UUCSJS Midweek Message

• Minister's Midweek Meditation
• Explore Our Monthly Theme
• Announcements
• This Sunday
• Last Sunday
• Events This Week
• Connect to Our Faith

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

Contact a member of the Caring Team

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

It's a fact that not all parts of American History deserve to be celebrated. Slavery, racism, violence, genocide, pollution, greed, and discrimination have all contributed to the identity of America.

But even our worst moments have something to teach us. Click on the images below to learn more.

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.

Worship associates are needed for the fall calendar. Sheila Stoner is calling people to enlist their help. When she calls, please say yes!

Eastern Service Workers Association

53 E Washington Ave

Pleasantville

This organization is planning on delivering Thanksgiving food items to 150 families in need in the Pleasantville area and they do need some help with food and also delivery to families on Nov 23rd (placed outside of living area).

Asking for Thanksgiving food donations – canned veggies and fruit, stuffing and the usual dinner needs. We are asking people to bring in food from Sunday, Nov 13th thru Sunday, Nov 21st and there will be a bin inside the UUCSJS building to place food in. Also plan to leave a covered bin outside by UUCSJS front door where items can be left if you are not there on Sundays.

Items will be transported to ESWA both Sundays – and on Nov 21st FRESH and FROZEN FOOD can be donated at the UU as it can be stored at ESWA until delivered to families.

If you can help with delivering food on Tuesday, Nov 23rd, please call ESWA at 609 646 9814 and ask to speak to JOHN.

Thank you for helping !!!!

The Caring Committee

We are happy to have a collection bin in our foyer from Eastern Service Workers Assoc. who is collecting new and unwrapped gift items for the newborns to 17 year olds who are living in low income homes in our community. Their goal is for 1,000 gifts to be donated. [ If you need home pick up for your donation call Colby @ 609-442-0967, Atl Cnty please.]

Do you know ESWA?

Eastern Service Workers Association first opened doors locally in 1977 following the model established in 1972 in Long Island of low-income farm laborers. Two of the women most responsible for launching it in Atlantic City were Lee Glanton of Stockton College and Barbara Cooke, a domestic worker, mother and longtime local activist fighting for civil and welfare rights. "We started out of a campaign to hold the state accountable to its promises made to the region in 1976 and circulated flyers to that effect."

In 1976 voters had approved a proposal to introduce casinos into Atlantic City -- at the time, only to be the 2nd place where gambling was legal in the United States (first being Las Vegas). Voters approved it on the basis that tax revenue would aid the elderly and poor however, the state failed to keep their promise and poverty concerns have continued and have gotten even worse.

Changes to the local economy have resulted in a drastic loss of income for working people in this area as low-paying service sector jobs are increasingly all that is available. Currently, 6% of the private sector workforce is unionized and 48% of wage earners in Atlantic County don't make enough to cover expenses.

ESWA, 53 E. Washington Ave., Pleasantville, 609-646-9814

ESWA is a free and voluntary unincorporated membership association of low-income workers and their families who band together creating a self help organization to address survival needs and long-term solutions to growing poverty conditions. The office is open 12 hours a day, 365 days a year, staffed entirely by volunteers and supporters.

Poverty is very hard to live in.

Please, let's fill that box (twice)!!

HELP "HAPPY" HAPPEN

Rev. Dawn Fortune & Jessica Dunn Safonof

The American mythology around the Thanksgiving holiday offers a narrative that we now know as wildly inaccurate. We all live on land that was once populated by Native Americans. In this interactive, All-Ages service, we will share some of the histories and traditions of the native peoples of our area, and work together to create a meal that nourishes our hearts as well as our spirits.

This service will be held inside the sanctuary at UUCSJS (masking and social distancing required). The service will also be livestreamed on our Facebook page.

If you were unable to join us, you can watch the video of last week's service below.

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

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

We will be meeting November 19th at 7:00 pm on ZOOM (www.tinyurl.com/uucsjszoom)

All are welcome to join the meeting!

Betsy Searight will be leading the group. Questions: morellb@msn.com

November's Book Selection:

Beloved by Toni Morrison

A 1987 novel set after the American Civil War explores the physical, emotional, and spiritual devastation wrought by slavery, a devastation that continues to haunt those characters who are former slaves.

December's Book selection is AND THEN THERE WERE NONE by Agatha Christie.

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

Click on the images for more information.

"Mental Health and the Inherent Worth and Dignity of All” led by Mark Williams is an inspirational and informative service held at the Montclair UU on 10 – 3–21. For example, on the horizon those with mental health issues will no longer be calling 911. They will be calling 988, not to talk to the police but to talk to a mental health professional. This will be paid for by cell phone surcharges. To learn more, click on the video link below to be informed and inspired.

Janet Longo

Click on the image above to learn more about:

• The UUA Common Read
• COMPASS: Navigating the Paths to Liberation Together
• Attend the 8th Principle Presentation
  
• Jubilee 3 Anti-Racism Training
  
• Learn about the Fall Chalice Lighter call
  
• How to watch & host a community screening of The Condor & The Eagle
  
• CER Calendar of Events
  

Sunday Services 10 am in person and livestreamed on Facebook.

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Website: www.uucsjs.org
Location: 75 S Pomona Rd, Egg Harbor City, NJ, USA
Phone: (609) 965-9400
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