eNews: October 26, 2012

In the Lounge: Alliance Books ◊ Beacon Books Cart ◊ Donuts & Bagels ◊ Environmental Task Force ◊ Fair Trade Coffee & Tea ◊ Kiplinger Lecture Registration ◊ Palestinian olive oil for sale to support peace in the Middle East ◊ Senior Minister Search Committee ◊ Social Justice Council

This Sunday's Morning Forum: Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk, with John D. Groopman, Associate Director for Cancer Prevention and Control, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

John D. Groopman, our Forum speaker this Sunday!

All Cedar Lane members and friends are invited to come to participate as we,

the Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church,

ordains one of our own,

GLENN COLEMAN FARLEY

into the Unitarian Universalist ministry

4:00 p.m. on Sunday October 28.

Service participants include The Rev. Dr. Kenneth MacLean, The Rev. Dr. Roberta Nelson and the Rev Susan Archer, all former ministers at Cedar Lane. The Rev. Dr. Rebecca Parker, President of Starr King School for the Ministry and Glenn's professor of theology, will preach the sermon. Other Cedar Lane participants include Revs. Evan Keely and Heather Janules, Sandy Shaw, John Daniel - as well as Glenis Bellais and David Yano who will present the church gift to Glenn, a David Yano designed stole.

Stay to celebrate with Glenn at the reception which follows the service.

Weekly Devotional · October 26, 2012

I've got two sons, aged 10 and 7, so perhaps no one will be too surprised that Halloween is kind of a big deal in my household. There are a number of things that my kids really enjoy about this holiday. One, of course, is the acquisition of candy. Like many parents, I've cringed about this from time to time, but I have observed that my boys are a lot more enthusiastic about getting the candy than they are about actually eating it. I think they chiefly enjoy the surprise and fun of going from house to house and then comparing with their peers ("What didja get at house number 1608?"). There is an adventurousness in these little discoveries, and it is a positive experience for a child to knock upon a stranger's door and see a friendly face.

Another fun thing about Halloween, of course, is the costumes. My kids and most of their friends think months in advance about how they're going to dress up. This is a wonderful opportunity for them to use their imaginations and imagine themselves in different roles. It's enormously important for children to fantasize in a safe and healthy way about identity in this manner, for it helps them to understand themselves and what kinds of values they want to embrace and live for as they mature.

In the neighborhood in which my family and I reside, Halloween is quite an event. My wife and I purchased a home where we did in no small part because it is a very family-friendly place. Last year I noticed that many families came in their cars from other neighborhoods just so their kids could trick-or-treat on our street. It was great fun. I think our community's children get a clear message from this experience that they live in a safe place where adults care about them, want them to be together and enjoy themselves and each other's company, and that different people can come together and be friends. I'm struck by the diversity of families that I see on these occasions, and how the atmosphere is one of friendliness and respect. These are key religious values for me, ones that I strive to impart to my children.

Prayer

May we open our hearts and minds to the playfulness of this season, with its lessons of discovery and togetherness, imagination and fun, for these are things that we need in our lives in order to be healthy and whole. Amen.

Follow Rev. Keely on Twitter @evanvwk and as part of the UU Collective of bloggers at Patheos.com.

From Heather Janules,

Associate Minister and Minister for Pastoral Care

I haven't done any word searches of our sermons, newsletter columns and announcements but, if I did, I imagine that one of the most-used words in the past 18-months at Cedar Lane would be "transition." While a religious community, as a reflection of life, is always in transition, the Cedar Lane community has been very aware of the transitions begun with the departures of the Revs. Roger Fritts and Susan Archer and church leadership moving to revise its governance structure towards governance by policy. I sometimes sense that there is a bit of "transition fatigue" amongst us while I also sense a palpable energy and curiosity in this time of change.

I write to tell you about another upcoming transition, albeit a small one. Last church year, our Board of Trustees approved my request to take three months sabbatical time this church year. While the exact length of time and the plan to address my absence are not fully worked out yet, I anticipate being away from Cedar Lane for at least six weeks between January - March of 2013.

