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Spiritually Open, Intentionally Inclusive since 1958
510 N Leroux
Flagstaff, AZ 86001
928-779-4492
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- This Sunday at Beacon -
October 25th, 2020
Virtual Service
"The Survival of the Yavapai People"
Rev. Patty Willis, Granite Peak UU, Prescott, AZ preaching. Rev. Robin hosting
Music from Roomie Wood and Rebecca Prizznick.
Rev. Patty says, "Two of the three books that I have found on Yavapai history speak of their "survival." With this sermon to honor Indigenous People's Day, let us begin to open our eyes to the culture surrounding us that has long loved this land that has become our home.
~ Please join us after the service ~
Social Hour 2.0 - "The Post-Service Gathering"
we're bringing a little more structure to our time together on Sundays at 11 AM.
Will we still schmooze? Yep. We'll start with some socializing and checking in,
move on "live Joys and Sorrows" you can share (using your HOPE stone,
if you have one* and then a centering question related to the service.
This week's question: What is your relationship to the land?
The land you live on and the land of your ancestors?
Join in and stay connected
Passcode: 968647
Or call +1 669 900 6833 and enter Meeting ID: 733 037 2039
No Hike on October 25 - Cold and windy weather forecast.
Next Sunday
November 1st - "Go Set a Watchman"
Rev. Robin preaching, Music from Roomie Wood and Rebecca Prizznick.
It's a Worship Watch Party!
Sunday, November 1 at 10 AM on Zoom
On November 1st (next Sunday ) we're trying something new - A Worship Watch Party on Zoom! Let's watch the service together at 10 AM on Sundays. Log into Zoom and I'll share the screen with our You tube service. We'll pause for some "live Joys and sorrows" and the chat will be open for comments. The Zoom link will be the same as the social hour and will be posted in the e-news and google group. Grab your coffee. Bring your hope stone! I believe a watch party will create a tangible energy and connection and can carry us fully into the Post Service Gatherings. Hope you'll give it a try.
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Please note: We recommend that you donate to Vanco directly from a bank account to save us the fees associated with credit and debit card donations.
More for us to sustain our congregation.
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Share Your Joys and Sorrows- Chime In!
One way we can sustain connection during this time apart is by sharing
our personal joys and sorrows. These can be small things or large things that effect your life.
be in touch and we can record a short Zoom- recorded snippets to include in the service.
Only first names will be used. Or, you can share your joys and sorrows live
at our Post-Service Zoom Gatherings, Sundays at 11.
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Porch Visits with Rev. Robin
Who is that masked minister in her "Soul" mobile? It's Rev. Robin! - ready to come by for a socially-distanced visit on your porch, patio, or deck. Trailhead meet-ups and easy hikes, we could even meet at a park, or walk in your neighborhood. You decide! Just give a shout-[email protected] or 978-505-7245
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Spotlight this week
We are invited to an interfaith book discussion on Albert Camus' THE PLAGUE!
Currently, the following communities/congregations are participating: Congregation Lev Shalom, Jewish Community of Sedona and the Verde Valley, Flagstaff Kehilah Jewish network, Episcopal Church of Epiphany (Flagstaff), Christ Lutheran Church in Sedona, and Flagstaff's Beacon Unitarian Universalist Congregation. The Zoom conversation will take place on Wednesday October 28, at 7pm and will last about 90 minutes.
There is no cost involved. Preparation and process for being part of this rich conversation here:
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Caring and Connected Team Calling!
We have created a "Caring and Connected" Team to keep us in touch during this time of virtual church and physical distancing. Members and friends of Beacon will be receiving a phone call and/or an email from one of our team leaders to chat about how you've been these past months and share some news about upcoming plans and activities in the "Zoom Room" at Beacon. As always, Rev. Robin is here to talk with you, come by for a masked porch visit, and help you with pastoral or practical needs. [email protected] or call 978-505-7245. |
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Beacon Buzz's next date is November 1st 12 noon
Join Rev. Robin and Board President Wendy Bruun on the first Sunday of the month at 12 noon to ask questions, voice concerns, offer ideas, and learn more about Beacon in the "Zoom where it happens". Pass code: 968647
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Small COVID- Safe Soiree Circles starting soon Sign up now!
Remember Circle Suppers - the popular program offered at Beacon where each circle was semi-randomly assembled, and the members took turns hosting the gatherings? We are now offering a new version that we call "Soiree Circles."
Paul Beier is the organizer.
Gatherings are COVID-safe due to their small size and will be held outdoors.
If you want to laugh together, share stories, deepen old friendships,
make new friends who share your principles and experiences,
this is a great way to do it! face-to-face and not on zoom.
