RE Teachers Needed for Spring! We have a few spots open in the younger grades for Teachers for the Spring semester in RE. If you’re wanting to explore the worship themes from a different angle (while hanging out with some pretty awesome kids!), please consider becoming an RE Teacher for the spring. All that is required is 7-8 Sundays, with Teacher Training on January 12. You’re always with another teacher in the classroom, and any prep work is done for you. Please let Karen Heuiser know if you are interested.
Braiding Sweetgrass UUCM Community Book Read
Shame of Chicago, Shame of the Nation
UUCM Is partnering with Beacon for a screening of the 5-part documentary season Shame of Chicago, Shame of the Nation. It examines systematic housing segregation in Chicago and its suburbs throughout the 20th century. The series illustrates how these policies not only shaped Chicago but also served as a model for other American cities. The first episode is coming up January 9 from 6–8 p.m. at Vista 44: Supportive Housing. UUCM will be hosting the final episode Jim Crow of the North on February 4 from 6–8 p.m. Please click here to see the full schedule for the series. Contact Sue Fust with questions.
Winter Sowing Party
The Mindful Stewards Winter Sowing Party is coming up Saturday, December 28 from 12-3 p.m. in the community room. Mindful Stewards welcomes all ages to celebrate winter solstice by planting seeds of intention for the coming New Year.
Empty milk jugs, potting soil, native seed “winter wishes,” and other supplies will be provided. Apps & snacks provided. Once winter sowing kits have been completed they will be placed in the UUCM backyard. Plants will be transplanted into UUCMs landscape in the spring/summer. Contact Genevieve Vavreck or Jan Sease for details.
Ridwell Reminder!
The next featured item for Ridwell is jewelry in good condition (earrings must have matching pairs). Please drop off your items before our next Ridwell Prep Party, December 30 at 2 p.m.
The prep team has encountered a lot of garbage (dirty styrofoam, black styrofoam especially). Please help us out by bringing only clean, white and rigid styrofoam. Other accepted items include: plastic film and multi-layer plastic, lightbulbs of any kind, threads (sheets, towels, clothes and shoes). Contact Kathy (612-590-9606) or Sue (612-703-2297) with questions.
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