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SJC Shared Basket
July/August
The Annual School Supply Drive
is back!
You helped us fill 40 backpacks with school supplies for 40 Round Lake kindergartners!
Forty backpacks were purchased with grant money awarded to this project by the PCUUC Board. Through their financial donations and donations of actual school supplies, PCUUC members and friends helped fill those backpacks with needed school supplies.
The filled backpacks were delivered to Round Lake kindergartners at the end of July, but you can still contribute! Financial donations received through the end of August will go to Round Lake Elementary Dist. 116.
80% of the families whose children attend Round Lake schools live below the poverty level, so buying new school supplies each year is a financial burden on those families. The filled backpack drive provides low-income families with the school supplies their children need to get off to a great start in school.
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There are several ways to contribute:
By check: Please write "Split" or "Backpacks" in the Memo line of your check.
Mail checks to: PCUUC
P.O. Box 858
Grayslake, IL 60030
Give online:
https://pcuuc.breezechms.com/give/online
Be sure to use the drop-down menus to select the fund(s) you wish to support and the payment method (credit/debit card or ACH transfer).
Give by text:
847-999-7060 and enter the amount you'd like
to give. Your donation will automatically be
split between PCUUC and Round Lake School
Dist. 116..
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On the second Sunday of each month, PCUUC services are available via Zoom only. All other services are held in-person and via Zoom.
August 14
Guest Speaker
Rev. Cindy Pincus
"Forgiveness is for
Giving Space"
Virtual service
9:00am on Zoom
Forgiveness is a sacred gift from Spirit and yet so often the word is used as a metric for how good a soul you are. This is especially true in our modern American culture and spans every modern faith. But if we take a closer look and use a better translation of one ancient scripture - the Gospel of Luke - we have a chance to think of forgiveness in a way that is actually life giving. Come join us August 14th and give yourself the space to encounter that old notion of forgiveness in a new way.
Rev. Cindy Pincus is a UU minister, spiritual counselor, and public theologian. She focuses on the forgiveness mysteries of the early Christian traditions and the Sophia mysteries of Judaism. She lives in Denver, CO and splits her time between there and her spiritual community in Santa Fe.
Service Leader is TBD
Religious Education (RE) is in person this summer except the second Sunday of each month which is a virtual service and virtual RE class. All students should attend the first part of service with their families, and then they will be sung off to class after the Story for all Ages. This summer we will have a one-room school house for ages 3 and older. Most of our summer lessons will be held outside so please dress your children accordingly and feel free to send a water bottle (please no juice or soda). Just a reminder that during the summer our RE classes end immediately following service. For more information, contact Director of RE Jennifer Weigand at Dre@prairiecircleuuc.org
If you are new to PCUUC and would like to join us register here: https://pcuuc.breezechms.com/form/a4e5c5
Click here for information about upcoming services.
Here's how SJC organizations have benefited from
your Shared Basket donations between July 1, 2021
and June 30, 2022:
Waukegan Public School Foundation (July and August) . . . . . . . . . . . $842.18
Home of the Sparrow (September and October). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $594.73
Northern Illinois Food Bank (November and December) . . . . . . . . . . . $647.96
One Hope United (January and February). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $521.02
Liberty Prairie Foundation (March and April) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $458.19
Midwest Veterans Closet (May and June) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $649.06
PCUUC Statement in Response to the Black Lives Matter Movement
As people of faith dedicated to justice and liberation, we stand in grief, outrage, and solidarity with those who are protesting the use of excessive force by the police, which has resulted in the deaths of far too many people from Native, Black, Latinx and other marginalized groups in the United States. Our stance is based on the Unitarian Universalist Principles that serve us as moral guides, specifically the 1st Principle, “The inherent worth and dignity of every person,” 2nd Principle, “Justice, equity and compassion in human relations,” and 6th Principle, “The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all.”
Further, we recognize our individual and collective responsibility to name the ways anti-Blackness and white supremacy show up in our families, work environments, social networks, and communities, and in the local, national, and transnational systems and institutions in which we participate, including in our own Unitarian Universalist denomination and our church community. We are committed to working in consultation with Black churches and Black-led organizations to bring our UU principles into meaningful action, and in doing so to fight for an end to systemic racism.
Anti-Racism Working Group (ARWG) and the PCUUC Board
ARWG Report 2/3/21