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The Candle
THE CANDLE REV-elations: a column from your minister It would be helpful if clergy came complete with
manuals on how to use us. We don’t, so we have to compile our own.
Mine condenses into two little words: “call me.” Rev. Margaret Keip SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICESAND OTHER SEPTEMBER EVENTS September
7, 2003, 9 and 11 am September
14, 2003, 9 and 11 am September
28, 2003, 9 and 11 am
“Will the new minister hear me? Will
my concerns and needs be met? Will
the minister understand what I’m living with?
How will the community respond to our minister?’ Come
on Sunday September 28, 2003 at the Fellowship to participate in the UUA
sponsored workshop, led by Theo Small and Paula Cole Jones.
Men's Book Club Spiritual
Book Discussion Group WOMEN
WHO LOVE TO READ Back in the saddle again. Welcome back to all who have been away for the summer to
varying degrees. Vicki and I
are among those who played a little hooky from the Fellowship.
We are refreshed and ready to get going on the many things that
call us to the horizon of the new experiences just over that rise.
Like what? We are starting the task
of auditing the finances and processes that contribute to our financial
controls. Maybe you will have
some skills and willingness to help with that task.
What better time to do it than in the “changing of the guard?”
Thanks to the Finance Committee for thinking about what needs to be
done to keep us on an even keel. Work during the summer
proceeded to completion with renovation of the roof, roof supports, and
ceilings of the rental house next door.
Deterioration of that structure has been abated.
We could not have done that without the constant monitoring and
coordinating of Carl Hajek, which he did along with the many other things
that he and the “maintenance guys” (Paul Wilson, Jim Chapin, Sam
Stevens and newly returned Jay Fisher) do for us.
Let it not be thankless work.
Do you ever wonder how the lawn gets cut when it is needed?
Paul As of August 15, 2003 our income from pledges and donations was $47,137.22. Our budgeted income amount for the same period was $52,810.05 which means we are about $5,600 behind in pledges and donations. Perhaps summer vacation has something to do with it, fewer people attending church. Lene Hajek, Treasurer KUUF
Ministerial Search Committee Now, it is your turn to help the Search Committee! We intend to survey every member and friend of the congregation. To this end, we have chosen several interesting questions to ask you in a written anonymous survey. Everyone will be given a chance to fill out a survey and to talk to a Search Committee member between now and the end of September. This anonymous survey will provide potential ministers a "snapshot" of us as we are today. It will be of great help to your Search Committee in finding and attracting our next minister. Your first opportunity to fill out the survey and to talk with the Search Committee will occur when you attend your Neighborhood Group meeting. If you cannot attend your own Neighborhood Group event, please try to attend one of the other Neighborhood Group meetings. These meetings will be held between now and the middle of September. Watch for your invitation or announcement! If you are not able to attend one of the Neighborhood Group events, you will have yet another opportunity to meet with us and to fill out your anonymous survey. That opportunity will occur during the month of September after each worship service, either in the Elmore Room or in the Administrative Meeting room in the office wing. A Search Committee member will be available there, to assist you with a survey and to take any other information you would like to offer to us. Your filled out survey is totally anonymous, just like voting, but we will be keeping track of whom among you has already done a survey and who has not yet done one. This is so that no one will be missed. We really want your input! This is a bit like our annual Canvass in the spring, but we are not asking you for a pledge now - just for your ideas and interests! We hope to be able to speak with every one of you by the end of September! Your Search Committee (Beth Wilson, Ginger Younie, Diane Boatwright-Frost, Leif Bentsen, Marlene DiMauro, Dick Norton and Linda Gabriel) has been meeting every Tuesday evening, gathering information, readying a profile of our congregation, researching how this sort of search has been done before (here and at other UU congregations) and generally working out how to make this as open and positive a process as possible. We really appreciate the help that has been offered to us and the information that you can provide to us.
KUUF & UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST Hank
Cramer's Coming Back - Save the Date! WSCC’s
mission statement “To conserve and restore our natural resources.”
It’s goals are:
Beth
Wilson has asked the KUUF Board of Trustees to vote for KUUF to officially
join West Sound Conservation Council.
