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Beltane: Springtime Rituals, Lore and Celebration
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Ongoing Fellowship EventsPlease Use your S.H.A.R.E.S. Card
at Save-Mart, Our Fellowship is participating in the
Save-Mart S.H.A.R.E.S program. If you take one of our S.H.A.R.E.S.
cards and give it to the clerk at the check-out counter, our
Fellowship will receive 3% of your grocery purchases from
Save-Mart, at no extra cost to you. Please get your own
S.H.A.R.E.S. card from Jolene. And... bring your receipts for the
Raffle!
Friday UU Visalia Social Lunch
Group, Join us every Friday at 12:15 p.m.for lunch - we'll
be visiting different locations each week! If you'd like to attend,
contact Harold at 739-8527 or emailharold@uuvisalia.org to be added
to our weekly notification list.Join Our Choir The Choir
practices at 4 PM for rehearsal on several designated Sundays each
month. If you are interested in joining the choir, contact Ken
Elias at kelias@prodigy.net or phone: (559) 561-0610.
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Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Visalia
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Worship Service Calendar
April 4, Easter - No UU service. Breakfast with the Quakers 9:00 a.m.
April 11, The Power of the Plate - The power that your food choices exert over your well-being. Paula Bayard, presenter.
April 18, God's Boredom and the Origins of Evil
So, imagine if you were all knowing, all powerful, all wise and all loving.
What would you do? Sam
Webster, Consulting Minister will present this topic.
April 25, John Muir as Spiritual Guide, Harold Wood, a Muir historian and webmaster of the world's leading website about John Muir, describes how John Muir's life and writings offers insights into the nature of Divinity and Reality in the natural world.
The Social Justice Team meets after the potluck on the second Sunday of the month.
The Worship Team after potluck on the third Sunday of the month.
Visitors are cordially invited to join us for a buffet supper and fellowship immediately following the 5:00pm Worship Service.
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UU Visalia Fellowship News
April 2010
Pledge Letters Coming. Members
and regular visitors, please watch for a letter thanking you for your
generous support in the past and asking for a financial commitment for
the 2010-2011 fiscal year. Please return your pledge card by April 18,
2010 so we can accurately estimate our anticipated income and can plan
programs for the next fiscal year.
Visalia CropWalk Contributions. Thanks to several UU members and friends for walking and collecting @$400 for this 32 year old interfaith hunger awareness event, which raises awareness of the need and funds for FoodLink of Tulare County and worldwide disaster relief. Donations may be made to the 3/13/10 Visalia CropWalk through www.cropwalkonline.org or c/o UUFV, PO Box 3469, Visalia 93278.
Call to Members for Fellowship History. Needed:
digital photos of congregational events, historical documents from the
past. We now have a volunteer videographer to tape oral histories of our
founders and other long-time members. What is the story of the
Visalia Unitarian Universalist Fellowship? Who started the church? (Don
and Phyllis Chapin are still active members.) Where did we meet? What
social issues did we get involved in? We would like to write up a
history to post on the web and to format as a pamphlet. Volunteers
needed to help with the interviews. Please contact a
Board member if you are interested.
Please Label Ingredients of Potluck Dishes. Some members and visitors have serious food allergies
and we want them to enjoy dinner without worry. We've started making a
list of the ingredients of our potluck contributions on a post-it or
index card. Particular concerns are peppers and wheat gluten. Secondary
benefits are for vegetarians who may not be able to tell if meat is in
a dish. Also, if you are willing to divulge your whole recipe, we will
collect the cards to include in the Fellowship Cookbook Version #2.
Pastoral Counseling
During his monthly visits our part-time minister, Sam Webster, is
available
for private pastoral counseling
or spiritual discussion, as
part of his congregational duties.
Please write him directly to schedule
appointments with him at samwebster11@gmail.com. Sam's term with us ends in May 2010 - we thank him for his leadership and wish him well!
SHARES cards earnings are $1038 since January 09 and still climbing. Don't forget that SHARES cards are also good at FoodMaxx and Lucky as well as Save-Mart.
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Soup, salad and bread supper at 5:30. $4.00 per person. Vesper service at 6pm
Choice of Meditation with Rick Meyers or class "Menu for the Future" 6:30-8pm Video Class: Big History with Dr. David Christian from SDSU 8-8:45pm
Series ends for the summer in May 2010
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Community Events
LGBTQ Events at COS ( Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender, Questioning) from Gailerd Swisegood, Social Work Club, COS
On April 8th at 6pm we are showing two movies Before Stonewall - After Stonewall. These movies are the history of the gay rights movement in the United States. They are powerful and empowering to see Come and join us to celebrate our historic struggles. On
April 15th we are celebrating in the quad from 10-2 Food Informational
tables Kick off the campus wide SAFE ZONE project Entertainment And
activities. On April 15th at 6pm we are showing two short movies
focusing on Suicide Coming out We will have Noah Whitaker representing
the Trevor project, and the suicide task force to lead a discussion and
talk about resources. We would like to have this a community event so everyone is invited. If any group would like to have a table at any of these events ,please contact me and we will make it happen
Creating a Safer, More Secure and Greener Community Jan Spencer, from Eugene, Oregon, will be making a timely presentation to Visalia, Thursday, April 15. The
presentation "Creating a Safer, More Secure and Greener Community,"
will focus on making our communities safer, more secure and green, all
at the same time. The talk will have widespread appeal for many reasons. The location will be at the Friends Meeting House, 17208, Av 296, Visalia. Mix and Mingle at 6:30
Presentation at 7:00
The
talk will be free and open to the public and will touch on a wide
variety of topics and issues including economics, "power shift",
changes in urban land use, neighborhood approaches, communities of
faith, social cohesion and much more. The issues and strategies to meet
deepening challenges are timely.
