Thursday, October 10 | RAIHN* Training
During RAIHN* Week, November 10-17, we will turn our church into a home for temporarily homeless families. We'll convert our classrooms to bedrooms, cook meals, stay overnight, and provide help. To join our volunteer team, sign up in the lounge after church on Sunday, or contact Chris DeGolyer,
chrisdeg@frontiernet.net with questions. If you'd like to learn more before volunteering, we have opportunities to "shadow" experienced volunteers
- An orientation for new volunteers will be held Thursday, Oct. 10, 6:30pm, Webster United Church of Christ, 570 Klem Rd, Webster. RSVP to 506-9050 or coordinator@raihn.org
*Rochester Area Interfaith Hospitality Network: keeping families together. Getting families home for good.
Sunday, Oct. 13 | Eunice Eckberg Film Series: Reconstruction Part I
Please join us on Sunday, October 13th at 1:30pm in the Clara Barton Lounge for the opening film in our Eunice Brooks Eckberg Racial Justice Film Series. The aftermath of the Civil War, African Americans having played a crucial role in saving the Union and now struggling to breathe life into their hard-won freedom. The result was a second American Revolution. White Supremacy rears its ugly head, as the 1876 election shows.
Register at
fire@uuroc.org. $5 per film - full series discount rate available. Each film will be followed by facilitated discussion of ways to further the message of racial equity in our city and world.
Thursday, October 17 | 15th Anniversary Celebration
RAIHN is throwing a 15th anniversary celebration/ticketed event on Thursday, October 17th at Artisanworks, 565 Blossom Rd, from 6-10 PM. Raffle tickets for a Caribbean Cruise are also available. For more information and tickets,
click here!
Saturday, October 19 | Fall Cleanup
Please join us to help clean and prepare the church for our NYSCU host weekend. Many hands make light work. Please let Ed Deller know if you can attend.
Oct. 25 & 26 |
NYSCU Annual Meeting
Just a few weeks to go before we welcome UUA President Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray and Universalists from around the region for the Annual Meeting of NYSCU! You can attend as a delegate with voting privileges, or as a conference attendee to hear the keynote address and participate in the workshops. Delegates will have the registration fee reimbursed by NYSCU; other attendees may be reimbursed by our own congregation. Please see Ann Rhody or Nancy Gaede if you are interested in serving as a delegate. Registration and information at
nyscu.org.
LIBRARY BOOK ESCAPES!
Please check your hiding spaces at home for When they Call You a Terrorist ,copy 4, by Patrisse Kahn-Cullers. It is part of a collection of books donated by FIAC. If found, please return to the basket on the library desk.