As a member, KUUF would have three voting seats on the Board of
WSCC. WSCC is not a partisan political organization, so does not
violate the rule that non-profit agencies not engage in political
activity. If
KUUF joined WSCC, we could invite our youth to participate in WSCC by
being our representatives to the WSCC Board.
Beth Wilson has offered to mentor them along if youth volunteered.
The
seventh Unitarian Universalist principle upon which we base our faith is “respect
for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.”
Joining WSCC would allow us to demonstrate to our members, our
children and youth, and to the broader community that our “respect for
the interdependent web” entails responsibility to protect that web.
That responsibility should lead to action.
Joining WSCC could be that action.
KUUF
has taken very public stands that demonstrate our commitment to the first
principle, “the inherent worth and dignity of every person.”
Beth’s proposal would allow KUUF to take a stand and put into
action our commitment to our seventh principle. a.
To build awareness
of societal b.
To generate
commitment for personal c.
To motivate UUs to
community action d.
To build a
connection between spiritual e.
To build awareness
of and rectify environmental injustices Joining WSCC would address four of those five
goals. KUUF
MEMBER ART EXHIBIT
KUUF
member Alan Newberg will be showing his painting series "Microcredit
in El Salvador" in the Gilmartin Gallery, which is a part of the
University Unitarian Church in Seattle. The exhibition which features 15
large paintings in a visual narrative dealing with issues of economic
justice, women and microcredit as found in El Salvador, will open on
Sunday, August 17th and close on September 25. A reception will be held on
a yet to be determined Sunday in September. The University Unitarian
Church is located at 6556 35th Avenue NE in Seattle. The exhibit can be
view during the church business hours. Interested individuals should call
206 525 8400 for details about opening hours. Don’t
Forget Your Water for Homecoming Sunday Sept. 7th! Last year we re-started the tradition of
“Gathering the Waters” for Homecoming Sunday, our first two-service
Sunday in September. So
please tuck a tiny bottle in your bag or backpack when you wander out into
the world these summer months and bring home a bit of water from wherever
you went for our Homecoming service on Sunday, September 7. EVERGREEN SEEKS ORGANIST Please help spread the word to anyone you might think would be interested, that Evergreen Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Marysville is seeking an experienced (semi-retired?) church organist who would enjoy playing a 2 manual Wicks pipe organ one Sunday Service a month (subbing for our regular accompanist). No rehearsal or other duties outside of the one service a month. Salary negotiable, but we are a small church. Call Steven Greenebaum, our Director of Music, at 425-778-2152. looking for a few actors Wanted- Actors. I am looking for a few actors who would be interested in participating in a dinner theatre at KUUF this fall. Experience desirable but not necessary. It will be fun. Date to be determined, play to be determined. If interested, please contact Alan Searle. Multifaith
Calendars for 2004 Caring Committee members
soon will be selling Multifaith Calendars for 2004.
They are informative, eye catching and make excellent gifts during
the holidays. To ensure we
order enough Calendars, please sign up for your copy or copies on the
bulletin board. KUUF
THEATER NIGHT: THE LARAMIE PROJECT N
O R T H W E S T* D o v e I n
s * by
Art Activist, Daniel Dancer If you remember the Sixty's sit-ins, love-ins and be-ins — or especially if you missed them —you won't want to miss the summer of 2003, Dove Ins! Come gather with thousands to form a "living painting" of a giant peace dove carrying a rose which will be photographed from the sky. With your special Dove In t-shirt, you will be one "feather" among many! This is a family event so bring your children and help make the first Dove Ins a beautiful gift to the world. Special Guest: Legendary 93year old peace activist, Granny D Music: SweetJuice, Sky in the Road (Portland), Shantala MC's: Bob Czmbal and Maggie Zadikov. Peace is more than the absence of war! Peace embraces an active, nonviolent approach to living; a respect for Earth and all her people. The Dove Ins are a recommitment to Peace and Love, a unique, fun and spiritually powerful way to wage peace on OUR time, NOT just pending a war. We are hoping individuals far and near and groups of every sort: peace, justice, environmental, religious, civic, etc., will participate and help re energize the movement for world peace. Please forward this alert to the far corners of your region! Children Free! Register Now for your Dove In t-shirt and Save!http://www.dovein.com Produced by In Concert With Nature
2004
PNWD Annual Meeting Yes,
UUs, there is a 2004 PNWD Annual Meeting!
