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Daylight Saving Time Ends This Sunday, November 1!
On Saturday night, set your clocks back one hour to “fall back.”
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The UCE building and grounds are available on a limited basis to small gatherings. Please read UCE's Reopening Guidelines before contacting staff about availability. We will continue to offer ways to connect virtually.
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The virtual worship service will be at 11:15 am
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“Learning From Our Ancestors”
On All Souls or All Saints Day, we remember our ancestors. Spiritual growth and maturity require both honesty and appreciation as we reflect on the lives of those who have come before us. What can we learn from the mistakes and triumphs of the past? Can we recognize the sinner and the saint in each of us as we recognize the worth and dignity of those we’ve loved and lost?
Howard Levy, UCE favorite and accomplished musician, will be our musical guest.
We encourage you to submit your joys and sorrows ahead of time to this online form. We will read aloud in the service, those that are submitted by 11 am on Sunday. If you are unable to access the google form for some reason, you may send an email to Rev. Eileen Wiviott at ewiviott@ucevanston.org, however, it is easier for us to keep track through the google form. We continue to celebrate and mourn together through this important ritual and appreciate your understanding as we explore the various ways to hold what is on your hearts.
This Sunday's shared offering recipient is the Brennan Center. Your offering can be given through Text-to-Give, online, or mailed to the office with "Shared Offering" in the memo line.
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Other Gatherings this Sunday |
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Chris Isely Cancer Support Group at 9:30 am via Zoom
Forum Discussion with Green Team at 10 am via Zoom
More information below in "What's Happening in Lifespan Religious Education"
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Virtual Coffee Hour immediately following the service
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Gathering for Gini Sayad - 2pm at the UCE Peace Garden
Gini Sayad's ashes will be placed in the UCE Peace Garden (next to the front steps), this Sunday, November 1st at 2 pm. Those who loved Gini are invited to attend the brief ceremony with masks and physical distance. For more information or to let us know you plan to attend, email Rev. Eileen at ewiviott@ucevanston.org.
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An Important Covid Update |
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For the last several months our region of Illinois has been in Phase IV of Governor Pritzker's Illinois Plan. However, with the recent and significant spike of cases of COVID19 affecting the state, we have gone back down to Phase III, which means we can only accommodate up to 25 persons or 25% of space occupancy, whichever is less.
Fortunately, UCE has been operating under much stricter guidelines than Phase IV allowed so we are not needing to pull back but maintain the guidelines already established in June. Our Covid Response Team has reviewed those guidelines and made slight clarifications, which you can find here.
As we move toward the winter months, knowing that outdoor gatherings will be less likely, the staff, board and leaders of UCE, remain committed to holding everyone’s wellbeing as our highest priority.
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Important News and Upcoming Events |
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All Church Zoom gatherings continue on Wednesday at 5:30 pm.
Look for the link in our Wednesday e-mails. If you need online Zoom support before the All Church gathering begins, join us at 5:20 pm.
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From Kathy Underwood, Director of Congregational Life |
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October has been a busy month considering that almost everything is being done virtually still. I hope you have been able to participate in some of the programs. If not, be sure to catch one in November!
We started the month with the Stuffies Sleepover at UCE and showed a video of our fun during the Animal Blessing worship service on October 4. In case you missed it, you can watch the video here. We just might have to make this an annual event!
We had our first successful Popcorn Theology Online program for 6th-8th grades, where 6 youth watched clips from the movie Life of Pi and shared their thoughts on spirit animals and anger.
The highlight of the month for many was the Halloween Campfire. About 30 people of all ages gathered on the South Lawn, roasted marshmallows, ate s’mores, and talked and laughed in person (and with masks on)...
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Post-Election All Church Zoom Session |
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On November 4th, regardless of what happens on November 3rd, a Zoom Room - for healing, song, readings, reflections, tears, and hopefully some laughter - will be set aside from 3pm - 5:30 pm. This will lead right into our regular Wednesday evening gathering. Please join at any time between 3-6:30 and bring whatever contributions you have or just receive the comfort and inspiration of community. The link to this gathering will be sent to the newsletter list on Wednesday the 4th by 2pm.
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UCE Bread Communion is November 22 |
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Bread communion is one of four communion/communal services we celebrate as a congregation each year (water, bread, fire, flower). Since we can't be together this year to share the bread from our heritage, we would like to create new ways to break bread together.
