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, November 1, 2020:Finding Your Ground,featuring all four ministers from the BAJA 4. 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.

 

Election Week Vigils

 

Join the Baja 4 ministers, educators, and musical community as we stay grounded and stay connected-- to each other, to our ancestors, and to the ones who come after us.

 

Come for music, reflection, words of grief and words of care. Come for fellowship. Come because we are stronger together than apart.

 

Thursday, November 5 - 6PM

Friday, November 6 - 6PM

Saturday, November 7 - 10AM

Sunday, November 8 - Join us for Baja 4 Worship on your church's YouTube Channel.

 

Zoom Link for All Vigils:https://uuma.zoom.us/j/93926344716

Meeting ID for All Vigils: 939 2634 4716 

Vespers Service

Returns on Thursday November 12, 6:30pm

 

Join us for a Baja 4-wide Vigil on Nov. 5 (above). UUCT Vespers returns on Nov. 12.

 

Join by computer:

 https://zoom.us/s/7025890260

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 

Zoom to 2nd Hour

Nov. 8 | 12:15-1:15pm

 

Please join UUCT for 2nd Hour! It is a once -per -month afternoon of a variety of educational, spiritual, interesting, and fun workshops. Please join us in September to kick off the learning year.

 

See theUUCT Website for links and passcodes!

 

This month pick from 

 

Special Thanksgiving Fundraiser!

 

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

 

What's Up With SAZCUUPS November 2020?

 

What is Waning?We enjoyed a Stitch and Witch class with crafters of all kinds and had a great time! Our second Sunday classes are shaping up to be really awesome for the rest of the church year, keep an eye on this spot for future offerings!

 

Our Second Sunday class in candle magic will be taught by Leigh Mileur, On Sunday, November 8th at 12:15pm.

 

Leigh has been a practicing pagan since 2009 and they currently use the label “Norse-leaning eclectic”. They are a member of SAZCUUPS since 2017 and of the Heathen organization The Troth since April of this year. This class was previously offered in-person in October 2019 and will use Zoom in a participatory manner, though everyone is welcome to use pen and paper if they are more comfortable. In this beginners' class, Leigh will teach a candle magic method that uses a sigil made from letters in the English alphabet, which will be taken from a phrase of intent each participant will create. They will briefly cover positive vs. negative statements in magic, visualization, charging a candle, and the concept of dressing or anointing a candle. They will mention a few other methods of sigil creation as well. When you have completed this class, you will know how to use this method to create sigilized candles on your own, and Leigh will make available (through email or Facebook) a list of resources for further learning, as well as suggestions of local stores to purchase candles and holders.Necessary supplies:a writing implement and paper will be very helpful for sigil design. We will also be using the "annotate" tools in Zoom to draw for those who are comfortable. A method of taking notes would be recommended.

 

Join us in our Zoom room for this class:https://zoom.us/j/8239364868

How to Give to the Church

 

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.

Ways to stay connected to UUCT

 

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

 

Thursdays@6:30: Live Vesper Service

Board of Trustees

 

3rd Tuesdays @ 7pm.

Next Meeting: November 20

 

UUCT Board of Trustees meetings are open for all to attend, except during special Executive sessions. 

 

Join Zoom Meeting

 

Minutes for the last meeting are posted here:

 

UUCT Book Club

 

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

Share the Plate

 

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.

 

Cafe Justo Coffee

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.

TUESDAY MORNING VIGILS FOR JUSTICE

 

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

Parents and Caregivers of Preschoolers!

Story Time | Nov. 7 | 1-2pm | Meeting ID: 5716364277

 

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

RE at Home Resources

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.