UUCSJS Midweek Message

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• Events This Week
• Connect to Our Larger Faith
• Caring Team

Ring in the New Year!

Presented by Music Director Gina Roche with special guest Spoken word artist LOreal ElleVintage Chrisp

Ring in the New Year with music, art, and poetry. Be there or be square!

BIO: Gina Roche with special guest LOreal ElleVintage Chrisp, a journalist, Actress, Poet, and Activist, known worldwide for her powerful voice and passionate words. Elle is also curator of StageLeft Podcast , a collection of interviews of Artists all over the world giving each artist a connector channel directly to their fan base and more. ElleVintage is a vessel of the Lord and Minister in training at The New Shiloh Baptist Church and Community Life Center in Atlantic City. She is Elle to 3 young men and bonus son with her Fiancé Chrissy.

Sunday, January 21, 2024

An elevator speech is a short explanation of an individual’s faith that they could give between floors while talking to a stranger on an elevator in response to the question “Unitarian Universalism? What’s that?” This class will help you feel confident about articulating Unitarian Universalism and empower you to live and speak about our faith in the larger community!

Email Jess at religiouseducation@uucsjs.org to register.

Happy New Year to all! I hope everyone enjoyed the holiday season and had a chance to visit with friends and family. I know many of you attended our Christmas Eve service and I wanted to thank Gina and our choir and everyone else that contributed to what some people have said was one of our best services! The early time of the service seemed to attract record attendance.

On Sunday February 11th, we will be celebrating the 25th anniversary of our first service. We are looking for people who would like to help plan the celebration. If interested, please contact Jessica or myself.

The 2023-24 UUA common read has been announced. It is On Repentance and Repair by Danya Ruttenberg. You will be hearing more on this in the next several weeks. We are tentatively looking at a congregation discussion of the book in April.

In fellowship,

Marty Quish

President, UUCSJS Board of Trustees

The Board realizes that we have not assessed the performance of our employees since the pandemic. We are generally happy with our staff, but they deserve recognition and feedback on the jobs they do for us. Marty Quish, Paul Utts, and Kit Marlowe will complete these evaluations during December and January.

Staff are completing self- and 360-degree evaluations. The committee also needs to hear from members and friends. If you wish to share observations about any of our employees with the committee, send us a message at board@uucsjs.org. There is no form or rigid format. Just let us know whatever you think we need to know.

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

Book Club will be meeting January 19th at 7:00 on ZOOM (www.tinyurl.com/uucsjszoom).

All are welcome to join and our choice this month is:

WEST WITH GIRAFFES by Linda Rutledge

This is the great adventure story of 17-year-old Woodrow Wilson Nickel, who drives two giraffes cross-country in 1938 America, finding himself along the way through the joys and conflicts of the voyage. This novel is a piece of historical fiction and a bildungsroman, in which the historical context of 1938 permeates the narrator’s character development. Told through the first-person narrative point-of-view of the protagonist, Rutledge engages her reader in a story of adventure and an homage to animal rights. Central to this story is the promotion of animals as worthy of human devotion. Inspired by a true story, this novel is about hope, resilience, love, and the importance of memory and storytelling.

February is THE VANISHING HALF by Brit Bennett

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.

Margaret Circle will be meeting on Jan 4th at 1pm.

New members welcome!

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.

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

Helen Utts at (609) 338-3391 email: HelenUtts@aol.com

Tony Zitelli at (201) 463-2800 email: happy85a@aol.com

Barbara Morell at (215) 805-7599 email: morellb@msn.com

Janet Longo at (609) 748-8608 email: jilportnj@comcast.net

Denise O'Meara at (610) 316-7495 denome53@gmail.com

Caring Team is looking for members who are willing to attend monthly Zoom meetings and help out when congregants are sick or suffering from hardships. Please contact Tracey Catino if you can join our confidential group.

Sunday Services 10:30 am in person and livestreamed on Facebook.

Email: admin@uucsjs.org

Website: www.uucsjs.org

Location: 75 S Pomona Rd, Egg Harbor City, NJ, USA

Mailing Address: PO Box 853, Pomona NJ 08240

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