Judaism and Christianity.
 Sept. 15, 2013
David Green will be speaking on Talk To Me Like I'm Someone You Love, discussing the ways we communicate in our most significant relationships, and how the "languages" we use can foster greater trust, understanding, and lasting love.
Sept. 22, 2013 David Green is speaking on Under the Bodhi Tree, discussing the life of Siddhārtha Gautama, and the story of how he became the "enlightened one," or as he is better-known, the Buddha.
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Path to Membership
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 September 25,
October 2 & 9 (3 Consecutive Wednesdays)
7 PM - 8:30 PM
Path to Membership gatherings are held periodically through the year for those wishing to learn more about joining the Fellowship. The next series of three weekly meetings will be held at the AUUF on Wednesday evenings from7 PM- 8:30 PM: September 25, October 2, and
October 9.
Each informal gathering is led by David Green and includes sharing by long-term AUUF members. Unitarian Universalist history, beliefs, and practices are discussed, as well as AUUF history, structure, and expectations of membership. Attending Path to Membership gatherings is an important step in becoming an AUUF member, as outlined in our
membership procedure. membership procedure
To RSVP, please contact Cathy Proctor at office@uuamarillo.org or call 355-9351.
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Great Decisions: Threat assessment
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 Tuesday, September 10, 2013
7 PM - 8:30 PM
Threat assessment
-- by Gregory Treverton
How can the United States address the challenges of a weak economy, homegrown terrorism and nuclear proliferation? What threats and opportunities are presented by the ascendancy of China and by regime change in the Middle East?
Great Decisions is America's largest discussion program on world affairs. The name is shared by a national civic-education program, briefing book and television series administered and produced by the Foreign Policy Association. The Great Decisions program highlights eight of the most thought-provoking foreign policy challenges facing Americans each year. Great Decisions provides background information, current data and policy options for each issue and serves as the focal text for discussion groups.
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| September is Hunger Action Month |
 September 5 kicked off Hunger Action Month , a month-long effort in which everyone can be a part of the solution to end hunger nationwide. Here are a few ways you can help: SUPPORT SNACK PAK 4 KIDS
Our Fellowship has long supported the Snack Pak 4 Kids program in Hereford, a program which ensures that children do not go hungry over the weekend. AUUF members and friends have brought so much peanut butter that, we understand, in Hereford it's known as "UU peanut butter!" This year the program has received several grants which provide the peanut butter as well as many of the other items we used to bring. The children's need now is for high-protein foods in 7 - 7.5 ounce cans with pop-top lids. Foods such as Vienna sausage, lasagna, spaghetti, and stew are in great need. The size of the can does matter! Larger cans crush the other items in the backpacks and become too heavy for young children to carry home on Fridays. Please bring your items to the Fellowship when you come on Sunday--or bring them by the Fellowship at 4901 Cornell during office hours, which are M-W-F 9 AM - noon. TAKE THE SNAP CHALLENGE Eat on just $4.50 a day. Shop for your meals with the daily average per person benefit provided by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly known as Food Stamps) to get a sense of some of the challenges faced by those struggling to put food on the table. Budget $4.50 for the day and share your experience with family and friends to raise awareness of the importance of this critical nutrition program. SEND YOUR MEMBER OF CONGRESS AN INVITATION Encourage your Member of Congress to support your local food bank and help us reach our goal of getting every member of Congress to visit a food bank in 2013.
VOLUNTEER
Contact the High Plains Food Bank and become a volunteer during September--and all year long.
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Our Mission
To be a spiritual Community that promotes
a free and responsible search for truth and meaning,
and to be a respected public voice for liberal religious values.
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