At All-Virtual GA, Unitarian Universalists Center Love and Pledge Bold Social and Climate Justice Action
We Are Unitarian Universalists
We are brave, curious, and compassionate thinkers and doers. We are diverse in faith, ethnicity, history and spirituality, but aligned in our desire to make a difference for the good. We have a track record of standing on the side of love, justice, and peace.
We have radical roots and a history as self-motivated spiritual people: we think for ourselves and recognize that life experience influences our beliefs more than anything.
We need not think alike to love alike. We are people of many beliefs and backgrounds: people with a religious background, people with none, people who believe in a God, people who don’t, and people who let the mystery be.
We are Unitarian Universalist and Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Humanist, Jewish,
Muslim, Pagan, atheist and agnostic, believers in God, and more.
On the forefront of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer inclusion for more than 40 years, we are people of all sexual orientations and gender identities.
We seek to welcome you: your whole self, with all your truths and your doubts, your worries and your hopes. Join us on this extraordinary adventure of faith. Get involved!
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Earth Day Worship Celebration: April 22, 2025 – 8:00pm ET • 7:00pm CT • 6:00pm MT • 5:00pm PT
As Unitarian Universalists, we are positioned to be faith leaders at this critical time in our country’s history. And it can feel overwhelming. Where do we start? We run the risk of becoming quick to act without listening to each other and the communities most impacted by climate disruption.
This Earth Day, UU Ministry for Earth will help us deepen practices that put Love at the center of our climate justice work. Not to avoid acting, but to prepare us for action.
We will hold the service online, and we can also provide written worship materials for your congregation’s or group’s use. We ask for a donation for those materials. Register for the online service and/or the written materials here.
THIS WEEK’S CHURCH CALENDAR
Monday – March 17
Tuesday – March 18
11am – Noon: Truly Mindful Tuesday Meditation. Tina will be present. All are invited to try different forms of meditation together each week.
2:15 – 4:15pm: Tina’s Office Hours. Please make an appointment so you won’t have to wait.
6pm: SIUUC Gardening Forum
Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/94884266239
Phone: 1 253 215 8782 ID: 94884266239
If you would like to be included in the Garden Forum weekly email synopsis and email discussions, please contact Edna at skyislandchurch@gmail.com.
6:30 – 8pm: Dharma Buddhists Meditation
Wednesday – March 19
6 – 7:30pm: Wondering Wednesdays
Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/99892265318
Phone: 1 669 900 9128 ID: 99892265318
Come join us for Wondering Wednesday at 6pm on Zoom, where we are always wondering how everyone is doing, and catch up on the latest in the SIUUC Community. Feel free to pop in for some friendly conversation and maybe a chuckle or two.
Thursday – March 20
11:30am: Men’s Luncheon. Contact Pat Aronna if you plan to attend.
Friday – March 21
11am – 3pm: EAF
1pm – ??pm: Board Games
For all Zoom meetings, if you need to call in by phone you can call 1-253-215-8782.
The meeting ID is the last 11 digits of the corresponding link.
RECURRING MONTHLY ACTIVITIES
9am – First Friday: First Friday Hike
6:30pm – PFLAG Monthly Meeting
11am – Second Friday: Church Ladies Lunch at the Country House Restaurant
11:30am – Third Thursday: Men’s Luncheon. Contact Pat Aronna if you plan to attend.
11am – 3pm – Third Friday: EAF
1pm – ??pm – Third Friday: Board Games
12pm – Third Sunday: Board of Directors meet at the church following Sunday Service
10:30am – Fourth Sunday: 2nd Collection
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For all Zoom meetings, if you need to call in by phone
, you can call 1-253-215-8782. The meeting ID is the last 11 digits of the corresponding link.
, you can call 1-253-215-8782. The meeting ID is the last 11 digits of the corresponding link.If you are a Zoom user, and it’s good to see some of you on Sunday mornings or on one of our various topical meetings, please check for updates. When you open Zoom, somewhere on your screen there should be a zoom.us entry. For me, it’s on the very very top of my screen on the left. When you click on that, there should be a drop down menu with a number of options. One of them should say “Check for updates…..” and that’s what you want to click on. Since Zoom seems to have an update almost every week, you might be a bunch of weeks behind. Let’s all get current!
