Community has become even more important in these challenging times. We offer multiple ways to connect.
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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.
Our next Sunday Morning Dialog is April 5th. CLICK HERE for more information.
April 5th, 10:30am
In person and livestreamed on YouTube
What a World There Can Be: A Multigenerational Celebration of Passover and Easter
Rev. Dr. Craig Rubano & Michelle McKenzie-Creech, CDFM
On this fourth day of Passover and on Easter Sunday, we celebrate the hope in the traditional Jewish hymn, “Bashanah Haba’a”—“Wait and See”: if we share, if we care, we open ourselves to a better tomorrow.
Music: Michael Rosin, Music Director; UU Singers
Following the service, for our youngest, there will be a celebratory egg hunt!
April 5th, 9:00am
UUCMC Community Room
Immigration Today: Policies, Trends, and Enforcement — Where Are We Now? – And What Are Young People Asking of Us in This Moment?
Itzel Hernandez
Many of us know Itzel from her work with young people who are dealing with the impact of immigration enforcement on their families and themselves. Always willing to educate us about laws and policies, Itzel will share updates on the status of immigrant rights in Monmouth County. She will tell us about this years’ trip to DC where she teaches students to lobby and exercise democracy.
Itzel Hernandez is an immigrant rights organizer with the American Friends Service Committee. She has played key roles in statewide campaigns including access to driver’s licenses, tuition aid and equity for immigrant students, occupational licensing for immigrant communities and others. Her work centers on amplifying youth voices and challenging systems of exclusion, contributing to broader state, national, and international conversations on immigration and social justice.
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March Theme: PAYING ATTENTION
The land is the real teacher. All we need as students is mindfulness. Paying attention is a form of reciprocity with the living world, receiving its gifts with open eyes and open heart.
Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the holy is drawing near.
For anyone trying to discern what to do w/ their life: PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO. that’s pretty much all the info u need.
When you pay attention to something you don’t especially value, it’s not an exaggeration to say that you’re paying with your life.
Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.
Your attention is like a combination spotlight and vacuum cleaner: It highlights what it lands on and then sucks it into your brain—for better or worse.
I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts but they needed constant attention and one day I decided I had better things to do.
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
In any moment, on any given day, I can measure my wellness by this question: Is my attention on loving, or is my attention on who isn’t loving me?
