First UU

Events

• Eclectic Readers
  • on 02/15/2019 at 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
  • Location: First Unitarian Universalist Church

  • At our February meeting, we will discuss Carlos Eire’s “Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy.” At the start of the nineteen-sixties, an operation called Pedro Pan flew more than fourteen thousand Cuban children out of the country, without their parents, and deposited them in Miami. Eire, now a professor of history and religion at Yale, was one of them. His deeply moving memoir describes his life before Castro, among the aristocracy of old Cuba—his father, a judge, believed himself to be the reincarnation of Louis XVI—and, later, in America, where he turned from a child of privilege into a Lost Boy. Brown bag lunch, followed by discussion. Copies of the book may be checked out from the First UU Church library.

• Sunday Service
  • on 02/17/2019 at 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Location: First Unitarian Universalist Church

  • Rev. Sarah Oglesby-Dunegan joins us from the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Topeka. She speaks on “Building Trust from the Inside
    Out.” Oglesby-Dunegan quotes from the Soul Matters program found at the UUA website: “Facing our fears takes a whole lot of self-trust. Getting over self-doubt can seem an impossible hurdle. That’s why some advise us to simply ‘Jump!’ ‘Take a leap of faith,’ we’re told. ‘Go all in!’ But what if the secret path to overcoming our fears and believing in ourselves is not one big leap, but instead a bunch of baby steps?” Rev. Sarah invites us to practice facing our fears and doubts in order to build trust we can share and embody.

• UU Humanist Freethinker Group
  • on 02/23/2019 at 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
  • Location: First Unitarian Universalist Church

  • UU Humanist Group will meet for dinner at 6:30 p.m. followed by a discussion at 7:30.

• Sunday Service
  • on 02/24/2019 at 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Location: First Unitarian Universalist Church

  • Dr. Mtangulizi Sanyika will speak on “Black Power and Liberal Religion in the 1960s: Lessons for the Future.” This year marks the 50th
    anniversary of what became known as the “Exodus Walkout” of black UU members (and their allies) from the denomination’s General Assembly to protest perceived racism. Sanyika was a leader of the black empowerment struggle against racism within the UU church and society during that era. He was also the architect of a new spiritual paradigm known as Black Humanism, which emphasizes the centrality of black agency in the black and human liberation project.

• 80th Birthday Recorder Recital
  • on 02/24/2019 at 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
  • Location: First Unitarian Universalist Church

  • Carol Neighbor, now in her 80th year, has been madly in love with the recorder for almost six decades. Carol and friends will celebrate that love in a recorder recital. The program will show recorder playing in several settings and in differing styles of music from the Renaissance and Baroque, to modern times, and from consort settings, to sonata, to jazz and folk. Susan Mayo, Emily Baldridge, Dolores Granger, and Greg Golding will be among those musicians performing with Carol in recital. Refreshments will be served. Money offerings will benefit the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Wichita.

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