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Speaker Bio: Karen Christiansen
Karen’s immediate family includes her husband Ken, two sons and 4 grandchildren. After retiring from 30 years of teaching, Karen attended Meadville Lombard seminary in Chicago. One highlight of that experience was being on the board of the Hyde Park transitional housing project. This was an interfaith effort of neighborhood churches to house homeless families and mentor…
2020 Congregational Meeting, December 13, 12:30p.m.
Mark your calendar for the Annual Congregational Meeting, scheduled for December 13 at 12:30 p.m. The meeting agenda includes review and approval of the proposed 2021 UUCJ budget and voting on a slate of new directors for the UUCJ Board of Directors. You can find the meeting agenda, board…
Chocolate Sales for Our Global Partners
UUSC (Unitarian Universalist Service Committee) campaign continues with chocolate sales ($10 for 50 pieces). If you would like to be a devoted member supporting our global efforts, you can also send a $40 check to UUCJ, with UUSC on the memo line. $150 donation will be matched by the Shelter Rock Congregation in NY. Contact Cyd for sales: cydreider@aol.com or text…
Arlington Community Services Update
We’re on Track to Exceed 4000 pounds. Keep it Up! Thanks to everyone making cash donations directly to ACS UUCJ/ACS Teamsters delivered 46 pounds on Monday. Mary Louise Weber, Executive Director, ACS, indicated that they fed 119 folks and helped six families with rent/JEA this month. Thank you for your donations, support, and prayers during these uncertain times. …
Caring Candles
Long time UUCJ member, Evelyn Sherwood, died at the age of 91 in the morning of November 19 at the Community Hospice McGraw Center for Caring. Cards may be sent to Evelyn’s daughter, Elizabeth Saunders, at 3332 America Avenue, Jacksonville Beach, Florida. 32250. A memorial service will be held at a later date. Our condolences go out to Elizabeth and all of…
Happy Birthday!
Next week we celebrate the birthdays of Mary Wood on 11/22, Mary Kramek on 11/24, and Jeanne Huebner on 11/25. Please give them a call or send a card to let them know they are special. To get your birthdate added to our database, please email Barbara Robinson at bjr2447@gmail.com.
Chocolate Sales for Our Global Partners
The first $200 batch of chocolate went well, so here’s another opportunity to support our Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. $10 bag = 50 dark chocolate minis; grown by small farmers of the Equal Exchange. Cyd Reider will deliver it to you in the next few weeks. Contact Cyd at cydreider@aol.com or text me at (484) 769-3194
Caring Candles
Mary Claire Van der Horst is now in the Palm Garden Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Room R108A, 5725 Spring Park Road, Jacksonville, FL 32216. She would greatly appreciate cards and notes. Regine and Herbert Conradi, Berlin, Germany, send their regards to their UUCJ friends. They are well and looking forward to returning to Jacksonville.
Wish the World a Happy New Year
For the final service of this year on December 27 our musicians will have a special program. We’d like at the very end to feature a screen of as many members of our congregation as possible to have their pictures featured with best wishes from all of us. If you have a video with you waving, that would be super. Your cell phone will do the job. Or if not, just…
Letter from The Minister
My favorite nineteenth century Unitarian minister is James Freeman Clarke who served the Church of the Disciples in Boston for nearly 40 years. He is responsible for inaugurating a great number of the features of our contemporary congregational life. One aspect of his religious vision escaped him during his lifetime—extensive, systematic, and effective cooperation among…