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September Theme: Faith

Ingathering / Water Cermony

Sun Sep 7, the Worship Service will be our annual "Ingathering" all-ages service.

As is our tradition, the service will include a Water Ceremony. Bring a small sample of water that represents for you the predominant mood of your last couple months:

Still waters of rest & renewal;
Shining waters of joy & happiness
Storm waters of grief and loss
Rushing waters of transition and change

Practice of the Week

Don't Know

"Don't know" doesn't mean "me dumb." It just means being open and receptive to whatever may be the case without forcing upon it our preconceptions.

Sun Sep 7 -- 10:00am
Worship Service: Gathering the Waters

Rev. Meredith Garmon & Perry Montrose

Our all-ages ingathering service.

Prelude by Adam Kent: 10:00.
Gathering song: 10:10.
Choir will sing. Info/background on the music: CLICK HERE.

Sun Sep 14 -- 10:00am
Worship Service: Faith Like a River

Rev. Meredith Garmon

Addressing September's theme of the month, we ask: What is faith? And what is Unitarian Universalist faith?
Prelude by Adam Kent: 10:00.
Gathering song: 10:10.

Perry's Posts: The R.E. News

Welcome to a New Year in Religious Education! Please see six quick announcements. READ MORE...

A New Model of Engagement. The Religious Education Council held a retreat over the summer to vision new ways of creating dynamic programs for children, youth, and adults. READ MORE...

R.E. September in the Sanctuary. Children and youth will be starting in the sanctuary (i.e., there's no children's worship) for the four Sundays of September. READ MORE...

Walk the Talk, Wear the Shirt!

Order your SOSL (Standing on the Side of Love) t-shirt from the UUA Bookstore: CLICK HERE.

You'll want to have your shirt to wear to the People's Climate March on Sep 21. Learn more:

See the event website: CLICK HERE.

Document about CUC Participation: CLICK HERE

Also: learn more about our SOSL at the SOSL website: CLICK HERE.

Journey Groups Starting

Your Unitarian Universalist journey is one that has the potential to slowly transform your life. Together we can grow in depth and spiritual maturity. We do this by exploring together the significant issues on which religions at their best have always guided people to greater insight -- such issues as faith, death, forgiveness, hope, justice, love, brokenness.

As of this writing, we have 69 people signed-up to be in a Journey Group -- and 14 group facilitators.

Journey Groups meet once a month for 10 months (Sep through Jun). I think you'll find them to be tremendously valuable and you won't want to miss a single one. However, even you miss most of your groups meetings, you'll still find it valuable to attend occasionally. Signing up does not commit you to attend -- we just need to know which group you'll go to when you do have a chance to go.

Read more about what Journey Groups are and how they work: CLICK HERE.

See the instructions for how to select a Journey Group and sign up for one: CLICK HERE.

See the Journey Group Monthly Packet for September, "Faith." You can get it as a PDF (good for printing out): CLICK HERE.

You can also see it in blog format (good for clicking on the links included): CLICK HERE.

Saturday Zen: Sep 6

Zen practice at the Parsonage. 10:00 - 11:45a on Sat Sep 6.

Come around to back door.

New to meditation? Come 10 minutes early for a brief orientation.

The Common Read for 2014-15 has been announced. It's Paul Rasor, Reclaiming Public Witness. Order your copy! READ MORE...

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General Assembly 2015 is in Portland, OR -- Jun 24-28. GA is amazing fun, enriching, deepening, and transformative! I encourage all CUC members to begin planning now to attend.

Yours in the faith we share,

Rev. Meredith Garmon
Minister
Perry Montrose
Director of Lifespan Religious Education & Faith Development

The Communitarian

Jul/Aug issue of our newsletter:
CLICK HERE.

CUC Website

The website of the Community Unitarian Church at White Plains.
CLICK HERE.

The Liberal Pulpit

Blog site for Meredith's sermons and other reflections.
CLICK HERE.

Index:
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Perry's Pondering
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The Five Foundational Spiritual Practices

Journal daily.

Study daily.

Silence daily.

Group monthly.

Mindfulness always.