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"In God We Trust"
This Sunday Rev. Krista explores the questions: How does the practice of trust intersect with theology? What ways does trust show up in faith? And what do we put our trust in if we don’t believe in god(s)?
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Rev. Krista's Office Hours | |
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Wednesday, March 12,
12-2pm
Thursday, March 13, 10am-Noon
Thursday, March 20, 9:30-11:30am
Friday, March 21, 3-5pm
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2025 Service Auction - Ripples of Courageous Love | |
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Thanks to everyone who donated items for the service auction. There is a nice variety of items to bid on including food, dinners, art, fun, services, and useful everyday items.
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Doors open at 5:45pm
Dinner served at 6:00pm
Bidding starts at 7:00pm
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The menu includes:
Meat lasagna
Vegetarian lasagna
Salad
Bread
A variety of desserts
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Contact Laurie Young or Joey Hunter if you have specific dietary needs. We can offer gluten free lasagna and gluten free bread. | |
Survey from the Action and Justice Team | |
The Action and Justice Team would very much like to have your input into our Social Action Planning. We have provided a short (two-question) survey to get your input.
Prior to completing this survey, please review our congregational Values, Mission, and Ends (see pdf file here). We are trying to align our social action work with our values, mission, and ends. Also, the survey is asking for what we as a congregation should do, not what any of us as individuals might be interested in doing on our own.
Please respond by Friday, March 14, so that the Action and Justice Team can keep the planning process moving.
If you have any questions, please contact me or Laures Young (lauresyoung@gmail.com), Action and Justice Team Chair.
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Reproductive Freedom Lobby Day & Rally w/MUUSJA
Mon., March 10 – Rally @1:30p in the Minnesota State Capitol Rotunda. (Registration for Lobby Day is closed, but anyone can join us for the Rally. Please come!
| March 11: Conversations at the Edge of Hope: Toward a UU Theology of Collapse | “Conversations at the Edge of Hope” meets second Tuesdays from 6:30-8pm in Room 7 (lower level) at UCCNB. Led by MW member David Weiss, these conversations reflect Merging Waters’ commitment to bring our values of mindful interdependence, authentic curiosity, and courageous love to the very challenging topic of climate crisis. I am determined but tentative regarding our March session. My cancer surgery is on March 5, just 6 days prior to this. But I want to meet on March 11—in person—because this work is part of my healing. If it turns out I’m not up to this, I’ll announce this as soon as I know. I already have an essay ready to share. For March 11, please read “Toward a UU Theology for Collapse.” This is a little pause in our larger work, but it’s an important opportunity for me to share some of my first specifically UU thinking. And a chance for you (whether you’re UU or not!) to help me sense what’s clear and useful, where I need to work harder, and what just misses altogether. I believe it will make for excellent conversation. I put a few discussion questions up on my blog ahead of time. Join us on March 11, on site or online in our Zoom room. Contact David (drw59mn@gmail.com) with questions. RSVPs are welcome, but not required. | |
Rise & Repair Rally Day w/MUUSJA
Wed., March 12, 10:00a -2:15p at the Minnesota State Capitol. Encourage state legislators to protect wild rice & clean water, oppose false climate solutions, and respect Indigenous & tribal sovereignty. Training at 10 am. Group photo at 12:45 pm. Rally in the Capitol Rotunda at 1:15 pm. Legislative meetings scheduled throughout the day. Click for more info. Join MUUSJA and other UUs for this Rally Day!
| LWV Federal Judiciary Study | |
Thursday, March 20, 2025
6:30 PM CT - 8:30 PM CT
UCC Church of New Brighton
New Brighton Area LWV members will be meeting to learn more about the LWV Federal Judiciary Study. This is your chance to learn more about the Federal Judiciary and to provide input into an important and timely LWVUS position. The consensus process is essential to the development of League position statements that reflect the views of members. For this grassroots process to be effective, we need as many New Brighton Area league members as possible to attend this very important meeting. If you are out of town or need a ride, let us know. We need your participation!
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MOM's Group
Mom's group this month will be held on Saturday, March 22nd at 11 am at Sarna's Classic Grill in Columbia Heights. Let's let someone else cook for us! Contact Liz for more information 612-380-6939
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March 21, 6:30 pm
UCCNB, Fellowship Hall
An Invitation from TASMN (Turkish American Society of Minnesota)
In celebrating the holy month of Ramadan, we're pleased to invite you to join us for the iftar feast. We do hope you accept our invitation and honor us with your presence.
Please RSVP at https://shorturl.at/kxpFG
| March Worship Theme "Trust" | |
In religious circles, talk of trust most often revolves around having faith that life will look after us. For instance, our Christian friends sing hymns about God “watching over us” and keeping “an eye on the sparrow.” Our Jewish friends lift up the Exodus story to encourage faith that God will help us make our way even when things look bleak. Likewise, prayer practice for our Muslim friends is all about reminding oneself that you are in Allah’s safe hands. We UUs voice similar
sentiments through the language of trusting “a Love that will not let us go.”
from Soul Matters Small Group Curriculum
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March Special Donation
Southern Anoka Community Assistance (SACA)
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SACA's mission is to provide food and resources to those in need while empowering dignity and independence to those we serve in our community.
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Merging Waters Women's Book Group
April 5, 9:30am
Online: Our Zoom Room
BOOK: Non-Fiction- The Comfort of Crows, by Margaret Renkl
The Merging Waters Women's Book Group is a gathering of female (identifying as female/feminine, LGBTQ+ inclusive)) members and friends who meet the first Saturday of each month to discuss books written by female identified authors. The group alternates between fiction and non-fiction works recommended by one or more of the group members. Contact Pat Ferrian (ferri004@gmail.com) to be added to the email list.
Meetings are held online via ZOOM, 9:30 am to 11:30 am. Unless otherwise noted, use the “Our Zoom Room” (Yellow Button) on the mergingwatersuu.org home page.
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Sunday Evening Book Group
Sunday, March 9
Meet at the Doug & Michele's
BOOK: Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Eagan, 364 pages. Published in 2013.
Edward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous portrait photographer, the Annie Leibovitz of his time. He moved in rarefied circles, a friend to presidents, vaudeville stars, leading thinkers. But when he was thirty-two years old, in 1900, he gave it all up to pursue his Great Idea: to capture on film the continent’s original inhabitants before the old ways disappeared.
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