M arch 2 0 1 6 In the Spirit Sunday Services at 10

Sunday Services at
10:00 and 11:15 a.m.
In the Spirit
Souls choir.
At the invitation of the Brentano
String Quartet, the late Pulitzer
Prize-winning poet Mark Strand
penned a series of seven sonnets
based on the final week in the life
of Jesus of Nazareth. Our service
at All Souls on March 20 — the
Sunday before Easter — will feature
these sonnets, interspersed with
thematically appropriate music
from Alejandro, Renée, and the All
The last poem in the series takes place after Jesus has
died. It describes the silent emptiness that follows Jesus’
death, but also the sense of promise that remains. Strand
writes:
…And beyond,
as always, the sea of endless transparence,
of utmost
calm, a place of constant beginning that
has within it
what no eye has seen, what no ear has
heard, what no hand
has touched, what has not arisen in the
human heart.
To that place, to the keeper of that place, I
commit myself.
The sanctuary at All Souls is likewise a place of utmost
calm, where we gather to be transformed. All Souls is
a place of constant beginning, no matter how we have
failed ourselves and others in the past, no matter what
we need to give up or take up, no matter what we need to
hold onto more firmly or let go of more fully. Surrounded
and supported by this community of faith and all it
represents and provides, we can begin again. To this place
of constant beginning, and to the God who holds us all in
a divine embrace, I commit myself.
March 6
March 13
Youth-Led Services
March 20
Galen Guengerich
March 27
Galen Guengerich
Galen Guengerich
March Bulletin Contents:
pg. 2 Resources for Newcomers
pg. 3-4 Board and Executive Director
pg. 5-7 Worship and Music
pg. 8-9 Adult Education
pg. 10 Religious Education
pg. 11-13 Congregational Life
pg. 14-16 Congregational Groups: Fellowship
pg. 17-19 Congregational Groups: Service
I’ll see you in church,
pg. 20
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March Events Calendar
Welcome to All Souls!
“A Sanctuary for Seekers”
All Souls is a vibrant, welcoming, self-governing congregation
of nearly 1,500 people that was established in 1819. We come
together to worship, serve the community and create an
enriching, non-dogmatic religious environment.
All Souls is proud of its many social outreach programs. These
include our hospitality program which offers hot meals at our
Monday Night Hospitality and Friday Soup Kitchen, Girl Scout
troops, learning centers, and others.
All Souls is an accessible congregation. We are dedicated to
providing an environment in which all people feel welcome
regardless of race, sexual orientation or physical ability.
For those new to All Souls, if you would like more information,
contact Maryah Converse at maryah@allsoulsnyc.org or (212)
535-5530.
Connect with All Souls Online:
Facebook:
www.facebook.com/AllSoulsNYC
Our website:
www.AllSoulsNYC.org
Sermon Podcast:
www.allsoulsnyc2.org/rss/sermons.rss
- or search iTunes!
Twitter
www.twitter.com/RevGalen
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New to All Souls?
Find out more about All Souls and Unitarian Universalism at
Welcome to All Souls with Senior Minister Galen Guengerich
and Maryah Converse, Stewardship and Membership Associate.
The workshop offers a comfortable, intimate setting to explore
our congregation and history, the principles of Unitarian
Universalism, spiritual practice and service, and how you can
find your place in the All Souls community. A light lunch is
offered. All workshops are Sundays from 1:00 to 3:00 in the
Ware Room. Upcoming dates are:
Welcome to All Souls Workshops
March 20, 2016
April 17, 2016
May 22, 2016
For more information, or to arrange for free childcare, contact
Maryah Converse, Stewardship and Membership Associate, at
Maryah@AllSoulsNYC.org or (212) 535-5530.
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From the Board of Trustees
Dear Friends,
Your Board of Trustees is humbled by the privilege of serving this
extraordinary congregation. The Trustees have an exciting and
productive year ahead as we complete the Vision 2020 project and
deepen our governance practice. Our newest Trustees bring fresh
energy and perspective, and our continuing trustees will help us
sustain our values of listening, transparency, trust, speaking with
one voice, and assuming positive intent. We are grateful for the
opportunity to serve you.
At our February Board meeting, we:
•
Discussed proposals to reduce our energy costs and use.
•
Signed the Conflict of Interest Policy.
•
Reviewed the Board’s role in the church’s Whistleblower
Policy.
•
Began the process of selecting the committees and projects for
individual Board members’ specific focus.
In January we shared our Vision 2020 report with the congregation.
On Lay Sunday, we highlighted the values we discerned on
behalf of the congregation: possibility, connection, and
transformation. We’re holding several Vision 2020 discussions,
including a cottage meeting on Sunday, March 6 at 12:30
p.m. and a dialogue on Sunday, March 20 at 1:00 p.m. We
look forward to hearing your thoughts about All Souls’ mission.
The Board welcomes your input. You can email us at Board@
AllSoulsNYC.org, and you can sign up for a listserv to receive
Board minutes and other governance materials by emailing all.
souls.board@gmail.com. Board members are always available at
Coffee Hour to chat with you. Board meetings are held on selected
Sundays at 1:00 p.m. and you are welcome to observe. The next
meeting will take place on March 13.
We thank the congregation for their robust participation in the
Annual Meeting, which was held an hour earlier this year. We
also thank the All Souls Young Adults and Deacons for serving as
Election Inspectors and counting ballots. Finally, the Board would
like to express gratitude on behalf of All Souls to all the Board
nominees who demonstrated their dedication to this community
by standing for election. Your willingness to take part in this
process and extend yourselves is essential to sustaining the spirit
of our community.
From the Executive Director
Looking back over the March Bulletin columns
for the past several years, it seems that the
theme during this time of year has the tendency
to revolve around the harshness of winter.
Except for the two bitterly cold days we had a
few weeks ago, this has been a blessedly mild
winter so far.
I always eagerly await the coming of the Vernal
Equinox (which will be on Sunday, March 20 this year – TIP: if
you want to balance eggs on one end you’ll have to do so within 15
minutes on either side of 12:30 a.m. that morning) when the hours
of day and night are perfectly balanced. even though this is the
official beginning of spring, for me the joy of discovering a sign of
nature budding before then that awakens my sense of adventure
and mystery.
As we come into the season of lengthening days and the first
flourishes of new blossoms, I wonder what you notice about how
All Souls nourishes your thirsty soul? Is it the joyful delight
of children laughing in the courtyard? The thought-provoking
sermons by Galen and guests? Are you touched by the gentle
greeters who smile and welcome you to church each Sunday?
Maybe your heart swells with the glory of the choir or the organ?
Perhaps it is spending time with your friends at Coffee Hour or in
deeper conversation in your Small Group Ministry?
There are so very many reasons to be joyful about coming to All
Souls. Let us breathe deeply this sweet gratitude. Take a moment
to pause and appreciate the wonder of this great place.
