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Sunday, February 10, 2013
10:30 am
Evolutionary Spirituality
Rev. Abhi Janamanchi & Ray Williamson
In honor of Charles Darwin's birthday (Feb. 12), Ray and Abhi will reflect on the role that the theory of evolution can play in our spiritual lives.
Music by:
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PRELUDE:
A Firemist and a Plan...New
England Folk Melody/words
INTERLUDE:
When the Mountain Ash Blooms
Jean Sibelius
OFFERTORY:
In Deep Woods by Edward MacDowell
POSTLUDE:
The Bird Says "Bob White" by
Louise Talma |
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Awaken Your Female Voices Workshops
February 23
Stewardship Sunday
March 3
International Women's day
March 16
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Special Congregational Meeting
Rescheduled for Sunday, March 17 |
The Special Congregational Meeting on February 10th has been rescheduled for Sunday, March 17th. We wanted to be certain to provide the congregation with full and accurate information, including cost estimates for the project concepts, well in advance of the meeting.
We are working diligently to provide this information in a confident and timely manner. We are also working with our architect to make sure we have three excellent concepts that are within the range of what we expect to be able to afford or within our first-cut budget. We expect to have the information available on our web site soon and well in advance of the meeting date of March 17th.
Joe Myers, Facilities Plannning Task Force Chair
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Igniting the Community: Sharing Our Stories 
Sue Boone
What A Relief!! - I want this liberal institution to remain viable so all of us can pursue our calling, our interests, within a comfortable, supportive and affirming community.
Ann Myers
It happened again last Sunday - in that halo of stillness after we were called to "Go in Peace."
Trude Diamond
Be Here Now at UUC: I've always liked the notions of being here now, and blooming where you're planted. At UUC, we all bloom together.
Read the rest of their stories as well as any of the other Stories.
Share your story so we can connect to what is important to you! We have set up a page on our website: Share, where you can write your story. |
Open Issues: Sunday, February 10 | |
Dean (Izzy) Mogelgard
Bill McKibben's 350.org and EAARTH Izzy will provide an update on global warming, whether natural or not, with interest heightened by super storm Sandy. Symbolic of the movement is the XL Pipeline and recent books by Bill McKibben and James Hansen. Izzy taught psychology at the State University of NY in the 1960s and 1970s before he retired early to the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY
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Children's Religious Enrichment |
Our littlest UUs (ages 0-3 yrs.) in our nursery will have fun with art, music and free play in a loving and safe environment.
Our Pre-K and Kindergarten class are learning about St. Valentine while making special crafts for Valentines Day.
Our 1st-2nd grade class is exploring the concept of finding God in both the Earth and the sky.
Our 3rd-5th Grade class will learn more about the women in the Hebrew Bible and discuss why there are so few Bible stories about women.
Our 6th-8th grade class begins its unit on Quakerism.
Our High School youth group will not meet this Sunday due to the Congregational Retreat Luncheon.
Are you looking for a way to give back to your spiritual home? The Religious Enrichment program has many volunteer opportunities available, so please contact Christine Pensa.
UUC Religious Education Coordinator. |
Congregational Retreat Lunch |
 Sunday, February 10th, after worship service.
Spaghetti and meatballs, bread, salad and dessert--$5 (plain sauce- vegetarian/vegan option).
Can soda will be available for $1 additional.
All proceeds will go to Retreat Scholarship Fund. Early retreat registration begins February 10th. Registration forms will be available at the lunch. Retreat dates are April 5-7. |
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A Monthly Multicultural, Interfaith Series
Saturday, February 16, 7 PM
Octagon Arts Center
LOVE IS THE SPIRIT
Featuring acclaimed jazz and rhythm & blues singer, Katt Hefner, opera singer Humberto Zambrano, jazz pianist, Norman Thalheimer,and renowned musician Fred Johnson celebrating the season of Love through music, song, and poetry. 
Free Admission. A love offering is gratefully accepted.]
Childcare for infants & toddlers provided.
For more information, call 727-531-7704 or email mail@UUClearwater.org.
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 On Friday, February 8th, we continue discussing the book The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough. He writes, "not all pioneers went west." In The Greater Journey, he tells the enthralling, inspiring, and until now, untold story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, and others who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, hungry to learn and to excel in their work. What they achieved would profoundly alter American history.
