MPORTANT NOTE: We will continue to take donations for the Ada Jenkins food pantry at each meeting. There will be a buggy near our meeting room that you can drop your donations in. Some of things that they need the most are shampoo, deodorant, and toothpaste.  Please check our web site www.uulakenorman.org under the Volunteer page for further info on what may be donated.

UU Fellowship of Lake Norman

Winter Solstice Celebration

Come and join us for our special holiday service for spiritual nurturing, music, talk and conversation this Sunday December 20th at the Ada Jenkins Center, 212 Gamble St, Davidson, NC. Doors will open at 10:30 am with the service starting at 11:00 followed by refreshments and conversation.

“Let There Be Light”

A Celebration of Winter Solstice – “Let There Be Light” Service

Ever notice that religions the world over have a “light coming despite the darkness theme”?     Ever crave the warmth and light that a candle brings during winter? Come explore these ideas and learn more – celebrate with us on December 20th.

All are welcome regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, ability or economic status
We are a liberal faith community.

Note: CHILD CARE IS NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME

Peace!

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UUFLKN MEETING DECEMBER 6th

IMPORTANT NOTE: We will continue to take donations for the Ada Jenkins food pantry at each meeting. There will be a buggy near our meeting room that you can drop your donations in. Some of things that they need the most are shampoo, deodorant, and toothpaste.  Please check our web site www.uulakenorman.org under the Volunteer page for further info on what may be donated.

UU Fellowship of Lake Norman

Come and join us for spiritual nurturing, music, talk and discussion at our next meeting Sunday December 6th. Doors will open at 10:30 am with the meeting starting at 11:00 followed by refreshments and conversation. Our featured speaker for our upcoming meeting will be Paul Gibbs. The title of his talk is:

The title of his talk is:

“Buddhist concepts, making sense out of suffering.”

Synopsis

The focus of the talk will concentrate on connecting Buddhists concepts.Exploring the relationships between seeking wisdom, developing concentration, and living ethically.Along with an explanation of the 8 fold path and how it relates to ethics, mental cultivation and generosity.

Don’t forget about

“Evensong” – 4th session Sunday evening Dec. 6th 7 – 9 pm

Led by Rev. Amy Brooks

Evensong is a combination of worship and sharing (emphasis on sharing) for small groups like ours, to deepen their personal, spiritual understanding and build community through active listening.  Donations will be accepted during the gatherings. Also please try and arrive slightly before 7 so the session can start promptly.

“Evensong: An Eight Week Series of Gatherings”

4th session – The Human: What Limits Do I Encounter?

1.   Beginning Together: Show and Tell (bring something to share)

2.   Religious and Spiritual Experiences

3.   The Divine: What Do I Really Want?

4.   The Human: What Limits Do I Encounter?

5.   The Messiah, the Christ, the Buddha, The Divine Made Manifest:  What Is Possible?  What Keeps Me Going?

6.   The Community: What Is Possible Together?

7.   Endings: How Do I Live with Loss and Death?

8.   Ministry: What Is My Ministry?  What Am I Called to Do in the World?

Please feel free to contact Jeff at uulakenorman@gmail.com or Rev. Brooks at amyakosua@roadrunner.com if youhave any questions about this new program.

All are welcome regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, ability or economic status
We are a liberal faith community.

Note: CHILD CARE IS NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME

Peace!

uulakenorman.org 704-779-0533

Thanksgiving service November 15th

UU Fellowship of Lake Norman Thanksgiving Service

at the Ada Jenkins Center, 212 Gamble Street, Davidson, NC

Come and join us for spiritual nurturing, music, talk and Potluck at our next meeting Sunday November 15th. Bring the whole family. Doors will open at 10:30 am with the meeting starting at 11:00 followed by lunch and conversation.

