HUU Community Cafe

The first Sunday of each month, HUU has a Potluck lunch after our service. On the first Sunday, The HUU Social Justice Committee will sponsor our “Feeding the Community” food drive. We encourage you to bring what you can on that and future “potluck Sundays” to help Patchwork Pantry in assisting those in need who live in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County. Items most needed now are beans/pork & beans, peanut butter, jelly or jam, cereal, fruit, beef stew, mac & cheese, spaghetti, and spaghetti sauce, and soup,though any nonperishable items are welcomed. Patchwork Pantry can also use nonfood items, including paper towels and bar soap, as well as money donations. To find out more about the pantry, see http://www.cmcva.org/patchwork-pantry.html and/or pick up one of the Pantry newsletters on Sunday. Thank you for helping feed the community!

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by Elizabeth Ihle
September 7, 2008

When I volunteered to do this service, I didn’t realize what I was getting into.  Yes, the end of our mortgages and coming together as a congregation are wonderful things, but what a responsibility to say something memorable and useful to the congregation, especially when we’ve invited former members and friends to join with us this morning!!!  Welcome again to everyone!

Let me say at the outset that what I say is entirely mine.  I’ll be naming names a bit this morning, and if I’ve omitted someone important it’s pure oversight or ignorance on my part, and I’ll ask forgiveness ahead of time.  I’ll offer a couple ideas for our future too, and again it’s me talking.  I’m not someone else’s mouthpiece.

Today is our in-gathering, our homecoming, our celebration of being a congregation again as many of us scattered for summer vacations and other travels and as we start our new HUU year.     Waters ebb and flow, and I think this congregation does as well.  Some of us move away for a while and then come back.  We welcome all to our service this morning and hope for your return.

We are using the symbols of fire and water to illustrate the power of our communal lives.  During the service itself, we are going to do an ingathering ritual in which we’ll give everyone a chance to pour water from summer travels into a common bowl as a symbol of showing how individual lives unite after being apart for the summer and the power of uniting our individual offerings to accomplish what we couldn’t have singly. If you forgot to bring your own wter, we have a vase of generic travel water for you to use.  Our mortgage burning, outside as the service closes, will symbolize fire. Continue Reading »

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