First Unitarian Society
Announcements
Sunday, February 5, 2006
•DEADLINE APPROACHES: Annual Service Auction
Donations deadline is Feb. 12. See details on the donation form insert.
• THIS WEEK: Keep discrimination off the ballot!
Connect with UUs state-wide in our effort to keep the anti-marriage constitutional amendment off the ballot in 2006! Join UU’s Out for Marriage at our next strategy meeting: Monday, Feb. 6, 2006, 7–9 pm, Unity Church—Unitarian, 732 Holly Ave, St. Paul, MN, for directions: www.unityunitarian.org. For further information, contact Peter and Carole Lawson or Ralph Wyman
• THIS WEEK: AUDITIONS for One Voice Mixed Chorus
The Twin Cities' GLBT community chorus is auditioning on February 6 and 7. For more info visit our website at www.ovmc.org or call 612-332-1302. Join us building community and creating social change by raising our voices in song!
• EVERY WEEK: Science Spoken Here Table
Join this fun group who gather for presentations and discussion on varied scientific topics every Sunday (except when there’s a soup lunch or other all-FUS event) in the Lower Assembly Hall during the social hour.
• Raffle Ticket for Brill Battery Operated Lawn Mower
Here is your chance to win a lightweight Reel Mower that cuts a 3,000 square foot lawn on a single charge. If your mowing job is bigger than that, a second battery is available for purchase. Don't need a mower? Buy a ticket anyway (it's a good cause and only $10 a ticket) and give the mower to a friend or relative. OR . . . give it back to FUS! That would be a charitable contribution of $350! All proceeds go to the FUS Service Auction. You do not need to be there to win. Stop by the Social Action table during Social Hour, talk to a satisfied owner and buy your ticket (or two)!
• Eat 'N' Meets are Coming Back!
Stop by the Ask Me table in the Lower Assembly hall and pick up your own "flyer card" of the food and programmatic schedule, to begin, Wednesday, February 15. Want to get behind the scenes of Eat 'N' Meet this spring? Consider signing up to help set up and/or serve some Wednesday. Sign-ups are at the Ask Me table.
• Art in the Gallery
The current art exhibit in the foyer gallery consists of paintings by Minneapolis artist Barbara Kvasnick-Nunez and woodcuts and paintings by her mentor Eugene Larkin, which are from the collection of Will and Mary Agar and North Hennepin Community College. The first Larkin painting hanging on the east wall (entitled “Adam and Eve”) was a favorite of Eugene Larkin and his wife. It hung for a number of years in their bedroom and is now in the Agars’ collection. The show continues through Sunday, Feb. 19.
• Board Urges Regular Sunday Attendance
February Trustee Tidbit: The Trustees have been discussing ways to strengthen members’ connections to the Society. FUS offers many opportunities for enrichment, community, and personal growth. The Board believes that active membership includes regular participation at Sunday services and hopes to encourage greater weekly attendance.
• Planning to make an announcement?
Here are three tips for making successful Sunday Morning Oral Announcements at FUS: 1. Write up your announcement ahead of time. Be brief --limit your announcement to one minute in length, which is about 1/2 page of 12-point type, double spaced. 2. If you have all the details already printed in the Bulletin, simply refer to that; DO NOT repeat the details during your announcement. 3. Use humor as appropriate and an animated voice, showing enthusiasm for your topic!
• Questions about parenting? Join the FUS Parenting Listserv!
Sign up at Parenting Listserv. If you have any questions, feel free to call Jan Devor. Thanks to Fred Olson for setting up the listserv and to Diana Allen for moderating it!
• Don’t you just love the flowers?!
Flower sponsors are needed for March. Stop in the office today and sign up! Share the fun, and sponsor them with a group of your friends! You get to take the flowers home after the service, so think of how great it’ll be to know you all have a part of the bouquet!
• First Unitarian Society Mixed Media Art Show
This year’s FUS Art Show will open Sunday, Feb 26 and run thru April 2, 2006. This non-juried show is for members and friends of FUS who wish to display original paintings, prints, watercolors, or photography in the gallery. Artists may submit up to two works each. If space permits, all submissions will be shown. Please check the January newsletter for additional information. Contact Helen Rice Walker (612-376-0452), Herbie Sewell (612-721-4974), or Gretchen Clemence (612-920-9234) with questions. Submissions deadline is Feb. 16, 2006, the day after the first Spring 2006 Eat ‘n’ Meet!
• FREE UUA Teleconference Workshops on Feb. 18, and March 4
Socially Responsible Investing - Making a Difference with Ideals, and Impact. Saturdays at 1pm EST -- February 18th, Investment Screening: What we choose to buy and where we choose to invest loudly proclaims our ideals. This seminar will help us set standards and wend our way through the grey areas. A special focus will be HOW TO discern the choices in mutual funds investing. March 4th, Shareholder Activism: Shareholder activism has caused major corporations to change their behavior. For instance, as a result of a carefully orchestrated dialogue with management and finally the CEO of Home Depot, that company changed its policy to include sexual orientation as one of the prohibited discriminations. See UUA Case Study or go to uua.org and type in “shareholder activism.” Join this call to learn how you can take part in this vital movement and demonstrate that our faith can make mountains move.
Join these calls to learn what you can do! Call from the comfort of your home or gather a group in your congregation around a speaker phone. See www.uua.org/finance/sri/SRI-TeleConference-Flyer.pdf for details on how to participate, or check out the FUS bulletin boards for more information.