Dear friends,
(March 23, 2008)
For those of you who were at the service this morning and
have been concerned about Peg Nelson, she's now at home recuperating.
At the end of the service, Peg became very faint and said she
was having chest pains.
We called 9-1-1,
and the ambulance came right away.
They
took Peg to the hospital and fortunately determined she had an angina attack
rather than a heart attack.
Thank you to everyone who helped out.
The "Easter Bunny" carried on so the children
were not traumatized by the ambulance and medical personnel and even got to hunt
for Easter eggs.
You all are an amazing group of people - a true family - and
I'm grateful to you all.
Arline
April Birthdays
5 – Betty Sandel
7 – Bob Webb
12 – Andrew Emlen
15 – Eldred Gilpin
18 – Frank Logan
Calendar for April 2008
April
6 – “A Welcoming Heart for the Sojourners”
– Rev. George Hemingway.
The
Reverend Canon Hemmingway is an
Episcopal Priest with vast experience in the natural and social sciences, as
well as religious leadership.
Some
of his current responsibilities:
-
Interim Pastor, San Miguel-St. Michael, Newberg, OR, 2001
–present
-
Advisor to the Bishop of Oregon for Cong. Dev. and Hispanic Ministry, 2001 –
present
-
Diocesan Missioner, Diocese of Oregon, 2004 – present
April 13 – “Children as Spiritual Guides: Catching
it from our Kids” -
Lynne Bacon.
Second Sunday Potluck &
Board Meeting following the service.
It’s also the culmination of our pledge drive, and we’ll be serving ice
cream and toppings to celebrate.
April 20 –
“Earth Seder” –
Rev. Patti Pomerantz returns to the
pulpit for the sixth in her series of “Living Our Values”.
This week the Jewish celebration of Passover
and the post-modern celebration of Earth Day converge!
What can they teach us when we look at them
together?
What can it teach us about
living our values in a multicultural paradigm?
Let us make meaning with a little taste of past combined with
future.
Patti has served as Interim
Minister for the UU Church of the Palouse in Moscow, ID and the UU Community
Church in Hillsboro, OR.
April 27 – “Welcoming
the Atheist Within” – Rev. Heather
Starr asks, “What does it mean to be a religious community that welcomes
“non-believers”?
How do we give voice to
the doubter and questioning soul inside each of us—within a community of
faith?”
Rev. Heather
Starr is the Minister of the UU Fellowship of Central Oregon, a native
Oregonian and a life-long UU, and thinks that if there is a God, he or she is
probably somewhere between the surf and the sand along our precious Oregon
coast.
Letter to our fellowship
from Cheyanne
Hudson:
Thank you so much for the food and gifts this Christmas.
Without your help, my daughters would have had very few
presents to open! Now they can have a bunch.
I hope I can teach my daughters the importance of helping
those in need because without people like you, this world would not be as
bright!
Thank you again. Cheyanne Hudson
News of UUs…
The Florence Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, PO Box 2502,
Florence, OR 97439 celebrated the dedication of their new home- the Florence UU
Fellowship Hall, 87738 Highway 101, Florence, OR 97439 (corner of Hwy 1018,
Hecata Beach Rd) January 20, 2008
UU travels
Five Alaskan UU Fellowships invite you to experience our
eco-cultural program this July, our 12
th year. See real Alaska, with
UU home stays in Anchorage, Fairbanks, Seward, Juneau and Sitka. UU’s host
events and lead tours. We visit Tlingit and Inupiat Native Alaskans, see lots of
wildlife like bears, moose, caribou, whales, sea otters and bald eagles. We
visit Denali and other National Parks. David Frey, a 27-year Alaska resident,
leads the programs. Visit our www.wuurld.org website, email waltonfrey@gci.net
or phone 907-322-4966 for a brochure.
Also:
Do you dream of inexpensive vacation travel to interesting
destinations where you can stay in the homes of friendly people who share your
ideals and are happy to provide directions and advice for the area?
The UU bed and breakfast directory
UU’re Home (formerly Homecomings) can
fulfill your dream. For 28 years, we’ve provided a network of hosts in the US
(and a few abroad) who enjoy meeting new friends and are happy to open their
homes to like minded people.
You can also become a host and be listed in the directory.
Contact us at info@uurehome.com or at 828-281-3253 and we’ll gladly send you
information about listing your accommodations.
www.uurehome.com
UU’re Home, 43 Vermont Court, Ashville, NC 28806
Programs at The Mountain
The Mountain is a retreat center surrounded by the Nantahala
National Forest, our home is Little Scaly Mountain - four miles southwest of
Highlands, North Carolina.
(www.mountaincenters.org).
From
their diverse calendar of events, they have three programs that may be of
particular interest to you:
Religious Educators
Week
July 6-11, 2008.
An inspiring week of training and much needed respite for
religious educators, teachers and committee members.
