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Standing on the Side of Love – Compassionate Immigration Reform |
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Friday, 26 April 2013 20:17 |
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In March, the UUA's Standing on the Side of Love hosted a webinar to ask members of individual churches to urge their respective members of Congress to support compassionate immigration reform. Community Church Unitarian Universalist members were well prepared to do so as members Shirley Peak and Suzy Mague had led a well-attended, six-week adult education group on "Immigration as a Moral Issue" in Autumn 2012. As an outgrowth of that study, the group members identified the humanitarian issues about which we most strongly wanted to advocate and developed positions that we felt were both humanitarian and politically pragmatic. After meeting and exchanging drafts of the petition by many emails, the petition was vetted, completed and offered after Sunday services for signatures of the group members and other supporters. (We executed the petition as individual voters, not as a statement of the position of our congregation, which has not taken a formal vote on this matter.)
On April 2, our minister, Jim VanderWeele, and members Shirley Peak and Community Ministry Chair Liz Trotter joined with other clergy and organizations in support of Congreso (Congress of Day Laborers) at their press conference in front of the federal building and courthouse in downtown New Orleans, and were able to present the petition to an aide of Senator Mary Landrieu. (See a fraction of the "Standing on the Side of Love" t-shirt in the photo? That's Jim.) The event was covered by several local television stations.
Members of our group will meet in person with an aide to our local Louisiana Congressman Cedric Richmond to present the petition.
Copies of the Petition were mailed to Senator David Vitter and all other U.S. Representatives from Louisiana.
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Wednesday, 24 April 2013 00:00 |
May 19, "How Do You Value Your Imagination?" In this message we will consider how your views on your imagination have been shaped. Are you free to think freely? Do you allow yourself to imagine more, much more, than you see around you today?
May 26, "Expanding an Imaginative Spirit" Let us journey together toward a refurbished Garden of Eden, seeing a renewed life, with expanded freedoms, a diversity of choices, and a society where we do unto others as we would have them do unto us.
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Friday, 08 February 2013 20:02 |
 
Nine CCUUvolunteers went into Sort and Salvage mode at Second Harvest Food Bank on February 2, 2013.
 
Three hours passed very quickly as we got used to the whirring conveyor belts sending donated food of all kinds our way for us to sort and box at a quick pace. We moved boxes of food items to pallets where, within a few days, they will be shipped to some of the over 200 agencies in New Orleans and Acadiana served by Second Harvest. Lively music, conversation, and the company of many high schoolers doing their service hours kept our volunteers hopping and having a good time. Participating in this event were: Laura Carman, Allen Carman, Carol Chapman, Bill Fernandez, Collette Ricaud, Lisa Kamuf, Rob Bredberg, Ruben Tikidji-Haburyan and Liz Trotter.
CCUU plans to schedule another Second Harvest Volunteer Day in Autumn 2013.
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Are you a Unitarian Universalist in your 20s or 30s? |
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Wednesday, 27 June 2012 19:40 |
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Do you live in the Greater New Orleans (GNO) area?
The GNOUU 20s/30s will gather on the 1st & 3rd Mondays of the month at 7:45 PM, beginning July 2nd. [The July 2nd gathering will take place at the New Orleans Healing Center in the Interfaith Space on the fourth floor (take the elevator to access) (corner of St. Claude & St. Roch).]
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We summon ourselves from the demands and delights of the daily round:
from the dirty dishes and unwaxed floors;
from unmowed grass, and untrimmed bushes;
from all incompletenesses and not-yet-startednesses;
from the unholy and the unresolved.
We summon ourselves to attend to our vision:
of peace and justice;
of cleanliness and health;
of delight and devotion;
of the lovely and the holy;
of who we are and what we can do.
(Words by: Gordon B. McKeeman)
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Come, let us gather together...
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