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Sunday,
April 14, 2013 at
10:30 am
Gini Courter, UUA Moderator
Worship Associates
Jenn Bouchie
Alan Ongchangco
Gini Courter has been the moderator of the UUA since October 2003. In her role, she chairs our UUA Board Trustees and the business sessions at the UUA General Assembly. We are honored to welcome her to UUC as she completes her third and final term as moderator.
Music
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Film: Two Who Dared
April 18
Drumming Circle Fundraiser May 8
UUC Women's Spirit May 15-19 |
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Susan Hegner
Board of Trustees
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Please make every effort to attend the service next Sunday as we have a special speaker. Gini Courter, the out-going UUA moderator. Although a volunteer position, the moderator being the chief governance officer, chairs the Board of Trustees meetings and the annual plenary (business) sessions at the UUA General Assemblies. Gini is a dynamite speaker and is going through her own life changes as she is not running for moderator after serving since 2003. She will be speaking on "transitions". To give everyone a chance to ask Gini questions, we have arranged for lunch in the social hall after the service. We are ordering a cake to honor Gini's service to the UUA and will order sandwiches from Subway for lunch ($5). Childcare will be available. After lunch, we will gather and have the opportunity to ask questions about the UUA, the transition we have started, and her own transition. If you can help with the lunch, please let me know. We need people to serve, take the money, and clean-up. Looking forward to seeing everyone on Sunday. Susan Please email Susan if you can help with Sunday's lunch. |
Housing for the Interim Minister
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 If you have any housing for rent (house, condo, or apartment) that you would consider making available to the interim minister for a short time while (s)he looks for housing, or even for the full tenure of a year or two, please contact Susan Hegner. |
Open Issues: Sunday, April 14
Susan Golden "Learning to Love Yourself," a preview of a workshop she plans to give at SUUSI this summer. Susan is a member of our congregation, passionate about music and social justice.
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Children's Religious Enrichment
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Hello friends! Please join our Religious Enrichment Program this Sunday as we develop friendships, learn more about Unitarian Universalism and have fun!
Our Nursery will keep our littlest UUs (ages 0-3) happy and busy with free play, music, and art.
Our Pre-K and Kindergarten class will learn more about our 7th Principle: Take Care of the Earth.
Our 1st-2nd class will explore the concept of creation and the significance of names.
3rd-5th grade class will continue their unit on Humanism.
Our Middle School group will explore Earth-Based Religions.
High School youth group (meets 12-1pm) will continue working on their Mothers' Day fundraising project.
Are you looking for a way to give back to your spiritual home? The Religious Enrichment program has many volunteer opportunities available.
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Horse Connections is a program of Rockin' Horse Farm LLC located in New Port Richey. Physical therapy in the form of horseback riding for children with disabilities is provided. The farm is also a place for teenagers to volunteer, feel needed and learn to care for themselves as well as others. Maya Ongchangco, daughter of UUC's Lisa Baird and Allen Ongchangco has volunteered at the farm for four years. Please open your hearts and give generously. |
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 Bruce is a new volunteer with the UUC Media Team, who is producing podcasts of every message for our webmaster to add to our website. Bruce is also duplicating the CDs and DVDs of services that people order in the Social Hall on Sundays after service. Many thanks to Bruce for his efforts in helping get the message out. And thanks to those who are ordering duplicate discs to send to cuzzins, parents and siblings, and friends. |
Calling All Bridge Players |
We would love to have you join us in the Patio Room at 9:15 on Monday mornings to play a few hands. It's a great group of friends having fun together playing Social Duplicate. For info, email Jane Torell . |
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On Friday April 12th we finish discussing the book "Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love" by Dava Sobel. We revisit the life of the great Italian scientist through the eyes of his eldest daughter, a cloistered nun.
On Friday, April 19th we begin discussing the book "A Land Remembered" by Patrick D. Smith. The story opens with a rich but despondent Solomon Macivey as he cruises along Biscayne Bay in his silver Rolls Royce, then jumps back in time to 1858, when his grandfather, Tobias MacIvey, arrives in the Florida wilderness to start a new life with his wife and infant son. The sweeping story that emerges is a rich, rugged Florida history featuring a memorable cast of crusty, indomitable Crackers battling wild animals, rustlers, Confederate deserters, mosquitoes, starvation, hurricanes, and freezes to carve a kingdom out of a swamp. They survive and prosper, but at a high cost. No wonder this novel is such a hit!
