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Topics included:

e-nUUs Information

From Rev Steven
Rev. Steven’s schedule

Community Within
Church Building Clean up Weekend – September 9 & 10 2023
Fall Walden  – September 7-10
Coffee Volunteers Needed to support Social Hour

Income Generation
Share Your LUUV at the Silent Auction! – November 12
Acme Community Cash Back Fundraiser

Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteer Opportunities

Worship & Music
Guest House – Sunday, September 3 at 10:00 AM in Hobbs Hall
To Build the Common Good – Sunday, September at 10 AM in the Church Sanctuary
Multi-platform services
Community Sing August 31
How Can We Accommodate Increased Attendance at Worship?
Sunday Greeters Needed  

Social Justice and Community Outreach
Emma’s Revolution – September 8
Mary Ann Kasper wins Woman of the Year Award
Volunteer to help at the first ever Kent PRIDE Vendor Fair during Kent’s Rainbow Weekend
Please Donate to the Free Store
Special Collections – How to donate

Lifespan Learning
No RE this Sunday, September 3
Teacher training September 5
RE Kids and Families Represent at Pride! 

UU, Interfaith and Community Connections
Opportunity to become a Community Health Worker

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Topics included:

e-nUUs Update

From Rev Steven

• Rev. Steven’s schedule

Community Within

• 2023 Fall Walden  – September 7-10
• Pastoral Care Note
• Hobbs Hall solar panels dedicated
• Coffee Volunteers Needed to support Social Hour

Income Generation

• The Auction Planning Team will meet soon!
• Acme Community Cash Back Fundraiser

Volunteer Opportunities

• Volunteer Opportunities

Worship & Music

• Multi-platform services
• Community Sing August 31
• Welcome from Emily Hall
• Thanks goes to our July Greeters
• Sunday Greeters Needed

Social Justice and Community Outreach

• Emma’s Revolution – September 8
• Mary Ann Kasper wins Woman of the Year Award
• Volunteer to help at the first ever Kent PRIDE Vendor Fair during Kent’s Rainbow Weekend
• Please Donate to the Free Store
• August Special Collection – Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
• Special Collections – How to donate.

Lifespan Learning

• This Saturday! August 26 – RE Kids are showing their PRIDE and Walking the Walk!
• Teacher training September 5

UU, Interfaith and Community Connections

• Opportunity to become a Community Health Worker
• Northern-Ohio Red Cross Volunteer Opportunities
• Update from General Assembly

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Topics included:

Important e-nUUs Update

From Rev Steven

• Save the Date – August 27

Community Within

• Pastoral Care Note
• Hobbs Hall solar panels dedicated
• Coffee Volunteers Needed to support Social Hour

Income Generation

• The Auction Planning Team will meet soon!
• Acme Community Cash Back Fundraiser

Volunteer Opportunities

• Volunteer Opportunities

Worship & Music

• Multi-platform services
• Where the Waters Meet – Sunday, August 27
• Singing Together at the Beartown Lakes Reservation Service – August 27
• Community Sing August 31
• Welcome from Emily Hall
• Thanks goes to our July Greeters
• Sunday Greeters Needed

Social Justice and Community Outreach

• Refreshing and Reframing Racial Justice Work- August 27  
• Emma’s Revolution – September 8
• Mary Ann Kasper wins Woman of the Year Award
• Volunteer to help at the first ever Kent PRIDE Vendor Fair during Kent’s Rainbow Weekend
• Please Donate to the Free Store
• August Special Collection – Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
• Special Collections – How to donate.

Lifespan Learning

• Teacher training September 5

UU, Interfaith and Community Connections

• Opportunity to become a Community Health Worker
• Northern-Ohio Red Cross Volunteer Opportunities
• Update from General Assembly

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Topics included:

Important e-nUUs Update

From Rev Steven

• Save the Date – August 27

Community Within

• Coffee Volunteers Needed to support Social Hour

Income Generation

• The Auction Planning Team will meet soon!
• Acme Community Cash Back Fundraiser

Volunteer Opportunities

• Volunteer Opportunities

Worship & Music

• Multi-platform services
• Community Sing – August 10
• Faithfully Becoming: But What Exactly? – Sunday, August 13
• Roll for the Initiative: Confessions of a Dungeon Master – Sunday, August 20
• Thanks goes to our July Greeters
• Sunday Greeters Needed

Social Justice and Community Outreach

• Volunteer to help at the first ever Kent PRIDE Vendor Fair during Kent’s Rainbow Weekend
• Please Donate to the Free Store
• August Special Collection – Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
• Special Collections – How to donate.

