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FEBRUARY 5, 2023
https://uuma.zoom.us/my/uuslo
Meeting ID 834 863 1482
Or dial in by phone: +1 669 900 6833
10:30 am
Rev. Rod Richards
Worship Associate: Susan BaileyKadin
Kumbaya
A song that lends itself toward joining together in friendship and peace has become little more than a joke in our current times. Does that say something about this song? Or about these times?
Religious Exploration
Order of Service
February 5, 2023 at 10:30 am
KUMBAYA
PRELUDE Choir: Come by Here
Mark Pietro/Piano
WELCOME Susan BaileyKadin
CHALICE LIGHTING
DOXOLOGY
CALL TO WORSHIP Rev. Rod Richards
HYMN #34 Though I May Speak with Bravest Fire
TIME FOR ALL AGES Rev. Rod
JOYS, SORROWS, CONCERNS Rev. Rod Richards
HYMN #123 Spirit of Life
OFFERING Central Coast Coalition for Inclusive Schools
OFFERTORY Adagio from Toccata BWV 914 by J.S. Bach
CHOIR ANTHEM Imagine/John Lennon
MEDITATION AND SILENCE
SERMON Rev. Rod Richards/Kumbaya
HYMN #368 Now Let Us Sing
EXTINGUISHING THE CHALICE
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE A Beautiful Day by Mark Pietri
Looking Ahead in Worship
February 12, 2023
Rev. Rod Richards
Worship Associate: Ingrid Pires
I ♥ Darwin
Ok, it's the anniversary of Charles Darwin's birthday, but what does the theory of evolution have to do with love?
UU & YOU
U(nitarian) U(niversalism) and YOU
(are welcome here!)
Are you a recent visitor to our congregation brimming with questions about what those two ‘U’s’ stand for?
Are you considering membership, yet wondering just what exactly membership means?
Are you a new member looking to learn more about our history and find ways to shape our future?
Are you a seasoned member who wants to delve deeper into understanding our tradition and our congregation?
Would you like to share your story and hear from others about how they came to be here and what this congregation means to them?
Are you tired of reading all these questions and ready to ask some of your own?
You’re all encouraged to attend UU & YOU gatherings to learn about where we came from, who we are, and what we can be together. You need bring nothing but your questions and reflections.
ONSITE: On the First Sunday of February. Meet at noon in the Social Hall.
ONLINE: Second Sundays beginning February 12, at noon in the Worship Zoom Room.
Coffee with the Choir Sunday
Please plan to stay after service this Sunday as coffee will be served since our choir is singing. Please check with June if you plan to bring some finger food. Thanks, June Minikel
Rev. Rod will be a speaker at the
Candlelight Vigil for TYRE NICHOLS
Saturday, February 4 / 5:30-8:30 pm
Mission Plaza, SLO
For more info call (805) 619-5354
TOMORROW: Be part of this valuable UUSLO workshop!
 Introduction to Inclusion Registration.
A signup sheet is on our website: https://UUSLO.org
Worship Arts Committee
Asks for Input from UU's
It’s obvious we are going through a period of change – coming out of COVID isolation and moving into combined services. With this in mind, the Worship Arts committee wants to know which aspects of the Sunday service help UUs renew their sense of connection to our UUSLO community? What makes visitors want to return? If you attend on Zoom, what helps you experience UU values?
To give us a better idea of what might increase a sense of connection, the Committee will informally survey congregants and visitors about their Sunday morning worship experience. For that purpose, in the next few weeks, WA committee members plan to ask some of the following questions:
What is your experience on arriving, during, and leaving the Sunday UUSLO Service (in-person or online)? What parts of the service help you connect and feel alive, present, and engaged? What aspects of service interfere with your feeling connected?
Consideration of your Sunday experience in-person or on Zoom could include the following:.
- Your interaction with Greeters, with other members, with the Minister, with the Director of Religious Exploration
- Interaction between the Minister and Worship Associate during the service.
- Visual factors such as the look of the altar
- Technical aspects of the Zoom Service, use of the Zoom screen at the in-person service
- Music selections and performance, choir performance and/or participation, selection and singing of hymns
- Elements of the service, such as the Welcome, Call to Worship, Doxology, Chalice Lighting, Time for all ages, singing the blessing as children exit, community presentation on second Sunday, sharing Joys, Sorrows & Concerns, meditation & times of silence, passing baskets for the offering, readings, sermon, benediction, extinguishing the Chalice and postlude.
- What do you experience that makes you want to come back (in-person or on Zoom)?
To share your response with any member of the Worship Arts Committee, you are invited to set up a conversation or express yourself in an email to one or all of us. Thank you for your interest and for helping us to connect with you.
Thanking you in advance - Susan BaileyKadin, Worship Arts Chairperson
Coffee with the minister for February 2023!
