Friday News Update, May 21, 2010
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Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church - Unitarian Universalist
Friday E-Mail News May 21, 2010
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We welcome our new Interim Minister, Rev. Dr. Janet Newman! Dr. Newman is that unusual minister who actually prefers interim appointments to settled ministry, and has served as interim minister to nineteen different congregations since 1987. She graduated from Smith College, and worked as a computer programmer/analyst in northern VA for ten years. She was active in the UU church in Arlington, VA. She followed a call to the ministry after her husband’s unfortunate death in an automobile accident. She is currently serving as interim minister at the First UU Church of Austin TX, a congregation of over 700. |
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Sunday Sermon 9:15 AM + 11:15 AM
May 23, Sunday: Sermon - Shared Ministry, 9:15 AM + 11:15 AM Rev. Dr. Morris W. Hudgins &Alex McGee. Alexandra McGee, a graduate of Starr King School for the Ministry, and Rev. Hudgins will share their views of ministry. We will recognize new members, volunteers and celebrate our shared ministry as a community.
May 30, Sunday: 10 AM Service Starts |
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RE Classes Religious Education for children (nursery thru fifth grade) is offered at both the 9:15 AM and 11:15 AM services. Youth Programming (grades six thru twelve) is offered at 11:15AM. May 30, Sunday Summer child care co-op offered during the service for infants through rising fifth graders. To register, contact robynf@embarqmail.com |
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Church This Week
May 21+22, Friday + Saturday: Directory Picture Taking We will be taking pictures for our new church photo directory in the Social Hall May 20 -22. For any questions, please contact Jean Newland at kipandjean@gmail.com.
May 23, Sunday: Peace Action + United Nations, After Services, Social Hall. We invite you to pick up and fill out a questionnaire about which peace issues you have a deep concern about. This will help guide us to the issues we should focus on next year.
May 24, Monday: Administrative Council, 7 PM, Social Hall
May 25, Tuesday: Quarterly GSA Meeting, 7:30 PM, Parlor. Agenda includes a discussion of ideas for leading the Welcoming Congregation educational efforts.
May 26+June 2, Wednesdays, AFD: Transcendentalism, 2-4 PM, Parlor Rev. Tony Perrino, our Pastoral Care Minister, will lead a group discussion responding to the video of a highly respected college professor and focus on the lives and philosophy of Emerson, Thoreau, Margaret Fuller and other Unitarian figures.
May 26, Wednesday: Back Page Writers, 7 PM, Green Room
May 27, Thursdays: Active Minds, 1 PM, Parlor.
May 30, Sunday: 10 AM Service Starts
May 30, Sunday: Sermon - Letting Go, 10 AM Rev. Dr. Morris W. Hudgins. On this Memorial weekend we will honor our soldiers and dramatize The War Prayer by Mark Twain. We will also reflect on the words of Mary Oliver: “To live in this world you must be able to do three things: To love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the times comes to let it go, to let it go.”
May 31, Monday: Church Office Closed for Memorial Day |
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Church Notes & Requests for Help
Help! Adopt-A-Highway needs road crew volunteers for clean-up on Saturday, May 22, 9 to 11 AM. Please contact Greta Dershimer to volunteer at 293-9513 or socialaction@uucharlottesville.org.
Scrip Reminder: Register at ShopWithScrip.com using our enrollment code 5BCFD27A2L439, and see just how easy it is to put your shopping dollars to work earning money for TJMC. Our Grocery Scrip sales are down 25% from last year. Remember to stop by the Scrip table on Sundays and stock up on Kroger, Giant, Food Lion, Whole Foods, Integral Yoga and Rebecca’s Scrip. In addition, we continue to stock a limited selection of ShopWithScrip GiftCards for popular stores for cash and carry sales. Each time you use Scrip instead of other payment methods for making your ordinary purchases, TJMC is given a percentage of your purchases by participating retailers.
TJMC UUsed BookStore: Our UUsed BookStore is open for business each Sunday in the Social Hall during coffee hour. The stock is rotated frequently, so stop by each week and check out what is new. The selection includes fiction, non-fiction, spirituality, reference and children’s books, all at prices so low you can buy a book, read it, and donate it back for someone else to enjoy. Donations are welcome. Please leave them in the Summit House kitchen alcove or on the front porch if the building is locked.
