[Worship] Fwd: Available for your Sunday services

[Dawn Hewitt, FUUSM office assistant]

FYI

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From: Martina <uu.visions at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Sep 6, 2024 at 9:27 AM
Subject: Available for your Sunday services
To: [many email addresses cut]


Hello, Friends –

My name is Martina (Marti) Thompson, and I am a recent graduate (May 2024)
of the UU House of Studies at Methodist Theological School in Ohio. That
same month, I also completed a two-year internship at UU Fellowship of
Lima, a lay-led fellowship. I am in the process of preparing for an
interview with the Ministerial Fellowship Committee in pursuit of
ordination as a UU minister. I have been a Unitarian Universalist for over
40 years, and I consider this to be an exciting time to enter UU ministry.
We have a distinctive theological voice that the world needs to hear.

I am available to preach at your congregation. I love creating integrated
worship services including music and readings. I can also simply provide
the sermon if that is your preference. I am happy to work with your Worship
Committee to craft a service that meets your needs. In addition, I can
provide a children’s story to accompany the sermon.

In addition to Sunday worship, I am also available for adult RE workshops
or series. Topics include UU101 For Everyone, Religions of the World, and
Holocaust Education Reduces Antisemitism. Workshops are available in person
on Saturday, or virtually for 4 to 6 weekday evenings.

Fee arrangements are according to UUMA guidelines, plus IRS professional
mileage. If over two hours from Lima, OH, overnight hospitality will be
needed for Saturday night. If your congregation is unable to pay according
to the guidelines, please contact me to see if we can work something out. I
am committed to ministering to small congregations regardless of their
financial resources.

For more information about available sermons, please visit
https://wordpress.com/home/uuvisions.wordpress.com. I frequently update my
offerings there.
Warmly,
Martina Thompson, UUMA Aspirant
https://uuvisions.wordpress.com

*“That we can wonder is what saves us. The price evolution had us pay for
our exquisite consciousness is an awareness of our mortality – an awareness
unbearable without the capacity for wonder at the miracle of existing at
all, improbable as we each are against the staggering odds of never having
been born, alive on an improbable world unlike any other known. Wonder is
the religion nature invented long before we told our first myths of
prophets and messiahs, the great benediction of our fate as borrowed
stardust on short-term loan from an entropic universe.”* - Maria Popova,
The Marginalian


-- 
Dawn Hewitt
Office assistant
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Marietta
232 Third St.
Marietta, OH 45750
(740)373-1238
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, 10 a.m.--2 p.m.
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