Join us next Sunday
July 5, 2020
10am Summer Services have begun!

10am Sunday Service | Addicted to Routine
During the COVID shutdown, we have all had our routines disrupted in ways they have never been before. Are there “pluses” to having our routines messed up? What deeper truths are hidden by our addiction to routines?
Speakers: Peter House

We are cancelling in-person worship for the foreseeable future, and taking our worship experience completely online via Zoom. We will hold on-line services each Sunday at 10am (our regular summer time).
World Premier of Our Virtual Choir!
Draw the Circle Wide by Mark A. Miller
Performed by the First Universalist Church of Rochester Virtual Choir
Brock Tjosvold, music director/piano, Brian Mumey, video design
Jerald J. Creer, Deaf ASL Interpreter
Upcoming Events &
Additional Announcements
Note: Our "This Week" emails may be a bit longer than usual, as we are shifting the written announcements in our Order of Service to this email!

Tuesdays | Drop-In Discussion: Rating US Presidents
How do you rate presidents you remember in your lifetime? or presidents in history? By what criteria do you rate them? Janus Mary Jones will lead a discussion based on the book Where They Stand by Robert Merry (2012). The author has developed a template for rating U.S. presidents. This template will be presented, then we can rate them ourselves. As the author says, this is a "fun game to play". Drop-In Discussions are back with a virtual spin! We are meeting on Tuesday night, from 6:30-7:30pm. Contact DropInDiscussion@uuroc.org for the Zoom link!

Saturdays | Sidewalk Support Table
The FIRE Team will coordinate the continuing sidewalk support of ongoing protests on Saturdays during July and August. Thank you for your time in keeping this support going. So very appreciated!
Volunteer Slots:
  • 11am-1pm (4 slots)
  • 1-3 pm (3 slots)
  • 3-5pm (3 slots)
Table Dates:
  • July 11
  • July 18
  • July 5
  • August 1

  • August 8
  • August 15
  • August 22
  • August 29
Please contact FIRE@uuroc.org to sign up for your time and date.
Please include contact info, such as your phone number, in your email as this is a fluid experience. We will contact you to confirm as each date approaches. Your volunteer shift will make a huge difference!
Calling All Musicians!
As we begin summer services this week, we are asking YOU to share your musical gifts. All voices and instruments are welcome. Participants should be able and willing to share their music from home. This can be done live over Zoom, or in the form of a pre-recorded performance. If you are interested and need an accompaniment track our music director can record one in advance. Please contact our Music Director, Brock Tjosvold, at music@uuroc.org for more information.

Help Our Summer Garden!
Call for garden watering. The front garden is blooming and we will need waterers starting in July. Please contact Sarah at garden@uuroc.org .

June 1 to July 31 | RAIHN Matching Donation Fund
Help support families in need! While congregations are closed due to COVID-19, RAIHN* is still supporting houseless families including housing some in a cost-efficient motel. Funds are needed to
support the effort. An anonymous donor will match up to $3000 in gifts to RAIHN made between June 1 and July 31. This will be a tremendous help to families in need. With enthusiastic support from the congregations who partner with us for RAIHN, and donations from you, we have already raised $2500! Please consider a
donation to help us reach our goal! To donate online, go to the uuroc.org website and click on the donate button at the bottom of the homepage. In the “write a note” section under the donation amount please write “ RAIHN First Universalist”. Checks can also be made out to First Universalist with “ RAIHN First UU” on the memo line. Contact Marti Eggers, Ed Deller, Chris DeGolyer or Connie Valk for more details.
*Rochester Area Interfaith Hospitality Network
Joys & Sorrows
Please send your Joys and Sorrows to be read at our Sunday Worship service to JoysandSorrows@uuroc.org.

Note: When you email a joy or sorrow to us, you are giving us permission to read it aloud at our Sunday service and possibly publish it in this weekly email. Thank you!
Joys:

  • A Joy from Kitty Forbush: A joy to share my amazement at the two amazing Supreme Court decisions this week back to back. The first supporting LGBTQ+ rights and the second supporting DACA and the dreamers. Who would have thought THIS court would do this.. praise be!!!!!!

Sorrows:
  • A Sorrow from Shirley Malone and our sibling First Unitarian community: Polly MacFadden, long time member at Winton Road, has died. She had been at St. Ann's for a while. Her husband Leigh is doing well, learning to be alone now.
  • A Sorrow from Chris Degolyer: My cousin Willard, who entered hospice last week after a year and a half of dealing with pancreatic cancer, died last Sunday. I will miss him. 
To submit an item for 'This Week' at First Universalist
please e-mail it to:   office@uuroc.org  
(no later than noon on Wednesday of the week prior to publication)   
Staff:

Peter House ,
Summer Minister

*Rev. Michelle Yates ,
Minister of Life Span Faith Development
(585) 310-2484
*off for the Summer

Brock Tjosvold ,
Director of Music
(585) 546-2826

Emma Barry ,
Office Manager
(585) 546-2826
150 S. Clinton Avenue, Rochester, NY 14604
(585) 546-2826 | office@uuroc.org