I seek sabbatical time this year to "catch my breath" and center so I may offer our incoming Senior Minister the best support possible. I will also participate in a week of continuing education through a special coaching program by the UU Ministers' Association called "Beyond the Call" (focusing on worship and preaching) and a general continuing education series offered to all UUMA members. As Ellie Goodwin notes in her contribution in her article below, in "Beyond the Church," I will also serve as a guest minister to the UU fellowship in San Miguel, Mexico. Beyond these activities (and the non-activity of catching my breath) I will take the manuscript of meditations I wrote on my first sabbatical and seek a publisher. (Rumor has it a call for submissions by one UU publishing house will be made in January.)

For those with "transition fatigue," this news may be upsetting or frustrating. While I can understand this reaction, I also have faith in Cedar Lane's capabilities of managing transitions, of functioning differently and stepping in when changes take place. We certainly have had a lot of practice!

Once all the plans are in place, I will be sure to communicate them with the congregation-at-large. In the meantime, I look forward to ministering to and with you in this coming holiday season...

Upcoming Sundays

Nov 4, 2012, 9 a.m. & 11 a.m.

"'That I Might Know Your Mind': A Pilgrimage to Transylvania"

Cedar Lane's Partner Church Delegation

Worship Associate: Duncan Ferguson

Cedar Lane UU Church and the Unitarian Church of Dicsöszentmárton in Erdély (what we call Transylvania, a region of Romania) have been partner churches since 1995. This Fall, a delegation from Cedar Lane traveled to Dicsöszentmárton to participate in their annual Thanksgiving worship service, to connect with the members of the congregation, to hear from the young people we support through the Joseph Priestley scholarship program and to attend the Second International Convocation of UU Women, held in Marosvásárhely. This service brings home the sights, sounds and stories of this special place. We will also celebrate the newest members of Cedar Lane through a ceremony of welcome and conclude our worship, in the spirit of Dicsö's Thanksgiving service, with a communion ritual.

Forum: Post-Kiplinger Lecture Talk-Back on Life and Choice, featuring Frances Kissling.

Click here for future Forum info!

We Care

The We Care program is a network led by volunteers who reach out to address short-term needs - food deliveries, rides to doctor's appointments, a listening ear in the event of a loss. The Cedar Lane congregation is organized geographically by "neighborhoods"; each neighborhood has at least one chairperson to coordinate support. Look at your name-tag or the map in the church office to find your neighborhood.

We celebrate with Chris and Brent Garland (Neighborhood 11.) After a long time waiting, they received a phone call notifying them that their daughter was ready for adoption. Aoife (pronounced "Ee-fa") Alice Mercedes Garland was born on September 26th and first met Brent and Chris on October 12. You may see a photo of the happy new family here:

We also rejoice with Carole Rogentine (N5) who has been transferred home from the hospital to continue recovery after abdominal surgery.

Please note a new address for Paul and Doris Keyes (N26.) They are now at 6200 ½ Oregon Avenue NW, Apt T281, Washington D.C. 20015-1543. Their phone number should remain the same.

Should you know of a member of our community in personal need, you are encouraged to reach out to them. If you learn that this person wishes to receive a response from the church, please contact Heather Janules at hjanules@cedarlane.org. All ministers offer pastoral care to our members so you are also encouraged to contact any member of the ministerial team.

Thanks to over 50 Cedar Laners who rallied for Question 4 in-state tuition (DREAM Act) last Tuesday!

More than 700 people attended this DREAM Assembly sponsored by the MD Industrial Areas Foundation. CLUUC is a founding member of AIM (Action in Montgomery).

Maryland DREAM Early Voting Action, Saturday, October 27

at 11 a.m.

Please join us this Saturday at the Silver Spring Civic Center, 8525 Fenton Street. Allies will join in solidarity with members of Bethel World Outreach Church (an AIM member) who have marched to the Civic Center for this first day of early voting. A public parking garage is across the street from the Civic Center.

