Parson To Person

JUNE 2008

Here at home . . .

(while we staff, in our turn, find some vacation and repose), our church's ministry this summer only grows.Our members' generosity with their life lessons and spiritual investments insures it.

Mid-June to mid-August, our Sundays promise

> Adult encounters with

* labor movement icons * science & religion * readers' theatre * creative writing * Peace Corpsvolunteerism * story-telling

and alongside them

> Children's experiences with

* jazz music * photography * theatre * dance * life masks * concrete art

And each of these times will provide new ways to strengthen the ties of our growing together. I look forward to "congregating" with you myself.

while

Half-way 'round our world . . .

our faith's 70+ years of transmitting trans-global compassion gives us direct access to those in most need. . . . Now 2.5 million in Myanmar, as you've heard or you've read, are suffering in the wake of Cyclone Nargis. County-to-country aid is still largely blocked by the paranoid military junta. The UU Service Committee staff, however, has active direct liaisons with aid workers in Panthein, Myamura. They have contacts, as well, with Buddhist nuns and monks there, whose monasteries can also give aid.

I myself, 18 years ago in the Philippines, saw directly the UUSC's great skill at piercing government veils to get help where it's needed. With this confidence, my donation through the UUSC website has been quite easy to make. If you too want to feel the power of our compassionate world community, I invite you to learn more here.

Fritz