Click here to learn more about how we intend to organize and host these gatherings and sign up using the online form! Flyer here
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Step Up to Leadership at Beacon!
The Leadership Succession Planning Team (LSPT)
met in August to discuss expansion of the team's functions. The report of the meeting can be seen by clicking here.The LSPT is primarily tasked with the annual slate of elected members of the Beacon Board of Trustees.
The LSPT is in the process of updating its charter and brainstorming ways to recruit and develop leaders for other important functions specified in the bylaws. Functions currently being considered by the LSPT are congregational vitality and membership.
Please contact the LSPT Chair, Dennis Spurlin, with comments or questions.
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Religious Exploration
We encourage Beacon families to continue Religious Exploration at home!
Imaginative and Inspiring Religious Exploration Programs starting soon!
We're excited to announce that we have formed a Religious Exploration collaboration with the Granite Peak UU Church in Prescott, AZ. This is an experiment we hope will succeed as we seek ways to move through our virtual church reality and support one another with strong programming. You can learn about both of the programs we're offering here.
Religious Exploration for Children
~Beacon at Home~
CARTUUNS
For our younger kids (K-5, and younger as appropriate), we have chosen CARTUUNS, which explores UU values and principles through Disney and Pixar short films, such as the award-winning "La Luna." We'll be screen sharing through ZOOM with families from both churches. 10:00 AM to 10:45 AM twice a month on Zoom.
Upcoming classes:
Oct 25- Mater and the Ghost Light
November 8th
November 22th
The lessons are stand-alone and can be joined from week to week. Please take a look at the link and let us know if you'll give it a try. There are supplies we'll need to buy for some projects and would need to know who is participating so we can deliver them. Contact Stephanie Van Belle at [email protected]
Religious Exploration for Middle/High School Youth
The Fifth Dimension
For Middle School/Junior High(and older or slightly younger, as appropriate), we'll be collaborating on another Imagine-RE program called The Fifth Dimension. Through classic Twilight Zone episodes (created by Unitarian Rod Serling), we'll explore social and political issues relevant to youth. Students become deeply engaged in the topics and engrossed in the storytelling and "sci-fi" twists in episodes like "Eye of the Beholder" and "Enough Time At Last."
We'll be screen sharing through ZOOM with families from both churches. The lessons are stand-alone and can be joined from week to week. Please take a look at the link and let us know if you'll give it a try. Contact Dru Munroe at [email protected]
5th Dimension 11:30 am-12:45pm
Upcoming classes:
Oct 25- "A Most Unusual Camera" (Season 2, Episode 10). NEW ZOOM LINKPasscode: 510
"No preparation for the class is required! Youth can just join the meeting at the scheduled time and you are ready to go!"
Pacific West Region Youth Events for 2020-2021
We still have one more Fall Youth Conference in November. The first two have been fabulous!
Next year's slate is a bit tentative with the ongoing pandemic, particularly summer camp, so please check it each quarter to see if our schedule has evolved with the changing times.
As always, I'll add registration links directly to this doc as they go live,
so feel free to check back with regularity.
Thanks so much for your ministry during these difficult days.
Towards interdependence...
In faith and the spirit of love.
Religious Exploration for Adults
Brene Brown's Daring Greatly: How The Courage to Be Vulnerable
Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead"
Six 75 minute "lunch and learn" sessions, led by Rev. Robin Zucker, Minister at Beacon UU, Flagstaff. Thursdays, 12-1:15 (or 1:30 as the group chooses) PM (Arizona time)
On these dates: November 5 and 19; December 3 and 17; January 7 and 21.
This program is being offered in collaboration with the Adult RE
programs of the Sedona and Prescott UU congregations. Zoom Links will be posted.
A complete workbook/journal is available to download as a pdf from thebeaconuu.com website Adult RE page
You may participate in this program without reading the entire book, as the exercises in the workbook include excerpts. Other materials will be provided to download from Rev. Robin. If you require us to print a copy of the workbook for you, please let us know. We'll share our reflections from the text and workbook and have small group confidential discussions in breakout rooms.
Please let Rev. Robin know you'll be taking
Chalice Circle Meeting will be Tuesday, October 27th, 2020.
New time now at 7pm. Zoom links below.
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~ Monthly Touchstone Theme: Emotional Intelligence ~
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Touchstone Chalice Circles
Passcode: 510
In the Chalice Circle group for October, we will explore Emotional Intelligence. Connecting with others is important especially during this time when we cannot actually be together in person. Zoom does allow us to maintain these connections and our emotions influence how we relate to each other. Join us and discuss how emotional health promotes self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, and empathy.
