A MESSAGE FROM
REV. JULIE AND BEN
Ben Robins has a new job as a minister. Here is a video with more information, a heartfelt goodbye, and information about visioning for the program moving forward. There will also be a ritual of transition at the August 1st service. Families and others interested in shaping the RE program, please fill out our survey HERE.
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TRUNK SALE
Saturday, August 7, 9am-noon
Looking for participants to make our first trunk sale a huge success! See the announcement below, or the full announcement HERE.
OUTDOOR MEETUPS: CORRECTION TO KATHY'S
EMAIL ADDRESS
Kathy McLay's email address has been corrected in the Outdoor Meetups announcement below. If you have proposed a meetup to Kathy and didn't hear back, email her again HERE.
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This Sunday:
July 25th at 10:30am
GOLDEN THREADS
Join the service here:
https://tinyurl.com/UUSummerWorship
Invite your friends!
NOTE these summertime changes:
Sunday services will begin at 10:30am, AND the link to join is not the ‘usual’ one.
Rev. Fiona explores our first Canadian aspiration, considering what it means to seek deep connection as “we strive to foster healthy relationships amongst and within UU communities, with the broader world and with all life.”
We are deeply connected and interdependent.
Speaker: Rev. Fiona Heath
Pianist: Abigail Freeman, Music Director
(Unitarian Congregation in Mississauga)
Small group conversation opportunities will be offered at the end of the service.
Join the service here: https://tinyurl.com/UUSummerWorship. Instructions for dial-in can be found HERE.
Invite your friends!
Religious Exploration: Sunday morning programming is discontinued for the summer. Games nights are on Wednesdays at 7pm, through August 18th. See the annoncement above about Ben's transition. See This Month in RE for more.
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Video of this past Sunday's service, hosted by Neighbourhood UU Congregation.
Our recent services are here.
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A COMMUNITY FOR
EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK
Zoom links for our Sunday service and all programs can be found HERE.
Keep connections alive by joining our private Facebook group (Rev. Julie will invite you to join). Share joys, sorrows, questions, pictures, and invitations to watch parties, or book discussions, or other activities.
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Upcoming UFP Events
TRUNK SALE - IT'S A GO!!!
Looking for participants to make our first trunk sale a huge success!
It's a simple concept...register by Aug 1...then bring your treasures to the UFP parking lot between 8 am and 9 am ...open your trunk and/or set up a table...and sell your stuff as a fundraiser for UFP. It’s a great opportunity to declutter your home, keep reusable items from landfill and maybe also find some great new-to-you treasures.
All the info you need is HERE. And, we could use some help in organizing. Ruth Schumaker is ready to register you and answer your questions. And tell all your friends! Share our FB postings! And here's a poster!
SMALL OUTDOOR "MEETUPS"
Note: Kathy's email address has been corrected below. If you didn't hear back from her, try again.
The Connections Team would like to host some small in-person UFP gatherings. Here are two options to start:
1) An outdoor drumming circle in the courtyard at UFP
2) Coffee and chatting in one of the local parks (bring your own coffee and chair if possible)
Please respond to Kathy McLay at kthmclay@gmail.com expressing your interest. We'll schedule the gatherings when we know who wants to be a part. Of course, there will be covid precautions.
It'll be fun! Waiting to hear from you!
ANTI-RACISM MOVIE NIGHT
Friday, July 30, 7pm
The Anti-Racism Action Group (ARAG) invites you to a showing of two classic indigenous films
First is The Ballad of Crowfoot, sometimes called “Canada’s first music video” (10 minutes).
Second is Cree Hunters of Mistassini, an immersion in life in the James Bay region just before the James Bay Project (57 minutes).
Ben Wolfe will host, introducing the films and hosting the post-film discussion. This is the 2nd night of a series.
Join here: https://tinyurl.com/UFPMovies
More information is HERE.
PLANNING A UFP-SANCTIONED ACTIVITY?
Please consult the Covid Standards committee as you start your planning.
The Step 3 protocol is HERE.
The Covid Standards and Safe Reopening Committee would like to help those planning UFP activities to ensure provincial, local and UFP covid safety standards are part of the planning process. Any activity, event, or member gatherings that are planned to include any UFP members who would like to participate and that would usually be announced Sunday mornings or included in “The Flame” would be considered a UFP sanctioned activity. Read more...
SUMMER WORSHIP
We are joining together with four other congregations for our summer services. Each week, one of the congregations hosts. What a great way for us to experience a diversity of styles and to make friends across southern Ontario! Each week we'll begin at 10:30am, and a time for conversation in small groups will follow.