Please consider participating in a virtual bread communion this year in one or all of these ways:
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Recipes: submit a family favorite or traditional bread recipe to ewiviott@ucevanston.org by 11/18. Include your family name and a tidbit about the significance of this bread.
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Family Bread Photo or Video: send in a photo or a short (20-30 second) video of your family sharing your names and the kind of bread or gluten-free treat you have and what the significance is to your family. Email those to ewiviott@ucevanston.org by 11/18.
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Stories of Breaking Bread: If you have a story of breaking bread – a time when you were moved, changed, or uplifted while sharing a meal – can you tell that story in a video 3-5 minutes long? If so, let us know. We’d like to include a few of these stories on the 22nd.
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Proximity Partners: Talk with your Proximity Partner Group and plan a way to do a safe bread exchange in your neighborhood.
If you have any questions, reach out to Rev. Eileen at ewiviott@ucevanston.org. I'm eager to have us share in a meaningful bread communion service this year, demonstrating the generative nourishment of our community.
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Deadline for Donations for the Serendipity Auction is Fast Approaching |
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We still need YOUR donations, for UCE’s Serendipity Auction to be a success. Never donated before? This is the year to do it! Do you have a hidden artistic or creative skill that we do not yet know about? Put it on display at the auction. Would you co-host a virtual group event? We will help you with ideas and finding a compatible co-host. Is there something that you have treasured and now are ready to part with? Find it a loving home with another church member.
The deadline for submitting donations is November 2, 2020.
Click here to go to the auction website to look for inspiration from the catalog or from our Ten Inspiring Ideas list on the Donate tab. Check out the "Helpful Info and Bidding Basics" in the top right of the Home page to get a jump start on the process. And don’t forget to put the highly entertaining and joyful virtual Celebration Party on your calendar, Saturday, November 14 from 7-8 pm. Pre-party fun starts at 6:45 pm. Coming soon: an e-mail with the answers to all your questions about registering and bidding on our new online platform. If you have any questions, write the Auction Team at auction@ucevanston.org.
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Reflections with the Board |
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It is our goal as the Board of Trustees to maintain connections with you. To that end, we are beginning a new program entitled, “Reflections with the Board.” We will host these sessions via zoom once a month at 10 am before the service. The purpose of these sessions is twofold: One, we will often have information that we would like to share and two, these sessions are a time for us to listen to you. We want to hear how you are, as well as your ideas, suggestions, and concerns.
Our first session will be held on November 8th at 10 am. For this session, the Board will be inviting Dale Griffin, Carol Nielsen, and Connections Staff, Nia Tavoularis and Sue Loellbach to speak about the important work of Connections for the Homeless. Please join us to hear about UCE’s history with Connections for the Homeless, the work that Connections is doing in our community, the Endowment grant that was recently given to the organization, and ways that our congregation can be more involved with this organization...
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Want to know what the Board has been doing in September and October?
- Voting to show our support of the city of Evanston’s Climate Agreement
- Working on and approving a preliminary budget for 2021-22
- Working on a compensation package for the settled minister
- Meeting with the Endowment Trustees and Nominating and Recruiting in order to review our structures and systems and nurture our relationships with these groups
- Reviewing our Bylaws for possible changes to be suggested for our May annual congregational meeting
- Reviewing our Board policies
- Meeting to discuss how to begin the work of the Anti-Oppression Task Force
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Reading Widening the Circle of Concern
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Discussing the Governance chapter from Widening the Circle of Concern
- Meeting with the Committee on Shared Ministry monthly to review the seven areas of co-ministry...
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UCE to Host Emergency Overnight Shelter this November |
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For the last four years, UCE has joined with other faith communities in Evanston to help keep those without a home from sleeping outside in the winter. We will fulfill this commitment again this year, with modifications agreed upon by other houses of worship and Interfaith Action of Evanston. From November 8 through the 28th, we will host up to 20 people from 9 pm to 7 am. Due to the pandemic, the shelter will be run by paid staff provided by Interfaith Action and Connections for the Homeless, with minimal volunteers coordinated through Interfaith Action. Tickets will be handed out at Connections and at the Hospitality Center for access to the shelter in order to prevent lines from forming outside the building.
We've reviewed this plan with our Covid Task Force and our faithful and dedicated staff, Liz and Steven Eason, who will be making sure our building is clean and safe during and beyond the time we host the shelter. Our principles call us to do what we can to care for the most vulnerable among us. The combined resources and generosity of this congregation make it possible for us to take action in this way. Thank you.
