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Unitarian Univeralist Congregation Rock Tavern
Soul Matters will meet Fri April 12 at 2.30pm.
April topic: Transformation
UPDATE: Our Soul Matters group is full. We will be starting a new group in the fall, 2024.
Please let Rev. Diane know of your interest this spring.
Children's Religious Exploration: The Gift of Interdependence
Religious Exploration lessons for Children in April will include the Gift of Interdependence, Web of Community, Caring For The Web of Community and How The Web of Community Cares For Us.
New tradition beginning this month: One Sunday of each month will be a free play day within UU structure to include indoor and outdoor games. This week in RE is free play or constructive play.
--Bernadette McGinn, RE Teacher
Movie Club - We Love Movies!
We meet the first Thursday of the month; this month April 4.
On April 4, we will discuss the movie Ruskin, which is available on Netflix. This movie tells the story of the life of Bayard Ruskin, who was instrumental in pulling off the 1963 March on Washington. As a black, gay man, he faced the prejudice of his time but kept working for civil rights.
Join us for the discussion via the Zoom link on the uucrt.org website or in the weekly e-Blast at 7:00pm, Thursday, April 4, 2024.
https://zoom.us/j/96634364686?pwd=aklyNStYMVN1T0RoSFZsL0NON0l2dz09
Meeting ID: 966 3436 4686 Passcode: educate
Join by phone: 1 929 205 6099 Meeting ID: 966 3436 4686 Passcode: 8282691
Book Club - We Love Books!
Meets the 3rd Thursday of the month at 7 pm via Zoom.
We will read Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and discuss it at the April 18 Zoom meeting. We just discovered that 4 of us had never read this classic. Join us to share your love of this beloved book or tell us why you hate it. All readers are welcome.
At our meeting on May 16, we will each be sharing one or two books that we have found to be especially enjoyable or thought provoking with the hope that others might find our suggestions worth checking out. We would certainly like to hear from you.
Join us via the Zoom link below or in the weekly e-Blast to give your thoughts.
https://zoom.us/j/96634364686?pwd=aklyNStYMVN1T0RoSFZsL0NON0l2dz09
Meeting ID: 966 3436 4686 Passcode: educate
Join by phone: 1 929 205 6099 Meeting ID: 966 3436 4686 Passcode: 8282691
Rev. Diane Diachishin to Offer Pastoral Care
Accessing Zoom and Order of Service
Virtual Sunday services are exclusively through Zoom. You can access the online and call-in link through Zoom by opening the UUCRT email alert now being sent out on Fridays and clicking on the Zoom link there or dialing the listed phone number and entering listed access code.
Congregational Meeting
Your attendance is requested at our Annual Congregational Meeting May 19, after a brief service. Make your voice heard! The agenda includes 2024-25 Budget approval; Voting for 2024-25 slate of officers and new Board members; Proposed UUCRT Bylaws changes; the vote on the proposed changes to UUA Article 2.
https://www.uuworld.org/articles/mcdonald-a2qa
Look out for the meeting notice arriving by email.
A message from the Unitarian Universalist Association:
"Unitarian Universalism is a living tradition that learns and adapts to meet the needs of each generation. It’s been nearly 40 years since a comprehensive review of our principles. The digital age has shifted our interactions with community and truth. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted our interdependence, and where individualism falls short. There is a rise in global autocracies and attacks on democratic institutions, and climate catastrophe and mass extinctions threaten the delicate balance of the web of life. These are just a few of the major struggles our living tradition must face today and in our future. With the articulation of our shared UU values, we can be better equipped to make values based decisions in facing these new and evolving realities."
Below are a few links to explore how our values and principles might be reframed. The UUCRT delegates to the GA Summit will be voting on the proposed revisions this summer. All UUCRT members and friends will have a chance to voice their opinions, and members will be able to cast their vote, before we send our delegates to the UUA General Assembly this June.
--Rev. Diane
Final Proposed Revision to Article II | UUA.org
Article II Study Commission | UUA.org
Art and Music Saturday, May 18 in Rock Tavern
"A painting is music you can see, and music is a painting you can hear.” – Miles Davis
Both art and music will be seen and heard Saturday, May 18, at the Unitarian Universalist fellowship hall at 9 Vance Road in Rock Tavern. If you appreciate folk music and artistic talent, this is the venue for you.
The public is invited to the free art show featuring Mark Rosengarten’s paintings and photography from 1 to 3 p.m. From 3 to 5 p.m., accomplished and celebrated musicians Neil Okeson and Lydia Adams Davis will present “A Gallery of Song”. Suggested donation is $20.
Neil Okeson is a singer-songwriter living in the Hudson Valley, performing original songs to audiences that weave together humor, joy, and the occasional political jab. Long associated with the Hudson Valley Folk Guild, he views songwriting as a living process, and a conversation with many.
