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Kearsarge Unitarian Universalist Fellowship P.O. Box 1578 New London, NH 03257 (603) 526-8213 www.kuufnh.org April 2019 Assisting Ministers: Rev. Dick Dutton & Guests President: Jim Vashro Music Director: Martha Woodward Pastoral Care Team: Rev. Lee Page 603-759-8064 Kathryn Vashro 208 440 1855 Adult RE Coordinator: Marion Allen and Susan Nellen Children’s RE Coordinator: Susan Nellen Unitarian Universalists affirm the worth and dignity of all human beings and advocate freedom of belief and an open search for truth. The Kearsarge Unitarian Universalist Fellowship meets weekly on Sundays at 11:00 a.m. (September through June) in the Stone Chapel of Proctor Academy in Andover

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Kearsarge Unitarian Universalist Fellowship P.O. Box 1578 New London, NH 03257 (603) 526-8213 www.kuufnh.org

April 2019 Assisting Ministers: Rev. Dick Dutton & Guests President: Jim Vashro Music Director: Martha Woodward Pastoral Care Team: Rev. Lee Page 603-759-8064

Kathryn Vashro 208 440 1855 Adult RE Coordinator: Marion Allen and Susan Nellen Children’s RE Coordinator: Susan Nellen

Unitarian Universalists affirm the worth and dignity of all human beings and advocate freedom of belief and

an open search for truth.

The Kearsarge Unitarian Universalist Fellowship meets weekly on Sundays at 11:00 a.m.

(September through June) in the Stone Chapel of Proctor Academy in Andover

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President’s Message

Jim Vashro

April 2019

Well, it is finally getting warmer. As the days get longer and the outside warms up (a bit), signs of spring are showing up. That’s good because we are, calendar wise, in spring. This Spring is particularly important to me because it signifies rebirth and new life. Having recently lost another of our KUUF congregation (Cathy Todd) reminds us that we are all part of the continuing life cycle of nature and death is also accompanied with new life. This spring is, therefore, more nourishing to me than those of the recent past. In the next few months KUUF will be hosting at least one and possibly two celebrations of life. My challenge is to keep my spirits up while at the same time morn the passing of friends. For me, it is helpful to look to Nature, and therefore to this Spring. Spring also moves KUUF closer to our summer chores, the Pledge Drive and our Annual meeting (with next year’s budget). If you haven’t already, please bring your annual donation commitment current. This will help us plan for the 2019-2020 budget. While you are doing that, the Board and Committees will be trying to predict their potential spending for next year. Balancing the budget will be a tough challenge this year with the loss of members and your contribution will be even more valued, Thank You! And so, as we get on with the business of living, and growing our church, I plan to plant and nurture something special this Spring. (you as well?)

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KUUF Calendar April 1 MONDAY

Monday 2-4pm

WOMEN’S MEDITATION This date might change, read within newsletter

April 7

11:00 am THE NORTH COUNTRY

CHORDSMEN

April 14 2 EVENTS TODAY

9:30am 11:00am

ADULT RE God in America: How Religious

Liberty Shaped America

BETSY WOODMAN APRIL 19 FRIDAY

Friday 6:30pm

PASSOVER

APRIL 21 11am MATT WEINSTEIN

April 28 2 EVENTS TODAY

9:30 am 11am

ADULT RE God in America: How Religious

Liberty Shaped America

REV. DAVID ROBINS May 26

DIFFERENT MONTH EVENT

1pm Celebration of Life for Jane Guise SAVE THE DATE

April 7 The North Country Chordsmen of Hanover are a group of singers of varied ages and

interests united in our love for singing in the barbershop harmony style. April 14 Betsy Woodman My Victim: Funny and Unfunny Scams I get a flood of scam emails and phone calls, some of them so absurd they’re hilarious. They issue impossible promises and sinister threats, preying on greed, fear, and guilt. How do we fight these expressions of—and appeals to—the dark side of human nature? April 21 Matt Weinstien The Empty Tomb It’s the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox…also known as “Easter!” Matt Weinstein returns this morning to celebrate the decidedly natural and profoundly human experience of returning to life in the springtime.

April 28 Rev. David Robi “Calling Us To Wholeness” Every Sunday at the end of the service we ask for a blessing in our lives, “…calling us to wholeness.” We ask for this blessing because we understand that living in the world often means being fractured, divided, and missing the spiritual gift that makes us “whole”. David is a retired UU minister living in Harrisville, NH. He served parishes in Peterborough and Franklin NH, and Bloomington, Illinois. He recently published a memoir: The Shotgun.