New volunteers are encouraged to attend one of two upcoming Zoom training sessions. The first is on Wednesday, November 4th at noon. The second is Friday, November 6th at 5pm. The Zoom link to these training sessions is included below. Experienced volunteers are welcome to attend if they are interested in the changes to the EOS due to COVID-19.
ZOOM LINKS:
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A Holiday Tradition You Can Count On |
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Dear Ones, in a season where it might be hard to get your cheer and bearings, THERE WILL BE A MITTEN TREE. This tradition has over 3 decades of rich history at UCE and highlights the love and care of many of our members to help us all live our UU value of respect for the interdependent web of all existence in which we are a part.
In full disclosure, Mitten Tree will be a little different this year. Beyond the need to modify for safety of our congregation and our partnering communities, this is my first time taking the lead to coordinate our efforts. I have big mittens to fill and am in awe that Carol Nielsen devoted so many years of intention, relationships, and great record keeping that I have the honor to maintain.
This year, we will be partnering with 3 very special organizations to make the holiday season a little brighter.
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From Jeanne Kerl, Midwest Leadership School Participant |
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In the online Midwest Leadership School this fall we have been learning a great deal. Today, I would like to share a short guide that many of you may be familiar with, but I thought it was worth sharing again. I have read it before in a session at General Assembly and found it very useful for thinking through what white supremacy culture is in my world. The short piece is called The Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture.
I found it worthwhile to read this and sit with it a bit. I asked myself “what about life here at UCE might be problematic or in need of re-thinking?” I jotted down some ideas in my journal about how I could do better and how I might talk with others about their thoughts after reading this piece. We are not perfect—nor should we try to be, but we can live together in more authentic way if we examine some of the ways we do things, I believe. I invite you to do the same.
Here’s the piece:
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Wanted: Congregational Leaders |
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Like challenge?
Like to work with others?
Like the chance to significantly help UCE nurture the human spirit for a world made whole?
UCE’s Nominating and Recruitment Committee (N&R) is beginning its work to identify potential candidates for leadership positions in the church, some of whom are then elected at our annual meeting in the Spring to open positions on the Board of Trustees, Endowment Fund Trustees, and our own N&R Committee. Over the next few months we will be contacting folks who have shown an interest in being considered, and others who have been suggested by others as potential candidates.
This is challenging work in the best of times, and particularly so now. COVID presents its own problems in terms of peoples’ bandwidth capacities, heightened stress and competing priorities. We are also aware as never before that, just as we need to improve our capacities for “radical hospitality” to welcome people into our church...
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Doing the Time Warp with Rainbow Alliance |
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Get your flashlights ready for a “Science Fiction - Double Feature!” Join us for a Rocky Horror Picture Show virtual movie night, sponsored by UCE's Rainbow Alliance group!
Date: TONIGHT Friday, October 30
Time: 7pm CST
Come ready with your props and dressed up for a night (in) at the movies! You also might want to brush up on your Time Warp dancing skills.
We can't wait to see you! We are shivering with antici......
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Endowment Fund Money Still Available |
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There are Endowment Funds remaining to be distributed during this fiscal year. According to the Endowment Trust, the money can be used in the following ways:
- supporting special church projects not anticipated in or provided for by the operating budget;
- supporting the communities in which UCE resides and operates including spiritual, educational and economic needs;
- enhancing, repairing, supplementing or improving UCE’s building and property, including both real and personal property;
- scholarships and grants to UCE members and staff for education and training; and
- supporting the wider mission of Unitarian Universalism.
The Endowment Committee and the Board of Trustees appreciates the work of UCE members who have submitted Endowment Fund grant applications so far. The initiative of these members to identify grant opportunities, within UCE and in the larger community, and efforts to present them in applications for Endowment funding, have greatly extended the impact of UCE...
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Grief Support Group Continues Monday, November 2 |
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If you have had the loss of a loved one or are experiencing grief due to other less concrete losses in your life you are welcome to join a zoom grief group. This group meets every other other Monday for 8 weeks. It will be facilitated by Ellen Rieger CADC, LCPC. Please contact Ellen at ellenerieger@gmail.com if you are interested. If you know someone outside of our church community who would benefit from this group they could also contact Ellen.
