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<DIV>FYI.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000">Dawn
Hewitt<BR>Office assistant<BR>First Unitarian Universalist Society of Marietta,
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=uuflower100@gmail.com>Joshua Berg</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, August 26, 2022 2:27 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=uuflower100@gmail.com>Joshua Berg</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Let's celebrate the 100th Anniversary of The Flower
Ceremony in 2023!</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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Unitarian Universalists and friends:</SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.9872"
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100th anniversary of Norbert Čapek’s flower ceremony is next year. Let’s join
together to commemorate the occasion! My name is Pastor Joshua Berg and I am
volunteering to lead the worldwide commemoration.</SPAN></P>
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saw a post on social media recently noting that 2023 will be the 100th
anniversary of Norbert Capek’s first flower ceremony. There were, as you might
expect, subsequent comments suggesting something should be done to celebrate
this occasion. As a newly ordained UU minister considering how I might fulfill
my duty to serve the larger faith, this seemed like the perfect opportunity.
With experience in both production and project management, it fits right in my
wheelhouse and I offered to take it on.</SPAN></P>
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though there is less than a year to put it together, a diverse team is taking
shape and exciting plans are being considered. However, in order to pay authors
for liturgy elements, license music and images, contract composers and
musicians, hire video crews, graphic artists, mail material worldwide to
congregations, research planting local and native plants and so many other
possibilities that are being considered…funds must be raised.</SPAN></P>
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that end, would you consider sharing</SPAN><A style="text-decoration-line: none"
href="https://youtu.be/X9MMXsgmpr0" target=_blank><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal">
</SPAN><SPAN
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promotional video</SPAN></A><SPAN
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in your social media, your newsletter, in worship, and wherever else you think
appropriate?</SPAN></P>
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URL:</SPAN><A style="text-decoration-line: none"
href="https://youtu.be/X9MMXsgmpr0" target=_blank><SPAN
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href="https://youtu.be/X9MMXsgmpr0"
target=_blank>https://youtu.be/X9MMXsgmpr0</A></SPAN></P>
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code:</SPAN></P>
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width="560" height="315" src="<A
href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/X9MMXsgmpr0"
target=_blank>https://www.youtube.com/embed/X9MMXsgmpr0</A>" title="YouTube
video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write;
encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture"
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is a crowdfunding campaign via Faithify.org which will end in just over a month.
It has a goal of $5000 USD, which must be met in order to receive any
funds. Even when we reach that goal, let’s keep going because, the more that can
be raised, the more can be done.</SPAN></P>
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can use the QR code below (which is also in the promo video), the URL (</SPAN><A
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href="https://www.faithify.org/campaign/116/flower100" target=_blank><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline">https://www.faithify.org/campaign/116/flower100</SPAN></A><SPAN
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or just direct people to</SPAN><A style="text-decoration-line: none"
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and type “flower” into the search field.</SPAN></P>
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free to reach out to me directly at </SPAN><SPAN
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target=_blank>uuflower100@gmail.com</A></SPAN><SPAN
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with input, suggestions, offers for help, or anything else. I am confident this
will be a celebration that will bring all Unitarians Universalists together
spiritually and will be something which we can all enjoy and of which we can all
be proud!</SPAN></P>
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and with gratitude,</SPAN></P>
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Joshua Berg</SPAN></P>
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