A Day of Thanksgiving

Let’s celebrate our Thanksgiving Service on November 15 with a simple service and potluck. Our service will be short and sweet, about 30 minutes, with singing and story time for the kids. Also, each family will get to express what they are thankful for. In addition, we would like each for everyone to bring a donation for the Ada Jenkins food pantry. We will ask everyone to make the donations during the service.

Following the service we will share in the time honored tradition of the potluck.  Bring your favorite dish, be it side, main, casserole, salad, bread or desert to share with the group.  If you are unable to bring food for any reason, don’t despair – just join us! There will be plenty for all who come.

Looking forward to visiting with everyone.

Don’t forget about

“Evensong” – 3rd session Sunday evening Nov. 15th 7 – 9 pm

Evensong is a combination of worship and sharing (emphasis on sharing) designed by UU minister Barbara Hamilton-Hollway as a way for small groups like ours, to deepen their personal, spiritual understanding and build community through active listening. Sharing is a big part of this program and The topics covered in the first 8 sessions are listed below. Donations will be accepted during the gatherings to help cover the cost of the 8 sessions. Also please try and arrive slightly before 7 so the session can start promptly.

“Evensong: An Eight Week Series of Gatherings”

3rd session – The Divine: What Do I Really Want?

Led by Rev. Amy Brooks

1.   Beginning Together: Show and Tell (bring something to share)

2.   Religious and Spiritual Experiences

3.   The Divine: What Do I Really Want?

4.   The Human: What Limits Do I Encounter?

5.   The Messiah, the Christ, the Buddha, The Divine Made Manifest:  What Is Possible?  What Keeps Me Going?

6.   The Community: What Is Possible Together?

7.   Endings: How Do I Live with Loss and Death?

8.   Ministry: What Is My Ministry?  What Am I Called to Do in the World?

Please feel free to contact Jeff at uulakenorman@gmail.com or Rev. Brooks at amyakosua@roadrunner.com if you

have any questions about this new program.

All are welcome regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, ability or economic status
We are a liberal faith community.

Peace!

uulakenorman.org 704-779-0533

Nov. 1st meetings

IMPORTANT NOTE: We will continue to take donations for the Ada Jenkins food pantry at each meeting. There will be a buggy near our meeting room that you can drop your donations in. Some of things that they need the most are shampoo, deodorant, and toothpaste.  Please check our web site www.uulakenorman.org under the Volunteer page for further info on what may be donated.

UU Fellowship of Lake Norman

Come and join us for spiritual nurturing, music, talk and discussion at our next meeting Sunday November 1st. Doors will open at 10:30 am with the meeting starting at 11:00 followed by refreshments and conversation. Our featured speaker for our upcoming meeting will be Rev. Elizabeth Kerman. The title of her talk is:

Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)

This sermon explores a centuries old practice of remembering dead ancestors which is observed in parts of Mexico and Guatemala.  I believe remembering the past can have benefits for people and cultures.  There will be an opportunity for you to speak the name of someone you would like to remember.

Bio – The Reverend Elizabeth Kerman has been a member of Unitarian Universalist congregations  since 1962.  She and her husband first joined First Unitarian Church in New Orleans, Louisiana and their four children were born in Louisiana.  While there they helped to begin the West Bank Fellowship. In 1973 they moved to Houston, Texas and attended First Unitarian there.  Following her husbands death, she worked as a social worker in Houston,  and helped begin the Northwoods UU Fellowship.  At age 50 she entered Harvard Divinity School to prepare for the ministry.  She served The Winston Salem Fellowship for six years and six congregations as an Interim Minister.  She is currently retired from active ministry and a member of the UU Church of Charlotte.

Don’t forget about

“Evensong” – 2nd session Sunday evening Nov. 1st 7 – 9 pm

Evensong is a combination of worship and sharing (emphasis on sharing) designed by UU minister Barbara Hamilton-Hollway as a way for small groups like ours, to deepen their personal, spiritual understanding and build community through active listening. Sharing is a big part of this program and The topics covered in the first 8 sessions are listed below. Donations will be accepted during the gatherings to help cover the cost of the 8 sessions. Also please try and arrive slightly before 7 so the session can start promptly.