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Are you thinking big during these exciting times? |
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Could you extend your wings and assist our MidAmerica Region? The MidAmerica Nominating Committee is seeking fresh voices for leadership positions to strengthen the future of the MidAmerica Region. Our region needs energetic people with diverse perspectives to fill these leadership positions. The deadline to submit a nomination is November 14. Click the button below and learn more!
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Hats Off to UCE's #VoteLove Efforts! |
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Our hats are off to each of you who participated in the UUTheVote/#VoteLove campaign and contributed to the "Get out the Vote" efforts around the country. We were blown away to learn we had over 70 postcard senders! We also had diligent text and phone bankers, individuals who signed petitions and donated funds, and volunteers who showed up at important events and helped new citizens register to vote.
Thank you for participating in our democracy and living out
our UU principles in the world. Your efforts have touched thousands! There are a record number of early voters at the polls and people are able to vote safely and informed due to your efforts. Thank you!
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Help Build Community Connection - Set up your Realm Account Today! |
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UCE's new membership database has launched! Don't forget to set up your account, so you can start taking advantage of this awesome system. Login to see your giving history, update your contact information, and access the updated and more secure directory! Group leaders can take attendance and keep track of who is participating in their group. Realm has so much more to offer, so join us online and check it out! |
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We're looking for virtual worship participants |
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Would you like to share your talents and gifts in a worship service? We are looking for people of all ages to pre-record service elements such as:
- Songs
- Dances
- Readings
- Stories
- Our covenant
- Lighting the chalice
The process involves video recording yourself and uploading the file to a shared google folder. Instructions will be provided. You might be asked to read a particular story or sing a song that fits the theme of the service. Or, you might offer a song, story or poem you’d like to share, which we can use when and where it fits.
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Your financial support is so appreciated! |
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Please help us ensure your contribution is credited appropriately by indicating on the memo line of your check if it is for 19/20 Pledge, 20/21 Pledge, Shared Offering or a Donation.
If you are texting to give, please send a text message to 312-584-9160 with the amount you would like to contribute and the one word code for where you would like it to go (e.g., 50 OFFERING). Valid codes are OFFERING (Shared Offering), PLEDGE (Pledge Payment), CAP (Capital Campaign), SOUPKIT (Soup Kitchen), or MUSIC (music fund). If you do not include a code after your donation amount, the system will automatically select PLEDGE. To learn more, click here. If you experience any issues or would like a one-on-one session to go over Text-to-Give, contact Adam at agough@ucevanston.org.
During these times when UCE staff are working from home we are trying to make trips to the church and our accounting tasks manageable for our Staff Accountant, Vickie Doebele. We respectfully request when you make a shared offering donation please do not ask for 100% to go to the organization. This truly would be helpful. We appreciate your understanding.
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Virtual Meeting Planning Tips! |
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Do you need help setting up a virtual event? Have you been hosting a virtual event and want to make the planning and publicity process easier? UCE ministers and staff are here to help! There are several ways you can host an online event for free. If a free meeting won't work for your meeting, consider these steps:
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Email the details of your meeting to admin@ucevanston.org so staff can help you set up and publicize your virtual event. Virtual UCE events can be advertised in the weekly newsletter, on the UCE calendar, on the UCE Facebook groups, and sometimes on the UCE homepage.
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Work with staff on deciding who would be best to host the meeting. Do you or a member of your group have their own Zoom account? Is someone in your group willing and able to purchase an account? In these times of social distancing, it may be worthwhile to purchase an account for a year and use it for any personal or UCE-related events. Will a minister or staff member attend your meeting? Staff will put you in touch with that staff member to see if they can host your meeting with their Zoom account. If not, we can use another staff member’s Zoom account.
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Once the Zoom link is created, consider whether you want to set up a registration for the virtual event. Is there a limit on how many you would like to participate? Do you want a list of participants so you can email them the link before the event?
Don't forget all UCE virtual events can be added to the UCE calendar. If you are interested in having your virtual events featured on the calendar, please contact the office at 847-864-1330 or email admin@ucevanston.org. If you want
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What's Happening in Lifespan Religious Education |
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Welcome to our November theme of Healing! |
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If you missed the Welcome and Intro to RE, check it out here, or you can read about it here.
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Although we might not be having in-person RE on Sunday mornings yet, it is important to know who wants to connect – whether virtual or not. By registering, we can ensure that you get information on all programs and events for all ages this year.
Please sign up below!
