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Thanks to everyone who answered the 2022 annual stewardship campaign! The luncheon was a big success too! Folks enjoyed the hot meal (yes, the fantastic fried chicken) catching up with each other. The tree of vision for our church in 2023 is growing up! If you still have any visions in your mind, please stop by the tree and add your leaf to it!
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Up-Coming UCHP Events
based on Central Standard Time
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The Open and Affirming Team will host "The Trans List and our response" documentary and discussion hybrid event on Saturday, November 12, from 10 am to 12 pm. The HBO documentary, The Trans List, is about 57 minutes long, and we will watch it together in person at the church library. The second hour will be a hybrid section, both in-person and online, where we can share our reflections and issues related to transgender and gender non-binary folks in our community and country. Soft drinks and refreshments will be provided, and the Guide of in-person gathering issued by the Church Council will be followed. You can also find more information about this HBO documentary and watch it at your place. Here is the link (click).
* Second hour (11 am to 12 pm) Zoom information
Meeting ID: 843 8030 2491
Passcode: 324059
On November 13, there will be Transgender Day of Remembrance and candle lightening Service. We will hold our trans siblings in remembrance. Our neighbor, Brave Space Alliance, is also invited to join us. BSA is a black-led, trans-led LGBTQ+ center on 53rd place (link to BSA website).
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We will be making sandwiches for the Night Ministry on November 16. This month, the pick-up time and location are different. Please contact the church office or Suneeta if you need more information.
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These gifts could be given to Bethany House of Hospitality and children at her establishment. Gifts would be unwrapped, and wrapping paper included. A box for children’s donations of toys, etc., is placed in the sanctuary. Please leave your gifts there by the end of December.
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Brave Space Alliance, Chicago Therapy collective, and Life is Work, with support from The Human Rights Campaign, Affinity, Chicago Black Gay Men’s Caucus, Lighthouse Foundation, Chicago Department of Public Health, Equality Illinois, and Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation (SOUL), will be hosting a “Trans Weekend of Resilience”. As an effort to reclaim and reframe November 20th as a day to acknowledge our trans siblings that we've lost while simultaneously acknowledging the resilience of our community, this 3-day event will take place from November 18-20th, 2022. More information on Facebook event page (click link).
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We received a handwritten postcard from Rev. Ashley McFaul-Erwin, a member of the Board of Directors of More Light Presbyterians. The Board met in Nashville, Tennessee, last week. "We are grateful that you are part of the MLP family! It is a joy to be in this work together." Our church became a member of MLP early this year, identifying our congregation's welcoming and affirming standing for LGBTQ+ in the Presbyterian Church (USA). Know more about More Light Presbyterians (click link).
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Hyde Park and Kenwood Interfaith Council will host the Thanksgiving Celebration at Rockefeller Chapel on Thursday, November 24, at 11 am. This is the biggest annual event and fundraising campaign of the Interfaith Council. Our church has been a core member of it for years. If you would like to attend the Thanksgiving Celebration, you can find more details on its website (click link).
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