A Land Remembered was winner of the Florida Historical Society Tebeau Prize as the Most Outstanding Florida Historical Novel.
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. |
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 Many new members cite a goal of "making new friends of like- minded people" as one of the goals they had when joining UUC. Why not supercharge that goal and make new friends from across the entire state of Florida! On Fri, April 12 thru Sun April 14, the Ft. Myers UU congregation will host the Florida District Annual Assembly & Business Meeting. See the Breeze Newsletter Expand your horizons, both spiritually and with new friendships, by making plans to attend the district conference as a delegate from UUC. |
Parent Covenant Group
Sunday, April 14th at 12:30 pm in the Choral Room |
We want to build a Covenant Group as an experience for our members juggling the joys of parenting and trying
to meet one own's adult spiritual development needs.
Child Care will be offered.
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Two Who Dared: The Sharps' War  | |
The film will be shown on Thursday, April 18 at 7:00pm in the Octagon.
This documentary chronicles the story of a Unitarian minister, Waitstill Sharp, and his wife Martha who, just days prior to the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, left their young children in Massachusetts to help save thousands being persecuted in Eastern Europe. This film describes the remarkable courage of a young couple who risked their lives to personally rescue hundreds of Jews from Nazi persecution. It includes several interviews with men and women who were young children when the Sharps brought them to the United States. |
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The next UUC Humanists Group's meeting will be held on Sunday April 21st, at 12:30. Ed Ericson will be speaking on "Separating Myth and History in Christian Origins." UUC Humanists Steering Committee |
South of the Border Garden Party |
 Saturday April 27, 2-8PM at Terry Stapleton's Home, 580 S. Florida Ave., Tarpon Springs 34689 UUC's Annual Spring Garden Party will include: Children Crafts and Games Mexican Dance Instructions Great Mexican Food Soft Drinks, Beer & Wine South of the Border Music Swimming, Golf, Horse Shoes, etc. Please RSVP Car Pool if Possible. If Rain Delayed Sunday April 28. See the flyer |
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 Are you looking for something to do this summer as a family? Are you tired of hearing "I'm bored" and "There's nothing to do"? Then consider SUUSI! This incredible UU experience is especially designed for families of all ages. Parents can choose to take their own workshops and/or nature trips, or can enjoy some nature trips with their children (tubing, canoeing, swimming, caving, hiking). You must take a peak at the best and most affordable family vacation of your life. The Southeast Unitarian Universalist Summer Institute - SUUSI!! Parents are provided with approximately 25 hours of supervision for their children in the evening during Nightlife programming. In return, each parent contributes approximately 2-2.5 hours of supervision themselves.
Viist SUUSI. Christine Pensa Unitarian Universalists of Clearwater Religious Education Coordinator
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Strawberry shortcake...for a cause. What could be better? The Pinellas Support Committee of The National Farmworkers Ministry will be holding their annual Berry Fest to honor the work of our local berry pickers in Plant City as well as to raise funds to support the campaign to improve conditions for farmworkers throughout the country. The featured speakers will be Bert Perry, the retiring Florida coordinator of the NFWM and David Haney one of the main coordinators of the annual toy and blanket drive in Plant City. The event will be held on April 20 at the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church at 3200 N McMullen Booth Rd. directly across from Mease Countryside Hospital. The event and shortcake are free with love offerings gratefully accepted.
Now is the time to call your state representative or senator on issues that concern you. May 3rd is the last day for regular sessions and much will be done in a flurry from now until the end of the session. Keep your eye on issues that concern you as a UU. The web site for the House is http://www.myfloridahouse.gov
and for the Senate:
http://www.flsenate.gov/
If you would like to receive action alerts from the UU Legislative Ministry of Florida, just email Kindra Muntz. To join, just email her your name, phone number, email address, congregation, and she will add you to their growing list. Don't forget to put "UULMF Action alerts" on the subject line, so Kindra doesn't miss the email. As Kindra says, "The more people who take action, the likelier we can stop some of these bad bills." |
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