The Sweet Potato
March 9, 2021 |
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Note: YARN Ball not to scale in this meme. |
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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 YARN Ministries - 3/9 - UU YAM Professionals Call
- 3/10 - Black Unitarian Universalist Young Adult Gathering
- 3/13 - UUYA History Discussion Sessions
- 3/16 - Small Group Ministry Open House
- 3/21 - YARN Worship Series - March 2021
- 4/3 - QUUer YA Meetup
- 4/6 - UUYA Lay Leaders Call
- 4/7 - Countering Oppressions
Other UUYA Opportunities Apply to be a SPARK Leader at GA 3/13 - #YAearthlove Trash Pick Up 3/17 - SB: Homemade: Porches and Living Rooms 4/8 - Gathered Here 4/9 - 11Intergenerational Spring Seminar
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Hello To Our Many Friends! Last week we started a marketing campaign to raise awareness of YARN through the Unitarian Universalist movement. After just one week we have over 50 new subscribers to our newsletter! With so many new folx checking our YARN, we wanted to dedicate this issue to all of YARN’s ministries by focusing on our ministries, projects and networks first. Don't worry, there are other UUYA opportunities listed at the end of this newsletter. We’re so excited for the future of YARN. We look forward to having you at our events. If you want to help make YARN happen please send us an email (yarn@uusf.org) and let us know how you want to contribute. All our bests, Joe Chapot Editor of The Sweet Potato A Founder of YARN Staff at UU San Francisco |
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YARN is on a variety of social networks. Connect with us in whatever ways works for you! |
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In addition to YARN’s public ministries, we have two internal projects that support the long-term mission of YARN. If you want to become a leader in YARN, these are the areas we need the most support in (+ our nascent small group ministry:) - Fundraising Team: One of YARN’s biggest goals is to put real resources into our work. To that end we are working to set-up UU San Francisco as YARN’s fiscal sponsor. As we work on that, we are developing plans for a variety of revenue streams and meeting with numerous leaders within the UU movement. If you have any interest in fundraising work, let us know. No skill required, we will teach you.
- Media Team: From our current marketing campaign to our variety of social networks, we need help managing and coordinating all of YARN’s variou media pursuits. Coordinators, video makers, editors, graphic designers, writers; anyone wanting to make and help distribute UU young adult content is invited to join our media team. No skill required, we will teach you.
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The Flame: A New Unitarian Universalist Podcast |
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A new Unitarian Universalist Podcast is here; The Flame is a Unitarian Universalist faith-centered podcast envisioned and hosted by YARN Worship Team Leader Roddy Biggs-uu sharing messages of hope, love, resilience, and community. To follow The Flame and to learn more visit our webpage. |
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UU YAM Professionals Call |
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Tuesday, March 9 5:00pm ET / 2:00pm PT Email to Request Attendance 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, 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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Black Unitarian Universalist Young Adult Gathering |
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Wednesday, March 10 7:00pm ET / 4:00pm PT Register to Attend Black Unitarian Universalist Young Adults (BUUYA) across North America will gather on Wednesday, March 10 to hang out and get to know each other. This gathering is the result of three BUUYAs who started meeting in Fall 2020 thanks to YARN. They loved being in a space that is exclusively Unitarian Universalist, young adult, and BLACK! Now they want to share it with everyone like them. Practically, there will be a chalice lighting, a check in, and participants will spend time discovering what the BUUYA communal needs are. 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. If you can't attend this meeting but want to participate in the future, email yarn@uusf.org and you will be connected with the BUUYA group. |
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UUYA History Discussion Sessions |
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Saturday, March 13 at 1:00pm ET/ 10:00am PT
Sunday March 28 at 4:30pmET/ 1:30pm PT
Register To Receive Reminders Black Join Emily McKown and YARN for two discussion sessions focused on the history of Unitarian Universalist young adults. Emily McKown, Executive Director of the Channing Murray Foundation and UU young adult, will be delivering a major speech on the topic in April. She reached out to YARN to see if we could help her out, as the history of UUYAs is not properly nor comprehensively documented. We organized these two sessions for anyone, young adult or not, to join and discuss the full story of UUYAs. If you want to attend but can’t make/miss a session, Emily McKown can be emailed at: channingmurraydirector@gmail.com |
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Tuesday, March 16 8:00pm ET/5:00pm PT
Register To Attend We will have a monthly open Small Group Ministry for anyone who is interested. Participants will gather, be split up into small groups, and do a session together, bonding and reflecting on the theme. The meetings will be the 3rd Tuesdays of the month 5-6 PT / 8-9 ET; with the first meeting on Tuesday March 16th. |
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YARN Worship Series - March 2021 |
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Sunday, March 21
