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Reverend Barbara Jamestone, PhD
USH-Enews July 16, 2009
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Astilbe in High Summer
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Office hours: Rev. Jamestone: Phone: 860 233-9897; Email: RevBJ@USHartford.com - Rev. BJ office hours by appointment.
Worshipping Together Since 1830
Summer Schedule One Service 10 AM
Sunday - 19 July - The 23rd Psalm - Years ago, Laurie heard the 23rd Psalm with new ears and has wondered ever since how ancient poetry speaks to us. This summer as we look at our UU roots, our Judeo-Christian heritage is explored through a single psalm that has given comfort and release for 3000 years. Can we open our UU hearts and minds to embrace a vision when we stumble on the words of Lord, soul, He, and forever? - Laurie Kelliher
Laurie Kelliher entered her first Unitarian church in the arms of her parents in 1951. She has never left. Now she enters on the arm of her children Henry and Nell as they show off their local UU churches when she and Andy visit.
Memorial Service 2 PM for Ruth Raye. Details to follow in email.
Music – This summer our wonderful Music Associate, John Jesensky, will spend his final Sundays with us presenting music that is thoughtful, enchanting, deeply moving, fanciful -- in short, varied in many ways that enhance the services and move the heart. On occasion other musicians may join him, but most often it will just be John at the piano working his artistry.
These past few years we have grown accustomed to hearing music that deepens and transforms services in ways that only music can achieve. Join us this summer and let yourself be enriched.REflections on Children's Programming
Harry Potter Summer Program
This Sunday, July 19th, we will be exploring the mystical beings found in Hogwarts! We will also create some flying Cornish Pixies to liven up our classroom. Come experience the magic!
NEWS and NEEDS
USH needs YOU - if you are a member, but have not been part of a Pathways program to review and renew what you know about who we are, where we came from, and who will carry our name and mission into the future. Rev BJ hopes you will join her after church this Sunday July 19, for 1 or 2 hours (you choose) to be renewed by the excitement of new members, and to be surprised that there’s a huge garden of mission among us which you may not have visited yet.Bring a brown bag lunch or contact Brian in the office by Friday and we’ll have lunch prepared for you! - BJ
What Else is Happening & Announcements
Looking for a volunteer to cook breakfast on Saturday, August 8 at the Horace Bushnell Children's Food Pantry. This once per month breakfast is cooked and served from 7 to 11 AM.
Please call Joan Kemble if you can sub for me. 633-4503Habitat for Humanity is partnering with Christian, Muslim and Jewish faith communities in Greater Hartford to build a "House of Abraham". Peter Magistri, Fred Louis, Tom & Joan Kemble attended an interfaith dialogue event. We would like to form a USH work team to build on August 1. To join us, call Kembles 633-4503.
Social Justice Journeys (From the UUA) And from USH
The green table will be open for business the first Sunday of the month during the summer months. Support our earth with healthy products for cleaning and living. .
Got an item to share with others? Post it on the bulletin board at the bottom of the stairs and help someone financially and environmentally.
Caring Network - The trouble with pragmatism is that it's completely useless - Sidney Morgenbesser - If you know of any member experiencing some difficulty, please contact Diana Heymann, Chair of the Caring Network heydiana(at symbol)comcast.net 860.461.0908 or call the office so we can provide some assistance. A wide range of community services is also available to those in need by calling InfoLine at 211. Please contact Diana if you are able to volunteer your services.
From the Editor: Suggestions for Contributors.
This Week’s Feature Articles
A Letter from UUA President Peter Morales
USH Needs You
Tutor at Rawson School?A Letter From UUA President Peter Morales
(June 28, 2009) Friends, as you know, I have just been elected President of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA). I have trouble expressing how profoundly I am touched by the confidence people have placed in me. I can only say, in the Spanish phrase, mil gracias, “a thousand thanks."I am humbled and grateful. The challenges before us are great. We continue to live in a world where fear and hatred cause suffering and violence. Greed and acquisitiveness threaten life on our planet. We are surrounded by millions of people seeking a spiritual home that is free and open. We face historic cultural and ethnic change in America.
We must learn to express our love and values in new cultural contexts. We will build on the great achievement of President Bill Sinkford in social witness. Ours will be a presidency passionately engaged in the great moral issues of our time: economic justice, peace, and human rights. I would like to thank and praise the Rev. Dr. Laurel Hallman, the other candidate for president, for her deep insights and inspiring contributions to our faith. Her concerns for spiritual depth, covenantal relationships and stewardship are values I share.
To Laurel's supporters, I offer my warmest welcome. There are no divisions in our movement, only complementarities. Your call for spiritual depth has always been a call that leads us to work together to make a better world. Together, we are answering the same call heard by Servetus, Ballou, Channing, Parker and Susan B. Anthony—a call to leave behind what is outmoded and to let compassion guide us as we shape a future together.
The challenges we face are great. However, together we have the passion, the spirit, the determination and love to face the tests of our times. Together, we can grow our faith and help heal the world. We can be, we must be, the religion for our time. Together we are beginning an exciting new chapter in Unitarian Universalism. We are on a journey of faith together. - Peter Morales
On the Calendar
Sunday, July 19
10:00 am WORSHIP, SANCTUARY
11:00 am Coffee Hour, Fellowship Hall
11:30 am Pathways, Library
2:00 pm Ruth Raye Memorial Service
3:00 pm Rental, Chapel
Tuesday, July 21
12:00 pm Men’s Luncheon Group Picnic, Memorial Patio/Fellowship Hall
8:00 pm AA, Fellowship Hall
Wednesday, July 22
5:45 pm Meditation and Dharma Gathering, Emerson
Thursday, July 23
5:00 pm NVC, David
Saturday, July 25
10:30 am Rental, Chapel
Sunday, July 26
10:00 am WORSHIP, SANCTUARY
11:00 am Coffee Hour, Fellowship Hall
3:00 pm Rental, Chapel
Tuesday, July 28
8:00 pm AA, Fellowship Hall
Wednesday, July 29
5:45 pm Meditation and Dharma Gathering, Emerson
Sunday, August 2
10:00 am WORSHIP, SANCTUARY
11:00 am Coffee Hour, Fellowship Hall
3:00 pm Rental, Chapel
Tuesday, August 4
8:00 pm AA, Fellowship Hall
Wednesday, August 5
5:45 pm Meditation and Dharma Gathering, Emerson
italicized entries are non-USH events.
Please notify Brian Mullen of all additions or changes to the calendar. Follow this link to all our scheduled events!
Music for You to Give and Receive at the Meeting House—This Fall! More
Dear USH persons,
Earl and I were delighted to hear that some USH members will be joining us to tutor in Hartford’s Rawson School in September. We have been tutoring at Rawson for a number of years, and it has been an incredible experience—great cooperation and enthusiasm from the principal, the teachers and the kids; we have kids working hard, and also hugging and hanging on to us in the hallways and classrooms.Now I know most of you are thinking about tutoring in reading. But if I, a former English teacher, can tutor in elementary math and love doing it, we’re hoping some of you might join us to do the same thing.
Let me give you some details. Last year, Earl and I helped first-graders learn their simple addition facts. The kids made great gains, become competitive and were proud of their progress. So were we. This year, we are moving up to second grade with “our” kids to help them learn subtraction facts.
Understandably, the first-grade teachers would like similar help this year with tutoring their new classes in basic addition facts. If you’re interested in tutoring math at Rawson, please get in touch with us. - Kayla Costenoble Phone: 243-2425 Email: noblearl(at symbol)comcast.net
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