UUFM Sponsors a Blessing Box and Little Free Library at Wonder Workshop To contribute items, contact Doug at kbsi@cox.net. Or, drop by Wonder Workshop, at 506 S 4th Street, and stock the box with your items. Our box is in demand, and we’re short on financial donations to replenish staples. You can contribute financially to … Continue reading Social Action – December 2021
Dear ones, Happy New Year! We replace our calendars in winter, just as the days are beginning to lengthen, but the weather is nowhere near warming up. The practice – and the cultural and legal norms dependent on it – arose out of the Roman feast of Janus, the god of doorways and thresholds. Janus … Continue reading Note From Pastor Isa – Jan 2022
This month’s Soul Matters theme explores Opening to Joy … It’s easy to get tricked, taken for a ride, convinced that joy is a possession. Something to be opened just by us. As if it’s a holiday special delivery, waiting for us to unwrap it and keep forever. And who can blame … Continue reading Opening to Joy (Dec 2021)
A New Inter-Faith Youth Group has Formed! For 6th – 12th grade students, on Sunday afternoons. We have invited First Congregational, Manhattan Mennonite, and Manhattan Jewish congregations to join us each week. Nov 7 @ First Congregational – Second Helping lunches 12 noon We’ll help put together 80 sack lunches which will be distributed … Continue reading November 2021
Afghan Refugee Resettlement Effort Board Chair Judy Nickelson notes, “Some of you have expressed an interest in donating funds to help the Afghan refugees coming to Manhattan. We have set up a fund at the Fellowship for that pur-pose. You can make out a check to UUFM and note [in the memo line] that it is for … Continue reading Social Action – November 2021
Dear Ones, I am so happy to be among you finally! Thank you for your warm welcome during my brief visit last month and for your patience during my move here. As you heard during my reflection on October 31st, it has been a long journey for me to arrive here. I know you, too, … Continue reading A Note From Pastor Isa — Nov 2021
This month’s Soul Matters theme explores Holding History … Let’s start with the words of Parker Palmer, “Jewish teaching includes frequent reminders of the importance of a broken-open heart, as in this Hasidic tale: A disciple asks the rebbe: “Why does Torah tell us to ‘place these words upon your hearts’? Why does it not … Continue reading Holding History (Nov 2021)
Afghan Refugee Resettlement Effort Judy Nickelson offers this update on the arrival of Afghan refugees in Manhattan: Just an update. The first Afghani refugee family will be in Manhattan by Saturday [October 2]. They are a married couple in their late 20’s with 3 little girls, aged 5, 4 and 6 weeks old. We have … Continue reading Social Action – October 2021
This month’s Soul Matters theme explores Cultivating Relationship … Pandemic time is teaching us so many things about relationships. It’s undone our assumptions about work, calling into question the worth of “going into the office” and exposing how we pass most of the economic pain down to those on the so-called lowest rungs of the … Continue reading Cultivating Relationship (Oct 2021)
The big news this month is that we have hired a new minister. Rev Dr Isabel Call will be joining us in October, first remotely and then in person towards the end of the month. She was unanimously approved first by the Search Committee and the Board and then by the congregation during a meeting … Continue reading UUFM Board Report–Sept 25, 2021
