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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 10:30 service.   

REFRESHMENT HOUR  in the Courtyard or
Fireside Room follows the services.

 There are 4 "Sunday First Time Visitor" parking spots at the top of the parking lot.  

Come, join us! 

Sunday Worship Service

UUCM's early Sunday morning 9 am Contemplative Service in the Fireside Room is a lay led service.  Readings introduce a silent period to reflect on a topic or idea, followed by an opportunity to share individual thoughts.  

Come and widen our circle. All are welcome!  

Questions, email Carol Kerr at drckerr@pacbell.net.

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RE Notes from the DRE

eScrip

When at Safeway, use your debit card. Credit cards no longer make a contribution.

On-line shopping? Go through the eScrip portal even for Amazon. This is where the big contributions add up.

Community Dates to put on Your Calendar:

2/8 Crab Feed with Children's Program

2/16 Congregational Conversations, III (with lunch and childcare)

3/30 Congregational Conversations, IV (with lunch and childcare)

4/25-27 PCD District Assembly - includes a really good MUUGs and YRUU program.

5/18 North Bay Revival (A Family event with UU pizazz!!!)

Also in February, RE is planning a work party to paint the nursery. Get your paint clothes ready!

Jeffrey Melcher, M.Div.

Director of Religious Education

Crab Feed: There are only 33 people signed up to attend the crab feed! Are you one of them? If not, you can now sign up directly on our web site.  The deadline is this Saturday, Feb. 1! 

Also, volunteers are still urgently needed. Please contact Aaron Feldstein at aaroncfeldstein@gmail.com if you can help out.

Our February Basket Share will be with Youth Enrichment Strategies (YES), a West Contra Costa Co. nonprofit that provides children and their families with experiences in nature -- to ignite their imagination, build self-confidence, and enhance social skills. YES brings children from gritty and often dangerous Richmond neighborhoods to camps in natural settings across Northern California. The first difference to strike the children when they arrive at camp is the safety. "There are no gunshots, only crickets," one 8-year-old child said. 

Come to our 10:30 a.m. service on February 9, prepared to financially support 2 great local nonprofits: UUCM and YES!

On Feb 9 our minister for the Sunday service will be this year's Balazs scholar, Rev. Karoly Vass. Rev. Vass has been serving as assistant minister in his home congregation in Sepsiszentgyorgy while completing a master's degree in theology.  He is also a student of economics.  He says, "I am particularly interested in social ethics, but also in how Unitarian Universalist churches are organized, how religion is reflected in your daily lives and how you welcome newcomers and share your values with them."

Rev. Vass is married, he and his wife Gyongyi have two small children, Benedek, three years old and Veronika, two.

Please plan to attend church on Feb. 9--a date easy to remember, it is the day after the crab feed on Feb .8--to hear Rev. Vass.

Terry Merrick. Partner Church committee

Wellness Dinners

Social Justice/Green Sanctuary

Are you are committed to working for environmental and economic sustainability? If so, the Unitarian Universalist Association offers you a systematic structure based on education, service, witness and advocacy.

In 2008, UUCM (after completing and documenting a fairly rigorous program) was designated by the UUA as an accredited "Green Sanctuary." The UUA now offers a re-accreditation process. Talk with Joan Nelson who documented the 2007-2008 projects and activities. And go to

http://www.uua.org/environment/sanctuary/147330.shtml

Our next meeting is February 19 at 7:30 in the Clara Barton Room. Marge Hollinger will lead the discussion of My Beloved Country by Sonia Sotomayor.

"Amazon Best Books of the Month, January 2013: Happily, it is becoming a familiar story: The young, smart, and very hardworking son or daughter of immigrants rises to the top of American professional life. But already knowing the arc of Sonia Sotomayor's biography doesn't adequately prepare you for the sound of her voice in this winning memoir that ends, interestingly, before the Yale Law School grad was sworn in as the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice. Hers is a voice that lands squarely between self-deprecating and proud, grateful and defiant; a voice lilted with bits of Puerto Rican poetry; a voice full of anger, sadness, ambition, and love. My Beloved World is one resonant, glorious tale of struggle and triumph. --Sara Nelson"

Members and visitors are welcome to join our discussions. 

Kathy Truax has added several lovely paintings to her exhibit in the Fireside Room.  Be sure to take a look. Contact information for Kathy is krtruax@att.net.  Note that 20% of any artwork sold is given to UUCM.

*Early in January Kathy graciously agreed to continue her show for several more weeks.

*Now we are hoping to entice other artists to exhibit their works in the Fireside Room....Paintings, Photography, Collage, Pen and Ink, Charcoal, Fiber, etc, etc, etc.   One person or a group.

*Please contact Carolyn Planakis at cplanakis@aol.com or 415-479-5617.  

Please be thinking about our April 19, 2013 Spring Fling auction,

Soon you too will get an opportunity to donate to the auction.  Within the next couple of weeks, we'll make available the Auction Donation Forms online, via email and on paper. 

Irene

If you were interested in Chip's "Water, Food and Life" sermon, you will be interested in the work of the Interfaith Sustainable Food Collaborative. The organization has scheduled a conference at UUCM on Sat. Feb. 23. Registration begins at 1:30. Program 2:00-7:00.

Registration is $45 prior to Feb. 10 and $55 afterwards. It includes a resource guide and dinner featuring delicious local food. Discount applies if we have three or more attendees.

Contact figleafjoan@comcast.net or 415-453-6221.

General Assembly 2014
June 25-29, Providence, RI

Early registration starts March 1.

General Assembly (GA) is the annual meeting of our Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA).

Think about being a delegate (either attending or off site). It is an amazing experience.

Women and Religion Annual Retreat in Napa California at the wonderful Enchanted Hills Camp. It will be held February 28 - March 2, 2014.

This retreat has been going on since around 1977 with women from the UUA- PCD area. It is a wonderful gathering of women from many congregations; laughing, singing, eating, worshipping, learning from each other and empowering each other.

More info