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Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Lafayette December 6, 2023

Our theme for December is Wintering



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This Sunday’s theme is ADVENT

This Sunday’s sermon is The Spirit of Advent - Rev. Cathy Harrington - Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo

Advent: Hebrew scholar, Walter Bruggemann explains the Advent season as “an abrupt disruption in our 'ordinary time'. Everything begins again…" With ancient pagan roots, Advent is a time of hope, peace, light, and love. John Dominic Crossan urges us to take the message of Advent and Christmas seriously without taking the stories literally. He wrote,” Taking the message of Christmas seriously, invites us to become the manger that gives birth to hope and love.”



ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Please join us on Saturday, December 9, from 10 am -12 pm, as we winterize the fellowship building and clean up our flower beds. Also, we hope you’ll join us for lunch, as we plan to eat together afterwards, either eating at our fellowship building or going out. RSVP to uulala_newsletter@brucesnow.us

ALERT! Rain is in the forecast. If it is raining on Saturday, we will postpone until Saturday, December 16.

EVENTS CALENDAR

December is National Human Rights Month and Spiritual Literacy Month

December    9    UU Clean -Up Day

December 10    Service Sermon: The Spirit of Advent and Pot Luck 

December 12    Community Organizing Meeting for Healing & Justice, 6 pm - 8 pm, Downtown Convention Center, 124 S. Buchanan St.

December 17    Service: Winter Solstice  

December 21    Winter Solstice

December 21    National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day, 6:30 pm,
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st United Methodist parking lot, 703 Lee St.

December 24    Service  

December 25    Christmas

December 26    Kwanzaa 

December 31    Service  





The INN MINISTRY – “Emergency Bags”



In preparation for the coming cold weather, The Inn Ministry is planning on preparing “emergency bags”. If there is a hard freeze, Catholic Charities will provide shelter for the homeless for a certain number of days – but shelter only. The emergency bags would contain foods that are easily prepared or heated in a microwave, or eaten without cooking. Cloth bags are good, because whatever is left over when they are evicted can be hauled away in the bags.

The bags might include:

2 sleeves of crackers and the following: a jar of peanut butter; pull-top edibles such as tuna, spam, Vienna sausage, beans

Pull-top fruit cups and cereal; pop-tarts, granola or protein bars

Shelf-stable milk (the milk can be found at $ Tree)

There is not much equipment in a room. So, a bag might include a microwavable bowl and plate and a few plastic forks, spoons, knives. If those are included, then ramen noodles, pull-top beans and veggies, chili, ravioli (these are things they often ask for); quick-cooking or instant rice, grits, oatmeal; soups.

If a can opener is included, then the above need not be pull-top, thus increasing variety, decreasing costs.

Condiments: salt, pepper, mayo & mustard packets; sugar packets

In the spirit of community, why not invite friends and family over for an Emergency Bag creating Get-together.