As you reflect on the gifts that you receive from being a member
of the community of All Souls, also think about how your presence
here is such an important part of who we are together as an
institution. How can each of us balance what we receive here
with what we give? This is an invitation to engage in personal
conversations with one another – as you feel comfortable – about
the meaning of All Souls in your life. My guess is that these will
be rich and fruitful discussions indeed.
Happy Spring!
Eileen Macholl
Executive Director
Carol Kirkman
President of the Board of Trustees
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WHY BLACK LIVES MATTER TO ALL SOULS
Members and friends of the All Souls community are increasingly
raising questions, concerns, heartaches and hopes about how our
congregation – and each of us, in our daily lives – can authentically
work against racism and intersecting injustices.
Many of you – of diverse ages, cultural backgrounds, and personal
perspectives – have participated in our new monthly Sunday
Conversations on Racial Justice, where you’ve shared deep, vulnerable
reflections and strategized on how to take action within and beyond
our community. I invite all of you – whether new or old to these
conversations – to join us in the sessions ahead. Our next gathering will
be Sunday, March 20 after Coffee Hour.
Currently, one of the great opportunities and challenges for Unitarian
Universalists – and for the human community at large – is relating
to the Black Lives Matter movement. In this month’s bulletin and
upcoming issues, we offer context and inspiration to better understand
and support Black Lives Matter, as part of our broader, intersectional
commitment to justice and our Universalist vision of collective liberation
of all.
This article has helped me better understand All Souls, its relationship
to racial justice, and the potential roles we can play alongside our fellow
Unitarian Universalists.
Betty Jeanne Rueters-Ward
Interim Program Director
Why Black Lives Matter to All Souls
The annual UUA General Assembly is a chance for Unitarian
Universalists around the world to come together, reflect on common
challenges facing our communities, and set shared goals to help
make our society more peaceful, prosperous, and just. Last June, the
General Assembly convened in Portland, Oregon, and it was readily
apparent that one particular issue was on the mind of many Unitarian
Universalists; a deep-rooted problem that pervades every community
and impacts us all: racial injustice. Accordingly, this General Assembly
decided to adopt the Black Lives Matter movement as one of its Actions
of Immediate Witness - a special recognition of an issue of great
importance, which our Unitarian Universalist principles compel us to
act upon.
The Black Lives Matter movement was founded in 2013 by Patrisse
Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi, following George Zimmerman’s
acquittal for the slaying of Trayvon Martin. What began as a Twitter
hashtag has since turned into a global movement with a powerful
intersectional message, entwining the fight for racial justice with
gender, LGBTQ, climate and economic justice; a movement to uproot
the injustices systemically built into our government, policing, and
other institutions. The movement has raised public consciousness of
the injustices black people encounter all over the world, including in
our own community.
As people of relative privilege, it can be difficult to wrap our heads
around the pervasive institutionalized racism in our society, and far too
easy to ignore the unpleasant realities just beyond – and even within –
our doors. For many of us, this movement has been a wake up call. It is
the right time for the Black Lives Matter movement to make its mark,
and the right time for All Souls and the wider Unitarian Universalist
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community to lend support and be on the right side of history, as it has
been many times before.
That these issues are just beyond our doors is no measure of hyperbole.
In a sermon last April, Taryn Strauss told the story of a member of the All
Souls community who had been stopped and surrounded by police just
beyond the doors of All Souls a few days earlier. This member, a person
of color, was told she “fit a profile” of someone who had committed a
crime in the neighborhood. She thought about bringing the officers to All
Souls, where she was known and could be vouched for, but she felt too
embarrassed to make that choice, because she did not want her All Souls
community to know she was under suspicion. This member of our All
Souls family deserved better, as do we all.
A question commonly asked by those who do not fully understand the
Black Lives Matter movement is: “Why do only black lives matter don’t all lives matter?” Indeed, all lives matter, including black lives. As
Unitarian Universalists, we believe that every individual is important,
worthy of dignity, and deserving of being treated with justice and
compassion. However, our society often fails in treating black lives as
equal to others; black people and other people of color disproportionately
face injustice and violence. Thus, it is because all lives matter, and because
of our Unitarian Universalist values, that we must fight to support black
lives.
To support this cause, Unitarian Universalists are building relationships
with Black Lives Matter leaders – including the emerging “Black Lives
of Unitarian Universalism” community, which will feature special
programming at the next General Assembly – in order to understand and
back their needs, goals, and agenda.
Although those of us who are not black may mean well with our own ideas
of how to fight racial injustice, there is no substitute for having lived the
experience of being targeted by institutionalized racism. We believe, as
Unitarian Universalists, that we can make the greatest impact to this fight
for racial justice by listening to what Black Lives Matter leaders have to
say, and lending them the help they ask of us.
Unitarian Universalists across the country have already been taking
action in support of Black Lives Matter. Wasting no time setting new
precedents, shortly after passing the resolution to name Black Lives
Matter their Action of Immediate Witness, members of the General
Assembly took to the streets of Portland. There they organized a “diein,” lying in a busy intersection as though they were dead, for four and a
half minutes as a tribute to the amount of time that Michael Brown was
left lying in the streets of Ferguson before anyone approached to help
him. Although some Unitarian Universalists may be uncomfortable with
these obstructionist tactics, most have come to understand that actions
like these play a pivotal role in bringing issues of racial injustice to the
forefront of public consciousness. Audre Lorde, the great civil rights
leader, once said, “The master’s tools cannot dismantle the master’s
house.”
In the coming months, All Souls will be bolstering its support of Black
Lives Matter. There are many ways that we as a congregation and we
as individuals can support the movement. Stay tuned for more details
on how you can make a difference. Above all, remember to listen to the
voices of the oppressed, wherever they may be, including within our
own community. For it is in the wisdom of their words, sharing their
experiences, that we will find the path toward the beloved community and
just society we yearn for.
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Worship & Music
From the Director of Music
Dear Friends,
Contemporary classical music is often perceived
as being inaccessible, unpleasant, nonsensical,
and lacking in profundity and meaning. A
common cry among concertgoers is, “Why can’t
composers nowadays compose like Beethoven?”
To begin with, there is only one Beethoven – just
like there is only one Bach, one Brahms, one
Stravinsky, etc. But most importantly, we must
remember that even the music of a composer as titanic as Beethoven
was often regarded by his contemporaries as being eccentric and
incomprehensible. Throughout history undisputed masterpieces like
Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony were at some point treated with
suspicion at best and mockery at worst.
Fortunately for all of us this did not deter Beethoven from
continuing to compose music that pushed the boundaries of what
was acceptable at the time. Just like in Beethoven’s time, right now
there is exciting, moving, deeply meaningful music being written by
contemporary composers all over the world and it is the responsibility
of all – composers, conductors, performers, presenters, and audience
members – to embrace and encourage it.
