Weekly E-News, August 13, 2020 |
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This Week's Service
Sunday, August 16, 10:30 AM
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Reflections from the Suffragettes
Join Zoom Meeting Sunday at 10:30am
Meeting ID: 891 5048 2747
Password: chalice
Or, follow the link on our webpage for audio only: uucfm.org
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This service brought to you by:
Suellen Kipp, Director of Music
Mary Cline Golbitz, Worship Associate
Helen Leddy, Worship Associate
Alberita Johnson, Guest Speaker
Nancy Letts, Guest Speaker
Peter Golbitz, Musician
Shelley Graff, Musician
Lesley Peterson, Musician
Lesley Peterson, Tech Team Member
Mark Brandon, Tech Team Member
Walter Peterson, Tech Team Member
Jill Carville, Tech Team Member
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August Community Sharing
Literacy Council Gulf Coast (LCGC) has provided literacy services for students across SW Florida for more than 30 years. We strive to create a welcoming environment that encourages learning, while working with each individual to help them reach their objectives through our numerous programs. LCGC offers three primary programs: Adult Literacy, Worksite Literacy and Family Literacy. These programs encompass multiple classes and include both group and individual tutoring opportunities.
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UUCFM Members and Friends,
We want YOU to submit your thoughts, memories, and words of wisdom from your time in the military serving your country. Or, you might speak about one of your favorite veterans in your family. You can shoot the video from your phone and submit to Jill via church email at uuchurch@uucfm.org. The fabulous UUCFM Tech Team will be creating a tribute to our veteran's for a November service.
Please submit your Veteran Videos from now up and until October 15th.
Please title your email video submission "Veteran Video" to help Jill keep track of all submissions.
Thank you for your help!
Suellen Kipp
Director of Music
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Congregational Update: Campus Sharing
With the overwhelming approval by the congregation for the capital improvement loan from the Endowment Fund, we are beginning several projects: campus building weatherization and painting, new Hobart A/C’s, and Hobart re-flooring. Scheduling with the various contractors is in process. (We are still getting assessments regarding the repairs needed for the septic system, which may happen later this year or early next.) Funds from a recent bequest will help reduce the size of the loan.
Over the course of the past few weeks, Operations Council volunteers have worked to re-organize and clear out our storage areas in Hobart, the Admin building, and the classrooms. We have also been working with staff to consolidate office space, freeing-up what were the offices at the north side of the Admin building for additional meeting and/or rental space.
A small group composed of representatives from UUCFM and the Symphony (GCS) have been meeting to plan and coordinate the improvements for the Sanctuary: new theatrical ceiling lighting, upgraded digital audio system, and robotic cameras with a new video streaming control center behind the A/V room. We have also upgraded security in several areas of the campus.
Dealing with the pandemic is the great unknown in our plans. We have looked to the CDC guidelines for recommendations, evaluating phased strategies and constraints to assure campus safety when the Board of Trustees decides the timing for opening the campus. Until then, we will be exploring technological alternatives in carrying out church functions.
Operations Council
Transition Team
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UUCFM Online Classes & Groups |
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Caloosahatchee Mindfulness
The book group is starting White Fragility: Why It's So Hard For White People to Talk About Racism.
“A valuable guide . . . While especially helpful for those new to the critical analysis of whiteness, this work also offers a useful refresher to anyone committed to the ongoing process of self-assessment and anti-oppression work.”
—Library Journal
We are now meeting on Wednesday from 1-2:30 p.m. on Zoom (of course). For more information and to join, contact Helen Leddy at helen.leddy@gmail.com
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The UUCFM Book Club
The UUCFM Book group will start reading SEPARATED by Jacob Soboroff on our next Zoom meeting August 19th. Read through Chapter Two. We meet on Zoom Wednesdays at 1:00 PM. For those who will be joining us for the first time, please email Mary Studer at mstuder929@gmail.com and she will send you the link to Zoom.
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South Fort Myers Food Pantry
The board and volunteers at the Food Pantry say thank you for the food that you have dropped off during these very difficult months.
The best times to drop off food are 9 AM or 4 PM on Monday at the pantry itself, located at 8260 Cypress Lake Drive, Fort Myers in the back of the Cypress Lake Presbyterian Church. Any size donation will be accepted. Most needed foods are peanut butter & jelly, cereal, breakfast bars, canned fruits and vegetables, pasta and tomato sauce, protein-rich soups and beans. Please, no glass containers.
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Caring Network
If you or another member of the Congregation needs some extra attention during this time, your Pastoral Care Committee is here to help as much as we can while keeping us all safe and protected. Our Committee members include Mary Faegre, Joan Hickok, Mary Tracy-Sigman, Patricia Vivier-Naidl, Holley Rauen and Suzanne Ziemer.
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If any members of the Congregation are available to help during this crisis, please contact Mary Golbitz.
We can connect with you individually by phone if you are feeling isolated and offer other assistance. Please contact Mary Golbitz for information or assistance at marygcline@gmail.com 207 479-4082 (phone or text) or Holley Rauen at holleyrauen@gmail.com or 239 464-6556.
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Literacy Buddy Program
Each school year, the Early Learning Coalition sponsors the Literacy Buddy Program which provides children with books to take home and share with their families. The program also encourages them to express themselves through correspondence with their adult buddy. Children come to school better prepared to learn when they interact with adults who regularly read, write and talk with them. You can become a Literacy Buddy!
· A Literacy Buddy agrees to receive letters from a child in an early learning facility served by the Early Learning Coalition.
· The Buddy in turn sends a letter and high quality book in response to the child’s letter.
· This exchange takes place three times from mid fall to spring.
· The program teaches children about correspondence, communication and instills appreciation of high quality children’s literature.
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Aug 13 Shirley Blumenfeld
Aug 14 Paula Copestick
Aug 21 Suzanne Fast
Aug 22 Marge Gonzalez
Aug 24 Patricia Vivier-Naidl
Aug 25 John Swank
Aug 28 Kathy Ford
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Board of Trustees & Staff |
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President Lesley Peterson
President Elect Lane Cook
Secretary Ruth King Fotovat
Treasurer Pati Maier
VP Ministerial Services Keith Hamlin
VP Operations Dorothy Van Howe
VP Programming Toni Latino
Member at Large Genelle Grant
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Please send all newsletter articles by Wednesday at noon for publication in Thursday's newsletter. Send articles to newsletter@uucfm.org.
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