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Congregational Meeting
Your attendance is requested at our Annual Congregational Meeting May 19, after a brief service. Make your voice heard! The agenda includes 2024-25 Budget approval; Voting for 2024-25 slate of officers and new Board members; Proposed UUCRT Bylaws changes; the vote on the proposed changes to UUA Article 2.
https://www.uuworld.org/articles/mcdonald-a2qa
Look out for the meeting notice arriving by email.
May Topic: Renewal
UPDATE: Our Soul Matters group is full. We will be starting a new group in the fall, 2024. Please let Rev. Diane know of your interest this spring.
Children's Religious Exploration: The Gift of Pluralism
The RE theme for May is The Gift of Pluralism,
Week 1: Many Views
Week 2 Many Sources
Week 3 Many People
Week 4 Many things to celebrate
--Bernadette McGinn, RE Teacher
Rev. Diane Diachishin to Offer Pastoral Care
available to offer pastoral care for people who are struggling with loss, grief, or other challenges. Pastoral care differs from therapy or counseling in that it does not attempt to fix problems or address mental health issues. Rather, it provides a loving, accepting, hopeful presence, and, in doing so, makes it easier for people to get in touch with their own inner wisdom and strength. Most of all, pastoral care is simply being
present
for you. It brings the love and care of our entire congregation to those in need.
You can contact Rev. Diane to inquire about pastoral care using this link: https://forms.gle/UU Hikers
An informal group of Rock Tavern UU hikers meets monthly.
Here they are at the arboretum at Thomas Bull Memorial Park. Left to right: Steve, Sue Ann, Hollis, Nan, Jan and Rose.
The next hike is May 20. Email Jan if interested.
A message from the Unitarian Universalist Association:
"Unitarian Universalism is a living tradition that learns and adapts to meet the needs of each generation. It’s been nearly 40 years since a comprehensive review of our principles. The digital age has shifted our interactions with community and truth. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted our interdependence, and where individualism falls short. There is a rise in global autocracies and attacks on democratic institutions, and climate catastrophe and mass extinctions threaten the delicate balance of the web of life. These are just a few of the major struggles our living tradition must face today and in our future. With the articulation of our shared UU values, we can be better equipped to make values based decisions in facing these new and evolving realities."
Below are a few links to explore how our values and principles might be reframed. The UUCRT delegates to the GA Summit will be voting on the proposed revisions this summer. All UUCRT members and friends will have a chance to voice their opinions, and members will be able to cast their vote, before we send our delegates to the UUA General Assembly this June.
--Rev. Diane
Final Proposed Revision to Article II | UUA.org
Article II Study Commission | UUA.org
Art and Music Saturday, May 18 in Rock Tavern
"A painting is music you can see, and music is a painting you can hear.” – Miles Davis
Both art and music will be seen and heard Saturday, May 18, at the Unitarian Universalist fellowship hall at 9 Vance Road in Rock Tavern. If you appreciate folk music and artistic talent, this is the venue for you.
The public is invited to the free art show featuring Mark Rosengarten’s paintings and photography from 1 to 3 p.m. From 3 to 5 p.m., accomplished and celebrated musicians Neil Okeson and Lydia Adams Davis will present “A Gallery of Song”. Suggested donation is $20.
Neil Okeson is a singer-songwriter living in the Hudson Valley, performing original songs to audiences that weave together humor, joy, and the occasional political jab. Long associated with the Hudson Valley Folk Guild, he views songwriting as a living process, and a conversation with many.
Neil enjoys hiking the trails from the river to the ridge, and exploring the wilderness of the imagination, hunting for metaphors. He was a voice major in music school; guitar, piano, and ukulele are some of the tools of his storytelling shows. His first CD “Beautiful World” was released in 2015, and he is currently producing the next one, to be completed this year.
Lydia Adams Davis is a relaxed and warm-voiced balladeer. She brings an improvisational flair to her original and traditional songs.
Lydia grew up in New England and the Hudson Valley, where she was active with Pete Seeger and the Hudson River Sloop Singers. She also lived in Brooklyn for many years, earning a Master of Science degree in Deaf Education from Hunter College and raising her daughter, the jazz vocalist Romeyn Adams Nesbitt.
Lydia performed songs in a unique Country/Folk style at the Bottom Line, the Gaslight Café and enduring Folk venues such as the People’s Voice Café where she played on March 23 and the Hudson Valley Folk Guild and the Towne Crier Cafe where she played on April 7.
Several recordings document her Woman’s Gift of Story landscape, and her environmental focus. We All Have Lunch With LAD and One Earth So Green And Round were short-listed for a Grammy nomination in 2012, at which time she also achieved “Best In Hudson Valley” recognition.
Mark Rosengarten is retired from being a long-time high school chemistry teacher whose music videos and tutorials have helped many thousands of students all over this big blue marble of ours.
In 2012 he decided to start taking photography seriously and has been building his skills since then. He is a regular winner of the Times-Herald Record Photo of the Day, is well-known on several Facebook group including Hudson Valley In Pictures. He is also a painter, and a member of the Wallkill River School and Goshen Art League.
The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Rock Tavern is a liberal religious community where members and friends gather to support each other in our spiritual journeys and to give service to the wider world of which we are a part. See link below for more information:
http://uucrt.org/about-unitarian-universalism/who-we-are/
Caring Ministry
News from the UUCRT Caring Ministry -
What we do!
The Caring Ministry provides short-term, physical help to individuals and families within our congregation who are in need. While we cannot offer emergency or ongoing services, we can offer our collective love through support with:
short term meals rides for medical appointments, check-ins / for those who feel isolated, cards for celebrations as well as hardships, connection for those going through a difficult time
Because it is sometimes difficult to ask for help, the Caring Ministry relies upon our entire congregation to identify and communicate the needs of our parishioners. We work with Rev. Diane in confidence, to coordinate care.
If you, or if you know of anyone needing help, please reach out to Linda Manglesdorf or Rev. Diane, please contact: aa.uucrt@gmail.com or info.uucrt@gmail.com
