UUCSJS Midweek Message

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We take a break from monthly worship themes for July and August. It is the perfect time to check out the UUA's InSpirit Bookstore and build up your summer TBR pile. Or spend some time planning your social justice year with Side with Love. Or maybe volunteer to help out with our summer children's programming - onsite and outside July and August. Email religiouseducation@uucsjs.org for more information.

Minister's Midweek Meditation is on a summer break. New videos will begin in September. You can catch up on past Minister's Midweek Meditations on the YouTube Playlist.

Rev. Dawn is available for pastoral care appointments Wednesday through Friday 10am to 3pm. Please email minister@uucsjs.org to schedule an appointment.

Contact a member of the Caring Committee!

Team members can provide you with support during/after an illness, a death in the family, or other loss or hardship. They can find you resources, run errands, or provide meals in time of need.

Reach out to:

• Tracey Catino at (609) 674-8721 email: Traceysnaps@msn.com
• Denise O'Meara at (610) 316-7495 email: denome53@gmail.com
• Helen Utts at (609) 338-3391 email: HelenUtts@aol.com
• MaryLou DeMaria-Berhang at (201) 247-5635 email: MLberhang@gmail.com
• Tony Zitelli at (201) 463-2800 email: happy85a@aol.com

Tomorrow is July 1st. That’s the first day of our new church year. We look forward to getting back in the building with combined physical and electronic attendance.

We are now subject to the budget you passed at the annual meeting. However, hiring Gina Roche-Rosenberg as our new Music Director may require a 1% increase in that budget. I hope that everyone can agree on that change.

We streamed UUA’s General Assembly Sunday service in lieu of a local service on June 27th. I wish that more of you had attended that service. The UUA, you understand, picks the celebrants from among hundreds of ministers, and those ministers want to give their very best sermon on the national stage.

I was also jealous of the choir at the streamed service. I should recall that talent pools that deep tend to occur in metropolitan areas with populations in the millions, not in rural counties 1/10 their size.

To view the Board Meeting Minutes, as well as this month's Staff, Committee, and Treasurer's Reports please visit the members' area of our website at http://members.uucsjs.org/board-agendas-minutes/.

Want to contact the UUCSJS Board of Trustees? Send an email to board@uucsjs.org.

To have your announcement placed in the Midweek Message, please send an email to admin@uucsjs.org by Noon on Wednesday.

Planning a special event? The Communications Team can help. Visit https://uucsjs.breezechms.com/form/42685e for more information.

The Little Gardens Club of AC will be holding their 22nd garden tour on July 11, a Sunday, between 9 AM and 3 PM rain or shine.

Ticket cost is $15. All profits benefit environmental causes.

Tickets are presently available at Joe’s, Bob’s, and Lang‘s Garden Centers, in addition to Homestead Nursery. On July 11 the tickets will be available at the Linwood Arboretum. This year Barbara and Steve Fiedler‘s native plant garden will be on the tour as well as Reed’s Organic Farm. Damon Smith is presently actively involved in bringing this project to fruition. Come out and enjoy. Contact Janet Longo or email admin@uucsjs.org for more information.

Pomona Road looks down & dirty and we’re opening up, so let’s get out there again and clean up our neighborhood!

SATURDAY, JULY 17 at 8:30 AM

Many hands needed, so please come even for the very first time, if you can… We will meet on the front porch at the UU Center – to pick up safety vests, gloves, grabber tools, and trash bags – and then walk along each verge of Pomona Road between Moss Mill and the fencing beside Lake Fred. Your participation helps earn our yearly stipend from ACUA, besides improving our immediate surroundings.

RAIN DATE: Sunday, August 8, at 8:00 AM

(Cancellation emailed via UU Listserv at 10 PM the night before)

“Many hands make light work.” – John Heywood (1497-1580)

Our staff and volunteers are taking a deserved break this Sunday holiday.

Join us July 11th at 10am on Zoom when we welcome guest speaker and musician Pat Lamana with a service titled: "The Inherent Worth and Dignity of Every Person? Really?"

Pat Lamanna is an award-winning singer-songwriter and social activist living in New York's Hudson Valley. She is Corporate Clerk of her home congregation, the UU Fellowship of Poughkeepsie.

And on July 18th when Jessica Dunn Safonof, Director of Religious Education, will present an all-ages service "The Seven Principles: More Action, Fewer Words."

Information on upcoming services can be found HERE.

See what you missed if you weren't able to join us!

Click on the graphic below or visit the calendar at uucsjs.org/calendar for more information on events and meetings.

CLICK HERE to reserve the Zoom Room or to add your event to the calendar.

Here you will find opportunities to connect with our larger faith and other UU's from outside our congregation.

Click on the images for more information.

Sunday Services 10 am on Zoom at tinyurl.com/uucsjszoom

Email: uucsjsadmin@gmail.com
Website: www.uucsjs.org
Location: 75 S Pomona Rd, Egg Harbor City, NJ, USA
Phone: (609) 965-9400
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Twitter: @UUCSJS