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UUFSD FOCUS - AUGUST 2014Unitarian Universalist fellowship of San Dieguito

Inspired by our UU principles, we are a vibrant, intentionally diverse congregation that models and promotes both locally and globally: love, spiritual growth, service, right Sunday, June 15: relations and sustainable living.

Table of Contents: July Services Pg 1Children on The Bus Pg 2Pres. of the Bd Notes Pg 3 UUFSD -The Year 2020 P4 4A Taste of SUUN Pg 5Backpack & Rx4 Pg 6Events & Activities Pg 7This & That Pg 7 & 8

Minister: Rev. David Miller revd@uufsd.org858-755-9225

RE Director: Alison Crotty alison@uufsd.org858-755-9225

Music Director: Jill Reis jill@uufsd.org858-755-9225

Administrator: office@uufsd.org858-755-9225

Sunday Services - AUGUST 2014 All services at 10 a.m.

Sunday, August 3: "We'll  Never  Know  Unless  ..."We  may  never  know  what's  going  on  in  peoples'  lives  unless  we  connect,  and  how  we  connect  can  make  a  profound  difference.    Mary  Ellen  Drummond

Sunday, August 10: Spirituality  is  Where  You  Find  It.    People  look  for  spirituality  in  beau>ful  places-­‐-­‐in  Nature,  for  example.  But,  I  found  spirituality  in  a  junkyard.    Niel  Lynch

Sunday, August 17: Not  One  More  -­‐  PrevenAng  Gun  Violence,  I  no  longer  want  to  just  "sing  to  the  choir"  about  preven>ng  gun  violence.  This  sermon  is  a  reflec>on  on  the  seeming  complexity  of  the  issue  and  the  steps  we  can  take  to  move  from  reverent  sadness  to  ac>on  that  can  be  meaningful  to  you.Steve  Bartram

Sunday, August 24: Restringing  the  Beads,  Popular  guest  speaker  and  oncology  chaplain  Michael  Eselun  will  explore  our  rela>onship  to  our  own  stories  and  how  we  use  them  in  the  aJempt  to  make  spiritual  sense  of  our  lives.Chaplain  Michael  Eselun

Sunday, August 31: Where  have  all  the  women  gone?Naviga>ng  rights  and  what’s  right  in  an  evolving  workplace.    Wenda  Alvarez

We resume two Services on Sunday, September 7, 2014

Designing the DreamOur Capital Campaign (pg 4)

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UUFSD Standing on the Side of Love and Compassion “Children On The Bus

Humanitarian Crises”

Rev. David Miller

Dear UUFSD,Thanks to all who have answered the call to assist the refugees in need. Whatever the politics of the situation, these are human beings needing love and kindness.

The San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium (SDIRC) has organized a support system to provide care packages and other assistance for the families who are arriving with little more than the clothes on their back. We have collected two (2) pick up trucks of clothing, toiletries and other necessities and raised over$1000.00 for the SDIRC to assist refugees as they proceed through immigration processing, usually a lengthy process.

Thank you again,

Rev. David

Sunday, July 13, Interfaith Sunday Service at Friendship Park

Donations to the “Children on the Bus” Refugees - It took a Pick Up and a Van to transport donations to Border Angels.

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President’s Notes

Lisa Shaffer

Planned Giving Program UUFSD has reactivated the Planned Giving Program to enable members and friends to remember our Fellowship in wills or other estate plans. Please contact Rigdon Currie (rigdoncurrie@mac.com, 760-452-6305) or Caroline DeMar (carolined@roadrunner.com) if you would like to consider a planned gift or have questions.

What exactly is the UUFSD Board and what do they do? Good questions. The Board is the governing body for the Fellowship, as set out in the Bylaws. “The Board shall have the authority to do all things necessary to conduct the business of the Fellowship.” Does that help?

This year’s Board, serving from July 1, 2014 – June 30, 2015, held a retreat to plan its work for the coming year. The basics come first – making sure we have the people, programs, money, and organizational capacity to operate well, to fulfill our mission now and every day. We view this through the lens of our strategic plan as we also look to ensure that we have the people, programs, money, facilities, and organizational capacity to grow and

continue to serve. Each month we will provide more information in the newsletter on what we’re up to. Meetings are open to anyone and will be announced and posted regularly. Board minutes will be posted on the UUFSD website by our new Board Secretary, Mark Tuller. Thank you, Mark!

