In the spirit of cultivating relationships, please be aware that this is an especially LONG News and Notes edition. Please read the whole thing. There's really aWESome stuff happening at WES and we don't want you to miss any of it!! |
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This Sunday's Platform
10:30am
Livestreamed on Zoom
(tiny.cc/wesplatform)
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The Welcome Table: Where’s My Seat?
What does it take to live into our desire to be racially inclusive?
This Platform is the culmination of Beyond Categorical Thinking Weekend. During the Workshop, on Friday and Saturday, WES members have had a chance to unpack and move forward on dismantling implicit bias in the search for a new Senior Leader. Carol Carter Walker is an active lay leader with the UUA and with the Paint Branch UU Church in Adelphi, and is a longtime Beyond Categorical Thinking facilitator.
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Read the Statement of Purpose -->
Be an in-person Usher or Greeter -->
Join the Tech Team -->
Run virtual coffee hour once per month -->
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TGIF Adults' Check-in
5:30pm
Beyond Categorical Thinking Workshop Part 1
7pm
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Beyond Categorical Thinking Workshop Part 2
10am
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Platform Service
10:30am
3rd-5th Grade SEEK
10:30am
@WES
Coffee Hour
After Platform
Sci-Fi Book Club
1pm
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WES Chorus Gathering
7:30pm
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Improv Group Meeting
7:30pm
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TGIF Adults' Check-in
5:30pm
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Remembrance Day Vigil
5pm
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SAVE THE DATE: Reopening Town Hall Meeting: Sunday, October 31 after the Platform Service. Watch for the revised plan coming out on October 25!
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For all the WES News, be sure to check out the WES website.
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Remembrance Day
October 30-31.
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Join us for an in-person, outdoor, socially distant vigil on October 30th from 5-7pm. While reservations aren't required, your reservation will help us ensure there are enough candles for all. Please let us know you're attending here.
- We will be creating a photo slideshow of the loved ones that we will be remembering this year. Please send any photos you'd like to have included to Robyn at robynk@ethicalsociety.org by Thursday, October 28th.
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Halloween Hike
October 31, 2pm
- Meet (in costume!) behind WES at 2 pm on October 31 for a Halloween hike, sponsored by WES's Scout Troop. Participants will divide into small groups to go on an age-appropriate hike in Rock Creek Park.
- Youth of all ages are invited to participate. Parents should use their best judgment about whether to accompany their kids on the hike.
- For more information or questions please contact Sonja Kueppers at scoutmaster1123@gmail.com
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Portal Run Stream Litter Clean Up
Saturday, November 6, 10am-12pm
- Join the Earth Ethics Action Team, the BSA Troop and the WES Teens for the autumn Portal Branch Stream Clean up!
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S'mores & More In-Person Neighborhood Gathering
Saturday, November 6, 5-7pm
- As we ease back into re-opening, you are invited to a special evening of FOOD & FUN around a campfire. Let's celebrate Autumn and community with s'mores and warm, spiced cider around a fire pit! Plus games for adults and kids!
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Upcoming SEEK Classes
- October 24, 10:30-11:30am -- 3rd-5th Grade SEEK Class on the back patio at WES. Make your reservation here.
- October 31: No SEEK Classes. Interested in being a teacher so we can have classes more frequently? Email Ndara!
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Afghan Support Group
- WES has also signed up with LSS to have a long-term co-sponsorship relationship with a refugee family. We hope to be matched with a family in the coming weeks, and we would then sponsor that family for a year, providing English language learning, transportation, benefit application assistance, job assistance, financial support, and cross-cultural mentoring.
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We will need many WES members to be part of this sponsorship team – please contact Kate Lang at klang20910@yahoo.com if you would like to participate.
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Sign up Now for the LSC's Cozy Cottage Meetings & Fall Focus Groups
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We hope you’ll be part of the continued conversation at one of the 15 cottage meetings the LSC will host on Zoom from November 1 through November 13. See the full schedule and register for a cottage meeting here. Please note that each cottage meeting will be capped at 15 participants. Smaller groups will allow individual participants more time to speak.
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Focus groups are planned next week for members who self-identify as BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+, members under the age of 45, new members who joined WES from 2017 on, SEEK adults and teachers, and/or current and recent Board Trustees (those who served from 2017 on). If you self-identify with one (or more) of these groups, please sign up to join the relevant discussion(s) at this link.
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Interested in only calling into the Zoom Meetings? Check out our website calendar for all of the details on each zoom meeting.
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