LAKESHORE UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP

MARCH 2014 NEWSLETTER

SERVICES: SUNDAY 10:00 A.M

620 PARK STREET, MANITOWOC, WI 54220,

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Grassland-grazer: Sacred partnership and natural climate solution Nissa Enos
By resurrecting the ancient and sacred grassland-grazer partnership through using stock animals on pasture in restoration agriculture, we can provide human life support while moderating or reversing global climate change. Humbly learning from indigenous mindsets positions us to perceive in new and pertinent ways so that we can live and farm in accordance with nature in order to provide a future for our descendants.

PHONE: (920) 686-0643

Email: luuf.parkstreet@gmail.com Website: www.lakeshoreuu.org Blog: www.luuf.blogspot.com Facebook: Lakeshore Unitarian Universalist Fellowship

Is there any room in our scientific and reasonable worldview for listening to a hunch, for following our gut? What good is it to speak of such things when we cant put our finger on the source of intuition, or identify the benefits of an irrational way of knowing? Join us as we explore the value and limitations of our intuitive side.

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"Now is the time for all good people..." Judy Goldsmith.
How does the Supreme Court decision fit with our UU principle, "The right of conscience and use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large"? Judy will share her reflections on this important topic. Judy grew up in Two Rivers. Currently she is on the Fond du Lac County Board, after a career in education. She is a well-known speaker, and we have been stimulated by her presentations for several years. "Is Courage a Religious Value? " Arthur Thexton Courage is often associated with heroism on the battlefield or with disease and heartbreak. In our history of religions, we see other examples of courage, in the many martyrs to faiths. Easter is one such. Does the choice to belong take courage, today? Even to an institution like the UU Fellowship, in a country with constitutional protections for all sorts of religious practices? Arthur will share his reflections on this topic. Arthur is our most frequent speaker who graduated from seminary, although he chose the law as his profession. He works for the state of Wisconsin in Madison.

LUUF LAY MINISTERS

Dan Fischer (920) 323-3475 danf2010@comcast.net Linda Hunter (920) 684-5590 huntel@comcast.net Erica Strauss (920) 629-0924 erica-strauss@ameritech.net Jim Sustman (920) 973-7391 jim_sustman@yahoo.com

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Feminist Spirituality Embodied To honor Womens History Month Rev. Ann Barker D.Min
Guest speaker ,Rev. Ann Barker D.Min., will share the story of an almost forgotten chapter of the history of liberal women ministers. Using resources from Prophetic Sisterhood by Cynthia Grant Tucker and the Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography she will talk about these remarkable pioneer women and how their stories influenced her own journey toward practical implementation of feminist spiritual principles. Ann was the lifespan religious educator at the Appleton UU Fellowship for thirteen years during which she pursued a degree in Feminist Spirituality.

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LUUF BOARD
President: V. President: Treasurer: Secretary: Kathy Fishback John Thompson Joel Marquardt Sandy Bast

Members at Large: Dick Urban Steve Abler Jim Everett

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"What Good Is Intuition in a Rational World?" Scott Prinster
Scott Prinster,is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Scott is also an ordained UU Minister

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Service Planning: How we do it

A number of people have asked me how we manage to find such good speakers, and they have also complimented the order of service and how well the service seems to go together. I thought you just might want to know our process. (If you dont want to know, just skip to the next newsletter item.) This year there are six of us who meet monthly to plan the years services. (We already have two speakers for next year!) We have a list of possibilities that we choose from as well as using our committees contacts. Then we figure out who will lead each service from among our list of people who have served before or who have volunteered and are willing to meet with the committee to learn the details involved in service leading. The service leader either chooses the opening and closing words or asks Ginny Finnel, our preparer of service guides, to choose them. We try to choose elements of the service to go with the topic that the speaker has chosen. I usually choose the hymns, but the speaker has a voice in that too. Then Ginny prepares the guide and announcements and sends it to OfficeMax by Wednesday early afternoon, so that OfficeMax can have it printed, copied and folded in time for Ginny to pick it up and deliver it to the fellowship by the end of the day on Friday. We would be delighted to have suggestions of topics or speakers. Just speak to one of the committee: Ginny, Jim Sustman, Mary Jo Urban, Jessica Van Slooten, Becky Abler, and myself. We cant promise to use them all, but we like having choices! If you have read this far, thanks!

SERVICE PLANNING COMMITTEE

Linda Hunter, (Chair) Becky Abler Jim Sustman Ginny Finnel Mary Jo Urban Jessica Van Slooten

Joys and Concerns!

