Canvass Pledge Campaign 6/1 – 6/15/14

The Board of Directors and Rev. Dave hope you enjoyed the canvass/pledge potluck luncheon on June 1 to kickoff our week long pledge drive for our next fiscal year’s budget. Please consider making your pledge or contribution for the upcoming year and offer your pledge card to Francs P. by June 15 so we can update our pending 2014-2015 budget for our annual meeting on June 22. Pledge forms are in the June Sojourner and also posted on the bulletin board out side of the office.  

Thank you all for a wonderful year of fun, spirituality and community building,

Yours in service,

Linda

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Annual Congregational Meeting

Members and friends are invited to our Annual Congregational meeting on June 22 at 11:45 am. We will meet in the sanctuary after service to vote on the new slate of officers for the year 2014-2015.  Find out about this years events as members present Several Year End reports and then join us in discussion and vote on next years budget.  Your participation is important for the growth and well being of UUFP.  Please remember that in order to vote you must  be an active member of UUFP for 30 days prior to this meeting. Please mark your calendars and save the date!  Thank you, Linda

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Potluck Pledge Drive Luncheon

June 1 after service in the Social Room

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The Board of Directors and Rev. Dave cordially invite you to join us for a potluck luncheon at UUFP to kickoff our pledge drive for next year.

We’re looking forward to an exciting 2014-2015 with all of you! 

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June 1 in the Social Room after service

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Service Topic for April 27th

UUPLAN and Social Justice

Guest Speaker: Dennis Brunn 

Mr. Brunn is a spokesperson for The Unitarian Universalist Pennsylvania Legislative Advocacy Network. This organization supports the goals of social and environmental justice in Pennsylvania and seeks to raise awareness in our congregations and in the legislature in Harrisburg.

Mr. Brunn will discuss social action issues which are the current focus of UUPLAN, including environmental justice and immigration reform.

3rd Sunday potluck has been moved to the 4th Sunday this month.

In addition, the Garden Group will be conducting its first planting from 1-4pm after the service!  Join them to sink your hands into the good earth!

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Documentary “Inequality For All” showing at UUFP

On May 1st, UUFP will present a Pottstown screening of Sundance award-winning documentary INEQUALITY FOR ALL on income inequality, our shrinking middle class and how this has affected America’s economy and democracy.  Following the screening, join us for a live-streamed interview with documentary consultant Robert Reich.

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Featuring Robert Reich*, INEQUALITY FOR ALL allows viewers to walk away with a comprehensive and significantly deep sense of the issue and what can be done about it.

WHEN: Thursday, May 1st 7:00 – 9:30 P.M.

ADMISSION: VOLUNTARY DONATION – $2.00.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

*Consultant and featured expert Robert Reich is an American academic, writer, and political commentator who has served in three Presidential administrations. Reich is currently Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a former professor at Brandies University and Harvard University. In 2008, Time Magazine named him one of the Ten Most Successful Cabinet Members of the century, and The Wall Street Journal place him among America’s Top Ten Business Thinkers. He has written twelve books, including Work of Nations, Locked in the Cabinetand his most recent book, Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future.

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Let’s get friendly at Friendly’s!

Please join us for dinner on Tuesday, April 22nd, for a UUFP fundraiser. Bring yourselves, your relatives, your neighbors, and your co-workers to Friendly’s Restaurant at Route 100 and Shoemaker Road in Pottstown.

UUFP will receive ten percent of all sales made between the hours of 5 to 9 PM.

So come and have a good time and help the Fellowship!

Call Lisa J. with any questions.

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Service Topic for April 20th

“Of Bunnies and Eggs” 

Speaker: Rev. Dave Farrington 

Ever wonder why we celebrate Easter with bunnies and eggs? Seem a little incongruous?

Well like nearly every celebration in Christianity, Easter has its roots in early “pagan” traditions.

Today Rev. Dave will discuss these early origins of Easter eggs, bunnies, new bonnets and dresses and other Easter traditions, and celebrate how we UUs find meaning in both ancient and modern understandings of the holy day.

IMPORTANT NOTE: 3rd Sunday potluck is changed to next Sunday.

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Service Topic for April 13th

Welcome! 

Speaker: Rev. Dave Farrington 

As in years past we expect to be welcoming new members into our community today, Palm Sunday. The tradition can be traced at least to the first century when Jesus was welcomed to Jerusalem and, as we shall learn next week, elements of it go to Roman times and earlier.

Today Rev. Dave will talk about the meaning of membership and join in the welcoming of a new member.

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Service topic CHANGE for March 30th

Project Youth

Speaker: Rev. Dave Farrington

Reminded of an old friend and colleague by the same name as our ill guest speaker, Rev. Dave will give a sermon entitled “Project Youth” of which Art Devlin and his co-defendant were co-creators. Project Youth became a model by which incarcerated felons spent time with youngsters who had criminal charges pending. It was a success heralded by judges in Boston, then all of Massachusetts and ultimately the country and the world. “Scared Straight” was a highly corrupted copy that became more widely known than the original program. The sermon will include a comparison of Project Youth with Scared Straight.

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Service Topic for March 23rd

Spirituality and Climate Change

Guest Speaker: Doug Hunt

Doug Hunt from Interfaith Power and Light will be speaking about sustainability in the context of our growing knowledge of climate change and its probable impact on our children’s future. Doug Hunt is a PA IPL board member, retired United Church of Christ minister, and current member of Main Line Unitarian Church.

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