It’s time for another year of choir at UUCM! All are welcome, invited, and encouraged to join in singing with the UUCM choir. We sing about 10 times each program year and rehearse for an hour to an hour and a half on Wednesday evenings at 7 in the UUCM Sanctuary. Our choir is open to all who wish to sing, regardless of experience level. We use printed notation, but you don’t need to be fluent in reading music to join. Recorded practice tracks are provided to help in note learning and Music Director Paul Winchester and other experienced choir members are eager to help teach skills and practices to make singing with the choir fun and comfortable. If you’re interested, please reach out to Paul at musicdirector@uucmtka.org for more information. Or you’re always welcome to show up on a Wednesday night and get a taste for the joy of UUCM choral singing!
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Virtual Beloved Conversations
Registration for the fall series of Beloved Conversations (Virtual): Within through the Meadville-Lombard Theological School is open through August 31st. Sign up here. Scholarships are available! This virtual course is meant for white people who are ready to learn more about how knowledge, hope, imagination, love, and community can come together to combat racism in all its forms. Join dozens of your UUCM peers in completing this reflective education that is a great first step towards your own growth and helping our entire congregation on our journey to becoming anti-racist. From the Beloved Conversations: Within website on outcomes: “The aim of Beloved Conversations is to underline that racial justice work (and the self-understanding and personal work that are essential to it) is the work of our lifetime, and we engage it in different ways…everyone has work to do and we will all have different learning goals and outcomes. And the learning is never done- it only shifts and changes over time.” The course includes a series of 6 virtual lessons that drop to your inbox every other week from September 10 through December 3, 2024. Each participant is also assigned to a virtual study group that will meet every other week (at a time of the group’s choosing) via Zoom to process the lessons. Please contact Karen Zais with any questions.
Ridwell Reminder!
RIDWELL REMINDER: Keep it up Ridwell Recyclers!! Come help us with prep every other Monday at 2 p.m. We’ll be meeting next on 8/26. The next featured item is plastic caps. Please drop off all items by noon on 8/26. Always bring CLEAN and dry threads (clothes & shoes), CLEAN white rigid styrofoam, CLEAN plastic film & multilayer plastic and any lightbulbs. Remember: Ridwell now accepts empty pill bottles, save them at home for future pick ups! Please call Kathy (612-590-9606) or Sue (612-703-2297) with any questions. We love questions!!
Ridwell Reminder!
RIDWELL REMINDER: Join in on Ridwell Prep at 4 p.m. Monday, August 12! It’s fun!! The next featured item is disposable coffee lids (like from a coffee shop) and straws. They must be clean, no lipstick etc. Please drop off your items by noon on August 12. Keep saving other items for future pickups including: corks, bread tags, assorted plastic caps and electronics. Ridwell also just added prescription medication bottles, so start saving those too! Continue to bag all items and place in labeled bins. A reminder about styrofoam for Ridwell: it needs to be CLEAN, no tape or labels and RIGID (if you bend it, it breaks) softer types of styrofoam are no longer accepted. Please rinse out your soil bags and chip bags! Questions: Sue Asinger (612-703-2297, sueasinger@yahoo.com). Thanks for all you do for our earth!
Women’s Venerable Meeting
NEXT FRIDAY: Women’s Venerable Meeting— Friday, August 9 at noon. This month’s host is Judy Kaster. August’s topic is thinking back to your high school days, what person, experience or activity helped you get through the ups and downs of those years? Please reach out to Sue McKnight for details on how to join on Zoom.
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