While Rev. Dawn is off, you can catch up on past Minister's Midweek Meditations on the YouTube Playlist.
If you are in need of assistance, please contact Tracey Catino our Caring Team Leader or email admin@uucsjs.org.
By-Law Revisions
At our Annual Membership Meeting on June 6th, members will vote on two by-law revisions.
The first revision is comprehensive and non-controversial. Karen York consolidated our by-laws with all the amendments we have made over the years. She worked very hard to merge all this content without making any changes to current policies. I hope that the meeting will vote to support this consolidation.
The second revision strives for diversity and inclusion by stating, “The Nominations Committee shall make every effort to ensure that those recruited to leadership represent the full diversity of the congregation.” I believe that our nomination process is, perforce, inclusive. Affirming that intention in the by-laws, however, seems right. I hope that you will vote for this amendment as well.
Respectfully submitted,
Kit Marlowe
Board President
General Assembly Delegates Needed!
Important decisions about who Unitarian Universalists are and what we will do as a denomination occur at our General Assembly (GA).
This year, GA is a 100% virtual event. It will occur online from June 23-27, 2021. Many people find the GA a very meaningful experience.
UUCSJS normally certifies three voting delegates to GA. So far, no one has volunteered to represent UUCSJS. Would you like to be one?
Contact Kit Marlowe (krismarlowe@verizon.net) if you would like to represent the congregation.
To attend as a non- delegate, visit https://www.uua.org/topic/general-assembly/ga-registration.
From Civil Rights to Racial Justice: Baseball’s Chance to Move the Country Ahead
-Lay Leader, Deb Dagavarian
What was it like for a talented black ballplayer who wanted to play with and against the best white players in the game—in 1940? Deb Dagavarian will take you on a quick trip from the 19th century, through the Negro Leagues, to when the great Jack Robinson integrated major league baseball.
Sunday at 10 am at www.tinyurl.com/uucsjszoom or call in to (929)436-2866 then enter: 2246776604#, 0#, 306591#. Make sure to update your Zoom software before Sunday morning so you aren't late to church!
Information on upcoming services can be found HERE.
For those hearing-impaired entire services are uploaded to our YouTube channel each Sunday afternoon where Closed Captioning is available.
Margaret Circle
Margaret Circle will meet on Thursday, June 3, at 1:00 pm, AT THE UU CENTER!
We will decide then whether to meet indoors or outdoors, depending on the weather.
Judy Pereira will lead the program. She says: “As we emerge from our obsession with cleanliness during the pandemic, come meet a few of the nearly 200,000 species living with us in our own homes. ‘Even when the floors are sparkling clean and the house seems silent, our domestic domain is wild beyond imagination,’ according to biologist Rob Dunn, author of Never Home Alone. We will discuss how our interactions with living things in the domestic habitat affect our health and well-being.”
Because COVID-19 rules that we will agree to follow do not yet permit the sharing of food, Denise O’Meara will provide store-bought and individually wrapped snacks.
If you would like to attend and are not on the Margaret Circle contact list, contact our administrator Jessica Dunn Safonof at admin@uucsjs.org and you will be welcomed.
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Jersey Shore
Email: uucsjsadmin@gmail.com
Website: www.uucsjs.org
Location: 75 S Pomona Rd, Egg Harbor City, NJ, USA
Phone: (609) 965-9400
Facebook: facebook.com/uucsjs
Twitter: @UUCSJS