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All Families:
Fellowship – Sunday after worship – Join the virtual coffee hour zoom where parents and families can meet and greet in their own breakout room!
Parents on the Porch - November 15 at 8:30-9 pm – Grab your favorite beverage and join other parents on the porch - virtually - to share concerns and thoughts on our monthly theme of Healing and life in general. Sign up here.
Campfire on the Lawn - November 21 at 5:30-7:30 pm – Sign up here.
Pre/K Kids and Families – POP (Parents of Preschoolers)! November's materials are available here. The password is YouGotThis2020 (case sensitive.) This UU-based program is to be used all month long. Do whatever fits your family’s schedule. We’ll have a parent’s virtual gathering on November 23 at 8 pm to share our experiences. Sign up at here. Zoom info will be sent via email closer to the event.
1st-5th Grade Kids and Families - November 12 at 4-4:45 pm. Sign up here.
6th-8th Families - Popcorn Theology – Sunday, November 8 at 9:30 am. Sign up here. Info will be emailed out to participants beforehand.
High School Youth - Sunday at 7 pm – Look for emails with details!
UU Kids Connect - A free virtual gathering of UU kids K-8 from around the country and Canada! This program started as a summer camp and was such a success that they are continuing with monthly virtual gatherings. Click here for more info.
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UCE Forum - Sunday, November 1st at 10 am
UCE's Green Team
Leaders: Andy Schlickman, Renee Hoff
UCE’s Green Team presents an update on activities and plans entitled “We’re still in Evanston and UCE is pursuing the goals of the Paris Accord”.
Come to discuss and explore the ways our congregation is being challenged to meet the goals.
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Christ for UU’s
Tuesdays, Nov. 10, 17; Dec. 1, 8, 15; 7:30-8:45 PM,
All sessions will be via Zoom.
Facilitated by UCE member Amy Pooley.
What can we as Unitarian Universalists learn from reading the New Testament?
Who was Jesus and why does he matter?
How can getting in touch with our Unitarian and our Universalist roots help us rethink the Christian message and even understand it in a new way?
Join us in discussing these questions and more on five Tuesdays in November and December. The course will be based on readings from the New Testament and the recent Beacon Press release "Christ for Unitarian Universalists." We welcome you to purchase a copy of the book here to follow the course's reading schedule, but the discussion will also be accessible for those who have not done the reading and would simply like to show up to share and listen.
Amy Pooley has been a UU for over a decade and a Christian for just a few years. She has a love for our faith’s Unitarian and Universalist roots. She is a graduate student in Counseling and she and her wife Ruth are the moms of a toddler.
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UCE Fiction Book Group will meet Friday, November 20, at 7pm to discuss The Confessions of Nat Turner. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, William Styron’s telling of the transformation of one Nat Turner — slave, preacher, and leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of that “peculiar institution.”
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December 18: Go, Went, Gone, by Jenny Erpenbeck
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January 15: Station Eleven by Jill St. John Mandel
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February 15: Lila, by Marilynne Robinson
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This November, the nonfiction book group will meet via Zoom at 2 p.m. on Sunday the 22st to discuss two books, The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin and The Fire This Time: a New Generation Speaks about Race, edited by Jesmyn Ward. In the second book, Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin’s 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for a collection of essays and poems about race from voices of our time. Join us if you have read both books or only one of them.
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Social Jutice & Volunteer Opportunities |
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Your Chance to Connect with Connections for the Homeless |
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We have new opportunities for volunteers who want to make a difference in our community in very concrete ways. Connections for the Homeless is a well-established, non-profit organization in Evanston, providing a wide range of services to homeless people. To address the complexities of services during the Covid19 pandemic, they have been creative and flexible and have increased their efforts to meet greater needs. They provide temporary housing, lunches, clothing and access to other essential services, including a path to permanent housing.
The UCE Prison Ministry and Food and Shelter Team are launching a renewed and invigorated partnership with Connections, along with a $40,000 donation from our Endowment Fund. Connections has effective infrastructure to provide services, which all depend on lots of volunteers. That’s where we come in - with volunteers! We’re starting with two areas - bag lunches and the Clothing Room at Hilda’s Place. We’re hopeful that in 2021 we can expand to other projects, as well...
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We need penpals! The CLF (Church of the Larger Fellowship) Ambassador Program of IL has 24 incarcerated members who are waiting for a penpal from within our UU faith community. Could that be you?