—and the Cascadia Conference in Victoria, BC is it!
Write it in your book! Enter
it in your Palm Pilot! Key
it into your computer calendar! February
13th to 15th at the Fairmont Empress Hotel and the adjacent Victoria
Conference Centre. Keynote
speakers: A
wonderful PNWD Annual Meeting and a wonderful event for us all -- on both
sides of the border. Registration
forms will be on-line and in the November issue of Changes. Workshop proposals are being accepted through September 15. a proposal form will soon be available on websites of both the {MWD (above) and Canadian Unitarian Council ; (http://www.cuc.ca) Workshop questions? Contact workshop coordinator Margo Lods: mlods@shaw.ca. RENAISSANCE TRAINING HOSTS NEEDED Have you been straining your brain thinking of a way you can give to the Fellowship and Religious Education program in general, but you DON”T have the time or maybe the desire to teach RE? Well now is your opportunity. In November, up to 25 Religious Education workers, either DRE’s or RE committee members will be attending a three-day training at KUUF, co-hosted by the Children’s Religious Education Committee and the Adult Religious Exploration Committee. These women and men who work with Religious Education programs in Alaska, Washington, Idaho, and Oregon need places to stay. They well be arriving on Friday night and leaving late Sunday afternoon. Here’s where you come in. We need one person to coordinate home hospitality and lots of people to provide home hospitality. What is home hospitality? You provide a place for one or more of the participants to stay. It could be a futon, a hide-a-bed, your college student’s room or maybe you even have a guest room or guest house. If needed, you will provide transportation for your guest to and from the Fellowship. Meals are provided at the Fellowship so you will not need to provide food unless you’d like to have a late night, or early morning snack available. If you are interested in helping to coordinate this or in providing housing please contact Melinda Hughes, Director of Religious Education at 377.4724 or by email at DRE@kuuf.or. OK
YOUTH DROP-IN  JUST
WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW WHOM TO CALL!!! 360-377-4724
Please be aware of the following changes in office protocol. Sherry Attaway is now assuming full responsibilities in her position as Office Manager (as well as bookkeeper). Therefore, she will be directing the flow of tasks and assignments in the admin office, and making decisions relative to office practice and procedure. When you have questions or need office support, please contact Sherry. Her hours are Wednesday and Friday, 9:30 to3:30. Call (360) 377-4724 or admin@kuuf.org. Alex remains your staff contact for announcements, order of service, calendar and room reservations: alex@kuuf.org. Candle
Submission Information WANTED:
A FEW GOOD UNITARIANS Work
as a Youth Coordinator in our 14-18 year-old’s program.
Highly rewarding work requiring a serious commitment to escorting
our youth to adulthood. Requirements:
age, at least 25 but not over 125; good humor, patience, and a
flexible schedule. For
further information contact Melinda Hughes, Director of Religious
Education: 377.4724; Jim Chapin, youth advisor, or Miriam Akhgar,
Youth/Adult Council Chair.
Writing
this column is always a challenge for me.
Having come from a decidedly WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant)
background, I question how I can begin to comprehend the pain our society
inflicts on others by our ignorance, discrimination and prejudices.
My ongoing effort is to deepen my own understanding of the
struggle, much less to write about it.
I should be writing about the needs of the hearing impaired, right? Consequently,
I’ve usually quoted sage comments from more learned authorities or
paraphrased others’ words of wisdom.
Always citing my sources, of course. Perhaps
the timing of this article is a sign, as my family very recently
participated in a celebration of diversity that warms my heart, and that
warming effect will expand as I share our joy with you. My
youngest daughter, Shannon Lynch, was married on July 20th, to
the love of her life, Kambiz Rahnavardy.
At a wedding held in the Conservatory Gardens of Manhattan’s
Central Park, two families from very different cultures, backgrounds and
religions, met to celebrate this union and bask in the joy radiating from
both bride and groom.