Since I joined All Souls in September, I have slowly but steadily been
introducing the congregation to contemporary works during our
worship services. Works by composers such as Henryk Górecki, James
Macmillan, John Tavener, Arvo Pärt, Stephen Paulus, and Veljo
Tormis, which have been making an appearance on Sunday mornings,
will come together on March 13 at 5:00 p.m. in a Musica Viva concert
entitled Voices in Motion. This special program will feature a blend
of music encompassing a large array of emotions and moods – with
music that is visceral and raw, beautiful and ethereal, powerful and
impactful, sublime and transcendental.
The composers featured in Voices in Motion are either still alive
or have died only recently. This should not be a deterrent but, on
the contrary, it should entice you to explore new sounds just as an
adventurous eater is eager to try new flavors at a fine restaurant. I
would like to encourage you to listen to the music ahead of the concert
so that you come immersed in the language of each composer in the
program. All of the pieces can be easily found on Youtube via a simple
search. For your convenience, the program appears below:
The Lamb and Song for Athene by John Tavener (1944-2013)
The Reverend Mustard his Installation Prelude by Nico Muhly
(b. 1981)
Cantos Sagrados by James MacMillan (b. 1959)
Amen by Henryk Górecki (1933-2010)
Raua needmine (Curse Upon Iron) by Veljo Tormis (b. 1930)
Annum per annum and The Beatitudes by Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)
Pilgrims’ Hymn by Stephen Paulus (1949-2014)
Kindly reminding you that all music, at some point, was new,
Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez
Director of Music
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A ll S ouls
at Sundown
worship in a different light
An Evening Meditation
of Jazz and Poetry
Sunday, March 20 at
5:00 p.m. in the Sanctuary
Featuring
Rufus Reid, bass
Aaron Goldberg, piano
RUFUS REID, one of today’s premiere bassists on the
international jazz scene, with his reputation firmly established
in the education arena, now adds composition to his vitae.
Rufus participated in the BMI Jazz Composer’s Workshop for
five years which has empowered him to move more deeply into
the composing arena. He has written
for string orchestra, jazz ensembles
large and small, concert band, double
bass ensemble pieces and a solo bass
composition. Mass Transit, Rufus’
three movement symphony orchestra
composition, was premiered in 2011.
Rufus Reid is equally known as an
exceptional educator. Along with Dr.
Martin Krivin, Reid created the Jazz
Studies & Performance Program at
William Paterson University.
Hailed by Down Beat Magazine for his “quick-witted harmonic
reflexes, fluid command of line and cut-to-the-chase sense of
narrative logic,” AARON GOLDBERG has made his name as
one of jazz’s most compelling pianists, both as a bandleader and
frequent collaborator with Joshua Redman and Wynton Marsalis,
among many others. “A post-bop pianist of exemplary taste and
range, Aaron Goldberg has worked mainly in collaborative settings
since the release of his 2010 album, Home. His superb new work,
The Now, features Reuben Rogers on bass and Eric Harland on
drums — Mr. Goldberg’s main rhythm team for the last 16 years
— and inhabits precisely the sort of high-proficiency, no-nonsense,
self-possessed air you’d expect” (The New York Times).
***
Led by Galen Guengerich
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Worship & Music
Chancel Flowers
March 6
March 27
In loving memory of
Schuyler Chapin
by Miles, Tess, and Moses
In loving memory of
Eugene “Rocky” Staples
by his wife, Judy Staples
In loving memory of
Alexander V. Fraser, Caroline Wilcox Fraser
Caroline Fraser Brower, Elizabeth Armitage
Fraser Draper Gay and Bruce Fraser Draper
by Caroline Wilcox Brower Cuthbert
and Elizabeth Pray Draper
In loving memory of
Margaret Dillon Fessenden
by her son, Jerald D. Fessenden
Easter Chancel Flowers Reminder
Those who wish to honor or remember loved ones with
special Easter flowers for the Chancel, please send your
written dedications with an Easter Flower contribution
(generally $25-$50) to Hannah Marks at the church by
Noon on March 20.
In memory of
Muriel Freeman
by her loving family
The Hub
March 13
In loving memory of
the Rev. Clon C. Brown
by his son, Willard
In loving memory of our dear friend,
Kevin Goehring
by Robert and Rae Gilson
In loving memory of his mother,
Josephine Yacopino
by Jim and Lynda Yacopino
Sunday, April 3
5:00 p.m. in the Sanctuary
March 20
Dear Joy
Your smile, sparkling eyes and sense of
humor are with us still.
David, Drew and Ed
In loving memory of our dear friend,
Patricia Justine Baird,
by Lynda and Jim Yacopino
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The Hub is a unique worship service led collaboratively by a team
of All Souls community members and ministers and designed
for all ages and generations. At the Hub, we believe in the
power of connection and that sharing our experiences helps us
to discover a shared sense of community and purpose. We invite
you to join us for music, storytelling and personal reflection,
and to find yourself deeply known and held in the community.
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Section
Hea d er
Bu lleti n
Adult Education
10:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
Your Life, Your Legacy: Pre-Arranging Your
Funeral, Estate Planning and Wills
Sunday morning at 10:00 a.m. in Reidy Hall
March 6
with Stephen Duer and Salvatore Di Costanzo
Understanding Autism and Supporting Those
Living With Autism
Sunday morning at 10:00 a.m. in Reidy Hall
March 13
with Deidra King, M.A., M.S., BCBA
Planning your final arrangements is one of the most thoughtful gifts you
can give to your family. This seminar will help you learn the simple steps
each of us can take to plan your own funeral arrangements in advance,
create a will, establish a health care proxy, and do proper estate planning.
Co-Sponsored with the Parents Association
Stephen Duer is a certified seminar presenter with
Dignity Memorial Funeral Providers of New York and
has focused his work on the “Your Life, Your Legacy”
program for the past two years. He is married and the
father of three children.
Salvatore Di Costanzo is a practicing attorney
and accountant with a special focus on elder law and
special needs planning. He began his legal career as a
tax attorney with Ernst & Young, LLP in its estate and
business succession planning group, providing estate
planning, income tax, trust and administrative services
for individuals and closely-held business owners. He
is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and a
current member of the executive committee of the New York State Bar
Association’s elder law section.
There will be no Adult Education programs
on Easter Sunday, March 27
This presentation will focus on helping parents and caretakers of
children with autism and related disorders how to better understand
the symptoms and disability of childhood autism, and offer practical
advice for the care and nurturance of children diagnosed with this
disorder within the family setting.
Deidra King is Regional Lead Manager for the
Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD). Ms.
King, who holds a Master of Science degree in Early
Childhood Special Education from Hunter College,
and a Master of Arts degree in Psychology Behavior
Analysis from the University of Reno, is a leading
expert in developing Applied Behavior Analysis
treatments in the service of teaching positive social behaviors and
limiting maladaptive patterns in childhood development. She has over
fifteen years of clinical experience working with children of all ages
with a range of disabilities.
