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Sun01Jan201710:00 AM ONLY
ONE SERVICE ONLY AT 10:00 AM!!
Service Leaders: Rev. Chris Bell, Sharon McCarty
Music by: Claire Beery, Susan Panttaja, the UUsual Suspects, Tessa McClary
Share the Basket: Social Advocates for YouthWe’ll consider the big events of 2016 (any come to mind?), and take time for private reflection on our own personal milestones. We also look ahead to the year 2017. What milestones do we hope we are celebrating one year from now? How will our faith lead us there?
One service only, at 10:00am!
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Sun08Jan20179:15 & 11:00 AMSanctuary
Service Leaders: Rev. Chris Bell, Veronica Jordan, Aphrodite Bellochio, Millie Phillips
Music by: Sadie Sonntag and the Choir, Tessa McClary
Share the Basket: Women’s Recovery Services
Celebration is more than just an inner attitude. By definition it requires an action, which is usually shared with others. Celebrating life can be a practice, like other spiritual disciplines. Today we’ll consider some pure and ecstatic forms of celebrating life, such as dancing, making music and art, and playing with children as a way to strengthen our souls in challenging times.
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12:45 pmBoard Room
HOT TOPICS
Presented by
ADVOCATES FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE UUCSR
Cancelled due to storm. This topic is being rescheduled for later in 2017.This is a wonderful program that focuses on breaking the addiction for women in a safe residential setting. This program allows them and their young children to live together while learning the life skills necessary to become strong, responsible contributors in their communities.
Executive Director Linda Carlson will be describing Women’s Recovery Services and bringing with her a woman who has gone through the program. Please do attend to learn more about this great program.
Light lunch/snacks will be provided for a donation.
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Sun15Jan20179:15 & 11:00 AMSanctuary
Service Leaders: Rev. Chris Bell, Susan Panttaja
Music by: Robert Howseman & the UUsual Suspects, Tessa McClary
Share the Basket: MLK Day Celebration
Power is a word that people respond to with surprising emotion. Some of us fear it, others crave it. Yet, it’s simplest meaning is just “the ability to do something.” So, what are we actually trying to do when we empower people? And for what purpose? The answers lie not in having power over, but having power with and for, which we are going to need in spades in the days to come. Dr. King provides a historical example.
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Sun22Jan20179:15 & 11:00 AMSanctuary
Service Leaders: Rev. Chris Bell, Scott Miller, Millie Phillips, Deborah Mason
Music by: Sadie Sonntag and the Choir, Tessa McClary
Share the Basket: Breakfast for our Neighbors
“Caring for one another.” It feels good to do. But how much? How long? For an individual, caring for another might run the gamut from basic friendliness to strangers to intimately tending an ailing loved one unto death. Collectively, too, caring might be as simple as welcoming new folks on Sunday morning, or as complex and demanding as adopting a refugee family or providing sanctuary to a persecuted minority. Fortunately, our inner Spirit can help us find our way.
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12:45 pmUUCSR Board Room
SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM PROJECT
JANUARY'S FILM:
REQUIEM for the AMERICAN DREAM
The Principles of concentrated wealth and Power. This Noam Chomsky Film is the Advocates for Social Justice Film Project's fifth film in our series on "The Corruption of Our Democracy" -
Sun29Jan20179:15 & 11:00 AMSanctuary
Service Leaders: Millie Phillips, Jen Collins
Music by: Natalie Brundred & the UUsual Suspects
Share the Basket: Senior Advocacy ServicesOur actions flow from our commitment to build a better world, which is a core spiritual value for UUs. What happens in the US over the next several years will have an even more profound impact on the world than it has previously. Today, we will explore what it means to engage in beneficial action in the face of setbacks, shock, and legitimate anxiety. After the service, we invite you to join us in attending an event where different organizations in Sonoma County will share what they are doing to build a better world and how you might join them in doing so.
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Sun05Feb20179:15 & 11:00 AMSanctuary
Service Leaders: Rev. Chris Bell, Andrew Hidas
Music by: John Ray & the UUsual Suspects, Tessa McClary
Share the Basket: The LIME FoundationWe’re going to spend the next couple of months looking closely at each of our UU Principles. The founding and guiding documents of this congregation place “affirming and promoting” the Principles at the very core of our Vision as a community. The First Principle is many people’s favorite. But do all people have inherent worth and dignity? Really? Today we’ll consider the spiritual growth that can come from really living as if this Principle is true.