Reader's Forum is led by Catherine & John Conover and meets every Friday at 10 a.m. It is free, with only a suggested $5 donation per month for coffee. All are welcome. For more information, go to Readers Forum. |
Interweave Movie and Potluck  |
 You are invited to a fun evening with a potluck and great movie on Friday. Feb. 8 at 6:30pm in the Social Hall. Please bring a dish to share, a valentine and a love offering. This is an LGBT movie and the evening is sponsored by Social Justice at UUC. It is part of our Thirty Days of LOVE campaign. "The Perfect Family," stars Kathleen Turner and Richard Chamberlain. It's a great comedy. Celebrate Love with us. Please RSVP to Linda Stroller, 727-531-7704. Bring a dish to share based on your last name: A-G = main dish H-R = side dish or vegetables S-Z = dessert or fruit |
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 Sat. Feb 9, 10:00am-2:00pm in the Octagon. Sponsored by the UUC Humanists, will feature nationally known speakers: Sean Faircloth from the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason, Ryan Cragun, Ph.D, former Mormon and now Free-thinker, Jim Strayer, Ph.D, retired biology professor and expert in Darwin. There will be exhibits and displays from various scientific and Humanist groups. Tickets are $20 and includes a box lunch. Contact Mark Brandt for tickets. For more, email Mark . |
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 February: Thursday the 14th and Tuesday the 19th in the Westwood Room; 7-8:30pmWhat do long-time couples know and do that others don't? How can you build those things into your relationship? Find out at this workshop led by Dr. Kalen Hammann, who's been teaching people to build satisfying relationships for more than 25 years.
Makeup videos will be available if you have to miss a session. Fee is $15 per person; $20 per couple. You can register online. |
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On Sunday, February 17th,we will celebrate new members joining our covenant congregation. This time-honored ceremony reflects the inter-dependent commitments of new and old members to support our principles in support of a peaceful, loving world. Join us at 10:30 during service to witness the event, and afterward, in our Social Hall for our equally time-honored tradition of celebratory cake!
If you're not already a member of UUC, but you have come to believe we are the right spirit place for you, contact Ann Kanuck, Welcoming Team Chair, at 727.796.4585 or by emailing Ann Kanuck for more details about the next new member joining event. |
Female Voices: February 22-23 |
 This is a collaboration between UUC women and Tampa Bay Surface Deisgn offering a very unique weekend event capturing the creative fire of Female Voices through the arts.
The weekend begins Friday evening with a juried art show. A workshop on Saturday afternoon, 1:00 - 5:30 PM, enables participants to attend a choice of two workshops facilitated by eight experts using artistic media such as fabric, music, writing, spirituality,dance, etc.
Soup/salad dinner is included. Child care available. Vagina Monologue performance by UUC women follows begining at 7:00 PM
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International Women's Day
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Saturday, March16; 8:30-12:30
The UUC Human Rights Team, NOW and other organizations are joining together to present "Women Make a Difference," a FREE half-day seminar. (A love offering is welcomed.) County Commission Janet Long will be the keynote speaker. Break-out sessions, on various topics with extremely knowledgeable facilitators, will provide educational & informational forums, raising awareness on various social justice issues that affect women as well as an outreach to women who are considering running for political office. We DO make a difference! (Watch upcoming Octagrams for further details...in the meantime, mark your calendars!) |
Barbara Beddingfield to be Featured On WHNZ 1250 AM
Friday Feb. 8, 4:00PM |
 Barbara, a long time UU member, and founder of the Suncoast Waldorf School,
will be featured with Dr. Michael Garko to discuss our broken public educational system
and how the learning experience at Suncoast Walorf School is reflected in the numerous graduates who have achieved superior academic and social skills. |
The Piano Lesson: sixth production in August Wilson's Century Cycle of 10 plays |
 Sunday 3 p.m. February 24 at American Stage, 3d St. N. at 2d Ave. downtown St. Pete.
It is 1936 and Boy Willie arrives in Pittsburgh from the South in a battered truck. He has an opportunity to buy some land,
but has to come up with the money quickly. He wants to sell an old family piano that has been in his family for generations, but his sister has rejected several offers because the antique piano is covered with marvelous carvings detailing the family's rise from slavery.
