Sunday Services for November:
Sunday November 4:
A Conspiracy of GoodnessWe have heard a lot about conspiracies of evil Bad news seems to make better copy than good news any day. In these times it is easy to forget that there have always been (and still are) heroes and heroines who
Mark your calendars! In the afternoon at 4 PM at Temple Beth Sholom, 3400 N. Dobson, Chandler, we will install our new settled minister, Rev. Lone Jensen. Rev. Carolyn Owen Towle, co-minister of First U But the most important guests will be the members of this congregation. Join us for this celebration of our covenant and a new era in the Valley Unitarian Universalist Church. A reception will follow back at the church.
November 18 "Hear the Earth Call!"Minister’s Dusty Desert Corner
On keeping a sense of gratitude and joy in hard times.
As I write these words in a summery, hazy, dusty Arizona fall my heart is full. So much has happened in these two months since I came here to be your minister. There has been much joy, excitement and good work done but we also
In these hard times we need each other more than ever and this free faith of ours to sustain our courage. Voices of reason and tolerance will be needed in the months ahead, our voices. So let us go on, as we have, with the dai
Yes, some of you, I know face tragedy or illness in your lives and have reason to feel angry or sad or fearful. If this is where you are know that you do not have to be alone. This congregation is here for you. Call me or contac
But for most of us we do have overflowing cups every day, so many things we take for granted. Let me name but a few: the colorful flash of a hummingbird at my window as I write this, the daily commute to church with glimpses of
Soon we will celebrate our covenant with each other as minister and congregation. An installation is a lot like a marriage and requires a similar "stick to it ness" and being faithful to our promises through good and ba
So friends let us celebrate. We have much to be grateful for.
Lone
Career Development Workshop
Date:
November 10, 2001Location: VUU Church - the Cottage
Time: 9am-4pm (lunch break inc.)
Suggested fee: donation to the church
The workshop, which will be facilitated by John Arp, will cover issues from networking to evaluating and negotiating offers. John is a pro-fessional with 26 years experience with a major Fortune 500 company and a list of corporate client
Space is limited to 12 (first come first served)
Contact person:
Beverly McCormick - 480-926-8929, tempebev1@cs.com
Interfaith Action Coalition of Arizona presents:
VOICES Monday, November 5, 2001, 7pmPhoenix Symphony Hall
$15 general admission
We'll share the music, song and chants of religious groups around the valley--Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, Baha'i, Unity, Sufi, Buddhist, Catholic, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Christian Science, Protestant and Native Am
Tickets available at box office 33 S 3rd St or at Tickets.Com 800-905-3315 or on the web at
www.tickets.com
VUU Gets $45,000 Gift
Wouldn’t that be a nice headline? And what if it was an annual gift? Well, it can be if we all do our part. Every Sunday, someone is at a table, near where coffee and snacks are provided, selling food certificates that can be us
In research conducted with several members of the church, it appears that we spend an average of $200 per month per adult at food stores. This is more than food items because it inc
- Todd Heglund
Last month we printed over 100 copies of the new directory, and already they are gone. I have new ones ready to go, but I need help with the big job of binding the new directories! The copying and cutting are done. In order to make them
This is a job where many hands make light work. Please come and help…..
Call 899-4249.
Martha StrogenChurch Administrator
In-home Childcare/Nanny Sharing
Do you take care of children in your home, or know and trust someone who does? Do you haveAlice Casey, 602/791-9881 or alice_casey@hotmail.com.
Yoga at The Church
Now on Mondays
A gentle form of Hatha Yoga is now being offered at VUU. Each Monday evening from 7 - 8 PM in Classroom B (downstairs), Linda Martin, registered and certified yoga instructor, is teaching the classes. All are welcome--it is beginning
Please bring a pillow, small blanket, and/or any form of mat that you might have.
Classes are $10/class or $32/month.
If you have any questions or comments, please call Linda at 480-838-8037.
Membership
Perhaps you have noticed members of our committee circulating with our new "ask me questions" badges during c
RUMMAGE SALE!
West Valley Unitarian Universalist Church will hold a rummage sale Saturday, November 3 from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. The sale will be at 15239 North 53rd Drive (half bloc
On October 19th there was quite a crowd from VUU at the Herberger Theatre's performance of Two Pianos - Four Hands. I, acting as Host, planned for the six p
Coming up on November 18, Sunday at 7:30 PM, is Grease - a fun, family musical at the ASU Mainstage Theatre, 480-965-6447. Sign up on the Culture Club navy blue poster located in the church vestibule. Check out future ev
- Jane Paul
Women’s Circle Nov. 8, 1 p.m.
