Exciting Offerings at the Serendipity Auction and keep your donations coming…
This year’s Serendipity Auction is brimming with amazing and creative offerings. Click here to view the Serendipity Auction catalog. Check out the beautiful photograph cards by Barb Seyfried or the ceramic work of Will Van Dyke. Enjoy an evening of homemade pizza and drinks with Hoa Voscott and Ned Schaub. There are several gift certificates from generous local businesses, theatre tickets, sports teams and art classes and that’s just the beginning!
Consider a walking tour of historic churches or come to an Uno tournament. Hoping to get away to a quiet place when the weather warms up again, look at this wonderful lodging option in Indiana.
We have 88 offerings so far (almost half from local businesses) and WE’D LOVE (AND NEED) TO HAVE MORE! Consider hosting an intergenerational game night with refreshments; a theme dinner or backyard barbecue for families. Offer a ride to the airport or to shovel snow. Have a special talent or skill to share? Click here for other inspiration! ? Contact us at auction@ucevanston.org.
October 23, 2022
Spiritual Journeys
We will hear the spiritual journeys of members, Greg Grabowski and Annette Wallace. Rev. Eileen will be the worship associate and our choir joins us this Sunday.
We will host an in-person and virtual worship service on Sunday, October 23rd at 10:30 am.
Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. If you submit a message by 9 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all! Note there will only be one service time so that we can gather together as a whole community of faith. You can still give to the shared offering through “text to give,” mail a check to the office with “shared offering” in the memo line, or go to our website and hit “give” on the upper right or click here. This Sunday’s shared offering recipient is the Unitarian Universalist Prison Ministry of Illinois (UUPMI)
The SAFE-T Act: How It Reduces Harm and Makes Us Safer – October 27 at 7 p.m.
In recent weeks, racist disinformation about the SAFE-T Act has flooded mailboxes, social media, television, and radio. What is our responsibility as anti-racists to learn the facts about this law, challenge these attacks, and inform our neighbors, friends, and relatives, who may not know the facts?
Come to a REAL event on October 27, 2022, at 7 p.m. and learn about this law, years in the making, which changes harmful pre-trial practices and centers the needs and safety of survivors of gender-based violence and other serious crimes.
We will also take time to outline issues for the election of Illinois Supreme Court justices this November 8.
Click Here for the Zoom link for October 27 at 7 p.m. Put it in your calendar now!
You may want to read one or more of the following before our October 27th event:
1. An op-ed by the Lake County State’s Attorney on the Pretrial Fairness Act part of the new law before our October 27 event: Eric Rinehart, New detention system under the SAFE-T Act will make us safer Chicago Tribune,
2. This Block Club article debunking the false “Purge” information, and
3. This Politifact post challenging the panic-spreading.
We hope to see you on October 27!
Interfaith Action of Evanston Volunteer Training
Interfaith Action of Evanston (IAE) operates an emergency overnight shelter each winter. This year, UCE will be hosting the shelter from January 15 – February 4, 2023. You may volunteer to help in the shelter at UCE or any of the other nine sites.
IAE has new volunteer trainings on 10/17/22 at 7:00pm via Zoom and on 10/25/22 in-person at 7:00pm at St. Paul’s Lutheran, Church, 1004 Greenwood. UCE’s very own Shawn Iles will be providing the part of the trainings. For more information please contact Sue Murphy with IAE at ia@interfaithactionofevanston.org or Shawn Iles via REALM or at admin@ucevanston.org.
Here is the list of the 2022-2023 Interfaith Action of Evanston’s Emergency Overnight Shelter dates and locations:
October 23 – November 12 – St. Paul’s Lutheran – 1004 Greenwood
November 13 – December 3 – St. Luke’s Episcopal – 939 Hinman
December 4 – December 24 – Beth Emet – 1224 Dempster
December 25 – January 14 – First United Methodist – 516 Church
January 15 – February 4 – Unitarian Church of Evanston – 1330 Ridge
February 5 – February 25 – Lake Street Church – 607 Lake
February 26 – March 18 – First Presbyterian – 1427 Chicago
March 19 – April 8 – First Congregational – 1425 Hinman
April 9 – April 29 – Immanuel Lutheran – 616 Lake
April 30 – May 20 – St. Paul’s – 1004 Greenwood