Note that the link to join is different than our usual link. Information will be posted on our website and here in the Flame each week as usual.
There's now a place on our website for all the news that is the news about summer. If you're wondering what's going on, check it out HERE.
SUMMER AT UNICAMP
Our week at Unicamp is August 16-22. It’s a wonderful place to build community, swim, hike, walk the labyrinth, create art, sing songs around the campfire.
The Unicamp summer newsletter is HERE.
CONNECTING CIRCLES
Connecting Circles meet about twice monthly for an hour of sharing and mutual support. Some groups are continuing to meet over the summer.
If you want to be part of a circle, contact Rev. Julie.
THIS WEEK'S WALK, BY MARGEREE EDWARDS
Margeree is taking a break in July. Take a look at the long list of ideas for walking (or walking and swimming) HERE.
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UFP News
FUNdraising UPDATE
You've read about the Trunk Sale on August 7. Now, how about the August Outside Adventure Online Auction!
Might you offer to host a pool party, kayak excursion with picnic, dinner alfresco with friends, or a backyard concert? These are only some of the possible auction items you might dream up!
Creative ideas and helping hands needed, please connect with Kim Ward with the subject line of UFP Online Auction.
SAFE GATHERING COMMITTEE POSTPONES IN-PERSON SERVICE
The Safe Gathering Committee (renamed from The Covid-19 Standards and Safe Reopening Committee to best reflect our current role) has reviewed the newly released Peterborough Public Health COVID-19 Guidance for Places of Worship document. We have decided for several reasons to delay the next trial of an in person service until September. Thank you to anyone who was considering attending on August 1st. We will need people to help us out in September, so hold that thought!
We look forward to facilitating all of us joining together again for indoor, in person services, again in the fall.
GIFT CARD SALES
We have a variety of grocery, gas and retail cards available for sale!! Orders are being processed for delivery or pickup on Saturday, September 4th but earlier orders are accepted also. As always, proceeds from sales directly benefit the Fellowship.
To purchase cards, please contact Francesca Warriner (Cesca) at 705-743-0795 or by email francescawarriner@gmail.com.
Note that the email address for e-transfers has changed to: payforgiftcards@peterboroughunitarian.ca.
We appreciate and thank you for your continued support.
SYRIAN TEENS SEEK OUTDOOR WORK
Yousef and Suleman, the teenage sons of the Al Mubarak family who our Refugee Sponsorship Team helped to settle in 2020, are available to help with any yard work and lawn mowing on weekdays at 4 pm and Saturdays and Sundays.
Please contact Linda Herold, 705-536-0035
lindaherold7@gmail.com.
WEEKLY WALKING BUDDIES
If you're looking for a walking buddy, or buddies, add your name, or reach out to someone HERE. Be sure to attend to the latest health guidelines!
TRY THE DIFFERENT TASTE OF ALIEU!
Alieu (one of our newcomers) would like to cook for you! Yummy vegetarian or meat dishes with peanut or yassa sauce, cooked to your spicy-meter. Check out how to order HERE.
E-TRANSFERS
If you choose to give in this way, use bookkeeper@peterboroughunitarian.ca noting the purpose/intention of your donation. And you can still use CanadaHelps to make any donations, or send us a cheque at the address below. Thank you.
FLAME DEADLINE
Submissions for the Flame are due each Friday at noon. They go to Ben at uu.ptbo@gmail.com.
JOYS OR SORROWS TO SHARE?
We grow together by sharing about our lives. If you have personal news to share with our broader community, email Rev. Julie to have it added to UFPeople, a page on our website that cannot be found except through a link in The Flame.
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Working for Justice
VIGIL FOR PEACE
"Peacemaking doesn't mean passivity. It is the act of interrupting injustice without mirroring injustice, the act of disarming evil without destroying the evildoer, the act of finding a third way that is neither fight nor flight but the careful, arduous pursuit of reconciliation and justice. It is about a revolution of love that is big enough to set both the oppressed and the oppressors free."
~Shane Claiborne, Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals
The vigil is Monday, July 26, noon-1pm at the corner of George and McDonnel.
GLEN CARADUS RIDES FOR THE CLIMATE
Glen will ride 350km in one day, to raise awareness of climate change and raise money for GreenUp's climate program.
Donate at http://greenup.on.ca/350-climate-ride
Here is his fun 3-minute promo video:
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Our Wider Community
More information about all of these is available on our website.
GDOODOOMNAAN MIIGWEWINAN
Language Symposium
July 24th-25th 10am-3pm
Community Art-Making hosted by Creating Space
Thursdays 3-6pm
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