Supporting the Autistic Child: How to Support
Families and Children Through Radical Hospitality
Sunday morning at 10:00 a.m. in Reidy Hall
March 20
A Panel Discussion with All Souls Parents
Co-Sponsored with the Parents Association
Join us for a spirited panel discussion by All Souls members Carol
Kirkman, Susan Olsen, Emilie Wylie and Scott Barcalow, who will
share their personal experiences of raising children on the autism
spectrum. Together we will explore strategies for how to become a
more welcoming and supportive community for families who are facing
the special needs of autism. We aim to deepen our understanding of
families with children with special needs and learn how their presence
in our community can offer us different ways of seeing and knowing our
world and ourselves.
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Adult Education
11:15 a.m.
A Composer’s Approach to Mortality and the
Meaning of Life
Sunday mornings at 11:15 a.m. in Reidy Hall
March 6, 13, 20
with Birgit Matzerath and Bill Edwards
Johannes Brahms’ final work, Four Serious Songs, is a moving
testimony to his process of evaluating his own life and coming to
terms with his own mortality. In these three sessions we will explore
how music becomes a means of expression for confronting both our
death and personal meaning. Each session will include a presentation
of the theme, performance of the songs, and time given for audience
responses.
March 6: The Composer and the Work
The first session will give a summary
of the composer’s biography and focus
especially on aspects that resonate with
his final songs. In this session the entire
song cycle will be performed.
March 13: Three Different Ways to
Look at Death
Here we will explore the first three songs of the cycle, take a closer look
at the words, and examine the way Brahms set them to music.
March 20: From Despair To Transcendence: “Now Remains Faith,
Hope, and Love”
This final session will explore the musical means that interpret the
words of the last song. Then, from the end we will look back at the
journey the entire cycle of four songs traces: from doubt through
despair to a re-evaluation of death, and its transcendence through love.
Birgit Matzerath, a member of the All Souls Choir and Musica
Viva, holds a degree in Piano Performance and teaching degrees from
Hochschule fuer Musik, and the University of Cologne, in Cologne,
Germany. For more than 20 years she taught piano and chamber
music at community schools in and around Cologne, gave solo recitals,
and appeared frequently as a collaborative pianist. After relocating in
2002 to Concord, MA she taught at the Concord Community Music
School before transferring to Maplewood NJ in 2009 where she now
maintains a private studio. In recent years she has performed Book I
of Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier in the US and in Germany, and will
be remembered by many for her presentations and performance from
Book II in the Adult Education program at All Souls. Ms. Matzerath is
a member of the Music Educator’s National Association of New Jersey
and the Leschetizky Association.
Bill Edwards became a member of All Souls in 1986 and shortly after
also became a member of the church choir and a regular participant in
the Musica Viva concerts. He writes, “Brahms’ Four Serious Songs has
been a touchstone song cycle from the time of my graduate studies in
vocal performance and vocal pedagogy at the University of Colorado. I
am honored to explore and share the beauty and spiritual depth of these
remarkable works with members of the Adult Education community at
All Souls.”
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Exploring Exodus
UU Bible Study: Exodus and Liberation
Tuesdays, March 8 and 22
7:00-8:30 p.m. in the Minot Simons Room
with Joseph Boyd
Our monthly Bible study will explore Exodus through the lenses
of African American spirituality, liberation theologians, and our
personal experience. We will meet on the second and fourth Tuesday
of the month from 7:00-8:30 p.m. Please bring a Bible with you. If
you have questions, please contact Field Education Intern Joseph
Boyd at Jboydnyc@gmail.com.
Sunday, March 20 at 1:00 p.m.
in the Sanctuary
YOUR ESSENTIAL SELF
with James Looram, PH.D.
This is a seminar that welcomes all to explore three central
questions:
What brings you joy?
What are your real talents?
What is important to you?
When you have answered these three questions you will have
discovered the foundations of your essential self.
James Looram, Ph.D. is author of the book, Your Essential
Self and founder of the national public seminar of the same
title. A graduate of West Point, he also earned a doctorate
from New York University in Organizational Behavior. He
is also a graduate of the Department of Defense’s Institute
of Race Relations, and Columbia University’s year-long
Executive Program in Human Resource Management and
Organization. He taught Leadership at West Point and while
on the faculty was a principal consultant to
the Superintendent on integrating minority
cadets into the program. For 15 years he was
National Course Leader for the American
Management Association and presented
organizational leadership instruction for its
Course for Presidents and was a facilitator of
its Executive Effectiveness Program.
Co-sponsored by the Career and Life Design Group.
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Religious Education
From the Director of
Religious Education
Children and Youth
RE Calendar
March is often a time when school
breaks disrupt family routines, or
spring sports take over Sunday
mornings. Don’t shortchange your
spiritual life. Bringing your family
to church offers a higher return the
more often you come. The more
deeply you involve yourselves in
service to the church community, the
more connected you will feel to the people who are here.
Typical Sunday morning schedule (excluding weeks
with Multigenerational Worship at 10:00 a.m.):
In children’s worship, we have been discussing the tenets
that are crucial to the lived experience of our faith, and
one of those is covenant. Covenant is like a promise we
make to ourselves, or to God, or to each other. We in the
UU congregation may hold each other to the promises we
make, that we will be respectful and kind to each other,
that we will take care of the Earth, that we will stay open
and curious to each other’s search for truth and meaning.
It is difficult to stay in covenant if we are not present to
each other.
March 6
Multigenerational Youth Service (10:00 & 11:15)
Celebratory Luncheon for Youth Families
With that in mind, I hope you will maintain your family’s
commitment to being present at All Souls. Come to
church, and remember to stay open to awe, wonder and
curiosity. Come to church, and learn to practice radical
hospitality through serving as an Usher or a Greeter.
Come to church, and practice gratitude for the chance
to connect with Spirit and beauty. Come to church, and
explore art and philosophy and poetry. Come to church,
and connect meaningfully with others who value building
the Beloved Community.
I hope to see you and your children at All Souls as many
Sundays as you can make it, so we may be rewarded by
each other’s presence.
Children’s Worship, 10:00 a.m. in the Chapel
Religious Education Classes, 10:15-11:15 a.m.
Parents Fellowship Coffee, 11:00 a.m. in the Ware Room
Creative Arts Workshops, 11:15-12:15
Junior High and High School Youth Groups, 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
March 13
Adult Education Parenting Series
March 20
Easter Basket Breakfast
Adult Education Parenting Series
Single Parent Support Group
March 27 Multigenerational Labyrinth Program
Easter Egg Hunt!
Dessert and Container
Donations
The RE Program partners with Monday Night Hospitality
to provide desserts and clean take-out containers to the
300+ guests we serve each and every week.
Please bring all donations directly to the designated dropoff area in the All Souls Kitchen.
Blessed Be!
The schedule for this quarter is:
Taryn Strauss
Director of Religious Education
March 6: 8th Grade and Nursery
March 13: High School Youth Group and
Pre-School
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March 20: 7th Grade and Kindergarten
March 27: 5th and 6th Grades
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Youth Ministries
YOUTH-LED SERVICE AT ALL SOULS
SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 2016
All Souls Deacons Awards
The All Souls Board of Deacons is happy to announce the recipients
of the 2016 Deacons Awards given at the Annual Meeting on
February 7, 2016.
