Having trouble hearing the speakers at the services? We’re HEAR for you!
UUCSJS has installed an FM listening system in the sanctuary! This will make our services more accessible for people having trouble hearing at our services. We now have six receivers with headsets that are hygienically covered with disposable earpads. We also have one electromagnetic neck loop for use with hearing aids that have a magnetic telephone coil. The system is expandable if there is the demand. If you would like to have your own personal unit set aside for you, David Weesner can fill you in on the details.
Faith Action NJ
On September 25, immediately after the service, we will have a meeting concerning Faith Action. The meeting will be held in the library.
A number of us have been attending the task force meetings on the state level. We will discuss what we’ve learned and what action we want to take. Task force meetings consist of criminal justice, environmental justice, gun violence prevention, immigration reform, and reproductive justice. If interested, just go to faithaction.org. You will find an email associated with each task force. Once you send the email you will be notified of meeting times and zoom link. There you will find a wealth of information associated with each task force.
Janet Longo
Flowers for the Chalice Table
We will continue needing some kind of arrangement each Sunday on our chalice table. Please sign up with Colby for any Sunday you foresee being able to bring *anything* artistic from your garden particularly during the fall and winter months. Vases are available. Be creative!!
On the last week of each month arrangement contributors are acknowledged in the midweek announcements!
Contact Colby Tippins call/text: 609-442-0967.
Book Club will be returning in September!
We will be meeting on Friday, September 16th at 7:00 pm on ZOOM (www.tinyurl.com/uucsjszoom). The book for September is Facing the Mountain.
FACING THE MOUNTAIN by Daniel James Brown
A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II chronicles the lives of three soldiers who distinguished themselves under fire in Italy, France, and Germany, and one conscientious objector who was imprisoned for protesting U.S. policies that saw some 120,000 Japanese Americans incarcerated in interment camps.
Our UUCSJS Book List for 2022/23 has been revised, please refer to revised list below.
Thank you,
Barb Morell
No Future without Forgiveness
Presented by guest speaker Mindy Thompson Fullilove
The United States is in a state of division that has reached unexpected levels of social hostility. This has paralyzed the workings of our democratic institutions at many levels. How might we go forward? This talk looks to Archbishop Desmond Tutu's book, No Future without Forgiveness, for advice.
About Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD, LFAPA, Hon AIA, is a social psychiatrist and professor of urban policy and health at The New School. Since 1986, she has conducted research on AIDS and other epidemics of poor communities. with a special interest in the relationship between the collapse of communities and decline in health. She has published eight books, including the highly-regarded Urban Restoration Trilogy, Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It, Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in America’s Sorted-Out Cities and Main Street: How a City’s Heart Connects Us All. She is a lifelong Unitarian Universalist and serves as president of the congregation in Orange, the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Essex County.
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.
Need Help?
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
- Barbara Morell at (215) 805-7599 email: morellb@msn.com
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Jersey Shore
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Website: www.uucsjs.org
Location: 75 S Pomona Rd, Egg Harbor City, NJ, USA
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