The Board agreed that it’s members need to be more visible and more visibly engaged with all the other things happening at UUFSD. Each Board member serves as a liaison to one or more committees or program areas, making sure we know what you’re doing and what you need, so that we are al l supporting each other. Whether it’s funding, access to space, visibility in t h e O r d e r o f Service, or a table on the pa t io – we’re here to help you succeed. If you are responsible for some activity at the Fellowship and haven’t heard from a Board member, please contact me (LRShaffer@roadrunner.com)

We also agreed that we need to continue our efforts to find ways for everyone to be more involved in the Fellowship. T h e B o a r d members are all c o m m i t t e d t o UUFSD because we feel connected – to each other a n d t o o u r miss ion. When you get involved, i n F e l l o w s h i p affairs you meet p e o p l e , y o u understand what’s going on better, and you feel like you matter. And

you do matter!

We are working to redefine what were “volunteer tasks” to feel more like “opportunities” to get involved. Instead of asking you to join a committee for an indefinite period of time without knowing what that really involves, soon you will have the opportunity to be part of a team that has a specific task for a specified period of time. Are you good with numbers, and willing to help with special fund-raising events? Will you help in the kitchen for a few Sundays this year? Do you want to know our young folks better and help them become amazing adults? With two services, you can teach RE and not miss the wonderful music and sermons in any worship services.  

Nobody should be expected to do everything – some volunteers have given so much for so long they are getting burned out. And everyone should have the opportunity to do something. Serving as a greeter on Sunday morning gives you a chance to welcome folks you know and meet folks you don’t know. U s h e r i n g provides another chance to be a cheerful face to let visitors and members know we’re glad to see t h e m . S t a r t thinking about how you want to d e e p e n y o u r commitment to the Fellowship. I guarantee it will be rewarding for the Fellowship to benefit from your talents and it will be rewarding for you as a member of this beloved community.

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UUFSD - THE YEAR IS 2020DESIGNING & BUILDING THE DREAM

Now that we've hired Domusstudio Architecture (“Domus”) to develop a master plan for our capital campaign, we are now starting to design and build the UUFSD dreams that our Dream Catchers caught.

Much has happened since last month’s newsletter. Domus will conduct a congregation-wide workshop on August 24, after Sunday service. A second workshop will follow in early to mid-September. We hope you’ve already seen the email discussing the workshop, the campus tours, and the collage exercise (more on all three below), in which we hope all will participate, as we prepare to give Domus the clearest possible picture of what we collectively envision for our congregation.

SPITF is now Dream Builders. In last month’s newsletter we said “SPITF is not yet a UUFSD household word, but Just You Wait.” Well, you will have a long wait, as the acronym for Strategic Plan Implementation Task Force engendered unpleasant mental images, so it has been moved to the dustbin of history. At this stage in our progress, Dream Builders more accurately describes the team.

Campus Tours Available: The campus tours will commence 15 minutes after each Sunday service, through August 17, as members of Dream Builders assume the role of docents to show you the various areas of the campus we are looking to refurbish and enhance, and go over the ideas that we gave the architect in our Request for Proposal (RFP). For those interested in seeing the full 10-page RFP, it is on our website at http://uufsd.org/facilities/dream-builder/

The Collage Project: We want everyone - YOU - to be part of building our dreams. Share your words, images, fabrics, and more…..to represent/evoke the essence of UUFSD in a collage to be given to the architects, as described in a recent email and inserts in the Order of Service. The collage space will be available for your contributions beginning August 3, continuing until our first workshop with our architect on Sunday, August 24.

August 24 Workshop with the Architect: The workshop, in Founders Hall, after the service, will consist mostly of Domus listening to your ideas, going over the collage, and offering a few initial ideas of their own, along with some imagery. The workshop is something that you definitely will want to participate in.

John Sherman, Capital Campaign Chair

So now it begins: the years of meetings to produce the Dream Catcher survey, the Strategic Plan, and the RFP we sent to the architects have brought us a terrific architect who will provide a Master Plan with a visual representation of our collective vision. A giant wheel, which took a lot of work to construct, has now, through our collective effort, begun to turn, and the momentum continues to grow.

