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Thank you to Carolyn Ludwig for washing the kitchen cabinets at the Building & Grounds workday Saturday, November 11th. The next Building & Grounds Cleanup Day is Saturday, December 9th from 10 am-1 pm. Projects include gluing McCollester Hall floor tiles, painting ceiling tiles, and changing light bulbs. Please ask Earl Harvey or Dan Kosmowski for more information.
Please make a note that the building close time on Sunday's is now 3 pm. If an event is planned to go past 3 pm, the end time must be noted on the Church Calendar via the Office Administrator.
I have two Entertainment books for sale at $20 each. If later you decide to get one it will take 7-10 days to receive after the order is put in. The church makes $4 on the sale of each book. Some stores sell the book but it is $25.
I ordered two tickets to the Christmas Carole at the Bonstelle and saved $14 - two tickets for the price of one. We went to the Sierra Station Restaurant and saved $8. My niece got four hotel rooms in Ft. Lauderdale at a discount bigger than AAA or ARRP offers with the card. You will get your money back in no time if you use it.
I will not be here for Noel Night or the night before but if someone would like to sell Christmas things for your church group or for the church budget see Margaret Beck at coffee hour. Your help will be greatly appreciated. It is reusing and recycling and helping to save the earth. People are also getting fantastic bargains.
Margaret Beck.
Here's the UU Alphabet that the choir sang on November 12. A good time was had by all. By the way, the choir rehearses every Sunday morning at 9:30 am, except the 3rd Sunday of the month. All are welcome; experience is good, but not necessary. Hope to see you there! Gwen Foss, 248-473-4566, gwenfoss@netrek.net.
The UU Alphabet - tune of Jamaican Alphabet by Chris Cameron, lyrics by Gwen Foss, 1991 dedicated in solemn corniness to the Rev. Joan Kahn-Schneider
Joan, she ax me to sing a song
I sing it right though you think it wrong
It's all about sensuous UU’s
And some of the reasons they have been in the newsA for Abigail, a first lady
B for Bartok, who's from Hungary
C for Cher and her tasteful look
And D is for Darwin, took a trip, wrote a bookE for Emerson, a poet fine
F for Fannie who made sweets divine
G for Greeley, don't you ask me what
And H is for Helen Caldicott, pretty hotI for Ingersoll, the atheist
J for Jefferson and independence
K is Kurt Vonnegut, who's weird at that
And L for Lincoln and his tall silk hatM for Malvina, singing activist
N for Newton, first physicist
O for Owen D. Young, who's that?
And P is for Priestley, oxygen, where it's atQ is Quimada in the Philippines
R is Rod Serling you see on teevee
S for Schweitzer, who worked in Gabon
And T is for Thoreau, yes, he lived on a pondU is my letter, spell it with a U
V is Vaughan Williams, who wrote music, too
Double-U is just another way
To spell the theme of my song todayDouble-U also for Wedgwood stuff
X for the cross, of which we've had enough
Y for Junior Whitney M. Young
And Z is for zowie, which you'll say when I'm doneNow I'm finish with my short, sweet song
I know you're dying to sing along
But don't be sad, now don't you start to mourn
Just remember, it isn't maize, only cornO-o-o-oh, it's the UU Alphabet!
The First UU Choir welcomes and invites all interested musicians to share the
joy of music making. No audition is required. The Choir generally rehearses
on the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th Sunday mornings 9:30 – 10:30 am. For more
information please contact Gwen Foss, Choir Director at gwenfoss@netrek.net.
Save the date Sunday, December 17, 2006, after church in McCollester Hall for an important Congregational Meeting to vote on the revision of our Church's Constitution and By-laws.
Copies of the proposed revised documents were available for pick-up at church on Nov.19. They are being emailed to everyone who has given us an email address and mailed first class to the rest of you.
Various revisions and changes were made in response to congregational meetings and written and verbal input collected on this topic. We did have a straw vote on the major changes recommended a few weeks ago and the majority of those present were in agreement with those changes.
If you have any questions, please feel free to call any member of the Constitution/By-laws Committee to discuss your concerns.
It is imperative that we have a quorum to vote on Sunday, December 17, 2006, so we can now move on with the other serious business of getting our church on a viable footing.
