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March 3, 2022
In this issue:
This Sunday at UUCSV
RE (Religious Education)
Next Week at UUCSV
News from UUCSV Groups & Committees
Community
Contact
This Sunday at UUCSV
Sunday, March 6, 2022 - 11:00 a.m. 
“Kissing Cousins: The shared values of
Ethical Humanists and UUs"

Jackie Simms
 
Music: Sue Stone, piano
 
In 1926, fifty years after establishing the New York Society for Ethical Culture, founder Felix Adler wrote, “We [of the Ethical Movement] share an implicit
religion created by each person, following their own reason and experience, insight and understanding. We seek to retain what is vitally true in the moral teachings of the past; but we restate what is morally true, in terms that are meaningful and relevant today.”
 
Our guest speaker, Jackie Simms, is the current president of the Ethical Humanist Society of Asheville, which she co-founded in 2001. She first
became a member of Ethical Culture in her native St. Louis, MO, so as to
ensure her daughter had a strong grounding in ethical, nontheistic thought. Today we’ll hear how members of both the Ethical Humanist Society and the Unitarian-Universalist faith go about re-imagining, and re-creating, “our implicit religion” and moral teachings each day—and how similar we are in
doing so.
 
 
 
Order of Service


Gathering Music: “Imagine” (John Lennon)
Welcome & Announcements: Jackie Franklin
Opening Words/Chalice Lighting:  Jackie Franklin
Opening Hymn: #354 “We Laugh, We Cry”
Joys and Concerns – Introduction by Andy Reed
Congregational Hymn: #159 “This Is My Song”
Reading: from Thoreau’s Walden, read by Larry Pearlman

Offertory: “For the Beauty of the Earth” (arr. Mark Hayes)
Introduction of Guest Speaker: Andy Reed
Sermon: “Kissing Cousins: The shared values of Ethical Humanists and UUs” – Jackie Simms
Closing Hymn: #123 “Spirit of Life”
Closing Words: from Thoreau’s On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Jackie Simms
Postlude Music: “New Worlds Manifest” (Laura Lucile Halfvarson)

Music: Sue Stone, piano
Religious Education:  Nursery/Pre-K caregivers:  Childcare at this time is limited, and is performed as needed by either Susan Enwright Hicks, DRE or one of our trusted childcare volunteers
Video:  Evan Yanik
Sound Team: Bill Altork, Rhea Bockhorst, Larry Pearlman & 
David Reid

The YouTube video of today's service will be available Sunday afternoon, as well as all previous Sunday Services at UUCSV Productions. Click to go to YouTube here. 
 

 
 
Joys & Concerns:
 
We want to hear from you about your joys and concerns. If you cannot attend in person and would like to be heard, please send your message to Rev. Michael Carter by noon on Friday so he can read it during the Sunday service.
 


For online offertory and/or pledge donations:


THANK YOU!

  
RE (Religious Education)
March 6, 2022
10:00 a.m. - Virtual RE 
11:00 a.m. - Service/Supervised Play at UUCSV
2:00 p.m. - Virtual card making for new Americans
Susan Enwright Hicks, RE Director
 
Greetings RE families, 

This Sunday, March 6, 2022, Susan will be leading Virtual RE online at 10:00 a.m. and available for Supervised Play at 11:00 a.m. Additionally, at 2:00 p.m., all are welcome to join a Zoom meeting to make cards together (see below). 
 
Virtual RE Story time will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, March 6th, 2022. This week, we’ll explore differing points of view with the story A Tale of Two Beasts via Storyline Online read by Sarah Silverman. Families who’d like to explore this story on their own can do so by following the link.
 
 
  
Topic: UUCSV Virtual RE
Time: March 6, 2022, 10:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
 Join Zoom Meeting
 
 
Meeting ID: 799 6781 8413
Passcode: UUCSVRE
 
 
 
Have you made your cards for our new American friends yet? If you picked up a Valentine’s bag, you have some blank postcards to create greetings (friendly drawings) for the newly arrived families from Afghanistan. If you’d like to work on them (or make more) as a group, Susan will be hosting a Zoom meeting to do so at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, March 6, 2022.
 
Topic: Making Postcards for New Americans
Time: Mar 6, 2022, 2:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
 
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 542 592 5265
Passcode: Postcards
 
Once you've made your cards, please send them back to UUCSV at the following address so that we can get them into the hands of those we’d like to welcome. 
 
UUCSV
500 Montreat Rd
Black Mountain, NC  28711 
 
The RE Committee is still seeking new members! If you have an interest in helping to craft future programs for children and youth please contact Susan Enwright Hicks, DRE (828-450-5319) for more information/to express your
interest. We hope to have our first committee meeting of 2022 in early spring.
 
Due to recent COVID surges, Susan and the Board have determined it is
appropriate at this time to offer fewer in-person RE lessons. Current efforts will instead focus on take-home, virtual activities, as well as plans for special programs in the spring. Thank you for your understanding. 
 
