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Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church
www.cedarlane.org
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eNewsletter Volume 5, Issue 25
January 25, 2013
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January 27, 2013, 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.
"Gift, Grace, and Letting Go"
The Rev. Louise Green, Sabbatical Minister
Worship Associate: Brian Belanger
Sometimes the greatest gifts come when we release completely, letting go to embrace the reality of what IS happening. What grace might come if you leave behind what no longer serves? An exploration of grace via the Hindu concept of Ishvara.
Volunteers for the Service:
Ushers: 9 a.m.: Lisa Chernikoff, Gail Riley & Tom Nixon, Mary Farrar11 a.m.: Nancy Janssen, Marilynn Smith, Betsy Binckes, Dawn Steinfeld
Coffee Servers: 10 a.m.: Bonnie Tyler; noon: Carolyn Stelle
Audio: Rick Lohmeyer
Board Member at the Office Desk: 10 a.m.: Anne Fretz; noon: Sandy Shaw
Welcome Center: 10 a.m.: Chris Garland; noon: Allison Cox
The flowers in the sanctuary are given by Sara Deshler in loving memory of Bruce Douglas, usher extraordinaire. The flowers were arranged by Cathy Knapper. The flowers in the chapel were arranged by Cindy Meredith.
In the Lounge: Adult Programs Registration ◊ Alliance Books ◊ Beacon Books Cart ◊ Circle Dinner Program ◊ Creative Connections for Congo Kids ◊ Donuts & Bagels ◊ Environmental Task Force ◊ Fair Trade Coffee & Tea ◊ Interfaith Power & Light ◊ Palestinian olive oil for sale to support peace in the Middle East ◊ Social Justice Council ◊ Worship Committee
This Sunday's Morning Forum: ObamaCare Is Now The Law of the Land -- What's Next?, with Colleen Meiman, HRSA Senior Health Policy Analyst.
 This Sunday will be a 50/50 split plate with Interfaith Power & Light, which works with nearly 300 congregations of all faiths -- including Cedar Lane and many local UU communities -- across Maryland, DC, and Northern Virginia to save energy, go green, and respond to climate change. IPL helps congregations educate by incorporating environmental concerns into worship, teaching, and preaching. IPL helps congregations go green, by supporting them in saving energy, re-bidding their electricity contracts, purchasing clean power, and shifting other aspects of their institutional purchasing and practices to minimize environmental impact. IPL helps congregations speak out as part of local and national advocacy efforts to protect the environment. IPL is part of a network of forty local Interfaith Power & Light groups across the country. Together, Interfaith Power & Light is building a national religious response to the climate crisis. www.mdipl.org
Don't forget to find Cedar Lane on Facebook! Click here to find us :o)
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Upcoming Sundays
February 3, 2013, 9 and 11 a.m.
"Taking Care of Ourselves"
The Rev. Evan Keely
Worship Associate: Duncan Ferguson
We all know how an individual should take care of the self. How does a community take care of itself?
Forum: Gulliver's Troubles: Obama and the Middle East in a Second Term, with David Aaron Miller, Woodrow Wilson scholar on Israel and Iran.
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We Care
We Care is a network for short-term pastoral needs, led by lay volunteers. Examples are food delivery, a ride to a doctor, or listening during a difficult time. Cedar Lane is organized by geographic neighborhoods, with chairpersons who coordinate support. Neighborhood numbers are listed on name tags, and shown on a map in the church office. Contact the church to determine chairs in your region. Penny Douglas and family (Neighborhood 8), as they grieve the loss of Penny's husband Bruce on December 31. A memorial service will be held at Cedar Lane on January 26.
New congregant Amy Vernier, and baby
Elizabeth, continue to be treated at home now, and recover slowly from infection after emergency C-section in November. We hope they can be back at Cedar Lane soon. Ongoing healing prayers for all those in the Living with Cancer friendship group. This community continues to meet twice monthly, for support, shared wisdom, laughter, and meditation. You are welcome to attend regularly, or once in a while. (Meets in the library on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays, 2-3:30 p.m.)  If you learn of a congregant in need, please do offer assistance, asking how you might support the situation. If the person would like church response, or you have a concern to share, please contact Louise Green, lgreen@cedarlane.org, Sabbatical Minister for Pastoral Care. You may also contact Evan Keely or Karen Lee Scrivo, as all members of the ministerial team offer pastoral support to the congregation. |
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JOIN US THIS SUNDAY!
