Now that our front entry garden has been re-landscaped, it needs a loving, caring hand to keep it at its best. It has recently been tucked under bark dust to discourage the spring weeds and is in good shape. As summer approaches it will need tweaking and watering and will always be open to your … Continue reading Is Gardening Your Happy Place?
Kaleidoscope asks everyone who visits the UUCS grounds during the weekdays when Kaleidoscope is in session to sign in on the new Sign-in Sheets posted on the south side of the RE Shed. This includes the landscaping crew and people that come to garden/walk around the grounds. This new precaution is in response to the … Continue reading Kaleidoscope has New Sign In Sheet
The month of June has us catching with Doc Hadley, better known fondly as, “Slide Guy”. You will be reading this just after seeing his latest masterpiece with the Flower Communion slides. Each year he does a beautiful job of bringing the colorful diversity of flowers into our visual view. So, without further ado…… Here’s … Continue reading Doc Hadley, Slide Guy, June 2022
What is Share the Plate? During each Sunday service, we take a collection. This voluntarily given money is then shared between our congregation and an organization from the local community which has goals that align with Unitarian Universalist principles. This month’s Share the Plate recipient is the Thompson-Patch Scholarship Fund. The Nellie Thompson-Dorothy Patch Scholarship … Continue reading Share the Plate Recipient for June 2022 is the Nellie Thompson-Dorothy Patch Scholarship Fund
The first movable shower trailer for use by people living in their supervised micro-shelter communities in the Salem area, “Shower Trailer Number One” is nearing completion with roll-out now scheduled for late June. The movable shower trailer was purchased by Habitat and Hope Village, Inc. and built-in Salem by Edomo, Inc., and will be donated … Continue reading Shower Trailer Nears Completion
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Flower Communion is coming up on June 5. We will have our traditional Flower Communion Service, reminding us of both our uniqueness and connection as human beings in this world. In addition, we will have special guest speaker, Professor Ruben L. F. Habito from SMU – Perkins School of Theology. Habito’s teachings focus on world … Continue reading Flower Communion June 5
There is a lot of interest in a UUCS men’s retreat, including Reverend Rick! We are starting to investigate locations. It will probably a weekend, within an hour of Salem, hopefully this Fall. But… we need an idea of how many MIGHT go…so please send an email to Rick if you are interested. No firm … Continue reading Men’s Retreat
I want to share with you an opportunity to reduce gun violence and make Oregon schools and community spaces safer. Lift Every Voice Oregon has drafted two Initiative Petitions that present common sense gun safety measures. Initiative Petition (IP) 17: Safe Owners and Less Lethal Ammunition– Requires a permit to purchase all firearms– Requires a … Continue reading Lift Every Voice
This month’s social justice article is about building a social justice culture which is the outward expression of UUCS’s values seen by the greater community. Any religion’s rational for being is the values it professes. What makes a value system a religion is acting on those values. Yes, there is more to a religion than … Continue reading Social Justice Report – May 2022
