Gathering for Sunday services in person and online at 10:30 am.
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Dear UUCPA folks,
Can I confess something? I think about 20% of my motivation in becoming a UU minister was to recreate a peak experience of my teenage years. Experiences, since it wasn’t one time but something that happened most Fridays during the school year. That’s … read more.
Help our Senior High Youth Group (SHYG) and eat something delicious this holiday season! SHYG will be making pies.
Please reserve your pie here and bring $20 in cash on Sunday 11/19, just in time for Thanksgiving to pick up your pie outside the … read more.
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.
This past summer, the Board set three priority areas for our attention this fiscal year. Those areas are:
Reconnecting our community in-personCaring for volunteersRecommitting to anti-racism work at UUCPA
Of course, the Board cares about all aspects of UUCPA, but these three areas are getting some extra attention … read more.
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.
We were having some troubles with our phone system at UUCPA this week, so if you have encountered any difficulties in getting through, please try again next week or email us now. Staff email addresses are all here.
In particular, the … read more.
Principles revised with an eye to what is “inspirational, memorable and poetic, inclusive, welcoming, and explicitly anti-racist”
For two years, a commission of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) has been reviewing Article II of the association’s by-laws, which is where the principles, purposes, and sources of … 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.
The Forum meets from 9:00 to 10:15 Sunday mornings. Here are the Forum topics for November 2022:
11/6 The fishing industry and the status of fish in the world – Katherine Pering and Cecil Bridges11/13 How the South won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing … read more.