Worship and Special Announcements

The Baja 4 Congregations

will again be sharing ministers during the month of October to bring you wonderful, collaborative worship. Join us Sundays at 10:30 a.m. on UUCT'sYouTubepage to watch worship. Worship will be pre-recorded but will go "live" on YouTube at 10:30 on Sundays. You can watch it with a group then, or watch it on your own later on.

 

Sunday Morning, October 18, 2020:Democracy, Through My Eyes. With Rev. Anthony Johnson and Rev. Bethany.Join usat 10:30 a.m. for the video premiere on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCczvU-NhNhTbUp-qAIbQ4bg 

 

It will be available thereafter on YouTubeto watch when you want.

 

Social Hour

Sundays | 11:30am

 

Join by computer: https://zoom.us/s/7025890260

Password: 483148

 

Did you know you can alsophoneinto social hour? Yes! Simply:

 

Join by computer: 

Meeting ID: 702 589 0260

Password:483148

 

Join by telephone (audio only): 

 

Previous Vespers Services can be found here:https://uuctucson.org/members/vesper-services.html 

 

You are asked to use our credit card service (which can be reached by the link or the On-line Giving button on our website), the very easy to use Text-to-Give (1-833-361-5796),or checkssent to the office. The on-line giving gives you the option to identify the contribution and use the memo line for checks. A tutorial video on Text-to-Give is here. After setting up an initial “profile” these options are easy to use for subsequent donations.

 

The UUCT annual meeting will be held at 11:30 am on Sunday, Nov. 1 on Zoom. The link will be the same link as the usual 11:30 a.m. after-service social hour.The annual meeting will replace the social hour.

Please plan to attend! We have important issues to discuss and vote on as a congregation. Contact the office if you need the meeting password:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

 

3rd Tuesdays @ 7pm.

Next Meeting: October 20

 

UUCT Board of Trustees meetings are open for all to attend, except during special Executive sessions. Agendas are published under the Meeting Documents for the Board. This requires the member login.

 

Join Zoom Meeting

 

Here are the minutes of the last meeting:

 

Meeting List: The front page of our website now lists the Zoom links for every congregational event happening online. You can list your event there by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..To book a "Zoom Room" for your group's meeting, contact

Rev. Bethany at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

 

Zoom Meetings

 

New Small Group Ministry at UUCT

Circles of Trust for Unitarian Universalists are coming to UUCT, beginning the week of October 19. These ongoing small groups will run through the end of May. Each Circle of 8 people will meet either once a month for 2 hours, or twice a month for 1½ hours, over Zoom. Modeled after Quaker teacher and writer Parker Palmer’s Circles of Trust, now in wide use all over the world, the groups will be facilitated by UUCT Affiliate Ministers and experienced lay leaders.

 

 

This drive-up gourmet dinner event will be noon to 1:30 pm on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 26 in front of Goddard Hall. (Please stay in your vehicle while volunteers hand your dinners to you.)

The Fundraising Committee will make only 200 dinners, so order yours while availability lasts at

 

Your participation in this special holiday event will support UUCT financially, provide you with gourmet Thanksgiving dinners, and give you a way to donate dinners to staff and their immediate families. Rev. Bethany will lead a communal prayer of gratitude after the dinners are picked up.

 

The traditional turkey dinners with all the trimmings, even pie, are $25 each.

 

Full gourmet turkey dinners with generous portions will include side dishes of mashed potatoes and gravy, dressing, a special green bean dish (not the soupy casserole), bread roll, cranberry sauce, spring salad-plus, and your choice of pumpkin or apple pie. Gluten-free and vegetarian versions are available.

 

To pay for your dinners, click here and fill in the amount using the Thanksgiving tab:credit card service

 

 

The UUCT Book Club has selected the books for October and November so

that participants will have time to acquire and read the books. We are not ready to meet in person and will continue to use Zoom. We meet online the 2nd Thursday of the month at 9:30am.

 

The book for our November 12th meeting is "The German House" by Annette Hess.

