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If you have a joy or sorrow for the February 21 service, please share it during the UUCR Coffee Hour or if you're not planning to attend, email the UUCR office at UUCR email by Friday, February 19 at noon.

Please come join us for UUCR Coffee Hour at 11:00 am, on Sunday, February 21 by clicking here.

It's a time to see and talk to one another, and the next best thing to being there!

Due to the length of the previous two Reflections, some committees' sections were on a second page in some members' emails. If you don't see a "Follow Us," in the middle of the page, at the very end of this email, you need to click at the bottom where it says "[Message clipped] View entire message" (or something similar in whatever email service you use.)

Our Great Cookie Giveaway was a sweet success! On Valentine’s Day (Sunday) afternoon we had 32 visitors, 34 including the pooches, on who braved slushy roads to enjoy some socially-distant fellowship, homemade treats, and warm drinks. Click here for more photos of “the day" on our Facebook page!

Hats off first to our extraordinary cookie bakers and candy makers, willing to face a snowstorm to get those cookies to UUCR on time:  David and Joan Biehler, Sydney Brookes, Carol Dobson, Lynn Dolinger, Gerry Edwards, Lynn Geisert, Jane Hardy, Nancy Holland, Annie Lavin, Margo Long, Vida Morley, Connie Schroth, Denise Tontarski, Elisabeth Tully, Pam Vogel, and Amy Warner.

Our gloved, masked, and 6-foot-distant cookie carton fillers were Lynn Geisert, Jane Hardy, Annie and Jim Lavin, and Vida Morley. 

Our setter-uppers and greeters on Sunday afternoon were David Biehler, Kevin Brien, Rev. Sue Browning, Sydney Brookes, Carl Gallegos – Carl brought that portable campfire! – Annie Lavin, Jim Lavin, John Ramsey, Diane Shields, and Linda Weimer. 

Our volunteers for carton delivery were Rev. Sue Browning (to our communications-team friends at UUFE), Lynn Dolinger, Gerry Edwards, Jane Hardy, Nancy Holland, Jim and Annie Lavin, Jackie Mathwich, Vida Morley, John Ramsey, and Denise and Tom Tontarski. 

Most special thanks to our administrator Darlene Wiggers, who assisted in countless, often unseen ways as we put together all the moving parts to make our cookie party happen.

Hello Community - Our book discussion is approaching. I hope people have found the book, "As Long as Grass Grows" by Dina Gilio-Whitaker, interesting. If you are interested in participating in the book discussion, we will meet on Zoom on February 25 from 6:30 to 8:00. Bring a glass of wine or other libation and we can see where this book has taken us. Looking forward to sharing thoughts.

Side With Love invites you to join as we livestream the premiere of PBS’s The Black Church, an epic production about the impacts of the Black church movement on American society, culture, and politics. As Unitarian Universalists with our own unique history of engaging abolition and civil rights, it is important for us to know how our history has supported and has been in conflict with the Black church. The Black Church can also help us understand the rich tradition out of which our Black UU religious professionals and laypersons came to be and all that we bring to Unitarian Universalism.  

The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song is a moving four-hour, two-part series from executive producer, host and writer Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University and director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, that traces the 400-year-old story of the Black church in America, all the way down to its bedrock role as the site of African American survival and grace, organizing and resilience, thriving and testifying, autonomy and freedom, solidarity and speaking truth to power.

NAMI Family-to-Family is a free eight-week course for family caregivers of individuals with mental illnesses. NAMI-trained family members teach the course and all materials are free for class participants. The curriculum focuses on schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, clinical depression, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and borderline personality disorder, with a new resource on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The course discusses treatment for these illnesses and teaches the knowledge and skills that family members need to cope with the challenges of living with a relative with a mental illness. The next session of this course runs on Zoom March 2nd to April 20th from 6:30- 9 pm. Contact NAMI to register by email [email protected] or by phone at 443-480-0565.

For those of you who have been navigating the path to scheduling a vaccination, you know that it is challenging! Vaccine supplies continue to be very limited and all vaccinations are now restricted to residents of the counties in Maryland in which you reside or work. Bob Bjork and Lynn Dolinger continue to work to understand and update the process, any additional updates they become aware of will be sent through the new UUCR Google email group. The Health Department site in your county is your best source of information. The websites we've found most helpful are kenthd.org and marylandvax.org.

The Kent Health Department (kenthd.org) is sending out notices to those who have registered, providing an opportunity to schedule an appointment, so we strongly suggest that you register on this site (under "Hot Topics"). We also suggest that you enroll the help of a friend or family member if you need assistance with this challenging process. If you still need further assistance, please contact the church office by UUCR email or by UUCR phone at 410-778-3440. 

Gayle Folger, Nancy Holland, and Vida Morley

Darlene Wiggers (Office) p: 410-778-3440 | e:[email protected]

We want to help celebrate your birthday! If we didn't include your February birthday, please contact Darlene at UUCR office email