This week’s message explores the importance of sharing oral history from generation to generation. Rev. Lisa reflects on when she first heard her grandfather’s stories of serving in WWII.
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Social Generosity Offering: November 2021
Our November offering will go to honor and support the IOCP Sleep Out Campaign. The funds raised through the Sleep Out campaign help IOCP – Interfaith Outreach & Community Partners – deliver individualized services in the areas of family support, food, housing and neighborhoods, education and youth, employment, and transportation. They help nearly 2,000 local families each year stabilize, strengthen and thrive. Over the years, our local communities have helped prevent homelessness 34,912 times through rent assists. The Sleep Out is one way we celebrate and tap into the power of our collective compassion.
How to Donate: You can donate online using a credit card at bit.ly/giveuucm. You may also mail a contribution to UUCM at 2030 Wayzata Blvd E, Wayzata MN 55391. Simply make your check out to “UUCM” with “Social Generosity” in the memo line.
(Archive) North Wall Artist: Zamara Cunyún
Z Cuyun – 30×40 (B), 4/10/18, 12:40 PM, 8C, 7630×8815 (176+1077), 100%, Custom, 1/12 s, R89.6, G55.3, B69.5
Exhibition: Reclaiming Our Grandmothers
“The visual stories presented here are the stories of our Indigenous grandmothers that are not often told in the colonialist narratives that actively work to erase the Indio from their histories. Growing up in Mni Šota settler society, I’ve become all too familiar with the words of Captain Richard H. Pratt, “Kill the Indian…save the man” – or woman, in this case – and their tragic consequences. Perhaps, upon viewing this exhibition, other Minnesotans will recognize this shared history and the subsequent local legacy of which we are all beneficiaries on Dakhόta homeland. It’s time to present positive images and stories of Indigenous women to counter the past 500 years of “poisoning the water” and our lives.”
Continue reading for more details and Zamara Cuyún’s artist bio.
Please visit Zamara’s website: www.zamaracuyun.com
You can also follow her on Instagram: @zamara_cuyun_art and Facebook: facebook.com/ZamaraCuyunArt/
The 2021 UUCM Auction’s Big Weekend is Here!
IMPORTANT: There will be no in-person live auction at church on Saturday evening. For a number of reasons, we are shifting the live auction to be an all-Zoom event. For those of you who were planning to attend in person, we are sorry that we cannot offer you that experience. But please join us online to enjoy the event. The Live Auction will be held online via Zoom, and will include bidding, Bingo, music, comedy, and more!
Check out the auction web site http://charityauction.bid/uucm2021 and see below for the latest information. Continue reading →
From the Board: November 2021
Each month, a member of the board will share a reflection on the Soul Matters monthly theme and the state of the church. The theme for November is Holding History. This month’s post is offered by Brian Zais.
I never much liked history in school. Dry regurgitation of names, dates, and events never held my interest. Those were things that happened back then. They were a little like looking at names on my family tree from 100 years ago. Sure, William McCaffery was my great grandfather. That name could have been Seamus O’Connor and I probably would have turned out the same. It was only later in life that I truly developed my appreciation for history, and especially those moments when the course of history changed, even if people at the time didn’t realize it. Continue reading →
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