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SPIRITUAL REMINDERS

BUDDHIST PRACTICES Weekly: * Tuesday Mindfulness Meditation Grp. 9 - 10:30 am, Palmer Library MindfulnessMeditation@uufsd.org

* Thursday Buddhist Meditation 6-7:15 pm, Palmer Library ThursdayBuddhistMeditation@uufsd.org

* Friday Buddhist Meditation 10:30 - 11:45 am, Palmer Library FridayBuddhistMeditation@uufsd.org

Bi Weekly: * Buddhist Sangha 1st & 3rd Thursday of each month 7:30 - 9:00 pm, Palmer Library BuddhistSangha@uufsd.org

Monthly: * Chenresig Buddhism 2nd Thursday of each month, 7:30 - 9 pm, Palmer Library ThursdayBuddhistMeditation@uufsd.org

MENS’ GROUPS * Men’s Groups (closed groups) (Forming new group) 1st & 3rd Tuesday of each month 2nd & 4th Tuesday of each month 2nd & 4th Wednesday of each month Rich Macdonald: riduamc@yahoo.com

SPIRITUAL GROWTH CIRCLES * Spiritual Growth Circles Dates, times and locations vary SpiritualGrowthCircles@uufsd.org

Day Laborers Lunch ProjectJoin us on Saturday, August 2 as we prepare and distribute bag lunches to day laborers in the Encinitas area. We gather at 7:30 am, at Irv & Livia’s house to prepare lunches and distribute them until about 9:15. Included in the bag lunches is a handout describing day laborers’ rights. Information at: livwalsh1@gmail.com or nwharmon06@yahoo.com

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A  Taste  of  “SUUN”(San  Diego  Unitarian  Universalist  Network)

A  Food  and  Music  Festival

Saturday,  August  23,  2014

BBQ:  4-­‐6PM,  Music:  6-­‐8PMUU  Fellowship  of  San  Dieguito  1036  Solana  Drive  

Solana  Beach  CA  92075

No  Admission  Charge,  but  please  register  at

http://suunbbq.eventbrite.com

Questions?  Vicky  at  suun.events@gmail.com

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Rx4 SALE - Saturday, Sep. 20, 7 am-1 pm1. Rummage: through your household stuff2.Replace: old & items no longer used3.Remove: clutter from your home4.Repurpose: bring these items to the Rx4 Sale

Collections in storage pod & Founders HallSunday, September 14: Between & after Services

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, September 15, 16, 17: 4-6 pm

Contact “Rx4” Coordinators: Alejandra Hoffman Chen & Renae Grieg at Rummage@uufsd.org

WE NEED YOUR HELP TO MAKE “RX4” A SUCCESS

CONTRIBUTE YOUR ITEMS - CONTRIBUTE YOUR TIME -

CONTRIBUTE YOUR TALENTS

Back to School Backpack ProjectBring your donations of new and gently used backpacks, school supplies, or cash/

check on Sundays, June 15-August 10

2014 Goal: 50 Backpacks for:Your cash or check donation will provide:

$20 School Supplies

$30 New backpack

$50 New backpack full of school supplies

1. Community Resource Center in Encinitas for the children in the Battered Women’s Shelter

2. “Stand Up,” Homeless teens in Oceanside3. Colonia Carrettas in Tijuana, Mexico

For more information contact:Livia Walsh at livwalsh1@gmail.com

Liz Young at thefouryoungs@sbcglobal.netPlease donate men’s and women’s toiletries for homeless teens.

Encinitas Community Resource Center (CRC) URGENT CALL FOR HELPING HANDS

One of our current UUFSD Social Action programs is distributing food at the CRC Food Pantry on Thursday mornings. However, because of the demand, the CRC is adding a Friday food distribution. They will add two shifts every Friday: 11 am to 1 pm and 1 pm to 3 pm. There is a need for two volunteers per shift. SIGN UPS will be held in the core area, at the SAC table, after the service on Sunday, July 20 through August 3. For questions please contact Janet Robinson at jdrobin@sbcglobal.net

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AUGUST 2014 EVENTS AND ACTIVITIESPL-­‐  Palmer  Library,  FH-­‐Founders  Hall,  YRUU-­‐  YRUU  Room,  OC-­‐Off  Campus,  CA-­‐Core  Area

We resume two Services on Sunday, September 7, 2014WEEKLY ACTIVITIES

Mindfulness Meditation Group: Tuesdays, August 5/12/19/26, 9-10:30 am, PL. Livia Walsh at: Mindfulnessmeditaion@uufsd.orgSMART Recovery Program: Tuesdays, August 5/12/19/26,, 6:30-8 pm, FH.SmartRecovery@uufsd.orgUUFSD Band: Wednesdays, August 6/13//20/27, 6-9 pm, YRUU. Jill Reis & Rich Franzwa, band@uufsd.orgUUFSD Choir: Resumes Thursdays Aug 21& 28 Jill Reis at: Jill@uufsd.orgBuddhist Meditation: Thursdays, August 7/14/21/28, 6-7:15 pm, PL. Christie Turner at: Thursdaybuddhistmeditationgroup@uufsd.orgBuddhist Meditation: Fridays, August 1/8/15/22/29, 10:30-11:45 am, PL. Robin Mitchell at: Fridaybuddhistmeditationgroup@uufsd.orgSunday Morning Discussion Group: Sundays, August 3/10/17/24/31, 9-10 am, CA Michael Parr at: SundayMorningDiscussionGroup@uufsd.org

