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Tuesday, September 8 | Drop-In Discussion: What It Means to Be Real
Tonight we’ll watch Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell’s sermon from March 8, 2026. “Let us begin the Season of Truth by rejecting the idol of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and embracing the messiness of humanity.” We meet via Zoom on Tuesdays from 6:30-7:30pm. Look on the First Universalist homepage for details and a link, or click the Zoom meeting link in this blurb title!
Saturday, September 12 | Choir Potluck & Rehearsal!
Interested in singing with the choir? Or interested in just socializing with the choir? You are invited to the annual choir potluck and first rehearsal from 5-8:30pm! Bring a dish to share if you would like, but you are welcome to come without one, too! We will eat and socialize for the first hour and then make our way into the sanctuary to sing together in preparation for the church year.
Sunday, September 13 | Monthly Food Ingathering!
Our monthly food collection for the Community Food Cupboard! We always appreciate and need low-sodium non-perishable food, toiletries, paper products, and cash to help those in our community.
Sunday, September 13 | LGBTQIA+ Social Action Circle Meeting
Both queer and ally individuals alike are invited to attend our meeting, as we plan on collaborating to make our congregation and Rochester even more fabulous! Feel free to grab a snack from the coffee hour and head upstairs to the Gratitude Room (#22) after service at noon! We hope to see you there! Talk to Willow, or a committee member, if you want to help!
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85214334476?pwd=Kpx5oUaiCItabp0rO4HlYyhqaQasq7.1
Month of September | Social Justice Plate Offering: Refugees Helping Refugees
Our September Social Justice Plate Offering is designated for Refugees Helping Refugees, a nonprofit organization that serves refugees of Western New York. RHR seeks to foster the growth, self-determination, and self-reliance of Rochester’s refugee community by making them agents of their own advancement. Please give what you can to support. Thank you! For more information, visit facebook.com/RefugeesHelpingRefugees. Starting this month, our Social Justice Plate will no longer be collected on just one Sunday each month. Instead, we will be giving a quarter of the offering every Sunday to the organization we have chosen for that month.
Church Storage, Organization, and Cleanup
We are taking stock of our many stored items scattered throughout our church building and making efforts to identify, organize, and clear out spaces for new and exciting staff and programming. If you or your committee or group has items stored in the church, please contact conglife@uuroc.org so we may work with you on this housekeeping project. We are striving to keep essentials safely stored and organized, being respectful of our congregation’s contributions, while also donating or discarding accumulated items that no longer serve us. This is also a good time to review your coffee mugs in the lounge, committees’ needs going forward, and mailboxes and materials under the mailbox table in the Volunteer Office!
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