The Weekly Fellowship Flash March 17, 2022 |
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Read about the March theme, Balance in the Touchstones Journal here. |
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MARCH SERVICES Theme: BALANCE (closed captioning available)
***************************** UUFH Services and RE Have Resumed In-Person. ***************************** |
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March 20 Braiding Sweetgrass. We will be sharing Native American creation stories, poems and music in this hybrid service. The sermon will draw from Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer's wonderful book, “Braiding Sweetgrass,” one of the books that Rev. Debra most treasures. To learn more about Dr. Kimmerer, go to robinwallkimmerer.com/about See below for the link to sign up for Sunday to RSVP for in-person attendance and the service will be streamed on Zoom and Facebook. Isabella on piano |
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March 27 Celebration of the Women of UUFH. The Fellowship has a long history of strong women leaders over the decades. This service will honor and remember those women from our past and our present. We will be joined remotely by our former ministers Rev. Bruce Marshall and Rev. Beth Graham, who will share stories from their times as our settled ministers. This will be a hybrid service, live in our Main Hall and streamed on Zoom and Facebook. Choir singing |
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*NEW* NOW YOU CAN VIEW SERVICES YOU MISSED ON YOUTUBE! |
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CLOSED CAPTIONING (LIVE TRANSCRIPT) DURING ZOOM SERVICES Closed captioning is available during services. On a computer, click on the “Live Transcript” button to turn it on. From that same button, you can also adjust your subtitle settings. Visit the Zoom website for more info.
UUFH SUNDAY SERVICES NOW STREAMING LIVE ON FACEBOOK! No Zoom? Want an easier way to join us each Sunday? UUFH is now streaming LIVE on Facebook every Sunday at 10:30AM! Watch the service from the comfort and safety of your own home with ease. Like us on Facebook! https://facebook.com/UUHuntington |
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SIGN UP TO ATTEND MARCH 20 IN-PERSON SUNDAY SERVICE WITH REV. DEBRA Our new transitions minister, Rev. Debra, will be preaching in person Sunday. Her sermon is drawn from Robin Wall Kimmerer’s wonderful book, Braiding Sweetgrass. The service will include Native American wisdom including creation stories, poems and music. A reception to welcome Rev. Debra will follow the service.
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DONATIONS FOR UKRAINE In addition to our shared plate for the UUSC Ukrainian efforts, congregants might want to assist other organizations providing humanitarian aid. The US Agency for International Development (USAID) urges donations of cash rather than supplies to the vetted groups listed at this link https://www.cidi.org/disaster-responses/war-in-ukraine/Rev. Dr. Debra W. Haffner (she/her/hers) Sexologist Minister @RevDebra |
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POSTCARDING WITH RECLAIM OUR VOTE—AN EASY WAY TO GET INVOLVED Many Fellowshippers participate in the postcard opportunities that are provided by Reclaim Our Vote. Below is part of their mission statement, taken directly from their website.
“Reclaim Our Vote is a campaign of the Center for Common Ground, a non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization. The mission of the Reclaim Our Vote campaign is to empower under-represented voters to fully participate in elections…”
The UUFH has been helping ROV by writing postcards to under-represented folks in vulnerable states since the spring of 2020, before the presidential election. Currently we are sending postcards to people in Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina, urging them to vote in their upcoming primaries. Most “Postcarders” find it to be fun and fulfilling and it did help Get Out the Vote back in the 2020 election.
If you would like to learn more about postcarding, please be in touch with me and I will send you some videos showing you how it’s done.
In Fellowship, |
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INVITATION TO JOIN OUR UUFH CHOIR The UUFH Choir hopes you are enjoying the choral videos we have been presenting over the past two years as part of our Sunday services. We are inviting any interested singers at UUFH to join us! Singers record their individual vocal tracks, email them to me, and I then combine them into the choral videos. Right now we are rehearsing (jointly by Zoom and in-person) on Monday evenings at 7:30 pm every week or two, but would consider moving to Thursday evenings, if that works better for most participants. Help us enhance our music ministry! Interested singers of all levels can speak to a choir member or feel free to contact me directly at music@uufh.org. Warmly, Dr. Jie, Conductor |
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SEE DOCUMENTARY FILM, HIDDEN COLORS MARCH 25 The Social Justice Ministry invites you to join us on March 25 at 7 pm on Zoom to see the documentary “Hidden Colors: The Untold History of People of Aboriginal, Moor, and African Descent,” directed by Tarig Nasheed with a discussion facilitated by Professor Norman Daniels.
As part of a series of films to bring information, ideas, and open dialog to our congregation and to the greater community, we present this documentary about the real and untold history of people of color around the globe. This film presents much new information and some of the reasons the contributions of African and Aboriginal people have been left out of the pages of history. Traveling around the country, the film features scholars, historians, and social commentators who uncover amazing facts and present scholarship rarely heard in the mainstream.
