Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Briarcliff, Croton, and Ossining

Our guest speaker, Ned Wight, will be presenting “The Spiritual Discipline of Giving Money Away” on Sunday, February 5 at the (only) 11 a.m. service. In August 2006, the Rev. Ned Wight moved from San Diego, where he had completed 13 years as minister of a new UU congregation, to Long Island, where he began his current tenure as Executive Director of the UU Veatch Program at Shelter Rock. Rev. Ned will share insights about his transition from parish ministry to leadership of a unique grant making program, as well as his observations about the challenges-intellectual, emotional and spiritual-of giving money away.

Kathy Williams will be performing the Special Music.

Please join the Fellowship this Sunday, February 5, in welcoming Rev. Ned Wight.

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at the 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. services. 

Turner Ensemble performing at the 9 a.m. service.

This entry was posted on Sunday, January 29th, 2012 at 8:12 pm and is filed under Sunday Services. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

Only one service at 11 a.m. followed by 12:00 noon luncheon and workshop facilitated by Jacqui Williams and Donna Dolham from the UUA Transitions office from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Signup sheets are available at Sunday coffee hours.Spirits in Harmony performing at 11 a.m.

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at the 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. services.
Tina Mayer performing at 9 a.m., with Phil Hess performing at 11 a.m.

Sienna Project presentation:
During the month of January,SAC will “split the plate” with the Sienna Project,an organization originally suggested by Ginny Stillman. The Sienna Project envisions building schools in the small indigenous mountain villages of the Highlands of Guatemala, where there may not be enough classrooms or no classrooms at all. The national government pays teacher salaries, but does not provide funds for school buildings. In many indigenous villages children may never go to school.

This project is intended as a living memorial to Sienna Lavanhar, the daughter of the Reverend Marlin and Anitra Lavanhar who died suddenly and unexpectedly three days after her third birthday. The project was initiated by her grandfather, Marlin Lavanhar and uncle,Derek Lavanhar, who have established non profit organizations (NGOs)in both the US and Guatemala to make it happen.

Marlin Lavanhar and his wife Caroline, are seeking volunteers to help build schools in Guatemala through the Sienna Project which UUFBCO has been supporting for several years now through 2nd collections. This year, the trip is scheduled for February 25 through March 3. Marlin will be speaking at the January 15 Sunday Service and will be presenting a slide show from past Sienna Project projects, providing informational brochures and telling you about this year’s trip. Ginny Stillman and Jane Hackenburg have both volunteered in years past and can talk more with anyone who is interested.

Read more about this project at http://www.siennaproject.com

This entry was posted on Sunday, January 15th, 2012 at 8:00 pm and is filed under Sunday Services. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

at the 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. services.

Fellowship Choir at 9 a.m., with Keith Harris performing at 11 a.m.

Mid-Year Business Meeting at 12:30 p.m.

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Only one service at 11 a.m.

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December Sunday ‘Split the Plate’ will Benefit the Cortlandt Emergency Food Bank.

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Christmas Eve Multigenerational Service at 4:00 p.m.

Spirits in Harmony/Fellowship Choir: Breath of Heaven

This entry was posted on Saturday, December 24th, 2011 at 11:13 pm and is filed under Sunday Services. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

Multi-Generational Service at 11 a.m. Spirits and Harmony performing.

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Kathy Williams performing at 9 a.m. Fellowship Choir performing at 11 a.m.

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Only ONE SERVICE at 11:00 a.m. - multigenerational.

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Erika Schenker performing at 9 a.m. Fellowship Choir performing at 11 a.m.

Fall 2011 Chalice Lighters Call

A representative from the UU Congregation of Somerset Hills in Somerville, NJ will visit our fellowship this Sunday. We will be having a 2nd collection at both services that day to benefit this congregation in their pursuit toward being fully inclusive and accessible to all. In an effort to fully welcome members, friends, staff and visitors, the UU Congregation of Somerset Hills has begun a project to bring the building they purchased in 2010 into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Handicap accessibility by 2014 is crucial to their commitment to inclusivity. In fact, they have vowed not to dedicate their building until it is renovated to become accessible to all who seek to enter their doors.

Please be as generous as possible with your donations to this very deserving fellow congregation. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Thank you, Anne Pearl, Chalice Lighters Coordinator

This entry was posted on Sunday, November 20th, 2011 at 8:04 am and is filed under Sunday Services. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

Betsy Turner and ensemble performing at 9 a.m. Phil Hess performing at 11 a.m.

