Check your weekly announcements
In your email inbox this morning<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Friday, June 12, 10am
A Social Justice Webinar, \u201cWhirlwind and Fire: Listening to the Spirit of the Moment\u201d
Co-sponsored by our UUCLB Social Justice Council, LA Voice, and PICO California
Featuring Rev. Dr. William Barber
The event is described as \u201ca morning of reflection, prayer, music and \u2013 most importantly \u2013 calls to action in celebration of Black Lives.”
You need to register for the event
The link is in the announcement<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Saturday, June 13, 9am \u2013 to noon
Physically Distant Work Party
Please find Elmer Taylor at the church he\u2019ll find something for you to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sunday Worship, 10am
RE Sunday, Naomi Yoshida
And the RE Committee<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sunday, 11:30 am
Racial Justice Workshop
What will we do as a faith community about the systemic racism in U.S. society?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Small Group Ministry (SGM)
Deadline to sign up is June 15<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This will be the last week that I do these messages
I will give my last message on Saturday, 1pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am still your minister through June 30<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Next week
I\u2019ll attend the Board meeting
I\u2019ll attend the Pastoral Care meeting
I\u2019ll lead the weekly staff meeting
I have a sermon to write for June 21
And I\u2019ll working on preparing communication for Lissa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
June 21, is my last day preaching to you<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then for the last week of the month
I will participate in GA and Ministry Days activities
I will finish cleaning out my office<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So I\u2019m definitely in the space of
checking off the list of
The last time I\u2019ll do that.
My last worship team meeting
Yesterday morning I had my last meeting with the 70+ group
Last evening I had my last meeting with the Personnel Committee
And I was really gratified that at all three of those meetings
The three groups surprised me
By taking some deliberate time
To reflect on the interim ministry time we had been through
And to share stories<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some of the stories were personal stories about me and my work
And I appreciate that<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But we also just told stories about the work we shared together
The life of the church over the last two and a half years
What we did
What we\u2019ve been through
Successes
Learnings
Tough times that we laugh about now<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here\u2019s two things that I like about what happened in those meetings
And that I think are good rules for making a good, goodbye
In all the times and ways we need to say goodbye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First we said \u201cgoodbye\u201d
We didn\u2019t say \u201csee ya\u201d
We acknowledged that this is a real ending
We didn\u2019t pretend that this month\u2019s committee meeting is like all the others
We didn\u2019t ignore the ending
We attended to the emotional and spiritual work of leave-taking
Even though that can sometimes be painful, or uncomfortable<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unless you really make an ending with an old way of being
You cannot begin a new way of being<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And second, we were specific
We said specifically what we valued about each other
Not a general, \u201cit\u2019s been great!\u201d
But I like this
I admire that
I remember this
I learned this
I\u2019m going to take this
Specific thing
With me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While we have still a few more weeks to finish this interim
I encourage you to not miss this opportunity
To say goodbye
You don\u2019t have to do that with me
Necessarily
But say goodbye to the interim
Say goodbye to this time\u00a0
In the history of this church<\/p>\n\n\n\n
See you Tuesday, 1pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"