Keep Cecile Held in your thoughts, as she recuperates from hip replacement surgery. Cecila is in rehab at Manitowoc Health & Rehab. Center and would enjoy visitors

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Evie will send out emails and communicate news from Hope House to the House House volunteers in the Fellowship. Please join the Judy Rollin and Cathy Edwards January 22nd, 2014 ceiling hangings to reduce the noise in the kitchen area during the fellowship hour following the Sunday services. In the spring we will pursue conoutside of the building and addressing the problems weve had the building. the wonderful job she has done.

Finances
Treasurer Joel Marquardt reported we have repaid the $9000 remaining on our conity on our building of approxiue to reduce this liability as Joel recommends that our funds will allow.

Strategic Planning
Cathy Edwards has volunteered to lead the Fellowship in a strategic planning process to guide us as we develop in the next ve to will be available in the next month.

Hope House Liaison

Evie Sustman has agreed to serve as the Hope House liaison and will

We will purchase and install Smoke/CO detectors on each of the oors of the building.

so well for the last few years.

Next Board Meeting - Will be at 7:00pm on Thursday, March 27th. Please let a member of the board know if there is/are any issue(s) you would like us to consider and know that you are welcome to attend any
of the meetings.

LAKESHORE UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST (LUUF) LAY MINISTRY

Theologically, LUUF Lay Ministers are as diverse as Unitarian Universalist among our Lay Ministry you will find a variety of spiritual perspectives and beliefs about the sacred. LUUF Lay Minsters are committed to serving all Fellowship members and friends, with the utmost of compassion and discretion. If youre in need of a good listener, connection, support and/or resources inside, or outside our Fellowship, in times of illness, or another of lifes challenges, or to officiate at dedications, weddings, or funerals, please dont hesitate to contact any of the following LUUF Lay Ministers: Dan Fischer (920) 323-3475 Linda Hunter (920) 684-5590 Jim Sustman (950) 755-3317

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MARCH 2014

Annual Pledge Drive

and friends in the middle of March asking for pledges for the upcoming July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015 scal year. Throughout the years, the generous response to this call has resulted in our being able to maintain and expand our adult and childrens programs the building. This support, along with special requests in the last ve years, has helped us purchase our Park Street facility, add a kitchen and rest room on the second oor, install the barrier encourages members and friends port of and commitment to our LUUF community.

Website and Directory

been working diligently on a new uukim@manty.org. A more appropriate website name will be created Kim and Ron welcome feedback on the site as it is being developed. Please email Kim with any comments, or suggested changes at: Kim will also be working with Kathie Fishbeck on the LUUF Fellowship Directory to be published this spring.

Historic Building Tour

We received a request from the Manitowoc County Historical Society to be a part of their Tour of Historic Buildings in the county. The event is scheduled for Saturday, October 11, 2014 from 10 am to 5pm. Volunteers from the Historical Society will research the history of our building and be present during the tour to share tors through the building. There members of our group to help with this eort.

We are united in our broad and inclusive outlook, and in our values, as expressed in our seven Principles.
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If you, like many others who come to the Fellowship, are new to Unitarian Universalism, or have been coming for years, there are many opportunities for becoming better acquainted with the community and its guiding principles. The first step is to come to New Member Orientation. New Member Orientation will be on March 16,th Immediately following the service. This orientation covers such things as our LUUF history, UU symbols, organization, special services, and other pertinent parts of who we are.

Tom Clark

February Service Leader & Service Presenters

ALL ARE WELCOME!

We would like to expand our orientation to include not just new members, but also our friends who arent quite ready to sign our Membership Book. If you want to learn more about the UUs, both locally and globally, then attending an orientation should be on your list of things to do. Please contact Kim or Jim Everett or Dan Fischer and let them know you would like to join us at the orientation. Also, if you are considering becoming a member of the Lakeshore UU Fellowship, this would be a good time to take that step. Sunday, March 30 will be our new member recognition service, which gives us an opportunity to formally welcome new members to the Fellowship.
Be Alford

Judy Miller, CJS

Steve Erlemeier

You are invited to become a member of the Lakeshore Unitarian Universalist Fellowship and join others in this exciting and growing community. Here you will have a place where you can grow on your spiritual journey, where you can share both lifes happiest and saddest moments and where you can work together with others to bring peace and justice to the world.