The Ministry with Youth Renaissance Module
will be offered, plus a concurrent program for seasoned religious educators
focusing on pastoral care, conflict transformation and healthy
communication.
In the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains near Highlands, North
Carolina, the Mountain Retreat and Learning Center is a spiritual setting in
which the values of Unitarian Universalism are lived.
The all-inclusive cost for meals, lodging and
programming is $530.00 for Adults and $230.00 for Youth.
www.mountaincenters.org/2008_REWeek
School for Congregational Leadership
July 20-26, 2008
With over 25 years of excellence in preparing laity for
leadership roles in UU congregations, the qualified and dedicated faculty of The
Mountain School for Congregational Leadership provides opportunities to explore
leadership styles, gain interpersonal and organizational skills, deepen
spiritual life and network with people from Unitarian Universalist
congregations.
Taking place in the magnificent spiritual setting of The
Mountain Retreat and Learning Center near Highlands North Carolina, the
all-inclusive cost for lodging, meals and programming is $750.00.
For information on the full program and application process,
see
www.mountaincenters.org/leadership.html
Peace and
Privilege:
Linking Values and
Action
August 1-6, 2008
Facilitators Dr. Ken Nafziger, Professor of Music at Eastern
Mennonite University, Rev. Marti Keller, Assistant Minister at The Unitarian
Universalist Congregation of Atlanta, and Rev. Glenn Johnson, Administrator for
Thomas Jefferson District of the Unitarian Universalist Association will share
perspectives on peace, justice, privilege and power, and how each works to
transform personal privilege into action for change.
Music, conversation and programming as well as time for
personal reflection and renewal all take place in the awe inspiring setting of
The Mountain Retreat and Learning Center, near Highlands, North Carolina.
The $525.00 cost includes lodging, meals and
programming.
www.mountaincenters.org/peaceworks.html
On behalf of future generations,
Christy Kelly
Director of Marketing and Development
The Mountain Retreat and Learning Centers,
Inc.
P O Box 1299
Highlands, NC 28741
(828) 526-5838 ext 230
WHUU WE ARE: NUU UU’s
UU Bio: Benjamin
Sandel
Benjamin Sandel was born and raised in Michigan.
He grew up in the small country town of
Whitehall, Michigan on Lake Michigan.
He
spent his senior year of high school as an exchange student in a city on the
outskirts of Hamburg, Germany.
Upon
returning home he attended Michigan State University and graduated with a
bachelors’ degree in Telecommunications.
During his time at MSU he was a founding officer of the student pagan
network “
Green
Spiral”.
After graduation he was offered a job with a large
corporation managing global computer systems and later left to help develop an
Internet startup.
Just before the
Internet market crash, he left his job and traveled, working small jobs for
seven years.
He traveled around Europe and New Zealand and ending up in
China running a business school and teaching.
In China he married Betty and they had their daughter, Alice.
In his final year in China he graduated from
Rutgers’ international executive MBA program in Beijing.
Ben and his family spent their first year in
the US in his home town in Michigan and recently made the decision to come to
Astoria where his younger brother and his wife live.
UU Bio: Betty
Sandel
Betty Sandel’s Chinese name is 輟
穔 (Jin
Miao).
Her family name is first as it
traditional in China and her given name means ocean.
Her parents, grandparents and aunts and
uncles all worked for the railway department in China and she attended the
railway polytechnic school in Jinan, China.
She was the first female chairperson of the school’s student
union.
She worked as a tour guide during
her school breaks.
Along with her other
duties her last year of school she studied and worked at a local Canadian
business school where she met her husband Ben.
After graduation she decided not to take her railway job
waiting for her.
After that she and Ben
were married in a traditional ceremony in a park, making national news and the
front page of all the local newspapers. One year after that she moved with her
husband to Beijing and gave birth to Alice.
After a year and a half she moved with her new family to
other side of the world, USA!
She spent
a year getting to know her husband’s home town in Michigan and now happily
resides in Astoria with Ben and Alice.
UU Bio: Emily Lynn
Fenwick
Emily was born in California in 1985, but was raised in
Manhattan, Kansas until the age of 18.
She attended Knox College in Illnois where she received a Bachelors
Degree in Environmental Studies and Environmental Economics, while playing
softball and basketball.
While in school, she did research in the Caribbean on
Fisheries Management and traveled to El Salvador to research the Christian
Rightist groups affects on poverty.
After graduating, she took at job with the School for Field Studies in
Yungaburra, Australia and worked on rainforest restoration efforts while
teaching college students Environmental Policy.
After completing her time in Australia, she moved to Astoria to take a
rest from her environmental side for a year and is now working as an AmeriCorps
Member for the City of Astoria Parks Department.
Upon completion of her service here, she hopes to get
accepted to Green Corps and receive Environmental Organization Training next
year.