TIME AND DATE POSTPONED

A Four-part Seasonal Workshop Series Introducing a Process of Self-Discovery

Through Dreams, Memories, Words, and Collage.


Each session can stand alone or be combined. Classes are $40 per session, and include all supplies and materials, plus tea and cookies. These workshops are presented by Shari Daly-Miller BFA, Fine Art, and Carrie Kellerby BFA, BA, MFA Creative Writing. Together we are Illuminated Manuscripts.

Session 2: Deep Roots or Seeds of Change TIME AND DATE POSTPONED

Sara Ban Breathnach claimed, “Each life experience has left an indelible mark on our souls as well as a layer of memory like a deposit of sediment.” Join us for this four-hour workshop concentrating on uncovering those significant moments in your life. Guided writing prompts and collage techniques will explore the foundations of your life and help you create a personal collage book.

Session 3: Excavating Authenticity in the Present tentatively August 15

Session 4: Illuminating Darkness tentatively October 24

Once again UUCGV will have a team participating in the Relay For Life. This year's theme is Colors of Courage. If you would like to join the team and walk with us on June 12th you can join our team at www.relayforlife.org. It will guide you to join our team or donate. Our team's name is UU's of Grand Valley. This is a fun overnight event for a great cause. If you have any questions about the Relay for Life  or how to join our team please ask Rev. Wendy or Floyd Joramo.

NAMI Western Slope

     NAMI Western Slope is the local affiliate for the National Alliance on Mental Illness.  We are made up of families, friends and individuals living with mental illness. 

What is Mental Illness?

     Mental illness is a biological brain disorder that disrupts a person’s thinking, feelings, mood, ability to relate to others and/or daily functioning.  It often makes it more difficult to cope with the ordinary demands of life.  Mental illness is a medical disorder, just like cancer, diabetes or heart disease.  Most importantly, mental illness is treatable.  The stigma that comes with a mental illness diagnosis can keep people from seeking treatment, however.

     Mental illness can affect people of any age, ethnicity, religion or socioeconomic status, and it’s found all over the world.  In Colorado alone, an estimated 200,000 are affected.

NAMI provides free assistance for mentally ill people and their friends and family through education, support and advocacy.

NAMI Walk

     NAMI Western Slope will be having our annual Walk, which is our major fundraiser, on Saturday, May 16th. It’s a fun family event!  If you would like to participate in the Walk, as either a walker or a donor, please contact Jan Lewellen at 314-9716 or jlewelle@bresnan.net.

2015 Pride Parade

All hands on deck!

 Help to complete our float for the 2015 BGLTQA Pride Parade in downtown Grand Junction! This is the first time that UUCGV has entered the Western Slope Pride Parade. We will need to complete the float by May 16th. Materials, GLITTER, and tools will be provided.

·Meet at UUCGV on May 2nd, and May 9th, Saturdays, at 10am.

·On Saturday May 16th we will meet at 2:00pm to add the finishing touches to the float, trailer, and tow vehicle. This is also a good time to make a posterboard sign to carry while walking.

We’re goin’ to the Chapel, Gonna get Married…

Pride Parade Sunday, May 17th at 12:00 noon

Come March (only 6 blocks) to show your support for people of all sexual orientations and gender identities! It is exciting for us to show our support for Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, Queer, Questioning and Allied people. Our theme is “Going to the Chapel…” to celebrate the advent of Marriage for All in Colorado! There will be a street fair at the M City Lounge after the Parade, we will be sharing a booth with the UCC group to get our welcoming message out.

We need a BIG turnout to show our enthusiasm!

Meet at 1st and Main, then walk with our float, or with our local interfaith group! Wear good walking shoes, and either “wedding attire” or a UU t-shirt. This is the time to pull out your Standing on the Side of Love, or Purple UU     t-shirt!

You have been invited – Please join us!

Faces & Voices

Exhibit Launch and Fundraising Event

Sunday, May 3rd, 2015

Walk in anytime between 2pm - 5pm

@ The Center For Independence

(Office Suites Entrance)

for more information...


contact

Julie Mamo

Executive Director

Grand Valley Peace & Justice

740 Gunnison Avenue

Grand Junction, CO 81501

970.243.0136 (office)

970-260-4301 (cell)

director@gvpeacejustice.org

Create a Collage Book Workshops for Adults & Teens The Illustrated Archaeology of The Forgotten Self:

A Four-part Seasonal Workshop Series Introducing a Process of Self-Discovery Through Dreams, Memories, Words, and Collage.

