Striving for Beloved Community. Carla M., Dennis W., Ebee B., Jeanne C., Pat U. We will explore how the actual meanings of what Jesus taught are good news for all people—leading to spiritual wholeness by calling us to dismantle oppressive systems. Jesus, rather than maintaining the status quo, stood on the side of the marginalized.
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Shut Down Berks Interfaith Witness, the Shut Down Berks Coalition & Make the Road PA will host a Shut Down Berks Virtual Vigil led by Southwestern PA ELCA Synod’s Immigration Working Group Sunday, July 19, 3:30-4:30pm Vigil to be held via Zoom—for an invitation, send message to s.strauss@pachurches.org FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT s.strauss@pachurches.orgVisit the Shut … Continue reading Shut Down Berks Zoom Vigil
We need to fight to ensure that families are freed and freed together! We will never tolerate Family Separation, Family Detention or Deportations. Join us on July 17th, as we mobilize to the Berks County Detention Center to demand they #ShutDownBerks & #EndFamilyDetention. We will be at the prison from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., check out our facebook … Continue reading RSVP right now for the mobilization to Berks on July 17th
What is In Your Bucket? Joanna Groebel, Lauren Fritz. We have been through months of enormous changes: changes in safety protocols, changes in work and school routines. changes in family dynamics and social habits, changes in emotional thresholds for difficulty, changes in how we live out social justice. changes in our willingness to see history. These months have hurled emotions piled high, one on top of one another. It is easy to get lost in the layers of the larger traumas. We can easily lose touch with our ability to effect positive change when things feel overwhelming. This Sunday, we will take a look in our own personal buckets. We will see what needs cleaning out, and what is there that is precious and worthy. Through this exploration, we will re-ground and reconnect with our strengths and intentions, allowing us to focus with consciousness on moving our energy into being.
UUFaith Lab This hybrid online, personalized and small group experience for high school aged Unitarian Universalist youth who’ve completed grades 9th-12th or the homeschooled equivalent will teach you how to discern your own gifts and how to build community with those gift through practicing and co-creating Unitarian Universalism in real time. UU Faith Lab Begins July 10th … Continue reading Summer Opportunities for Youth
Sunday Morning Worship at GA at 10 AM. Benjie Messer, Rev. Joan Javier-Duval, Rev. Mykal Slack. Join in the largest annual gathering of UUs joining in worship. This service will stream on uua.org/ga Sunday at 10 am. Rev. Joan Javier-Duval, Minister of the Unitarian Church of Montpelier, VT, is worship leader and will deliver the sermon. Rev. Mykal O’Neal Slack is co-worship leader. He is currently the Community Minister for Worship and Spiritual Care for Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism and a co-founder of the Transforming Hearts Collective. Benjie Messer who serves at the UU Congregation of Phoenix and has just completed the UUA’s Music Leadership Certification Program is the music director.
Our congregation’s ADORE group (A Dialog On Race and Ethnicity) invites you to a virtual space on Sunday, July 5 from 11:45-12:45 PM via GoogleMeet. We encourage all participants to share and learn, we will specifically discuss the movement led by the#ShutDownBerks Coalition to close the Berks Family Detention Center in Leesport. To receive updates, join FUUBC’s Immigration Justice group … Continue reading ADORE Listening Cafe
Practicing Compassion. Poncho Peña, Longtime member & guitarist, and Ebee Bromley, director of religious education & music leads us in this morning’s service. Quarantine has required a new level of compassion for ourselves and others. Compassion is not just a matter of niceness and thoughtful feelings. It’s a deeper type of feeling that drives us to action. This Sunday we will consider how we practice compassion for those who fail us.
We are evaluating having a Kauffman Chicken BBQ fundraiser in late August/early September. These kinds of fundraisers only work if we have enough volunteers, because the minimum order is 400 dinners (with a $4-5 profit on each dinner). We will need people to : sell dinner tickets in advance to your friends and families (we … Continue reading Volunteers Needed for Chicken BBQ Fundraiser