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12:45 pmBoard Room
HOT TOPICS
Presented by
ADVOCATES FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE UUCSRThe Lime Foundation devotes its energy to passionately advocating for the disadvantaged. Their mission is to strengthen veterans, seniors, low income families and young people and give them the tools to build a better quality of life. What they do: (1) support a vocational training/construction apprenticeship program and provide free construction services to low-income families and the elderly. This creates a double benefit for the community - helps prepare people in disadvantaged communities for fulfilling careers while at the same time providing important services to people who could not otherwise afford them. (2) run programs for the elderly in an effort to address America's obesity epidemic through light exercise (dance, bowling, hiking) and healthy eating. (3) bring positive, structured activities to disadvantaged youth, giving them the opportunity to learn technology or play a musical instrument - great alternatives to substance abuse, truancy, exclusion. Uses music and dance as a positive means of expression. Features am activity center and a summer and after school mentoring and tutoring program.
Come and hear the Executive Director and founder of the Lime Foundation, Letitia Hanke, as she describes in detail the services this Foundation offers.
NEW: Bring what you would like to eat - we provide LIGHT snacks, NOT lunch.
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Sun12Feb20179:15 amSanctuary
ONE SERVICE AT 9:15
CONGREGATIONAL MEETING AT 11:00Service Leaders: Rev. Chris Bell, Roger Corman, Millie Phillips
Music by: Sadie Sonntag and the Choir, Tessa McClary
Share the Basket: Sonoma County Multiple Sclerosis GroupWe’ll concentrate on the compassion piece of this Principle today. Compassion, usually taken to mean acts of kindness, literally means “to suffer with.” If we want to respond in a sacred and loving way to the people of the world, whether we consider them friends or enemies, we have to place ourselves in their shoes. Real justice and equity flow naturally from the tender-hearted perspective of compassion. (We will also talk about being more compassionate toward ourselves!)
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9:15 am
The Choir performs "The Power of One" at the 9:15 service (only service this week).
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Sun19Feb20179:15 & 11:00 AMSanctuary
Service Leaders: Rev. Chris Bell, Sharon McCarty
Music by: Paul Gilger & the UUsual Suspects, Tessa McClary
Share the Basket: North Bay Jobs with Justice“If I'm laden at all, I'm laden with sadness that everyone's heart isn't filled with the gladness of love for one another,” sang the Hollies. But acceptance and love of one another (or ourselves) isn’t always easy; that’s why we have to encourage one another. If you could measure your spiritual growth like a child’s height is measured against the wall, are you shrinking or stretching? And what would it take to for a growth spurt to occur?
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Sun26Feb20179:15 & 11:00 AMSanctuary
Service Leaders: Rev. Tet Gallardo, Eric Fischer
Music by: Sadie Sonntag and the Choir, Tessa McClary
Share the Basket: Breakfast for our NeighborsRev. Tet Gallardo, who serves the UU Church in Bicutan, near Manilla, is this year’s Balazs Scholar at the Starr King School for the Ministry. She is the first Balazs Scholar from the Philippines, where the UU movement is rapidly growing. She is a business leader, an activist for LGBTQ rights, and a very funny person. She will preach on “Humor as Holy Common Sense.”
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12:45 pmUUCSR Board RoomSOCIAL JUSTICE FILM PROJECT
FEBRUARY'S FILM:
THE TAKE
The Advocates for Social Justice Film Project's sixth film in our series on "The Corruption of Our Democracy" -
Sun05Mar20179:15 & 11:00 AMSanctuary
Service Leaders: Rev. Chris Bell, Joe Gabaeff
Music by: Natalie Brundred & the UUsual Suspects, Tessa McClary
Share the Basket: Project CensoredThe Buddha said we should be lamps unto ourselves, and the whole democratic experiment depends upon trusting each other’s conscience. But what is the moral sense and where does it come from? And given that it differs so much from person to person and culture to culture, how can we know what’s right, really? These and other questions will be addressed as we look at our Fifth Principle.
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Sat11Mar20171:30 pmUUCSR-Glaser Center
March 11th, the UUCSR Advocates for Social Justice are hosting, an ACLU Resistance Training . This event will launch People Power, the ACLU’s new effort to engage grassroots volunteers across the country and take the fight against Donald Trump’s policies not just into the courts, but into the streets. This event is only one of thousands that will be hosting this live stream Resistance Training simultaneously. Please join us!
