February 13, 2022
Mx. jo mosher
WA: Liz Firek
Sharing Our Stories Heals the World
By the time the guest minister, Rev. Dr. Qiyamah A. Rahman speaks to CUUB on January 30 we will have In our stressful and often scary world, isolation plagues our society more than ever before in our lifetimes. Sharing our life stories can also help connect us, as well as change people’s minds to embrace truth and justice. This week, we will hear from a person with multiple minority identities, who uses their story as a constant tool for relationship building and healing.
jo mosher ( they / them / theirs) is a social justice activist, artist, teacher, speaker, musician, comic, writer, and filmmaker originally from the South. They are a nonbinary, genderfluid, transmasculine, pansexual Person of Color. jo's Calling is to use all of these identities that they possess - and many more - to help change people's hearts and minds to be more tolerant, compassionate, and all-around Woke.
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Until Further notice all services will be on Zoom
*This Sunday you are invited to watch the service in our sanctuary if you are willing to wear a mask while in the building. For a complete understanding of what is required for you join us in person CLICK HERE to view the CUUB News Special Edition with all of the details.
Upcoming services
February 20, 2022
Rev. Sue Redfern-Campbell
Widening the circle: Hospitality
In June 2020, the UUA Commission on Institutional Change issued a comprehensive and challenging report, Widening the Circle of Concern. This was the culmination of three years’ work auditing the power structures and analyzing systemic racism within our religious denomination.
This month I’ll address two of the Commission’s topics, Theology and Hospitality, under the rubric of the February Soul Matters theme, “Widening the Circle.” What impact might they have on life at CUUB?
February 27, 2022
Lay-Led
WA: Mary Temple
Widening the circle at CUUB
This month the theme for our Services has been "Widening the Circle" and we have explored questions regarding the UUA study about systems of white privilege, racism, classism that exist within the UUA itself. On the final Sunday in February, we will bring this discussion home to CUUB.
What have we already done to widen our circle of concern that we can celebrate? What work do we need to continue to do? Like in the past, we will set up guided discussion groups that help us explore and learn from each other. This is an opportunity for us to work together in our beloved community to strive for a more just and compassionate world and widen our circle of concern in our own community. Think global... act local.
Want to keep enjoying services in CUUB’s building?
Our Tech Team needs more volunteers to keep us going on in Zoom and in the sanctuary. We need people to make slide decks, host the Zoom meetings, admit people from the waiting room into the service, project the meeting in the sanctuary, and run the sound board (NOT all at the same time!).
If you can do any of these things, your help is needed to lighten the load and allow us to expand our capabilities for hybrid (live and streamed) services.
Please contact erika.warner@comcast.net if you think you might be able to help, or know of someone who may be willing!
Thanks,
CUUB Tech Team
Techteam@cuub.org
2022-2023
Stewardship Drive
Our Stewardship drive is coming to a close with pledges for our 2022/2023 Church Year due Tuesday February 15th. We appreciate all that have sent in your pledge cards.
Click here for a member reflection by Jim Dowd our Treasurer on Renew, Remodel, and Rebuild.
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Minister's Corner
By now, you’ve probably seen the CUUB News Special Edition, inviting you to come in person!!! this Sunday, to view the worship service on a large screen. This is exciting news, even for me, as I sit here in Albuquerque, over 1500 miles away. Here, too, the COVID numbers are improving, so I’m more hopeful than I’ve been in a while. While we are hardly “out of the woods,” the path seems a little clearer than it did before.
Of course, the step CUUB is taking is cautious one – so cautious, in fact, that the News announcement doesn’t call it a re-opening. “Zoom Watch Party” is perhaps the best description, even though it’s a masked party without refreshments. The party will also be continuing in more than one venue, as many members still don’t feel safe or comfortable attending indoor events. I encourage you to be mindful of those who must continue worshiping via Zoom – to reach out to them and make sure they know they’re still beloved members of this community.
Thanks are due to many people for making Sunday’s watch party possible, and I hope all of them will be thanked by name in a future issue. For now, I’ll lift up CUUB’s leaders, especially the Board, who in uncertain times wrestled with the question of reopening, and who struggled to make evidence-based decisions in accord with Unitarian Universalist values. The decisions they made this year were never easy, but always involved attention to science, and care for the safety and well-being of all. Well done, good and faithful servants!
Love and blessings,
Rev. Sue
Facilities Team Reminds Us
Please read & understand the current rules for being in our building.
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Social Justice News
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The Homeless Shelter still needs your help
Click on Dianne Morgan to email Dianne to find out what days & positions are needed to fulfil CUUB's commitment to the Severe Weather Network's Livingston County Shelter for the Homeless.
There is a strict Covid protocol followed at the shelter and so far there has been no transmission between those being housed or between volunteers. The most needed positions are checking guest in and helping with dinner service. There is an online training that will give you all of the details.
To sign up directly with SWN CLICK HERE
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Take a look https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCqv1MbBBB88dPZE5LJ4wTQ/featured
Intro to UU - New Member Class
The Membership Team is pleased to announce that we will resume holding these classes that are part of the requirement for CUUB Membership this spring. So if you are a CUUB friend who would like to learn more about the UU faith, CUUB's values - structure - governance this class is for you. Please write us at membership@cuub.org and let us know you are interested.
Membership is as easy as a, b, c, d, e
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Future CUUB News Publication Schedule*
February 11th & 25th
March 11th & 25th
April 8th & 22nd
May 6th & 20th
June 3rd & 17th
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