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UU Member Sponsors Special Concert April 29
Tatiana Lokhina, pianist, winner of the Music School's 2017 Artistic Excellence Award, will give a concert here on Saturday April 29, UU Church at 2pm. Admission is free, but donations are welcome and will support her living expenses at the Songfest Summer Institute in L.A. this summer. This concert is sponsored by Cindy Beaulé and Steve Pollitt, the host and producer of The Old Changing Way on WFHB.
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Sunday, April 30, 2017 9:15 and 11:15 a.m.
Mega Food Drive Sunday
Transformation: Hope is the Thing with Feathers
The Choir, directed by Susan Swaney
Reverend Mary Ann Macklin
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything." (Plato) Join us this Sunday as we enjoy several Gifts of Music as part of our worship time together:
Hope is the Thing with Feathers
, words by Emily Dickinson, music by Lauren Bernofsky. This is the premiere of a piece commissioned by our music program in tribute to Sandy Wood Taylor;
Gnothi Safton (Know Thyself)
by Jim Papoulis; and Salvation is Created by Paul Tschesnokoff.
Reverend Macklin will off
er reflections on the transformational powers of hope.
This is also Mega Bounty-Full food drive Sunday for Monroe County United Ministries. list foods needed here:
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This Sunday in Religious Education: Transformation
Our kids will be exploring our source of science and reason.
Preschoolers will hear Grandmother Fish, a story about evolution for young children. K+ will investigate The Great Story Beads, which tells the story of our universe from the beginning. Curiosity Club will work to solve problems through hands on Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) activities. YUUMS (7-8th grade) will be helping the grounds committee with planting activities outside. High School Youth group will be connecting with nature via hiking. Families are encouraged to visit the classrooms at the end of class today and let your child show you what they are doing in RE.
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Pledged Yet?
The Time is
Now More Than Ever
We are constructing the budget for the coming year
based on your pledges!
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Committee and Task Force Chairs
2017 annual reports due
May 15
to admin@uubloomington.org
For reference, the 2016 report can be read HERE.
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Our Folks...
Our thoughts of sympathy and healing are with Steve Lessmann and his family, upon the passing this week of his father, in California.
Our thoughts are with Miles Eddy and family. Mile's mother, Gerry Eddy, died last week. A memorial service will be held May 11th at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Pensacola.
"I would like to express my appreciation to Rev. Macklin and the UU congregation for their kind expressions of care and concern during my recovery." --Gladys DeVane
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Congratulations to Reverend Macklin
Women Excel Luncheon May 24
Congratulations to Reverend Mary Ann Macklin, who recently was honored with a Women Excel Bloomington 2017 award.
From Rev. McNeill:
Last week, the Bloomington Chamber of Commerce announced the 2017 recipients of the Women Excel in Bloomington awards, and our Senior Minister, the Reverend Mary Ann Macklin was one of the seven people selected. For all her work supporting our community in many ways, she will be honored on
May 24
at a luncheon featuring IU's Women's Basketball Coach Teri Moren. Tickets are available for purchase online (
http://web.chamberbloomington.org/events/Women-Excel-Bloomington-Awards-Luncheon-960/details
); contact Rev. Scott if you are interested in attending at a UU-sponsored table.
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Benefit Concert for ACLU Here Sunday, April 30 at 2:00 p.m.
Friends from the Jacobs School of Music will present a concert in our Meeting Room on Sunday at 2:00 p.m. to benefit ACLU of Indiana.
Elise Bond says: "We believe that music holds the unique ability to soothe the spirit and the potential to effect great change in society. If you have been experiencing concern, grief, or anger, since election day, please join us on Sunday, April 30 at 2 pm for an uplifting afternoon of classical music, performed by graduate students of the IU Jacobs School of Music."
The event is free of charge but donations are greatly appreciated. One hundred percent of proceeds from the event will be donated to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Indiana Foundation.
Hosted by the UU Just Peace Task Force, the event will be live-streamed and donations will be accepted online as well! Please visit their GoFundMe page for information on how to donate online!
https://www.gofundme.com/aclu-benefit-concert
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Beltane Celebration Monday, May 1, 7:00 p.m.
Please join Earth Kin in celebrating Beltane on Monday, May 1, 2017, from 7-9 in the Fellowship Hall.
This will be more of a celebration than a formal ritual in order to honor the start of the summer season, traditionally a time of music, dancing, and merriment.
This event is a potluck so please bring food or beverage to share. You might also want to bring a camp or folding chair so you can sit down outside. Finally, we welcome (and encourage) drums and other instruments. --Brooke Opel
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Dear Friends of the UU Bloomington Racial Justice Task Force
UU's own Gladys DeVane and Elizabeth Mitchell of Second Baptist Church are launching a campaign to save a national historic landmark--the African American church built in 1909 in West Baden, Indiana, for black residents who mostly worked at the French Lick Resort hotel. They are in the running for a $100K grant from USA Today, and your vote can help them be in the finalists--the top ten vote-getting projects will be judged for the grant.
Here's the link where you can vote:
http://act.usatoday.com/submit-an-idea/#/gallery/60314351/
You can vote daily through
May 12th
, and you only have to sign in the first time. Very simple.
More news will follow, but do save the date for another Juke Joint on
Saturday, June 17th
! -- Martha Foster, Racial Justice Task Force
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Final Acts: End-of-Life Scenarios and Conversation
Friday, May 12 at 6:30 p.m.
Actor and local favorite
Diane Kondrat
will take the stage again here in our Meeting Room in "Final Acts: End-of-Life Scenarios and Conversation," a one-hour show that portrays some of the complicated questions raised by end of life situations. Donations at the door will benefit programming for end-of-life-issues.
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Reverend McNeill's Installation Service is
Saturday, May 20 at 4:00!
It's a big deal! Details can be found
Here and
Here.
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Monty says: "PLEDGE NAAOOooooooooow!
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For More Information
see the April 17 issue
of our newsletter, The Prologue.
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Masthead photo by Linda Mjolsnes.
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