LUUF Choir

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The day-to-day life of our fellowship is the glue that holds our spiritual community together. Unitarian Universalism approaches the more "secular" aspects of fellowship life with the same religious intent as its worship. Our religious education classes, adult activities groups, community volunteerism and building facilities committees FACILITIES are essential aspects of our spiritual work. We believe it is our deeds, not our creeds, which are most important. COMMITTEE Every day we have people helping the Fellowship in ways that allow our community to thrive. Whether you are a board member, on a committee, you make coffee, do dishes, vacuum, shovel snow, rack leaves, plan a garden, help coordinate a service or you do one of the other countless tasks, the time and talents you share is incredibly important for our Fellowship community. Please know you are immensely appreciated. Ron Kossik (Chair) Tom Clark Kathy Fishback Jim Rabata Dick Urban

THANK YOU TO ALL WHO VOLUNTEERED IN JANUARY STILL IN NEED OF VOLUNTEERS FOR FEBRUARY

LUUFS ADULT DISCUSSION GROUP

Based on the UUA Building Your Own Theology format, with Volume 3 Ethics We as UUs say we choose our own values but what are they? Is there a connection between our religion and our character and morality and how we make decisions? The group meets the second and fourth Tuesday of each month at 3:00pm, and continues twice a month into May. All Members and Friends are very welcome Contact Judy Rollins at: rollinj@att.net

CHILDRENS RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

Sunday, January 12, 2014 and run through May 4th, 2014. This Winter/Spring sessions will use the UUAs program Love Surrounds Us which explores the seven principles in the context of Beloved Community of family/home, school, and neighborhood. All children from the ages of 4/5 through A special thanks goes out to Evie Sustman and her assistant, Max Alexander for once again leading the childrens religious preciated.
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gram oered on Easter Sunday ( April 20, 2014.)

Evie Sustman, Chr. Max Alexander Zoe Alexander Dan Fischer Carol Wergin Sandy Bast

Green Living On Behalf of the Earth

GLOBE GREEN TIPS

Help Us Create A Paperless World
Commercial catalogs: 1. Go to catalog choice.org they cancel catalogs for you - charging you a fee. 2. Call the catalogs directly (keep a file with the front & back pages of catalogs you may want to go online & shop from). 3. First Class Mail: Do not open the unwanted envelope; Its postage includes return service; you can write Refused - Return to sender and Take me off your mailing list. Keep a pencil tied with string to your mailbox for this purpose. 4. For standard / third-class presorted mail: Those saying return service requested forwarding service service requested change service requested address service requested 5. These postages also include return service: treat them the same as First Class mail; write Refused " 7. If there isnt contact info, open the envelope and look for contact info, then call / email / write Take me off your mailing list and request that your name or address not be sold, rented, shared, or traded. 8. Bulk Mail: 41pounds.org or catalogchoice.org handle it for a fee; or resort to the U.S. Postal Services PS Form 1500

9. If you are the addressee of an advertisement, and consider the matter (product or service) that it offers for sale to be erotically arousing or sexually provocative, you can obtain a Prohibitory Order against the mailer. Your opinion of sexually oriented material is at your sole discretion and will not be questioned.

Environment committee
Bev Rowling (chair), Judy Rollin, Jean Biegun, Kari Alice Lynn, Carol Wergin

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Sunday Evening Meditation

Relax, reflect and realign For a calming start to your week

Week Day Meditation

Morning Zen meditation / sitting Thursday Mornings, 9:00 to 10:00 Starting on March 6th
30 minutes silent sitting on chairs, cushions, or sitting bench. Followed by optional Walking meditation 5 minutes & 30 minutes of discussion Contact Kari Alice at: 794-6163, or email karilynn@tm.net

The goal of meditation is to bring inner peace within oneself and the world in a positive and spiritual way.

ADULT ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE

Jean Biegun, (Chair) Beth Barfield Kathy Edwards Judy Rollin

Come play with us!

BRIDGE ANYONE - Carolyn Rabata will be teaching how to play bridge at Game Night on Wednesday, March 12, 6:30. Join us if you want to learn or already know how to play. Other board games can be played, too, after our intro instruction session. Snacks provided.

Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. ~ Maya Angelou

Zoe Alexander and her silk scarves returns to Lets get Creative
Date: Time: Sat, March 6th 10:00Noon R.S.V.P. Zoe as soon as possible at: jzalex@sbcglobal.net She needs to order enough scarves for everyone.

