Share the Plate for September - DRUUMM
Spirit of Justice Discussion - Meets 2nd Tuesdays 7pm-8:30pm on Zoom - https://zoom.us/j/96944175454 - Next Meeting: Tuesday, September 9 via zoom - Email justice@horizonuu.org to receive email reminders and updates.
UU the Vote and Horizon Get Out the Vote (GOTV) for 2024 is ramping up. Follow the teams’ work on at https://www.horizonuu.org/vote.
Metrocrest Services - Our regular group volunteering opportunity is first Saturdays in the food pantry. Sign up HERE by scrolling down to the date of interest.
Radical Welcome Task Force completed an assessment of Horizon’s welcoming culture in 2023-2024 and we have a lot of strengths to build upon. Radical Welcome means more than just inviting people in; instead, it means also being a place of inclusion, affirmation and advocacy for those who fall outside of Horizon’s dominant culture. We lead the worship service with Rev Chris on April 7, 2024 and held multiple classes about pronouns. Watch for more classes and access improvements including new seating and listening aids in our facility in the coming year.
MLK Day Parade - The morning of January 13th was chilly but the 30th annual Carrollton MLK Parade was well attended. Thanks MC Meador for leading the group.
Coming from TXUUJM (Texas UU Justice Ministry):
TXUUJM staff rests gets ready for the coming year during the month of July. Watch for new programming, especially around the VOTE in August.
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This discussion group welcomes fresh ideas and voices. What discussion topic would you like to facilitate? Let us know at justice@horizonuu.org.
Join the monthly discussion every second Tuesday from 7:00p-8:30p at https://zoom.us/j/96944175454. This is a way for you to find out what’s happening at Horizon with justice, social action, and community service. Each month Horizon opportunities are announced and planned and then those attending discuss the month’s topic. This is an open group, and you can drop-in any month.
Horizon Votes is the team at Horizon that works on voter education, registration, and access. The 2024 Federal elections will be here before we know it. Fill out this SURVEY to let us know how you’d like to participate.
Become a Volunteer Deputy Registrar - All VDR certifications expired on December 31, 2022. Watch www.marchtothepolls.org for possible 4-county certification events or go to Denton County, Dallas County, Collin County, or Tarrant County to do the training online and then go to your county elections office to get your certificate. Once you are a registrar in your home county you may go to other counties and show them your certificate and they will get you set up for their county.
Horizon Community Garden, support of Metrocrest Services, the sale of Equal Exchange Fair Trade in our bookstore, and monthly Share The Plate collections are our on-going service opportunities found on the Serve page. Horizon Community Garden news, volunteer opportunities and bed adoption information are on the Community Garden page. You’ll also find information about composting and leaf donations.
Take part in public witness . Examples: March in the Carrollton MLK Parade in January and help plan the 2024 Carrollton Pride Day Event.
Hear voices that are in concert with yours and help build a religious community that supports reproductive freedom by following the work of Just Texas.
Join Horizon’s Vision & Values facebook group - Horizon members and friends share ideas, resources, and local news on our Vision & Values facebook group. Ask to join today by clicking the “Join Group” button and see what others are doing in this time to continue our Welcome, Love, Grow, Serve mission. If a member of the group knows you they will invite you to join. If you need assistance joining email justice@horizonuu.org.
The Horizon Green Sanctuary Task Force invites you to join them in helping Horizon maintain our Green Sanctuary certification and lead the congregation in areas of environmental justice. Email greensanctuary@horizonuu.org.
Carrollton Pride - Members and allies of local LGBTQIA+ community are invited to attend the Carrollton Pride monthly dinners, typically the 2nd Wednesday of each month. Contact Sandy Steele at justice@horizonuu.org for more information.
A new affinity group has formed at Horizon for all members and visitors that identify as LGBTQIA+. Sign up HERE to receive information.
All-ages can write and decorate postcards during the potluck which will be hand delivered to key Texas legislators in support of LGBTQ+ Texans.
Resources to embody our values and work for justice and liberation and an array of offerings to help nourish your spirit and give gratitude and affirmation. Click for more information
The 2024-25 UU Common Read is Authentic Selves: Celebrating Trans and Nonbinary People and Their Families (Skinner House, 2023).
Picture of the cover of “Authentic Selves”. Click to go to UUA common read site.
Through interviews and photo portraits, the subjects of this book invite readers into their real lives--their revelations, challenges, joys, and networks of support. From the foreword by transgender activist Jazz Jennings and her mom and fellow activist, Jeanette Jennings, through the resources offered at the book's end, this Common Read invites UU groups to explore the nature of living authentically and the ways connections among us help us thrive. More Info HERE. If you would be interested in facilitating at Horizon a discussion of this book or any of the past common reads please email ARE@horizonuu.org.
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The 2023-2024 UU Common Read is On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (Beacon Press, 2022). More Info HERE.
This Common Read offers a glimpse into one of our faith’s foundational sources, Judaism. Readers explore our own call to be accountable in these modern times as we follow Rabbi Ruttenberg into a framework for making amends offered by the 12th century Jewish physician and scholar, Maimonides. On Repentance and Repair invites readers of any faith to explore practices for accountability that can bring us into wholeness and really make a difference in our personal, community, and national relationships.
Read the September 2024 newsletter from the Southern Region.
Subscribe to LOVE RESISTS and SIDE WITH LOVE updates and follow the The UUA on FB.
Support the work of Texas UU Justice Ministry and follow their FB page. Get organized to effectively communicate with Texas legislators about issues where our values demand we speak out.
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Learning about the realities of the prison industrial complex will help you engage in both prison ministry and justice work. This event is hosted by the Worthy Now Prison Ministry Network (a program of the Church of the Larger Fellowship), in partnership with Horizon and NTUUC.
Join Horizon and NTUUC and march in the annual Pride Parade at Fair Park.
Watch “Before Stonewall” and make signs for Pride Parade.
