Sunday, March 20, 2022 - 11:00 a.m. 
“Soul Work"
Rev. Carol Hovis
Music: Linda Metzner, piano
Rev. Carol Hovis has been a leader in faith communities, nonprofits, and community organizing for thirty-four years. Her ministry includes 9 years with youth and young adults in Fairfax, VA, and six years as Community Advocate with the San Rafael Canal Ministry, an educational nonprofit serving a
low-income Latinx immigrant community. From 2004-2016, she served as Executive Director with the Marin Interfaith Council, before moving to Asheville, NC, to be closer to family.
After two years of guest preaching and part-time pastoral leadership with a small West Asheville congregation, she currently offers spiritual direction,
retreats and enneagram classes, mostly online since March 2020, and
previously at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church in north Asheville. She
facilitates staff workshops at the church and other local nonprofits including the University of North Carolina, Asheville.
Carol lives with her husband, Chris Highland, author, teacher and Humanist Celebrant. carolhovis.com
Order of Service
Gathering Music: “One Voice” (Wailin’ Jennys)
Welcome & Announcements: Jackie Franklin
Opening Words/Chalice Lighting: #435 - Rev. Carol Hovis
Opening Hymn: #159 “This Is My Song”
Responsive Reading: #602
Joys and Concerns
Meditation & Prayer: #483 - Rev. Carol Hovis
Second Hymn: #18 “What Wondrous Love”
Reading: Matthew 5:43-48
Sermon: “Soul Work” – Rev. Carol Hovis
Closing Hymn: #170 “We Are A Gentle, Angry People”
Closing Words: Rev. Carol Hovis
Postlude Music: “Prelude In A Minor” (Chopin)
Music: Linda Metzner, 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:
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March 20, 2022
10:00 a.m. - Virtual RE
11:00 a.m. - Service/Supervised Play at UUCSV
Susan Enwright Hicks, RE Director
This week Susan will revisit the concept of positive affirmations which she touched upon last week with one of her sons, Isaac’s, recent favorite books: Affirmation Weaver by Lori Lite.
Topic: UUCSV Virtual RE Time: Mar 20, 2022 10:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Mar 20, 2022 10:00 AM Please download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your
calendar system.
Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 799 6781 8413 Passcode: UUCSVRE
Watch for an invitation soon to meet up for an outdoor playground update and refurbish day!
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Sunday, March 27, 2022 - 11:00 a.m. 
“The Right Kind of Refugee”
Rev. Michael J S Carter
The scenes from Ukraine I are heart-wrenching to say the least. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has stunned the globe as full-scale war has broken out and has
garnered wide spread coverage from around the planet. But this reporting has also lifted the veil of the flagrant racist attitudes toward the value, or lack thereof, of non-European life. A journalist by the name of Lucy Watson
proclaimed for I-TV News in Kyiv, "Now the unthinkable has happened to them, and this is not a developing, third world nation; this is Europe." One French commentator on BFM-TV, had this to say: "We are in a European city and we have cruise missile firing as though we were in Iraq or Afghanistan, can you imagine?" Let's not forget that Iraq is literally referred to as "the
cradle of civilization." The double standards are ludicrous.
If anything, the wave of solidarity with Ukraine across the world has been
inspiring. Yet for me as a person of color in this incarnation, it is difficult to not see this as selective solidarity.
When those same missiles landed in Syria and Chechnya, the reactions were more subdued. Let's explore who is the right kind of refugee.
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News from UUCSV Groups & Committees
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Canvass Pledge: 2022-2023
Thanks so much to everyone who has submitted their canvass pledge for the 2022-2023 year. The form link in Sunday’s email was incorrect, but your
inputs were still captured. We have already made it to nearly 20% of our goal in just the first few days. If you have not yet made your pledge, please do so at the link below. Thanks again for all your support of UUCSV!
Thank you!
Stewardship Committee
New Americans Project - UPDATE
The New Americans project is going well with many members and friends helping with transportation, child care, groceries and language skills. If you want to help you can sign up for just one day and/or one job (for example, transportation to ABTECH on Mondays, childcare, appointments, etc.) You can also talk with Julia Jordan about her lawn mowing project with Aziz.
Contact Katherine Tharp katherinet@gmail.com or Anna Marcel de Hermanas annamdeh@gmail.com to advise how you'd like to help. Our circle of welcome is a blessing to all of us and everyone sends gratitude.
House of Faith – Habitat Asheville
Thank you to those who have volunteered your time for this year’s build with Habitat for Humanity. If you are not inclined to pick up a hammer, there is still an opportunity for you to volunteer to bring snacks to the build site which is in West Asheville. If you are bringing snacks, you can show up at the work site and there is no need to signup as a volunteer. The goal is to have 8 people on site per day, and there are over 10 houses of worship providing volunteers.
As of now, these are the dates when UUCSV will be working at the job site (Fridays are excluded for lunch/snacks consideration since the work day ends at noon and the below numbers reflect the number of volunteers that have signed up):
- Tuesday 5/10 – 2 volunteers
- Wednesday, 5/18 – 1 volunteer
- Thursday, 5/19 – 3 volunteers
- Friday, 6/24 – 3 volunteers
- Saturday, 6/25 – 3 volunteers
I will provide updates as dates or the number of UUCSV volunteers changes.
Thank you,
Deb Evenchik
March Edition of Tidings - Correction
Please note the following correction: Mamie Hilliard’s birthday is on March 23 and Susan Culler’s birthday was on January 23. A happy birthday to both Mamie and Susan (and an apology for the mistake)!
Request For Tidings Submissions
Tidings, our monthly newsletter which offers in-depth articles of interest to UUCSV-ers, has a new topic for April. We're going to leap into supporting the Stewardship Campaign so the Tidings topic will be "GROWTH." Send your photos, articles, poetry, etc., to tidings.uucsv@gmail.com by March 25, 2022.
Rev. Michael J S Carter - Vacation Reminder
Rev. Carter will be on vacation March 18 - 25, 2022.
 Volunteer Opportunities
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.
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Announcement - Gallery Opening, Featuring Herb Way
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
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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.
UUCSV
500 Montreat Road
Black Mountain, NC 28711
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