Religious Education Supply Wish List: buttons and embroidery thread. Please leave donations in the marked bin at the Edgewood Lane entrance.
The Adult Faith Development Committee is soliciting ideas for our fall semester classes. Is there something in particular you would like to see offered? Would you like to lead a course? Do you have a course leader to recommend? We would love to hear from you! Contact AFD Chair, Holly Dilatush at 295-9716 or holly@dilatush.com.
Coming of Age class selling USB flash drives to fund pilgrimage! Support our youth and show your TJMC pride by purchasing a flash drive with the chalice logo on it. Drives are 2 G USB 2.O. Get yours at the RE table in the Social Hall after services before they are gone!
Kitchen Elves needed—Can you help? Our Recognition Dinner for the Coming of Age class members and their parents and mentors is Saturday, June 12. Help is needed with set-up, serving and clean up for this special event. This is the group who has been serving and selling fundraising lunches for the congregation all year. Now it is time for a special meal for them. Able to assist? Contact Leia Durland-Jones, DRE, at 293-8179 or leiadj@embarqmail.com. Thanks in advance! |
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Church Upcoming Dates
June 1, Tuesday: NatureSpirit – Cancelled Until Fall.
June 1+15, Tuesday: UUppity Women, 7 PM, Parlor. In the summertime the living is easy if we have a collection of easy, quick and delicious dishes we can prepare at a moments notice. On June 1, bring your favorite summer recipe(s) with copies to share while we talk about our summer plans. On June 15, bring a book you are willing to part with for a book exchange. Something for the beach, or to read on a plane, or in a hammock in the back yard, it is your choice. For more information email uuppities@uucharlottesville.org.
June 3+10+17+24, Thursdays: Active Minds. 1 PM, Parlor
June 3, Thursday: Finance, 7:30 PM, Social Hall
June 3+17, Thursdays: UU Christian Fellowship, 7 PM, Summit Room 2
June 4, Friday: Food Pantry, 9:30 AM, Social Hall
June 5, Saturday: UU Christian Fellowship Retreat, 9 AM, Offsite.
June 6, Sunday: Sermon - What We Believe, Challenge Service. 10 AM Leia Durland-Jones, DRE. When did you last ponder with intention your own beliefs about life’s important questions? Our church’s ninth grade Coming of Age class has spent a year exploring what they believe and what it means to be a Unitarian Universalist. Come join in dynamic and spirited worship as our youth share from their hearts through words, songs and special music.
June 6, Sunday: All Church Pot Luck Picnic, 11 AM, All Church. Save the date and come to our All Church Pot Luck Picnic with ice cream sundaes and drinks provided. It will be sponsored by the Board, the RE Council and the Membership Committee. Come join us as we celebrate the end of this church year and honor our interim minister, Rev. Dr. Morris Hudgins. For any questions or concerns, please contact Jean Newland at 962-9676 or kipandjean@gmail.com.
June 6, Sunday: Artist of the Month Reception, 11 AM, Social Hall
June 9, Wednesday: Undoing Racism, 7 PM, Parlor
June 12-13, Saturday + Sunday: Witness Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining up Close and Personal To learn more about the trip and mountaintop removal coal mining, stop at our Green Table or email Sharon Baiocco, green@uucharlottesville.org . The tour is limited to 20 adults.
June 13, Sunday: Sermon - From Generation to Generation, Bridging Ceremony. What Can We Say To Our Fathers? 10 AM Leia Durland-Jones, DRE. Rev. Dr. Morris Hudgins. Sharing important milestones of our individual spiritual journeys is part of what it means to be a community of faith. This Sunday we will recognize our high school graduates, and honor, with a Bridging Ceremony, those youths who seek to identify themselves as young adult Unitarian Universalists. Come explore with Leia Durland-Jones, DRE and Rev. Dr. Morris Hudgins the importance of sharing our religious heritage across the generations.
