Category: Social Action

Tampa Bay Area Muslim Association: Iftar Dinner

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Breaking Bread Together with Compassion and Love

On May 29, 2019, Mayor Rick Kriseman and Muslim leaders from throughout Tampa Bay will host St. Petersburg’s 3rd Annual Iftar Dinner welcoming residents of all faiths to celebrate the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Iftar is the evening meal when Muslims end their daily Ramadan fast at sunset. The event will be held at St. Petersburg’s historic Coliseum, located at 535 Fourth Avenue North.

Mayor Kriseman said “Now more than ever, we must be expressive in our love and respect for people of all faiths. For our third year, I am excited to bring the community together to honor our Muslim brothers and sisters.”

RSVP Deadline: May 15, 2019

go to http://www.stpete.org/mayor_s_office/iftar_dinner.php to make reservation!

Youth Activism with Parkland Survivor

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Kai Koerber, founder of Societal Reform Corp. and Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting survivor, will be joining us for an evening of mindfulness and mental health practices, as well as talking about his own experience in transforming trauma into productive, creative solutions in youth activism.

 

6:30-8 Pm April 5, 2019

 

Please Contact

Rachel Burke
(727)-318-7058
Rachlejoy@outlook.com
For more details, including venue address, and to register for the event.

 

April/May issue of Celebrate Florida

In the following, the LUCC Ash Wednesday service gets top billing with a stunning photo taken by Yoko Nogami.

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Greetings, Florida UCC:

Here are the links to the April/May issue of Celebrate Florida. You will find two versions of this document; one is the standard PDF, and the other is the interactive version, which requires that your computer has a Flash player.

Standard version | Interactive version

Please set aside some time to read about what has been taking place or will be happening among the brothers and sisters in our larger church family. We are in covenant with one another, and one way to demonstrate our caring is through this sharing.

As always, this issue is full of great ideas to inspire ministries in your congregation. Here is some of what is inside this edition:

  • How our churches observed Ash Wednesday and Lent (and Mardi Gras!)
  • Plans for 3 Great Loves
  • Coalition of Immokalee Workers Fair Food rally in Gainesville
  • UCC responses to the New Zealand shootings and the debate within the United Methodist Church
  • Unique ministries
  • Noted scholar appearances
  • General Synod is coming!
  • Church policies on sexual harassment, bullying and abuse

Thanks to all those churches that share information about what has been happening in their congregations. Please make sure we’re on your mailing list, either electronic (celebrateflorida@uccfla.org) or hard copy. Yes, we do want to know what you are doing — there is always room for more good news

We especially appreciate your providing the Celebrate Florida link information to church members via your Sunday bulletin, newsletters, e-communications and on your website. Please help spread all the good news about the United Church of Christ in Florida among your church members.

May this Easter season bestow you with blessings of love and peace.

Rick Carson

Editor

 



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Help Angela Wells-Bean Win an Award!

angelaAngela Wells-Bean is a former member of Lakewood UCC. She grew up in the church and is now the pastor of Burlington Congregational United Church of Christ in Burlington, MA. Angela has been nominated for a community service award. If she wins, a $2,000 donation will be made to People Helping People, this is the main provider of food and other services to those in need in Burlington. Angela is on the board of People Helping People.

To help secure this significant donation for People Helping People, follow this link CHOPPS Champions. Go down to the Community category and click. Then scroll down until you get to Angela Wells-Bean and vote by clicking in the red box with the heart. Voting is open until April 12. You can vote once a day.

Celebrate Outreach Saturday morning breakfasts

Friends,

Last month, Celebrate Outreach’s Saturday morning breakfast served a full breakfast to 758 homeless and marginally housed people.  Also last month, we received $0 from outside contributors.

Fortunately, unlike Blanche Dubois, Celebrate Outreach has always been able to count on the kindness of our friends.

Calvary Church in Clearwater and in Seminole each sponsor one weekend a month, supplying food, supplies and workers.  Drag Queen Bingo largely supports the rest of the breakfasts.

This Wednesday, January 16 friends of the Saturday breakfast will gather at Hamburger Mary’s, 2901 Tyrone Blvd. N. in St Pete for Anything Goes Bingo with drag queen caller Miranda Sugarbaker (motto: “This ain’t your gramma’s bingo”).  We guarantee food, friends, double entendres, single entendres, and a lot of fun.  The website information for the bingo is here,  

If you haven’t called to reserve, please call today.  And don’t forget to bring a bevy of your chums for the drag queen bingo competition.  There will be two fabulous trophies awarded: one for the group with the most members in attendance and one for the group with the most bingo winners.  Don’t have a group?  Get some people together, name yourselves, and come on down!  Or come on your own.  You can play solo or depend upon the kindness of strangers:  organize a group on the spot!

In the past, Drag Queen Bingo has raised enough money to finance the breakfast for sixth months, and we hope to do that again.  

Bingo sheets are available for a $10.00 cash donation. There will be gift bags for the winners, including wine from American Spirits and a gift certificate from Haslam’s Books. (Just keepin’ it local.)

The restaurant will seat people from 5:30-6:30.  Bingo starts at 7:00.

Call Hamburger Mary’s at (727) 851-9386 to reserve seats.  Please call ASAP. 

Call us at (727) 894-2832 if you have any questions.  See you Wednesday, January 16, and, as always, thanks to the kindness of our friends from everyone at the Saturday morning breakfast.

John and Sheila Stewart