This Week at UUP: The Same River Twice

The Unitarian Universalists of Petaluma
Nurture Your Spirit. Help Heal Our World.


ANNOUNCEMENTS AND UPCOMING EVENTS


UUP Potluck and Concert, Saturday afternoon, January 31st, 5-7 pm, at the Eriksens in northwest Petaluma

All UUPers have the exciting opportunity to hear UU songwriter and guitarist Jim Scott at an informal potluck, concert and singalong. Jim has performed at over 500 UU churches and wrote six of the songs in our hymnbook, including Gather the Spirit. He also writes children's songs on environment and social justice issues. This is a social event for all ages.
Please bring a potluck dish to share and a donation to help cover Jim's travel costs from the East Coast. We are suggesting a donation of $8-15 for adults (sliding scale) or $15-20 for a family. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
To sign-up, email Marlene Abel at marlenea at sonic.net. The Eriksens can accommodate about 40 people in their home, so space is limited. The Eriksens live at 2125 McSween Lane, off Ely, between Corona Road and Old Redwood Highway.
Thank you, Jean Conrad, the Eriksens, and the UUP board for making this event possible.

UUP Directory 2009
The updated UUP Directory of members and friends will be in print soon. A draft will be available for review on the back table on Sunday. If your contact info has changed since January 2008, please either make note on the draft on Sunday or email UUP Admin Assistant Jen Newman at uupetaluma at gmail.com .

UUP photo: a message from Hope Stewart
I will take a UUP membership group photo after the service on Sunday, February 8th. Wear your best clothes, I mean, best smile!

Bring a friend to UUP's Fabulous Time & Talent Auction on Sunday, March 1st, noon-2:30 pm

Planning is well underway for our annual fundraising auction featuring a delicious lunch (chicken/veggie/vegan enchiladas!), a talented cast of entertainers, a silent auction, and a live auction. Do you have a talent or skill that you could share? Bright green donation forms are available every Sunday at church -- OR -- consider asking a friendly merchant in town to donate a service or an item. If there is a service you'd like to see donated, please add it to the wish list this Sunday. Email Diana Spaulding at weaverly at earthlink.net if you want to donate but can't make it to Sunday service. Other ways to contribute: donate a dessert for the yummy dessert auction, come early to help set up, stay to help clean up, or best of all bring a friend!

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY CORNER Service is our Prayer
Carbon Ring
The UU Legislative Ministry of California has developed a program to help us in our efforts to be good stewards of the earth. The focus is reducing the amount of carbon dioxide each of us causes to be released into the atmosphere. You may participate to the degree that is comfortable for you. Please take a look at the Social Responsibility table and talk to Stacey or George.

Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
You are invited to join UUSC in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Thursday, February 6th at 7:30 pm at the UU Church of Berkeley. William F. Schulz (UUSC Board of Trustees Chair, former director of Amnesty International and former president of the UUA) will be speaking, along with Cesar Cardenas Ramirez of El Movimiento Mi Cometa, UUSC's Environmental Justice program partner. This event is free and open to the public, but space is limited. RSVP to rsvp@uusc.org .

SRC quote for the week: "Be the change you want to see in the world." ~Mahatma Gandhi

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.)

This Sunday, February 1: "The Same River Twice"
Guest Speaker: Rev. Meghan Conrad Cefalu
Worship Leader: Jodi Boyle
In 500 BCE Heraclitus of Ephesus noted that "You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in." We have to concede that change is the only real constant in life and yet it so often takes us by surprise. Amidst all the change, there is something changeless in which we can trust and have faith.
The Rev. Meghan Conrad Cefalu serves the Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains in Grass Valley, California. She and her husband both grew up in Petaluma and enjoy coming back "home" to visit their parents. The president of our Board of Trustees, Jean Conrad, is Meghan's mother.

Sunday, February 8: "Preparing for Love"
Worship Leader: Diana Spaulding
What is it to love? What is it to be loved? In honor of the upcoming celebration of Valentine's Day, we will look beyond the greeting card aspects of this romantic holiday to consider other, deeper questions about love. Come to listen, to ponder, and to share your thoughts about love, and, if you wish, to compose a haiku about love for your valentine or for another in need of love.

REGULARLY SCHEDULED GATHERINGS
UUP Worship Leaders will meet on Sunday, Feb. 1 from 12:30 to 2:30 pm in T's office
Larking About, the UUP choir, meets Wednesdays at 8 pm at David Dodd and Diana Spaulding's house, 716 Bassett St.