[Fuusm-l] Sunday Feb 14 announcement pages
Chris at FUUSM
fuusm at suddenlinkmail.com
Fri Feb 12 13:08:38 CST 2021
February 2021 Sunday Worship Services Zoom Link
https://zoom.us/j/94822183499?pwd=ZVhkMHZWSnR1bTI5czZWRk1zdFFmQT09
Meeting ID: 948 2218 3499 Passcode: fuusm2323
By Phone 1-929 205 6099 US (New York) 1-301 715 8592 US (Germantown)
Same Meeting ID (as above): 948 2218 3499 Different Passcode: 772050
(10:30) Gathering & Greeting (11am) Welcome Slide
THIS SUNDAY Feb. 14, 2021 - The Church will be Closed this Sunday
Side with Love - A Day for FUUSM Sweethearts
11am Service is pre-recorded & on Zoom-NOT Live @ FUUSM.
Feb. 14 Side With Love UUA Sunday Service (5pm with FUUSM)
What if to "side with love" meant making bold, faith-full choices? What if it were even a little bit scary?
This worship service brings together worship leaders and musicians from across the country to offer hopeful, moving, challenging reminders about what we, as Unitarian Universalists, are called to do, and BE, in the world. Learn more- https://sidewithlove.org/30-days-of-love-2021-sunday-worship
Streaming Sunday, Feb. 14 at 10am ET & 5pm ET on Facebook and the UUA's YouTube channel.
*You can also use the FUUSM Main Sunday Link to view portions of this service together, and have time to process and react afterward, or watch it on your own at a more convenient time. I strongly encourage you to access the amazing, informative and inspiring resources from throughout the 30 Days of Love
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SAFETY FIRST
Due to rising risks of COVID spread, please be aware of changes to our schedule of activities.
Area COVID Vaccination Information
Many of our folk have started getting vaccinated, but the work to get “shots in the arms” continues, the rates of infection are still high, and variants of the virus are spreading. Please recall our covenant to respect those who have different perspectives and may make different choices.
Ohio For the latest information on COVID-19, visit coronavirus.ohio.gov.
Call the Ohio Department of Health hotline at 1-833-4-ASK-ODH.
Marietta Belpre Health Dept. Call 1-866-395-1588 to make an appointment.
(less helpful) Washington County Health Dept. 740) 374-2782 washingtongov.org
Buckeye Hills Regional Council 740-374-9436 INFO at BUCKEYEHILLS.ORG
Kara Wright helped me make an appointment 740) 376-1036
West Virginia
If you are a WV resident in need of information or have questions you may call 833-734-0965.
ALL West Virginian residents, of any age, can pre-register www.vaccinate.wv.gov.
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FUUSM Office Access to the FUUSM Office is limited at this time for safety purposes. Masks are required. Please call before you come to the Office (740) 373-1238) and sign in and out each time you enter any of the buildings. Use the FUUSM Building Entry Log (bright red folder) in the Office, Sanctuary & Social Hall. If you have announcements for the weekly update you can e-mail fuusm at suddenlinkmail.com
NEW Office Hours: Chris Keller (M. W. Thurs. & Fri. 10:00am - 1:00pm).
Rev. Kathryn Hawbaker (937) 470-4151 (mobile).
Available by appointment, but not Tuesdays (Day Off) or Thur. (Study & Service)
Nursery Attendants (10:30am-12:30pm)
February 14th – Church Closed Feb. 21st – Laura Cejka Feb. 28th – Lela Erb
March 7th – Deborah March 14th – Deborah March 21st – Laura March 28th - Lela
Looking for Volunteers - to help prepare meals for the Warming House that has opened for the homeless in the parsonage beside the First Congregation Church on Front St. It is open now from 12 to 5. We need help in preparing and serving lunch (around 1:30). At this time we are probably only serving around 10 to 15 people at the most. We are scheduled to serve lunch from February 22-28. (there are 4 churches taking turns providing meals) Contact Beth Lepore if you can help with this. 740 525 1423 or shimplepore at suddenlink.net Thank you! Beth
Next Week at F.U.U.S.M.
Mon. Feb. 15 Office Closed (President’s Day)
Tues. Feb. 16 Office Closed (Rev. Hawbaker also takes Tuesdays off)
Wed. Feb. 17 (12-1pm) Midweek Midday Meditation (Zoom & Parlor)
Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/98911407403?pwd=UlRqTzlzZ2ZLalZkVDZTTVZZdTgwQT09
Men’s Group 7PM (zoom) using the FUUSM link.
Saturday, Feb. 20 (Curbside Pick-Up Only) 11a-1pm- Free Community Meal at the
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Marietta. 3rd & Putnam
AngelsPlusOne - Charlie & Dennis Lumbatis, with support of Waterview Pointe Skilled Nursing Facility & FUUSM kitchen are providing a warm delicious Ham & beans with cornbread meal.
Free to the community. Help share the news. Social distancing and masks are required
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The next service that will be in-person in the Sanctuary as well as on Zoom will be Next Sunday.
Sun. Feb. 21 Black Liberation Theology with special guest Monica Jones, from Marietta College.
11am- Zoom and Facebook “Black Liberation Theology is the foundation of my spiritual identity.”
Speaker: Monica Jones, Assoc.Dean of Students and Chief Diversity Officer at Mtta.College.