Lifespan Learning

• Magic Summer continues this Sunday

UU, Interfaith and Community Connections

• Opportunity to become a Community Health Worker
• Northern-Ohio Red Cross Volunteer Opportunities
• Update from General Assembly

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Topics included:

From Rev Steven

• Save the Date – August 27

Community Within

• Opportunity for Leadership Training at Our Church
• Leadership Essentials for Inclusive Communities – August 12
• Solar installation!
• Coffee Volunteers Needed to support Social Hour

Volunteer Opportunities

• Volunteer Opportunities

Worship & Music

• Multi-platform services
• Blessings of the Harvest – Sunday, August 6
• Faithfully Becoming: But What Exactly? – Sunday, August 13
• Roll for the Initiative: Confessions of a Dungeon Master – Sunday, August 20
• Sunday Greeters Needed

Social Justice and Community Outreach

• Youth-served Community Meal this Sunday
• Please Donate to the Free Store
• UUCK to host PRIDE Vendor Fair during Kent’s Rainbow Weekend
• August Special Collection – Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
• Special Collections – How to donate.

Lifespan Learning

• All Ages Worship this Sunday

UU, Interfaith and Community Connections

• Update from General Assembly

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Topics included:

From Rev Steven

• Save the Date – August 27
• My Schedule
• Our Transitional Music Director

Community Within

• Opportunity for Leadership Training at Our Church
• Leadership Essentials for Inclusive Communities – August 12
• Kim’s Hobby Greenhouse
• Coffee Volunteers Needed to support Social Hour

Volunteer Opportunities

• Volunteer Opportunities

Worship & Music

• Multi-platform services
• A Spiritual Backpack for the Journey – Sunday, July 30
• Blessings of the Harvest – Sunday, August 6
• Faithfully Becoming: But What Exactly?  -Sunday, August 13
• Sunday Greeters Needed

Social Justice and Community Outreach

• UUCK to host PRIDE Vendor Fair during Kent’s Rainbow Weekend
• July Special Collection – Immigrant Worker Project
• August Special Collection – Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
• Special Collections – How to donate.

Lifespan Learning

• Summer RE: Magic Summer
• Fill the Pool for School

UU, Interfaith & Community Connections

• Back to School Health and Wellness Fair – August 3
• UU Class Conversations

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Topics included:

From the Board of Trustees

• Board Breaking News

From Rev Steven

• Our Transitional Music Director
• My Schedule

Community Within

• All Church Potluck – July 21
• What We Learned While Alone: Global Voices Speak to the Pandemic –  July 23
• Renewal and Renovation
• Leadership Essentials for Inclusive Communities – August 12
• Signage Update
• Coffee Volunteers Needed to support Social Hour

Volunteer Opportunities

• Volunteer Opportunities – we need you!

Worship & Music

• Multi-platform services
• Take a Chance – Sunday, July 23
• A Spiritual Backpack for the Journey – Sunday, July 30
• Blessings of the Harvest – Sunday, August 6
• Sunday Greeters Needed

Social Justice and Community Outreach

• July Special Collection – Immigrant Worker Project
• Special Collections – How to donate.

Lifespan Learning

• Summer RE: Magic Summer
• Fill the Pool for School

UU, Interfaith & Community Connections

• UU Class Conversations
• Garden Ambassador for the Portage Park District

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Topics included:

From the Board of Trustees
Board Breaking News

Community Within
What We Learned While Alone: Global Voices Speak to the Pandemic –  July 23
Leadership Essentials for Inclusive Communities – August 12
Coffee Volunteers Needed to support Social Hour

Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteer Opportunities – we need you!

Worship & Music
Multi-platform services Music and Emotion – Sunday, July 16
Take a Chance – Sunday, July 23
A Spiritual Backpack for the Journey – Sunday, July 30
Sunday Greeters Needed

Social Justice and Community Outreach
July Special Collection – Immigrant Worker Project
Special Collections – How to donate.

