Monday, Feb. 27: Next JAM Meeting at 6:30 pm
We will meet at First UU on Monday, February 27th at 6:30 pm. Please bring a potluck dish to share. The meeting starts at 7. All are welcome!
Friday, March 9: Immigrant Voices workshop
Often the voices of the marginalized are silenced from telling their own history.
In the absence of these voices, demographics can be mere statistics. The human stories are not told.
Paula
Cole Jones, a national leader in multi-cultural ministries, joins us for
an evening of interactive exploration of our immigrant history: Immigrant Voices: Creating a New History Through Spoken Word. Together those gathered will give voice to
immigrants' own words, helping us to engage ourselves in the truth beyond the statistics. The
words of immigrants shift our perception of history and a new reality
emerges.
Author of Encounters: Poems about Race, Ethnicity and Identity, Paula Cole Jones is
a Management Consultant with over twenty years of experience in
designing and facilitating workshops and dialogues for leaders and
organizations, including hundreds of Unitarian Universalist congregational, district, and
national trainings. Jones is also the founder of ADORE (A Dialogue on Race &
Ethnicity) and a former president of DRUUMM (Diverse and Revolutionary
Unitarian Universalist Multicultural Ministries).
Invitation to Join a Justice Area Work Group (JAWG)
At the Midyear's congregational meeting on February 5, the First UU Church chose Poverty Alleviation and Women's Health as the two justice areas to focus on for the next two years. the selection is intended for the purposes of pooling together our time and effort and to have more congregational input and participation in our justice work. Individuals are of course encouraged to work on the justice area of their choice, whether it is one of the chosen two or not.
Ginnie Vogts (lead, poverty alleviation) and Jane Larson (lead, women's health) are putting together plans for community involvement in each justice area, how we define success and failure and how we measure progress.
Please contact Ginnie (vmvogts@yahoo.com) or Jane (janelarson47@gmail.com) to join a work group of your choice.
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Recap: Innovations in Social Justice Workshop
On February 4, 2012, the Ohio-Meadville District of UUA held a workshop on "Innovations in Social Justice." Representatives from churches in Philadelphia, West side of Columbus, anti-Fracking initiatives in Athens and Youngstown shared their recent work in justice. JAM representatives Ray Nandyal and Steve Palm-Houser shared videos and discussed our public witness events during the last two years.
Recap: 300 gather for 'Freedom to Love, Freedom to Marry' interfaith service
“The union of two people is intended by God for their mutual joy,”
said Reverend Margaret Hawk, citing the Episcopal wedding rite, “for
the help and comfort given one another in prosperity and adversity, and
sometimes for the raising up of children in the knowledge of love.”
Rev. Hawk, who is Senior Pastor at the Metropolitan Community Church, was speaking at “Freedom to Love, Freedom to Marry,” an interfaith rededication ceremony held Sunday afternoon at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbus in support of marriage rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in Ohio. Read more
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