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September 6, 2015 10:30am Guest Preacher Hollis Huston
Sin and Faith and Grace, Original and Up to the Minute Worship Associate Jim Hawkins
Ushers & Refreshments: Selina Benson Board Member on Duty: Paul Sherrock
September 13, 2015 10:30am Transition Minister Laurie Stuart
Water Ceremony (Intro to Metamorphosis) Worship Associate TBA
Celebrating with the Water Ceremony - Please bring a bit of water from your Summer for our Ceremony
Ocean Gallery Art Opening & Reception during coffee hour
Laurie Stuart, Transition Minister -- [email protected] Laurie will be in the office at various times throughout the month and works from home on other days. You can schedule an appointment with her by emailing [email protected]. She is available by phone at (845) 701-9127.
Harriet Arnold, Acting Religious Education Coordinator Ilene Corina, Acting Youth Coordinator
Rev. Will Feinberg, Affiliated Community Minister [email protected]
Coffee: Carrie Mason Draffen & Art Opening Reception Ushers: Doris Brass & Andrew Spatt Board Member on Duty: Selina Benson Greeter: Membership Team & You!
Coffee: Rosemary Olander Beach Ushers: Anne Fleming & Jayne Davison Board Member on Duty: Steve Lester Greeter: Membership Team & You!
Coffee: Volunteer Needed Ushers: Robin Norris & Andrew Spatt Board Member on Duty: Ken Bellafiore Greeter: Membership Team & You!
September 27, 2015 10:30am Transition Minister Laurie Stuart Metamorphosis for Adults (Can we really change?) Worship Associate Carrie Mason Draffen
September 20, 2015 10:30am Guest Preacher Hollis Huston
Counting Our Sins Worship Associate Anne Olsen “Yom Kippur” means literally a “Day of Atonement” for the days we have fallen short in the previous year. What does it mean to atone? And what does it accomplish?
Phone: (516) 623-1204 Web: www.SNUUC.org E-mail: [email protected]
President, Steve Lester Vice President, Ken Bellafiore Secretary, Selina Benson Treasurer, Ellen Zaehringer Gach Office Manager, Lisa Bryson-Brockmann [email protected] Office open each 3rd Monday & every Tuesday through Friday 9-1
SOUTH NASSAU UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION
Come to Our Annual Fall Kick-Off Pot Luck Dinner Saturday, September 12, 5 pm Join us at the Bagel Bash Monday, September 7, 11-3 at Patsy Kaplan’s (more info on pages 2 & 3 )
Beginning again
I'm excited to begin our second year of interim work and for the opportunity to build on the very good work that we did last year.
Organizationally, we will be turning our attention to mission, goals and policy and focusing on ways to connect and engage the whole community in sharing and embodying the mission of South Nassau UU Congregation. In the year ahead we'll be focused on connecting and creating vibrant community, within the congregation and beyond its walls.
And there is already good news to share.
Sign ups for committees are robust and all of the one- person committees of last year have at least three people on them, some many more. (And there is still room for you!)
We're excited with the hiring of Harriet Arnold who will serve as Acting RE Coordinator and of Ilene Corina who will serve as Acting Youth Coordinator. Harriet, a long time child educator, will concentrate on curriculum and inside programming, while Ilene, a nonprofit organizer, will focus on outreach to families and youth groups in the community.
Fostering the connectedness to the whole of the community, bridging what can sometimes be a divide between the congregation and the RE program, is an important next step for strengthening congregational life. One of the ways to accomplish this is through monthly themed programming.
The Rev. Scott Taylor, UUA Growth Specialist, is currently championing this “whole church” approach. He introduced the concept–that monthly themes can be used across all aspects of congregational life: in the worship calendar, as curriculum in RE, as the topic of focus for small group ministries–at last spring's Metro District’s spring District Assembly.
This was very exciting to me as I had been considering the fun that we might have in exploring an overarching theme of Metamorphosis in the year ahead. Bolstered by the news that the denomination is encouraging whole congregation themed programming, we have created a calendar of 10 monthly themes with plans to develop and explore them through art, worship, RE curriculum and small group ministry programming.
Our plan is to introduce the theme, have all of the groups explore it in age appropriate ways and through the lens of the small groups, and then to collaboratively create a “whole congregation celebration” at the end of the month.
The “whole congregation celebration” is a variation on multi-generational worship that I hope will spark the imagination and enthusiasm of the entire congregation. Through it, I believe we can create a highly participatory and creative worship experience for all ages.
