Sunday, March 19, 2017

NewsTalk Topics for March 26

- Affordable Care Act v. American Health Care Act

- more on President Trump's budget blueprint for FY2018

- what's up with the President's revised "Muslim" travel ban?

- did the Obama Administration "wiretap" the Trump campaign?

- how are the Trump Administration and the media getting along?

- what's happening in the Florida legislature?

Karaoke Party, April 7




Join us for a Karaoke Party!
To benefit 1stUUPB

Come sing and dance and celebrate life!
If you can’t sing, you can listen and applaud!

Friday, April 7, 7 – 11pm
$25 per person, $40 per couple.

Refreshments and various appetizers served; B.Y.O.B.

In Ministers Hall, 635 Prosperity Farms Road, NPB
Pay in advance to the office, or online at http://1stuupb.org/karaoke-ticketing/

RSVP by April 5.

Over 26,000 songs to select from. Come unleash
 your inner rockstar, or croon a ballad, or twang
 a country song! Sing to the crowd, sing to your
sweetheart, or sing Joy to the World!!!

Friday, March 17, 2017

NEW MEMBER INFORMATION

First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Palm Beaches
635 Prosperity Farms Road, North Palm Beach, FL

We are a welcoming, liberal religious Congregation of diverse and freethinking individuals who seek truth, spiritual growth, and social justice in a loving community. As adults and children who learn, love, share and serve together, we welcome all into our family. Our mission is to transform lives through liberal religious community.

Committing to Membership: When you feel that you have made a connection and found a spiritual home here, we invite you to complete the final steps of our Path to Membership. This includes:
1) meeting with our minister,
2) completing and submitting this Desire to Join form,
3) making a financial pledge for the balance of our May 1-April 30 fiscal year, and
4) signing our Membership Book—which you may chose to do at one of our New Member Recognition Ceremonies held twice a year, usually in March and November.

DESIRE TO JOIN Today’s date ____/_____/_________
Finding myself in sympathy with the purposes of the First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Palm Beaches, I hereby affirm my desire to become a member and covenant to support it to the best of my abilities. I understand that if I do not pledge or pay towards a pledge for two fiscal years, in keeping with our 1stUUPB bylaws I will be removed from membership.
Signature(s)_______________________________________________________________

*Have you already made a Financial Pledge for this current fiscal year of 1stUUPB? Yes ____ No _____
If No, please complete and submit a Pledge Form for the rest of this current year.

Complete all information below and on the back that applies to you. This information will be entered into our Congregational directory and database, so please write clearly.

Your Name (as you wish it in the directory) __________________________________________________
Email _______________________Cell Phone _________________
Local Residence ____________________________________________________________________
Home phone? _______________

If you have another residence where you will be living part of the year, please list that here:
Secondary Address __________________________________________________________________
Home phone? ____________
When will you usually be living at this address?____________________________________________

Spouse/Partner’s Name (If applicable) __________________________________________________
Is your Spouse/Partner also desiring to join at this time? Yes ___ No ____

If Yes, also add this information: (Please indicate appropriate title.)
Spouse/Partner’s Email______________________________________
Cell Phone ________________

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*Have [either of] you ever been a member of 1stUUPB before: _____ If yes, approximate dates of your former membership: From ______ to ______.
Partner: From ______ to __________

*Do [both of] you currently belong to another UU congregation? ____ If so, what is the name and location of that church? _______________________________________________________________
Check your desire regarding that church and ours: Dual membership ____ Transfer membership ____
(OVER)

Children
If you have children who will be participating in our Child and/or Youth programs or other activities, please list their names, ages, and birth dates (Day/Mo/Yr).
1._______________________________________________________________________
2._______________________________________________________________________
3._______________________________________________________________________
4.______________________________________________________________________


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Membership in our Congregation brings the privileges of voting at official Congregational meetings and eligibility for elected leadership positions. It also entitles you to an annual subscription of the UU World, the quarterly magazine of our national association, the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA).

When you have completed this form, please submit it to a member of the Membership Committee or to our 1stUUPB office in the Emerson Building.

The First Unitarian Universalist Congregation will share none of your personal information recorded on this form with any organization except the UUA.

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New Member Recognition Ceremony, March 26

New Member Recognition Ceremony — Sunday, March 26, 2017

If you feel you have made a connection and found a spiritual home at 1stUUPB, we invite you take that next step and join us in membership.  During our Sunday worship service on March 26, we will be having a New Member Recognition ceremony, and — if you are ready— we invite you to participate.  

The final steps toward commitment on our Path to Membership include completing a Desire to Join information form, making a financial pledge and payment to the Congregation, and signing our membership book—which may be done during the recognition ceremony.  Rev. CJ would be glad to meet with you sometime to discuss any of this, if you’d like. 


