We cordially invite you to a 
Celebration of Life
Honoring our friend

Philip Kreycik

Sunday, October 3, 2021
2pm Eastern Time 
(11am Pacific Time)  

Virtual Join Zoom meeting
https://harvard.zoom.us/j/9727657488?pwd=VG9rc0xXV2lScWhLZzl0MUFlREp5QT09
Password: 443221 or RSVP here. 

 

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Virtual Documentary Night

The next Virtual Documentary Night will be on Sunday, October 3rd at 7 pm.  This event is in collaboration with Students for Social Justice, a student led organization at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health. We will be discussing the documentary, Crip Camp. The film showcases a groundbreaking summer camp that galvanized a group of teens with disabilities to help build a movement, forging a new path toward greater equality.  Here is a link to where you can watch it for free. https://youtu.be/OFS8SpwioZ4 

Feel free to invite anyone you think may be interested in joining our discussion. Email Adam Hicks at communitydocumentarynight@gmail.com to be added to the mailing list for the zoom link to Sunday’s discussion.
 

 

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NWUUC Book Groupies

The NWUUC Book Groupies will meet Tuesday, Oct. 12th at 7 pm on Zoom to discuss 2021 Pulitzer Prize winner The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich. This fictionalized story around the true events involving Erdrich’s grandfather, a member of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa tribe of North Dakota, as is she, as he battled the US government in 1953 when it was decided to “emancipate” the tribe from their tribal lands. Another slice of history you might not have heard about.  



If you would like a copy of this book from our Bellwether Bookstore, please 
leave Penny Raney a message at 770 551 8817 and we will get a copy to you. Also let Penny know if you want to join the Zoom meeting so you can receive the link. Hopefully, this might be our last book groupies meeting on Zoom as we get our booster shots and get back to 3-D living. 

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Circle Dinners

 

We had three successful circle dinners in September at three different homes!  A fun time was had by all, the food was delicious and the conversation was lively.  Our next round of dinners will be on Saturday, October 16.  Won’t you join us?  

We try to have a group of 8 per dinner to keep the preparation for everyone manageable and the conversation intimate, and we ask that you be vaccinated to attend.  An invitation evite will be coming to you soon.   

 

How it works:
The Host/Hostess provide the setting and beverages (coffee/tea, etc.), while guests provide the meal, each bringing one of the following: 
l. Main Dish 
2. Salad/Rolls or Appetizer 
3. Veggie 
4. Dessert 

We rotate hosts/hostesses to allow them to go to someone else’s occasionally. We rotate guests… so they get to know others better. Dinners will usually repeat on the 2nd Saturday of each month.  To sign up, call or text Judy McKinley at 404-406-2369 with your preference of HOSTING, GUESTING or EITHER AS NEEDED; leave the rest up to the committee. The Committee will email the details of your Circle on or before the weekend prior to the dinner. 

 

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What’s New With the Fall Action?

• We have moved the date back to November 13th! There is more time to donate and bid!  The final online event will still be hosted by our own Tony Barbagallo at 7:00pm on Nov 13th.. We will use the Sunday Service ZOOM link.

• Check out all the items at https://www.32auctions.com/nwuucfall2021

• Or visit https://nwuuc.org/fall-auction/  for ‘How to’ videos and instructions for setting up an account and bidding.

Three guitar lessons! Any level of play, including beginners.

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Endowment Committee

The Endowment Committee will now start considering requests for 2022 funding.

This is from the Endowment Fund By-Laws that can be found on the NWUUC Website. 

Distributions from the FUND shall be made annually at the start of the calendar year and at such other times as deemed necessary and/or feasible to accomplish the following purposes:

For scholarships or grants to members of Northwest UU Congregation for the purpose of attending UU-related leadership conferences; or such other training which enables members of this congregation to grow in faith and service to Unitarian Universalism;

For the wider mission of the UUA at home and overseas, including but not limited to, grants to the UUA for new church development, professional leadership, educational ministries, world mission, and capital financing; and

For the physical plant of Northwest UU Congregation, such as, but not limited to seed money, for capital improvements or renovations, or debt reduction. For outreach into the community, including, but not limited to, grants to UU camps and conference centers, theological schools, social service agencies or institutions to which this congregation relates, and to special programs designed for those persons in our community who are in spiritual and or economic need.

Programs for support shall be submitted to the COMMITTEE for funding by October 31 of each year. Special application for extra-ordinary programs may be submitted at any time for the consideration by the committee.

For 2022 approximately $17,000 is available for distribution. 

Contact a member of the committee for an application for funding or click here https://nwuuc.org/endowment/.  Applications are due to one of the committee members by October 31, 2021.

Rebecca Gregory   rebecca.s.gregory@gmail.com  

Laura Hall laurahallatl@gmail.com

Hannah Cowart  hannahmcowart@gmail.com

Darrick Alford  darrick_alford8@gmail.com

Mary Anne Ericson  maryanne.ericson@yahoo.com

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