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SAVE THE DATE - MAY 26 1PM

Dear friends of Jane Flagg Guise, you are cordially invited to a memorial service celebrating her 90-year-long life. The celebration will be held at 1:00pm, Sunday, May 26, 2019, at the Stone Chapel, 194 Main Street, Andover, NH. Please RSVP to [email protected], or by calling Elizabeth at (562) 357-8901”

Membership Annual Membership Ceremony is the 4th Sunday in October

Do you want to contribute to the growth of

Kearsarge Unitarian Universalist Fellowship?

Comments have been made about how welcoming we are, please continue welcoming our visitors: future

friends and members

As a member you have voting rights for decisions made by the board, you may hold a board position, you may represent KUUF at a district or national conference, you will be counted as a member for annual funds

provided to KUUF and support the future of KUUF!!! If you are interested in becoming a member

Please contact Kathy Vashro 938 5476 or 208 440 1855 .

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ADULT RE

9:30am

Susan Nellen and Marion Allen God in America: How Religious Liberty Shaped America A sweeping history of the role of religion in the public life of the United States.

** Please note the change in dates for this series resulting from the cancellation of church on March 10th for snow. April 14 --- A New Light April 28 --- Soul of a Nation May 5 --- Of God and Caesar Coordinators: Susan Nellen and Marion Allen Questions: 526-6776

KUUF Children’s Sunday School

Sunday School activities will be based on children’s skill level and

seasonal appropriateness.

I will draw from a diverse array of UU readings, games and art projects, as well as my own 40 years of teaching to make the children’s

experience at Sunday school worthwhile and fun. Possible topics:

-Comic characters and pagan Gods and Goddesses Possible and confirmed Famous UU’s

Beatrice Potter - author Maria Mitchell – astronomer

Louisa May Alcott - author Helen Keller – author, speaker, motivator

Contact Susan Nellen 735-4242

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Book Discussion May 19, 2019 –

No Book Discussion in April 9:30 AM

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BECOMING: A MEMOIR, Michelle Obama, 2018 “An inspiring, powerful, and intimate memoir of the former First Lady of the United States.” When she was a little girl, Michelle Robinson’s world was the South Side of Chicago, where she and her brother, Craig, shared a bedroom in their family’s upstairs apartment and played catch in the park. Her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, raised her to be outspoken and unafraid. But life soon took her much further afield, from the halls of Princeton, where she learned for the first time what it felt like to be the only black woman in a room, to the office tower in Chicago whre she worked as a high-powered corporate lawyer--- and where, one summer morning, a law student named Barack Obama appeared in her office and upended all her carefully made plans. Available at your Public Library or on InterLibrary Loan. Questions: Marion Allen 526-6776 ************************************************************* Good Reads… A Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border, Francisco Cantu, 2018 A former US Border Patrol Agent in Texas, Arizona, & New Mexico shares his story. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in te Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander, 2010, 2012.

A Spark of Light, Jodi Picoult, 2018 A crisis unfolds as a gunman bursts into a Women’s Center Health…

Marion Allen 526-6776

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2019-2020 Pledge Drive

This coming week you will be receiving this year’s pledge packet mailing that includes a letter from our President, Jim Vashro, and a pledge card. The leadership of KUUF understands that this community, this country and the world are under great financial stress. Our hope is that you think carefully about what the KUUF family means to you. Think about the wonderful Sunday Services with a variety of speakers who enlighten us each week and make us see the bigger world around us with new perspectives. About how important in this time of world religious turmoil KUUF’s presence in our area is a voice of reason. Please search your heart and be as generous as possible. Help us keep the quality of our services and our presence in the community the highest we can. If we all pledge to the best of our ability, we can succeed. Thank You. Ken Preston, Treasurer Liz Maloof

FOOD PANTRY

When you go to the grocery store, pick up something for the food pantry. There are always food needs in this area.

The Kearsarge Lake Sunapee Community Food Pantry will always accept coffee (regular, decaf, & instant), paper towels, toilet paper,

peanut butter & jelly, cake and brownie mixes, and monetary donations are welcome.

Monetary donations can be made to: KLS Community Food Pantry, P.O. Box 536, New London, NH 03257

REMEMBER FOOD IS NEEDED YEAR ROUND

HOW MUCH WILL YOU BRING TO FEED THE HUNGRY????

