Special Events
Pancake Breakfast
Sunday, Mar. 28 – 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM – Before Church
The COA class is sponsoring a PANCAKE BREAKFAST FUNDRAISER before church on Sunday, Mar. 28. The Coming Of Age youth plus volunteers will be dishing out fresh-made pancakes, sausage, fresh fruit, coffee, and juice! All you care to enjoy from this hearty and hand-crafted breakfast for a suggested donation of only $4 per person ($15 per family).
Show up early (we'll begin serving at 9AM) and have breakfast at church while catching up with your friends. You DON'T want to miss out on this fun event!! (To help us maintain a Green Sanctuary, please consider bringing your own place setting to breakfast.)
**This is a COA 2010 fundraiser – 100% of
the proceeds will go into a fund to pay for our
Coming Of Age youth trip to Boston in June
2010**
PIE PARTY
Contributing my slice of the pie!
Sunday, March 21 after service
What:
Pie and apron judging event. Everyone gets to eat lots of pie and be a judge. Once ballots are cast, we will have a closing ceremony with prizes awarded.
When:
Arrive at church early to register your pie in one of the categories listed below. Party begins after the service and will end by 2:00 p.m.
Bring:
A pie (or two) (homemade preferred), pie server, and a place setting. Wear your favorite apron.
Category Awards
Store-Bought Pie
Children’s Pie (Age 12 and under)
Men’s Pie
Custard Pie
Fruit Pie
Savory Veggie Pie
Savory Meat Pie
Nut or Chocolate Pie
Most Unusual Pie
Meringue/Cream Pie
First Homemade Crust
Party Wide Awards
Favorite Children’s Apron
Favorite Woman’s Apron
Favorite Men’s Apron
Best of Show
Most Creative Pie
Prettiest Crust
Room In The Inn
Friday, February 12
Make a difference this winter by volunteering to help the homeless in our community. The National Weather Service has predicted a colder than usual winter here in WNC. For that reason, these folks need your help more than ever.
The women will be staying at the Black Mountain
Presbyterian church annex. The Social Action
Committee is seeking volunteers to help that day.
We need van drivers as well as overnight volunteers
and food for 3 meals (breakfast, bag lunches for
12, and everything for the evening meal). A sign-up
sheet is available in the foyer.
Coming of Age Boston Tea Party and Talent Show
Saturday, November 14; 6:30pm
Suggested donation $5/person at the
door; doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Bring A Friend!!
Extremely talented members and friends of our
congregation will present their known and sometimes
unknown talents for your enjoyment.
Some of the star line-up so far includes:
Sam Scott, banjo
Emily Eliot-Gaines, violin
Aaron Eliot-Gaines and his band Solstace
Bill Altork, songs and poetry
Scott Conklin“A True Coming of Age
Story”
Jim Carillon, songs
Mary Soyenova, comedy
Dawn Wilson, spoonerisms
Sybil and the All-Girl Staff Revue, a skit or some
poetry, or some comedy….
Sally Beth Shore, drumming circle
Emcee: David Brown
In addition to this fabulous line-up of
performers, yummy desserts, coffee, TEA (of
course), and other non-alcoholic beverages will be
available for sale at intermission.
We look forward to seeing EVERYONE there.
Planned and sponsored by your Coming of Age
class:
Laine Everly
Sarah Gilmour
Sam Scott
Emily Eliot-Gaines
Aaron Eliot-Gaines
Fall Work Party
Saturday, November 7; 9am - Noon
The leaves are already falling. So Grounds is
organizing a leaf clean-up work party on Saturday,
Nov. 7 from 9 am until noon or so. Bob Box will be
bringing his truck with the vacuum hose. The leaves
need to be raked in piles alongside the paved areas
so Bob can vacuum them up for recycling. We can
really use your help. Please bring your rake as
there aren't enough in the shed to go around. If
you can't attend on November 7, please feel free to
rake on other days and times at your own
convenience.
Room in the Inn
Friday, October 2
UUCSV participates in Room in the Inn several
times a year here in Black Mountain. This program
provides food, transportation, and lodging to 12
homeless women in the community. Give these folks a
helping hand on Friday, October 2nd. They’ll
be staying at the Black Mountain Presbyterian
annex. Consider signing up to drive the van or
serve as a backup overnight volunteer. We also need
volunteers to provide meals (breakfast, bag
lunches, and all dishes). A sign-up sheet is
available in the foyer.
Moment for Memory
Sunday service, July 26, 2009
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One year ago tomorrow, July 27, 2008. a man, who wrote that he hates liberals, walked into Knoxville’s Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church during the Sunday service and opened fire.
Two were killed, one from that church and one from the Westside UU church and six others were wounded.
Today, across the country, UUs are lighting chalices to commemorate this moment. Last year, we put up this banner outside for several months and then in our foyer for the past year to send a message of support for our sister churches in Knoxville and to remind ourselves that, truly, Only Love Defeats Hate. We also put that message in a photo (see home page) and sent this to the two Congregations in Knoxville. The UUA took out a powerful full page ad in many papers that announced, “Our Doors and Our Hearts Will Remain Open.”
Today as we take down this banner, we continue our commitment to those words, to the words on our banner, and to continuing our support the TVUUC and the Westside UU. church.
Today, as Rebecca Williams reads, we light this Peace Chalice, given to us when the Sahara Peace Choir sang here recently for peace in Israel-Palestine, using words given to us by the ministers of TN Valley and Westside, Rev. Chris Buice and Rev. Mitra Jafarzedeh.
On this anniversary Sunday, we invite you to light a chalice in remembranceof Greg McKendry from TVUUC and Dr. Linda Lee Kraeger from WUUC. We call them by name, for ours is a tradition that honors the life and journey of the individual. Even before the day of his death, Greg McKendry, a large bear of a man, lovingly used his stature to protect and comfort those at risk of violence. Linda Lee Kraeger, a woman of substantial intellect, sought to empower all those around her to live into their potential.
We may speak of chalice fire as lighting our way to the future. But let us also remember that when we are lost in darkness, it is the light of a flame that brings the loving presence of the other into our vision.
And so we light this chalice in memory of Greg McKendry's heart of gold and Linda Kraeger's mind on fire.
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We add that Rev Buice has called for all of us
to “Stand on the Side of Love With
Knoxville” You can sign up and send a message
to the two Knoxville Congregations at www.standingonthesideoflove.org. We
hope everyone here will do so.
