<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello Everyone,</div><div><br></div><div>A woman's group sounds incredibly supportive, compassionate, and helpful. We women have challenges that men do not experience. I would love to have a way to get to know people in this congregation on a deeper level. I am not comfortable with a live streaming of my experiences in church on social media, which is something I realized the week before and after the election. I know the people at the First Unitarian Universalist church of Marietta are important to me. I feel safe to express my tears of joy or sorrow. I am excited by your presence and I want to know more about you. I am really looking forward to sitting in the church! A women's group sounds like an invitation to build relationships of reciprocity. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div><br></div><div>Katie O'Neill<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 11:22 AM Rebecca Phillips via Women <<a href="mailto:women@fuusm.org">women@fuusm.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Martha and I are working on Sunday's service on this pandemic year and the challenges of maintaining our community under these circumstances. We would like to focus in large part on women's group and would like to incorporate as many voices as possible. It
is late notice, but we would welcome short statements on "what women's group means to me," "why I participate in/what I have gotten from women's group," "why women's group" (you get the idea).</div>
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If you would like to have a statement included (we won't use your name), please send it by Thursday morning.</div>
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<a href="mailto:Rebecca--bennphil@hotmail.com" target="_blank">Rebecca--bennphil@hotmail.com</a></div>
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<a href="mailto:Martha--marthamcg@suddenlink.net" target="_blank">Martha--marthamcg@suddenlink.net</a></div>
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