Children and youth bring an important vibrant and immediate presence to the worship experience, and integrating that into the worship experience in a non-voyeuristic way (not putting the children and youth on parade or in performance) seems imperative to creating lifelong congregational members. I believe that by totally immersing and integrating the congregation around themes and participation, there could be less cycling out of youth from the RE program and the strengthening of our youth adult programming and participation.
It's going to be a great year ahead. And I invite you to spread the news. Invite others to join us in what will be an exciting exploration of metamorphosis, in our lives, in this congregation and in the community.
I'm excited to see you at the welcome back potluck on Saturday, September 12 and to introduce Metamorphosis at the Water Service on September 13.
Laurie Stuart, Transition Minister
The Nominating Committee is seeking
members, including a youth, interested in serving on the Board of Trustees as well as next year's Nominating Committee. If you would like to be considered or would like someone else to be considered, please speak to a committee member as soon as possible.
Thank you, Lorrie Bellafiore, Jim Crocetto, Jay Gach, Brian Larkin, Barbara Singer
The Labor Day Bagel Bash returns! Patsy Kaplan invites you to her Talent Auction offering Bagel Bash this Labor Day, Monday, September 7, 11 am - 3 pm at her home, 3688 Berne Rd, Wantagh. Come to this popular event marking the beginning of Fall; an all-congregation gathering where we catch up on Summer news before starting the new SNUUC congregation year. Enjoy bagels and spreads, coffee, tea and juice. Outdoor games are available. This event is rain or shine, Patsy has a lovely sun porch. Cost is $10 per adult with the money going to SNUUC. Kids accom-panied by a parent are free. There is a mandatory sign up. Email Mary Brower today to say you are attending; [email protected].
If possible, please bring a folding chair.
Your Board of Trustees has worked on two important areas for SNUUC this Summer – the Religious Education program and the ministerial search.
In planning for a revamped Religious Education program at SNUUC, a subcommittee of the Board and our Interim Transition Minister met with congregation members and interested individuals regarding their vision for SNUUC’s Religious Education Program. The subcommittee deliberated based on this input from the congregation, and prepared a newly-designed RE Program and job descriptions for the proposed staff, all of which were approved by the Board.
As a result of this work, the Board is pleased to announce that SNUUC has hired Harriet Arnold as our Acting Part-Time Religious Education Coordinator and Ilene Corina as our Acting Part-Time Youth Coordinator. The RE Coordinator will plan and coordinate SNUUC’s Religious Education Program with the minister, the RE Committee, and the Youth Coordinator. The RE Coordinator’s primary responsibilities will include (i) selecting, preparing for, and leading weekly RE activities for mixed-age classrooms; (ii) scheduling volunteer assistants from available parents and teens; (iii) coordinating and communicating with parents, kids, volunteers, part-time Youth Coordinator, and with the RE Committee; (iv) providing monthly updates to the Board of Trustees and contributing to a monthly newsletter column; (v) and assisting the minister with aspects of “whole congregation” worship.
The Acting Part-Time Youth Coordinator will plan and coordinate youth programs with the minister, RE Coordinator, RE Committee, and other SNUUC youth leaders. The Youth Coordinator’s primary responsibilities will include (i) developing and maintaining program activities to ensure that a well-balanced youth program that includes opportunities for worship, community building, social action, spiritual development, learning
about UU-ism and its history, leadership development, congregational involvement and district and regional participation; (ii) recruiting chaperones/volunteers; (iii) communicating with the RE Coordinator regarding schedules and events; (iv) assisting with social action activities including: Midnight Run, and others chosen by youth and RE department; and (v) assisting with Junior and Senior High led Sunday services.
The Board is exploring whether a Developmental Minister, as opposed to a Settled Minister, would be appropriate for SNUUC at this time. The Fall 2014 UU World stated that for “congregations with significant challenges and targeted goals, the UUA’s Developmental Ministry program offers a new approach. Launched in 2008 as an experiment at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder, Colorado, the program helps congregations set goals, then matches them with a minister whose skills can help them achieve them…. [I]t differs from interim ministry in its longer time frame and in its focus on specific serious challenges.” http://www.uuworld.org/articles/stub-297112. For the UU Church of Boulder, Colorado’s experience with the Developmental Ministry program, see http://www.uuworld.org/articles/breakthrough-boulder. I emphasize at this point that the Board is just exploring this option with the UUA’s Transitions Office. SNUUC’s membership approved the Board’s nomination of the members of the Settled Part-Time Ministerial Search Committee at the May 2015 congregational meeting. Any proposed change in searching for a Developmental Minister instead of a Settled Minister will be brought before SNUUC’s membership for discussion, debate and a vote at a duly called congregational meeting. We will keep everyone informed as the Board investigates whether SNUUC would be well-served by a Developmental Minister.
