March 16, 2003 Youth Sunday
March 23, 2003 Living a Multi-Cultural Life
Ismael Ahmed, Guest Speaker A.C.C.E.S.S.
March 30, 2003 Service Committee
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Rehearsals are at 9:30 A.M. in Memorial Hall
unless otherwise noted. Rehearsals for
the upcoming months are as follows:
March 16 with performance at 11:00
NO REHEARSALS March 23 and March 30
April 6, April 13, April 20 with performance at 11:00 - NO REHEARSAL April 27
May 4, May 11, May 18 with performance at 11:00 - NO REHEARSAL May 25
June 1, June 8, June 15 with performance at 11:00.
The pizza kit sale netted $165.00 for the church budget. Thanks to Carol Bendure, Lance Halsted and Mildred Robinson for helping.
Tickets are for sale for the Saturday, April, 26 performance of Sorrows and Rejoicings being performed at the Detroit Repertory Theater. Please see me during coffee hour if you are interested in going. The tickets are $15.00 each and an enjoyable way to help our church.
Playwright Athol Fugard returns to the stage with one of his most stunning fierce and lyrical plays to date. In the semidesert Karoo region of Southern Africa, two women meet - one black, the other white. They seem to have little in common except their love of one man, an exiled poet deeply connected to his homeland. When the leukemia-stricken poet returns to his village to die, his passing leaves the women struggling to reconcile the secrets of the past and their hopes for post-apartheid South Africa.
Margaret Beck, Development Trustee 313-882-7775
The Wednesday, March 19 Women's Alliance meeting will be held at noon in Memorial Hall with luncheon followed by a program by Friends of the Detroit River. We encourage you to join us. Luncheon reservations should be made by Monday noon, March 17, by phoning the Church office at 313-833-9107 or Eiko Takemoto at 313-869-6389. The luncheon costs $6.00.
Building & Grounds
Trustee, Jerry Wahl, 313-921-1877
Canvass
Trustee, Dan Secrest, 313-864-0177
Finance
Trustee, Janet Thompson, 313-886-5351
Membership - 2nd Mon. 5:30 P.M.
Trustee, Dan Wiest, 313-567-2531
Personal & Administration
Trustee, Mark Bendure, 313-882-7732
Religious Education
Trustee, Cathy Rock, 313-791-0533
Social Justice
Trustee, Hector Santos, 313-834-0419.
Anti-war group meeting March 23 12:30
Worship - 3rd Sun. 1:00 P.M.
Trustee, Gwen Winston, 248-443-4679
Members new and old, feel free to get involved in committees of First Church, have a voice in what goes on. For times not expressed above, call the Trustee for more information.
March 16, Sunday - 4 - 6:00P.M. - Interfaith Witness for Peace Rally - Greater Grace Temple, 23500 W. 7 Mile, just east of Telegraph.
March 19, Wednesday - noon - Women's Alliance luncheon $6.00 (reservations with Eiko Takemoto). The speaker will be Jane Mackey from "Friends of the Detroit River and Belle Isle".
March 29, Saturday - John Pilger's powerful film "Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq" co- sponsored by our Social Justice Cornmittee and DVD Studio. More details in the next Newsletter.
March 30, Sunday - Women's History catered luncheon - $12.00. Come as the woman you would like to have been. RSVP to Barbara Stevenson (313-863-6891) by March 29. Limited seating
Mark your Calendars for Saturday, May 17 for the First UU's Goods and Services Auction. Start thinking about what you can donate and what you would like to buy (and encourage others to donate what you would like to buy!) It you would like to volunteer to help, please contact Colleen Dolan-Greene at 313-967-4990.
Will who ever bought our St. Patrick Day Dinner at last years auction please notify us as soon as possible to let us know who you are. The dinner is scheduled for the 16th or 17th of March. Also...Who ever bought the vegetarian Mexican meal needs to notify us as to who you are. Thank you. Cindy Hill and Jan Thompson 313-534-4794
Calling all cooks ... After consuming some very good food at our potlucks, we decided it was time to put together another cookbook and we're hoping some of the potluck goodies will be included. Please submit your recipes by way of e-mail to Allison Parks whose e-mail address is arparks@earthlink.net or Irene Schultz whose e-mail is on the cover of this Newsletter. If e-mail is not an option, recipes may be placed in the Newsletter box located outside the church office. Please feel free to submit more than one. The deadline for recipes is March 31, 2003.