"At the River I Stand"
Sunday, January 27, 12:15 p.m.
in the Chalice House
All are invited to join CLARITY* members to share food, conversation, and ideas. We'll begin with a light lunch while we show the (1 hour) documentary "At the River I Stand." Afterwards, Elise Bryant will facilitate a discussion about the film. 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.
"At the River I Stand" takes place in Memphis in the spring of 1968, the dramatic climax of the Civil Rights movement. The film skillfully reconstructs the two eventful months that transformed a strike by Memphis sanitation worker into a national conflagration, and disentangles the complex historical forces that came together with the inevitability of tragedy at the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
This documentary brings into sharp relief issues that have only become more urgent in the intervening years: the connection between economic and civil rights, debates over strategies for change, the demand for full inclusion of African Americans in American life and the fight for dignity for public employees and all working people.
*CLARITY (Cedar Laners Against Racism - In This Together - Yes!)
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Environmental Task Force
Recommended Green Event:
In his inaugural address yesterday, President Obama made it clear that responding to climate change is a moral obligation, challenged those who still discredit the overwhelming scientific consensus around man-made global warming, and highlighted the economic benefits of embracing a new clean energy economy.
President Obama has articulated our climate change challenges and opportunities, now we need to show him that he has strong public support to take action on climate change.
Already, 10,000 people have signed up to participate in the Presidents Day action in Washington, D.C., on February 17.
We need 10,000 more to show the strength of our movement and the conviction of our message: Mr. President, lead on climate change.
Let us know whether you are considering attending and whether you need help finding transportation and lodging for the weekend.
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Around the Church
TOMORROW!
March on D.C. for Gun Control
Join us to have your voices heard on Saturday, January 26, from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on the Washington Mall. Meet at 8:30 a.m. at the Kiss and Ride of the Grosvenor Metro Station and look for the Cedar Lane banner. Members of the Social Justice List Serve and other Cedar Lane members and friends are invited. Questions - email Marlene Berg at mgkpberg@gmail.com. Click here for more information.
Next Sunday is Manna First Sunday Food Drive: Please bring canned and dry boxed foods for the blue box. We also need kid friendly foods for Manna's Smart Sacks program; these foods are sent home with kids on the weekends. Lists of food items Manna needs can be found on Cedar Lane's website. Food may be left by the chapel doors or in the lobby downstairs.
The Worship Committee would like to solicit input from the congregation on their views and feelings about worship services. The Worship Committee focuses on the quality and mechanics of worship services at Cedar Lane and advises the Board of Trustees and Ministers on matters that affect worship services. Members of the Committee will be in the coffee lounge after worship services on 1/27. If you are interested in joining the Worship Committee, please contact
Help Abolish Maryland's Death Penalty! Momentum is building and we are closer than ever to making death penalty repeal a reality in 2013. Gov. Martin O'Malley and Sen. Mike Miller have promised to ensure that this year's bill gets to the floor of the General Assembly for a full vote, where we have the votes to pass the measure. Representatives of Amnesty International and our own Social Justice Committee will be on hand after services on Sun., Feb. 10 with pre-printed postcards to send to your state legislators, urging them to vote "yes" on repeal. Other information about this year's campaign will also be available.
Transylvanian Thanksgiving Event; Sunday, February 10, 2013, 4-7 p.m. There's room for you to join us as we celebrate and review our times of thanksgiving last fall with our partners in Dicsoszentmarton, Transylvania, Romania. Come to enjoy Hungarian inspired appetizers, desserts and beverages. Come to hear our stories of celebration and struggle. This is an auction item from last March; value: $35 each, proceeds of which go to the CLUUC operating budget. Call or email Charlene Zellmer, 301.442.6448, cbzellmer7@msn.com
to RSVP or make inquiries.