In service, Steve Lester, President Board of Trustees
Welcome Back Potluck The best way to greet the new congregational year is by attending the Welcome Back Potluck on Saturday, September 12! This potluck traditionally kicks off our congregational year on the Saturday before the first Sunday service. It's a great way to reconnect with old friends and meet new friends.
Please bring food enough for at least 8. If your name begins with: *A - H - bring a Main Course *I - O bring a Dessert *P - Z bring a Salad or Vegetable.
The potluck, which is organized by the Membership Committee, begins at 5 pm; anyone who is available to help set up is asked to arrive at 4:15 pm. We need helpers for cleanup, too. Please email [email protected] if you are available to help!
See you there! Membership Committee (Bill Bryson-Brockmann, Julie Buckley, Rosemary Olander-Beach, Eric Shefferman)
Best wishes to Ken Lawson who celebrates his 90th birthday on September 7!
Hearty congratulations to Barbara Singer who is retiring on October 4 after 22 years of serving the UU Congregation at Shelter Rock as the Religious Education Program Assistant. Barbara's looking forward to spending more time with her grandchildren as well as her SNUUC family.
An Evening With Jeffrey Wands - An Avon Walk for Breast Cancer Fundraiser. UUFSB member Wendy
Engelhardt is participating in her 6th 2 Day/39 Mile Avon Walk for Breast Cancer in NYC this October. Her fundraisers this year include an Evening with Psychic Medium Jeffrey Wands. A percentage of the night’s proceeds will be going to benefit cancer patients who can't finance their medical treatments. The event is Saturday, September 26 - 7 to 9 pm at the UU Fellowship at Stony Brook. Click on wendysavonwalk-fundraiser.brownpapertickets.com for all the information, purchase, print and bring your tickets to this incredible event. This is the ONLY way to purchase tickets, they cannot be purchased at the door. Please come join us for a night of fun, intrigue and fundraising!
Caring for the Dying and the People Who Love Them, a workshop sponsored by the Stony Brook Fellowship and Metro NY District. In this workshop you will learn about the dying process, and the wide range of feelings experienced when people grieve. You will practice listening and gain practical skills for responding. You will identify ways to manage your own feelings and take care of yourself. This workshop is for congregational Pastoral Care teams and anyone who wants to care for people who are dying and those who love them.
It will be led by the Reverend Dr. Linda Anderson, Linda is a UU minister whose community ministry is Bereavement Services. She has been a hospital chaplain and an educator of chaplains with Catholic Health Services of LI and prior to that she served the UU Congregation of the Catskills in Kingston NY for eighteen years. She is on the Board of the UU Trauma Response Ministry.
Saturday October 3, 9:30 am- 3 pm at the Stony Brook UU Fellowship. The $40 per person registration fee covers the workshop and breakfast/lunch. Bring a team of 4 from your congregation and pay for 3 and get the 4th free (a 25% discount). Register online at www.uumetrony.org/events, or call 631 751-0297.
5th Sunday Giving For months where there are five Sundays, members of the congregation can recommend a not for profit charity to receive the collection plate. Contact Mary Brower of the 5th Sunday Committee for an application. Someone will need to give a brief description of the charity to the congregation during the service.
The 5th Sunday Giving Committee is looking for a few new members. Low commitment! We solicit and decide on charity submissions to donate the collection plate to in months where there are five Sundays. Contact Mary Brower, 516 532-2554.
SNUUC Committees meet regularly and welcome attendance at their meetings even if you are not a member of the committee. Speak with a Board member if you would like to learn more about serving.
The Board will meet on Wednesday, September 9 at 7:30 pm in the foyer.
The Membership Committee. Watch the Wednesday email for the date and time of the next meeting.
The Thrift Shop Committee will meet in September. Please speak with Joe McAuley or Doris Brass to find out more about this important committee.
The RE Committee. Speak with Harriet Arnold or Ilene Corina for the next meeting date and time.
The Environment Committee invites people interested in environmental issues and taking action to join us. Contact Mary Brower, 516 532-2554.
Caring for Members The Membership
Committee has formed a Caring Team to provide support and pastoral care to members. If
you or a member you know needs compassionate help during a time of stress or would like to share during a time of celebration, please email [email protected]; kindly email items to be shared from pulpit by noon Saturday for the following Sunday. If you would like to join the team, please email [email protected].
Our UU Community
Comedy for a Cause! Patient Safety isn’t Funny, but laughter
is still the best medicine! Come to a fundraiser for PULSE of
NY on Sunday, September 27, 7:30 pm at the Brokerage Comedy Club in Bellmore. This fundraiser will help PULSE continue patient safety education and advocacy services in our community. Speak with Ilene Corina (you must purchase tickets in advance) or Click here to buy tickets!