Each session can stand alone or be combined. Classes are $40 per session, and include all supplies and materials, plus tea and cookies. These workshops are presented by Shari Daly-Miller BFA, Fine Art, and Carrie Kellerby BFA, BA, MFA Creative Writing. Together we are Illuminated Manuscripts.

Session 2: Deep Roots or Seeds of Change May 23rd 1pm-5pm

Sara Ban Breathnach claimed, “Each life experience has left an indelible mark on our souls as well as a layer of memory like a deposit of sediment.” Join us for this four-hour workshop concentrating on uncovering those significant moments in your life. Guided writing prompts and collage techniques will explore the foundations of your life and help you create a personal collage book.

Session 3: Excavating Authenticity in the Present tentatively August 15

Session 4: Illuminating Darkness tentatively October 24

Dear fellow UU congregants,

We invite you to the Cottage Meetings on Sundays, April 26th and May 3rd from 12:00 - 2 p.m. They are about building our future -- and are as important as the hours you all spent putting up our lovely home. 

Please come the 26th (fine lunch provided), to talk about what each of us want in the future from shared and lay ministry. This 2nd Cottage Meeting of the year, we'll resume the conversation we started two years ago, at FCC (before we built our home), when we asked everyone for their vision of how they'd like to see our ministry progress; we'll quickly share the results from that time. We'll also share the results of the first cottage meeting a month ago, when we asked small groups how we are doing currently, as a congregation, with shared ministry. The discussion will continue among all of us as to our desired balance of lay and professional ministry, and our evolving vision of UUCGV. In addition to broad visioning, we will also have an opportunity to discuss some of our specific desires and goals for the coming year. Rev. Wendy Jones will be joining us to hear our ideas and to contribute to her vision of a future shared ministry. Our relationship with Rev. Wendy is ongoing, and she is contracted with the UUs for two years.

We also invite you to meet for the third and final Cottage Meeting on May 3rd, after an even finer lunch, to focus our conversation on the question off calling Rev. Wendy Jones as our settled minister, and moving away from the 1 or 2 years-at-a-time contract basis. 

All three cottage meetings are in preparation for the Annual Meeting, May 31st, when, among other things, we'll vote on this question.

We respect the diversity of opinion in this congregation, and we want to create safe space at these meetings to express all that we think and feel.

We hope that these cottage meetings will help us all communicate clearly what we want and what we envision long-term for our future together.  Please join us to help create a rich, healthy relationship in ministry, both within our congregation and lay leaders and members, and between Rev. Wendy Jones and the entire congregation. 

We'd appreciate it if you could let us know if you're coming by responding to administrator@uucgv.org.  THANKS.  Also, please contact any of us on the ministry committee with any ideas you have or questions that come up.

Warmly,

Sandy Dorr, David Miller, Joanie Leinbach, Lance Oswald, Monte High, Kathleen Hedlund, & Jeanie Hendricks

Dear UUCGV congregants,

The Safety Team has gotten some feedback from several members that makes it clear that we should open up a meeting to all who are interested in discussing our recent efforts. We would like to meet Tuesday 28th at 7 in the evening in the sanctuary. We hope to explain and clarify what we've been doing and why, and we really want to hear how this has been affecting your experience at church. We would also like thoughtful recommendations on how we can make our work more supportive of good experiences and supportive of our mission to be an accepting religious community. If you have any concerns or comments, please come join us Tuesday 28th at 7 p.m. to share those with the community.

Sincerely,
Dave Miller
Janet Kelleher
Todd Tawzer
Gary Dolezal
Rhonda Christensen

Baked items for those in need. A new ministry started by Michele Nelson and hopefully any of you who would like to participate. The main objective is to bring all of us together once a month and at the same time provide baked goodies for those in need in the Grand Valley. Everyone including spouses, friends, and family members may join us in the UUCGV Kitchen third Saturday of each month beginning April 18, 2015 from 9:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. All baked items will be donated. None of the items produced in this particular venue will be used for profit or personal use. Children of all ages are welcome!  If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please contact Michele Nelson at 970-261-4523 or E-mail:  mln01@bresnan.net

Celebrate Pride! Help build our fabulously sparkly float for the LGBT Pride Parade in downtown Grand Junction! This is the first time that UUCGV has entered the Western Slope Pride Parade, and is the third anniversary of the event. The Parade will be May 17th. Our theme is “Going to the Chapel…” to celebrate the advent of Marriage for All in Colorado! Meet at the church on April 18th and 24th, May 2nd, 9th, Saturdays, at 10 am. Materials and tools will be provided.