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APRIL April’s meditation Group may meet on April 1

Please call # below to find out this month’s changed schedule

The KUUF Women’s Meditation Group

has decided to change our meetings from twice a month to once a

month. Meetings will be held on the second Monday of a month from

2:00 to 4:00. Currently meetings are to be held at Fran Preston’s

home. All women members and friends of KUUF are welcome.

Questions: Call Fran 526-9623

SOCIAL COMMITTEE

PASSOVER SEDER DINNER

6:30PM DINNER STARTS AT SUNDOWN 7:33PM

Ragged Mountain Club House You will be contacted for food to contribute to the dinner and

directions to get to Ragged Club house

Contact Yvonne Howard 927-4735

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KUUF Directory Update With the passing of Lizzie Klingler this past January the torch for maintaining the KUUF Directory has passed to me (Liz Maloof) I am working on an update to be available for the June 9, 2019 Annual Meeting. This will be emailed as usual the end of June as well as copies available at the meeting. If your contact information has changed (i.e. address, phone/cell number or email) please let me know so that the directory in June will be as up to date as possible. Thank you in advance for your help. Liz Maloof Tele. 603-526-9889 Email: [email protected]

APRIL BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARYS

April 4 Betsy Abbe April 11 Bill Hickey

April 26 Martha Woodward

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All excerpts below are from LGBTQ Nation March 26, 2019

Nationally Michigan will no longer allow faith-based adoption agencies to turn away same-sex couples. “Limiting the opportunity for a child to be adopted or fostered by a loving home not only goes against our state goal of finding a home for every child, it is a direct violation of the contract every child placing agency enters into with the state’, Nessel (ACLU lawyer) stated

Internationally “Under international law, stoning people to death constitutes torture or other cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment and is thus clearly prohibited” Rupert Colville, a spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights said in 2013 when a Brunei law was first passed and postponed. The Brunei postponed law to stone homosexuals will be allowed April 3

PLEASE AND THANK YOU Send information for the May newsletter by April 22

Kathy Vashro [email protected] Call 938 5476

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PARISH CARE AND SUPPORT

Do you feel supported and recognized by KUUF? What can WE (friends and members)do to support YOU?

Do you have services or items you want ‘advertised’ in this section? Contact Kathy Vashro 208 440 1855

TAX SEASON IS UPON US, IF YOU NEED SUPPORT WITH

YOUR TAXES CONTACT THE BAR HARBOR BANK ON MAIN AND PLEASANT STREET (526 2535) FREE TAX RETURNS BY

EXPERIENCED TAX PREPARERS ARE AVAILABLE TO SENIORS AND LOW INCOME TAX PAYERS. (IRS AND AARP SPONSERED)

DRIVERS NEEDED There are members and friends of KUUF that are searching for rides to social events, appointments and KUUF SUNDAY SERVICES.. Drivers are needed during the day, night, weekdays and weekends. COA is available during weekdays and UBER has moved into the area with Mark and Donna Pierce as drivers!!!! MOVING AND DOWNSIZING – several are in the middle of moving and downsizing Items for sale and free MOVERS AND TRUCKS NEEDED to help those that are downsizing SPLIT WOOD DELIVERED

Also available to you from our congregation is a chef, artists, handyman, caregiver, organizer, reader, house cleaner, computer

repair and computer tutor. ASK and find out who can support you.

PASTORAL CARE TEAM

Rev. Lee Page 603-759-8064 Kathryn Vashro 208 440 1855 We are now a team of two and need more to be our eyes and ears and hands and feet. Please pass on information to us about those you know who are ‘shut ins’, in the hospital, sick at home or would enjoy some company. If you can spare time to visit, cook a meal, bake some cookies, drive or write a note, please contact Lee Page or Kathy Vashro.

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To Cathy Todd died March 16

surrounded by your daughter and sister at NL Hospital Family services will be on the Stanley Farm during the summer.

Kathy Vashro heard the below Ode as she was leaving NL hospital after

visiting Cathy Todd. Below was read on NPR minutes after leaving the

hospital with a request to find inspirational sayings. I was unable to read it to

Cathy while she was mentally with us, but was able to read it to her with the

idea that she hears it from somewhere.

ODE TO DIRT

Dear dirt, I am sorry I slighted you, I thought that you were only the background for the leading characters—the plants and animals and human animals. It’s as if I had loved only the stars and not the sky which gave them space in which to shine. Subtle, various, sensitive, you are the skin of our terrain, you’re our democracy. When I understood I had never honored you as a living equal, I was ashamed of myself, as if I had not recognized a character who looked so different from me, but now I can see us all, made of the same basic materials— cousins of that first exploding from nothing— in our intricate equation together. O dirt, help us find ways to serve your life, you who have brought us forth, and fed us, and who at the end will take us in and rotate with us, and wobble, and orbit.