Touchstones Chalice Circles are designed to meet our needs for belonging (intimacy) and meaning (ultimacy) by building friendships and providing opportunities to ponder life's questions, small and large, with others who share the common values of our UU Principles. All are welcome.
Discussion examines subjects as provided in the monthly journal of Unitarian Universalism, Touchstones. To meet the needs of the congregation, we have made attendance open.
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Beacon member (and Yoga instructor) Cassie Dakan invites you to join her open air yoga class in Cullen Park, Fridays at 10 AM.
The class is free!!!
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B&G Workday Fun - October 10, 2020
We had a perfect day, and a perfect size crew of 10 people for our yard clean up last Saturday. Thank you so much to all who participated in sprucing up our outdoor spaces: Dan Davis, Dennis Spurlin, Rich and Roz Clark, Diana Roy, Mary Poore, Mark James, Anne Wittke, Barry Malpas, and Theresa deBoer. It is very enjoyable to have these small but wonderful opportunities to interact in person with people. We all wore masks when close and kept our distances, but still enjoyed being together.
We will probably do another get together after the leaves fall in November!
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Social Justice Allies
Call to Join Beacon's Activate Teams
Beacon's mission and our UU faith call us to work together towards the goal of world community with peace, liberty and justice for all. In order to keep our Beacon community on that track, we are seeking motivated volunteers to join two Beacon teams with a social justice orientation:
- Activate Team for Electoral Issues (3 or more people)
- Activate for BIPOC Allyship Team: (3 or more people)
Teams work together to decide their agenda's. If you are interested in joining either of these teams, please contact Rev. Robin.
Anti-Harassment Training
Hollaback is a nonprofit on a mission to end harassment - in all its forms. They provide free trainings throughout the year to give people the resources to respond to, prevent and intervene in instances of harassement. If you are interested in participating in a training or learning more, please visit the following link:
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GETTING OUT THE VOTE IN COCONINO COUNTY
In the face of voter suppression efforts, especially recent attacks on the US Postal
System, it is important for all of us to educate ourselves on our options for
voting. The following is information that will be useful:
Monday Wednesday Friday Friday Tuesday OCTOBER OCTOBER OCTOBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER 5 7 23 30 3 Last day to Early Last day to Last day to Election Day register voting request early vote early VOTE to vote begins ballot by mail in person 6am-7pm Because of mailing delays, if you have not yet registered to vote, please contact the Coconino County Elections Office immediately to get a form or you can find all the information you need and register on-line at (https://www.coconino.az.gov/195/Elections). Phone: 928-679-7860.
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Upcoming UU the Vote Events:
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How can you help? By becoming an Election Defender. Unlike traditional poll watchers, Election Defenders will be working to provide safe supports for voting (such as PPE and water), election and voter defense, de-escalating right-wing voter intimidation tactics, and signaling to a network of groups and lawyers if and where trouble breaks out. Sign-up to be an Election Defender
Protecting the rights of people to vote in-person on November 3 means thousands of people signing up for different roles. Signing up today means you'll have access to weekly training and a Slack channel, where our efforts can be coordinated around the nation. UU the Vote is part of a united front effort with hundreds of other mass-member organizations to ensure free and fair elections.
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Love & Justice: Abolition and Alternatives to Policing UUs proclaim that no one is outside the circle of love, therefore, our goals are also abolitionist goals. Join UUJAZ every first Wednesday of the month in actively resisting the systems of policing and incarceration while building relationships and community with other passionate UUs in Arizona. Register here
- The Candidates on Education Our incredible partners at Save our Schools Arizona and Civic Engagement Beyond voting have been busy this month putting together candidate forums in several legislative districts. Hear candidates explain their positions and plans for education in the following legislative districts:
District 6 (Flagstaff)
District 17 (Maricopa County)
Districts 20 + 21 (West Valley and Surprise)
District 23 (Scottsdale)
District 28 (Phoenix)
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The First Principle + Immigration Justice: Accompaniment and Dignity
"We affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of all people." The first principle of Unitarian Universalism is a charge, not for charity, but to journey alongside asylum seekers as equals, community members, humans. How do we act for immigration justice in ways that are rooted in the restoration of dignity, the dignity our system tries to strip from migrant travelers?
Over the last nine years, Phoenix Restoration Project has created a network of folks accompanying asylum seekers, including UUs from UU Phoenix, Valley UU, Surprise, and West Valley. Hear stories, best practices, and ways to honor the dignity of our traveling friends, ask questions, and engage in discussion with Mountain Vista's Contigo team.