Thanks to American Stage Artistic Director Todd Olson, UUC has $20 tickets for Sunday 2/24, 3 p.m. See Ches at the UUC Media Team table after service in the social hall, or send a message to Ches Applewhite.
Sign up with Ches for info on carpools from the UUC parking lot on the 24th. Your name/contact info will be passed along to Carole who will coordinate the carpooling. |
Open House at Suncoast Waldorf School |
Saturday, February 9th, at Suncoast Waldorf School. Enjoy a Kindergarten Tea from 9:30 to 11:30 while you and your young child, three to five, immerse yourselves in the wonder of the Waldorf Kindergarten through play, movement, snack and story. Parents of children in grades one through eight will become Waldorf students and attend a selection of mini-classes including chemistry, creative writing, movement work, upper grades math, fine art and more from 9:30 to 1. Come early for coffee, tea, and refreshments served at 9 a.m. RSVP at 786-8311 to reserve a space. |
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 The financila reports are available on request by emailing Sheila Knaust. |
Message From the Octagram Editor |
 Between weeks of house guests and some traveling, I need a little help with the Octagram, especially when I am traveling with little internet access. You'll stay on top of all of the UUC happenings and will recieve training and ongoing support.
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Our Web Site's Social Justice page can be found here.
Healing Our World and Ourselves
A Conference sponsored by the UU Church of Brevard and the UU Legislative Ministry
Date: February 15th and 16th
Place: The First Unitarian Universalist Church of Orlando, 1901 E. Robinson St., Orlando
Time: 2-8:30 p.m. Friday
9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Saturday
Keynote speakers:
Patricia Sieman, Director of the Center for Earth Jurisprudence
David Cobb, National projects Director of Democracy Unlimited, national spokesperson for Move to Amend
Bruce Alexander, author of Peaceful Measures: Canada's Way Out of the War on Drugs and The Globalization of Addiction: A Study in the Poverty of the Spirit
Cost: All fees are sliding scale. The UUC will provide scholarships of $75 towards the cost of a motel room.
For more information go to Heal.
For carpooling information and room scholarships email Social Justice or stop by the Social Justice table after service. |
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 Standing On the Side of Love 30 Days of Love UUC joined other UU congregations in celebrating 30 days of Love. Until February 17th, the Social Justice Council and Others in our UUC Community are sponsoring a series of events which will make this a time of intentional action, service, education, reflection and fellowship. The UU District Choral Festival will be the spirited closing. Wear your UUC or Standing on the Side of Love to all events. For a listing of the 30 Days of Love events see the Event Flier, visit the Social Justice Table after the service or contact us. |
This may be the year that CIR (Comprehensive Immigration Reform) actually happens. Members of the Social Justice Team have been meeting (by Congressional district) to work with a wide coalition of groups (church, immigrant rights groups', labor, and others) to pressure our congresspeople to support CIR. The principles we have been supporting are those proposed by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
We will be collecting surveys this Sunday to present to Rep. Young to inform him about our hopes for immigration reform. Other congregations around District 13 will also be doing this and we hope to present Rep, Young with the surveys. Please take time to fill one out. (It's short)
Plans have been completed for the March for Rights, Respect, and Fair Food by the CIW (Coalition of Imokolee Workers) Here's a brief note ( read the whole article) "In Immokalee, February is greeted not as the month of Valentine's Day or the easing of the winter, but rather as the final stretch before launching the big spring action. And, indeed, a month from today, we will be setting out from Fort Myers on our way to Publix corporate headquarters in Lakeland -- and we would love nothing more than for you to join us!
With the march quickly approaching, farmworkers from the heart of the movement in Immokalee and allies from across the country are signing up to be a part of this 175-mile trek. Last week we posted a visual tour of the route via Google Maps. And now, starting today, you (and your family!) can sign up to join us for a day, a week, or the whole thing.
Please take a minute to register with us. A march like this is no small undertaking, and your information helps us with all the logistical details -- from organizing three nourishing meals a day to arranging beautiful places to stay -- that make these actions such a memorable experience"
Starting Sunday we will have a sign up at the SJ Table if you would like to march with CIW. In addition, we hope to have a large contigent when they arrive at Publix on March 17th. UUC will provide supper on Wednesday, March 13th, in Tampa. If you are a cook (or just a willing worker) please sign-up at the SJ Table or let an EJ Team member know you are interested in helping.
Donna Polhamus |
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