Take-home Valentine’s Activity bags are still in Evelyn’s Room (main RE space) and can be picked up by families who would like them anytime the building is open or by special arrangement.
 
Next Week at UUCSV
Sunday, March 13, 2022 - 11:00 a.m.           
“Spring Forward Towards Growth”
Rev. Michael J S Carter
 
It’s springtime and we are looking forward. We are not only looking forward to the beautiful weather, but also looking forward to what the future holds. No, we don’t have a crystal ball, but we do know good things lie ahead because of our good intentions.
 
We must have intentionality as we spring forward into the new church year. Nothing happens without intentions and nothing on this planet
happens without it. Look around at the world you see. All of it began with an idea. The present (and future) social, cultural, economic and political climate needs this congregation. Our 8 Principles are sorely needed in this time of change and transition. Let's explore what it means as we spring forward
towards growth - in our congregation, in ourselves, in our community and in the larger world.
News from UUCSV Groups & Committees
 Volunteers Needed! - Asheville Habitat for Humanity
 
As noted in last week’s Current, UUCSV will be participating in Asheville Habitat for Humanity House of Faith. This will be the 11th house UUCSV has helped to build, and we are excited to participate once again.
 
I am the coordinator for this year’s house build in the New Heights
neighborhood of West Asheville, and will learn more about the timing, etc. at a kick-off meeting on March 10, 2022. In the meantime, I’m letting everyone know about this opportunity to volunteer, and ask that you call me if you would like to participate.  My phone number is 615.351.4364.
 
Thank you,
 
Deb Evenchik
  

 
UUCSV Quarantine Choir YouTube Channel
 
Our choir director, Linda Metzner, has set up a brand new YouTube channel specifically for the many song videos our choir has created over the past two years during the pandemic. Release date for the two latest videos will be on March 3, 2022, at this link. Other earlier song videos will continue to be added. Click "Subscribe" to be notified when songs are added! 
 
Following is the description of the channel you will find on YouTube:
 
"Our small Unitarian Universalist church choir in Black Mountain, North Carolina (The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Swannanoa Valley) began making videos for our online services as a response to the Covid pandemic in April of 2020. Our choir director, Annelinde Metzner, used her experience as a composer and arranger to make videos using Garage Band and I-Movies, with rehearsals and recordings on Zoom."
 
Thank you,
 
Linda Metzner, choir director/videographer
 
 
 

 
 
REMINDER: Save Your Stamps for Right Sharing of World Resources (RSWR)
 
Maggie Moon O'Neill, has placed a box for stamp collection in the foyer/entrance, on the sideboard table (near the nametag station). She has also posted guidelines for saving stamps next to the box, to be collected for RSWR periodically.

Right Sharing of World Resources (RSWR) is an independent Quaker not-for-profit organization that gives grants to groups of marginalized women in Kenya, Sierra Leone and India to fund individual micro-enterprise projects. Right Sharing’s work is grounded in a sense of stewardship for the world’s material, human and spiritual resources.
 
Maggie and Al's son, Jon Watts, is currently visiting these projects in Africa and India to create a film about the women who receive funding from RSWR.
 
Since 1996, the Quaker Missions Stamp Project has collected and sold used postage stamps and used the proceeds to fund this work. From 2009-2017, over $11,000 for Right Sharing was raised from the sale of stamps.
 
The stamp program accepts stamps of all issue dates and countries, both used and unused stamps, sheets of stamps, albums, boxed collections of stamps, envelopes and postcards.
 
Please see specific guidelines posted in the foyer of the church or check the website at https://rswr.org/stamp-program.
 
If you are not coming to the church in person, you may drop stamps off at Maggie's home in in Black Mountain. Give her a call (or text) to let her know you are coming by and she will give you the address. 

This is a major fundraiser for this wonderful organization.

 Maggie Moon O'Neill
804-339-1712
oneill.maggie9@gmail.com
 
 

 
Women's Group to Resume in March
 
The second Thursday of March (3/10 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.) is the planned date for a re-envisioning session for UUCSV Women's Group after our winter/pandemic hiatus. We will meet in the church portico and prop doors open (if weather allows) in order to follow COVID safety guidelines. Please RSVP if you plan to join us in the re-envisioning process by March 9, 2022, to Sally Smith at salasm@aol.com or Anna Marcel de Hermanas at annamdeh@gmail.com.  More information to follow next week.    
  

 
Getting Involved
 
Would you like to serve your community and find out more about how your town government works? I recently joined the Black Mountain Zoning Board of Adjustments, and 4 more members are needed. If you'd like to consider it, call Larry Pearlman at 602-501-8471 or email me at larryRpearlman42@gmail.com and we can discuss.
 