The Youth-Led Service is March 6th!
The youth have been working on the
service for months and are very much
looking forward to worshiping with the
congregation.
Linda Rousseau
Linda received the Deacons Award for her efforts co-chairing the
Peace and Justice Task Force, helping establish the Racial Justice
Task Force, working to reform our criminal justice system, and
developing programs to highlight these issues.
The theme for this year’s service is
Transformation. The youth will be
exploring transformation through the
many relationships we have: friends, partners, strangers, pets,
church, etc. What happens when we step back and acknowledge
these relationships, no matter how big, no matter how small?
Jake Kochanowsky
Jake received the Deacons Youth Award for volunteering in
the Religious Education program as a teaching assistant, using
innovative techniques to motivate and inspire the children, and
keeping them engaged with the values of our congregation and our
faith.
Join the youth as they invite you to reflect on the experience of
Transformation through connection with people, places, and
things.
I can’t wait to see you there!
Kamila Jacob
Youth Ministries Coordinator
Jake Kochanowsky, Deacons Youth Award recipient
and Sandra Lotz Fisher, Deacons Award Committee Chair
Victor Fidel, Board of Trustees Past President, 2015 President’s
Award recipient Fred Joseph, 2016 President’s Award recipient
Jennifer Vermont-Davis, Deacons Award Recipient Linda
Rousseau, Board of Deacons President Suzanne May, Board of
Trustees Past President Larry Reina
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Congregational Life
Deepening Community
Serve the All Souls Ministry of Welcome
An Usher’s smile and “Good morning! How are you?”
sets the tone for the rest of your Sunday, and brings people
back through All Souls’ doors again. Ushers arrive 30
minutes before the service, distribute orders of service,
answer questions, open the doors for latecomers, and take the
collection.
Welcomers staff the Welcome Table and look for newcomers
at Coffee Hour. With our newly revised All Souls brochures,
it’s easier than ever to share information about our worship,
music and outstanding programs, as well as our outreach
efforts.
Volunteer Ushers and Welcomers are needed for a once-amonth commitment, or on the alternate list.
To get involved, please contact Membership Coordinator
Maryah Converse at Maryah@AllSoulsNYC.org or
(212) 535-5530.
Be a delegate for All Souls at the
2016 Metro NY District Annual Meeting
The 2016 Metro NY District Annual Meeting will be
held on May 6-7, 2016 at the Hyatt Morristown in
Morristown, NJ.
Contact Betty Jeanne Rueters-Ward at bettyjeanne@
AllSoulsNYC.org if you are interested in:
• Being a delegate for All Souls
• Requesting space at an exhibition table
• Reserving hotel space at the conference rate
Registration deadline is April 15, 2016.
This year’s keynote speaker is Taquiena Boston,
Director of Multicultural Growth and Witness for the
Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA). Full meeting
details and registration will be available online on
March 11, 2016 at http://uumetrony.org/am16. Learn
more on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/
events/221751934832176/.
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Join us on Facebook!
More and more groups here at All Souls are making themselves
known on Facebook. Join the conversation!
All Souls Nuclear Disarmament Task Force
All Souls Stories with Soul UU NYC
All Souls Young Adults UU NYC
Friday Soup NYC
Heart & Soul Charitable Fund, Inc.
Monday Night Hospitality
Musica Viva of New York
Navigators USA
New Amsterdam Boys & Girls Choir
Peace and Justice Task Force All Souls
Racial Justice Initiative of All Souls Church
Unitarian Universalist District of Metropolitan New York
Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office
Interested in serving
as a General Assembly delegate?
The General Assembly (GA) is the annual meeting
of our Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA).
Attendees worship, witness, learn, connect, and make
policy for the Association through democratic process.
Anyone may attend. In addition, congregations send
delegates to vote in plenary sessions.
This year’s GA will be held in Columbus, Ohio from
June 22-26. For more information, please visit uua.
org/ga. Registration and hotel reservations are now
available - act fast for best lodging options! If you are
interested in being a delegate, or otherwise attending
General Assembly, please contact Interim Program
Director Betty Jeanne Rueters-Ward at bettyjeanne@
AllSoulsNYC.org.
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Congregational Life
Shared Ministry
All Souls Cares
We are currently in the season that for some is marked with
reflection and discernment. During Lent (the forty days between
Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday) Christians focus on their
spiritual lives through prayer, penance, and charity. They
might commit to giving up something important to them – like
chocolate! One minister summed up the experience by saying
“sometimes we have to let go of that which we love…”
In addition to the ministers on staff, All Souls has a team of
Lay Pastoral Associates who are ready to talk with you
when you need support. The Lay Pastoral Associates are
members of the congregation, selected by the ministers for
their compassion, sensitivity, and wisdom, who have received
training in pastoral care. We also have The Caring Team.
This group offers practical assistance and companionship to
men and women who are home bound or in the hospital for a
short-term stay.
Dear Members and Friends,
Lent is also an opportunity to do something extra to benefit others
– a form of charity and penitence. Forty days is the amount of
time it takes to develop, or change, a habit or practice. The idea
is to make a course correction to normal behavior to experience
life anew.
In some ways, this transition time is a bit like Lent. Each is a
time set apart from the norm. Some customary expectations of
the ministry are suspended during this period of reflection and
discernment.
The Board of Trustees has engaged the congregation to reflect on
its core values and to develop a Mission Statement that will carry
them out. Ultimately, this discernment process will focus your
purpose and guide your work in the years ahead.
The core values you have identified, Possibility, Connection, and
Transformation, are quite radical and impressive. They imply
that All Souls is poised for change. Are you?
We want to hear from you. Please call us for pastoral care
at (646) 669-9345 or contact Rev. Nancy Arnold at Nancy@
AllSoulsNYC.org. You can also find more information about
these groups on the All Souls website.
Small Group Ministry
Annual Small Group Ministry Potluck
Saturday, March 12 at 6:00 p.m.
in Reidy Friendship Hall
All participants of Small Group Ministry are invited to attend
our Annual Potluck dinner. Please ask your group facilitators
about the details.
Will you let go of some old values – some “traditions” – to
make room for possibility?
To foster connection, will you make space in your
intimate circles to “welcome and include all who come
into contact with the church community?”
Are you prepared to be transformed personally, as a
congregation, and in the world, as such changes occur?
Whether or not you choose to participate in the congregation’s
vision for the future, you will be changed, as will All Souls. And
these changes will continue long after your new Assistant Minister
arrives.
This transition time – in forty day increments – allows you to let
go of some things in order to make room for transformation. Be
intentional about your participation. Cultivate new habits and
practices toward the 2020 Vision. All Souls’ future awaits your
devoted attention.
Yours in faith,
Nancy O. Arnold,
Interim Assistant Minister
for Pastoral Care and Congregational
Life
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Fellowship, Learning, and the Arts
Ministerial Search Committee
Dear Friends,
All Souls is currently conducting a search for a new Assistant
Minister.