We're pleased to report another outstanding success! Celeste Headlee's concert netted $900.00 for the church treasury and provided a delightful afternoon of music for those who braved the snow and cold to attend. Celeste's grandfather, William Grant Still (1895-1978) was an extremely versatile and talented AfricanAmerican composer who did not receive the attention he should have during his lifetime due to the racism which permeated our society at that time. Celeste impressed everyone with both her vibrant interpretations of his songs and her insights into his life and work. Arlene Teed.
I would like to thank Todd Ballou, Lyle Brown, Rev. Larry Hutchison and everyone who helped in organizing the UU Choir Festival held at your church. It was a great experience for choir members and much appreciated by the audience as well. Thanks for hosting this event. Mary Lou Bilen
If you are interested in showing at First UU (group show) please contact Mark Schwing at 313-300-2750.
On Wednesday, March 12, 2003 from 6:00 P.M. - 8:30 P.M. Women of Action will be hosting a special candidate forum for candidates in quest for the Detroit City Council seat. The forum will take place at First UU Church with guest speaker Detroit City Council President Ms. Mary Ann Mahaffey. The Moderator will be Reba Hawkins. Co-Sponsors are Community Policing, Families United Now, Back to Basis Partnership, Coalition Against Police Brutality and First Unitarian Universalist Church.
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From Gwen Winston: Carol Moseley-Braun is exploring a presidential run in 2004. Former Ambassador to New Zealand, Moseley Braun was the first-ever - and to date, only - African American woman in the U.S. Senate.
From Lyla Moir ... To Family and Friends - The explanation of C.H.F. The weakened heart muscle no longer is sufficiently able to pump oxygen-rich blood to the body's tissues. The death rate from this heart problem continues to climb. My C.H.F. has been under medical control for MANY years. Now the medical side- effects from the control drugs are evident so that they can no longer be used. Therefore, my life- style will have to readjust. My activities will be more limited. I will concentrate on my mental, emotional, and spiritual health, "Slow, but Sure!" I hope this will help your understanding of my current life-style. Peace
You are Invited to Dinner to
Celebrate Women's History
Month
*March 30
* 1:00 - 4:00 P.M.
*First U-U Church, Memorial Hall 4605 Cass
*Cost $12.00 per person (catered meal, fresh
fruit, coffee, tea, desserts (vegetarian entrees)
* Come as the woman you would like to have
been
*Optional to dress as the historical
woman you would have been
*Bring a bit of information about your chosen
woman
Please R.S.V.P. by Saturday, March 29 by
calling Barbara Stevenson at 313-863-6891.
Seating limited to 30 people.
Rev. Dr Bill Jones, UUA Minister, can teach us a model for analyzing public policy, specifically when it relates to conflict We will learn the first steps toward discovering whether the stated goals of any public policy will in fact work to correct a conflict, or perpetuate it. There will be I or 2 follow up sessions later in the year to give us an opportunity to master this technique.
At 2nd service coffee hour (12:30ish) bring finger foods to share a pot luck lunch in the Social Hall.
Presentation will be held in the Sanctuary 1PM til 4PM.
Please call for child care.
For further information call Mary Huntington (248) 543-7995 or Mildred Robinson (313) 869-2508
A ten week course offered by the Religious Education Department-at Emerson Unitarian Universalist Church.
Sunday Evenings
Time. 6:30 - 9 p.m. Cost $15 materials fee Class Limit: 20 adult women
Location : Emerson Unitarian-Universalist Church, 4230 Livernois Road, Troy. Just North of Wattles on Livernois atthe -Barn Church. Contact: 248-524--9339 For Facilitator: Laura Ross, DRE Leave message with return call information. ,/P>
The seminar has been designed to enable women to explore female religious history and its meaning for their lives. The course -will describe the Goddess Religion and its role in the status of women in prehistory and in ancient civilizations in the Middle East and Europe. It will explor the impact on women of negative reactions of Judaism and. Christianity to the worshippers of the Goddess, and the role of the Goddess Religion. in the Modern Western World. There will also be focus on the relationship between this religious history and important social and psychological issues in women's lives.
"To imagine the Divine as female meant that... my own competence and power,
my own strength of will, my own body as a sacred source of life and nurture"
were confirmed.
Curriculum author, Shirley Ranck