If you are interested, please contact our Office Administrator Barbara Hatzfeld at (561) 627-6105, and she will have a member of our committee contact you. If you have not yet received a Path to Membership folder, you can pick one up in the Narthex before Sunday services from Janet Fryman.  We welcome you!

Thursday, March 16, 2017

Order of Service, March 19


At the sound of the chime, please join in singing Hymn #188 Come, Come, Whoever You Are

Welcome & Announcements

Prelude:  
                         
Opening Words

Lighting the Chalice Flame (in unison):
We light the chalice for the web of life which sustains us, for the sacred circle of life in which we have our being. For the Earth, the Sky. Above and Below, and for our Mother Earth, and for the Mystery.    by Paul Sprecher

*Hymn: #361 Enter, Rejoice, and Come In

Candles of Joy and Sorrow and Meditation  

Story for All Ages: The White Cat and the Monk   by Ellen Bogart      
           
Offertory:   Variations on a Canine Favorite
                   
Affirmation (in unison) Love is the spirit of this congregation and service is its law. This is our great covenant: to dwell together in peace, to seek the truth in love and to help one another.

*Hymn: #175   We Celebrate the Web of Life
                   
Sermon:    Blessing of the Animals
                     Claudia Jimenez

*Hymn: #402  From You I Receive
  (sing three times)

Extinguishing the Chalice Flame (in unison) We extinguish this flame, but not the light of truth, the warmth of community, or the fire of commitment. These we carry in our hearts until we are together again.

Closing Words

Postlude:   
 
Gratitude & Applause
*Please stand in body or spirit

Hearing devices, and envelopes for cash pledges are available on the hymnal cart or ask an usher.

This Week
Today: Nursery is open at 10:15am. EMA Grant Collection at 10:30am. Social Hour 11:30am in Ministers Hall.  “Our Whole Lives” meets at 12 Noon in the Channing Room.
Monday: Ministerial Intern Committee at 1pm in the Margaret Fuller Room.  SGM Meetings 2pm (S & CH). “Owning Your Religious Past” meets at 3pm in the Margaret Fuller Room. SGM Facilitators Meeting 4:30 pm in the Channing Room.
 Tuesday:  Administrator Vacation Day. Pastoral Care Team Training 4pm in the Margaret Fuller Room. Men’s Group Wisdom Circle at 7pm in the Channing Room.
Wednesday:   Art Studio 2pm in Ministers Hall.
Thursday: JAM Book Discussion 4pm in the Channing Room. Teaching Thursday Community Meal 6pm in Ministers Hall.  7pm Program: Andrew Kahn: ”Japan and China: Conflict in the East China Sea” in  Minsters Hall.
Friday: Art Studio 6pm in Ministers Hall.
Saturday: Palm Beach Pagans Ostara Ritual 2pm on the side lawn of the Sanctuary.
Sunday:  News Talk 9:15am in Ministers Hall  


Gratitude
Thank you to all who contribute to our service and fellowship hour each week. This week:
· Chalice Lighter:
· Ushers: Amy Stauber & Robin Phillips
· Cover Art: Larry Stauber
FFellowship Hour Hospitality: Susan Westbrook, Vangie & Henry Gruen

Our Staff
Rev. CJ McGregor, Minister
Claudia Jimenez, Intern Minister
Peilin Ko, Music Coordinator
Barbara Hatzfeld, Office Administrator

Willie Nelson, Sexton.


Connect With Us
Call our office: 561-627-6105
Call or text our minister: 508-736-3361
Email our office: uniuni2@att.net
Visit us on the Web: www.1stuupb.org
Visit and like us on Facebookwww.facebook.com/1stuupb
Visit and like our Justice Action Ministry Facebook pagewww.facebook.com/1stuupbjam
Want to join our programs and come to events? Visit our online calendar: http://bit.ly/sHI5IW
Read the 1stUUPB newsletter, the eBeacon at
http://1stuupbebeacon.blogspot.com.
Read sermons on our sermon blog Salt Air: http://uusaltair.blogspot.com
Read messages from our minister at


Announcements
·          Next Sunday: “Your Children are not Your Children” led by Rev. CJ McGregor.
·        Rev. CJ McGregor Office Hours: by appointment (Please call 561-627-6106 ahead) Tuesday- Thursday 9:30am-2pm.
·       Food Items collected during the offertory are donated to the Lake Park Food Pantry,
·       Shoes and Toiletry Articles collected are donated to the Haitian Community.

Sunday, March 12, 2017

Link to ACLU Resistance Training Video

See the video of The Resistance Training: An ACLU Town Hall Live in Miami, FL on the 1stUUPB JAM page at https://www.facebook.com/1stUUPBJAM/

NewsTalk Topics for March 19

- President Trump's war on the media

- did the CBO report sink the American Health Care Act?

- how did the Republicans handle the raising of the debt ceiling?

- did the executive order on immigration get stopped by the courts?

- is Trump's foreign policy beginning to resemble Obama's foreign policy?