Neil enjoys hiking the trails from the river to the ridge, and exploring the wilderness of the imagination, hunting for metaphors. He was a voice major in music school; guitar, piano, and ukulele are some of the tools of his storytelling shows. His first CD “Beautiful World” was released in 2015, and he is currently producing the next one, to be completed this year.
Lydia Adams Davis is a relaxed and warm-voiced balladeer. She brings an improvisational flair to her original and traditional songs.
Lydia grew up in New England and the Hudson Valley, where she was active with Pete Seeger and the Hudson River Sloop Singers. She also lived in Brooklyn for many years, earning a Master of Science degree in Deaf Education from Hunter College and raising her daughter, the jazz vocalist Romeyn Adams Nesbitt.
Lydia performed songs in a unique Country/Folk style at the Bottom Line, the Gaslight Café and enduring Folk venues such as the People’s Voice Café where she played on March 23 and the Hudson Valley Folk Guild and the Towne Crier Cafe where she played on April 7.
Several recordings document her Woman’s Gift of Story landscape, and her environmental focus. We All Have Lunch With LAD and One Earth So Green And Round were short-listed for a Grammy nomination in 2012, at which time she also achieved “Best In Hudson Valley” recognition.
Mark Rosengarten is retired from being a long-time high school chemistry teacher whose music videos and tutorials have helped many thousands of students all over this big blue marble of ours.
In 2012 he decided to start taking photography seriously and has been building his skills since then. He is a regular winner of the Times-Herald Record Photo of the Day, is well-known on several Facebook group including Hudson Valley In Pictures. He is also a painter, and a member of the Wallkill River School and Goshen Art League.
The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Rock Tavern is a liberal religious community where members and friends gather to support each other in our spiritual journeys and to give service to the wider world of which we are a part. See link below for more information:
http://uucrt.org/about-unitarian-universalism/who-we-are/
3rd Sunday Collections
The Board voted to donate the third Sunday plate for May and June to World Central Kitchen, a non profit international food charity founded by chef José Andrés.
Real Community: Messy, Imperfect and Needed.
In person and Zoom
Restorative Justice is a practice drawn from indigenous cultures. Restorative Justice Circles create safe space. This service will reflect on the spirituality and promise of a restorative justice approach towards healing broken relationships within the greater community as well as within our … read more.
Would you like more information?
***Important Changes
To join using computer, tablet or smartphone: https://zoom.us/j/94071188132
To join by phone:+1 929 205 6099 US Meeting ID: 940 7118 8132
Sunday Service at Rock Tavern UU , May 5, 2024 at 10:30 am (In person and Zoom)
Inviting Bell
Musical Prelude – https://youtu.be/uOIHHMnI_Ig?si=WcGApk7-P0GM5_HK
"Spirit of the Hawk" - Leo Rojas
Opening Words – "Compassionate One, may we remember to slow down when we find ourselves having difficult conversations. May we remember to treat those moments of conflict as an opportunity to create, with one another, a deeper understanding, and something new where tension is now present". Parker Palmer
Welcome and Announcements
Chalice Lighting – "You formed my inner being. You knit me together in my mother's womb. I am fearfully and wonderfully made."My soul knows that very well." Psalm 139:13-14
Opening Song – #1031 "Filled with Loving Kindness"
Offering & Offertory
Time for All Ages -
Sing the Children Out: Go Now in Peace #413
New Member Ceremony
Sharing of Joys & Sorrows
Moment of Silence – 2 Minutes
Sermon – "Real Community: Messy, Imperfect and Needed"
Discussion, questions, comments
Closing Song – #1021 "Lean on Me"
Closing Words - #453 Passover Haggadah
Closing Fellowship Circle
Extinguishing the Chalice – Extinguishing the Flame by Elizabeth Selle Jones
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.
Please join us for coffee and snacks in the Fellowship Hall after the service.
Worship Associate: Marcia Westra
Zoom Host: Rose O'Neill
Multi-Platform Host: Elizabeth Mehling
Musician: Hollis Kellogg
Join Us for Happy Hour: Fridays at 5pm
Pop in weekly and say hello!!
https://zoom.us/j/99186508662?
Meeting ID: 991 8650 8662 Passcode: visit. Join by phone: 1 929 205 6099 Meeting ID: 991 8650 8662 Passcode: 762682
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Thoughts from the Board
- Notes from the Board April 4, 2024
- President’s Message April 4, 2024
- Minister’s Message April 4, 2024
- Notes from the Board March 1, 2024
Community Postings
- Folk Guild to Feature ‘Us’ on Saturday, March 9 March 3, 2024
- A message from the Unitarian Universalist Association: March 1, 2024
- Accessing Zoom and Order of Service February 1, 2024
- Past Services now Available February 1, 2024