First Unitarian Universalist
Church of Detroit

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Please mark your calendars for these upcoming youth events (more details to follow). All events are open to adult church members/attenders unless otherwise indicated. For questions, directions, to RSVP, financial sponsorship, or if your young person needs a ride to an event, call Athena at the church or email re@1stuu.org. Youth should wear their red First UU T-shirts to all field trips. Please see Athena if your young person needs a T-shirt and doesn’t have one.

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Saturday September 22, 9am - 6pm

Meet at Athena’s house at 9am to carpool. Wear comfortable shoes and bring lunch, a camera and water bottle. Renaissance period dress is encouraged but not required.

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Sunday September 30

Carpool from church after coffee hour.

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Jon and I will be going to Salina, KS for his Navy ship reunion - hey, isn't Kansas landlocked? - at any rate, we will be gone from September 11th (uh-oh) - 26th so Dan Wiest has generously offered to do the September 16th Newsletter. Please submit any articles to him and not to me for that issue. From Kansas we will head to Jet, OK to visit friends then on to Las Cruces to hang out with Jan, Cindy and Hillard.

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September is here! It’s time for the Rummage Sale at 1st UU.

Why have a Rummage Sale?

1. The Sale provides a community service.
2. The Sale is a form of recycling.
3. The Rummage Sale is the principal fundraiser for Women’s Alliance.

Mark your calendars for September 9 to September 15.
Sunday, September 9: After church, drop off your donated items.
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday: Setting up and organizing. 10am -- 3pm in Pullman Hall.
Thursday: Sale Opens—Noon to 7:00 pm.
Friday: Sale Day--Noon to 7:00 pm.
Saturday: Sale Day--10:00am to 2:00 pm. Clean up begins at 2:00.

We will need extra assistance on Saturday afternoon for packing leftover items from the sale in preparation for pick-up by a local charity. For more information see Alma King or Helen True.

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Entertainment Books are selling very well. I was able to give our treasurer $120 thanks to the generosity of friends, family, neighbors and church members. I will be selling them during coffee hour. for sale during coffee hour.
--Margaret Beck

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Joy Johnson, a friend of Margaret Beck and 1st. U.U. Church, gave a cash donation in memory of Juneteenth Day. Juneteenth was a very important day for Joy, because it is the date of her wedding anniversary. Juneteenth is always celebrated at 1st. Church with a service about how the Emancipation Proclamation affected African American slaves in the U.S. Thanks to Joy for honoring this special day that marks an important mile stone in her life and also in the history of the U.S.
--Margaret Beck

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First UU will open its doors to the neighborhood and nether regions for Noel Nite on Saturday, December 1. Help us put our best foot forward by attending a planning meeting in Memorial Hall on Sunday, September 23 at 12:30.

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Seven people from First UU marched with a coalition of: several people from area UU churches; the UU Social Justice Network, MichUhcan, Detroit Symphony Members and the American Federation of Musicians, Grey Panthers, and others. We marched in the annual Labor Day Parade from Warren and Woodward to Downtown. We marched for Universal Health Care. Ahead of us, and with us, were politicians John Conyers, Carl and Sander Levin, Aldo Vagnozzi- State Rep for Farmington Hills and others. There were many Union locals and quite a few spectators. It was sunny and a good day for a parade.
--Margaret Wilkie

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Join the Interfaith Dialog on September 15 at 1:00 and the third Sunday of every month thereafter. We partner with the Muslim Dialog at Wayne State University. All are welcome for a discussion of faith in our lives. We meet in Memorial Hall.