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*Wondering Wednesday Zoom Meetings: 6:00 to 7:30 pm
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 998 9226 5318
One tap mobile
+13462487799,,99892265318#
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Sunday: @ 10:30am Church Service
Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/98918280553
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*Sunday Social Hour at 11:30AM is:
or copy and paste: https://zoom.us/j/97380861311
phone: 669 900 9128 #97380861311
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Garden Forum Tuesdays at 6PM:
Join Tuesday Zoom Meeting:
https://zoom.us/j/
One tap mobile +12532158782,,94884266239# US
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Together we rise,
Mary Katherine Morn
President
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
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New Things To Do at Sky Island UU
SERVICE FOR MARCH 16
“Ostara with a Pagan”
Rev. Tina will interview Evelyn Goslin about celebrating the Spring Equinox, Ostara, and what being a Pagan has meant to her. We will celebrate with rituals acknowledging Spring.
In-Person and on Zoom:
Phone: 1-253-215-8782
Meeting ID: 989 1828 0553
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REV. TINA’S WEEK
This week the two clergy gatherings I attend once a month in Sierra Vista fell during the same week. The other Progressive Pastors didn’t want to meet last Wednesday because they were distributing ashes all day so I entertained them this week at Sky Island instead. We bring a bag lunch but I offered some tempting morsels of cake, remembering too late that some of them might have given up such goodies for Lent. Most dug right in. It was a joy for them to hear PFLAG may be reforming to gather at Sky Island once again.
The very next morning, all clergy in Cochise County were invited to eat breakfast at Canyon Vista Medical Center. We got to ask Rev. Carl Peterson, who is being sent to Avondale, AZ on July 1, questions about his move. He explained that the Methodist church grew so quickly at the end of the 18th Century that pastors often travelled on horseback between four or five churches to bring services. He claims the winter songs about getting married when the parson is in town refer to that. He also asserted that by the beginning of the Civil War, a third of all people living in the United States were Methodist.
Next, Lamont Garner of the Sierra Vista Seventh-Day Adventist Church and I spoke about the way we have collaborated since last summer and how Lamont has pooled several churches at one time to help families in crisis. We encouraged other churches to join us, or each other, to spread resources further.
The Baja 4 ministers had our weekly Zoom gathering and got the joint Baja 4 service for March 23 in more final shape. Rev. Sara Green will move us from a mindset of scarcity to one of generosity as we contemplated stewardship for the years to come.
My office hours next week will be Tuesday, March 18 from 2:15 to 4:15. If you’d like to see me in person on Tuesday, please make an appointment with me ahead of time.
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Upcoming Worship Services In March
March 23 – The sermon will be “When Our Heart Is In A Holy Place.” Rev. Sara Green of Stewardship4Us will consider how “it can be so easy to adopt a heart of scarcity and fear. Sometimes, those are even rewarded. The work of beloved community asks that we, like a meditation, keep coming back to a heart center of generosity, solidarity, and love.”
Rev. Sara will be in Tucson for a weekend with the Baja4 for workshops on stewardship on Saturday at UUTC, and worship at Mountain Vista on Sunday. We will show a sermon from Rev. Sara and then participate in a Zoom discussion with her in our sanctuary afterwards.
We will hold our 5th Sunday Month Potluck that Sunday between worship and our Zoom conversation.
March 30 – The sermon will be “The Five Pillars of Islam: Fasting, Celebration and Generosity.” Rev. Tina will explore the month of fasting as Ramadan comes to an end, and what Islam teaches us about sharing out of our bounty.
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Annual Stewardship Campaign
At this time of year, we need to remind everyone to pledge their continued support of our church. We are so appreciative of your past donations and rely on you to keep our church operating. Please pick up a pledge card for the upcoming fiscal year. If you need a card sent by mail, please contact Robbie Rouse at scratchclaw2004@gmail.com.
You don’t need to be a member to pledge your support. All pledges will be gratefully received and well used.
The completed cards can be dropped in the offering basket, placed in the designated box in the community room, or mailed to the church.
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Mindfulness Meditation
Come for mindfulness meditation each Tuesday from 11am – noon at the church. We take turns leading it, but don’t feel that you have to. Come and try it out, no experience necessary.
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Wondering Wednesdays
Come join us for Wondering Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. (local time) on Zoom, where we are always wondering how everyone is doing, and catch up on the latest in the SIUUC Community. Feel free to pop in on the rest of us for some friendly conversation and maybe a chuckle or two.
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Caring Corner
Roland Bockhorst is home and continuing to heal.
Judy Riddle is grateful to be healing and would like continued positive thoughts for knitting together some bad wounds she has in her hands.
If you have a joy you’d like to share or a sorrow you’d like people to hear, please send an email to skyislandchurch@gmail.com
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