Deepening connections, one cup at a time…
This is open to everyone, whether you like coffee or prefer another refreshment (or none!). My “coffee shop schedule” for the upcoming month is below; I invite you to stop by if it is convenient for you. There is no agenda, just conversation and connection (though I may invite any reflections you may have about the theme for February: The Path of Love). Look forward to seeing you!
8:30-10:30am
at all locations
Tuesday, 02/07/2023
Lucy’s Coffee Company
1279 Laurel Lane
San Luis Obispo
Tuesday, 02/14/2023
Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf
354 5 Cities Dr.
Pismo Beach
Tuesday, 02/21/2023
Joebella Coffee Roasters
3168 El Camino Real
Atascadero
Tuesday, 02/28/2023
Ascendo Coffee
1230 Los Osos Valley Rd
Los Osos
LIT WITS 2/7/23
Lit Wits Zoom meeting is at 6pm on February 7. The non-fiction book for February 7 is Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teaching of plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings offer us gifts and lessons, even if we’ve forgotten how to hear their voices. She circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world.
The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles is our novel for March. Librarian Odile joins the Resistance in WWII in Paris. Her story shows that heroes can be found in unlikely places.
ZOOM LINK: We meet at 6pm on the first Tuesday of each month. We are meeting on Mary Parker’s Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81618487257
We hope you can join us. For more information, you can email
Mary Parker, mnparker539@gmail.com or Jan Clarke, janclarke@charter.net
Help the local immigrant community
Join us at UUSLO on Wednesday
Donation $15 gen admission; $10 for students
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fundraiser-concert-benefitting-undocumented-immigrants-tickets-508032929167
UUSLO Climate Community hosts
Pre- Super Bowl Party in Social Hall
Don't forget about the UUSLO Climate Community event next week! Join us for this interfaith action and taco bar lunch.
Don Maruska, instrumental in developing a spiritual earth stewardship program at St. Benedict's in Los Osos, will tell us about their efforts, and also about his new book, "Solve Climate Change Now: Do What You Love for a Healthy Planet."
We promise to have you out well before the one-woman-show at UUSLO by violinist Brynn Albanese. And of course well before super bowl kickoff! Please RSVP to one of the emails below so we know how much food to prepare. We suggest a donation this time.
Date: Sunday, February 12
Place: UUSLO social hall
Time: 12 noon to 1:30
Program: Don Maruska will speak for about 30 minutes, and then answer questions.
Next meeting is set for March 12th.
Brynn Albanese
in a One-Woman-Show
@ UUSLO on February 12 at 2 pm
LOCATION: This performance will take place at Unitarian Universalists San Luis Obispo (UUSLO), 2201 Lawton Avenue, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401.
DONATIONS ONLY: This is a fundraiser for UUSLO. A suggested Donation of $20 per adult will be gratefully received, at the door or in advance via brownpapertickets.com
MASK ETIQUETTE: Mask wearing is highly recommended but not required.
Enjoy the concert and then take in the Super Bowl. There's time for both.
Joys, Sorrows & Concerns - 1/29/2023
Jan Clarke: Joy: Yesterday, my son, daughter-in-law, and grandson came over for our belated Christmas after illness and other things that had to be done. We had our lunch, opened presents and then they all joined in to do all the chores I needed help with. My son wired and hung a framed photo and hung up the smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. My grandson set up a new modem and got the WiFi working again. My daughter-in-law set up my Roku so I could also get live TV. Then they all took the trash and recycle to the dumpsters. It was a great Christmas!!
Alison Rittger: More Joy: The Sunday service went well, even with Rev. Rod in Cambria. A big thank you to Sheridan Cole, Mary Glick and to Andy Glick. Their participation on this rainy morning made Rev. Worsnop's inspired service more enlightening. And a thank you to Tom Brown, our tech whiz, for stepping in and making adjustments when things didn't sound quite right. Also to Morgan Saltamachio for stepping up with lots of kids to participate in a lively video of being connected with everything that is. That's the kind of damp Sunday morning it was. And thanks to Deb Cleere for smoothing out the zoom service.
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J/S/C Instructions
Please fill out the form at https://uuslo.org/joys-sorrows and we will read your joy/sorrow/concern at the next Sunday service. Deadline is Saturday at noon for the upcoming Sunday. Submissions received after that will be read the following Sunday. Let us know on the form if you would like them printed in our Weekly NUUs. Any questions or problems with the form, please contact Jan Clarke (janclarke@charter.net). We will continue having paper forms available at the in-person worship to be filled out before the service.
Want to help a Tijuana family build their home?
I’m excited! So far, Jan Meslin and I, Douglas Pillsbury, from UUSLO will be going to Tijuana in April to help a family build and furnish their home. Marie Haworth and Tracy Weddell are interested as well. In truth, I’ve never built a house before, but skilled local craftsmen will be joining us volunteers to lead the way. Luckily, there will be easy jobs as well as skilled jobs to choose from.