Cedar Lane Theater Affinity Group
Our next activity is Alfred Hitchcock's
Dial M for Murder at the Little Theater of Alexandria, on Saturday, March 2, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20. For those interested, we'll meet beforehand for dinner in Old Town Alexandria. Contact Marlene Berg at mgkpberg@gmail.com by January 31 so that tickets can be ordered.
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 email
socialmedia@cedarlane.org.
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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
Upcoming Calendar:
- Sun, Jan 27: Teacher Renewal
- Tues, Jan 29: YAG Manna Food Packing
- Sun, Feb 3: Super Bowl Party
Holiday Craft Day Plates
Guest at Your Table
Notes for Zach Turner's Family
Teacher Renewal is this Sunday!
Super Bowl Party
Adult Programs registration in the lounge this Sunday!
NEW Programs for Families
Youth Notes (Grades 7-12)
Young Adults (Ages 18-35)
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Calendar
Please visit the church calendar here.
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From the Music Director
Dr. Henry Sgrecci
We are pleased to welcome our young instrumental musicians to lead the music in this Sunday's services. Jacqueline Zito performs the music of Russian composer Dmitri Kabalevsky who was a strong proponent of the musical education of children. He wrote over one hundred study pieces for young pianists in the form of songs, marches and dances. Fairy Tale is such a work, being included in Kabalevsky's largest volume, "Thirty Pieces for Children," composed in 1938-39. Fiddle tunes are as important to Irish heritage as are stews and brews. The devastation of the Irish potato famine drove many fiddlers to America where they were able to find work in vaudevillian shows in the larger cities. Jessica Zito performs the Chicago Jig, probably penned in the windy city, and becoming quite popular with Irish musicians. Jessica also performs Pipe on the Hob, one of a host of "standard" fiddle and pipe tunes that appeared in Francis O'Neill's "Music of Ireland" collection from the turn of the twentieth century. Romanza is one of the most familiar and popular works for the Spanish classical guitarist. Owen Brinker's study of the classical guitar requires him to pick the individual strings with his fingers, rather than with the traditional pick. Bist du bei mir is one of the most famous melodies to appear in the "Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach" which the composer made for his wife in 1725. The melody, which has been attributed to Heinrich Stölzel, has been transcribed for numerous solo instruments and suits the trumpet quite nicely.
It's not too late to donate to AMCAV! A huge thank you to everyone who attended last weekend's fabulous benefit concert and generously contributed to the Association of Christian Mothers for Assistance to the Vulnerable (AMCAV, serving all regardless of creed). We raised $2300 that evening for the education of stigmatized children born of violated mothers in DR Congo.
You may still donate! Checks can be made payable to CLUUC: memo line "AMCAV." Submit to the CLUUC office or visit Annette Scarpitta at her "Congo Kids" table in the Lounge. These funds will be wired early next week to fulfill tuition payments at our 3 village schools. Remember this is the social justice project of our 7th grade, 2d session class, and the Congolese kids have no other support except for random donors on GlobalGiving.org. New partnership or fund-raising opportunities are welcomed. Again, huge thanks for your support!
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Upcoming Events at Cedar Lane!
TOMORROW!
For All Ages Potluck and Sing Along, Saturday, January 26 at 5:30 p.m. in the Chalice House
Do you long to make new connections at Cedar Lane? Would you like the opportunity to slow down, leave committee work behind and simply enjoy a meal and conversation with people of all ages? Then our intergenerational potluck is just the answer. We'll start with an early dinner; bring whatever you'd like to share. Afterwards, with the help from talented Cedar Laners Eric Durland and Jonathan Watkins, we'll sing some of our favorite songs. For additional information, contact Membership Coordinator Allison Cox (membership@cedarlane.org).
Newcomer Brunch, Sunday, February 10:
New to Cedar Lane? Come join us in the library after either service and we'll spend time getting to know one another. Ask us questions you may have about Cedar Lane, Unitarian Universalism and the Membership Process. Light brunch of bagels, fruit and juice. Children are welcome. RSVP to Membership Coordinator Allison Cox at membership@cedarlane.org.