The next meeting will be hosted by Hilaire Ingram, who is one of the women who started our CIRCLE way back at the beginning of this church. Back then it was "U U Wome
In October, we shared the reading that has been influential in changing our thinking. In November we are to complete this sentence: "---------------------------------is
of special significance to me-------." It can be a person, an event, a chance meeting, anything.
Hilaire’s address is 442 N. 83rd St. in East Mesa. Her phone is 480 986-6342, and she is a great hostess. This group is a lot of fun. Come see for yourself. Marilou Coy 602 275-9535
Installation Service
The formal service to install Rev. Lone Jensen as our minister will take place on Sunday, November 11th at the Temple Beth Sholom, 3400 N. Dobson, Chandler, AZ at 4pm. A receptio
The Rev. Carolyn Owen-Towle, D.D., co-minister of the First UU Church of San Diego with her husband Tom since 1978, will give the sermon. Carolyn has had a long and illustrious career with our denomination: she was President
Babysitting is available during the service and reception, by reserva-tion. Please call the church office, so we know how many children to expect.
Valley UU has participated every year for many, many years, in CROP – sponsored nationally by Church World Service, and locally by WHEAT, World Hunger Ecumenical Arizona Task Force.
These Crop Walks are held annually and all over the world. It is the answer from the faith community to the horror of world hunger. In the Valley, there are five such walks, spread over the valley. There are walks going on all acros
World events are creating more and more refugee situations = hungry people. A small amount from a lot of caring people will build into the weapons needed to fight hunger.
Our church social action is focused on some local issues this year, but the need remains, and the opportunity is there for those who would like to become part of this effort. Remember that Rev. James Ford was the president of the WH
The CROP Walk is a good family activity. In most of the participating churches, it is a planned activity for the youth group, with competition for collection the most in pledges.
At VUU, I am carrying on the tradition. I quite shamelessly admit – nay - brag! that I do not actually walk. (You would hate to see me collapse!) But I certainly do accept pledges for this cause.
Marilou Cou, 602 275-9535
Guest at your Table
Every November, all of us take a little box, and try to fill it with our small change. We do it to help fund UUSC, the service arm of our denomination which serves
Your money, added to the money collected wherever UU’s gather, helps fight fear, hunger and ignorance. We band together to supply information that will help our brothers and sisters work for human rights, better laws, and to be able
The first UUSC was formed by a Unitarian minister and his wife who saved about 50 children – shepherding them out of Nazi Germany in 1945. Our proud history includes flood relief in the Phillipines, Texas migrant worker relief, work
There are more than 350 members in VUU church – shouldn’t at least a quarter be joined in this good work? Only 39 are now identified as UUSC members. At least 25% would be something to be proud of. Another 40 UUSC memberships would
On Nov 18, our children will distribute little colorful boxes to the congregation. Put this box on your dining table. It is a Guest at your Table. "Feed" this box at every meal. See how your loose change will add up
Let’s see how much real good our congregation can do – our church, and all of the UU congregations across the whole world. What Good Work!
LIFESPAN RELIGIOUS
EDUCATION NEWS
by Marilyn Huerter, Director of
Religious Education
MIDDLE SCHOOL RE-ORGANIZATION
We have reorganized our youth in grades 6 to 9. There were so many in both the 6th - 8th grade class and the high school class that we divided them. We now have a 6t
Yes, we're organizing Adult Religious Education classes, and we'd like your input! We know there's a lot of interest among you for stimulating and informative pro
THANKSGIVING GRUUP GOBBLE
Marilyn
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OCIAL ACTION PAGEEDUCATION ISSUES - SOCIAL ACTION COMMITTEE REPORT
With all that has happened since September 11, it is hard to recall that there are still important issues facing us in the area of education. Federal legislation is still p
Perfect School Forum–
September 30, after second service, we explored the problems facing our schools and considered a variety of possible solutions. Those attending completed ballots which are being collected by local TV Channel 12 and the ArizonaAdopt-A-School- An ad-hoc committee is to be assembled next month to meet several times over the fall and winter, to explore the possibilities of adopting a local school. Duties will include calling a random sample of cElection Questionnaires
- We will soon begin preparing questionnaires to be mailed to candidates for the local school boards and State Superintendent of Public Instruction,SPECIAL INTERFAITH CONCERT The last si
Choirs and musical groups from twelve different valley faith groups will be expressing music that comes from their faith tradition and religion. It will be a wonderful concert, which will inform and inspire everyone.