Kambiz
was raised in Iran.
Shannon was raised in Idaho.
Kambiz’s mother had a very difficult time obtaining a visa to
attend the wedding, as our respective governments have no diplomatic
relations.
This was a tense issue until only a few days before the wedding.
Worrying about the weather became a minor concern! It
all worked out beautifully, as friends and relatives gathered from
geographical locations all around the globe.
Wedding guests arrived from Tehran, London, Tokyo, and Montreal,
from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, New Jersey, New
York, Pennsylvania, and Washington.
All
these locations brought us a delightfully diverse group of people, as
different from each other as their geographical homes.
For me, that became a major celebratory event. In
addition to ethnic diversity this group blended a variety of life-styles.
Kambiz is an engineer whose friends include doctors, lawyers, and
scientists.
Shannon, an artist, is a magnet for actors and performers, fellow
Yoga instructors and those involved in humanitarian organizations.
Plus,
this group mirrored our UU Welcoming Congregation with its mix of gay and
lesbian couples.
It was a refreshing mingling of friends and family all blending,
enjoying, and laughing as one.
Perhaps
the Swami who performed the non-traditional ceremony, in his bright orange
outfit, provided the frosting on this wedding celebration.
Our
family will be enriched as we embrace and learn about a new culture.
I consider this celebration of diversity a reward for having raised
daughters who shun all forms of discrimination and prejudice.
It is a joy to see them practicing these values, many of which have
been taught and supported within Unitarian Universalist congregations like
KUUF. Thank
you for supporting this place, which is brimming with “like-minded”
people.
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION for CHILDREN & YOUTH AND THEY’RE OFF! September is here, and with it the Kitsap Unitarian Universalist Religious Education program is once again beginning it’s yearly cycle. This year, 2003-2004 brings many exciting experiences to our children and youth. The year begins on September 7th, the day of our first intergenerational service. Homecoming Sunday is also when the Fellowship goes back to two services. Families are encouraged to attend either service. Since children and youth will be remaining with their families (childcare is provided for crawlers-4 year-olds) the sanctuary can get full. Having families attend the early service will help to alleviate sanctuary space issues. Age-grouped classes will begin on September 14th. This year’s theme is Unitarian Universalism. Children will learn more about our congregation and what it means to be a Unitarian Universalist. In addition to our Sunday religious education program, Our Whole Lives, OWL, will once again be taught, and it’s expanding. Junior high and high school aged youth will be invited to participate in these weeknight classes. For more information please see OWL below. Registration packets have been mailed to the families of all children and youth who were registered for the religious education program last year. Please return registration forms as soon as possible. If you have children in your life who were not registered last year, or if you have not received a packet please contact Melinda Hughes, Director of Religious Education at the Fellowship. Registration forms need to be turned in prior to children/youth attending religious education classes. Visitor forms will be available for visitors; (those not registered).
Our Whole Lives is a series of sexuality education curricula for five age groups: grades K-1, grades 4-6, grades 7-9, grades 10-12, and adults. This year youth in grades 7-9 and grades 10-12 will have the opportunity to participate “Our Whole Lives helps participants make informed and responsible decisions about their sexual health and behavior. It equips participants with accurate, age-appropriate information in six subject areas: human development, relationships, personal skills, sexual behavior, sexual health, and society and culture. Grounded in a holistic view of sexuality, Our Whole Lives provides not only facts about anatomy and human development, but helps participants to clarify their values, build interpersonal skills, and understand the spiritual, emotional, and social aspects of sexuality.” (http://www.uua.org/owl/intro.html) If you have a child that is registered in the religious education program, and is in junior high or high school, more detailed information will be mailed in the future. In the meantime, if you have questions check out the above listed web page or contact Melinda Hughes, Director of Religious Education, at the Fellowship. KUUF RE PROGRAM IS
GEARING UP The Kitsap Unitarian Universalist Fellowship affirms and promotes the inherent worth and dignity of all persons, without regard to faith, creed, race, color, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, physical ability, economic status, or political affiliation. |
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