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Newsletter: June 28, 2022
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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...
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Volunteer Opportunity! Join our
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UUFSMA has just established a Personnel Committee and we’re looking for a couple of volunteers!
Here’s your opportunity to get to know our wonderful staff better, help develop human resources policies and procedures, and to make sure we’re in compliance with Mexican Labor laws.
Do you have a background in HR? Do you like to work with people? Interested in making a difference? If you can answer “yes” to any of these, you just might be our person...
Please call Christie McGue at (231) 342-6960 or email clmcgue@gmail.com.
We hope to make a difference and have a good time doing it.
Please consider joining our team!
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Zoom Hosting - To continue our Zoom broadcast of Sunday Services, we are looking for several more volunteers who are available for 1 Sunday every few months. We can train anyone who has basic computer skills, and this task can be done from anywhere in the world. This requires reliable internet access and a laptop or desktop computer.
Contact: Dan Neuspiel: dneuspiel@gmail.com
Finance Committee - If you have a background and/or interest in accounting, finance, investments, banking, or a hankering to talk about money policies, please consider joining the Finance Committee that meets quarterly to make financial recommendations to the Board of Directors.
Contact: Margo Johnson: uufsma.president@gmail.com
Social Action Committee - Our Social Action Committee, which works all year to vet and monitor our Fellowship’s grantees, has a couple of vacancies available for dynamic members who like to be close to the action! We only meet once a month, typically via Zoom, and we share what each of us has learned about the nonprofits we steward. Each of us on the team feels personally enriched by the relationships we have developed with our grantees, which are prominent nonprofits that have proven themselves capable of serving those most in need. We are honored to support the wonderful things they do.
Contact: Diana Amaya: info.uufsma@gmail.com
Personnel Committee - Here’s your opportunity to get to know our wonderful staff better, help develop human resources policies and procedures, and to make sure we’re in compliance with Mexican Labor laws. Do you have a background in HR? Do you like to work with people? Interested in making a difference? If you can answer “yes” to any of these, you just might be our person. We hope to make a difference and have a good time doing it... Please consider joining our team!
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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 will be 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: Lunch and Games at La Frontera. Rain or shine. June 30, 2022 (1:00pm)
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.com
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