Sally Borden 313-533-1494
Earl Harvey 313-563-2629
Mary Lou Malone 313-837-7952
Jon and I had a wonderful trip to Baton Rouge for his Navy ships annual reunion. From there we headed for Tucson and had a great time visiting the Dickasons and other friends in Tucson. We spent a couple of weeks in California and a few days in Oklahoma before heading back to Detroit. Thank you to Dan Wiest for taking over the Newsletter in our absence, he did a great job. ~Irene
For a Youth Choir Performance
When: December 17th, 2006, the 3rd Sunday
in December
Rehearsal and Performance all in one day.
Qualifications: Be a youth and like to sing
Todd Ballou, our illustrious Music Director, has graciously offered to try something
new and direct a youth performance of a Christmas song during the last half
of the service on December 17th. Youths who wish to participate will be asked
to arrive 10:30 on the 17th (a half hour early). Todd will have a choice of
several well-known Christmas songs available and he and the youths will pick
a song, rehearse it from 10:30 to 11:30, then come down to the Sanctuary to
perform the song for the Congregation. Please feel free to invite your children,
grandchildren, nieces, nephews, friends, neighbors, and any other youths who
would enjoy singing to participate in this event. If enough youths are available
to perform on December 24th, there may even be an encore presentation during
Christmas Eve services.
Please notify Todd Ballou, Athena Kolbe (Interim DRE), or Margaret Wilkie (RE
Chair) if you know of any youths who interested in participating. You can also
email REat1stUU@aol.com.
Attack of the Pod People!
(The Importance of the U.U. Principles)
Starring: The 1st UU Church Youths (Also, Various and Sundry Adults - to be recruited from the Congregation)
This dramatic interpretation of the Seven
Unitarian Universalist Principles is being produced by the 1st UU Youths and
the Religious Education Department. Filming will occur each Sunday during and
after services. If you know of any youths who enjoy filmmaking or drama, please
encourage them to join us in this artistic endeavor. If you have any questions
or are interested in participating, please contact DRE Athena Kolbe at REat1stUU@aol.com
or any RE Committee member.
Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit Conference
bioneers@sustainabledetroit.org
www.sustainabledetroit.org/bioneers
313-843-0802
November 18, 2006
Dear Friends at UU Church,
I am writing to thank you for your support and wonderful cooperation so that
our Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit conference could manage to serve the organic
lunches on Saturday and Sunday. I know that you gave us a 50% discount on the
actual cost of the rental and other services connected with the use of the church.
Freedom House, a not-for-profit organization assisted us as fiduciary, so all
donations are tax deductible.
Please extend our gratitude to your entire congregation for their support and
generous spirit and wish them a peace-filled Thanksgiving and holiday season.
Gratefully,
Gloria Rivera, IHM
GLBD Coordinator
The Settled Minister Search Committee will be meeting with Heartland Interim District Representative, Rev. Lisa Presley, at the beginning of December to go over the next steps in the search process. The information packet will be finalized around that time, too. Then we’ll start exchanging packets with potential candidates. We appreciate the congregation’s support and look forward to the future.
The Ministerial Search Committee,
Dr. James A. Robinson, Chair
Dr. Ivan Cotman
Sharlene Gage
Marilyn Mitchell
Kathe Stevens
Some of you may have been wondering about the results of a survey we did a few Sundays ago. Here is a sampling of some of the responses given to the question – What do you want from this church? Many responses were similar or complementary.
We also now have a list of some of your interests and talents that we’ll share in upcoming Newsletters.
Please note the date change for the December Women’s Alliance. The luncheon and meeting will take place on the second Wednesday, December 13th at noon.
Our December dialogue will take place on Sunday, December 17th at 2:00 P.M. All are welcome.
Please join us on this festive occasion and while you’re enjoying the beautiful decorations and wonderful music, not to mention the vendors in McCollester Hall, and all the activities in the Sanctuary, spend a little time greeting people, monitoring the cider and cookies – hey – you could even bring some cookies, that would be a real treat. If you know some family-friendly holiday stories or would like to lead a sing-along in Memorial Hall, that would be splendid. There will be a decorate – the – church pizza party on December 1st in the evening. Check with Dan Wiest for the details on that and how you can help on Noel Night. If you have vendor questions Irene will be happy to come up with an answer for you.
9. Bob Neale, Joe Samples
11. Marilyn Mitchell
17. Ken Meyer
20. Mike Simowski
21. Lee Thume, Gail Twitty
23. Ardith Dickason, Geraldine Gunter
26. Charlotte Allen
28. Dorothy Allen
29. Jerry Gochnour
30. Adelia Minor