Come and See. The Meditation Group (a/k/a the South Shore Sangha) resumes it Saturday morning practice on September
12, at 9 am in the Religious Education wing. Beginners and those wishing to keep their "beginner's mind" are welcome as we commence a new year.
“Fall” into Gentle Yoga. As Fall approaches, are you thinking about stretching,
strengthening, and maybe balancing yourself and your spirit? Please join us in the SNUUC foyer on Monday mornings (9:00-10:15 am) for our next 6-week class series starting on September 14. The fee for the 6-week session is $75, payable at the first class. Also, if you are new to yoga or new to the area and would like to try a single class, you can do so at the one time drop-in rate of $12.50. Our classes are taught by Linda Cucurullo, a loving and licensed yoga instructor. Pre-registration is requested so please contact Anne Fleming ([email protected] or 516 623 8258) to sign up.
SNUUC’s drumming ministry, the DrUUmatics, practices Thursdays at 6:30 pm in the RE wing. You can
check on their website www.druumatics.org for info about where they are playing or find the DrUUmatics page on Facebook. Speak with Sharon Nanos or Laura D’Angelo.
Pilates classes at SNUUC take place on
Mondays at 5pm and Wednesdays at 6pm in the foyer. Only $12 per class - no
contracts to sign, no commitment, just come and stretch! Questions? Please contact Leslie Farrington.
Spontaneity, Creativity, Fun! Improv
classes continue at SNUUC on Sundays, 2-4pm in the foyer. No prior experience is required. Beginners are welcome. A series costs $80 for returning students, $100 for new students. For more information, please contact Michael Rock, [email protected]
Painting Your Way Out of a Corner: The Art of Getting Unstuck. For the past year,
several members of SNUUC and friends have been painting regularly together under the guidance of Barbara Barry. This time together is spent playing, discovering, unblocking, laughing and sharing newly tapped energies. Most of all, it’s FUN! Come discover what it’s all about! No art experience necessary. Our next 5-week series begins soon. Join us on Tuesday afternoons from 2:00-3:30 pm in the RE wing, September 22 thru October 20. Or on Thursday evenings from 6:30-8:00 pm in the SNUUC foyer, October 15 thru November 12. If we have peaked your interest, please contact Anne Olsen at [email protected] to register. Please bring checks or cash to cover the series costs to our first class session: $135 ($125 to Barbara Barry, $10 to SNUUC), and materials cost: + $35 for Painting Journal Kit.
Sign Up for Coffee Hour!
The coffee hour ministry gives members and visitors an opportunity for fellowship after worship! The Membership Committee is using VolunteerSpot, an online tool, to organize sign-ups this year. The beauty of VolunteerSpot is that no user name or password is needed. If you have provided your email address to SNUUC, you should have gotten an email with "Coffee Hour" in the subject line inviting you to sign up. Click on the link in the email, then click through the calendar months to choose a date. Just click on a date to sign up for it; if you're co-hosting, you can add other names or ask co-hosts to sign in with their email address. Please speak to Rosemary Olander-Beach if you have questions or are unable to use VolunteerSpot; a sign-up clipboard will also be available on the Welcome Table.
For several years, we at the SNUUC have been engaged in workshops which are aimed at fostering healthy communication between partners, at work, in the family, and in any interpersonal relationship that develops. Our 13-week workshop series in Compassionate Communication works with the text Nonviolent Communication – A Language of Life, 2nd ed, by Marshall Rosenberg, PhD. and related interactive exercises to strengthen the principles of nonviolence–the natural state of compassion when no violence is present in the heart.
Arun Gandhi (grandson of Mahatma Gandhi) said that “Nonviolence means allowing the positive within you to emerge.” Building on this concept, the Compassionate Communication practice group has become a vital small group ministry at SNUUC, open to all adults and youth (11th grade and up). Participants have reflected on the depth of connections made within the group as well as the potential for transformation in all their relationships as they learn to communicate compassionately and clearly with new skills and empathy.
Our next 13-session series begin on Saturday, September 19 from 9:45 to 11:45 am for 13 Saturday
mornings. Pre-registration is requested and attendance at the first six sessions (fundamental track) is required of “newbies.” If you plan on attending the class series, or know someone who is interested in joining us, please contact Anne Olsen ([email protected]) or Barbara Singer ([email protected]).
Compassionate Communication
Our Affiliated Community Minister
The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. — Socrates
Welcome to a wonderful new year celebrating a metamorphosis in the look and feel of our Religious Education program. Both Ilene Corina and I are thrilled to take the reins of a program that has raised many cherished children into productive, participating Unitarian Universalists.
