The Sweet Potato
November 17, 2020 |
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Thanks for reading "The Sweet Potato," the Young Adult Revival Networks bi-monthly roundup of online UU young adult ministries, media, and more. Bold items are new or updated.
News & Updates Events |
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Hello Friends, Last week’s skinny copy of The Sweet Potato had a bunch of missing information, so I want to highlight all the goodies we should have told you last week: 1 - Taking Care of YA Mind: A Conversation with the UU Mental Health Network Wednesday, November 188:00 pm ET/ 5:00pm PT The UU Mental Health Network and the Young Adult Revival Network are hosting a community conversation about mental health needs of Unitarian Universalist young adults. All UUYAs are invited to come and share about their mental health. Participants will be joined by the Rev. Barbara F. Meyers, the president of the UU Mental Health Network and a Unitarian Universalist Community Minister affiliated with Mission Peak Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Fremont, CA. The conversation will be moderated by Joe Chapot and Roddy Biggs of YARN. Join Zoom Meeting:https://mtsu.zoom.us/j/85757842829 Meeting ID: 857 5784 2829 Passcode: 454593 2 - UUYA Small Groups Survey YARN is planning to start a new UU young adult small group program. Small groups meet regularly to build bonds by having structured conversations. If you are looking to deepen your sense of what Unitarian Universalism is, then complete our survey today and we’ll make sure to let you know about the first batch of programs we plan to launch. Take the Survey Joe Chapot Editor of The Sweet Potato Young Adult Coordinator and Ministerial Assistant First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco |
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The Young Adult Revival Network is planning to start a new UU young adult small group program. Small groups meet regularly to build bonds by having structured conversations. If you are looking to deepen your sense of what Unitarian Universalism is, then complete our survey today and we’ll make sure to let you know about the first batch of programs we plan to launch. |
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Changes Coming for Youth & Young Adults at GA |
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On Thursday, October 29th, more than 50 Unitarian Universalist youth, young adults, youth & young adult ministry professionals, committee members, and UU leaders virtually gathered for a GA Youth & Young Adults at General Assembly Fall Town Hall.
Convened by the Office of Lifespan Faith Engagement’s Rev. Sara Green, Alex Sherwood, Anna Bethea, and me (Rev. Stevie Carmody), we sought to introduce a new staffing structure and program focus for GA Youth and YA@GA. And we wanted to substantively respond to demands of the GA 2020 Youth and Young Adult leaders when they resigned their leadership earlier this year. Click "More Info" to read a summary of this meeting. |
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Discord: Join the growing UU young adult Discord sever and connect with your faith peers across the world. Email uuyami@uusf.org and we'll send you an invite.
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Taking Care of YA Mind: A Conversation with the UU Mental Health Network |
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Wednesday, November 18 8:00 pm ET/ 5:00pm PT The UU Mental Health Network and the Young Adult Revival Network are hosting a community conversation about mental health needs of Unitarian Universalist young adults. All UUYAs are invited to come and share about their mental health. Participants will be joined by the Rev. Barbara F. Meyers, the president of the UU Mental Health Network and a Unitarian Universalist Community Minister affiliated with Mission Peak Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Fremont, CA. The conversation will be moderated by Joe Chapot and Roddy Biggs of YARN. Meeting ID: 857 5784 2829 Passcode: 454593 |
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Harvest the Power Justice Convergence & Teach-In |
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Climate Justice and the 8th Principle Tuesday November 17 8-9:30pm ET/ 5-6:30pm PT No Registration Required Join UU Ministry for Earth, UUYACJ and the 8th Principle Learning Community to learn more about the connections between racial justice and climate justice. The call will provide caucus spaces for POC and white folks. Join on ZOOM: Meeting ID: 851 5348 3822 Passcode: 496182 |
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Harvest the Power: Main Event November 19 - 22 Registration Required In 2016, Unitarian Universalists voted to pay special attention to learning our history and rethinking Thanksgiving in the year 2020, in observance of the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims landing in Plymouth. Given that the usual travels and traditions for Thanksgiving holidays are ostensibly canceled by the pandemic, now is the time to gather and think together virtually, and to celebrate differently. Please sign up, view the program schedule, and help spread the word about the fantastic community programs and documentary film screenings being offered for the Harvest the Power Justice Convergence & Teach-In, November 19-26. Highlighted Young Adult Programming
YA Hang Out Space Fri. Nov 20, 8:45-9:15pm ET Young adults are welcome to gather over Zoom for an informal hangout and process some of the programming so far. Intergenerational Dialogue Circles Thursday, Nov 20 at 2pm-3:30pm ET/ 11am-12:30pm PT UU lay and professional leaders and social/eco justice activists are invited to participate in intergenerational dialogue to share wisdom, stories, memories and lessons of social movements past and present. This space is intended to cultivate deeper understanding and relationship among and between generations in the work for climate justice. Can’t make this one? Don’t worry - we’re planning circles for Jan and March 2021. Sign up here! |
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Transgender Day of Remembrance Chapel |
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Friday November 20 2:00pm ET/ 11:00am PT ZOOM Registration Required Join the Unitarian Universalist Association on Friday, November 20th for a Transgender Day of Remembrance Chapel. As Unitarian Universalists, there is more work to do for us to be the community that trans and non-binary UUs deserve and need. Let us lean into trans resilience and support its blossoming. In mourning, let us work to end the white supremacy, trans antagonism, and other forms of oppression that are literally killing Black trans people. |
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Saturdays 1pm ET/10am PT
October 10 thru December 12
Over the span of 10 weeks, the Unitarian Universalist Young Adults for Climate Justice Network will gather to discuss All We Can Save, an anthology of writings from women climate leaders. You are welcome to come to as many sessions as you like! This space is open to UU/adjacent Young Adults (ages 18 - 35). Read more about the book: allwecansave.earth. Questions? uuyacj@uumfe.org.