Introducing our New Circle Dinner Program: Would you like the chance to meet new people and renew old acquaintances? Have time for conversations deeper than possible during the rush of coffee hour? Sign up for Circle Dinners! Circle dinners are rotating monthly social dinners held at a volunteer hosts' homes. Each month you'll be placed in a group. Our first Circle Dinners will be held on Sat., February 9 and Sun., February 10 (your choice). Sign up in person the two Sundays before the dinner during coffee hour or email Membership Coordinator Allison Cox (membership@cedarlane.org).
Join the excitement!
We are launching lots of fun and exciting programs for everyone here at Cedar Lane:
Circle Dinners! For All Ages Potlucks! Newcomer Brunches! Want to help? We have plenty of easy ways to get involved: bring fruit or bagels for the brunch; staff a table during coffee hour; help with potluck set up or clean up; welcome people on Sunday mornings. Contact Membership Coordinator Allison Cox (membership@cedarlane.org)
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CEDAR LANE SUPER BOWL PARTY
RAVENS VS. 49ERS
Sun. Feb. 3 @ 5 pm - ON BIG SCREEN Intergenerational - Alcohol Free
ALL CEDAR LANERS - ALL AGES INVITED
PIZZA & SOFT DRINKS PROVIDED
BRING SNACKS TO SHARE
No charge - but will accept love offerings
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The 2013 Passport to Adventure Auction Is Coming!
Saturday, May 4
The 2013 Cedar Lane Passport to Adventure Auction is only a few months away. Please mark your calendars and save the date -
Saturday, May 4, 2013. You won't want to miss this evening of good conversation, excellent food and a host of bidding opportunities.
Now is also the time to think about the goods and services you can donate to the auction. An online donation form, as well as paper donation forms, will be available shortly.
Vacation home donations are popular items that require planning time for prospective bidders. If you have a vacation home to offer for a week or weekend getaway, please let us know as soon as possible. We would like to feature these items early and give bidders time to plan their vacations. Questions? Contact Auction co-chairs, Kathie Bryant at 301-587-4615 or KathieBryant@verizon.net , or Kate Harrison at 301-652-5018 or katekathie@gmail.com.
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From the Senior Minister Search Committee: "We've Gone Dark!"
We're now in the process of assessing ministerial packets from all candidates and narrowing the field by checking references, conducting phone interviews, and setting up off-site visits with top candidates in January and February. Our goal: by mid-March to identify the candidate to be presented to you during Candidating Week at Cedar Lane, April 7 - 14, 2013.
Thank you again. We are humbled and inspired by your support and encouragement. We couldn't do it without you!
SMSC members: John Gubbings, Bob Harrison, David Hawver, Emily Mellgren, Ann Meyer, Carolyn Morrissey, & Lyn Peters
We also encourage all the check out the final 2012 SMSC Congregational Survey results. Click here to view!
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Beyond the Church
Money in politics and the effect on the growing wealth divide matters to all. Come hear and participate in the forum sponsored by the National Capital Region UUSJ. Bob Edgar, President of Common Cause will lead the forum, "Inequality Matters: The Poisonous Effects of Dark Money in Politics," All Souls Church Unitarian, Feb. 9 at 10 a.m. Look for details next week.
Click here to view the flyer.
A "Thank You" Message from the UU Sandy Relief Fund
Generous donations totaling $240,000 came from all over the country - a moving testimony to the outpouring of support from Unitarian Universalists for those in need, and a demonstration of how seriously we take Stewardship.
The fund is now being disbursed to congregations and individuals recommended by congregations who are in need following the storm. Here is the website about how to donate, where the money is going, how individuals can volunteer and how to apply for a grant from the Relief Fund. Click here to learn more. A Sandy Relief Facebook page has been created to share photos and comments about the work UU congregations and individuals are doing in the relief efforts. Click here to view.
Click here to learn about some events sponsored by friends of Cedar Lane.
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eNews: Sara Davidson
Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church: www.cedarlane.org; 301-493-8300
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