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The Newsletter of the Sunday Worship Unitarian Universalist Church of Rockville, Maryland: Quest A Welcoming Congregation Summer Sunday Services 10:00 a.m. only Volume XLVIII, Number 1 1 September 2004 Editor: Alberta Maschal 5 September Search Committee Plans Potluck Supper Socrates Café and Town Meeting in September Kyle Hedges by Karen Malley Introduction to Socrates Café - a style of philosophical discussion in Everyone is invited to an all-church potluck supper on Saturday evening, 18 small groups - including short September. It’s our first potluck of the fall church season! Children are invited to orientation and hands-on practice. supper and a fun after-dinner activity. The adults will play a different way: we will brainstorm about what kind of minister we want. Think back to ministers who have inspired or mentored you in the past: What was it about that person that was special to you? What will make you say of our new minister, I’m glad the minister is among us! Write your thoughts down and bring them to the after-dinner discussion. The Search Committee needs your input to be able to 12 September answer these questions and find the minister who is right for our church. Resume regular schedule – Allison Cox and the Party Committee are organizing the potluck. Bring whatever Services 9:00 and 10:45 a.m. you can to share and sit down to dinner with all your friends in the UUCR Ingathering Water Ceremony community. Rev. Sue Turner Remember to bring your ‘vacation’ On 19 September the Search Committee will hold town meetings after each water for the Water Communion. service. The Fall 2004 UUCR Survey will be presented and the Committee will be available to answer questions. Members and friends will have the opportunity to complete the brief survey on the spot, or take it home to return later on. Please do attend one of the town meetings and fill out a survey right away. The Search Committee has begun visiting individuals, small groups, and committees. These discussions are very rich with ideas that will help in the search. Please speak to any member of the Search Committee: Terrie Barr, Herb Winkler, Pat Wilson, Mark Burton, Ralph Golden, Chuck Fenimore, or Karen Malley. They are eager to hear from each and every person. Mini Do It Day 5 September Noticed all the weeds on the UUCR grounds? Let’s get together after the service on 5 September to make our church look its best Summer Religious Education before the church year begins. Bring your garden tools and your Classes energy. Pizza will be provided. Please bring a side dish or drinks 20 June - 5 September to share. Questions, call or e-mail Beth Irikura. Preschool - Sixth Grade 10:00 - 11:15 a.m. “Keepers of the Earth” Native American stories and environ- mental/science activities for the realization of wonder and delight and appreciation of and responsible Quest deadline: Thursday 16 September 2004 at 8:00 p.m., action toward the earth. for mailing 22 September. Children go directly to classrooms in (E-mail to John Racine, [email protected]) Building 3. 1 September 2004 Quest — 1 Quest Lifespan Religious Education Unitarian Universalist Church of Rockville 100 Welsh Park Drive REflections Rockville, MD 20850 301-762-7666 Fax: 301-762-7667 [email protected] This week Anne Hope Scott showed me the schedule for Marching on Selma: www.uucr.org Stories of Courage which she is coordinating. I am so interested in this program. Parents, I hope you will bring your older children to “Marching on STAFF Selma” on 15 September. I remember when my daughter was young we went to Interim Minister: Rev. Sue M. Turner the Torpedo Factory and I showed her Laura Huff’s prints and told her Laura is Director of Religious Education: Deborah McGrady Kahn a member of our church. She said, “I’m so proud she’s in our church.” I think Director of Music: Dr. Myra Tate your children and all of us adults will be proud to be in church with the mem- Accompanist: Mary Gottlieb bers you will hear from at our first Wonderful Wednesday program of the year. Youth Coordinator: Leah Davis Church Administrator: Amy Anderson I also met with Ellen Menis and Gail Owens this week; Ellen is coordinating the Administrative Assistants: series of programs that our church, through the Adult Education and Social Keashia Bennett, Ginny Scher Childcare Coordinator: Leah Davis Justice Committees, is cosponsoring with the National Alliance for the Mentally Nursery Care Provider: Jane Helton Ill (NAMI) in Celebration of Mental Illness Awareness Week in October. This is Sexton: Anthony Reeves an important series of programs with some well-known people in their field. Please read your adult education brochure and look for the special brochure Board of Trustees coming out in September. Phil Lowe ’05, President; Sharrill Dittman ‘06, Vice President; Barbara Kawamura Stephanie Kreps has put in her usual good work on the new adult education ’06, Secretary; Dave Marks ‘05, Treasurer; brochure, even in the midst of working around everyone’s summer schedules! Bill Childers ‘05; Judy Eisenhauer ‘05; Terrie McNulty ’06; Beth Irikura ’05, Please read it carefully, especially the important registration information on the Immediate Past President first page. Note that this year John Racine will staff an adult education table in the church lobby. Officers Secretary: Barbara Kawamura ’06 As for me, one of the pleasures of my summer has been re-reading Walden in Treasurer: Dave Marks, ‘05 preparation for the Wonderful Wednesday program, “An Experiment To Try” on Assistant Treasurers: 20 October. Like the writers of the Washington Post and Smithsonian articles Eric Burch ’07 Ethel Gilbert ’06 this summer, I’ve been struck by how timely (and timeless) Walden still is, and, like them, I’ve felt its personal impact. I’ll give the UUCR bookstore information Quest Staff for ordering Walden or you can pull out your old copy, start reading, and put 20 Editor in Chief/Coordinator: October on your calendar. Lisa Petrovich Smith, [email protected] I hope many of you join me on the first Monday evening of each month, Editors: Phyllis Leonard, François Martzloff, beginning in October, to support and encourage each other’s spiritual growth Alberta Maschal, as we consider the six sources from which our Unitarian Universalist tradition Marianne Miller, John Racine draws. AND, I particularly hope many of you will make it a priority to attend the Desktop Publishers: Beth & Lisi Irikura, Lisa P. Smith first Wednesday evening of each month’s Meditation Group led by Marie Reed. Proofreaders: I believe you will find it making a difference in your own life and in our church Ginny Scher, life. Everybody is welcome, from first-timers to those who regularly meditate. Amy Anderson There’s no right or wrong way to meditate, come and find your individual practice. Quest, the regular newsletter of the Unitarian Universalist Church of We are still actively recruiting for our religious education program for children Rockville, is published biweekly at the church office at 100 Welsh Park and teens. Please consider helping; even if you’re not sure, we would love to Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, and have you attend TEACHER TRAINING and team meetings on Saturday 11 distributed without charge to September, 9:00 a.m.- 1:00 p.m. Please call me with questions, offers of help, and members, guests, and friends. Postage is paid at Rockville, MD. RSVPs for teacher training. All rights reserved. POSTMASTER: Send address Blessings, changes to Circulation Manager, Quest, 100 Welsh Park Drive, Deborah Rockville, MD 20850. h 2 — Quest 1 September 2004 Lifespan Religious Education March on Selma – Fred Beckner, Jim Wyckoff, and Audrey Koch were interviewed for Stories of Courage Voices of Civil Rights, a project of the by Anne Hope Scott Library of Congress, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, and AARP March on Selma – Stories of Cour- (American Association of Retired age will be the first fall Wonderful People). Wednesday program on 15 September from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. It is fitting, Our evening will conclude with a during the 50th Anniversary Year of reception honoring the Selma march- Brown vs. Board of Education, that ers. This is an important evening of we look back at the history of UUCR’s living history for both our country and participation in the civil rights our church. Please plan to be there movement. Take this opportunity to and bring your family; register for the honor our UUCR members who took program on 12 September between part in this important historical event services with John Racine at the during the height of the civil rights Adult Education table in the lobby. struggle. Fred Beckner will show his slides of the protestors from across the The Cruel Disease: What Can We Do? country who arrived in Selma to by Ellen Menis attend Jim Reeb’s memorial service and to participate in the voter rights A series of five programs, which address the issues of mental illness, will be protest. The UUCR delegation was presented in October. This series of five programs is co-sponsored the composed of Jim Wyckoff, George National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) and by UUCR’s Adult Leonard, Dorothy Millon-Ladd, Fred Education Committee, Social Justice Committee, Housing & Homelessness Beckner, the Reverend David Cole, Task Force, and the Caring Committee. A brochure is being prepared and Gerry Gailey, Barbara Makris, and will be included in the next issue of Quest. If you have questions about Martha Warner.