We are holding a combo garage and bake sale in just a few weeks during the Orton Park festival to raise money for our Building Sanctuary Project. You can sign up on line or in person (after Sunday service) to donate baked goods or items for the garage sale. We are looking for folks to … Continue reading August 25 Reeb Bake Sale and Garage Sale for Sanctuary Project
Here is the July 2018 JRUUC East Breeze Newsletter. “Insight without challenge satisfies curiosity, but not a lot more than that.” — Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray
Please help JRUUC raise funds to become a Sanctuary host site. Our congregation is a proud member of the Dane Sanctuary Coalition and the New Sanctuary Movement. In November, 2017, the James Reeb UU Congregation voted almost unanimously to become a Sanctuary site, to provide refuge to immigrants contesting their deportation orders. Deportation tears families … Continue reading Building Sanctuary in Madison, WI
“To bless something or someone is to invoke its wholeness, to help remind the person or thing you are blessing of its essence, its sacredness, its beauty, and to help remind yourself of that, too.” — Rev. Elea Kemler The June 2018 East Breeze Newsletter introduces the theme of blessing. Check-in question: What … Continue reading June 2018 East Breeze Newsletter
“Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… Say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.” — Rumi The May 2018 East Breeze Newsletter introduces the theme of creativity. Check-in question: In what ways are you creative?
The April 2018 East Breeze Monthly Newsletter introduces the theme of emergence. “Emergence is the way complex systems and patterns arise out of the multiplicity of relatively simple interactions.” — Nick Obolensky Check-in question: What ideas or inspirations are emerging from within you this spring?
Reeb volunteers and friends, do you have any experience in grant research or grant writing? Or do you know someone in the Madison community who has such experience? As you know, our congregation voted almost unanimously in November to become a sanctuary site church as part of the Dane Sanctuary Coalition. The Reeb … Continue reading Grant Writers Needed for Sanctuary Fundraising
The March 2018 East Breeze Monthly Newsletter introduces the theme of balance. “We seek moments of balance between times of tipping over.” — Kassie Coleman Check-in question: What does it mean to you to be in balance?
The February 2018 newsletter introduces the theme of perseverance “Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one’s own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.” — Wendell Berry Check-in question: What do you lean on … Continue reading February 2018 East Breeze
The January 2018 East Breeze Newsletter introduces the theme of Intention “Sacred space” is another way of saying “with intention.” — S. Kelley Harrell Check-in question: What is your most important promise to yourself?
