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Our service described the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals that relate to gender and featured a presentation by UU-UNO Director Bruce Knotts. At the service we talked about gender identity issues and learned to introduce ourselves using our preferred pronouns. The Order of Service included ways to consider…Part of UN Sunday Services
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October 20, 2019 | Part of UN Sunday Services
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United Nations Sunday focused on UU-UNO's Climate Justice program area and the urgency of taking Climate Action. Establishing a Climate Action Team at our church is being planned.October 6, 2019 | Part of UN Sunday Services
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The UN Sunday Service was curated by our Worship Director Tamara Murray and led by Envoy team member Erica Merchant. The Music for Centering was "In Harm's Way", Amanda Palmer's powerful song on the global refugee crisis. https://youtu.be/PhmhsxPEUd4 The Reading was "Refugees want…Part of UN Sunday Services
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Usually at our fellowship we use some pieces of the provided service from the office to cobble together our international service. A year ago, Dan and I visited the UN and actually got to meet Allison Hess and her crew of summer interns. While there I said, would you ever consider traveling to Montana? She replied,…March 9, 2019 | Part of UN Sunday Services
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We posed the question “what can we do when it’s so overwhelming?” We had Bruce Knotts talk about the global scale of the problem and what we are doing through the UU UNO, then had our Immigration Justice Ministry share how we are making a difference locally, with a talkback with Bruce after. Service was…Part of UN Sunday Services
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Each October the Unitarian Universalist Church of Olinda observes United Nations Sunday. On Sunday, October, 21, 2018 our faith community held a service focusing on our UU faith's work at the UU-UNO and the United Nations. This year's theme was migration justice. Olinda's UU-UNO Envoy, Karen…October 21, 2018 | Part of UN Sunday Services -
We had a service devoted to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and some of the various projects those goals are working toward. Our youth envoy also spoke, during our time for children, and described some of the ways the world is getting better. Here is part of her talk: "The United Nations, or the UN, is a…October 20, 2018 | Part of UN Sunday Services
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Reverend Nica Eaton-Guinn presented a service that encouraged us to consider our own stories of how we reached this land. From the beginning of the United States we’ve seen exclusionary laws and values. We need to be mindful of our past and move forward with a vision of our varied cultures as a beautiful mosaic and…March 2, 2019 | Part of UN Sunday Services
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Sunday, October 21 was UN Day at UUCA. Our subject was “When Crises Strikes: Climate Change and Refugees.” Ambassador Donald T. Bliss of Cedar Lane UU Church was our speaker. He was formerly President of the United Nations Association of the DC area and has a long history of action and advocacy for the world body.…October 20, 2018 | Part of UN Sunday Services
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On Sunday October 14th 2018 several of our United Nations Envoys who attended the Spring Seminar shared our experiences and observations of the 2018 Spring Seminar: When a Crisis Calls: Advancing Just Migration for All. Seminar Participants Lisa Lo Piano Moskowitz and Julia Moskowitz shared the…October 14, 2018 | Part of UN Sunday Services
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Our UN Sunday service was held on October 21st, 2018 in North Hatley, Quebec. Rev. Carole Martignacco and Phyllis Baxter planned the service together. We read through the packet and chose some elements from the packet and were inspired by others. We decided to focus on an organization that helps Asylum Seekers who are…October 20, 2018 | Part of UN Sunday Services
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At the Sunday morning worship services, the minister gave a brief description of the UU-UNO and a collection was taken for the office. The "United Nations Sunday" event was announced from the pulpit. That took place in the afternoon, in the Buchan room at our church from 1:00 to 3:00, with about 50 people in…October 27, 2018 | Part of UN Sunday Services -
On Nov 25th Bruce Knotts spoke at NUUC of the powerful work he’s doing on behalf of LGBT and climate change issues, as the UU representative at the UN. SEA (The Social and Environmental Action Committee) hosted a pot-luck Q & A with 15 attendees afterwards, which allowed deeper discussion of the challenges and…November 24, 2018 | Part of UN Sunday Services
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The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at Salisbury celebrated UU-UNO Sunday on October 21, 2018. Vicky Demos, sociologist and UU-UNO envoy, was the speaker on, “The United Nations and Immigration: The Local Connection.” Her presentation was the second in a series of three on the topic of immigration. It addressed…October 20, 2018 | Part of UN Sunday Services
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The service was based on the proclamation from the UU-UNO Spring Intergenerational Seminar. The service included the programming that was administered be UU-UNO and also included was ideas and organizations on the Migration theme that congregants can be involved in to address the theme of the…October 7, 2018 | Part of UN Sunday Services
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For Cedar Lane’s UN Sunday on October 28, 2018, we welcomed Ambassador Keith Harper to the pulpit for both the 9:00 am and the 11:00 am services. Under the Obama Administration, Ambassador Harper served from 2014-17 as the U.S. Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Human Rights Council in…October 27, 2018 | Part of UN Sunday Services
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I started planning our United Nations Sunday way back last May, when a former church member, Ray Rainbolt announced that he and his family would be going to Ghana for several weeks this summer to work with the people there, thereby in conjunction with our UU-UNO national focus on Acting Globally. The next…October 20, 2018 | Part of UN Sunday Services
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This year we had our two youth envoys join adult envoys Rev. Ben Meyers and Charles DuMond (who also serves on the UU-UNO Advisory Board) for a (mostly) multi-generational report about Spring Seminar 2018. We had 7 youth from UUSM attend last April and our goal is to exceed that number this year. It was a…October 20, 2018 | Part of UN Sunday Services
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UU Community Church of Washington County in Hillsboro, Oregon held our UN Sunday on Oct 21, 2018 with a sermon by our minister Reverend Christine Riley Immigration, Migration and American Identity and a UU-UNO Moment by our Envoy Elaine Nelson. A special collection was collected for the UU-UNO and 20 individuals…October 20, 2018 | Part of UN Sunday Services
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