The search committee is following a process
recommended by the UUA with the guidance of a representative
from the UUA Transitions office. We are following a “Hire to
Call” process, whereby the minister will be hired as an Assistant
Minister with an option to “call” them to a permanent Associate
Minister position by a congregational vote. If the congregation or
minister decide not to go through the “call” process, the Assistant
Minister will stay on for another year while the congregation
undergoes a new search. The “Hire to Call” process has the
benefit of allowing the congregation and minister to ensure a
good fit before deciding on a permanent position.
Below is an outline of the search process:
June – August 2015: The MSC developed plans for receiving
input from the community and from the Unitarian Universalist
Association. We also reviewed best practices for conducting a
search of this nature.
September – November 2015: The MSC solicited and listened
to congregational input. This feedback will inform and guide our
evaluation of potential candidates. It will also provide information
to candidates about the range of views within our congregation.
December 2015: Potential candidates reviewed information,
materials and records about our congregation and the position.
February – March 2016: The MSC will evaluate applications,
identify the most qualified candidates and conduct interviews.
The MSC will select a final candidate, who will be approached
with an offer of the position.
April 2016: The new Assistant Minister will be announced to
the congregation.
September 2016: The new Assistant Minister will officially
begin at All Souls.
The committee has been hard at work and we are pleased
to say that we are right on schedule. We are honored to be
serving on this committee. Should you have any questions, feel
free to see us at coffee hour or to contact any of us with your
questions or comments. You can also send an email to Search@
AllSoulsNYC.org.
The Ministerial Search Committee:
Cory Labanow, Co-Chair
Hanan Watson, Co-Chair
Robert Dottin
Rev. Galen Guengerich
Alice Heminway
Nancy Northup
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Women’s Alliance
Women’s Alliance Spring Event
with Aiyoung Choi
Saturday, April 23
3:30 p.m. in Reidy Friendship Hall
SAVE THE DATE
Aiyoung Choi, New York Activist for World
Peace and Security, who returned to her
Korean homeland for a unifying Walk for
Peace across the DMZ zone, will be the
keynote speaker at this very special program.
All are welcome!
Steve McCurry: India
Rubin Museum of Art
Monday, March 7 at 11:00 a.m.
We will view “Steve McCurry: India,” organized by the Rubin and
the International Center for Photography. Also on view is “Gateway
to” and “Masterworks of Himalayan Art” and “Sacred Spaces:
Tibetan Buddhist Shrine.” Lunch afterwards in the Museum’s Cafe
Serai. Admission is free for Seniors, $15 for Adults. RSVP to Betty
McCollum at BMcC8631@aol.com or 212-535-8040.
Women of New York
Fourth Universalist Society
Friday, March 11 at 8:00 p.m.
Join us for the 4th U Artivists’ production of Women of New York,
8:00 p.m. at the Fourth Universalist Society, 160 Central Park
West. Purchase tickets at www.4thuartivists.com. Supper at 6:15
in the neighborhood for those interested. RSVP for supper to Betty
McCollum at BMcC8631@aol.com or 212-535-8040.
UUWA Lecture and Buffet Lunch
Saturday, March 12, 12:00-3:00 p.m.
28 East 35th Street (Brownstone with Red Door)
The speaker is Mary Walton, “Alice Paul - the Battle for the Ballot”
Willow Chorus. Price is $20-$12, sliding scale. All checks are
payable to UUWA. Please mail payment to Reena Kondo, 230 West
79th Street, New York, NY 10024; 212-724-0438.
Women’s Alliance Monthly Luncheon
Wednesday, March 16
12:30 p.m. in the Ware Room
Our speaker is Rev. Carol Ann Huston, who will talk about,
“Building Bridges: Bolivia and Beyond.” Carol is a founding Board
member of the International Women’s Convocation. Recently, she
moderated a 3-day IWC meeting in Bolivia, which brought together
60 Bolivian, U.S., and Australian women to set priorities for action
in women’s empowerment and climate change. Bring a brown bag
lunch. Beverages and desserts will be provided.
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Congregational Groups for
Fellowship, Learning, and the Arts
Career Development
and Life Design Group
First Thursday Meeting in a Circle
Thursday, March 3 from 7:00-9:00 p.m.
in the Minot Simons Room
Circle of Elders
Thursdays, March 10 and 24 from 2:00-4:00 p.m.
in the Ware Room
This month’s topics:
March 10:
Recent Interesting Vacations
And see us when we have a table in Reidy Friendship
Hall on Sundays after services, where we provide
individual help. We’ll be there most Sundays this month.
March 24: Strategies for Coping with Chronic
Disease
Third Thursday One-on-One Clinic
March 17 from 6:45-9:00 p.m. in the Ware Room
by appointment only
The Circle of Elders is open to everyone in the latter part of their
lives. Its purpose is to talk about the challenges this time of life
brings and to share experiences, information, and ways to enrich
and make the most of these later and more time-limited years.
For more information, contact Mary Keane at (212) 879-6340 or
Keanepsy@gmail.com.
For more information, and to make appointments, go to
www.AllSoulsNYC.org/Career_Group. Is there a topic
or presenter you’d like us to schedule? Email John L. German
german63@hotmail.com.
Stories with Soul
Wednesdays, 6:45 p.m. in the Ware Room
SAVE THE DATE
All Souls Sangha
Meditation with Pilar Jennings
Sunday, April 3 from 1:00-2:30 p.m.
in the Ware Room
All are welcome - whether you are curious about meditation
or you’re a practicing Buddhist. Please join our first monthly
meeting and help us create this sangha at All Souls. A sangha
is a community of people who come together to meditate and
study and is one of the three jewels of Buddhism. Dr. Pilar
Jennings will guide us through meditation and teach us about
Tibetan Buddhism.
Dr. Pilar Jennings is a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst
who has focused on the clinical applications of Buddhist
meditation practice. She completed a doctorate in the
Psychiatry and Religion Program at Union Theological
Seminary. Dr. Jennings is also the author of Mixing Minds:
The Power of Relationship in Psychoanalysis and Buddhism
(2010).
Now in its 23rd year, Stories with Soul invites you to join us for a onehour short story reading and discussion. No prior reading necessary.
“A Mecca for lovers of the short story” (Columbia Spectator) and a
great way to meet people. For more information, please contact Steve
Michelman, Coordinator, at stephenemichelman@mac.com and
Teresa Brooks, Co-Coordinator, at tfbrooks@gmail.com. You can
now find us on Facebook: All Souls Stories with Soul UU NYC.
March 2
Laura Pedersen reads The Happy Prince by Oscar
Wilde
March 9
Neil Osborne reads Mr. Mustache by J.D. Hager
March 16
Linda Rousseau reads Al Roosten by George
Saunders
March 23
David Rockefeller, Jr. reads The Jilting of Granny
Weatherall by Katherine Anne Porter
March 30
Teresa Brooks reads The Easter Lilies by Jane
Gardam
March Host, Steve Michelman
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Congregational Groups for
Fellowship, Learning, and the Arts
Women’s Reading Group
The Women’s Reading Group meets at 7:30 p.m. in the Ware
Room on the first and third Tuesdays of the month (except
December - see below) to discuss books written by women
that are available in paperback editions. The discussion at the
first session covers the first half of the book and the second
covers the entire book.