Location: Zoes home 912 14th Street Cost: $6:00 per scarf

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Consider participating in one of the Fellowship's 4 CIRCLE SUPPERS this Winter! Dinners will be held on Saturday evenings, at 6:00pm. Dinners are simple and fun - a potluck at a host's home, or a gathering at a restaurant - and they are a great way to get to know Fellowship friends. A Circle Dinner has a maximum group size to contribute to good conversation over a shared meal. The four Circle Dinners scheduled in February, March & April include: SATURDAY February 8th -- 6:00 PM Hosted by Judy Rollin and Tom Clark @ Judy & Tom's home in Manitowoc Welcoming 6 participants SATURDAY March 1st -- 6:00 PM Hosted by Cathy Edwards @ Cathy's home in Manitowoc (1 dog in home) Welcoming 7 participants
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Date TBA Hosted by Joel & Marion Marquardt @ Joel & Marions home in Valders (2 dogs in home) Welcoming 4 guests
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SATURDAY April 12 -- 6:00 PM Hosted by Jim & Kim Everett @ Jim & Kims home in Mishicot (1 dog in home) Welcoming 6 participants For each potluck dinner. please coordinate with your host what to bring. To Sign Up: Write your name and contact information on the sign-up sheet in the vestibule at the Fellowship.
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Check out Hope Houses NEW Amazon.com wish list!!!! Just go to Amazon.com, login to your account and do a wish list search for Hope House of Manitowoc County
On the wish list you will find a list of items that Hope House can always use as well as those unique items that pop up that we might need on a one-time basis. You can order the items from our wish list under our account and they can be shipped directly to Hope House. An easy, no-fuss way to give!

New Volunteer training ~ Coming in April, date and time TBA Spring Benefit Concert Eternity Sunday ~ March 30th, 7:30 ~ Capital Civic Center Tickets available at the box office $17.25 Cupcake social starting at 5:30pm in the Kadow Room Spring Rummage Sale, Brat Fry, Plant Sale Bake Sale Hamann Construction will again host the rummage sale on May 16th & 17th! As youre doing your spring cleaning start setting your gently used donations aside for us! If youd like to volunteer please contact us! More details coming soon!

Two Rivers Mishicot Ecumenical Pantry

Celebrating 27 years of service to the Mishicot and Two Rivers area

VOLUNTEERS ARE NEED FOR THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES

People to take clients around for food on Monday mornings from 8:00Noon & Wednesday afternoons from 12:304:45 A person to come in and clean (dust, vacuum, clean bathroom etc.) once a week.

We will be starting to sign our clients up for Easter as of Monday March 3. Please keep in mind when you go shopping we could use donations of egg dye, Jello, Cake mixes, boxed potatoes, can whole corn, frosting, hams, and jelly beans.

February Collection for Painting Pathways $423 Thank You!

OUT REACH & SOCIAL JUSTICE COMMITTEE
Jim Sustman (Chair), Nancy Horvath, Jennifer Hollahan, Patty Marquardt, John Thompson

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The Meet Your Local Food Producer event showcases local farmers and the food they grow and sell. Attend this FREE event March 11, at 6pm and learn what you can do to be part of the growing local food movement. Find out which farms have on-site stores and where they are located. Learn more about Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) membership. Begin cultivating a personal relationship with growers of local foods so you can answer the question

Whos your Farmer

In addition to local producers, Clipper City Co-op, Farm to School, and the Friends of the Manitowoc Farmers Market will have information available. Healthiest Manitowoc ounty challenges us to embrace qualifty living through activity pursuing physical and mental well-being.

Better Health Better Choices

For more information contact Cath Pape at: 920-652-0238, or email at: healthiestmc@gmail.com Visit Clipper City Co-op facebook page and follow their progress and learn about upcoming listening sessions and events.

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Lakeshore Unitarian Universalist Fellowship 620 Park Street Manitowoc, Wisconsin 54220

LAKE SHORE UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST MISSION

As a welcoming and accepting, diverse and inquiring spiritual fellowship, We unite to create a community which stimulates a free exchange and Exploration of ideas, foster spiritual and intellectual growth, and serves as a base for active outreach to benefit the world around us.

AS UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS, WE AFFIRM AND PROMOTE THESE PRINCIPLES

The inherent worth and dignity of every person Justice, equality and compassion in human relationships Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations A free and responsible search for truth and meaning The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process The goal of world community with peace, liberty and justice for all Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part

PEACE TO ALL

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