As many of you know, Ilene will be our Youth Coordinator and I will take on the role of Religious Education Coordinator. We are also welcoming many new members to the Religious Education Committee. And, there will be lots of places and spaces for everyone to volunteer to help make our children’s spiritual and religious education a vital, vibrant part of SNUUC.
We have been busily preparing The Brantley/Hagen Wing for an exciting new year. We have been scrubbing and cleaning and rearranging our physical space to better reflect its primary use as a meeting place for the entire congregation and a comfy, cozy spot for our youth and children. We have also made some changes in the way we will integrate our students into worship in the sanctuary.
We’re excited to be an integral part of whole congregational programming that will connect the RE curriculum with the topics explored in the Sanctuary and once a month (usually the last week of the month), we’ll all be together in the Sanctuary for a Whole Congregation Celebration of the month’s theme.
Every other Sunday of the month, we will begin RE in our classrooms. There, we will meet as a full group to light our chalice, share our UU principles, sing a hymn and make an offering to a cause the children will choose. We will then break into one of three age appropriate groups to learn about our lives as spiritual beings and the way in which our friends and neighbors exercise their faith.
Look for our announcements in the Open Line and please do let us know what talents and gifts you wish to share with the children and youth.
Harriet Arnold, Religious Education Coordinator
I feel very thankful that at the last session of the Board in June 2015, the Board voted to continue SNUUC’s affiliation with me. This affiliation enables me to help the congregation move forward with your Board’s aspiration for a growing ministry in pastoral care. And having SNUUC give me spiritual support helps me in my full-time work in the community as a hospice chaplain with Hospice Care Network.
This Summer has been a challenging one for me as I have become emotionally close with a 14-year-old patient who lives with a tumor behind her eye. It has been emotionally challenging for me to care for her and her parents while I also take care of my own grief. Grief comes with living because loss and death come with living. Rather than denying it, I find ways to allow the grief to arise and subside within me. I neither push grief away nor do I hold on to it. Everything I experience in this work is a teaching and a deepening practice of living compassionately in the world.
So this congregation has an aspiration to grow pastoral care ministry. As of now, we have four members of the congregation – Doris Brass, Jean Smyth-Crocetto, Paul Sherrock, and Mary Brower – who want to be part of this ministry. This is awesome! The time commitment that each person can contribute will vary so do not let that prevent you from joining in. Contact me if you want to be part of this new ministry at SNUUC.
Building upon the two programs that I offered to the congregation last year, I am encouraging attendance at two programs outside the walls of the congregation. One program will be at Stony Brook UU Fellowship on Saturday, October 3. Look for details about this program called, “Taking Care of the Dying and Those that Love Them,” on page 4 in this newsletter. Attendees will need to register beforehand.
The other training will take place this autumn at Hospice Care Network, Woodbury, to become a hospice volunteer. A hospice volunteer receives comprehensive training and brings her or his gifts out in to the community to share with others. We already have one SNUUC mem-ber committed to taking training at Hospice. Yay, Jean! Let's get the word out in the congregation for at least one other person who would want to grow as a volunteer in end-of-life care.
A 45-minute planning meeting at SNUUC can be on either September 13 at 12 pm or Sept 20 at 12 pm. Please contact me by e-mail or phone to let me know you would like to attend, I will contact you when we have a firm date. I look forward to working with pastoral care partners in ministry.
Blessings, Rev Will Feinberg Affiliated Community Minister and Pastoral Care
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The mission of the South Nassau Unitarian Universalist Congregation is to provide a sanctuary
of beauty and harmony where: We search in freedom for meaning and truth; we draw inspiration
from many religious and philosophical sources while acknowledging the Judeo-Christian heritage of
Unitarian Universalism; we embrace diversity and welcome people of all ages, races, and
orientations; we affirm that our children and youth are an integral and important part of our religious
family; we strive toward a social awareness that leads to transformative action in our community
and to living in balance with the environment. Ours is a nurturing congregation where children and
adults find acceptance and fellowship, feel empowered and grow spiritually.
SNUUC South Nassau
Unitarian Universalist Congregation
228 South Ocean Avenue
Freeport, NY 11520
Join us at the Bagel Bash Monday, Sept. 7, 11-3 at Patsy Kaplan’s (more info on pages 2 & 3 )
Come to Our Annual Fall Kick-Off Pot Luck Dinner Saturday, September 12, 5 pm
Water Ceremony (Intro to Metamorphosis) Sunday, September 13, 10:30 am
Ocean Gallery Art Opening & Reception during coffee hour