The UU Justice Ministry of CA is partnering with Casas de Luz (Houses of Light), a project of the UU Fellowship of San Dieguito, to make this happen. In the past five years, Casas de Luz has brought together volunteers from many organizations to help build over 100 houses, both in Mexico and the San Diego area. Families who are selected must have limited income but also must own the land already. They must have children and be willing to participate in the build.
Several of us at UUSLO joined an orientation on Zoom this past week to learn more about it. We saw people from six California UU congregations.
The total cost to build this home, along with our room, board, and transportation is about $12,000. Lots of fundraising is happening so that it will be affordable for anyone who wants to go. If you are interested in helping support us financially, or want to go with us, contact Douglas (douglasesl123@gmail.com) or visit this website: https://uujmca.org/pilgrimage-to-the-border-house-build/
"This is what love in action looks like! "-Douglas Pillsbury
From the Article II Commission...
"... the proposed version of Article II we have presented is indeed a significant departure from our current version, just as past changes to Article II were significant changes from their predecessors. The 1985 version which first introduced the Principles was a radical change from the Purposes and Objectives of the previous version. We are continuing in the line of proposing changes that fit the times in which we live. We fully expect that one day another Commission will review our work and significantly change it. We are writing this in pencil, not etching it in stone."
Interdependence. We honor the interdependent web of all existence.
We covenant to cherish Earth and all beings by creating and nurturing relationships of care and respect. With humility and reverence, we acknowledge our place in the great web of life, and we work to repair harm and damaged relationships.
Pluralism. We celebrate that we are all sacred beings diverse in culture, experience, and theology.
We covenant to learn from one another in our free and responsible search for truth and meaning.
We embrace our differences and commonalities with Love, curiosity, and respect.
Justice. We work to be diverse multicultural Beloved Communities where all thrive.
We covenant to dismantle racism and all forms of systemic oppression.
We support the use of inclusive democratic processes to make decisions.
Transformation. We adapt to the changing world.
We covenant to collectively transform and grow spiritually and ethically.
Openness to change is fundamental to our Unitarian and Universalist heritages, never complete and never perfect.
Generosity. We cultivate a spirit of gratitude and hope.
We covenant to freely and compassionately share our faith, presence, and resources.
Our generosity connects us to one another in relationships of interdependence and mutuality.
Equity. We declare that every person has the right to flourish with inherent dignity and worthiness.
We covenant to use our time, wisdom, attention, and money to build and sustain fully accessible and inclusive communities.
Here is the link to the report: https://www.uua.org/files/2023-01/a2sc_rpt_01172023.pdf
Central Coast Coalition for Inclusive Schools
is the recipient of the UUSLO
February Community Outreach Offering
Central Coast Coalition for Inclusive Schools (CCC41S) is an affiliation of individuals and organizations that actively supports the development of safe and affirming school communities. CCC41S strives to celebrate diversity, advocate for social justice, and transform educational cultures by empowering youth, families, professionals, and organizations. CCC41S ' work is in alignment with Unitarian Universalist SLO's principles as our work helps to ensure that all students are treated with respect and given an opportunity to thrive, regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, gender, ability, gender identity or gender expression.
CCC41S was formed due to a lack of implementation of The Fair, Accurate, Inclusive and Respectful Education Act, passed in 2011. This law requires California public schools to provide Fair, Accurate, Inclusive and Respectful representations of our diverse ethnic and cultural population in the K-12 grade history and social studies curriculum, such as instruction in the study of the role and contributions of LGBT Americans, persons with disabilities, and members of other cultural groups, to the development of California and the U.S. Often such laws are passed without "teeth" and without funding, as result progress has been slow.
Your generous contribution will be used first and foremost to support our organization's work analyzing the California Healthy Kids Survey data. Every other year, 7th, 9th and 11th grade public school students take this survey. Students had an opportunity to self-identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender for the first time in 2013. Since 2013, CCC41S has obtained the CHKS raw data and prepared detailed reports regarding bullying, assault, suicidality, substance abuse, etc. and comparing the experiences of LGBT students versus straight, cisgender students. These reports have provided the much-needed proof that LGBTQ+ students are at a much greater risk on our campuses and have opened doors to SLOCOE, school districts and county cooperation.
| Call for Proposals has been extended
Proposals for workshops, conference sessions, and other activities are requested for the Pacific Southwest Service Area Assembly, April 21-23, 2023,
Sponsored by Camp de Benneville Pines and
hosted by Unitarian Universalists San Luis Obispo
“In the spirit of our beloved PSWD District Assembly”
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Fill out the proposal form using this link… CLICK HERE
Or CLICK HERE for a downloadable pdf and send your completed workshop proposal form by to Dale Botts, dale.botts2@gmail.com *Please note: Presenters will provide their own assembly registration fee.
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