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July 14th, 2019

Every Long Journey – Curiosity is a gift but to act on it requires courage. Empathy is a skill and to learn it enables us to move from a place of shame to a place of compassion and courage. Come listen to voices of curiosity, empathy, and courage in the songs we will sing, in the meditative music of crystal tone bowls, and in the words of Rev. Linda’s sermon.

Rev. Linda Slabon, LCSW, served the UU Fellowship of DeKalb for 26 years along with her spouse, Dr. Toni Tollerud, who served as Music Director. Now retired, Linda is a Minister Emerita, a DeKalb County Board member, and Clinical Social Worker. She sees clients in her private practice and completes the laundry at home promptly.

A retired professor from Northern Illinois University, Toni does state-wide seminars on supervision and trauma, and gardens with a passion. Grandma Toni and Bionic Nana Linda (with her new titanium hips) love to sing with their three year old grand-daughter, Amelia.

July 14th, 2019UCE UCE2019-07-28T16:32:08+00:00

Staffing Changes

This is a period of transition at UCE, but one in which we find ourselves well positioned for a successful year ahead. As we move ahead, I want you to know of staffing changes.

Adam Gough, our AV tech, has joined us part-time as Congregational Life Assistant. Adam will continue to provide AV services, as well as support to the Acting Sr. Minister with membership and social justice work, and to the Director of Lifespan Religious Education, technology support, website support, among other tasks that are clearly articulated in a detailed job description prepared by Eileen Wiviott and me. Adam will work 28 hours per week at the desk of our former ministerial intern.

Melanie Kitchner is doing a great job filling in as the Communications Coordinator position. The day after the position opened Melanie jumped in and made sure we had a newsletter, orders of service and announcements for that Sunday. A job description post has been placed online this week and several resumes have been received.

The accounting plan that is currently in place will be defined more clearly after the Treasurer Susan Comstock and I meet next week with our outside accountant, Julie Pierce. Julie has been working with us to prepare monthly bank reconciliations, review deposits, make tax payments and submit tax documents to the state and federal governments. UCE member Vickie Doebele has been volunteering in the office, recording deposits and pledge payments. Vickie is a retired accountant and understands our financial system quite well. If you use the Vanco system for automated pledge payments, we want you to know that Vickie has updated each new pledge amount in Vanco for fiscal year 2019-20. Member Melanie Kitchner has also been helping us by recording payments into REALM as we continue to ready ourselves for a transition from MemInfo to REALM this autumn. As Executive Operations Director I oversee the work of each of these components of finance. More information about our accounting plan will be shared before the start of our new church year early September.

As noted in previous communications from the board, a new part-time Interim Minister will be joining us in the fall. More information will be provided by the board about Rev. Karen Gufstafson.

Please call me at 847-864-1330 x108 or email srobinson@ucevanston.org with questions you may have. Enjoy your summer!

Staffing ChangesUCE UCE2019-07-03T21:11:28+00:00

July 7, 2019

Cultivating Joy – How do we cultivate joy as a spiritual practice of restoration and resistance? Visiting Minister The Rev. Darrick Jackson is the Director of Education of the UU Ministers Association and an Affiliated Community Minister with Second Unitarian Church. He is one of the authors in the book “Centering: Navigating Race, Authenticity and Power in Ministry.” Darrick is active in DRUUMM (the UU ministry for people of color). He is also the treasurer and Workshop Leader for Healing Moments (a ministry for caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s).

July 7, 2019UCE UCE2019-07-12T22:05:41+00:00

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