 
 New Covenant Group - Last Call for Enrollment
 
Last call for interest in the Covenant group starting at the end of March or early April. Right now, we only have 2 people interested in a Zoom group so it looks like we may be a fully in-person group with 8 to 10 people in
attendance. We will use the Covenant group format to explore our personal experiences and feelings around race and privilege. Since we will be using the work of Resmaa Menakem in the group, it would be helpful if everyone is at least somewhat familiar with the ideas presented in her book, My Grandmother's Hands. Emails will go out early next week to find the best time for everyone to meet. If you have not already done so, please contact Anna or Deb at annamdeh@gmail.com or debrvingle@gmail.com.  
 
We look forward to working together on this project.
 

   
Rev. Michael J S Carter - Vacation Reminder
 
Rev. Carter will be on vacation March 18 - 25, 2022.
 

 
Lost & Found
 
A wonderful canvas bag and two dish towels were recently found in the
storage area under the pulpit. They are washed, ironed and ready to claim. The bag is from a Fall 2005 UU Womenspirit event. On Thursday afternoon I'll place it in the LOST and FOUND cabinet below the books in the portico.
 
 
 

 
 Volunteer Opportunities
 
Please visit our Volunteer Sign up Page to see
opportunities for being of service to UUCSV. Note that some of these links have changed for 2022. Thanks to all of our volunteers. We couldn't be here without you!
 
We are always in need of Sunday Greeters.  Please sign-up and volunteer to be a Greeter!
 
If you would like to volunteer to supervise the collection plate, please sign-up here.
 
Community
Storytelling Event
 
A big storytelling event is happening tomorrow, March 4, 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. at The New Weaverville Community Center atop Lake Louise. The show's theme is "Courage & Hope" and will feature Larry Pearlman, Wallace Shealy, Charlie St. Clair and introducing Wallace Bohannon.  Listen to personal
stories of courage and hope that will take you to deep and dusty adventures, racetracks, sibling rivalry, love, jail, and... psych wards!  It's going to be fun, enlightening and hopefully stir your sense of courage. And it's FREE!!
 
Hope to see you there.  Spread the word!
 
Thank you,
 
Larry Pearlman
 

 
Ruth Pittard Love in Action Scholarship Fund
 
A fund honoring Ruth Pittard is only a few thousand dollars away from
meeting our goal. I would like the opportunity to your congregation to
contribute and support the Ruth Pittard Love in Action scholarship at Davidson. Ruth attends the UUCSV in Black Mountain and she is a strong force for love and good. This fund will give new opportunities in education and service.  A link to the fund can be found here.
 
Thank you,
 
Kiesa Kay 
 

 
In Conversation: Sound of Silence, Performance by Cherokee artist Luzenne Hill at the Asheville Art Museum
 
DATE: Sunday, March 13, 2022
TIME: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
COST: Free for Members or included with Museum admission
Further details can be found here
 
Join Luzene Hill, multi-media artist best known for socially engaged conceptual installations and performances including Sound of Silence, a powerful artist talk and performance. Sound of Silence explores issues surrounding asylum seekers at the Mexico – United States border and victims of sexual
assault, emphasizing the power of silence to symbolize consent and
acceptance, culminating with a call to action.
 
Hill’s work reflects interdisciplinary scholarship in visual art, women’s studies, Native American culture—topics that are integral to her background and
personal journey. During this talk, Hill will discuss how her social and art
activism developed and evolved.
 
An enrolled citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Luzene Hill lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. Her work has exhibited throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, Russia, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
 
Reservations are not required. This is a seated program; space is limited and will be provided first come, first served.
 
Generous funding for programming is provided by the Cherokee Preservation Foundation.
 

 
Sacred Circle Dance Resumes At The Light Center on March 6, 2022
 
After a pause for winter, we will gather in Black Mountain in the glorious Light Center on Sunday, March 6, 2022 for a monthly Sacred Circle Dance, led by Maggie Moon, from 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. All are welcome! Each dance is gently taught, no experience or partner needed.
 
Please come and bring a friend.  At this time the Light Center is still asking everyone to wear a mask.
 
Let's celebrate the return of Spring with the joy of a Sacred Circle Dance!
 
For more information contact Maggie at oneill.maggie9@gmail.com
Contact
 
Church office: (828) 669-8050 (email preferred during social distancing)
 
Michael Donnan, Office Manager (Tuesday & Thursday, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.)

Rev. Michael J S Carter, (Monday - Thursday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.)
Rev. Carter is available for pastoral care in the church office or virtually via Zoom or Skype. For in-person meetings, protocols of social distancing and face masks are followed. Please email Rev. Carter to schedule an appointment.
 
The deadline for submissions to The Current is Tuesday at 12:00 p.m., please send yours to admin@uusv.org. For more information and guidelines on submissions for our newsletters, website, online calendar, social media, Order of Service, and member news, please see our Publishing Guidelines.
 
Wondering about the difference between The Current and Tidings?
Get clarity here.
 

 
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Black Mountain, NC 28711
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