“Evensong: An Eight Week Series of Gatherings”

2nd session – Religious and Spiritual Experiences

Led by Rev. Amy Brooks

1.   Beginning Together: Show and Tell (bring something to share)

2.   Religious and Spiritual Experiences

3.   The Divine: What Do I Really Want?

4.   The Human: What Limits Do I Encounter?

5.   The Messiah, the Christ, the Buddha, The Divine Made Manifest:  What Is Possible?  What Keeps Me Going?

6.   The Community: What Is Possible Together?

7.   Endings: How Do I Live with Loss and Death?

8.   Ministry: What Is My Ministry?  What Am I Called to Do in the World?

Please feel free to contact Jeff at uulakenorman@gmail.com or Rev. Brooks at amyakosua@roadrunner.com if you have any questions about this new program.

All are welcome regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, ability or economic status
We are a liberal faith community.

Note: CHILD CARE IS NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME

Peace!

uulakenorman.org 704-779-0533

Field Trip Sunday Morning Oct. 18th

Sunday morning FIELD TRIP

Our regular Sunday morning meeting Oct. 18th at the Ada Jenkins Center has been canceled. Instead we will FIELD TRIP to Myers Park Baptist Church to hear Bishop Spong speak during the 11 am worship service. The title of his talk is “The Way Ahead- A New Reformation.”

We will meet at 9:30 am Oct. 18th at the Ada Jenkins Center to coordinate our carpools to Charlotte.

About Bishop Spong

John Shelby Spong, whose books have sold more than a million copies, was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark for 24 years before his retirement in 2001. His admirers acclaim him as a teaching bishop who makes contemporary theology accessible to the ordinary layperson — he’s considered the champion of an inclusive faith by many, both inside and outside the Christian church. In one of his recent books, The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible’s Texts of Hate to Discover the God of Love (San Francisco: HarperOne, 2005), this visionary thinker seeks to introduce readers to a proper way to engage the holy book of the Judeo-Christian tradition.

A committed Christian who has spent a lifetime studying the Bible and whose life has been deeply shaped by it, Bishop Spong says he was not interested in Bible bashing. “I come to this interpretive task not as an enemy of Christianity,” he says. “I am not even a disillusioned former Christian, as some of my scholar-friends identify themselves. I am a believer who knows and loves the Bible deeply. But I also recognize that parts of it have been used to undergird prejudices and to mask violence.”

http://www.johnshelbyspong.com/

Don’t forget about

“Evensong” – beginning Sunday October 18^th 7 – 9 pm

Evensong is a combination of worship and sharing (emphasis on sharing) designed by UU minister Barbara Hamilton-Hollway as a way for small groups like ours, to deepen their personal, spiritual understanding and build community through active listening. Sharing is a big part of this program and The topics covered in the first 8 sessions are listed below. Donations will be accepted during the gatherings to help cover the cost of the 8 sessions.

“Evensong: An Eight Week Series of Gatherings”

Led by Rev. Amy Brooks

1.   Beginning Together: Show and Tell (bring something to share)

2.   Religious and Spiritual Experiences

3.   The Divine: What Do I Really Want?

4.   The Human: What Limits Do I Encounter?

5.   The Messiah, the Christ, the Buddha, The Divine Made Manifest:  What Is Possible?  What Keeps Me Going?

6.   The Community: What Is Possible Together?

7.   Endings: How Do I Live with Loss and Death?

8.   Ministry: What Is My Ministry?  What Am I Called to Do in the World?

EVENSONG sign up

Please let me if you are coming to we can get a sense of numbers.

Peace, Jeff

October 4th Meeting

IMPORTANT NOTE: We will continue to take donations for the Ada Jenkins food pantry at each meeting. There will be a buggy near our meeting room that you can drop your donations in. Some of things that they need the most are shampoo, deodorant, and toothpaste.  Please check our web site www.uulakenorman.org under the Volunteer page for further info on what may be donated.