Lifespan Learning
Summer RE: Magic Summer
Fill the Pool for School

UU, Interfaith & Community Connections
UU Class Conversations Garden Ambassador for the Portage Park District

Join us for a unique theatrical event that combines spoken word, music, movement, and digital dialogue to create an innovative interactive experience. 

Date:  Sunday, July 23, 2023

Time:  12:30 PM

Location: Hobbs Hall at the UU Church of Kent (fellowship hall located behind the church building)

Parking:  “On Us” Portage Hike and Bike public parking lot located on Gougler Ave. just north of the church. There is a connecting sidewalk to church property located at the back end of the parking lot.

Cost: Free — this is made possible by the support of the Ohio Arts Council.

In March 2021, the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, and the University of Arizona Poetry Center, Tucson, Arizona, launched the interactive website for the Global Vaccine Poem project, inviting anyone to share experiences of the pandemic and vaccination through their own poetic reflection. Thousands of everyday people responded from India to Ireland, from Maine to Hawai’i. In the spring of 2022, an anthology of these poems, Dear Vaccine: Global Voices Speak to the Pandemic, was published by The Kent State University Press.

“What We Learned While Alone: Global Voices Speak to the Pandemic” is based on the anthology “Dear Vaccine: Global Voices Speak to the Pandemic.”  It has been adapted for the stage by David Hassler, Director of the KSU Wick Poetry Center.

For those not able to attend the performance in person, we hope you’ll join us via Zoom:  https://zoom.us/j/95068596085

We’d like to express our appreciation to everyone who engaged and participated in the budget discussions.  We have summarized your input (link in the meeting slides) and along with input from the Ministry Executive Team have revised the proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2024 (7/1/2023 – 6/30/2024).  The new proposed budget is linked below.  We will hold an information meeting to present the revised budget and listen to feedback.

In accordance with our bylaws, we are calling a Special Meeting of the Congregation in order to vote on:

1. The 5th person to be added to the Ministry Executive Team (5th members): Kathie Slater
2. The Revised Budget for Fiscal Year 2024

     Information meeting: Sunday, June 25 at 11 AM in Hobbs Hall
     Voting meeting:  Sunday, July 2 at 11 AM in Hobbs Hall

We encourage you to review the following information for the upcoming meeting and vote:
Information Meeting Slides
Revised Budget (revisions have been highlighted in deep orange)

Do you need an absentee ballot?  Contact Don Gregg or Kara Kramer at [email protected].

– Your UUCK Board of Trustees

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Topic included:

Community Within

• UUCK at the Kent Heritage Festival
• Items left behind  . . .
• Update from the Transitional Music  Director Search Team
• Performance: What We Learned While Alone –  July 23, 2023
• Coffee Volunteers Needed to support Social Hour

Volunteer Opportunities

• Volunteer Opportunities – we need you!
• It takes a village!

Worship & Music

• Multi-platform services
• Juneteenth: With Hope of Liberty and Justice for All  – Sunday, June 18
• Honoring Mary Oliver: UU Patron Poet – Sunday, June 25
• Squirmy Patriotism – Sunday, July 2
• Wisdom’s Common Ground – Sunday, July 9
• Sunday Greeters Needed

Social Justice and Community Outreach

• June Special Collection – Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom
• Special Collections – How to donate.
• Donate to the Free Store

Lifespan Learning

• RE Summer Schedule

UU, Interfaith & Community Connections

• Creating Intentional Summer Communities – CERSI
• UU the Vote is hiring a full-time Democracy Strategist

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Topics included:

Income Generation

• rUUmmage Sale – June 10
• rUUmmage Sale volunteers needed.
• It takes a village!

From the Board

• Congregational-wide Budget Discussion – June 11

Community Within

• Update from the Transitional Music  Director Search Team
• Church Picnic this Sunday
• Sidewalk chalking
• Save the Date:  July 23, 2023
• Meeting space
• Coffee Volunteers Needed to support Social Hour

Volunteer Opportunities

• Volunteer Opportunities – we need you!