 

To be added to the book club email list, contact Jan at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

ZOOM LINK:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88412604078 ?pwd=SWl0dGdyTzZrRTlYaDk1VExINnBlZz09

 

OR

go to: zoom.us

select: Join meeting

 

If you are new to UUCT, or a current member looking for more ways to connect with other members, check out our online Volunteer Interest Form. The new form gives you a quick way to learn more about UUCT interest activities and volunteer opportunities. Joining an interest group or volunteering is a great way to increase socialization and contribute to the greater good.

 

To get more information and/or sign up for an interest group or volunteer, complete the online Volunteer Interest Form.

After you submit the form, you’ll be matched up with the lead contact person who, in turn will reach out to you with more information.

 

https://uuctucson.org/newcomers/volunteer-interest-form.html

 

Our Share the Plate donation for the second half ofOctoberwill go toMass Liberation Arizona.

 

Our Project was launched in 2019 to bolster the growing movement to end mass incarceration and abolish the criminal legal system as we know it. Our vision is to build a bigger movement and to help change the political conditions necessary to make community liberation possible for BIPOC. We are working toward this by focusing on the grassroots organizing capacity of directly-impacted people and their loved ones, including people who are formerly incarcerated, have a felony conviction, have a sentence of probation or parole or whose lives have been directly affected by the criminal legal system in other ways. Our programs of support include skills training, coaching, political education, organizing & electoral strategy and a fellowship program for new and emerging directly-impacted organizers.

 

Sales - and delivery - of Café Justo coffee are continuing. This Social Justice Council (SJC) project benefits small-scale, shade-grown organic coffee growers in Chiapas, Mexico. Please contact Sue Watts for more information:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

The Social Action Committee is sponsoring vigils in front of our church each Tuesday morning from 8:00 to 9:00. We have dozens of signs covering current topics which align with UU Principles. We also encourage the sincerity and creativity of home-made signs. We are supporting causes UUs believe in and advertising the values of our congregation. Please don a mask and join us.  

 

The Social Justice Council, chaired by This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., meets on the 2nd Saturday of each month at 9am.  All are invited to participate.

Join Zoom Meeting

 

Meeting ID: 823 1979 8034

Passcode: 483148

Join by telephone (voice only): +1 669 900 6833, Meeting ID: 823 1979 8034

Dear Friends,

 

We keep talking about November 3rd... but in Arizona ballots drop October 7th. That means, this is it. Our last chance to do whatever we are called to do for this election cycle, to UU the Vote.

 

The biggest thing you can do? Talk to people. Your friends and family, your knitting circle and mahjong group, your old high school friends and the neighbor you wave at when you get your mail. You can ask: "Do you have a plan for how to vote? Do you know where to drop it off, mail it, or vote in person? What are you most concerned about in this election?"

 

Studies show that these one-on-one conversations, termed relational organizing, are five times more effective than any other form of voter turnout.

 

To learn more about UU the Vote, and other happenings at UUJAZ, please visit our website: uujaz.org.

 

It might not be safe for traditional trick-or-treating, but UUCT volunteers are scaring up a fun alternative. With many safety precautions, we'll be holding a "drive through" event so we can share our costumes and wave from a distance. Watch this space for details.

 

**if you're excited to dress in a costume and help create a spooooky mood, let me know! Jamili atThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

 

Travel in Place! Even this year where we aren't physically visiting our neighbors, we can learn, explore neighboring faiths, and have some fun building our own community.

 

Who: Youth ages 12+

When: Sundays

Where: on Zoom, meeting ID 571-636-4277

 

 

 

Join the Baja 4 families in POPs, a video-based, at-home curriculum grounded in Unitarian Universalism and designed for parents and caregivers of children ages 2-5. By engaging with POP videos, parents and caregivers will come to understand their child's spiritual development, to build rituals that support this development, and to see themselves as spiritual teachers.

 

Each month,

 

All activities are optional and free for Baja 4 families!

 

Questions?

 

Register!

Then, register with Baja 4! You'll get the password for videos after you register.https://forms.gle/ZVmNfUY1vR4kgKNw6

Are you interested in "doing church" at home? I am collecting resources for at home religious education both on the Parenting Club facebook page and in a google drive. The folder is available to everyone! You'll find activities that take 5 minutes and one that take 5 days, so you're in control of how much time you spend on RE.