Rev. Addae Kraba's office hours
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Rev. Addae keeps the following office hours at the Fellowship when she is in town. 10 AM to 2 PM, Tuesday through Friday, or by appointment if necessary.
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| Children's Religious Education Update |
Our Children's Religious Education (CRE) program is divided into two groups by age. In CRE, which meets each Sunday at 11 AM, we challenge our children with interactive studies about religion and science.
The nursery group topics change according to individuals who attend and cannot be listed in advance, but they fall under the curriculum Celebrating Me and My World.
During April, the elementary students will be learning about science.
Apr. 24: Making North America - In the Beginning
Lesson plans are subject to change, but this is the plan.
Contact: Wes Phillips
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Earth Day ACTION on Climate Change
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 Earth Day: Call Congress to Urge Climate Action
Still haven't figured out how you're going to celebrate Earth Day this year? (Even if you have, here's a wonderful suggestion that will only take a few minutes. Call your members of Congress and ask them to take action on climate change. Surveys of congressional staff have revealed that as few as five to 10 calls on a particular issue is enough to get their attention. We'd like everyone to call during east coast business hours on April 22, Earth Day.
Use the call-in action page, where you can find your representative and senators as well as the phone numbers to reach them. By using the call-in action page, you can also help Citizen's Climate Lobby track the number of calls being made. Be sure to include the call-in action page when you share with others.
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Registration for General Assembly is in full swing. Rates increase on May 1, so you may want to register soon. You can register HERE. The theme of this year's GA is Heart Land: Where Faiths Connect. More information is available at UUA website.
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 "Author and activist Parker J. Palmer said this about mentoring generosity: 'I think the biggest block to finding generosity of spirit in one's own life is never to have had it modeled for you, so you don't even know what it looks like and you've never known anybody whose own life is animated by that movement of the heart. I think once you've known somebody like that, it's a little harder to not be thinking on it, to not be touched by it, and to not realize how fulfilling it is for one's life. With generosity of spirit I experience a largeness of self; it doesn't matter whether or not I get something back from it. It is its own reward.'" --from Mark V. Ewert, The Generosity Path: Finding the Richness in Giving
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Newsletter and Website Submissions
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As always, we are eager to publish information regarding committees, boards, Adult RE, CRE, events, and services, but we need your help. The website and Facebook page can be updated daily, but the newsletter cannot. New information needs to be submitted (submissions@uuamarillo.org) by noon Wednesday if you want it to appear in the Friday morning newsletter. If you need an event placed on the website calendar, you may submit that request with description, image (or we can provide one), starting and approximate ending time, specific location, date (or dates for a recurring event), and name of contact person. Help us help you get your message out in a timely manner.
PLEASE, EVERYONE CAN MAKE ALL THESE COMMUNICATIONS MORE EFFECTIVE BY READING THEM EACH WEEK--ESPECIALLY THE WEBSITE AND NEWSLETTER!
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In addition to the events described in this newsletter, you can find a complete listing by clicking on the Calendar icon above.
Want more detail? Check both the News and the Events sections of our website, uuamarillo.orgAlso on our website, you can learn more about our Fellowship and our faith, Unitarian Universalism.
All events are held at the Fellowship, 4901 Cornell St., unless otherwise noted.
If you are unsure how to reach any of the individuals named as contacts, please email the AUUF office or call our Office Administrator, April Myers, at 806.355.9351 and leave a message. She will return your call during her office hours, which are Tuesday - Friday from 9 AM to noon.
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Sunday Worship - 9:30 and 11 AM
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Linda Jackson speaks on Food Justice for the Planet. What we eat affects our own health, and the financial and physical well-being of billions of our fellow humans. Learn about wonderful alternatives to harmful eating. Help yourself and the planet.
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May 1, 2016
Rev. Keith Kron, Director of UUA's Transitions Department, Boston, speaks on The Van Gogh Café. Living our Unitarian Universalist values isn't always as easy as we would like it to be. Often what we strive for is not what actually happens. How can we improve the odds that we will lead with our best values inside and outside our congregation? This sermon will explore these issues as they pertain to your next minister and the ministerial search process. A time of questions and answers with Keith open to all congregants will follow the service.
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May 8, 2016
Dr. Shelley Armitage speaks on Walking the Llano: Personal Ecologies. What we think of as landscape is often, in the western view, something "out there." But what if we were to consider ourselves as much a part of the landscape as "the boulders we stand on" (Leslie Silko)? The talk ponders how this inclusiveness and awareness may affect our personal ecology or balance as related to our own backyard, the llano estacado.
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Adult Religious Education
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 Please join us at 10 AM each Sunday.
We are rotating three subjects. Each covers a different aspect of Adult Religious Education. All are welcome. No advance reading is necessary and no test will be given.
Apr. 24: Natural Law #12 "The Thomistic Synthesis"
Contact: John Gay
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Nothing Much Buddhist Covenant Group
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Monday, April 25, 7:30 PM
In addition to our usual meditation practice, we shall be discussing the first two chapters of David Michie's book, Mindfulness Is Better Than Chocolate.
Contact: Tony Tackitt
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Women's Simply Salad & Soup Fellowship
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 Wednesday, April 27, 6:30 PM
Our women's group meets every 2nd and 4th Wednesday for good food and great conversation. The meetings on 2nd Wednesdays are at the Fellowship-potluck style. On the 4th Wednesdays, the women meet at a different restaurant each month.