The Annual Kiplinger Lecture is next Saturday, November 3!

Civil Conversations: Bridging the Divide over Life and Choice

The Kiplinger Committee is proud to present the Annual Kiplinger Lecture, Civil Conversations: Bridging the Divide over Life and Choice, with Frances Kissling. Ms. Kissling is a lifelong woman's rights advocate and a recent scholar a the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. The lecture will be an intelligent approach to civil discourse about women's health rights and practices. The cost is $10; students free, and Cedar Laners can bring a friend for free! Visit our website for more information.

Please stop by the lounge this Sunday, October 28, to register!

Committee members will also be happy to answer any questions you may have about the lecture.

Phone Banking & election day Poll Work Training at Cedar Lane related to Ballot Question #6 -- the Civil Marriage Protection Act!

Final phone bank: Tuesday, October 30 (5:30 to 8:30 p.m.)

Election poll work training workshop: Saturday, November 3, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Both of these sessions will be run by staff members from Marylanders for Marriage Equality (MDFME), and will take place in Room 32-35 (on the lower level of the main building).

LGBT Task Force liaisons will be helping with both of these sessions, and refreshments will be served. Phone bank participants are encouraged to bring their own cell phones if possible.

Volunteer for Cedar Lane's

6th annual rebuilding trip to New Orleans!

January 19-26, 2013 are the dates now set for our work week to help rebuild

NOLA's much needed housing. 1000s of New Orleans home owners still are out

of their homes 8 years after Hurricane Katrina. Personal livelihoods and NOLA's

economic recovery depend on having viable housing to live in. For info, look

for trip veterans in the lounge on Sundays, or email team leader extraordinaire

Mike Burski: mga1960@earthlink.net. Make this your year to bein NOLA.

Around the Church

Welcome Workshop TOMORROW! October 27, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Visitors, Newcomers, New Members: this interactive session with ministers Rev. Evan Keely, Rev. Heather Janules and IDRE Karen Lee Scrivo will help you learn more about Unitarian Universalism and yourself! Lunch provided, childcare upon request. Sign up at the Visitor Center or email or call Membership Coordinator Allison Cox acox@cedarlane.org, 301-493-8300 x305.

There will be a presentation by

Pam Bailey of Peace Action on at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, October 29, at Cedar Lane, on the subject of drone attacks, and their devastating impact on the lives of Pakistani civilians. Please pass this information on to anyone you know who might be interested.

Thanks,

Deborah Vollmer (member of Cedar Lane)

New Member Welcome Service on November 4: New members who are able to attend our welcoming ceremony please email our Membership Coordinator Allison Cox (acox@cedarlane.org, 301-493-8300 x305) and let her know which service you plan to attend. A reception will follow the 9 a.m. service in the lounge. After the 11 a.m. new members are encouraged to attend the Community Lunch in the Chalice House.

The Social Justice Council is hosting this month's Community Lunch!

Members and visitors are welcome to attend our Community Lunch on Sunday, November 4 in the Chalice House around 12:15 p.m. following the Sunday Service. Plan to come for fellowship, enjoy delicious food, and learn more about the great work of this important CLUUC group! No RSVP required.

Grounds Workday on Saturday, November 10, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Come enjoy a fall morning working on the church grounds! All are welcome. Jobs for all ages include raking leaves, mulching, planting groundcover, and removal of invasive plants. Coffee, bagels, and cider provided. Dress appropriately and bring gloves. No need to stay all morning - come when you can! Questions? Contact Carrie Meyer at cmeyer@gmu.edu or Belle Waring at 301-395-4125.

Thanksgiving month 50-50

THANKS to all of you, we were able to send $685.00 to the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee after the September 30th offering. We are now anticipating our next 50-50 on Sunday, November 11. Half of the money collected goes to Cedar Lane, and the Social Justice Committee will donate the other half to our Scholarship Fund. We have already funded a deserving student from Rockville High School for his first semester at Montgomery College. Please give generously on November 11, so he will have enough for his 2nd semester tuition. - Marilyn Hathaway, SJC

Donate a Used Snow Blower?