March 1 & 15 - Vanessa and Her Sister by Priya
Parmer
April 5 & 19 - H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Questions? Contact: Mary-Ella Holst at (212) 861-2950 or
Meholst@aol.com
All are welcome to join us!
Writers’ Group
Mondays, March 14 and 28
6:30-8:30 p.m. in the Chapel
This group is open to all writers, whether of fiction or
nonfiction, poetry or prose, published or unpublished, as
well as journalists and people who work in publishing. All
are invited to read their work. Comments and discussion
are welcome. Contact Marilyn Mehr for more information
at Marmehr@aol.com or (212) 249-0012.
Young Adults
The Springboard
You should know about the Springboard, All Souls Young Adults’
online bulletin board (at facebook.com/groups/thespringboard).
It’s another way for members of the group to help each other
out. You’ll hear inside information on rooms/apartments, jobs,
interesting events on spirituality in the city and at church, and
much more. You’re going to benefit from it sooner or later, so
join up!
All Souls Staycation: Transformation
Sunday, March 6
11:15 a.m. Service at All Souls
The youth group is leading Sunday Morning Worship. Their
theme is Transformation: looking at how one transforms through
relationships with people, places, pets, objects, etc. Let’s go to
the 11:15 service to support All Souls’ future Young
Adults! Look for other YAs in the pews.
First Sunday Brunch
March 6 at 1:00 p.m.
Following Coffee Hour, we will head out to brunch at Guzan on
3rd Avenue between 86th and 87th Streets. We’ll walk over as a
group. To find us, come to Coffee Hour after the service or join
us at the restaurant.
Bagel Brunch
Sunday, March 20 at 12:45 p.m.
Following the service, we will meet for bagels, veggies, and lots
of exciting mingling. A great way to meet new folks in the group.
Look for us in Coffee Hour and we will head to whatever room
we’re meeting in from there.
Food and Fellowship
Thursday, March 31 at 7:00 p.m.
in the Forrest Church Gallery
Our monthly dinner and discussion evening at the church,
hosted by a young adult. Food at 7:00 p.m.; discussion at 7:30
p.m. Please join us for all or part of the evening! Stay tuned at
facebook.com/groups/allsoulsyoungadults for more information
about this event.
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Congregational Groups for
Service and Outreach
News from All Souls Meal
Programs
At the Annual Meeting last month, two questions were raised from the
floor: what is the precise relationship of Heart & Soul and All Souls
Church, and do we as congregants contribute to both? In service to
both the Stewardship Committee and the outreach programs funded by
Heart & Soul, I will answer the latter question first. Yes, please, in your
generosity, contribute to both. Your contributions to All Souls Annual
Giving support our worship, music, fellowship, community, service, social
justice, religious education, and the beautiful building in which we gather.
Supplementing this with support for Heart & Soul helps fund our social
outreach programs.
Heart & Soul is an instrumentality of the All Souls community that helps
raise funds for the programs that lie at the core of our social outreach.
Under the leadership and inspiration of the Rev. Dr. Forrest Church and
members of our congregation Michele Jawin, Steve Lash, and the late
Francesca Thompson, the Heart & Soul Charitable Fund was established
in 1988 to facilitate contributions from outside as well as inside the All
Souls congregation. The members of our Board and the many volunteers
who help carry out our mission have been principally active members of
the All Souls community. Many former members of the All Souls Board
and Deacons have served on our board. Indeed, a succession of former
presidents of the congregation have served as President of Heart & Soul.
All Souls and Heart & Soul are united in purpose to support our social
outreach programs.
The All Souls meal programs that feed hundreds of members of the
community each week – Monday Night Hospitality and Friday Soup
Kitchen – as well as our Girl Scout troop in Harlem, are itemized in the All
Souls budget and, as Executive Director Eileen Macholl stated at Annual
Meeting, would be supported from general church revenues even if Heart
& Soul did not raise the necessary funds. Your contributions to Heart &
Soul support these programs as well as others near and dear to the heart
of our congregation that include Navigators USA, an inclusive and diverse
scouting program with international scope that was the brainchild of All
Souls member and newly elected Trustee Robin Bossert and nurtured by
members of the congregation, Musica Viva’s outreach program to bring
music into the community, and the New Amsterdam Boys & Girls Choir
that extends the gift of music making to young people who often display
their achievements in our sanctuary.
After 28 years, Heart & Soul, together with the church, is engaged in
an effort to plan our way forward. For now, we are grateful for your
generous contributions, which can be made at www. heartandsoulfund.
org. If you want to consider joining us in our efforts, please write me
at jeffd.friedlander@gmail.com, or visit our booth and speak with us
during Coffee Hour. New recruits with fundraising, event planning and
organizational skills will keep us on track in the fulfillment of our mission.
I hope to hear from you.
With gratitude,
Amanda Hambrick Ashcraft, their Director of Outreach
Ministries, works with John Sheehan to serve many of the same
guests that we see each Monday. This effort multiplies the impact
of our work to making a difference in the lives of the homeless
that come to both of our churches in search of much more than
a night’s shelter or a meal - as important as those services are to
them. Together we are looking for a permanent solution to the
lack of housing and jobs for the rising numbers of homeless of
all ages in our city. We are proud to work together with Fifth Ave
Presbyterian Church. Their web site is www.fapc.org.
Carole Weiss (on the right
in the photo) is pleased to
share the news that, through
Friday
Soup
Kitchen’s
contact at Feed America, we
had two celebrities in the
kitchen on Friday: New York
celebrity chef and cookbook
author, Rocco DiSpirito
(on the left), and supermodel
Karoline Kirkova (in the
center), frequently featured
in the pages of Vogue
Magazine.
Both of our
guests were delightful and
worked very hard preparing
food. A photographer from
Getty Images was there to
capture the entire afternoon,
and People.com has featured an article and pictures of Friday
Soup Kitchen on their website.
Financial support and volunteer efforts from All Souls’
members and friends make our outreach possible.
Jeff Friedlander
President
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George Collins, co-leader at Monday Night Hospitality, is
delighted to announce that our relationship with Fifth Ave
Presbyterian Church has been strengthened by a grant that
helps us continue funding our social worker, John Sheehan,
meeting with the homeless, elderly and those in distress each
Wednesday at their church. This church, located in a beautiful
Gothic building constructed in 1875, has a very active outreach
program and a small, very lovely shelter on the lower level. They
are one of the largest Presbyterian congregations in the country
and can proudly point to a history of helping the poor. They
started a school for children in New York that later became our
public school system.