Contact: Ann Benedetti
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 Wednesday, April 27, 6:30 PM
Every 4th Wednesday of each month the Men's Brotherhood meets from 6:30-8:00 PM in Chandler Hall. This covenant group provides men a private place for discussing feelings, for developing the trust to share without judgment in a confidential and safe environment, for permitting open discussion of concerns and receipt of the collective wisdom of others who have dealt with similar problems, and for finding ways to use new insights to improve one's everyday life.
Contact: Rick Todd
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Thursday, May 5 at 7:00 PM 
A handful of us aging UU womenfolk have read the book Being Mortal by surgeon Atul Gawande and would like to invite any of you who are interested to attend an open discussion.
Dr. Gawande contends that our current medical model for dealing with people who are reaching the end of their lives is not adequate. He says doctors and the children of aging parents want aging people to be safe, and what aging people themselves want is usually autonomy, even at the risk of being unsafe.
He says the medical community has been asking the wrong questions, thus allowing very little autonomy on the part of the aging person. There is a new and better way emerging, in a doctor-patient relationship called "interpretive," which allows shared decision-making. The questions asked by interpretive doctors are, "What is important to you?" and "What are your worries?" If remaining in one's own home and having a cocktail with friends is more important than being safely in a managed-care facility, there are ways to make that happen.
For some time now, several of us have had dreams of a UU retirement community where we could continue our friendships, but live in closer proximity to each other where we could more easily keep an eye out for each other, and where obtaining certain services to assist us would become more convenient. How to make this happen has seemed like a pipe dream, but it might become closer to reality if a greater number of us are interested.
Let's begin a bigger conversation about how we want to live as we grow inevitably older and need more assistance. You do not have to read the book before this meeting, although you may want to afterward.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR NOW!
Contact: Minnie Venable
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Spring Garden Gathering at the Fellowship
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Saturday, May 7, 8:30 - 10 AM
Got spring fever? Join fellow UUers in a garden spring cleanup. We'll cut back the grasses, clean up the weeds and maybe add some "May flowers."
Contact: Deb Winters at 806-336-1212.
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Special Screening - TRAPPED
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 Friday, May 6, 2016 at 7:00 PM.
Doors open at 6:30 PM.
Join us to watch the Sundance award-winning film, TRAPPED. This film traces the abortion rights saga from Wendy Davis's bold filibuster against Texas's awful abortion restriction law to today-when access to safe abortion for hundreds of thousands of women rests on the Supreme Court's shoulders, all through the eyes of the brave individuals to run and work at abortion clinics. Come learn how and why clinics are shutting down, because if we don't fight back, there may be no clinics left.
This event is free to the public - please invite friends and family. Each person planning to attend needs to sign up by following this link.
Contact: Martha Baird or Yvonne Moore
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Meet the Artist - Royal Brantley
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 Tuesday, May 10, 7:00 PM
Meet the Artist presents Royal Brantley speaking on "Interpretation and Collaboration." Royal Brantley is Director and Regents Professor of Theatre at West Texas A&M University. After receiving his BA in Theatre from West Texas State University, he served as a professional intern and company member at the Dallas Theater Center, where through Trinity University he earned his MFA in Theatre. As a professor, Royal has been recognized as an outstanding educator by West Texas A&M University, The Texas A&M University System, and the Texas Educational Theatre Association. He has directed over seventy-five productions at West Texas A&M University, received regional and national directing awards from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, served as a Directing Fellow at the Julliard School in New York City, and has had the honor of judging the State UIL One-Act Play Contest in Austin on several occasions.
Bring a friend or two to enjoy the refreshments and the theatrical guru of the Panhandle.
Contact: Pam Mayes or Ann Hicks
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 Mark V. Ewert, The Generosity Path: Finding the Richness in Giving (2014).
A blurb on the back of the book sums up its approach succinctly:
Financial giving can be its own spiritual path. We have a deep potential for meaning-making and life satisfaction when we look to grow from being occasional, haphazard donors to deliberate, ambitious ones--the life-changing transition from donor to philanthropist. With easy-to-read guidance, The Generosity Path sheds new light on our finances--connecting money to our values, beliefs, and loves--promoting skills and strategies in charitable giving. Starting from a very personal place, it helps readers to find clarity in their own experience and then focus on their areas of passion to build a plan of action. Inspiring personal stories help demonstrate the development of financial generosity, the challenges involved, and the deeper benefits we all might expect from being more intentional with our giving. Creative tools for reflection and practice guide readers' progress. This practical yet wise volume also features information about collective giving in a community setting, family, or giving circle. Ideal for religious and civic organizations, The Generosity Path includes a discussion guide for group use.
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Jane Eyre (The Musical)
 April 21-23 and 27-30 @ 7:30 PM; April 23-24 @ 2:30 PM Branding Iron Theatre, WTAMU
A successful dramatic interpretation of the ever-popular novel by Charlotte Bronte, Jane is also blessed with a luxuriant score, haunting and memorable music, and crisp, intelligent lyrics which speak from the very heart of this tragic and romantic story. True to its 19th century origins, Jane Eyre is a lavish Victorian banquet of emotions; passion, cruelty, revenge, repression, courage, emotional and physical abuse, faith and forgiveness, and love - most of all the eternal healing power of an all-consuming love.
Jane's story is that of a plain yet spirited girl, orphaned at an early age, who becomes governess at Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with Edward Rochester, the master of the house. Though Jane's sharp wit and defiant nature clash with Rochester's temperament, the two quickly develop a deep bond. But, Rochester's past, a dark secret imprisoned at Thornfield, threatens to destroy their love just as it begins, as it ultimately destroys Thornfield Hall itself.
Reservations at 806.651.2804 or here online. Adults: $16; Seniors (60+): $12.Box Office hours 2:30-5:30 PM and 1 hour before performance.
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