Do you have a snow blower that you would like to donate to Cedar Lane? We need another snow blower for this winter to keep our walkways clean. If you would like to donate one, please contact Sara Deshler at sdeshler@cedarlane.org or 301-493-8300 x209. Many thanks.

Cedar Lane Theater Affinity Group: Our next activity is Thornton Wilder's Skin of Our Teeth at Montgomery College's Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center, on Saturday November 17, at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $12.50. For those interested, we'll meet beforehand for dinner at a restaurant in the Rockville area. Interested? Contact Marlene Berg at mgkpberg@gmail.com.

ATTENTION UU Young Adults at Cedar Lane (20s/30s)!

Interested in socializing with a newly formed Young Adults Group at Cedar Lane? We'll congregate at 12:30 after the second service on October 28 in the vestibule (in front of the library door) and then head off for brunch in the area. Sponsored by the Membership Services Committee. Questions? Contact Marlene Berg of the MSC at

mgkpberg@gmail.com.

Neighborhood-25 Dinner

Would you like to meet your neighbors? Join the Neighborhood-25 group for a potluck dinner in the Chalice House at 6:00 pm on Saturday, November 3. Don't know which Neighborhood Group you're in? This information is found on your church name tag; or call the church office at 301-493-8300. Please RSVP to Marlene Berg at mgkpberg@gmail.com.

Farm Market Stand Open this Saturday, October 27! 9-1 p.m.

in the upper parking lot of Cedar Lane

ORDER YOUR TURKEY NOW!

We are taking orders for turkeys. They are $3.99/lb. They are free-range.

Nov. 17 will be their last day at Cedar Lane! So come visit while you can!

Check out their website for more info.

Don't forget to check out Cedar Lane! Find us on...

If you would like your event posted on Cedar Lane's social media, please e-mail socialmedia@cedarlane.org.

Religious Education for All Ages

Karen Lee Scrivo, Interim Director of RE

Vanessa Steck, Senior High Youth Coordinator

Gale Ginther Luce & Jeannette Wilson, Administrators

For information and to register for classes and programs call 301-493-8300 x207 or e-mail

RE@cedarlane.org.

READ ALL the RE News Here...

Upcoming Calendar:

Sun Nov 4 First Sunday Smart Snacks

First Sunday Smart Sacks:
Next Sunday, November 4, is our First

Sunday Smart Sack collection. Please help

this important Manna Food program feed

hungry children during times when they

can't get meals at school. Donation suggestions can be found on-line at

http://www.cedarlane.org/rep/

F oodWishList.pdf. Have your children help decide what to purchase, and place your donations into the red bins outside the chapel, and in the downstairs lobby. Thank you!

Holiday Craft Day Needs. . .
We are collecting short wide-mouthed glass jars for Holiday Craft Day to make stained glass candle holders. Please donate any short jars that a tea light could be dropped into. Jars can be left in the RE office. Thanks, Katie Spurlock.

Youth Notes (Grades 7-12)

Young Adults (Ages 18-35)
Adult Programs (AP)

New Classes Starting!

AP Brochure Corrections & Additions

The Sunday Morning Forum
Connection Circles - No Fees!
Kiplinger Lecture is Sat., November 3!

Calendar

Please visit the church calendar here.

From the Music Director

Dr. Henry Sgrecci

Photo of John Rutter

Music Notes

John Rutter's works for church, school, and community choirs are beloved the world over. Born in London in 1945 he studied at Clare College, Cambridge and has produced numerous recordings with the Kings College Choir and the Cambridge Singers. In composing his Requiem he said that he wanted to create a work that his father, who had no formal musical training but merely and good ear and a love of music, would enjoy hearing if he were seated in the front row at the performance, and that would be accessible to the vast majority of singers who make up church choirs. From the recording of Requiem by the Turtle Island Chorale Rutter wrote the following introduction:

The Requiem was written in 1985 and dedicated to the memory of my father, who had died the previous year. In writing it, I was influenced and inspired by the example of Fauré. I doubt whether any specific musical resemblances can be traced, but I am sure that Fauré's Requiem crystallized my thoughts about the kind of Requiem I wanted to write: intimate rather than grandiose, contemplative and lyric rather than dramatic, and ultimately moving towards light rather than darkness -- the "lux aeterna" of the losing text.

