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30 Days of Love

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National Standing of the Side of Love Month

The Unitarian Universalist Association – Standing on the Side of Love Campaign asks each of us to participate in the THIRTY DAYS OF LOVE.

Starting Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and culminating with Valentine’s Day, THIRTY DAYS OF LOVE is a collective visioning process about making sense of the present moment, and what we are called to do.
THIRTY DAYS OF LOVE offers daily, direct actions for love. You can find out more here.

You can join us in our commitment by signing up here.

MLK Day of Service – Monday, January 16, 2012

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The Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service is Monday, January 16.

The UU Suburban Kickoff for the UU MLK Day service activities will begin here at Thomas Paine with a Service at 9:00 AM. After the Service everyone will fan out to various service activities in the Norristown area. Sign-in and coffee hour begins at 8:30 am.

Service activites include:

  1. Mural-making (for children) and building upkeep (including painting) @ ACPPA, Norristown (Morning)
  2. Cleanup @ Coordinated Homeless Outreach Center, Norristown  (Morning) –  CANCELED
  3. Cleanup, inventory, and data entry @ Norristown Hospitality Center (12:30 pm start)

To register for a project, go to:  http://www.mlkphillyuus.org

Contact  Dorothy Tarka (dtarka@verizon.net) with any questions.

QUEST for meaning

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The Church of the Larger Fellowship (CLF) along with Unitarian Universalist ministers from the Phildelphia-Wilmington area are working together to present UU ideas to new audiences. This effort is titled, “Quest for Meaning”. With a series of short videos and additional sermons we are reaching out to a wider audience. These videos are available through an iPad App and Android App for those with mobile devices. The videos can also be seen on www.livestream.com at http://www.livestream.com/questformeaning and some on YouTube. You can view some of the videos driectly by using the following links:

Rev. Meg Riley – at Occupy (LiveStream)

Rev. Peter Fredericks – Hide and Seek (LiveStream)

Rev Kent Matthies – Forgiveness (You Tube)

Rev Kathy Ellis – Forgiveness (You Tube)

Rev. Meg Riley – Forgiveness (You Tube)

More to come … stay tuned

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TPUUF Celebrates 45 years!

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THOMAS PAINE UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP 1966 – 2011

The Fellowship celebrated its anniversary on Sunday, September 18, 2011, exactly 45 years after it was chartered as The Greater Norristown Unitarian Fellowship. During the Sunday service, member recognition was held for our newest member, Caryn Kayser, and the following membership milestones.

10 Years: Terry Kieserman, Deb Marotta, Dave Partington, Kate Weber
15 Years: Theresa Adams, Phyllis Parker, Tom Parker, Rob Pickle, Joanne Valerio
20 Years: Joan Ahlum, Sandy Beckius, Jean Holt, William Rostosky, Harvey Whitten
35 Years: Margaret Hoos, Roselyn Wealth
45 Years and Charter Members: Frank Augustine, Marian Augustine, Joan Buckley

Job Search Support Group Meeting – Nov. 15, 7 PM

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Are you looking for a Job? Know someone else who is?

We can help!

The Thomas Paine Unitarian Universalist Fellowship’s

Job Search Support Group

Meeting November 15th 7 PM

In these financially troubled times, we realize that many folks are out there looking for jobs. If you are un- or under-employed, our support group is for you. We plan to help with the job search process, mainly by developing a support group and by supplying needed advice and materials.
 
 

 
 

Spread the word. All are welcome.

Thomas Paine Unitarian Universalist Fellowship

424 Ridge Pike, Collegeville, PA 19426

610-631-0280

For more information, contact Lorraine Lee,

president@tpuuf.org

 

 

 

TPUUF Shows Its Pride

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More than 20 members of our community took part in the PrideDay Parade and festival in Philadelphia on Sunday, June 13.

Participation in the event was coordinated by the Welcoming Congregation Task Force, a working group of TPUUF’s Social Action Committee. The event itself is run by Philly Pride Presents, Inc.

Thomas Paine is a Welcoming Congregation, open to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.

TPUUF Stands Up for Love

TPUUF Stands Up for Love

The Sunday service on Valentine’s Day was about love, but it celebrated the kind that isn’t usually mentioned on Hallmark cards and romantic notes between partners.

Instead, the Rev. Bryant B. Brown spoke about Standing on the Side of Love, the Unitarian Universalist Association’s initiative to bring love into the conversation every day.

Links:

Get a TPUUF T-Shirt

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We have a TPUUF store at Cafe Press, giving you the ability to buy a variety of merchandise—shirts, mugs, and other items—to publicize your religious community. We have recently created new T-shirts, with our great new logo.

Check them out at http://www.cafepress.com/tpuuf

If you have questions, email them here.

Remembering Dr. King

Remembering Dr. King

At least 20 members and friends of Thomas Paine Unitarian Universalist Fellowship took part in the Martin Luther King Day celebration and day of service hosted by the Unitarian Society of Germantown.

More than a dozen took part in a refurbishing of the Boys and Girls Club on W. Penn Street in Germantown. In all, more than 30 people helped to clear a beautiful stage of mounds of clutter (including 41 computer monitors), to paint the auditorium, the office of club director Clarence Miller and the railing that climbed three floors in the lobby, and to organize a resource room that was cluttered with archival photos, educational material, and odds-and-ends.

The 20 volunteers from Thomas Paine is an unofficial record, and the USG event was the largest in their 10 years of coordinating the MLK Day of Service.

See photos from our day here.

We’re on Facebook

We’re on Facebook

We’re happy you’re visiting us at TPUUF.ORG, but there are other ways to access news and conversations about us.

Facebook, for one.

TPUUF has a page on the dominant social networking site. You can see it here. Become a fan and you’ll get community updates on your wall.

It’s another way to keep up with your religious home.

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