"Growing in Southeastern Ohio there were two constants in my life: The (Black) Church and The (Black) Family. As a child, I never questioned my Blackness or my Christianity but life has a way of testing every aspect of who I believed myself to be in the most difficult times. The evolution of my spiritual journey continues to expose my vulnerabilities, my truths and my transformation. How are you growing and transforming? - Monica Jones
Monthly In-person Service, (12 pm in the Sanctuary A Conversation on Black Liberation Theology. Following the Zoom presentation, this in-person service will offer an experiential element that will include discussion and embodied prayer.
*See Safe Use Guidelines below
• Green Sanctuary Committee meeting, 12:30 p.m. on Zoom
You're Invited! Sunday, Feb. 21st at 11a.m. EST. via Zoom
Author Dan Millman - author of "Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book that Changes Lives", will give an exclusive short talk, followed by a Q&A session at New River UU Fellowship Sunday Service, 11am on Zoom. Preregistration required: https://rb.gy/vyf9kh This live presentation is not available after the event.
Here is a link to their Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1049941898837253
Looking Ahead
Thursday, February 25 (7 PM) via ZOOM Board of Trust Governors Meeting
Reminder: Any member of the Society and/or Donor to the Trusts may attend to provide oral or written comments for consideration at the meeting.
Submitted by Linda Lawton on behalf of the Board of Trust Governors
FUUSM Annual Meeting:
• Tentative Date - Sunday, April 25, 2021 • Back up - Sunday, May 2, 2021
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*Current FUUSM Guidelines for Building Use - Safety Committee Taskforce on COVID-19
1. Maintain 6 ft. distancing, “take turns” entering, exiting, & taking seats to allow spacing with a maximum of 15 people.
2. Use facemasks that cover nose and mouth and prevent respiratory droplets and aerosols from escaping.
3. Wash hands/hand sanitizer upon entering building.
4. No Food or Beverages in the building– you can’t eat/drink with a facemask on. Please bring your own water bottles.
5. All attendees sign in and provide information requested (For confidentiality, the group leader/facilitator can hold the attendance list.)
6. If attendee is not feeling well, they will not be allowed to enter the building.
7. One person in a bathroom at a time.
8. At the end of the meeting, clean/sanitize table surfaces, bathroom fixtures/handles, door knobs/handles, railing and other “touchable surfaces”. People/groups using the facility will provide their own cleaning and sanitizing materials.
9. Empty waste cans (including bathrooms) and place waste bags in trash bins next to RE/Office building.
10. Maximum length of meeting – 3 hours
Side With Love Resources & Readings
Webinars, Samples, Sites & Podcasts I have learned from
National Day of Mourning (November 26, 2020) - Live from Plymouth, MA [YouTube]
Rooting in Histories: We Have Been Here Before (impacts of the Medical Industrial Complex)
Why generational pressure is the key to climate change - Dan Esty of Big Think
(Old white guy talking- CHALLENGE - find some young people (like Josie Jeffery) who are doing these things and let them speak for themselves!)
Marley Dias, Author & Activist on the trailblazer who inspired her -Do you know the name?
This is Joy!
-Resistance Revival Chorus [Spotify]
Black History Bootcamp & GirlTrek
Widening the Circle of Concern UUA Report - Commission on Institutional Change
The good news is that, once unconscious bias is acknowledged, the journey of dismantling it is productive and, for many people, freeing. However, initial efforts can
be unskillful and further distance, other, and humiliate those of our beloveds who are Black, Indigenous, people of color.
Here is an example shared as testimony:
One of the people actually presented during the time for all ages and had our children stand up, which included children of color and an economically diverse group of folk, which the church does have. And they did a “step up/ step back” exercise in front of the whole congregation. And so I’m standing there and wanting to immediately stop it because I knew what was coming. It was like watching a train wreck. And there was no consent. You know there was no safe space.
And all my children were involved.
Excerpt from on Holy Interruption Braver/Wiser
By Julica Hermann de la Fuente
follow the link to read the whole article on WorshipWeb
February 3, 2021
“There’s no such thing as neutral education. Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom.” —Paulo Freire,
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
One of the most humbling lessons of my anti-racism education career was when I witnessed a difficult and racist presentation in a Unitarian Universalist gathering,
and I didn't think it was mine to interrupt. In fact, there were over forty people in the room, and nobody thought it was theirs to interrupt.
I learned that day that if I am in the room, it’s my responsibility to interrupt when someone is being harmed, and to center their (or our) needs. It doesn't matter what my hierarchical position is in the system; I’m part of a covenantal community and when a covenant gets broken, it’s my responsibility to name that break, with kindness and the intention of healing, and to call us back into right relationship.
To throw a wrench into the agenda is one of the more destabilizing things that we can do in majority-White spaces, because white supremacy culture teaches us to be efficient, to stay on task, to aim for perfection. The alternative is being relational: instead of staying on task, we can pay attention to what just happened and what needs to be done in order to restore right relationship. We can center those who have been placed at the margins.
Excerpt from on There Is More Love Somewhere
Dr. Glen Thomas Rideout
follow the link to read the whole article on WorshipWeb
… She walked up to me and said, “Doctor Rideout!” Because she had enough grace to remind me of my title, she gave me the opportunity to resume my church face and posture. She held my hands as if we had known each other for the longest time. She looked into eyes and she said, “You know what? I always sing that song:
There is more love right here…. There is more love right here…. I’m gonna keep on ‘cause I found it… There is more love right here…. I don’t understand why it is that we don’t sing that here at GA. We’ve already found a community of love.”
I thanked her, and I explained that for those of us who live with the privilege of knowing love, it can be difficult to understand the perspective of one who lives without such a privilege. I explained that it can be difficult to understand the lived experience of those who have trouble finding the evidence of love in their immediate vicinity; in their church; in their neighborhood; in their city; in their nation; even in their planet.
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