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EDUCATION AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS UUnique Series speakers will continue February 14 after the Sunday service with Patty Walsh sharing her insights and learnings over the years. A light lunch will be served. Please plan to join us that Sunday! Eric Tschuy will speak in March. Thursday Brown Bag-it Join David Maynard for a brown bag lunch on the first Thursday each month. The next dates are: February 4 (with Patti Pomerantz) March 4 at 12 Noon in the Thatcher Room. We’ll provide hot water and coffee. We talk about politics, peace, people or poetry or what moves us. All are welcome. Book Discussion Group – Continues on February 18 (3rd Thursdays) at 6 pm in the Thatcher Room. Contact Tom Ten Eyck for information or check the weekly e-News and our web site. Candlelight and Conversations – You are invited to attend a Candlelight and Conversation evening, where in a small group setting we share our faith journeys from childhood on. These are opportunities for conversations hosted by David Maynard. The next one scheduled is February 14th. @ 7 pm in the chapel. Orientation to Eastrose Fellowship - After the service on February 28 Rev. Stevens will share her insights and experience of Eastrose Fellowship and Unitarian Universalism. Meet in the back of the chapel after getting a cup of coffee or tea. Spectrum! March Film Fest - A new committee called Spectrum! will be Eastrose's LGBTQ (Lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer) group for friends, family and the LGBTQ members to discuss, inform and provide outreach to the membership and community. The Social Committee has asked Spectrum! to come up with four different movies to be played Sunday afternoons in March. Titles will be selected soon. We will invite other churches and community members to come and learn about LGBTQ people and have a discussion after each movie. It will allow people to have a deeper appreciation for their fellow friends. Being a new committee there are a lot of things to discuss. Interested folks are invited to develop a purpose for the group and ways that to involve our fellow members and the community in the LGBTQ community. The next meeting is after church on February 7. We need YOUR help to vote for the four movies shown in March. We'll have a final discussion at the February 7th meeting. It's important that we make our decision as soon as possible, to allow the Social Concerns Committee to help promote this event. Contact Bob or Ben Kincaid for more information about Spectrum! MORE NEWS Christmas Eve and Guest at Your Table - Over $410 was donated by our congregation to the UUSC and to SnowCap from the Guest-At-Your Table boxes and the cash donations on Christmas Eve. Thank you from the Social Concerns Committee for your generosity. Sharing the Bounty, February, 2010: The Social Concerns Committee reaches out on behalf of Eastrose Fellowship into the community and the larger world. The February Sharing the Bounty will be for The Wallace Medical Concern of Gresham to support their work to support persons in need. In December Sharing the Bounty for Interfaith Power and Light of EMO brought in $219.05. Thank you, all! Art on Display - The Eastrose Art Gallery in our lobby is featuring decorated tiles, plates, and similar ceramic shapes by local artist Sheri Medford. They are for sale with a portion benefitting Eastrose. Planned Parenthood Celebration - Reverend Maynard invites all of you to the Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette headquarters dedication on Sunday afternoon February 14 from 2 – 4 p.m. The address is 3727 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard just north of Fremont. It will be a grand celebration with lots of protestors outside, too. Children's Choir Growing as Public Schools contract! A group of ten to thirteen young girls and boys are singing and studying music severy Monday afternoon at Eastrose under the dynamic tutelage of Amanda Baker. They learnhow to read, write and appreciate music and about a wide range of instruments. Monthly they perform during a Sunday service and three times a year they offer a special concert after church. We welcome young people ages 7 – 12 or so – please talk with Amanda if you would like your child to sing. LAST MONTH'S NEWS Generosity and Eastrose for 2010 We are a generous congregation! The proposed 2010 budget is based on over $10,000 in increased or new pledges – an amazing feat during these struggling times. At the budget meeting in December the Board recommended and the congregation agreed to work steadily toward increasing our minister's time to three-quarters with a combination of add-on gifts and special fund raising. If you can help, contact our Treasurer Kathie Loveall or the Generosity Committee Chair Larry Adams. Sharing the Bounty, January, 2010: The Social Concerns Committee reaches out on behalf of Eastrose Fellowship into the community and the larger world. The January Sharing the Bounty will be for SnowCap to support their work to support persons in need. In November Sharing the Bounty for Dancing Roots Farm Scholarship brought in $513.37. Thank you, all! Bon Appetite! Art Gallery Volunteer Managers needed to schedule and help organize the art displays in our lobby. Contact the office or see David Maynard if you would like to help. We have one offer to do this from a fairly new Eastrose person and would like to form a team of two or three for the job. New Unitarian Universalist Class – for recent and want-to-learn-more Eastrose people ednesday nights, January 20 and 27 at 7 p.m. Reverend Barbara Stevens and David Maynard will offer a New “UU” class. We will talk about the beliefs, history, ceremonies and practices of Unitarian Universalists over the last 460 years. All are welcome – we will offer child care if you contact us in advance. You will get the most if you can attend both nights. Orientation to Eastrose Fellowship After the service on January 24 and February 28 Rev. Stevens will share her insights and experience of Eastrose Fellowship and Unitarian Universalism. Meet in the back of the chapel after getting a cup of coffee or tea. Art and Spirit Workshop January 23, 2010, Saturday, 10am – 2 pm Leaders: Lynne Pfeiffer and Carol Knox Donation requested 8 people may sign up. A small group will meet at Eastrose, choose images, listen to music, and make collages during a quiet, meditative afternoon. We will concentrate on our current mind states or spiritual paths, finding some new insights through the art of collage. Bring your scissors, glue sticks, and lunch. We will supply paper, images, and coffee/tea. |