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Love is Love No Matter What!

Presented by UUCSJS Interweave

Interweave will give insights into the LGBTQIA world. Part educational, informative and also entertaining. Hear it from the people who have interacted with all the letters (the letters will be defined and explained) which adds diversity to all our lives. The music will be great!

PLEASE NOTE: This service will be in person at UUCSJS and streamed live on our Facebook page. A recording will be available later in the day on our YouTube Channel.

*Masks are currently optional at UUCSJS.

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

Numerous members and friends of the congregation have reported receiving scam emails or text messages pretending to be Rev. DC Fortune. If you have received one of these emails or text messages, please delete it immediately. DO NOT RESPOND!

Today, the largest providers of mental health services are jails. According to a study published in 2017, “almost half of state prison inmates were diagnosed with a mental illness.” Other studies have found that approximately half of people in prison and jail meet DSM-IV criteria for substance abuse or dependence.

A limited number of grocery gift cards for Shoprite and Acme are available for purchase on Sunday morning. Proceeds from the sale of these cards benefit UUCSJS operating budget.

Please complete the following form using the link below to indicate your interest in purchasing cards and whether you would be interested in making regular purchases of these cards.

Do you love the arrangements you see on the chalice table each Sunday? Are you feeling creative? Sign up to bring floral or other arrangement for our chalice table!

Let Colby know ahead of time or text 609-442-0967 to schedule your arrangements.

Wondering what Murray Grove looks like? Or what facilities and programs are there? We are organizing a private tour of Murray Grove Retreat and Renewal Center Thursday, June 22, 2023 at 10am. Email me for more information or to let me know if you would like to attend.

Marty Quish

President, UUCSJS Board of Trustees

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

The Front Runner by Patricia Neil Warren

Harlan Brown is a tough, conservative track coach hiding from his past at a small college. Billy Sive is a brilliant young runner who is homosexual and doesn’t mind who knows it. When they fall in love, they enter a race against hate and prejudice which takes them to the ’76 Olympics and a shattering, shocking conclusion. With 10 million copies in seven languages, this landmark classic is the most popular gay love story of all time.

Meeting Friday, June 16th at 7:00 on ZOOM (www.tinyurl.com/uucsjszoom).

All are welcome to attend!

Questions: morellb@msn.com

When we were kids, our summers were often packed full of delights. So for this exercise, we invite you to revisit one of those long left behind childhood delights. The goal is not just to reconnect with that past delight, but to reconnect with your childhood self that loved that delight. Indeed, this may be the deepest delight of all: the ability to be our many selves at once. As the writer Madeleine L'Engle puts it,

“I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be... This does not mean that I ought to be trapped or enclosed in any of these ages...the delayed adolescent, the childish adult, but that they are in me to be drawn on… Far too many people misunderstand what *putting away childish things* means, and think that forgetting what it is like to think and feel and touch and smell and taste and see and hear like a three-year-old or a thirteen year-old or a twenty-three-year-old means being grownup.”

So good luck, friends. It’s been a while. Time for you to wake up that delightful child or teenager that still lives inside you.

Here are some childhood delights to help you remember which might be your doorway back to your younger self:

• Make homemade ice cream (made with an old hand-crank bucket)
• Catch fireflies in a jar
• Slip-n-slide
• Build a sand castle
• Build something grand with Legos
• Build a model car.
• Go to a drive-in movie
• Make tie-dye shirts
• Go you-pick berry picking
• Ride a Ferris wheel
• Cannonball into a pool
• Fly a kite

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.

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General Assembly (GA) is the annual meeting of our Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA). Participants worship, witness, learn, connect, and make policy for the Association through democratic process. Anyone may attend in person or online!

Highlights include:

Dozens of on-demand and in person workshops

Featured Speaker celebrated author Brian Broome

Service of the Living Tradition

Side with Love Rally

2023 Ware Lecturer Imani Perry

GA Annual Business Meeting with voting for

• UUA President,
• Article II of the UUA bylaws, and
• voting on actions of immediate witness

There is still time for register here: https://www.uua.org/ga/registration

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

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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