The Sweet Potato
August 24, 2020 |
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Honest Question, Is This To Harsh? |
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Thanks for reading "The Sweet Potato," the Young Adult Ministry Initiative's bi-monthly roundup of online UU young adult ministries, media, and more. Bold items are new or updated.
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News Events Turning the Tide Taking a Collective Breath YAMI Fundraising Team UUYA Leaders Call Gather Here Sanctuary Boston CallSanctuary Worship Gathering Online #VoteLove #DefeatHate Free Virtual Concert CONLine 3
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Hello Friends
FIRST, you may notice this newsletter looks a little different. We’re trying out a new newsletter distributor. YOUR FEEDBACK IS WANTED! Please respond to the email or contact uuyami@uusf.org with your thoughts.
Now, I am excited to announce that the new UU young adult committee (name coming soon,) has just wrapped up its Mission and Vision process and it is just grand. Read it below.
Bests,
Joe Chapot
Editor of The Sweet Potato
Young Adult Coordinator and Ministerial Assistant
First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco
-- Our mission: To foster and support inclusive, celebratory, Unitarian Universalist spaces that connect young adults with one another; to recognize intersectional identities and places of privilege and oppression; to create & share resources to build connections, grow community, and actively engage in anti-racist & anti-oppressive efforts around the world while living the seven principles and striving to realize the eighth. Our Vision: - We believe in funding young adult ministry at local, regional and continental levels.
- We believe in holding spaces for groups centered around marginalized identities.
- We believe in creating worships & faith experiences with challenging ideas and concepts that nurture spiritual growth.
- We believe in connecting young adult communities around the world across social platforms.
- We believe in recognizing the opportunities in our lives to actively engage and participate in social justice efforts that align with our principles and values.
- We believe in providing space for resources and support to be shared for young adult lay leaders in their communities.
- We believe in recognizing digital spaces as sacred spaces because they are virtual walls of a church community.
- We believe that this work is a living process, which we can always revisit and transform.
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BLUU Anthology Submissions Requested |
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Our friend and UU young adult Peighton Carter has UU + Coffee related stickers up for sale in their Etsy store. It's a pre-order and there is only have 25 coming so get them while they last! If you have any other UU related ideas for stickers, let them know! Call for Submissions for a new anthology edited by Rev. Mykal Slack and Takiyah Nur Amin, Ph.D. This will be an anthology of pieces published in partnership with @BlackLivesUU. Please see the submission guidelines and more information at |
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Our friend and UU young adult Peighton Carter has UU + Coffee related stickers up for sale in their Etsy store. It's a pre-order and there is only have 25 coming so get them while they last! If you have any other UU related ideas for stickers, let them know! |
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Our Friend Kari G preforming "Change is Coming" with the incredible music ministry leaders at UU Ann Arbor, Dr. Glen Thomas Rideout, Director of Worship & Music + Allison Halerz, Pianist-in-Residence |
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Turning the Tides - YA Community Spaces |
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August 24 - 30 Join UU justice makers all around California for this year’s ONLINE “Turning the Tides” Justice Leadership Summit, organized by the UU Justice Ministry of California. From August 24-30, 2020, UU justice makers and our partners will be gathering online for a series of workshops, actions, and gatherings to connect, collaborate, and create collective liberation! Offerings will be spread throughout the week, with multiple workshops to be recorded for distribution to registered “attendees.”
Learn more and sign up for this FREE offering of online community and collaboration at uujmca.org/TurningTheTides.
Events included in this listing are worships, community check-in spaces, and a workshop exclusively for our young adult attendees (ages 18-35) |
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Taking a Collective Breath |
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Next Session: Investing in New Approaches to Community Safety Utilizing Funding Incentives Tuesday, August 25 4:00pm This Event is Free! UU Service Committee & Side With Love invites everyone to participate in Taking A Collective Breath: Deepening our alignment with the Movement for Black Lives, a five-session series built around the elements of the BREATHE Act. The webinars will explore the components of the BREATHE Act and utilize its structure as a way to focus our energies to effectively support ongoing racial justice work. |
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Thursday, August 27 3:00pm ET/ 12:00pm PT Questions: uuyami@uusf.org
The work of rebuilding the continental UU young adult community can only be sustained and grown with financial resources. Our Fundraising Team is here to meet this challenge. We meet every two weeks to discuss ongoing fundraising efforts. The Fundraising Team is open to anyone who wants to create, make, and help operate our fundraising efforts. If you want to be apart of this work, but can't make the meeting, then just email us and we will get you in the loop. |
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Sunday, August 30 7:00pm ET / 4:00pm 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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Monday, August 31 3:00pm ET/ 12:00pm PT Questions: uuyami@uusf.org Gathered Here is a regular online check-in for Canadian Unitarian Universalist young adults (but the American's are welcome!) 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 current events with a spiritually grounded community. 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. 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. |
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Sanctuary Worship Gathering Online |
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Wednesday, August 19 6:30pm ET/ 3:30pm PT with Rev. Sara Dendy-Green Join us for a worship series on finding stillness in the midst of movement, and connecting to something larger than yourself by learning to pay attention to the little things.
The Sanctuary Boston is a progressive spiritual community striving for vibrant worship and real connection. Our worship gatherings are full of music of different styles, lead by our Sanctuary Boston band. Most gatherings also include a short message shared by a community member, as well as time for ritual and reflection
One tap mobile: +19292056099,,315418641# |
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#VoteLove #DefeatHate Free Virtual Concert |
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Sunday, September 13 6:00pm ET/ 3:00pm PT with Rev. Sara Dendy-Green Free Virtual Concert to raise funds for the New Florida Majority Educational Fund. The New Florida Majority is a front-line social justice organization working on issues important to many Americans. Join us in helping them get Floridians registered to vote and in educating communities on the power of their vote.The concert will be livestreamed on UU Miami's YouTube channel Sunday Sept 13th at 6:00 PM EST.
Performing will be: with monologue by Miami's own: - Randall Swinton
- Sarah Siegel
Enjoy the concert and donate to the New Florida Majority Educational Fund newfloridamajorityeducationfund.org Learn more about UU Miami and how we grow our principles of love, justice, compassion and equity in the world at UUMiami.org |
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September 25-26, 2020 Cost: Free
For: People Ages 18 to 35
Questions: email uuyami@uusf.org We’ve done it twice, and who doesn’t like a trilogy, so join us for CONline 3! Once again we will continue the experimental nature of CONline by expanding the event to two days! On Friday we will gather for worship, small groups and FUUN! Then on Saturday we gather for workshops, identity groups, and a talent show! Join us for all or part of CONline 3, registration is open and free!
We are going to have several identity groups at CONline 3 that we hope will become the starting point for more regular meetings. We know many people have more than one marginalized identity, but will only be able to attend one group at CONline 3. If you are willing and comfortable, please indicate which communities you are part of, and the coordinators for these groups will follow up with you after CONline 3 to connect you to them.
It will take many people to make CONline 3 happen, and we know a lot of you want to help. If you want to staff CONline 3 please indicate so on your registration form.
If you want to participate on the CONline 3 Planning Committee, email uuyami@uusf.org.
CONline 3 Schedule
Friday - (8p ET/ 5p PT)
- Opening
- Dinner Worship
- Small Groups
- FUUN Time
Saturday Part 1- (12p ET/ 9a PT) - Recentering
- Small Groups
- Workshops
- Lunch Hangout in Main Room
Saturday Part 2 - (3p ET/ 12p PT) - Recentering
- Racial/LGBTQ/Regional Groups
- Talent Show
- Closing
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