Event Starts at 1:30 PM Pacific Time
Doors Open at 1:00 PM
547 Mendocino Ave.
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
Our building is ADA Accessible. ADA Service Animals only are permitted.
On Street Metered Parking and public garage with access to venue courtyard from rear gate near garage. Garage entrance is on 7th Street between Mendocino and B Street.
Sign up link: http://go.peoplepower.org/event/attend/2281
Advance sign up is appreciated, but not required before you arrive.
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12:45 pmBoard Room
HOT TOPICS
Presented by
ADVOCATES FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE UUCSRCitizens’ Climate Lobby Meets Hot Topics
Come and hear from representatives that are working locally for a solution to climate change worldwide.
Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL), exists to create the political will for climate solutions by enabling individual breakthroughs in the exercise of personal and political power.
By building constructive, working local relationships with all members of Congress, we seek passage of Carbon, Fee and Dividend, a climate change solution that bridges the partisan divide.
Carbon Fee and Dividend, a revenue-neutral carbon tax with 100% of the net revenue returned directly to households, will reduce greenhouse gas emissions 52% below 1990 levels within 20 years while growing the economy and saving lives.
Hear about our growth and activities and see where you could fit into an organization that is successfully building Bi-partisan support for a viable solution to climate change in our country.
Alan Proulx, a long-time member of UUCSR says: “I have looked at all the current solutions that could work in this political climate to produce real sustained reduction in greenhouse gas emissions quickly, while benefiting all U.S. households. This will really work.”
Additional CCL speakers: Bruce Hagen and Barbara Moulton.
Come and see how this works.
Sunday, March 13th, 12:45 pm in The UUCSR Board Room
Spring Forward. Don’t forget to set your clocks ahead the night before. This is the first day of Daylight Savings Time!!
NEW: Bring what you would like to eat - we provide LIGHT snacks, NOT lunch.
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12:30 p.m. Please note earlier start timeUUCSR Board Room
SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM PROJECT
MARCH FILM: THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY.
This Greg Palast Film is the Advocates for Social Justice Film Project's seventh film in our series on "The Corruption of Our Democracy"
Please note earlier start time today so that those who wish to attend Judy Myer's 2:30 p.m. memorial service will be able to do so.
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12:45 pmBoard Room
HOT TOPICS
Presented by
ADVOCATES FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE UUCSRUNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST SERVICE COMMITTEE
Reverend Waitstill Sharp was a Unitarian Minister in Massachusetts, where he lived with his wife
Martha Sharp and their two small children. In 1939 they agreed to go to Austria to establish
an "Underground Railroad" for Jewish children under Nazi occupation. The Unitarian
Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) sprang from their acts of amazing courage and
commitment to “the worth and dignity of every person.” The UUSC continues to partner
with grassroots organizations anywhere rights are threatened - by natural disasters, armed
conflicts, genocide, forced migration and systematic injustice. We can imagine the demand
for their help now!On Sunday, April 9th, aka “Justice Sunday,” Carly Cronon from UUSC will be here to tell us
how they are responding to the horrendous crises around the world today and how we can
help. Tom Andrews, President and CEO of UUSC, is convinced that churches have a central
role to play in these dangerous times!Come to the Board Room at 12:45 on 4/9 to find out what he means.
NEW: Bring what you would like to eat - we provide LIGHT snacks, NOT lunch.
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9:15 & 11:00 AMSanctuary
This piece puts the Homeric Hymn "To Gaia, Mother of All" to music written by Jesus Contreras.
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12:45 pmUUCSR Board Room
SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM PROJECT
APRIL'S FILM:
CASINO JACK and the United States of Money -
12:30 pmBoard Room
HOT TOPICS
Presented by
ADVOCATES FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE UUCSRTHE LIVING ROOM
Our May Hot Topic will be an update on what has been happening at The Living Room, which provides day services for women and children who are homeless. This past year has been a big transition as The Living Room has moved from their old home across the street, at Church of the Incarnation, to their own campus on Cleveland near College.
Katie Phillips, volunteer coordinator and member of the Mother and Children Program staff will tell us about their new location and changes to the program that they have been able to make as a result of the move. Please note we will be meeting on the first Sunday (May 7th), rather than our usual second Sunday.