UU Fellowship of Lake Norman

A reminder to come and join us for spiritual nurturing, music, talk and discussion at our next meeting Sunday October 4th. Doors will open at 10:30 am with the meeting starting at 11:00 followed by refreshments and conversation. Our featured speaker for our upcoming meeting will be Rev. Amy Brooks. The title of her talk is:

“BUILDING COMMUNITY”

Congregational experts have done their research and discovered that building community requires the foundation of small groups who share a common interest, task, experience.  Amy Brooks, UU Community Minister, will be joining us to introduce the UU program called “Evensong” a small group opportunity she will be offering on Sunday nights for our fellowship beginning the evening of October 18th  from 7-9 pm.  Please join us to learn more about how we can grow together in community and to meet Amy.

The Rev. Amy E. Brooks

Affiliated Community Minister, UUCC

Amy is a fourth generation Unitarian Universalist from Western Pennsylvania where she grew up in the Meadville congregation.  She received her B.A. in Art History from Boston University and her M. Div. from Harvard Divinity School.  Amy continued her ministerial training with a parish internship at the Eno River Fellowship in Durham, NC followed by a 2 year chaplain residency at Carolinas Medical Center.

Since 1995 she has worked at the Regional AIDS Interfaith Network in Charlotte in a variety of positions.   Her work there has included supporting congregations to establish CareTeam ministries to people living with AIDS, pastoral visitation, and HIV/AIDS education and prevention.  In 2002 Amy and her colleagues were recognized by the Ford Foundation’s Leadership for a Changing World Program.   Currently she is on maternity leave.

As an Affiliated Community Minister with UUCC since 1997 Amy has served variously on the Memorial Endowment Committee, as Coming of Age Mentor, Senior High Boston Trip Advisor and Jr. High OWL Facilitator.  She has provided worship services and other duties as requested by the senior minister.  She has served the denomination on the executive board of the Southeast UU Minister Association and as a consulting minister with the Black Mountain Congregation of the Swannanoa Valley.  She is currently working with Mecklenburg Ministries on the Souls of White Folks Project as a co-facilitator.

Amy lives with her husband, daughter and 2 dogs in Huntersville, NC.

All are welcome regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, ability or economic status
We are a liberal faith community.

Note: CHILD CARE IS NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME

Peace!

uulakenorman.org 704-779-0533

Peace, Jeff Pender

UUFLKN MEETING SEPTEMBER 20th

IMPORTANT NOTE: We will continue to take donations for the Ada Jenkins food pantry at each meeting. There will be a buggy near our meeting room that you can drop your donations in. Some of things that they need the most are shampoo, deodorant, and toothpaste.  Please check our web site www.uulakenorman.org under the Volunteer page for further info on what may be donated.

UU Fellowship of Lake Norman

A reminder to come and join us for spiritual nurturing, music, talk and discussion at our next meeting at our new day and time Sunday September 20th. Doors will open at 10:30 am with the meeting starting at 11:00 followed by refreshments and conversation. Our featured speaker for our upcoming meeting will be John Bower. The title of his talk is:

“William James, Carl Jung, and Catharine of Siena:
A Rationalist’s Search for God”

Synopsis

This approach finds the emotional and spiritual content of theistic religion
arising from the structure of the subconscious mind.  There is a
God-archetype in our minds that listens to prayer and that will provide
guidance if we listen for it.  With practice, our way of life and
understanding of what is important can be transformed.

John Bower Bio

John has a PhD in physics and spent most of his career in research & development.
Since leaving the workplace he has delved into philosophy. He and his wife Pat are active members
of the First Unitarian Church of Lynchburg, VA, where they have lived for nearly 30 years. They have
two daughters (one of whom is Anne Pender, Jeff’s wife).

All are welcome regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, ability or economic status
We are a liberal faith community.

