By Carol Taylor Join us for 21 days of learning, reflection, discussion, and action. Spend a few minutes each day exploring videos and readings on a different topic. Get the opportunity to share your thoughts and plans with others in the community. Sign up here to participate.
Understand the origins of the concept of race, how it influences us as individuals and as a culture, and how it functions to preserve inequity in our laws, institutions, and systems.
Inspect the disparities in health, wealth and well-being that are largely a result of racism enshrined in public policy over the course of U.S. history.
WUUC is trying this out as an unmoderated learning group in November. We will then review and evaluate running it again next year.
Adapted from Michigan League for Public Policy who developed this program to achieve their mission of economic security for all Michiganders by applying a racial equity lens to their anti-poverty work.
Why are we doing this? Without understanding the origins of the concept of race, how it influences us as individuals and as an organization, and how it functions to preserve inequity in our laws, institutions and systems we won’t be able to truly achieve the justice, equity, and compassion in human relations that we’re committed to as UUs.
By signing up you’ll receive the Zoom link for the challenge kick-off, a link to the daily challenge content, weekly reminders, and the opportunity to share your thoughts and plans with others participating as part of this WUUC community activity.
Note: Bridget Laflin is planning to offer an alternative version for families, children and youth. Contact bridgetdre@wuuc.org for additional information.
By John Hartman On Oct. 16, WUUC celebrated the completion of the Vote Forward, Get Out the Vote letter-writing initiative.
Over the last 7½ months, 42 WUUC letter writers wrote a total of 5,405 letters. The letters are targeted to registered voters in Texas and Nevada who are infrequent voters. The letters were mailed on Oct. 16, with hopes that they reach the hearts of these voters and they help to make a difference in voter turnout this year.
We had a brief, socially distanced, gathering outside WUUC to celebrate the success of the project and award prizes to the top letter writers.
The top three letter writers received Ruth Bader Ginsburg bobblehead dolls:
Top letter writers include, from left, Lou Anne Maxwell, Jane Mathewson and Jan Anderson.
Lou Anne Maxwell – who wrote 500 letters.
Jane Mathewson – who wrote 420 letters.
Jan Anderson – who wrote 400 letters.
Everyone who wrote at least 200 letters received a “Let People Vote” pin:
Displaying their “Let People Vote” pins are, from left, Janice Anthony, Marilyn Schmitt and Grace Simons.
Janice Anthony – who wrote 370 letters
Marilyn Schmitt – who wrote 350 letters
Hilarie Cash – who wrote 320 letters
Grace Simons – who wrote 220 letters
Stephana Ditzler – who wrote 200 letters
John Hilke – who wrote 200 letters.
Stephana Ditzler and John Hilke each wrote 200 letters, while John Hartman coordinated the entire effort.
Thanks to everyone who participated in this project. I am so grateful this resonated with so many people in WUUC.
Our new settled minister Dan Lillie will be co-ordained by
Woodinville Unitarian Universalist Church and First Unitarian Church of
Albuquerque on Sunday, October 4.
The act of ordination happens just once for a minister. It
is the moment when a congregation (or sometimes more than one!) affirms a
minister’s call to a lifetime of service to the living tradition of Unitarian
Universalism.
Please attend this special (entirely virtual) ceremony to
show your support and be part of the celebration!
“Without music life would be a mistake. – Friedrich Nietzsch
From the UUA web: “Music
and singing are integral parts of our Unitarian Universalist (UU) worship
services……music shifts the energy of worship and moves it into our bodies.”
By Donna Johnson At our recent Worship Team retreat we spent time with WUUC’s music leaders – Matt Smith (Choir Director), Terry Levitt (Accompanist Plus), and Brad Hull (Special Music Coordinator). WUUC has been very lucky to have these three in place during our many months of Zoom services. They brought amazing renditions of choral pieces, hymns, musical responses, and special music into our homes each Sunday, and they have plans for more ways to use music to “shift the energy of worship” at WUUC in the coming months.
Matt, Terry, and Brad don’t make music all alone. They collaborate with many members of our WUUC community. These members give the gifts of their voices and musical talents when they volunteer to sing in the choir or to create “special music” for our services.
If you have been
thinking about joining the choir or sharing your instrumental and/or vocal musical
talents with us this is the time to step up!
Choir meets each
Thursday evening over zoom. For more information, contact Matt Smith at choirdirector@wuuc.org.
Special musical pieces are used in services most weeks at WUUC. For more information or to volunteer, contact Brad Hull at bkhull@gmail.com.
By John HIlke This year, the NW Justice Summit, organized by JUUstice Washington, will be online (for obvious reasons) and this has allowed us to attract a wider range of panelists than in the past. Unlike previous summits, all of 2020 summit programs will be sequential so that you can select the events that you want to attend and not miss any others.
Also new this year, the Summit will reconvene in early December to discuss strategies for justice work in our state and beyond after the elections.
Please register for the NW JUUstice Summit by visiting the JUUstice Washington website — https://juustwa.org/ . Closer to the event, registrants will get information for joining the various online sessions. Feel free to forward the flyer to any folks you know who might be interested.
Please letJohn Hilke know if you have any problem registering.