This entry was posted on Sunday, November 13th, 2011 at 8:03 am and is filed under Sunday Services. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

Greg Kullberg performing at 9 a.m. Spirits in Harmony performing at 11 a.m.

November Second Collection to Benefit FINCA.

SAC will sponsor a Second Collection during the month of November to benefit FINCA. FINCA provides financial services to the world’s lowest-income entrepreneurs so they can create jobs, build assets and improve their standard of living. They are an anti-poverty organization whose work is aimed at creating employment, raising family incomes, and reducing poverty worldwide.

They offer small loans and other products to those often turned down by traditional banks, believing that even the poor have a right to financial services. With these loans, families can invest in, and build, their own small businesses and their income-earning capacity. Worldwide, their clients postrepayment rates over 97 percent.

FINCA pioneered the “Village Banking method” of credit delivery, now used by hundreds of organizations worldwide. Their programs reach the poor in more diverse countries than any other microcredit provider. FINCA operates Village Banking programs in 21 countries of Africa, Eurasia, the Greater Middle East and Latin America, serving more than 800,000 people- 70% women.

They’re not a typical charity. They offer loans, not gifts, and promote financial independence, both among clients and in programs. Not a nonprofit, they operate using sound business principles and an entrepreneurial spirit.

Their work enables poor families to create their own solutions to poverty. Village Banking methodology promotes community and individual development, helping lift entire communities out of poverty. FINCA brochures and newsletters will be available during the month of November.

For more information, please go to the website <www.finca.org>.

This entry was posted on Sunday, November 6th, 2011 at 8:03 am and is filed under Sunday Services. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

October 30 is UN Sunday with Guest Speaker Helena Gronberg from GNWP (Global Network of Women Peacebuilders).

There is only one service at 11:00 a.m.

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 On Sunday, October 23, our Interim Minister, Orlanda Brugnola, will be presenting Poetry and Cosmology at the 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. services.

Keith Harris, our Music Director, will be performing at the 9 a.m. service.

Our Fellowship Choir will be performing at the 11 a.m. service.

There will be a second collection to benefit the Food Bank of Westchester.

On October 23, SAC will sponsor a Second Collection to benefit the Food Bank for
Westchester. The mission of the Food Bank for Westchester is to lead, engage and educate
Westchester County in creating a hunger-free environment.  The Food Bank for Westchester was
incorporated in 1988 as a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization under the name
“Food-People Allied To Combat Hunger, Inc.” — Food PATCH — to respond to the
growing needs of hungry people locally. Their name changed in April 2007 to the
Food Bank for Westchester.  The Food Bank for Westchester is the backbone of the county’s emergency food distribution network.  They solicit, acquire, warehouse and distribute food to 227 frontline hunger-relief programs throughout the county that include food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters and residential programs. They provide over 95% of all food distributed by these programs, helping to feed some or all of the estimated 200,000 Westchester children, seniors and their families who are hungry or at risk of hunger. They deliver 10 to 12 tons of food a day and more than seven million pounds of food each year.   To date they have distributed over 75 million pounds of food to hungry Westchester residents.  

For more information, please check out their website 
<www.foodbankforwestchester.org/>  
                         

This entry was posted on Sunday, October 23rd, 2011 at 11:56 am and is filed under Sunday Services. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

Only one service at 11:00 a.m.

The Truth about Hunger in Westchester

200,000 people in Westchester are hungry or at risk of hunger.  The hungry in Westchester include children, families, seniors, the working poor, the underemployed, the unemployed, the infirm, the disabled and the homeless.  Half need regular food assistance while the rest need food sporadically.  Many at-risk households have at least one adult working full time but earning barely enough to reliably keep food on the table.  Then an unexpected setback- a job loss, medical problem, car repair- forces them to seek food assistance. This could happen to anyone!

The Food Bank for Westchester fights hunger by collecting, warehousing and distributing food to member agencies who in turn give it to clients in their area as cooked meals or groceries to take home. 

On SAC Sunday, October 2, Katy Flint Coppinger, Senior Director of Development for Food Bank for Westchester, will speak to the fellowship about “leading the charge to end hunger” -hunger that effects our friends, neighbors and local community members.

Please bring non-perishable food items to the fellowship on Sunday-our youth will be collecting your donations!

Catherine Marsh, Bearni Croft and Bob Hudson will be coordinating Sunday’s service.

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at the 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. services.

This entry was posted on Sunday, September 25th, 2011 at 5:47 pm and is filed under Sunday Services. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.