Note: CHILD CARE IS NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME

Peace!

uulakenorman.org 704-779-0533

Peace, Jeff Pender

UUFLKN Meeting September 6th

IMPORTANT NOTE: The Ada Jenkins Center food pantry is in need of supplies.  Lets all bring something for the pantry to our Sunday meetings. The list of possible things to donate are non-perishable food items such as pasta, pasta sauce, canned vegetables, cereal, canned fruit, peanut butter and toiletries such as shampoo, soap, diapers. The three things that are almost never donated are Shampoo, deodorant and toothpaste. If you have any of these items to spare please do so. There will be a drop spot next to our meeting room.  Thanks for your Help!!

UU Fellowship of Lake Norman

A reminder to come and join us for spiritual nurturing, music, talk and discussion at our next meeting at our new day and time Sunday September 6th. Doors will open at 10:30 am with the meeting starting at 11:00 followed by refreshments and conversation. Our featured speaker for our upcoming meeting will be Barbra Gardiner. The title of her talk is:

“A Introduction to Quakerism AKA The Religious Society of Friends”

All are welcome regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, ability or economic status

We are a liberal faith community.

Note: CHILD CARE IS NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME

Peace!

uulakenorman.org 704-779-0533

“A Introduction to Quakerism AKA The Religious Society of Friends”

My presentation will cover some of the origin and history of Quakerism, as well as a look at my particular branch of contemporary Quakerism. I will describe a typical Meeting for Worship and talk about some of the core testimonies of Friends, such as the Peace Testimony and the Testimonies on Simplicity and Nurture of the Earth.

Barbara Gardiner-Brief bio:

Barbara Gardiner was born and raised on the farm which had been in her family since the first Quakers arrived in South Jersey in the late 1600’s seeking religious freedom. She attended Quaker schools from pre-kindergarten through college where she majored in religion and psychology. She spent a few years after college “finding herself” (it was the 70’s after all) and then enrolled at Andover-Newton Theological School in Newton Center, MA. She focused her studies on pastoral care and counseling and received her Master of Divinity degree in 1980. She spent the next six years working as a hospital chaplain at St Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington, DC and becoming certified as a Supervisor in Clinical Pastoral Education. The next two years were spent at Carolinas Medical Center teaching seminary students and ministers how to improve their skills in pastoral care and chaplaincy. She has spent most of the last twenty years as a fulltime mom and now, with two college aged sons, she works part time at the Lake Norman YMCA as a fitness instructor. She lives in Davidson and is a member of Davidson Friends Meeting.

August 23rd meeting Sunday starting at 10:30

IMPORTANT NOTE: The Ada Jenkins Center food pantry is in need of supplies.  Lets all bring something for the pantry to our Sunday meeting. The list of possible things to donate are non-perishable food items such as pasta, pasta sauce, canned vegetables, cereal, canned fruit, peanut butter and toiletries such as shampoo, soap, diapers. There will be a drop spot next to our meeting room.  Thanks for your Help!!

UU Fellowship of Lake Norman

A reminder to come and join us for spiritual nurturing, music, talk and discussion at our next meeting at our new day and time this Sunday August 23rd. Doors will open at 10:30 am with the meeting starting at 11:00 followed by refreshments and conversation. The subject of our talk and discussion is “Finding meaning within the 7 Principles” .

All are welcome regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, ability or economic status

We are a liberal faith community.

Note: CHILD CARE IS NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME

Peace!

New meeting day and time

We are excited about our new meeting day and time SUNDAYS starting at 10:30 am with socializing with the meeting beginning at 11:00 am with refreshments immediately following the end of the program.

*NOTE: NO CHILD CARE available at this time. If you are interested in having children participate please feel free to email me at uulakenorman@gmail.com.  We would like to gauge the interest here in regards to setting up our future RE program.

All meetings for the rest of the year will be 1st and 3rd Sunday of every month starting at 10:30 with the meeting beginning at 11:00 followed by refreshments at the ADA Jenkins Center 212 Gamble St, Davidson, NC.