Tickets are $15.00 each and can be purchased by calling the Civic Center Box
THANK YOU
from the United Blood Services. The people who volunteered to donate blood, both at the Oct. 21st drive at church and at the Donor Center are truly ap
Board Bits
by Debbie Dinyes, President VUU has just received a 2000/2001 Honor Society certificate from the Unitarian Universalist Association for our monetary support of the Annual Program Fund. In addi
Angelus Oaks, CA. This beautiful camp at 6000 feet in the San Bernardino Mountains runs year-round programming for families, children and adults. Those from VUU who have had the opportunity to participate in these programs are very po
Valued Volunteers: Thanks to Scott Bruhnsen and John
DONATIONS SOUGHT FOR WEST VALLEY U. U. CHURCH BUILDING PROJECT
Dear Fellow Unitarian Universalists,
Many of you are aware of West Valley U.U. Church, our struggles to grow, and our attempts to find a permanent home. We had our initial service in 1983 and were founded to fulfill a need for a liberal voice in the Northwest Phoenix
We have held a capital fund raising campaign for the past two years, which has been quite successful for such a small congregation. With our Capital Funds, our increased member pledges and the member loans, we have proceeded with
buildings of a similar size (36' X 60') at about $100,000. Additionally, the Design Review requirements (the final approval process with the city of Glendale) have increased our costs considerably beyond what we planned (or wanted
Currently, we have temporarily halted the project, to seek other sources of funding. We are not eligible for any grants or loans from the UUA programs. Our membership is too small to service any more debt at this time. In the past
We are asking for any donations that you might give to assist us in completing our building project. At this point loans are not helpful unless interest free for five to six years when we hope we will have grown enough to be able
pledges. Specifically we need donations to purchase a new modular building for use as a sanctuary and for completing the site improvements required to open our doors.
As congregations, we have entered into a covenant with Unitarian Universalist Association and with all other UU congregations, "promising to one another our mutual trust and support." We do not wish to deprive your church of any c
Sandra D. Mahoney, President, WVUUC Board of Trustees.
Knit Wits
Have you noticed? Do you know? The Knits Wits are a knitting group whose members come from our church and from several other churches around the Valley. There is a branch at the Renaissance in Sun Lakes and another branch at the Congreg
Our major projects are knitted afghans all of which are given away. In completing the afghans we’ve discovered that crocheters put the finishing touch on the edges, so they have become among our most valuable members.
You might be interested in knowing that so far this year we’ve given away over fifty afghans. Where? To the Oncology section of Desert Sam, to an Alliance in the East Valley that gives them to foster children for their very own. Hospic
At present we are trying to complete about fifty afghans to give to Veterans in the Phoenix Veterans Hospital some time between Veterans Day and Thanksgiving.
Last year we made afghans for every woman veteran then at the facility. Our own Sue Eskey, a veteran, delivered them for us.
We are fast using up our donated yarn thus our church has permitted us to hold a raffle to earn money to buy more yarn to knit up to make more afghans to give away. Tickets are one dollar each ($1.00) or six for five dollars ($5.00). Y
It is amazing to me how much those of us who knit for the Knit Wits enjoy doing so. We meet on the first Saturday afternoon of the month from 1:30 pm until 4:00pm. Although some of us enjoy knitting together, a few persons come in with
2002 Entertainment Books!
The price is still $35, of which 20% comes to our church. What? You haven’t heard of the marvelous, $ saving books – they come with a card and coupons. The smallest coups are
W. Valley Church Hosts Speakers: Dan Barker & Steve Benson Dec. 2
West Valley UUC will be meeting in the cafeteria of Sine Elementary, 4932 W. Myrtle, Glendale, for this special guest service at 10:45 am Sun. at 2 pm they will be at Gle
Music Notes
"We Utter Our Cry", # 137 in the hymnal, is our new hymn-of-the-month. I learned it at the Choir Camp Weekend that 13 of us went on in Oct. at the UU Camp, DeBenneville Pi
Calling all previous VUU Singers members who may have sung with us when we sang "Turn the World Around"! (I think we sang it for Easter 1998.) We will be singing it again for the Rev. Lone's Installation Service on Nov. 11. If you would
Youth Choir to rehearse for the Christmas Pageant! We will meet in the Cottage from 10:15 -10:55 AM on Nov.11, Nov. 18, & Dec. 2, with a possible dress rehearsal sometime on Dec. 9. Also please let me know if there are any youth interested in being inKellie Walker
, Director of Music MinistriesOur own
Ryan Marvel (pianist extraordinaire) will give a:Holiday Concert on Sat., Dec. 8th at 7:30 p.m.
Although this is not a church-sponsored event, he will be
performing in our sanctuary and I'm sure many of us will want to attend. Please call him at (602) 26
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