Order of Service, May 21, 2017

Welcome and Announcements

Prelude:

Opening Words: by Frances Cobbe

Lighting the Chalice Flame (in unison):
We gather this hour as people of faith with love and sorrows, gifts and needs. We light this beacon of hope, sign of our quest for truth and meaning, in celebration of the life we share together.       C. Robinson

Hymn: #95 There Is More Love Somewhere

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.

Meditation/Silent Time  

Reading: Towel Day, by D. Adams

Doxology (in unison):
From all that dwell below the skies
Let songs of hope and faith arise;
Let peace, goodwill on earth be sung
Through every land by every tongue.

Offertory 

Sermon: Fake News, Real Religion
Chris Juhl

*Hymn: #318 We Would Be One 

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

-- Life of the Congregation, after the service --

This Week
Today: Nursery is open at 10:15am; JAM Grant Collection during the service. Social Hour 11:30am in Ministers Hall.
Monday: P.E.A.C.E. celebration 6:45pm WPB
Wednesday: Art Studio 2pm in Ministers Hall.
Friday: Art Studio 6pm in Ministers Hall.
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:

Guest speaker: Chris Juhl
Music: 
Chalice lighter: 
Ushers: Nickie Albert and Vangie Gruen
Cover art: Larry Stauber
Fellowship hour hospitality:  Kathe Bannigan and Ben Juhl

And to our permanent staff:
Barbara Hatzfeld, office administrator
Willie Nelson, sexton.

Announcements
Next Sunday: “Spirituality and the Beatles” by Elaine Silver.
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.

On Saturday, June 3rd the Justice Action Ministry will show and discuss the film AGAINST ALL ODDS: THE FIGHT FOR A BLACK MIDDLE CLASS. Gathering will begin at 12:30pm in Ministers Hall. The program will begin at 1pm. The film probes the harsh and often brutal discrimination that has made it extremely difficult for African-Americans to establish a middle class standard of living, 

Grant Committee Report, Fiscal 2016-17

Your 1stUUPB Grant Committee has some good news to share.

You have generously donated the grand total of $5,042 in 2016-17 to the Grant Program, an outreach project of the 1stUUPB Justice Action Ministry.

Your Grant Committee, Jan Morris, Bob Shipley, Barbara Woodward, Barbara Moszynski, and I, met to review the grant requests submitted before the March 31st deadline on April 7th, 2017. We elected to give $450 to 11 local charities that are improving the lives of local folks in need.

The list of charities is:

Child Protection Team of Palm Beach CountyClub 100 Charities IncDePorres Place Adult Literacy CenterFeeding FrenzyHope 4 Mobility Inc.Mothers Against Murderers IncPEACEPrisoner Art ProjectSt. Georges Center Inc.United Community OptionsVita Nova Thrift Store

The checks and charity notifications will be going out this week via 1stUUPB administration.

Thank you all for your care and concern for those who suffer and need our help in our local community. Your Grant Committee looks forward to bountiful gifts to our program for the 2017-18 fiscal year.

If you would like to submit a grant request for the 2017-18 fiscal year it should be done on the Grant Application Form, which will soon be added to the church website and submitted to 1stUUPB administration between Jan 2, 2018 and March 20, 2018. Please note, the deadline cannot be extended.

Brian Johnson - Acting Chair - Grant Committee - 1stUUPB.

NewsTalk, Sundays 9:15am

Rising Together, May 20

Join us in Celebrating the Rising Together: West Palm Beach 2017 Project!

West Palm Beach Library, 411 Clematis St.,

 West Palm Beach, FL 33401 (561-868-7700)

2pm – 4:45pm, Saturday May 20, 2017

You are cordially invited to attend a presentation on the findings of the Rising Together Project to build coastal resilience, a project of Unitarian Universalist Justice Florida conducted by First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Palm Beaches (1stUUPB) in partnership with Mothers Against Murderers Association (MAMA). The Rising Together Project is a public health initiative to inform residents about how to stay safe and healthy as the climate changes. Members of MAMA were trained to survey their neighbors about their perceptions and concerns about sea level rise, and to educate them about strategies to protect themselves from the health effects of extreme weather and climate hazards.  Survey participants received a laminated fact sheet on how to stay safe and healthy during extreme weather events such as heat waves and storm surges. 

This project supports the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Action Plan by providing outreach to residents on the importance of addressing climate change adaptation and preparedness.

The response in West Palm Beach was outstanding.  We hope you will join us in learning more about the positive work MAMA does in the community, and acknowledging and celebrating the work of Angela Williams and members of MAMA to increase climate resilience.  We’re establishing communication channels between community leadership and municipal officials, which should aid in solving neighborhood problems arising from contaminated water, mosquitoes, or other health effects of climate change and extreme weather.

We look forward to seeing you at 2pm Saturday May 20^th at the West Palm Beach Library), 1 Clematis St., West Palm Beach, FL 33401.  RSVP to Jan Booher at 561-531-0986

Jan Booher, MS Director, UU Justice Florida                          Ramsay Laing, Congregational Climate Leader 1^stUUPB 

Angela Williams, President, MAMA

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