The first complete performance took place in October 1985 (in Dallas, as it happened), and no one, least of all the astonished composer, could have predicted the flood of performances which followed and which has continued ever since. For me it stands as a clear sign of humanity's quest for solace and light amidst the darkness and troubles of our age. Art, Andre Gide said, must bear a message of hope -- a message which is embedded in the age-old texts of the Requiem Mass, and also in the Burial Service, some of which I have interpolated into the structure of the work, using the incomparably resonant and glorious version from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.

Special thanks to the CLUUC Choir, Thomas Guthrie/organ, Emma Vawter/

soprano, Kim Murray/flute, Ada Saunders/oboe, Adam Gonzalez/cello, Melissa Dvorak/harp, and Joanna Huling/percussion; whose talents and musicianship have allowed us to mourn, reflect, and rejoice in the lives and memories of those who have left us.

From the Senior Minister Search Committee

Update on the Search For Our Senior Minister

Thank you for your input via the Surveys, Cottage Meetings, and many personal conversations with us. We recently submitted our Congregational Record (CR) to the UUA Transitions Office. The CR's purpose is threefold: to present a clear picture of the congregation to prospective candidates; to share our congregational strengths, challenges and issues and to "market" the position of senior minister. Ministerial candidates find the CR to be invaluable. They will be looking both for factual information honestly presented and for thoughtful insight into our hopes and expectations. It is largely on the basis of the CR that ministers will decide their interest in us! Again, we thank you for your participation.

Because you asked: Here are answers to the three questions posed in our last eNews article concerning response to the Congregational Survey:

1. 4.5% of respondents are ages

20-39.

2. 52% of respondents say they

travel 15 minutes or more from

home to CLUUC.

3. 113 or more than a quarter of

respondents say they have held a

leadership position on the Board

of Trustees or chair of a

committee in the past four years.

SMSC members: John Gubbings, Bob Harrison, David Hawver, Emily Mellgren, Ann Meyer, Carolyn Morrissey, Lyn Peters

In This Together from CLARITY*

CLARITY Sunday, October 28! Please join CLARITY members in the Chalice House following 2nd service for a shared lunch and a film discussion on "A Class Divided." All are welcome, and this event would be appropriate for children.

The day after Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered, an Iowa schoolteacher divided her 3rd grade students into groups of blue eyes and brown eyes, and gave them a first-hand experience in the meaning of discrimination. This is the story of that lesson, and its enduring impact. Our guest facilitator will be Elise Bryant. Elise's areas of expertise include communication skills, leadership training, labor history and culture, diversity training, and organization development. Cedar Laners may also know Elise as the director of the DC Labor Chorus and co-sponsor with Steve Jones of the concert performance of "Love Songs From the Liberation Wars".

Reservations are not necessary, but would be helpful for meal planning. Please contact Ariel Mora, ariel_mora1@hotmail.com.

Members and friends of CLUUC who are committed to our work of anti-racism and multi-culturalism are encouraged to become part of our team.To be added to our group distribution list, simply send a request to CLUUC-CLARITY-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. We use this Yahoo group for CLARITY meeting invitations, minutes, email notifications of events of interest, etc.

Environmental Task Force

From NaturalNews...

Try these 10 natural Halloween treat ideas

Halloween is traditionally a day centered on eating commercial candy. A fun way to reduce this barrage of junk is to host or attend a "healthier" Halloween party. Keep the focus on the activities, not the food, by engaging guests with costume...

Holistic Halloween:

Tips for Healthy Trick and Treating

This year, I'm encouraging everyone to have a more 'Holistic Halloween'. The holiday can be fun as well as green and healthy, especially when we embrace some of the traditions behind the holiday!