This Week at UUP: April 19

For complete up-to-date info on the Unitarian Universalists of
Petaluma, see our website: http://www.uupetaluma.org
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(Social time with refreshments begins at 10:00, at the Petaluma Woman's Club, 518 B Street. Worship service at 10:30)

Sunday, April 23
"Earth Day Celebration and Flower Communion"
Worship Associate: Lara Abel


Please Bring a Flower to the Service this Sunday!
(Extra flowers are most welcome. We want everyone to be able to participate including guests)


Join us for a moving ritual, begun in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation as a defiant show of loving passive resistance and as an affirmation of religious diversity, and celebrated worldwide by Unitarian Universalists in memory of Norbert Capek, the Unitarian minister of Prague who began the tradition, and who lost his life in the service of his beliefs.


Sunday, April 30: "This I Do"
Two UUP members discuss how their spiritual values play out in their daily lives.

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Hospitality Duty:

A huge thank you to everyone who signed up to bring bagels and beverages over the next few weeks! Elaine is updating the online calender. Remember that you'll be getting a reminder email with instructions the week before your turn comes.
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Pledge Drive: Still Underway

"To Build the Common Good," UUP's pledge drive for fiscal year 2006-2007,has made progress, but is not yet complete. So far, we have received 19 pledges totalling just over $15,000.

If you have not yet pledged, please talk to, call, or email David Dodd to arrange a time for a Board member or a member of the Stewardship Committee to meet with you and take your pledge for the coming year.
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Time & Talent Auction, May 7:

Stay after the service (and invite friends and family!) on May 7 for lunch
and our major annual fundraiser, the Time & Talent Auction! Two things are necessary: bidders (that's where friends and family come in...) and stuff to bid on (that's where we all come in). Donation forms are available online at http://www.uupetaluma.org/auction.doc.

Highlights of items already donated include a consultation by member and
interior designer Martha Murphy, and a very full basket of Grateful Dead
related items from the band itself and from Bill Walton.

If you are wondering what you could possibly donate, give a thought to
your hobbies and vocation! If you are an entrepreneur, this is an excellent
opportunity to let the UUP and wider community know about your business!

Do you have a truck? An expertise that you could share? Do you own a cabin in the mountains where a high bidder could stay? Do you like to whip up a dinner party? Let your imagination run wild.

We are also looking for a few high-quality items for the silent auction
portion of the event. And, at the start of the auction, we'll be auctioning
off desserts, so if you bake, please consider adding to our store of
yummies.

Questions? Ask David Dodd, who will also happily accept your filled-out
donation forms.
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Looking Good for the New UUP Family Photo Album!

The Membership & Hospitality Committee will make appointments next
Sunday for professional-quality photographs by our own Hope Stewart for a UUP family photo album.

Your individual or family photographic portrait will be taken at a scenic downtown Petaluma site and recorded on a compact disc given to you. A $5 materials fee payable to Hope covers cost of project. Please see Hope before or after the service to sign up.
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Time to Sign Up for the Annual Memorial Day Retreat

It's time once again to sign up for our annual retreat. Last year a great time was had by all. You can sign up by adding your name to the sign up sheet at church this Sunday or by emailing T Hathaway (elisabethhathaway at sbcglobal dot net).

Please let T know by April 30 if you're planning to go and for those of you on the planning committee, there will be a meeting at T's house on Sunday April 30th at 5 pm. See you there! Thanks.
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An Announcement from the UU Service Committee:

Dear Friends,
Join UUSC in helping justice flow throughout the world! Please save these
two very special dates on your 2006-2007 congregational calendar. On Nov. 19, 2006, the Sunday before Thanksgiving, celebrate Guest at Your
Table along with hundreds of UU communities nationwide.

For over thirty years, UUs of all ages have built lasting connections to our
shared values through Guest at Your Table. Learn about human rights in the U.S. and around the world, while celebrating the interconnectedness of all life, through this special UU tradition. To learn more, please visit
www.uusc.org/guest.

On Justice Sunday, March 25, 2007, UU congregations will stand together for justice. To learn about the recent Justice Sunday 2006 program, during which congregations nationwide united in supporting workers' rights, please visit www.uusc.org/justicesunday.
Thank you for supporting human rights, and helping your community put UU values into action, by planning to participate in these important UUSC
projects.
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Regularly Scheduled Gatherings

-There is a Stewardship Committee meeting tonight at 8pm at David Dodd's.

-There is an RE committee meeting this Saturday at 10am, location TBA.

- Reminder: The Membership & Hospitality meeting and the Building Your Own Theology meeting for this month have been rescheduled.
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