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Congregational Groups for
Service and Outreach
UUs for Justice in the
Middle East
Stop by the Social Action table at Coffee Hour on Sundays to
discuss recent developments and pick up information related
to the equality and human rights for Israelis and Palestinians
and to get a Peace Be Upon You button, in Arabic and English,
recently created by Maryah Converse and friends at 4th
Universalist Society on Central Park West.
We are happy to report that the Business Resolution proposed
by UUJME chapters nationally will be included on the agenda
for General Assembly adoption in June. Thank you to all
supporters from All Souls who helped us achieve eligibility for
the agenda.
UU Monthly Study Group on Israel and Palestine
Sunday, March 20
1:00 p.m. in the Minot Simons Room
UUJME will host its third session of the study group using
the new UU study guide, released in 2015, The 7 Unitarian
Universalist Principles and Palestine-Israel. This session
centers on the second principle, “Justice, Equity and
Compassion in all Human Relations.” You can prepare
by reading Session Three of the study guide, to be found
at http://uujme.org/home/Portals/0/7UUP-PI-Session3.
pdf?ver=2015-10-08-182016-590.
Join us for this UU
investigation of this sensitive issue related to justice and
equality, security and peace. Sign up for the study group at the
Social Action table during Coffee Hour!
If you have questions, or if you would like an invitation to
our googlegroups discussion list, please contact Karen Steele
at ksteele@mindspring.com or Deborah Taylor at dft4net0@
gmail.com. We hope you will join us for these exciting
programs!
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Racial Justice Initiative
Sunday Conversation on Racial Justice
Sunday, March 20
1:00-2:30 p.m.
Join us for our monthly Sunday Conversation on Racial Justice. All
are welcome to bring their ideas, questions, and energies for racial
justice. The gathering will be an incubator and bridge-builder for a
variety of issues, identities and interests relating to race and racial
justice. For more information, contact Betty Jeanne at Bettyjeanne@
AllSoulsNYC.org, check out her column in the bulletin.
UU “Common Read” Just Mercy - Discussion
Sessions
March 1 and 15, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
in the Forrest Church Gallery
The UUA has selected Bryan Stevenson’s memoir, Just Mercy,
one of Time Magazine’s 10 best nonfiction books of 2014, as the
denomination’s “Common Read” for 2015-2016. All Souls’ Racial
Justice Initiative is sponsoring a discussion of Just Mercy on two
Tuesdays this month. Begin reading the book and join the discussion.
Just Mercy tells how Stevenson went from the rural, segregated
Delaware community of his childhood to being a disillusioned
Harvard Law School student to founding a non-profit representing
death row prisoners in Alabama by the age of 30. Over the last 25
years, Stevenson and his staff at the Equal Justice Initiative have won
relief for over 100 death row prisoners in Alabama and gone to the
Supreme Court to strike down life-without-parole sentences imposed
on children. Just Mercy interweaves the story of a wrongful murder
conviction in Harper Lee’s hometown with discussion of race, poverty,
politics, juvenile justice and mass incarceration.
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Congregational
Groups for
Service and Outreach
Nuclear Disarmament
Task Force
Nuclear Heartland: A Guide to the 450 Land-based
Missiles of the United States
with John LaForge
Thursday, March 24
7:00 p.m. in Reidy Friendship Hall
The U.S. and Russia each maintain hundreds of nuclear missiles on
short alert, ready to be launched on a few minutes notice - despite the
fact that, several times already, the world has come within minutes
of accidental nuclear war through human or computer error. Experts,
including a former U.S. Secretary of Defense, have called for the
elimination of land-based missiles as unnecessary and intolerably
dangerous. Yet current Pentagon plans call for developing a new
generation of these missiles, continuing their deployment deep into
the century.
John LaForge, co-author of the new book Nuclear Heartland, will
discuss little known facts about the heartland missiles and their
implications for U.S. policy.
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New York Common Pantry
Every month, All Souls members and
friends donate food items to the
New York Common Pantry
(formerly the Yorkville Pantry).
In March, the Pantry would love to collect:
Low sodium canned stew or soup
Whole wheat pasta
Please bring your donations (no glass
containers) to Reidy Friendship Hall during
Coffee Hour on March 13, or bring them to the
Church Front Office anytime.
Free and open to the public.
April Bulletin Deadline:
March 15
Please send event info to
Submissions@AllSoulsNYC.org.
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2:00 Circle of Elders
6:45 Stories with Soul
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7:00 Young Adults Food and
Fellowship
7:00 Nuclear Disarmament
Task Force Event
6:45 Stories with Soul
7:00 UU Bible Study
30
23
12:30 WA Monthly Luncheon
6:45 Stories with Soul
6:45 Stories with Soul
Wednesday
Tuesdays
Tuesday
8
7:00 UU Common Read Book
Discussion
6:30 Community Choir
7:30 Women’s Reading Group
7:00 UU Bible Study
6:30 Community Choir
15
7:00 UU Common Reads Book
Discussion
6:30 Community Choir
29
22
7:30 Women’s Reading Group
7:00 UU Bible Study
6:30 Community Choir
6:30 Community Choir
2
12:00 p.m.
Friday Soup Kitchen
1
6:00 p.m.
Community Choir
E v e n t s Monday
Mondays
5:00 p.m.
Monday Night Hospitality
Cal endar
Ongoing
weekly
events
Sunday
Highlights:
6 ALL SOULS AT SUNDOWN
Sunday March 20 at 5:00 p.m.
MUSICA VIVA: VOICES IN MOTION
Sunday March 13 at 5:00 p.m.
6:30 Writer’s Group
6:30 Writers Group
5:00 Monday Night Hospitality
5:00 Monday Night Hospitality
21
5:00 Monday Night Hospitality
13 10:00 & 11:15 Youth-Led Services
11:00 WA Trip to the Rubin
10:00 Adult Ed: Stephen Duer &
Salvatore Di Costanzo
Museum of Art
11:15 Adult Ed: Birgit Matzerath & Bill
Edwards
5:00 Monday Night Hospitality
1:00 YA First Sunday Brunch
20
10:00 & 11:15 G
alen Guengerich
10:00 Adult Ed: Deidra King
11:15 Adult Ed: Birgit Matzerath & Bill
Edwards
5:00 MUSICA VIVA Concert
27
10:00 & 11:15 G
alen Guengerich
10:00 Adult Ed: All Souls Parents
11:15 Adult Ed: Birgit Matzerath & Bill
Edwards
1:00 Lifelines Center - James Looram
1:00 Welcome to All Souls
1:00 Racial Justice Conversation
1:00 UUJME Study Group
5:00 All Souls at Sundown
Eas ter
10:00 & 11:15 G
alen Guengerich
NO ADULT ED LECTURES
Friday
12:00 Friday Soup Kitchen
M ar ch
2016
4
12
5
Saturday
11
12:00 UUWA Lecture and Lunch
12:00 Friday Soup Kitchen
26
19
6:00 Small Group Ministry
Potluck
18
8:00 WA - Women of New York
performance
12:00 Friday Soup Kitchen
25
12:00 Friday Soup Kitchen