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HOT TOPIC: FENCE AT THE TOP

HOT TOPICS
 Presented by
Advocates for Social Justice

FENCE AT THE TOP

Fence at the Top is a mentoring program in Sonoma County providing youth with vital life skills that will foster the greatest success possible for them.  The program provides on and off campus mentoring sessions, sports and health programs, field trips, motivational speakers, tutoring, employment searches and community support.  These elements provide guidance to youth and encourages them to focus on their grades, what is possible and experience a taste of success.  Youth who are given opportunities and tools can become productive citizens. 

The Executive Director of the program is Honor Jackson, a former NFL football player for the New England Patriots and the New York Giants, and he will be present on the 10th to discuss the program in detail.
Please join us in the board room after the 11 am service.
                                                                                                                

MILESTONES

One Service at 10:00AM
Service Leaders: Rev. Chris Bell, Sharon McCarty, Deb Mason
Music by: Susan Panttaja & the UUsual Suspects, Roger Corman
Share the Basket: Breakfast for our Neighbors
We consider the big events of 2017, and take time for private reflection on our own personal milestones. We also look ahead to the year 2018. What milestones do we hope to celebrate one year from now? How will our faith lead us there?

JOY TO THE WORLD – Christmas Eve Evening Service

Service at 6:00 pm
Service Leaders: Rev. Chris Bell, Joe Gabaeff, Deb Mason
Music by: Sadie Sonntag & The Choir, Roger
Corman Share the Basket: Minister’s Discretionary FundA joyful celebration of the great healer and teacher, Jesus, and the true spirit of the Holiday season, replete with carols and candles. In the midst of the madness, come savor a moment of true stillness, and fill your soul with hope. All are warmly welcome – invite a friend!

ON WAITING – Christmas Eve Morning Service

One MORNING Service at 10:00AM
Service Leaders: Susan Panttaja, Rev. Chris Bell, Deb Mason
Music by: The UUsual Suspects, Roger Corman
Share the Basket: Minister’s Discretionary Fund
As the year winds down and winter sets in, we find ourselves waiting and hoping – for the return of light, for birth or rebirth, for peace, healing and rebuilding. Today we gather for contemplation, prayer, and song. We acknowledge the necessity of waiting. We dream of what is yet to come.

WINTER SOLSTICE CELEBRATION

Potluck dinner at 5:30 pm Service at 6:00 pm
Service Leaders: Rev. Chris Bell, Aphrodite Bellochio, CUUPS
Music by: The UUsual Suspects
Now darkness triumphs, and yet soon gives way and changes into light. Our UU Solstice celebration draws from a variety of sacred traditions. Familyfriendly! Please bring drums! The Solstice service will be preceded by a big potluck supper.

HOPE & HEALTH

Service Leaders: Rev. Chris Bell, Veronica Jordan, Deb Mason
Music by: Robert Howseman & the UUsual Suspects, Roger Corman
Share the Basket: The Living Room
The power of hope in facing medical challenges is well-established, but not without limits. After all, every life comes to an end, no matter how much care we receive. We must always have hope, though that hope must be realistic. Veronica Jordan, our worship associate, shares experiences as a doctor.

The making of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power


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The Making of  Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power

Robyn Kopp, Associate Producer of An inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, will speak at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation on December 3, at 12:45 in room 545. The presentation is sponsored by the Advocates for Social Justice.

 Robyn found her way into film through her passion for social justice. Her first film, Audrie and Daisy about sexual harassment was purchased by Netflix; her second film, Liverly chronicles the unraveling of a woman’s world after the death of her son.  Robyn will describe her journey into film, the making of An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power and her next venture in filming the plight of homelessness in America.

 

FREE A4SJ FILM: LIVING DOWNSTREAM


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NOVEMBER FILM:
LIVING DOWNSTREAM:  An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment

A thought provoking documentary springing from the book by poet, biologist and cancer survivor Dr. Sandra Steingraber.  This is at once an intensely personal account and a well-documented scientific documentary about the carcinogenic effects of environmental degradation. Following her mentor, Rachel Carson, Dr. Steingraber has become a well-known researcher and activist addressing the cancer epidemics of our time.

Her inspiration comes from a fable about a village on a river: 
       The residents who live there, according to this parable, began noticing
        increasing  numbers of drowning people caught in the river’s swift current
        and so went to work  inventing ever more elaborate technologies to resuscitate them.
        So preoccupied were these heroic villagers with rescue and treatment that they never 
        thought to look upstream to see who was pushing the victims in.
This 2010 documentary is a walk up that river

The Social Justice Film Project is offering this as the third film in our series: Environmental Justice/Climate Change.  This was the topic which was chosen by our members in the survey we took before our summer break. Please join us for what promises to continue to be a very rich series.

Discussion follows viewing of the film.  Feel free to bring a bag lunch.  We will offer a snack, not lunch.


 

 

 

 

 

HOT TOPIC: MEDICARE CHANGES AND CHOICES FOR 2018

HOT TOPICS

Presented by
ADVOCATES FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE UUCSR

Are you wondering if you are enrolled in the best options for your
Medicare plan and/or medicare advantage, or supplemental plans?   

Advocates for Social Justices Hot Topic this Sunday 11/12 is about
Medicare Changes and Choices for 2018.  We are currently in the open
enrollment period when we can make changes to our plans just in the next
few weeks.  Our Speaker is Alan Piombo, an HICAP counselor at Senior
Advocacy Services  in Petaluma.  HICAP is a Medicare Health Insurance
Counseling and Advocacy Program providing free, unbiased advocacy as
well as community Education. 

Please Join us in the board room after the 11 am service and bring your
questions!! 

 

 

THE HOPE OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

Service Leaders: Rev. Chris Bell, Cathy Read, Deb Mason
Music by: Sadie Sonntag & The Choir, The UUsual Suspects, Roger Corman
Share the Basket: The Living Room

Today we will celebrate Deborah Mason’s 10 years of service as the Director of Religious Education at UUCSR, and prepare to bid her farewell in January. We will also look enthusiastically to the future of our Religious Education programs. The children sing at the early service.