Worship & Music

• UPDATED — Church and Picnic in the Park – Sunday, June 11
• Juneteenth: With Hope of Liberty and Justice for All  – Sunday, June 18
• Sunday Greeters Needed

Social Justice and Community Outreach

• Thank you!
• Postponed — “End the Ohio Death Penalty” presentation
• Special Collection Ballot Results
• June Special Collection – Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom
• Special Collections – How to donate.
• Donate to the Free Store

Lifespan Learning

• RE Summer Schedule

UU, Interfaith & Community Connections

• Creating Intentional Summer Communities – CERSI
• UU the Vote is hiring a full-time Democracy Strategist.
• General Assembly 2023  (registration price increase on 5/15)
• Financial Support to participate at GA

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Topic included:

Income Generation

• rUUmmage Sale – June 10
• rUUmmage Sale volunteers needed.
• It takes a village!

From the Board

• Congregational-wide Budget Discussions

Community Within

• Sidewalk chalking
• Save the Date:  July 23, 2023
• Meeting space
• Coffee Volunteers Needed to support Social Hour

Volunteer Opportunities

• Volunteer Opportunities – we need you!

Worship & Music

• Sunday services – 10 AM both in person in Hobbs Hall and via Zoom
• Off the Map – Sunday, June 4
• Church and Picnic in the Park – Sunday, June 11
• Juneteenth: With Hope of Liberty and Justice for All  – Sunday, June 18
• Sunday Greeters Needed

Social Justice and Community Outreach

• Community Meal this Sunday – June 4
• Special Collection Ballot Results
• June Special Collection – Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom
• Special Collections – How to donate.
• Donate to the Free Store

Lifespan Learning

• RE Summer Schedule
• Summer Hogwarts Registration Deadline is TODAY!

UU, Interfaith & Community Connections

• Creating Intentional Summer Communities
• UU the Vote is hiring a full-time Democracy Strategist.
• General Assembly 2023  (registration price increase on 5/15)
• Financial Support to participate at GA

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Topics included:

Income Generation

• rUUmmage Sale – June 10
• rUUmmage Sale volunteers needed.

From the Board

• Annual Voting Meeting – May 28
• Annual Information Meeting Video
• Annual Meeting Voting Eligibility

Community Within

• Knitting, Crochet, and Needle Point!
• Coffee Volunteers Needed to support Social Hour

Volunteer Opportunities

• Volunteer Opportunities – we need you!

Worship & Music

• Sunday services – 10 AM both in person in Hobbs Hall and via Zoom
• The Language of Rowing – Sunday, May 28
• Off the Map – Sunday, June 4
• Sunday Greeters Needed

Social Justice and Community Outreach

• Cast your vote for Special Collection Recipients (Deadline 5/28)
• End the Ohio Death Penalty presentation – June 9
• Donate to the Free Store
• May Special Collection – Minter’s Discretionary Fund
• Special Collections – How to donate.

Lifespan Learning

• This week in RE!  Sunday, May 28
• Summer Hogwarts Registration is Open

UU, Interfaith & Community Connections

• UU the Vote is hiring a full-time Democracy Strategist.
• UU Mental Health Network Online Worship Service – May 28
• Summer Institute
• General Assembly 2023  (registration price increase on 5/15)
• Financial Support to participate at GA

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Topic included:

Income Generation

• Donate to the UUCK Rummage Sale – June 10

From the Board

• Annual Voting Meeting – May 28
• Annual Information Meeting Video
• Annual Meeting Voting Eligibility

Community Within

• Drum Circle – All are invited! – May 21
• Where are the Name Tags?
• Knitting, Crochet, and Needle Point! – May 10
• Coffee Volunteers Needed to support Social Hour

Volunteer Opportunities

• The Benefits of Volunteering
• Volunteer Opportunities – we need you!

Worship & Music

• Sunday services – 10 AM both in person and via Zoom
• On Friendship – Sunday, May 21 (in Hobbs Hall)
• Community Sing – May 18
• The Language of Rowing – Sunday, May 28
• Sunday Greeters Needed

Social Justice and Community Outreach

• Cast your vote for Special Collection Recipients
• Call for Volunteers to assist with the Congregant Meal at Trinity Lutheran – June 3
• Donate to the Free Store (updated needs)
• May Special Collection
• Special Collections – How to donate.

Lifespan Learning

• This week in RE!  Sunday, May 21

UU, Interfaith & Community Connections

• UU Mental Health Network Online Worship Service – May 28
• Summer Institute
• General Assembly 2023  (registration price increase on 5/15)
• Financial Support to participate at GA