The Sweet Potato
January 12, 2021 |
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No idea where this came from but I found it in our UU memes folder.... |
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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 - 1/12 - UUYAM Professionals Call
- 1/14 - Intergenerational Climate Circle - Session 2
- 1/17 - UUYA Worship
- 1/20 - SB Worship: The Moment, The Movement
- 2/1 - UU LGBTQ+ Young Adult Meetup
- 2/2 - UUYA Leaders Call
- 2/11 - Gathered Here
- 4/9-11 - Intergenerational Spring Seminar
- 4/16-18 - Power Shift 2021
- TBA - Political Education Group With UU Young Adults for Climate Justice Network
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Hello Friends, I cannot speak for the whole YAC, but I know they would all agree with me when I say the actions of 1/6/21 will be seared in our memories forever. The violent, seditious actions of white supremacist are simply indefensible, and anyone trying to minimize or reframe what happened needs to be shut down now. This is not time for unity. This is a time for accountability, for an expulsion of the immediate threat our President poses, and for a massive effort to attack the roots of America’s favorite drug, white supremacy. I am angry, and I hope you are too, Joe Chapot Ministerial Assistant and Young Adult Coordinator, UU San Francisco |
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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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SURVEY CLOSES FRIDAY, JANUARY 15 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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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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Tuesday, January 12 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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Intergenerational Climate Circle - Session 2 |
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Thursday, January 14 7:00pm ET / 4:00pm PT As the climate movement mobilizes for this important decade of action, grounding in intergenerational wisdom is a powerful tool. UU lay and professional leaders and social/eco justice activists are invited to participate in intergenerational dialogue to share stories, memories and lessons of social movements past and present. These spaces are intended to cultivate deeper understanding and relationship among and between generations.Join the second session on Thursday, January 14 at 4pm PT/7pm ET! Can’t make this one? A third session will be scheduled for March, with future sessions in the works.Co-hosted by UU Young Adults for Climate Justice Network, UU Ministry for Earth and Elders Climate Action. |
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YARN Worship Series: January 2021 |
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Sunday, January 17 8:00pm ET / 5:00pm PT On Wednesday, January 6, the YARN worship team met to plan and discuss worship. Little did we know that democracy would be crumbling as we met. In that light, join us and bear witness to a long night of demands for liberation and celebration! Hear from your BIPOC siblings of faith as they each share a vulnerable part of their experience and ask each of us to embrace the discomfort and work towards building the beloved community. After the worship service, there will be time for reflection in identity-based breakout rooms. |
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SB Worship: The Moment, The Movement |
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Sunday, January 17 8:00pm ET / 5:00pm PT 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.This inauguration moment marks a shift in our political landscape, but it is not the first or last threshold moment we have been at. What have past moments like this shown us?What movement does this moment call us to build? |
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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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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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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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