This Week at UUP: March 21-26, 2008

The Unitarian Universalists of Petaluma
An Oasis for Heart and Mind Every Sunday in Downtown Petaluma


ANNOUNCEMENTS AND UPCOMING EVENTS

Easter Egg Hunt this Sunday!
We'll have an Easter Egg Hunt immediately after the service, in the grassy area between our building and the Christian Science Church. If you'd enjoy contributing to the hunt, please bring a dozen colored hard boiled eggs to church with you. The youth will hide the eggs for the younger kids to find, right before the hunt.

Time and Talent Auction March 30th noon to 3pm!
Time and Talent is getting close! This Sunday, please pick up donation sheets and fill them out. Please take the time to think about your donations before you arrive so you can fill out the sheets and leave them on the back table. This will help with the organization. The youth will be making and serving lunch, as a fund raiser so they can go to UU District Assembly.
If you can't be there this Sunday, email Camille Jordan your proposed donations and he'll fill out the forms. And don't forget, you can make requests. We have a "Wish List" form - dog sitting, golf lessons, date for the movies, weed your garden once a week for a year. Ask for what you want…. you never know!

Annual Memorial Day Retreat!
The annual UUP all-community retreat is coming up, May 23-26, at Four Springs Retreat Center in Middletown north of Calistoga. Be sure to look for sign-up sheets in the coming weeks!
ALSO: Be sure to join the committee making the plans, and help put together this wonderful, fun, and very well attended traditional gathering. Interested in adult and/or kids activities? Food? Worship? General Planning? Call or e-mail T Hathaway!

UUP Garage Sale: Save the stuff and Save the date!
The annual UUP religious education garage sale fundraiser will be held later in the year on Saturday, August 23. Please start saving items for this event. Last year's garage sale was very successful thanks to your generous donations.

Don't miss District Assembly 2008!
PCD-UUA
April 25 - 27, 2008, Fremont Marriott
Come join 400 Vibrant and Vital UU's from across the Pacific Central District for a weekend of laughing, learning, worship, meeting old friends and making new ones! Featuring:
Rev. Robert Latham, Saturday Keynote Speaker
Rev. Victoria Safford, Saturday Banquet Speaker
Roy Zimmerman, Satirist (Saturday night)
Over 20 different workshops, 5 levels of child / youth programming, Friday night Opening Worship, the PCD Annual Meeting, and Sunday Closing Worship.
We will meet at the Fremont Marriott, where we have received a Special Rate of only $89/night for this event.
For more information, please see: www.pcd-uua.org and click on the DA2008 link.

UPCOMING SUNDAY SERVICES
(Social time with refreshments begins at 10:00 am , at the Petaluma Woman's Club, 518 B Street. Worship service begins at 10:30 am. )

March 23, 2008: "Easter"
Guest speaker: Meredith Guest
As the earth does its annual springtime resurrection, let's see if we can find a way to look differently at the Christian celebration of Easter. Maybe there's something of importance and value even for sensible, logical, rational people like us in the resurrection story - or maybe, especially for people like us.
P.S. Bring flowers to welcome and celebrate the season and the holiday.

REGULARLY SCHEDULED GATHERINGS

Larking About, the UUP Singers, meets on Wednesday evenings from 8 to 9:30 at the home of Diana Spaulding and David Dodd

The UUP Membership Committee will meet at Hope's house on Thursday, March 27th.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION TO "THIS WEEK AT UUP" AND TO THE UUP CALENDAR

If you have an item for "This Week at UUP" (UU or UUP-related only, please), send it to our Administrator, Jennifer Newman at uupetaluma at gmail dot com by Wednesday for inclusion in that week's email newsletter. For information that needs to go on the calendar, please send your event details to the same email address.

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