We will offer a light snack, not lunch. Please note earlier start time: 12:30 p.m.
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Sat13May20177:00 pmGlaser Center at UUCSR
Swing Dance and Concert
New Horizons Swing Band Homeless Breakfast FundraiserThe New Horizons Swing Band is presenting an evening of old fashioned tunes from the swing era. Come and dance the night away or just tap your toes. A swing band of local seniors playing hits of the 1930s and 1940s.
Benefits the Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Santa Rosa's Homeless Breakfast program and the New Horizons Swing Band.
Saturday May 13, 2017 at 7 p.m.
A Free Dance Class Starts at 6 p.m.
Advance Sales through Brown Paper Tickets are $15.00 until Friday 5/12/2017 at 1 p.m.
Tickets will be sold at the door starting on Saturday May 13, 2017 at 5:30 p.m. Price $20.00.Parking is available in Public Garage behind venue. Entrance on 7th Street between Mendocino Ave. and B Street.
Tickets will be available some Sundays after church and
Tickets can also be bought by clicking the Brown Paper Ticket's icon here:
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12:45 pmUUCSR Board Room
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9:15 & 11:00 amSanctuary
Sunday, May 28, the choir performs "Peace Train". This song was released in 1971 by Cat Stevens and appears on his album Teaser and the Firecat. It was Stevens first Top Ten hit in the US. That was during the Vietnam War. Later, during the Iraq War, the song's relevance was revived.
According to Wikipedia, Stevens -- who had by then converted to Islam and changed his name to Yusuf Islam -- said of the piece, "'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again."
Sadie Sonntag will direct the choir in singing a Kirby Shaw choral arrangement of this powerful and appropriate song of hope.
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12:45 pmBoard Room
HOT TOPICS
Presented by
ADVOCATES FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE UUCSRWhich Way Forward for Labor?
In the current political climate, unions face even greater attacks than previously, but there are also new opportunities for organizing, such as the Fight for $15 minimum wage effort. The North Bay Organizing Project and Jobs With Justice will provide speakers, along with our intern minister Millie Phillips, a former union activist who continues to serve labor as a volunteer.
Please note we will be meeting on the first Sunday (June 4th), rather than our usual second Sunday.
We will offer a light snack, not lunch.
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9:15 amSanctuary
Sunday, June 11, the choir will perform a powerful and moving piece titled "The Road Home". Composer Stephen Paulus took a 19th century folk tune called "The Lone Wild Bird" and adapted it to a modern choral setting. He asked his friend and colleague Michael Dennis Browne to write new words for it.
Mr Paulus writes on his website https://stephenpaulus.com:
The tune is taken from The Southern Harmony Songbook of 1835. It is pentatonic and that is part of its attraction. Pentatonic scales have been extant for centuries and are prevalent in almost all musical cultures throughout the world. They are universal. Michael crafted three verses and gave it the title "The Road Home." He writes so eloquently about "returning" and "coming home" after being lost or wandering.
The theme of June 11th's service is Hope. This simple and beautiful message embodies the hope of the wanderer to someday find herself on the Road Home.
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10:00 amSanctuary
Sunday, June 25, the choir will perform a Bach hymn. What we'll sing is actually in two places in our hymnal, Singing the Living Tradition, pages 22 and 41. We will sing them as one piece. Our featured soloist will be Sally Jones.
The music was written by Nikolaus Herman (1480-1561) and J S Bach (1685-1750) took the tune and enhanced it with harmony in a manner only he could. The words to the first 3 stanzas were written by Unitarian Universalist Nancy C Dorian (1936-present), but the words to the last 2 verses originated with English poet George Gascoigne (1540-1577) and were adapted to be sung.
June 25 will be the last choir performance of the summer as our director (and we) take a small break during the summer months. We'll be back, singing to you again in the Fall.
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Sun02Jul201710:00 a.m. ONLYSanctuary
Service Leaders: Rev. Chris Bell, Veronica Jordan, Deb Mason
Music by: Claire Beery & The UUsual Suspects, Tessa McClary
Share the Basket: Ceres Community ProjectRev. Chris will offer his report on General Assembly, the annual national gathering of UUs. This year, the controversy around hiring practices at the UUA, and racial diversity and justice (or lack thereof) within the movement as a whole, will surely dominate the business. Oh, and we’re electing our first female president!
