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GUESTS are always welcome.
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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 10:30 service. 

 

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December 13, 2012

Issue #193

Sunday Worship Service chalice

Dec. 16, 10:30 am: The Story of Christmas
Rev. Chip Wright with Worship Associate Bev Munyon

Our Unitarian Universalist tradition is rooted in Christian history. We actually know very little about much of it. Today we look at the origins of Christmas and why keeping it alive in our hearts and not at Costco or on the online shopping network is important.

Join Us for the Holidays!
Holiday Services

 

Past services  (this section now contains audio of 8 past sermons) 

               

View future service information online        

Contemplative Service

Our Lay led Contemplative Service is from 9:00-10:00 am on Sundays in the Fireside Room.        

The  Contemplative Service is a small circle gathering that includes short readings and time for discussion and sharing of joys and concerns.  We meet in the Fireside Room. Leadership for the remainder of the year is as follows:
      
 Sunday 12/16/12 Chip Wright    
 Sunday 12/23/12 Susan Pryor    
 Sunday 12/30/12 Carol Kerr  

All are welcome to join us.  

UUA and Used Book Fair: Dec.  16
bookfair
Purchase great gifts and benefit UUCM!  NEW books from the UUA and gently USED books donated by UUCM members.
 
Sunday Dec. 16: 10 am - 1:30 p.m. Foyer
 
Buy books at the table or pick up ordered books on Dec 16. Cash, check, and credit cards accepted. For more information, email jengennari@gmail.com
Christmas Eve Reception
Bring your favorite savory or sweet finger food for the reception following the 7:00 p.m. service on Christmas Eve.  Helpers are needed for set up and clean up. Please contact Monique Webster if you can help.
UUCM Congregational Retreat,
May 3-5, 2013, Committee members needed
The pricing/application sheet for the 2013 UUCM Congregational Retreat is now available!  Please follow the link below. We are releasing the pricing sheet early so that individuals and families can calculate the expected cost now and plan ahead.  Full payment is not due until March 24, 2013.  Our Administrator has suggested that a monthly payment option is available.  You may set up an automatic monthly debit that starts soon and ends in a designated number of months (prior to the payment deadline).

The retreat is one of the big highlights of our program year. We want everyone to attend -- to learn together, to sing and dance and play together, and to strengthen our beloved community! If cost is an issue, please ask for a scholarship and attend.  If you can contribute extra so that other families can attend, please do so.

If you have questions or would like to help plan the Retreat, please contact the Retreat Chairman, Thomas Ervin (thomas.ervin@comcast.net)

Pricing/application sheet

Release form for attendees under 18
Compassionate Communication (NVC)

"Four First Saturdays" Compassionate Communication (NVC) Practice Group  artchalice

Jan. 5 ~ Feb. 2 ~ Mar. 2 ~ April 6   

9:00 -12:00

UU Church of Berkeley  

(Meditation Room)

 

What is "Compassionate Communication"?

Compassionate Communication (aka Non Violent Communication) is both a spiritual practice and a very concrete set of tools for staying positively engaged and creating mutually satisfying connections in challenging situations.  NVC holds the promise for everyone's needs - including yours - to be held with care when issues and potential conflicts arise, opening the way to solutions that work for all.

 

Registration is limited. Requested sliding fee scale: $240-$360 for the 4 month series (12 workshop hours).

Contact Rev. Cat for more information:
revcat@revcat.net  or 707 853-0009. Rev. Cat is a former member of UUCM and was ordained here. 

 

PCD January Leadership Workshop
Registration is now open for the January 2013 Leadership Workshop, "The Power of Language to Create Reality."  
 
We will be gathering at the UU Church of Berkeley on Saturday, January 26, 2013 with workshop leaders Rev. Robert Latham and Rev. Jeanelyse Doran Adams.
 
For religions confronting a cultural revolution and the decline of the influence of organized religion, their future lies in the hands of those willing to use language as a tool of personal and social transformation.

Get More Information & Register Now! 
Book Group January 16
book pile
As announced last month the Book Group will not be meeting in December.  Our next meeting is January 16 at 7:30 in the Clara Barton Room.  The book we will discuss is The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt.

There are about 30 copies in the library, in heavy use, so do get in line (also available in paperback.)  This is a bestseller, while also being an excellent scholarly book focused on the rediscovery of a 5th century Roman text ten centuries later.  Lucretius' De Rerum Natura ("a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas.") thus reappeared just in time for the Renaissance, the printing press, and the consequent reimagining of the world and humankind in humanistic terms.  All members and visitors are welcome.  Contact: Nani Ranken (898-8558.)
Social Justice Education/Action Activities
The UUCM Social Justice Committee acknowledges Dwayne Hunn, who attends UUCM Sunday services frequently and gave a sermon early this year about "Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things." He recently returned from yet another "sweaty, smelly" Jimmy Carter Habitat project in Haiti. The Committee invites mention of others among us whose lives exemplify our UU values.
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Homeless Outreach
  
All year long, UUCM's Social Justice Committee enlists volunteers to provide meals for the Marin Street Chaplaincy dinners, also for the permanent Mill Street Shelter.
 
Each year, with the approach of the holiday season, we dig a little deeper into our congregational heart to find extra volunteers to provide Sunday dinners for the Women's Winter Shelter. This year's sign-up board, with a full set of instructions, is in the foyer. Confirm with Joan Nelson 453-6221. 

Thanks from the homeless women go to UUCM dinner volunteers:  Carolyn B., Karen A. and irene S.
Needed. This Sun., 12/16: Vegetarian main dish.
(To contribute other items, contact figleafjoan@comcast.net 453-6221)
Volunteers are encouraged to serve and dine with our homeless guests. Otherwise contributions may be left in church kitchen in the morning.
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UU Disaster Relief 
The Central East Regional UU Disaster Relief Fund is accepting donations to help UU congregations and members recover from storm damage. Contributions go to: CERG-UUA - 100 W. 10th St., Ste. 1008,Wilmington, DE, 19801 
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The UUCM Social Justice Committee has reinstalled a Food Donation Barrel where you can just drop in a food item on your way into the building. As you shop for the holidays this year, please pick up extra non-perishable packaged food items for the UUCM Food Bank barrel.  Also WHITE SOCKS for the white sock basket.
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Mill Street shelter, a branch of New Beginnings, provides housing for about 60 people per night.
UUCM provides dinner on the first Sunday of each month. If you would like to be a once a month cook, please contact Junemfesler@gmail.com. Food should be brought to church - it will be taken to Mill Street.
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If you care about an issue or cause that you want UUCM members to know about, please bring it to our attention at the Social Justice information table at refreshment time.  To reserve a date: figleafjoan@comcast.net
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UUCM encourages anyone and everyone to reach out and advocate for social justice (economic, environmental, civil) in the wider community. Please invite others to join you, and send photos of your action to the Social Justice Committee.

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