BI-WEEKLY ACTIVITIESNorth Coast Freethinkers We Agnostics: 1st & 3rd Mondays, August 4 & 18, 6-7 pm, PL. Michael Lawrence at: mglawrence2001@yahoo.comYRUU Youth Group Meeting: 1st& 3rd Tuesdays, August 5 & 19, 7-8:30 pm, YRUU.Alison Crotty at: ReligiousEducation@uufsd.orgBuddhist Sangha: 1st & 3rd Thursdays, August 7 & 21,, 7:30-9 pm, PL. Robert Isaacson at: BuddhistSangha@uufsd.orgWomen of the World: 2nd & 4th Wednesdays, August 13 & 27, Noon-2 pm, OC.Locations vary. Dianne Graham at: WomensGroup@uufsd.org

MONTHLY & ONE OF A KIND ACTIVITIES

Day Laborers Lunch Project: Saturday, August 2, 7:30-9:30 am, OC. Liv Walsh at: livwalsh1@gmail.com or Nancy Harmon at: nwharmon06@yahoo.comUUFSD Work Party: Saturday, August 2, 9-Noon, CA. Ken Schultz at BuildingandGrounds@uufsd.orgYoung Adults: Sunday, , August 3, 10:30 am, CA. Leslie Uke at: Youngadults@uufsd.orgMonday Discussion Group: Monday, August 4, Noon, OC. Steve Rosensteve.rosen@gmail.comBook Club: Monday, August 11, 7-9 pm, PL. Cathy Leach-Philips at: bookclub@uufsd.orgUUFSD Food Bank Night: Thursday, August 7, 6-8 pm, OC Sara Ohara at sara@saraohara.comChenresig Buddhism: Thursday, August 14, 7:30-9 pm, PL. Christie Turner at: Thursdaybuddhistmeditationgroup@uufsd.org

This & ThatDay of Mindfulness in Noble Silence, Saturday, August 2, 2014, 8:30 am to 3:00 p.m. Alternating sitting and walking meditations and a dharma talk. Bring your own lunch. We'll first meet in Founders Hall at 8:30 am. Please reserve a spot by contacting Bob Isaacson: bob7isaacson@gmail.com Sponsored by the Mindfulness Meditation Group.

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R.E. Family First Sunday Fun - Sunday, August 3, Noon-2 pm. After lunch come to a pool party at Keith & Beth Ellen’s home in Carmel Valley. RSVP A MUST to Linda Ochi (619) 607-1623, lindaochi31@gmail.com for directions and gate control.

San Diego Food Bank, Thursday, August 7, 6-8 pm. Anyone over 6 years old can help! We put food in boxes on an assembly line – really easy, no lifting, no bending, great camaraderie. The San Diego Food Bank distributes over 20 million pounds of food annually to individuals, families and a network of nonprofit organizations that work to alleviate hunger throughout San Diego county. They need our help! Contact: Sara Ohara at sara@saraohara.com

PSWIRL Summer Camp for Grown-Ups. Sunday, August 10 to Thursday, August 14. All the same activities mentioned for family camp will be available for this camp as well with lots of workshops. This year's theme speaker is Rev. Ellen Livingston. Contact Betsy Gilpin at: Debenneville@uufsd.org

**Dream Builders Campus Tours: Sundays through August 17: The UUFSD Dream Builders will lead tours of areas of the campus targeted for refurbishment and enhancement. **Dream Builders Architectural Workshop: Sunday, August 24, after the service. Workshop will be conducted by “Domus” the firm selected to develop a capital campaign master plan.

Yoga and Wellness Retreat, Camp de Benneville Pines, Sept 5-7. If you’ve never stepped onto a yoga mat, if it has been a while since you’ve taken a yoga class, or if you are looking to enhance your ongoing practice, this weekend will inspire you to make feeling vital a priority. Meditate, do yoga, make art, move, chant and sing joyfully, enjoy nature, and attend a variety of other wellness workshops. Information and to register: uucamp.org

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