June 14+28, Monday: TnT, 7:30 PM, Parlor
June 16, Wednesday: Environmental Action, 7 PM, Parlor
June 16, Wednesday: IT, 7 PM, Summit Room 1
June 20, Sunday: Sermon - “The Tear Cup,” Flower Communion Ceremony. 10 AM Rev. Morris W. Hudgins. This will be my last sermon at TJMC-UU. It will be appropriate to celebrate the traditional Flower Communion Ceremony as we say “Goodbye.” Please bring a flower to share. We will also welcome Concert Singer, Greg Greenway, who will share his special music.
June 20, Sunday: Social Action Collection - Public Housing Association of Residents The mission of the Public Housing Association of Residents is to empower Charlottesville’s low income residents to protect and improve our own communities through collective action. In the coming year PHAR will: 1. Strengthen public housing resident involvement in the redevelopment planning process and in other issues related to quality of life among residents, including site-based organizing, and, 2. Develop knowledge and civic participation among a new class of PHAR Interns.
June 20, Sunday: Greg Greenway Concert, 7 PM, Sanctuary Come sample Greg’s music at Rev. Dr. Morris Hudgins last service at TJMC and then come back for a full concert. A reception will follow in the Social Hall. Greg is a soulful and moving singer, a powerful poet, and a sparkling entertainer. Originally from Richmond, he moved to Boston for its rich Folk Music tradition and has become one of its most unique and superlative emissaries. Drawing inspiration from gospel, rock, blues, jazz, and world music, Greg continues the singer/songwriter tradition that traces its roots back to the social awareness of Woody Guthrie. Greg’s central appeal comes through the singular lens of his humanity and his easy affinity for his audience.
June 27, Sunday: Sermon - Why You Should NOT Be a Unitarian Universalist. 10 AM Rev. Tony Perrino. He will contend that our “liberal faith” is not for everyone, and knowing that will avoid great frustration later.
June 30, Wednesday: UUGuys, 7 PM, Summit Room 1
July 1-August 28: Summit House Closed We will be storing items for the Yard Sale in Summit House for these two months. If you had a meeting scheduled in Summit House during those months then please call the Church Office to reschedule your location.
August 21, Saturday: Yard Sale Alert! The Eleventh Annual “TJMC Back-To-School Yard Sale Extravaganza” is scheduled for Saturday, August 21. Please set aside your excess furniture, household items, electronics, toys, books, DVDs, and CDs for the sale. Limited pre-sale storage space is available if needed. Questions? Write yardsale@uucharlottesville.org. |
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Community News
May 22, Saturday: Twenty Sixth Annual Charlottesville Women’s Choir Spring Concert, 7:30 PM, The Haven. You are cordially invited to attend a Spring Concert at the Haven, in the former church building at First and Market Streets in Charlottesville. Part of the proceeds will be donated to the Haven, a resource for the hungry, disadvantaged, and homeless. In gratitude to TJMC members for allowing us rehearsal space, twenty UUs may sign up for (free) special admission to the concert by contacting Karen Sherwood at 923-0521 or sherwood@embarqmail.com.
June 12-13: Witness Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining up Close and Personal Register now to attend an overnight trip to Kayford Mountain, West Virginia, about 200 miles west of Charlottesville, to visit the home of Larry Gibson, founder of Keeper of the Mountains Foundation. Gibson’s home is surrounded by 1200 acres of flattened mountains, but he has courageously fought to live there and protect it. We plan to depart on Saturday, June 12, either by van or car pool, tour the site, and then drive on to Charleston where we will share a potluck picnic supper with UUs from the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Charleston in the nearby State Forest, which is threatened by natural gas and coal mining. We will stay overnight and join Sunday services with our fellow UUs, then return home. Costs for van transportation (limit 12) will be about $40 each, and hotel lodging with breakfast can vary from $80 to $120/double. The group is limited to twenty adults. Staying with UU hosts in Charleston is also a possibility for a few. To register for the trip, stop at our Green Table or email Sharon Baiocco, green@uucharlottesville.org.
Host Families Needed: Rich Olin is looking for families to welcome a French or Spanish teenager into their home for four weeks this summer. The kids speak English - well enough to get by - are fully insured for medical and liability and have spending money. This is a rewarding experience that is fun and educational for both your family and the student. The dates are: French: June 12 through July 10; June 26 through July 24; Spanish: June 24 through July 22. Host families receive a stipend of $200 as an appreciation. Please contact Rich Olin at TerraLinguaVA@gmail.com. |