Upcoming Events

• Friday, July 21, 7:30pm, Evening Women’s Group ~ on Zoom. Contact Diane Guernsey (dianeguernsey.uu@gmail.com).

• Friday, July 21, 7:30pm, Men’s Group ~ In-person and on Zoom. Contact Paul Gross (pgross@pulsevoices.org) or Art Lowenstein (artlowenstein48@gmail.com)

• Friday, August 4, 12:30pm, Daytime Women’s Group ~ Come join the First Friday Women's Group at Kendal in Sleepy Hollow! We are the guests of Maria Harris and Keiko Hirano. Bring a bag lunch and they will provide coffee and dessert. RSVP to Theresa (ntdelise@optonline.net) and Maria (mharrisdf@yahoo.com).

Upcoming Worship

• Sunday, July 30, 10:00am, “Reading Black Lives” ~ FUSW Reading Black Lives Group

• Sunday, August 6, 10:00am, “TBA” ~ UUCHV

About Our Guest Speaker

Michael DeSantis (he/they) is an aspiring UU minister, who recently completed his second year in the Master of Divinity program at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Originally from Pittsburgh, Michael grew up in a non-religious Irish Catholic family before finding Unitarian Universalism in his early 20’s. Michael now lives in Manhattan and is an active member of the First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn. His spiritual practices include baking bread, meditating, hiking, and playing with his rambunctious rescue cat.

Share the Plate

For July and August, our Share the Plate donations will go to Neighbors Link, which offers new immigrants education and empowerment programs, involves longer-term residents in volunteer opportunities and creates substantive partnerships with other local organizations. Support services include a Worker Center, English as a Second Language (ESL) education, legal services and advocacy, workforce development, parent education, early childhood programs and academic support for school-age children of immigrants.

We collect for our Share-the-Plate partner throughout the month. Visit fusw.org, click “Donate,” and select “Share the Plate.”

Join Our Pulpit Committee

The loose definition of Pulpit is “a raised platform lecture in a chapel from which the preacher delivers a talk.” Imagine it empty. That’s why we need YOU on the Pulpit Committee. There are only two people on the committee now. We could benefit by the addition of one or two to bring some fresh ideas. Please contact Lenore Lupie at 917-282-4327 or lenorel@aris-comm.com if you are interested.

FUSW Contacts & Information

Questions, Concerns, or Compliments for FUSW? Reach out to any member of our Board of Trustees, fusw.org/board-of-trustees (place cursor over the picture, then right-mouse click to copy the email).

Board of Trustees - The Board usually meets on the second Monday of each month via Zoom at 7:45pm. Click here to join our meeting on Zoom. Meetings are open to any member of FUSW. For confidential matters, non-Board members will be asked to leave temporarily. At the end of the meeting, there will be an open forum, during which non-Board members can speak about topics of concern, limiting remarks to two minutes. To access the minutes from previous meetings, visit the Members page of fusw.org and click on Board Minutes Archive. 

Scheduling Zoom Meetings or Submitting Information for The Scoop and FUSW Calendar - Contact our Administrator, Rina Schunk (admin@fusw.org). For Zoom meetings, please include the purpose and preferred date/time. Articles for The Scoop are due by Wednesday at 10:00am.