Each week, we'll discuss a different section of the book: - Week 1: “Begin” – Sat, Oct 10
- Week 2: “Root” – Sat, Oct 17
- Week 3: “Advocate” – Sat, Oct 24
- Week 4: “Reframe” – Sat, Oct 31
- Week 5: “Reshape” – Sat, Nov 7
- Week 6: “Persist” – Sat, Nov 14
- Week 7: “Feel” – Sat, Nov 21
- Week 8: “Nourish” – Sat, Nov 28
- Week 9: “Rise” – Sat, Dec 5
- Week 10: “Onward” – Sat, Dec 12
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UU LGBTQ+ Young Adult Meetup |
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Monday, November 23
8:00 pm ET / 5:00 pm PT
We invite queer Unitarian Universalist (UU) young adult who are looking for a virtual space that is designed for them to join our conversations and community. LGBTQIA+ UU young adults and friends are currently meeting on the 2nd and 4th Monday of the month at 8pm EST/5pm PST on Zoom. To join please fill out this form and a link will be sent. Your information will also be added to the email list server for announcements. We are meeting every 2nd and 4th Monday. |
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Tuesday, December 8 8:00pm ET / 5:00pm PT
If you are a Unitarian Universalist, a young adult (ages 18 to 30s,) and lead in any capacity within our faith movement, then please join us for the first of a hopefully monthly call. From serving on Boards or Committees, at local, regional or continental levels, whether lay or professional or seminary, any UUYA leaders are invited for an hour of sharing, collaboration, triaging, visioning and networking. And to be explicit, you do not have to working on young adult ministry to join us! Email uuyami@uusf.org for more information. Hosted by Joe Chapot, Ministerial Assistant and Young Adult Coordinator at First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco |
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Tuesday, December 8 5:00pm ET / 2:00pm PT
If you work for a Unitarian Universalist organization and are responsible for a young adult ministry, then you are invited to connect with your peers on our monthly support call! This call is for professionals, those who are employed by UU organizations, be they congregations, regional groups, national bodies, or some other kind of entity. We spend the hour sharing about our programs, working on challenges, stepping back to take in the big picture, and laugh at the incongruous things we encounter while trying to create young adult ministry.
If you want to attend, please email uuyami@uusf.org with your name, where you work, your job title, and what young adult, emerging adult, or campus ministry program you are responsible for.
If you are a UU young adult who leads in any capacity within the movement, then please attend our UUYA Leaders Call, usually on the first Sunday of the month. |
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Thursday, December 10 5:00pm ET / 2:00pm PT By/For Canadians, Americans Welcome Gathered Here is a monthly online check-in for Canadian Unitarian Universalist young adults. Join other UU 18-35-year-olds on Zoom (a video-conferencing platform) for sharing of joys and sorrows, deeper check-ins, prayerful reflections, and an opportunity to process the events of our lives with a spiritually grounded community. Each month we are joined by a member of the Young Adult Pastoral Care Team. The global pandemic has made this virtual gathering place more valuable than ever. While so much in our lives is unknown and unknowable, we can find comfort in familiar rituals and faces. By sharing our joys, our concerns, our sorrows, and our gratitudes, we know ourselves to be held in a loving community. Exploring the themes and spiritual practices helps us each remember our own creativity and resilience. We are all in this together, a part of a larger story. These are drop-in style gatherings, so you don’t need to sign up in advance and there is no fee. On the days you want to attend, just settle into a comfortable spot with your computer or smartphone, sign in to Zoom at the scheduled time, and bring your whole self for the hour and a quarter. (You will need to "register" through Zoom using your email address to access the link) The full schedule, including Zoom links, for the 2020-21 programming year can be found on our website. We will break in May for CUC National Conferences and in July/August for the summer. Check the Facebook event for the most recent themes and outlines of upcoming calls. You can also sign up to receive a reminder via text message the day of each Gathered Here by texting @cucya to (502) 694-1142. Questions can be directed to Casey Stainsby at casey@cuc.ca. |
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