Gathering for Sunday services in person and online, 10:15 am.
The weather on Sunday is predicted to be as it has been all week: sunny, beautiful, and just a bit too cold for sitting still for an hour. So the 9:30 service, like the 11:00, will be held inside the Main Hall. As always, outdoor seating on … read more.
Curious how your Vision of UUCPA’s future combines with others’? Join us at an important Town Hall Meeting Sunday, Nov. 13 at 1 pm in the Fireside Room as our architect discusses details of our Vision and will be available to answer any questions you have. Want to read all the details? You got it! You will be able to see that report on the UUCPA website October 31.
Once-in-a-lifetime Town Hall meeting this Sunday! Architect Karin Payson will be joining us to go into more detail about the plans for the Campus Vision Project. This will be your opportunity to:
Learn more about the Campus Vision Project plan. Find out how your vision of our church’s next 75 years combines with others Ask the architect any questions you may have
Get the most out of the meeting–find more details (including Karin’s report) and the latest updates on the Campus Vision page. Questions for the team? Campus@uucpa.org
This meeting is critical for our congregation–the next step is a Special Congregational meeting Nov 20 (details to come) where we’ll vote on how we move into our future.
Join us this Sunday, Nov. 13, at 1pm!
In-person: Fireside Room After 2nd Sunday Lunch (so there’s food!), Childcare available, Proof of vaccination on file (you can bring your card or email a photo of it to jeff@uucpa.org ahead of time)
Remote: Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/98512481089?pwd=eVM5S0RicVVkYW91c2thYmZ1OEExdz09
Meeting ID: 985 1248 1089
Passcode: Vision
Are you interested in getting together in person, in community with other UUCPA folks? Come to the work day on Saturday, November 5 from 9 am-noon and stay for the potluck. Or if you don’t have time for the work day, just come for the lunchtime potluck, noon – 1ish pm. If you don’t have a side dish to share, come to the potluck anyway, we should have plenty of food.
Highlight tasks for this month:
Putting up 2 more solar light strings above the patio.
Fix door closer in the main hall bathroom.
Paint the keep-out lines in the no-parking lot space behind the main hall.
Fix light tubes, or ballasts, in the McFadden Patio, and the Fireside room.
Put up the Peace Pole
Turn on the heat for the ministers’ offices (!).
Gardening out front.
The Forum meets from 9:00 to 10:15 Sunday mornings. Here are the Forum topics for December 2022:
12/4 Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande – book discussion – Susan Owicki12/11 The importance of seasonal holidays – Dick Duda and general discussion 12/18 … read more.
LifeMoves is one of the most effective providers of shelter and services across Silicon Valley. There are two job openings, should anyone be looking for worthwhile work:
Case ManagerProgram Coordinator
Brian Weller can provide job descriptions.
Sunday October 30th, 12:30 to 2:00 p.m., Fireside Room and Zoom
Santa Clara County Board Supervisor Joe Simitian joins us for a life and death analysis of the power our local law enforcement – in this case the Sheriff’s Office – holds in its hands. For over four years Joe has driven the effort to establish civilian oversight for the Sheriff’s Office – which does not report to anyone in the County. The appalling incidents impacting real people – the majority people of color living here – cried out for transparency and accountability for that powerful office. San Mateo County residents formed Fixin’ SMC last year and tapped Joe to advise them on how to build their effective civilian oversight entity – that story is still unfolding. Entrenched power vs. humane values – the battle in our own back yards. Please join us for insights locally and from around the country on what works, what clearly doesn’t, and implications for the path forward.
Location: Fireside Room (in-person* with zoom access possible)
Please join us for a Mission Conversation In-person: Sunday, October 23, during Fourth Sunday Brunch, 10:30–11:00am. Let’s talk over waffles! Task Force members will be seated at different tables, and we invite you to join us for conversation! We especially welcome parents, young adults, and youth to talk with us at this event!
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Online: Monday, October 24, on Zoom, 8:00–9:00pm. For this event, we especially welcome all who attend UUCPA services and classes primarily online, as well as parents, young adults, youth, and anyone for whom online in the evening works best!
The Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84523750014?pwd=Tm9yTDdlK1BtZ1FxT2hFYWYwUFgxdz09 (Meeting ID: 845 2375 0014; Passcode: 651748)
This coming Tuesday, October 25, is the next session of White Folks Dismantling White Supremacy. We’ll be looking at the “Model Minority” stereotype often applied to Asian Americans — that they are intelligent, skillful in math and science, hard working, and deservedly successful. This may sound great,, but in reality the myth of the model minority has negative impacts on Asian Americans and on other minority groups. We’ll view and discuss the video “How the Asian ‘Model Minority’ perpetuates Anti-Blackness”, which was created by an Asian-Canadian woman. She discusses how the myth arose and how it has been applied to support White Supremacy
If you would like to attend this session and are not subscribed to the email list, please email dismantlingwhitesupremacy+subscribe@uucpa.org. Zoom information for the session will be sent to this list early next week. We welcome new attendees* at any time!
*All people of whatever race or background are welcome to attend any or all sessions. We call the group “White Folks . . . ” because we recognize that the work of dismantling white supremacy is for white people to do. It’s also important to have anti-racism learning spaces for white folks, where they can grapple with new ideas about racism and speak candidly about their fears and misconceptions. It can be painful for people of color to witness these conversations, so we have created this space apart from the main body of the congregation.
Meet Your Leaders!
Did you know that our community is led by an all-volunteer Board of Trustees that meets monthly? Anyone is welcome to attend our meetings and learn how UUCPA is governed. In an effort to make the Board more accessible to the entire community, … read more.
Free samples of Fair Trade chocolate will be available on the UU The Vote table this Sunday!
Action Council will not be selling fair trade chocolate this year, so you will have to buy your own (BYO) for trick-or-treating. However, we have done the research for … read more.