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NOVEMBER 2009
Day Light Savings Time Begins Today. Set your clock back one hour!
November 1: All Souls Day: Re-Membering the Dead - Rev. Michelle Tonozzi
Across cultures and across centuries peoples have had ways in which they have commemorated the dead. All Hallows Eve, All Souls and All Saints Days, and the Mexican holiday El dia de los muertos (The Day of the Dead) - which all coincide with the Fall Equinox - are some of the ways with which we are most familiar. Our death denying culture commercializes, dismisses, ignores or forgets what observance of these Holidays and Holy Days can offer in service of human wholeness.
Today is First Sunday. All are invited to Soup and Bread in the Fellowship Hall following the service. Visitors, please be our guests!
Greeters: Bill Haider and Alison Bell/Coffee: Social Justice Committee
November 8: “Celebration of a World Community for Peace with Liberty and Justice for All” – Fellowship Youth
Everyone is invited for a Youth Led Sunday Service planned by the Children’s Religious Education committee. The children of the Fellowship have been hard at work preparing for this Sunday Service. We will be honoring the World Community for Peace with a program about Remembrance Day, as celebrated in our country as well as others. There will be poetry, story telling, and time for adults. We invite all of you to bring your family members, stories to share, and especially any veterans you know to share in our commemoration and remembrance of all who have committed themselves to a Global Community of Peace.
Greeters: Dennis and Jo Weis/Coffee: Julie K. Peters and Mark Zabee
November 15: "Poems of Our Lives" – Claire Downes
Our own poet, Claire Downes, will read selections from her poetry.
Greeters: Jack and Betty Waldhauer/Coffee: Lynn Williams and Bruce Rowen
November 22: Rights Relations, The Buddhist Precepts, And Preparing for the Holidays - Rev. Michelle Tonozzi
All Buddhists accept the Five Buddhist Precepts as their basic ethical guide for alleviating suffering and fostering right relationship. Transcending sectarian boundaries, their practice can help us to sustain a compassionate and sane life together. What better time to consider them, than the sometimes crazy-making Holiday Season?
Guest At Your Table boxes will be distributed during the "Time for Children" today, in order to support the work of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
Greeters: Wendy Schoen and Roger Klinkenborg/Coffee: Chad and Liz Kunkel
November 29: The Power of Relationships – Jane Ellison
Infant and early childhood mental health research has strengthened, deepened and broadened our understanding of the essential nature of relationships for healthy human development. Jane Ellison will share what we have learned from babies and their families about the power of relationships in all of our lives.
Greeters: Wayne Johnson and Michael Hormann/Coffee: Pat Makepeace and Amy Johnson