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Positive Parenting Class 10-week Nonviolent Parenting class led by Kerry Thorne, sponsored by the Lifespan RE Committee |
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Positive Parenting Class - (childcare) |
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Possibilities
Join Rev. Kikanza Nuri-Robins and Worship Associate Alison Kendall this Sunday as we livestream the service, "Possibilities."
Just like last year, we ask all of our members and friends to remain at home and join us online at https://www.facebook.com/uusantamonica – for the time being. The latest UUA Delta-Guidance asks us to refrain from holding any large indoor or outdoor gatherings until LA County is no longer designated as “Very High Risk.” We’re excited to change things up though: we’ll be streaming LIVE at 10:30 am (instead of prerecorded) from our beloved church campus.
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Post Election Day Huddle |
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POSTPONED 5.21.17: FIA Peace & Social Justice Committee Our church’s program for integrating peace and social justice concerns into the life of the congregation. The Peace & Social Justice Committee (PSJ) focuses many activities in the areas of labor and economic issues; racism, police brutality, and mass incarceration; immigration and immigrant detention; and peace and alternatives to war. It also collaborates with the Green Committee on activities focusing on climate change. The Peace & Social Justice Committee meets on the 3rd Sunday of every month after second service. New members are welcome and needed. For more information please email Sarah Mae Harper, Cathie Gentile or Roberta Frye. If you do not have email, please stop by the Faith in Action table in Forbes Hall.
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POSTPONED: Adult RE - Reverence for Life Reverence for Life: Transforming Belief into Practice through Animal Ministry This class is specifically designed for UU's interested in beginning, supporting, or growing animal ministries in their congregations. During this one session one hour webinar we will reflect upon Albert Schweitzer's ethic of Reverence for Life and what it could mean for our lives, organizations, and congregations. We will outline resources and possible next steps to set up an animal ministry within your congregation, with specific consideration for Unitarian Universalist congregations. Part of this ministry might include joining the Reverence for Life Program designed by UUAM
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Postponed: FIA - ACLU forum on the ballot initiatives |
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Postponed: FIA - Assembling Homeless Care Packages Please note this event has been postponed until sometime in May. More details to be announced later. |
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Power vs. Force All that happens in life is made possible by energy flow and distribution. This includes everything we do as human beings. But do we ever stop to notice the kind of energy we're bringing to each situation? Is it compelling energy or coercive energy? This is a service where we get to stop and take stock of the energy we're experiencing and the energy we're offering. |
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PR Committee |
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Practice Peace It is difficult to practice peace while the nation is at war. How might we practice peace? What does the statement of social witness on peacemaking have to offer us as we practice peacemaking? |
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Practice, Practice, PracticeMay Worship Theme: What Binds Us
In our UU faith, we are bound together not by creed or dogma, but by covenant, the sacred promises we make with one another about who we are and how we want to be in community together. We often quote our Seven Principles, yet rarely repeat the concluding lines of the congregational covenant from which they come:
Grateful for the religious pluralism which enriches and ennobles our faith, we are inspired to deepen our understanding and expand our vision. As free congregations we enter into this covenant, promising one another our mutual trust and support.
Join Rev. Rebecca and our worship leaders for a month-long exploration of covenant, mutual trust and support, and what binds us to one another, to our living tradition, and to the wider world.
May 8 Sermon: Practice, Practice, Practice
As a promise-making people, we are also a promise-breaking people. How do we reweave the bonds of community when we have disappointed or hurt one another?
At our 11am service we will embody our faith’s theology of interdependence by hosting the choir of First Church Los Angeles, our closest neighboring UU congregation at 7th and Vermont. At both 9am and 11am, Rev. Bijur and Rev. Rick Hoyt-McDaniels of First Church, who was called to ministry from this congregation and is a former member of our Board of Directors, will lead worship and preach together.
Note: Special guest Bruce Rankin, ED of the Westside Food Bank, will also join us for both services on May 8 to talk about our congregation's longtime partnership with WFB to end hunger on the Westside of Los Angeles, and to receive a gift of over $2,000 from the congregation. Thank you to those who increased their pledges last fall in order to give more money away to WFB, those who participated in our Supper Bowl Sunday fundraiser with our children and families, gave more in the plate during the month of February, and for all the gifts of food you bring each week for our neighbors in need.
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What does it take to break out of what is, to embrace what is possible?Have you ever surprised yourself by doing something you thought was impossible?; Let us consider together the mindshift created by a spiritual practice of possibilities.