 What's happening at the UUCG? March 9th-15th
Tuesday, March 10th- Membership Ministry Meeting 1pm Sunday, March 15th- Reconciling Injustice- Rev. Kelly Dignan Unfortunately, injustice happens. How do we recover from it when it happens to us? Rev. Kelly will explore processes of reconciliation and healing after conflict and/or oppression. This will be the first Sunday of Chalice Arts Holocaust Exhibit. Sam Henline will play Klezmer Music. During the worship service on March 15th, we will have a New Member Ceremony for anyone who wishes to join the church. Please email Rev. Kelly (minister@greeleyuuc.org) if you want to join. Just a reminder that only members are able to vote at congregational meetings, and the next one is March 29. RE: Children's Chapel: Justice Other News and Reminders Note from Treasurer Bill Gotchey: I want to thank all the members of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Greeley for making our pledge campaign such a howling success! Our pledges increased 23.86% and that number will be going up as we still have ten or so pledges to come in. We will be able to give our minister a 7.14% raise, and we have some other exciting news.On March 29th we will hold an informational meeting after the service about a new concept introduced by the UUA called "multi-site". Some of our Board and some of the Foothills Unitarian Board members have met to see if we could work together to spread Unitarian Universalism. One of the many exciting things we are working on is sharing a minister. It may not happen right away, but we are in discussions. This would give our minister a full-time position and would allow for many other possibilities, so come to the meeting after Church on the 29th to learn more. Because of vacations by various Board members, we will postpone the Congregational Meeting originally scheduled for March 29th. Instead, it will be on May 17th. We will have the budget forum after Church on April 26th. We will review the 6-1-15 to 5-31-16 budget, and if you are into details, copies will be available. At the Congregational Meeting, all members will vote on various Church matters including a new slate of Board and Committee on Shared Ministry candidates and the budget. A detailed agenda will be posted two weeks prior to the meeting. If anyone wants to run for a Board position, please contact Tim Berendt. Thank you for your loving support, Bill Gotchey Treasurer. Brooke Minkel will be offering the entire 7 week "Becoming a Love and Logic Parent" seminar for FREE! Fridays, March 13th-April 24th, 6-8pm. Normally $110 per person, the Creative Center for Spiritual Living is sponsoring this series for the community. If you or someone you know could use some more parenting "tools", contact CCSL at 970-351-8122 (you will need to leave a message) or e-mail lori@creativecsl.org. To Regular Users of the LOCKBOX: The combination has been changed on the lockbox. Please contact Tim Berendt for the new combination. Bill Gotchey has been a member of a men philosophical group for a few years. He really enjoys it and he would like to start one beginning in May with the UU guys. The plan would be to meet the first, third and fifth Saturday of each month. The meetings could be at the church or like his other group at a coffee shop. If interested, contact Bill Gotchey at gotchey@comcast.net UU Card Sharks: Several of us came up with the idea of starting the UU Card Sharks, it could be any games and could meet at the church twice a month. Open to all adults, and perhaps children. If you have an interest please contact Bill Gotchey at gotchey@comcast.net Bride and Groom Shower for Shauna Yanke and Jonathan Hofmann: March 22, 2015, following the church service. EVERYONE IS INVITED. If you would like to participate in a gift from our church family, call Hollis Berendt or Dianne Culver. A light lunch and dessert will be served.If you can help with the party planing and luncheon call Hollis or Dianne. Saturday, May 16: SAVE THE DATE Please save the date for a fun evening on Saturday May 16 for an Auction and Party. This will be an opportunity for fun, as well as help support the church. Please consider what you could donate for this auction, and what businesses in town, that you frequent, might like to donate a gift card for our cause. When businesses donate, it gives them free advertising, possible new customers and good will to current customers. Who could you ask to donate? It could be a product, a massage, manicure, garden tools, classes, coffee, books, shoes etc. The options are as many as businesses. More information will be offered in the coming weeks. If you have questions, or would like to help, please contact Hollis or Tim. Thank you. April 10-12, 2015 - Mountain Desert District Annual Meeting at the Denver Tech Center Marriott Mark you calendars. Registration ends April 3. Let's get a team and go!! Highlights:
June 24th-28th- General Assembly 2015, Portland, OR: The theme for GA 2015 is Building a New Way. Most events will be held in the Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR 97232. For complete information go to http://www.uua.org/ga/ Reservations for hotels and other housing options opened on March 2, 2015. Go to http://www.uua.or/ga/travel . To register for GA go to http://www.uua.org/ga/registration Spiritual Photography Project- We are putting together an art show consisting of your personal vision of spirituality. Imagine an object or symbolic idea of something you consider spiritual. It could be a traditional symbol or a sunrise or a laughing child or a warm embrace. It could be a rainbow or wildlife or a simple smile. It could be a place that puts you in a spiritual frame of mind. If you don't have a picture, think about what symbolises your personal spirituality and take a picture of it. We are asking for your submission of photography or art with a short paragraph describing why it is special to you. If possible, the submission should be an 8x10 or larger framed. If not possible, submit it anyway. We'll see what we can do. The show will be displayed over the summer months. Please submit to Michael Free by June 10th. If you have weekly announcements you'd like to submit, be sure to email them to the Office Manager (office_manager@greeleyuuc.org) by 10am on the Tuesday of the week you'd like them to be in the announcements! Meghan will also be physically out of the office for the week of March 14th-22nd, if you need to contact her please email at office_manager@greeleyuuc.org. Comments are closed.
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