Save the date for the film “Hidden Colors 2” on April 29 at 7 pm. |
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STEWARDSHIP COMMITTEE SOUL PLEDGE DRIVE UPDATE The Board and the Stewardship Committee send a hearty thank you to all members and friends who have made pledges to Strengthen Our UU Lives. So far, 85 pledges have been received, for a total of $222,571. For those who have not yet submitted a pledge, please consider doing so as soon as possible so that the Board can create a realistic budget for this fiscal year.
Our pledges enable UUFH to contract with our talented and inspiring new minister, Rev. Dr. Debra Haffner, and will be a key resource in attracting applicants for an interim minister in the future. They also provide the foundation of our budget for services, RE programs, building maintenance and other essential expenditures.
Our supportive members and friends are our true wealth, our “pot of gold,” for our inclusive, “rainbow” congregation. We count our lucky stars to have your friendship and generous support.
For those who have not yet pledged and plan to do so, please follow through as soon as you are able. All of our UU eyes will be smiling and you’ll steal our hearts away! Pledges can be made online via email, on the UUFH website or by US Mail. Contact Sue McGovern with any questions or concerns. |
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JOIN THE HUNTINGTON GREENING FELLOWSHIP - COHORT 2! Are you interested in the environment? HUMuS--Huntington Mobilization for Sustainability--wants to train you to become a local environmental leader. We’re now accepting applications for the second cohort of Fellows. Connect to local environmental organizations. Meet other people in Huntington who want to help the environment. Learn how climate change affects us on Long Island. Help your organization, workplace or your home become more green. Learn how you can influence local and state policies. It will be held for seven meeting, alternation Sunday and Thursday nights plus one Sunday afternoon field trip, from March 13 – May 22. The fee is $36, for all adults in Huntington, particularly geared towards those involved in faith-based organizations. Contact: Beth Finger, HUMuS project manager, for an application or with questions at HumusPartnership@gmail.com. Funded by a grant from UJA-Federation of NY. |
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IT’S MOVEMENT TIME – AN INTRODUCTION TO THE POOR PEOPLE’S CAMPAIGN: A NATIONAL CALL FOR MORAL REVIVAL Wednesday, March 30, 6:30 to 8:00 pm Join us online as we discuss the history of the Poor People’s Campaign from 1968 to today, the strategies and structure of the campaign and their importance, and our local and statewide efforts. We will engage in conversation to identify ways we are all affected by the interlocking evils and explore ways we can work together to further our fight against these systems of oppression and lift from the bottom. Whether you don’t know much about the Poor People’s Campaign or have been with us for a while, join us for this important conversation to move forward together.
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AUCTION GALA 2022: APRIL 30, 7:00 PM—TIME TO LIST YOUR BID ITEMS List your bid items ASAP: Deadline is April 20! This year’s auction will be hybrid with live auction, socializing, light food, raffle baskets and desserts on April 30. Bidding on items will be online from April 24 to May 1. While plans are still in the works for the Gala (keep checking the Flash), we need your bid items ASAP. As always, our auction is successful only if we have plenty of fun, creative items to bid on. Please check here (here) for a list of ideas to get you thinking. - Click here for auction registration and donation buttons. https://auctria.events/UUFH2022
- Remember, no item is too small; the committee will bundle small items together into a nicely themed package. This is a great chance to support your favorite local business by donating a gift certificate.
- Consider shopping through our fair-trade fundraiser using this link: SERRV UUFH gets 20% of the purchase. You must use the link for UUFH credit.
- Committees, as always, please put together your wonderful offerings.
- Stuck for ideas? Just donate money and add to our success.
Got questions? Check out our FAQ’s contact a committee member Thanks from your Gala Committee, Allyson Barish, Suzanne MacDevitt, Kata Karejwa, Amy Olander, Sue McGovern |
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APPLICATIONS NEEDED FOR THE MONTHLY UUFH SPLIT PLATE Thanks, Jim Ammerman, BOW Committee Chair |
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MARCH 2022 SPLIT PLATE–REVISED UUSC Emergency Relief Fund: Ukraine Response An excerpt from UUSC’s president Rev. Mary Katherine Morn’s statement about the war in Ukraine: “UUSC is a human rights organization with more than 80 years of work in solidarity with people who have experienced displacement. We know that a further escalation of war in Ukraine will only worsen the global refugee crisis in which more than 80 million people worldwide have already been displaced from their homes. Ukraine is currently home to more than a million asylum-seekers and internally displaced people, many of whom could now be forced to flee for a second time as a result of Putin’s incursion.” |
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OTHER WAYS TO BE IN COMMUNITY |
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PASTORAL CARE & CARE SHARE - UPDATED The Fellowship's Pastoral Care and Care Share committees continue to be here for our members even though we are in ministerial transition. If you have good news to share, or a life development to announce, please let us know. We are also here to assist with health or any other issue in your family or yourself. Here is how you can connect with us: |
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