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A Special Message from Rev. Robin about BIPOC Allyship
Dear Beloved Community,
America is on fire with rage, weary from a pandemic, and aching with despair. Along with the rest of our country, we've read and heard so many devastating accounts over the past week, the most heart-rending from people of color coping with another case of murderous systemic racism in our country. I do not need to (nor, am I entitled to) add anything to their experiences or parse what they have to say about racism. They live it.
...To read the full message on our website, please click here
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Lifespan Religious Exploration Resources for Learning About and Responding to Racism
This painful moment in time calls us to focus our learning and reflection on allyship to people of color, understanding white privilege, and reflecting on how we can part of a systemic sea change and solution in our society.
Beacon has provided resources for all ages addressing how we as individuals and as communities can learn about and respond to racism. For the full list of resources, activities and community meetings, visit Beacon's Religious Exploration pages. |
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Camp De Benneville Pines Fundraiser
De Benneville Pines has captured the hearts of thousands of campers for nearly 60 years. it is a place of kindness, friendship, and beauty. Now they need your help to keep their doors open because of Covid-19 pandemic.To donate click Here
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Worship
Sunday, October 25th, 2020
10 am - 11 am
"The Survival of the Yavapai People"
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Board Meeting
Monday, October 26th, 2020
at 7:00 PM
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Touchstones Chalice Circle
Tuesday, October 27th
at 7pm
passcode: 510
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If you would like to submit a calendar event, send an email to [email protected]. With all requests, please indicate the following: proposed start and end time of the event, the space/room preferred, and a rough group size. On the occasion of a cancellation or rescheduling of an event, please let the office know in a timely fashion to ensure that your event is correctly represented in the newsletter and order of service. Thank you!
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Everyday Ways to Support Beacon UU
1. When you go to Fry's grocery store, use the Beacon phone number (928 779 4492) as the Alternate ID when it asks for it at the beginning of checkout, and you will get shopping discounts for Fry's members, as well as donating a percentage of your expenditure to Beacon. You can also sign up for an individual account if you prefer that, or want to take advantage of the gasoline discounts. You have to pick Beacon as your beneficiary when you set up your own account. 2. If you shop on Amazon, please use "Amazon Smile" and choose Beacon Unitarian Universalist Congregation (do not abbreviate UU) as your recipient. We will receive a 0.5% for every purchase and that can add up! Remember that you have to start each shopping session at smile.amazon.com for us to receive the donation.
3. Another online fundraiser is igive.com. Once again, create your own account with a user name and password, then select settings, my cause, and type in Beacon Unitarian Universalist Congregation (do not abbreviate UU). Then you can order from any of the hundreds of organizations listed under igive. There are also coupons listed online you can use when ordering from some organizations.4. Basha's has a special debit card that you can charge up before shopping, and a portion of what goes through the debit card gets donated to Beacon because that card is tied to Beacon. Ask Anne Wittke for further information. Have other ideas for our income incubator? leave them on a card in the bin in the lobby, or send them to Rev. Robin. |
~ Beacon Office Hours & Contacts ~
Office Phone (928) 779-4492
Minister,
Rev. Robin Zucker
Mon: 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Wed: 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Thurs: 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Or by appointment:
978-505-7245 - talk and text (confidential line)
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Director of RE
Our engaging programs for all ages continue while we search for a new Religious Exploration Director.
Rev. Robin can answer your RE questions. |
Office Manager,
Yeximar L Cramer
Mon: 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Wed: 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Thurs: 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
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~ Unitarian Universalist Seven Principles ~
Unitarian Universalist congregations affirm and promote seven Principles, which we hold as strong values and moral guides. We live out these Principles within a "living tradition" of wisdom and spirituality, drawn from sources as diverse as science, poetry, scripture, and personal experience. Learn more at beaconuu.com!
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You no longer need to forward your spam emails to [email protected], because the Federal Trade Commission is now collecting spam through a honeypot, which is an online trap. This change makes it more efficient for the FTC to collect spam that is deceptive or violates the CAN-SPAM Act. This change saves tax dollars, your time, and helps the FTC collect deceptive and illegal spam. If you lost money to a scam that started with an email, please report it at ftc.gov/complaint. There, you can also report spam you receive. Read more about how to limit spam, phone calls, and mail.
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If you are not on Beacon's dedicated Google group, you are missing out on an important communications link within our congregation. It is useful for spreading information about something going on in Flagstaff, informing others of social action activities, offering an item for sale or to give away, sharing enthusiasm about a book or movie, requesting information or recommendations -- and more! It's simple to sign up! Email our Office Manager, at [email protected] or Visit: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/uuflag
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Contribute to Beacon's Weekly News
Newsletter submissions must be submitted by Wednesday at 4:00 pm to [email protected] in order to be included in the newsletter. |
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