8:00pm ET/ 5:00pm PT Worship Service: The Complexities of Precious Water Join the UU Young Adult Revival Network (UUYARN) for a young adult worship service in partnership with UU Young Adults for Climate Justice (UUYACJ) in worship on Sunday, March 21 at 5 pm Pacific Time / 8 pm Eastern Time! In this service, we will be celebrating World Water Day in all of its complexities. Hear from climate activists about intersectional water justice work! We will also be sharing how precious water is and our personal experiences with how water brings us peace and brings us together. JOIN THE WORSHIP TEAM. YARN organizes a monthly worship by and for UU young adults, held on the third Sunday of the month. Join us for a young adult worship service on Sunday, February 21 at 5pm Pacific Time / 8pm Eastern Time! If you want to be apart of the Worship Planning Team, email rbiggs@uuma.org. |
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Saturday, April 3 6:30pm ET / 3:30pm PT 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 Monthly on First Saturdays: 3:30 pm Pacific 6:30 pm Eastern. For more information, please contact Roddy Biggs at rbiggs@uuma.org. Look for live links on our website, Facebook Page, or the next edition of our newsletter. |
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Tuesday, April 6 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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Wednesday, April 7 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 to get the meeting Zoom links, other information for upcoming meetings, and to engage with other people in the group. |
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Apply to be a SPARK Leader at GA |
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The UU College of Social Justice is looking for four Spark Leaders between the ages of 18 and 24 years old to lead and support engaging justice-centered and youth and young adult-focused programming connected to the all-virtual UUA General Assembly (GA) 2021. Spark Leaders will be helping spark connections and inspiration by leading and supporting programming and activities centered on activism, education, and justice at and around GA. To apply, click the button below. |
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#YAearthlove Trash Pick Up |
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March 13, 2021 All Day The Young Adult group from Chalice UU Fellowship of the Conejo Valley is hosting a trash pickup day! March 13, 2021 is the day after the spring equinox and the perfect time for us as a community to show Mother Earth some TLC. Us young adults are inheriting our planet, we need to take care of it for ourselves, future generations, and those vulnerable to the negative effects of climate change. To comply with health recommendations and social distancing, there will be no in person meetups. Instead, individual households are encouraged to go out into their local community and find a spot they believe could use some attention. For families with little ones, it’s a great way to get outside and teach kids how individuals can make a positive impact when we organize and work together. The emphasis is to spread love to the greater world and have as many people from all around the globe to join us. And not just UUs! On social media, use the hashtag #YAearthlove to encourage others, post pictures, and share with your friends. We want as many people to get involved as possible! Have questions? Check out our public Facebook page “Chalice Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of the Conejo Valley” and we’ll get to your question ASAP. |
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SB: Homemade: Porches and Living Rooms |
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Wednesday, March 17 6:30pm ET/ 3:30pm PT Finding the spaces that grow community: a reflection on building the connections we need to thrive, locating the spaces that coax out our authenticity, learning how to begin again. 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, led by our Sanctuary Boston band. At each gathering a community member offers a message of spiritual journeying, and we reflect on what it means to live lives of justice, equity, and compassion. Our live gatherings on zoom now offer closed captioning. |
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Thursday, April 8
2:00pm ET/ 10:00am PT 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. |
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Intergenerational Spring Seminar |
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April 9-11 Online Join the Intergenerational Spring Seminar for Food Justice, April 9–11th! We encourage young adults (and people of all ages!) who are passionate about climate justice and food justice to come to the UU@United Nations intergenerational Spring Seminar: “All In for Climate Justice: Food Equity and Sustainability.” Held virtually April 9–11th, we’ll explore the intersections and impacts of food injustice, both from the lens of indigenous and frontline communities, and from a world organizational lens. Hear from activists and change-makers, conspire with small groups of UUs for community-based action, and ground your faith in this movement for healing and justice. Spring Seminar centers the experience of young people, both in its planning and presentation, believing that accessible and interactive learning and growth is crucial to strengthening our intergenerational faith movement. This year, young adults are invited to a Young Adult Drop-in space on Friday afternoon before the seminar kicks off, hosted by Amelia Diehl (UU YAs for Climate Justice) and Rev. Stevie Carmody (UUA)! Come get grounded in community. Registration is sliding scale and due March 18th. Click through! |
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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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