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For those who cannot make it in person to services, we offer livestreaming via YouTube. See this week’s service announcement directly below with the link. (Click on the picture.)
Sunday morning service videos can be accessed at your convenience on our Worship page or YouTube channel.
Join us March 23rd for our next Sunday Morning Dialog. CLICK HERE for more information.
Rev. Craig hosts Thursday Tea Time at 4pm on zoom the weeks he is in the pulpit. CLICK HERE to find the link.
March 23rd, 10:30am
In person and livestreamed
For Such a Time as This: The Inspiration of Purim
Rev. Dr. Craig Rubano
We’ve crossed the Spring equinox, hope is springing up in the natural world around us, yet many hearts remain heavy, with forces imperiling our values on the rise. The finger puppets return to celebrate the Jewish festival of Purim. What can we learn from the story of Queen Esther in ancient Persia? Perhaps that we need to trust that we are where we are, doing what we are doing, for such a time as this.
Music: Michael Rosin, Music Director
March 23rd, 9:00am
UUCMC Community Room
That’s A Lot of Diapers! But It’s a Dream Center After All!
Liz Seaman, Director of Operations, Marketing & Development and Sherry Alicastro, Baby Pantry Director
The NJ Shore Dream Center Baby Pantry is growing! Located in Neptune, NJ, the Pantry currently serves approximately 200 families, which equates to approximately 20,000 diapers a month given to families whose income is at the poverty level. The Pantry hopes to extend the hours of the Baby Pantry, which means increasing their diaper inventory. In April, UUCMC’s Tuesday morning Covenant Circle will sponsor a drive to collect diapers and wipes donated from UUCMC members and friends. Please participate in this worthwhile cause.
After 15 years in marketing, event planning, and project management Liz Seaman was called to serve the Dream Center in the summer of 2020 after seeing the impact even small acts of kindness had on the community. She currently manages daily operations, public relations, website, branding, fundraising, and special events.
Sherry Alicastro is passionate about helping those in need and working together, in unity, with people from different backgrounds, denominations, and church affiliations. Sherry has over 14 years of experience working in various phases of ministry, including serving in women’s shelters assisting the homeless in inner-city Paterson, NJ. She also has over 20 years of professional experience as an administrator for insurance companies and doctors’ offices. Joining these life experiences together to work and serve the Jersey Shore Dream Center as Baby Pantry Director is a blessing and a dream fulfilled.
The Jersey Shore Dream Center is located at 3600 NJ-33, Neptune, NJ 07753, phone: 877-391-5732; www.jerseyshoredreamcenter.org
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March Monthly Theme: The Practice of Trust
I’ve come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way.
Trust is a confident engagement with the unknown.
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead, you relax, and float.
It’s a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.
A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because her trust is not in the branch but in her own wings.
In relationships, trust isn’t a promise to never hurt each other. It’s acceptance of the risk that we will hurt each other and the confidence that, if we do, we will come together to heal.
I don’t trust people who are alive and paying attention and don’t feel pain about what’s happening
I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, “I love you.”…There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