Core elements of the
presentation include making better use of existing assets and
opportunities for taking care of more of our needs closer to where we
live. Holistic approaches are explained that can lead to multiple
benefits and while calling forth positive human potential.
Permaculture
- a powerful tool and system of design principles for making more
effective green strategies and choices will also be explained.
Jan
has been transforming his own 1/4 acre suburban property in Eugene for
ten years - grass to garden, driveway replaced with edible landscaping,
6500 gallon capacity rain water storage, passive solar redesign, food
growing all over, site for many tours, workshops and visits and much
more. He has also been on the board of his neighborhood
association for ten years, leading to a great appreciation for how
neighborhoods are a powerful location for making our communities safer,
more secure and green.
The speaking tour is intended to broaden
the civic discussion about choices available to individuals and
communities, given the deepening global trends relating to energy, the
environment, economics, culture, peace, global relations, climate
change and more. Jan will also have a DVD for sale that includes many
of the points and issues made in the live presentation. The DVD is also
available on his website.
For
information about creating safer, more secure and greener communities,
along with fotos of Jan's extensive property conversion project, the
new DVD and essays about eco logical living, see
www.suburbanpermaculture.org
Valley Yoga - 1616 W Mineral King, Ste B,
Visalia. Pre-registration is
required, as class sizes are limited.(Teacher Brenda Proudfoot spoke to the UU Fellowship a couple of years ago and several members highly recommend her classes.)
- Somatic Unwinding Class - Saturday 4/24/10 2:00-4:00
Unwinding the daily stresses and traumas of life with slow rocking sequences. We trick the nervous system out of its habitual patterns of holding that hinder us from full relaxation. $20.
- Family Yoga Workshop with Karen Roebuck, Fri 4/9/10, 6:00-8:00PM $50 for two participants ($20 each additional family member)
- Yoga Basics - 4/13/10-5/18/10, Tuesday evenings 5:30-7:00PM $55 for full six weeks.
Tulare Co Renaissance Festival - 4/24-25/10, Plaza Park.
$8 adults, $5 seniors for children. www.stmortimer.org
Earth Day Celebrations-
Lindsay - 4/3, Woodlake - 4/17, Exeter - 4/22
FOR ETHICAL EATERS - Tulare County Farmer's Markets
- Dinuba - Every other Monday beginning 5/10/10 through end of September. 3-5PM at Rose Ann Vuich Park (cross streets El Monte Way & McKinley)
- Earlimart - Every other Tuesday beginning 5/11/10 through end of September. 3-5PM at Earlimart Community Park (cross streets Center & State)
- Farmersville - Every other Thursday beginning 5/6/10 through end of September. 3-5PM at Farmersville WIC Clinic parking lot (cross streets Front/Farmersville Blvd.)
- Lindsay - Weekly on Fridays year round, 5:30PM - 10:00PM at Sweet Brier Plaza. Features 200+ vendors, entertainment, crafts, family friendly, fun for kids.
- Visalia - Two locations
- Weekly on Saturdays year round, 8:00-11:30AM at Sears parking lot
(corner of Caldwell & Mooney)
- Weekly on Thursdays beginning 3/18/10 through end of September,
5-8PM at corner of Main & Church Streets.
- Woodlake - Last Wednesday of each month beginning 5/26/10 through end of September. 3-5PM at Miller Brown Park (cross streets Antelope & Magnolia)
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Upcoming Unitarian Universalist Events
Pacific Central District - UUA District Assembly, Friday-Sunday 4/30-5/2/10, Newark, CA. special events and workshops to strengthen your faith and organization! Standard registration rate $95 Discounted $79 accommodations at the Newark/Fremont Hilton if made by 4/15/10. More info and registration form at www.pcd-uua.org.
UU Legislative Ministry Water Justice Conference - Saturday 5/8/10, 9:30AM-4:00PM at Neighborhood UU Church, Pasadena. $20 for adults, $5 for students, lunch provided In the face of the threat of climate change, people of faith can play an important role in creating a more just, sustainable, and regionally resilient water future for California. Join faith leaders and outstanding experts in water policy, environmental justice and climate change for a day of learning, community building and practical action. 2010 is the year voters will be asked to authorize an $11 billion water bond, a proposition that is engendering much debate. In addition, CA's landmark climate change legislation (AB32) is being targeted for suspension. Guided by our values of equity, justice and respect for the interdependent web of life, this is an important time for Unitarian Universalists to learn and engage. Friends of other faiths are also welcome. For more information, a flier and to register, visit http://ww.uulmca.org/main.htm.#waterconf
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