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"Look Back Briefly"

In Person and Online Worship Service

Colin Powell was quoted as saying, “Always focus on the front windshield and not the rearview mirror.” Overall a helpful reminder, yet don't we need the perspective and wisdom from the past? At this service with Rev. Sue Browning, we'll consider how we strike a balance between learning from our experiences and moving toward the future.

So we can begin the worship service promptly at 10 am, please arrive at the sanctuary (if attending in person) or sign into Zoom (click here) by no later than 9:50 am. Thanks!

Please submit "Joys and Concerns" in advance by emailing them to the UUCR office (click here) by 9 pm Saturday, share them in the Zoom chat, or for those at the service, they may be jotted down on notecards which are available on the table between the lounge and RE doors.

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Do you roll your eyes when you hear the word "fundraising"? Do you think your annual pledge is more than a sufficient contribution to UUCR? Both of these reactions are understandable. But what if, beyond the intrinsic benefit of knowing you have helped your community, you get something fun out of pulling together an activity that raises money for our church?

There are a few ideas floating around for fundraisers to help our community come back together and the Leadership Development Committee would like a few members to help to

brainstorm and manage these activities. Please reach out to Amy Warner, Diane Shields, or M.Q. Riding for more details.

For your information, The Washington Post of November 9, 2020, had an interesting article (link here) on coping with love and loss by Zibby Owens entitled — "After losing two loved ones to covid-19, I turned to books. Here are 15 titles that helped me cope." Included in the list is Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself by our First Lady Jill Biden. Another book Vida feels is worth examining (not on the list) is by UUCR member Marilee Taussig entitled — Old Enough: Making the Years Between 50 and 75 the Best Chapter of Your Life.

Gayle Folger, Nancy Holland, and Vida Morley

Join us virtually on Saturday, November 6 at 7:30 p.m. EST via Zoom and learn more about “ISAAC,” a new history musical commissioned by Kent Cultural Alliance and Chesapeake Heartland: An African American Humanities Project.

Marlon Saunders is a professor of voice at Berklee College of Music and is also a singer, writer, and producer. He has worked with artists such as Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, and Lauryn Hill and toured with Stevie Wonder. This is an event you don’t want to miss! Reserve your virtual seat here.

Interfaith Power & Light network has been offered a unique opportunity to be among the first to share the new film, Mission: JOY. And we’d like to offer this inspiring film to you as a small token of our gratitude for your steadfast support of Interfaith Power & Light. You are the heart of the network and we appreciate you!

Deeply moving and laugh-out-loud funny, Mission: JOY is a documentary with unprecedented access to the unlikely friendship of two international icons who transcend religion: His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu. In their final joint mission, these self-described mischievous brothers give a master class in how to create joy in a world that was never easy for them. They offer neuroscience-backed wisdom to help each of us live with more joy, despite circumstances.

Inspired by the New York Times bestseller The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World, the film showcases the exchange between these two Nobel Peace Prize winners that led to that book.

Consisting largely of never-before-seen footage shot over five days at the Dalai Lama’s residence in Dharamsala, the film invites viewers to join these luminaries behind the scenes as they recount stories from their lives, each having lived through periods of incredible difficulty and strife. With genuine affection, mutual respect and a healthy dose of teasing, these unlikely friends impart lessons gleaned from lived experience, ancient traditions, and the latest cutting-edge science regarding how to live with joy in the face of all of life’s challenges from the extraordinary to the mundane. Mission: Joy is an antidote for the times.

click here.

🔽 For information about the Mission Joy Project 🔽

*6 - Carl Gallegos

13 - Rev. Sue Browning

18 - Jan Brandon

20 - Tim Ford

21 - Sara Warner

24 - Diane Shields

We want to help celebrate your birthday! If we didn't include your birthday, please contact the UUCR office by email (click here).