Pledge Reminder

We are past the midpoint of KUUF’s 2018-2019 Church Year. Is your Pledge up to date? If you are unsure please contact Ken Preston, Treasurer, for any information you may need.

Thank you to all who have completed this commitment, as well as all who generously contribute to open offering on Sundays!

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Several of the KUUF committees need help.

It was thought that this is a good way to

ask for help. Because we are a

smaller congregation we have

a limited number of people doing several

jobs and some of the committees need more members.

Here are the some that needs more members.

1. The Caring Committee (Parish Care Committee)

These members are contact points for our

congregation members expressing needs. These

members work with the Pastoral care team to help

keep them informed of the needs of the

congregation.

2. Sunday Services Committee. These members help

plan the services through the year. Because of our

“no permanent Minister” status, this role is especially

needed

3. Membership Committee. Members work to welcome

new and interested members to our congregation.

They work to help our congregation grow

4. Photo Committee. Not a real committee but KUUF has

a need for people that can capture those precious

moments at services, outings and activities

There are other committees that do great work, these listed

above are of particular need.

Please consider lending a Helping Hand!

(Even if only to write a card)

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WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO YOU TO BE UU?

WHAT IS YOUR PASSION AND YOUR

THOUGHTS?

Excerpts from You’re Addicted to Plastic. Can You Go Cold Turkey?

PART TWO By Steven Kurutz Feb. 16, 2019

Some Fortune 500 companies, like Procter & Gamble and PepsiCo, want a piece of the action. This summer, those companies will test selling products like Tropicana orange juice in glass bottles, Pantene shampoo in aluminum bottles and other items in refillable nonplastic containers, harking back to the days of the milkman. “The one thing I try to emphasize to people is to go step by step,” said Ms. Terry, an accountant who lives in Greenbelt, Md., and who is the author of “Plastic-Free: How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too.” “Don’t try to do everything at once. It’s been a practice of mine to not get overwhelmed by it all.” That’s easier said than done, because once you wake up to the plastic problem, you see it everywhere: in jars of peanut butter and bags of grapes, in tubes of toothpaste and Tupperware containers, in bottles of Dawn dish soap and Tide laundry detergent, in the wrappers of Doritos chips and the lining of milk cartons. At the grocery store, you find yourself staring at a 10-foot shelf of yogurt brands, with only one in a glass jar: Oui by Yoplait. But you don’t like Oui by Yoplait. Also, it costs much more. What do you do?

To navigate the consumer minefield, plastic purgers develop mental maps of places where they can shop. It may take months, but they learn where to get milk in a glass bottle, or which health-food store lets you grind your own peanut butter. And rather than see it as a huge inconvenience, they treat living plastic free as a fun game.

Part of her mission is to show that you don’t need to be rich to avoid plastic. “Sometimes people can’t afford a bamboo kit, but you can take a fork from home,” Ms. Ambrose said. “Even an old pasta sauce jar can be made into a reusable item.”

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KUUF Endowment FUND Provides a lasting legacy for

Unitarian Universalism in our Kearsarge Sunapee region.

Making a bequest to the KUUF Endowment Fund is a simple way to

protect your values and help our congregation remain a voice for liberal faith throughout the Kearsarge Sunapee region.

You can name KUUF as a beneficiary in your will, trust, retirement plan, life insurance policy or financial accounts. Anyone can make a bequest and no amount is too small.

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For further information, contact a member of our Finance Committee,

currently serving 2018-19 are Tom Maloof, Sandy Wells, Bob Stanley, Henry

Howell or Ken Preston.

COFFEE TIME HOSTS ARE NEEDED – SIGN UP if you want to be a Coffee Time Host and you don’t have someone to

work/play with, the social committee will find another person to create coffee time with you. Your ‘spread’ can be simple (cheese, crackers, cookies, fruit) or

extravagant (shrimp, cake, meatballs etc) Whatever you want, food and coffee are always appreciated?

April 7 Megan Gourley / Donna Pierce April 9 April 14 Liz and Tom Maloof April 21 Howards April 28 Martha Woodward (need a 2nd person)

PLEASE SIGN UP EARLY FOR MAY and JUNE, DON’T WORRY ABOUT CHANGING, IT IS INEVITABLE