Worship on Sunday

            Zoom Webinar
This Sunday’s sermon topic and link in your announcements (went out today)
It will be posted on the church website.
It will be posted on facebook
Topic and link is posted on my website.
Still deciding whether to increase the capacity for the webinar
Or stream to facebook live
Or both.

Church meetings
Getting started
Creative Spirit Group (11am Thursdays)
Church Chat (5pm Wednesdays)
Town Hall (7pm tonight)
We’re going to practice voting
RE Committee

Some people are using the church Zoom account
Other folks using personal accounts
I will send out an email by the end of today to all church leaders
With instructions for using the church account to create meetings
And how to get the meetings posted on the church calendar.

Connections survey – Hopefully this will happen this week.
Getting the tool set up online
Recruiting folks to make the calls

Please support the church financially, if you can.
We are going to activate “text to give” on our Tithe.ly account
I’ll be giving out instructions of how to do that once we get it set up.
Meanwhile, go to UUCLB.org and click on the “give” menu item

Message

Let’s support each other

Several folks have sent me emails or other messages thanking me for the work I’m doing.
That feels so good.

I encourage you to reach out to the other church staff, too.
They are all working very hard right now.

While some people are currently out of work
Other folks are working harder than ever before
And being asked to learn brand new skills
I thought I was too old and too close to retirement to every have to figure out how to do church online
Boy was I wrong.

Folks who are out of work need your support
Give them a call
Check-in
Even if you can’t offer practical support
Social support/Spiritual support is so important

And people who are on the job also need support
I sent an email to my Kaiser doctor
Thanking him for helping me get over a sinus infection last month
And just telling him I was grateful for him and his staff
I sent a message to Mayor Eric Garcetti thanking him for his leadership.

And folks doing non-professional work also need to know that we’re noticing everything they are being asked to do.
Parents with kids at home
Folks caring for vulnerable people in their home
Anyone who is volunteering (food bank/Red Cross/the church)

Let’s notice each other
All that we’re going through
All that we’re being asked to do
And let’s be extravagant with our expressions of gratitude.

And finally
One more category of person to be grateful for.
Yourself
Take time each day to acknowledge your own strong spirit
All that you’re going through
All that you’re being asked to do
And be extravagant with your gratitude for your own self

Make it a brief, check-in, meditation you do with yourself several times a day.

Thank you, Rick…
For all the work you’re doing, all the stress you are carrying.
I see you.
You are doing the best you can under really extraordinary circumstances.
Thank you.

See you tomorrow.