Penpals are expected to write at least twice a month for a minimum of six months. We currently have over 40 penpal pairs some of whom have been writing for over two years. The penpal relationship starts from a place of shared faith community and can expand to whatever works for the Penpal pair. You’ll be joining a supportive and growing community of UUs tearing down walls.
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There are so many ways you can live out our UU values in the world. This week the paramount way is by voting.
Vote
“Protest is telling the truth in public. We’re saying, This is a truth that you tried to hide, that you tried to tell us we weren’t supposed to talk about, and we refuse to let you do that. Protest opens space for the solution;…. I am mindful that like protest, voting is one tool in the toolkit, and the only way to build a house is to use all the tools. I tell people to vote, not because it’ll automatically change the world, but because we’re trying to build a house.”
~ DeRay Mckesson (italics are authors; bold is added) from his appearance on the podcast, At Liberty.
Social action continues! Check out the UCE Homepage for more ways you can support our communities. If you have any questions, please reach out to Rev. Susan Frances at sfrances@ucevanston.org. Thank you all for continuing to live UCE's mission!
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Interested in knowing more about UCE? Scroll down for info on ongoing programs and useful information. Can't find your answers here? Click the button below to learn more on our website. |
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How to get in touch with UCE's Ministers |
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UCE ministers are available throughout the week by appointment. If you are in need of pastoral care or someone to talk to, please reach out to them by email.
We are here for you.
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Our next Intro to UU and Journey Toward Membership classes will be announced soon.
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Offer to Provide Technical Support |
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Physical separation is leading many of us to find new ways of forming and maintaining virtual connections through the internet. The UCE staff and Board of Trustees wants to make sure that no one is isolated because they lack access to technology or technical skills.
If you would like assistance please reach out to:
We will be happy to work with you to make sure that you get the most out of your membership experience using the latest tools.
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Opportunities For Community Connection |
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Learn Spanish Group
For more information, click here.
UCE Men's Group
1st & 3rd Mondays at 7 pm via conference call.
For more information, click here.
Retired (but never retiring!) Women
Monthly on the 4th Tuesday at 5pm.
For information, contact Margie Rogasner.
Caregiver Support Group
Tuesdays at 7 pm via Zoom.
Udumbara Zen Sangha
Tuesday Evenings and Saturday Mornings
For more information, click here.
Women's Spiritual Group
Every other Wednesday (next meeting is November 4)
Buddhist Meditation
UCE Addictions and Recovery
Form more information about the group, click here.
Greenwood Investment Club
People interested in learning about personal investing by doing
3rd Thursday this month at 7:30 pm (next meeting is November 19)
Virtual Art and Spirituality
Every other Saturday at 2:30 pm (next meeting is November 7)
For more information, click here.
Chris Isely Cancer Support Group
Sundays at 9:30 am via Zoom
Staff are available to help with setting up virtual meetings and getting the word out to the congregation. For more information on how to set up a digital meeting, click the button below. Email Jessica Meis at admin@ucevanston.org to add your event to UCE's calendar and to submit an article about your virtual meeting to the newsletter.
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Beware scam e-mails and texts from those
posing as UCE ministers, Staff, or Board Members
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Please do not respond to the e-mail or text scam that is going out with Rev. Eileen's, Sandra's, or Jessica Tomell-Presto's names. UCE ministers, Staff, and Board Members will never ask you for money in an e-mail or for you to send gift cards to anyone. Check the e-mail address and phone number it is coming from. If it is not familiar, it is a scam. Most of you have gotten wise to these scams. They will keep coming nonetheless. Thank you to those who let us know they received this scam.
This is someone who is using Eileen's, Sandra's, or Jessica's name with a generated email address and phone number. They haven't hacked their personal accounts. The e-mail addresses Eileen will send messages from will be either ewiviott@hotmail.com or ewiviott@ucevanston.org. The address Sandra will send messages from is srobinson@ucevanston.org. The address Jessica willIf you are unsure about the number texting you, please call the office.
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The Board of Trustees meets the third Thursday of every month.
The next virtual meeting is on November 19 at 7 pm. Please email the office at admin@ucevanston.org if you would like to attend.
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These are closed groups that allow members to post directly to each other. If you have an event you want members to know about, or have a cause you hope to bring attention to, in addition to the newsletter and order of service, you can post to the Facebook Group. Click the links below or search for the groups by name when you are on Facebook and ask to join.
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