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Sunday Service for June 26, 2022 |
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This Sunday Service is broadcast from the UUA GA and is Zoom only.
Time is one hour later than normal.
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This Sunday Service begins at 9:30am. Pacific /10:30am. Mountain
11:30am. Central /12:30pm. Eastern
Online Link:
https://www.uua.org/ga/off-site/2022/sunday-worship
If you have any sign-on difficulties, please contact
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This Sunday’s service is online only, broadcast from the annual General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association, this year’s largest North American gathering of UUs for worship. The inspired and highly recommended service will substitute for the regular UUFSMA Sunday Service produced in San Miguel.
The Reverend Gretchen Haley has an audacious ambition for the liberal church. She believes in its capacity to transform lives and our world by way of hyper-local relationships and partnerships that inspire the unleashing of courageous love. She oversees worship, community resourcing and outreach, and the intersectional work of UU justice teams. She also serves as chief of staff, and ministry leader to the UUA Board. In all of these, she is inspired by the commitment of countless people who show up to do the sometimes-messy work of the church, and who lead us to live into our mission for Northern Colorado as it grows and changes. Her ministry is infused with her relentless curiosity about most things, especially the big stuff of theology, the beauty of creation, the magic of collaboration, and the joy of pop culture.
She’s all in on Adrienne Maree Brown’s “
Emergent Strategy,” and finds solace in the trails in and around Fort Collins, where she is Senior Minister of Foothills Unitarian Universalist Church. She moved to Colorado from Washington state over 20 years ago for grad school in theatre. She knew immediately that she would never leave. She and her partner, Carri, have two teenagers, Gracie and Josef, who both relish and resent being “preacher’s kids,” and who keep her grounded, frustrated, inspired, and humbled, every day. She is basically obsessed with Charlie and Archer, her two large dogs.
Rev. Sean Neil-Barron, Associate Minister at Foothills Unitarian Church, and Shari Halliday-Quan, Lead Minister of the First Unitarian Church of Rochester, NY, will both assist in the service.
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Communal action represents a vital response to climate change, and one impressive model of such work in San Miguel de Allende is the topic for this weekend’s UUFSMA Sunday Service. Guest speakers Ben-Zion Ptashnik and Victoria Collier will present the story of the Tikkun Eco Center, a local permaculture project and community farm.
Tikkun Eco Center promotes replicable solutions to climate change and ecological crises on three hectares dedicated to permaculture with organic gardens and orchards, reforestation, solar and wind energy, adobe construction, fish and chicken farming, composting, and water harvesting systems.
The center’s strategy experienced a major validation in 2020 and 2021 when Tikkun pressed two hectares of gardens into service to supply its COVID pandemic food bank and provided supplemental foods to some 60 needy families of mostly elderly people and single mothers. With the subsidence of that crisis, the center now focuses on expansion of rainwater harvesting systems to serve local villages, most of which already ration water while many have scarcely enough for cooking and drinking and none for livestock and gardens. Already showing impressive results, Tikkun’s water harvesting systems collected over a million liters during the 2021 monsoons.
Demonstrating the many dimensions of sustainable practices, in May 2022, Tikkun restored a community reservoir that once served four villages but no longer held water. With a replenishable water source, the project removed more than a thousand truckloads of rich soil from the reservoir basin and spread it on the fields of local farmers. Remaining soil will land on barren grounds for reforestation and a community park beside the reservoir.
Guided by Ptashnik and Collier, Tikkun is emerging as an inspiration for the people of San Miguel to become more resilient in meeting a future of ecological challenges.
An entrepreneur, human rights activist, philanthropist, and environmental leader, Ben-Zion Ptashnik retired as a state senator from Vermont in 2001 to pioneer solar and wind energy and mitigate the climate crisis in Mexico.
A writer, artist and grower, in the early 2000s, Victoria Collier co-founded and directed Tierra Lucero, a non-profit organization located on a permaculture demonstration site designed by Bill Mollison in Taos, New Mexico. She oversees the development of farm and community outreach programs at Tikkun Eco Center.
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Tom’s Coffee Hour Discussion, Tuesdays (9:30am)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/442374895?pwd=NHljVm1LbHQydVBIUUkyWkIybVNHUT09
Meeting ID: 442 374 895
Passcode: 724450
Tuesday Discussion Group - June 28, 2022 (11:00am)
The Tuesday Zoom discussion group is led by Lou Marines.
Topic: What 3 individuals, (alive or dead) would you want to meet?
If you could choose three separate people whom you'd like to individually meet, what would you ask them? What would you hope to learn and what would you share about yourself?
Thursday 30: Lunch and Games at La Frontera at 1pm. Rain or shine.
Friends, Family, and Neighbors are welcome to come.
Bring a game or play one that is provided.
For more information, contact Donna Shubrooks at donnashubrooks@gmail.com
Friday Buddhist Group, Sangha of the Heart (10:00am)
Regular participation is encouraged or drop-in when you want. Please email Joan at joanwolf@umich.edu if you would like to be added to the Sangha of the Heart email list and receive the Zoom link in a weekly reminder.
Upcoming Activities:
Men’s Saturday Breakfast at 9:30 on Saturday, July 2, at Cafe Amapola
(Calle del Dr. Ignacio Hernández Macías #117, Zona Centro.)
The cafe is at the curve leading from Zacateros, just above Codo. It will end no later than 11 a.m.
For information: epgoodwin@hotmail.com.
Circle Cena - Monday, Agust 1, 2022
In small groups in open space at private homes.
Reserve with Eleanor Goodwin.
Please provide proof of vaccinations to Diana Amaya, info.uufsma@gmail.com.
For information: epgoodwin@hotmail
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