The Sweet Potato
January 26, 2021 |
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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 SURVEY - UU Virtual Religious Community during COVID-19 Remote Volunteers Needed! Application for GROW Fellowship 2021 UU Camp Job Openings UUYA Social Channels
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SURVEY - UU Virtual Religious Community during COVID-19 |
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Our friend and famous CONline organizer Ivy Breivogel has a survey they’re asking everyone to complete. Hello! My name is Ivy, and I am a senior Sociology/Anthropology student at Warren Wilson College. I was raised UU and am a current member of two congregations. I am currently planning my Capstone Thesis project on how Unitarian Universalist religion and its members’ relationships with their religiosity/spirituality are changing during the COVID-19 pandemic and consequent move to virtual events and community. I want to know how your congregation and organized events are changing, but also how the ways you think about UU and your relationship with your faith are changing throughout this pandemic. If you are willing to share your experiences and thoughts with me, please fill out this survey. There is an option at the end to opt in to a follow-up survey - I encourage you to do this! Interviews will allow you much more flexibility to be able to express your perspective better, and will allow me to learn a lot more. If you want to participate in an interview but not the initial survey, that’s fine too! Just email me at ibreivogel.f18@warren-wilson.edu, and feel free to reach out with any questions, comments, or concerns at any time. |
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Remote Volunteers Needed! |
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The UU College of Social Justice is in urgent need of volunteers to provide remote support to partners located all over the country! Email info@uucsj.org if you're interested and available to support our partners' work. Visit uucsj.org/volunteer for more information. Sample Volunteer Positions: - UU Justice Florida: Social Media Support
- Carizzo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas: Social Media, Website, General Tech Support (multiple positions)
- The Lowlander Center: Administrative Support (multiple positions)
- Austin Sanctuary Network: Social Media and General Tech Support (multiple positions)
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Application for GROW Fellowship 2021 |
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Thank you for your interest in joining us for our GROW Fellowship, a collaboration between the UU College of Social Justice and the UUA's Thrive Program for Young Adults of Color. Building on past sessions of GROW (Grounded and Resilient Organizer Workshops) and amidst the challenges of the current pandemic, we continue to adapt to a new format, in which we will gather weekly online from the new moon in March (mid-month) through August 2021. This offering is designed to equip 20 UU young adults of color and white UU young adults (ages 18-35) with the frameworks, spiritual grounding, and community to engage in justice work within and beyond our Unitarian Universalist faith. In a few different touch points throughout the months, we’ll explore topics such as transformative approaches to governance, time, conflict, imagination and economy/ecology. The fellows will come together to learn community organizing skills from bold, grounded leaders, and to craft strategic visions for our ongoing justice work. A stipend will be available to all who are accepted into the program and who commit to a shared level of participation, averaging attendance at 75% of our group gatherings. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until February 15th. We will follow up with all applicants by February 28th and begin our weekly justice workouts on Monday, March 15th, continuing to meet Mondays at 8pm EST for the duration of the program. Please email info@uucsj.org if you have any questions. |
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The Star Island Corporation is currently accepting applications for summer staff. Star Island runs a seasonal religious and educational conference center off the New Hampshire coast and hire approximately 100 college-aged people to work from mid-June to mid-September. As our roots are linked to the UU and UCC faiths, working on Star offers a unique employment opportunity for UU and UCC young adults (age 18 and older) in a beautiful location. |
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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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SB: Sharing Your Story Writing Workshop |
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Wednesday, January 27 6:30pm ET / 3:30pm PT Sanctuary Boston is about sharing our stories as fellow spiritual travelers. Sharing our learnings and wrestlings and insights and wonderings is part of what makes this community so special.The basic structure for this workshop will be writing from a prompt for 5-10 minutes, sharing what you wrote (if you'd like), and then offering feedback from the group. The hope is to create a supportive gathering, inviting each other to reflect on our stories and make meaning of them. Folks don't need to take this workshop in order to share something for worship and you don't need to share something in worship if you do the workshop. It's really just a chance to get some practice, inspiration, and ideas for writing the kinds of stories that make for deeper sharing and reflection |
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UU LGBTQ+ Young Adult Meetup |
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Monday, February 1 8:00pm ET / 5:00pm PT
ZOOM Meeting ID: 975 3371 5482 We invite queer Unitarian Universalist young adults and friends looking for a virtual space designed for them to join our conversations and community. LGBTQIA+ UU young adults and friends are currently meeting on the 1st and 3rd Monday of the month at 8 pm EST / 5 pm PST on Zoom. |
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Tuesday, February 2 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 uuyarn@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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Black Unitarian Universalist Young Adult Gathering |
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Wednesday, February 3 8:00pm ET / 5:00pm PT Register to Attend Black Unitarian Universalist Young Adults (BUUYA) across North America will gather on Wednesday, February 3rd to hang out and get to know each other. We will be in community with other Black UU’s 18-35-year-olds. We look forward to seeing you! Please share with Young Adults in your UU circles. By and for Black UU young adults. Organized by Donovan Hayden, Mya Wade-Harper, and Kamila Jacobs. A ministry of the Young Adult Revival Network. |
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First Wednesday of the Month 8:00pm ET / 5:00pm PT We are a group of privileged UUs working together to dismantle white supremacy and oppression in ourselves and the world around us. We read literature and listen to podcasts together, talk with each other about what we see and what is happening in our own lives, and hold community to support one another. We meet at 8pm ET on the first Wednesday of every month.If you are interested in joining us, please join our GroupMe with this link (https://groupme.com/join_group/64071720/sZdz9nbM) to get the meeting Zoom links, other information for upcoming meetings, and to engage with other people in the group. |
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Tuesday, February 9 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 uuyarn@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 lay leader who serves in any capacity within the movement, then please attend our UUYA Lay Leaders Call on the first Tuesday of the month. |
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Thursday, February 11 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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YARN Worship Series - February 2021 |
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Sunday, February 21 8:00pm ET / 5:00pm PT Our monthly UU young adult worship, every third Sunday of the month at 8ET/5PT. More details will be posted as they become available. |
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Intergenerational Spring Seminar |
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April 9-11 Online Register Now for the 2021 Intergenerational Spring Seminar! Register by March 18 for the 2021 all-virtual Intergenerational Spring Seminar, All In for Climate Justice: Food Equity and Sustainability, hosted by the Unitarian Universalist Association Office at the United Nations in partnership with the Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth. The Seminar will take place online April 9-11, 2021 and aims to instill in Unitarian Universalist youth and adults a commitment to global engagement and the skills to take action locally to address global issues. |
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April 16-18 New Orleans or Online, TBA Power Shift 2021 is a massive youth climate convergence taking place in New Orleans April 16-18 (but may become a virtual convergence spanning additional days -- the announcement will come in February). The convergence will bring together climate, environmental and social justice communities for training, strategizing, panel discussions and more. If you are a Youth or Young Adult interested in attending, sign up with the UUYACJ cohort! Full cost is $65; scholarships available. |
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Political Education Group With UU Young Adults for Climate Justice Network |
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Political Education Group With UU Young Adults for Climate Justice Network Dates TBA
**Open to UU/adjacent Youth & Young Adults (ages 14-35)** Over a series of 6 weeks, Young Adults will gather to read and discuss the Red Deal, a platform for Indigenous-led collective liberation and Just Transition from the Red Nation. These sessions will center the platform in the context of the Green New Deal and other platforms to win a Just Transition, and offer space for community building and advocacy. All readings will be available online for free; no prior experience necessary! |
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