• Auction wrap-up
  Drum roll please……..our total from the online, silent and live auctions, + final sale last Sunday, netted First U $10,623!! All left-over items were taken by Matt Livers to go into the next Really Really Free Market. Everyone should have received an itemized list of what they won. If you haven’t received your items or your list, please contact the office.
• The Big Blue Basket 
  Have you noticed the big blue basket on the raised platform at church?  That basket is for collecting donations of non-perishable food for CLCM’s affiliate food pantry next door at Calvary Episcopal Church.  Food insecurity in our neighborhood is growing due to the funding cuts to the SNAP program, to Medicaid, and to USDA food. It’s also worsened by the government shutdown. As you do your shopping this week, please consider picking up a few extra shelf-stable items and bringing them any/every Sunday. Items especially needed are peanut butter, pasta and sauce, canned meat/fish, soups, breakfast cereal….but all items are gratefully accepted. Let’s fill that Big Blue Basket.

• Join us for discussion at 9:15, Check-ins at 9:45 then class at 10:00 on the weekly topics. Come to any or all of it. (Childcare begins at 9:30)
  9:15 – 9:45 – Anti-Racism Potluck – It’s not a potluck, as in food, but each week, we will tackle one of the items on the Anti-Racism Challenge and do it collaboratively. (There’s no telling what it will be until you walk in the door, but it will be something from the weekly ARC e-mails.) Register for topics and activities.
• 9:45 – 10:00 – Checking-In – As always, we’ll have our check-ins to catch up with one another.
• 10:00 – 10:45 – October 26 – Environmental Justice and the Right to Clean Water – Speaker: Alexis McFadden
  Climate change responses are inextricably tied to racialized injustice. Access to clean water is inextricably tied to racialized injustice. The environment has been exploited and mistreated much like we’ve treated Black people – and it typically comes at the greatest expense and detriment to Black people. Environmental engineer Alexis McFadden will be sounding the alarm and spelling out the anti-racist dimensions of fighting for a clean environment.

Perhaps the most revered holiday in the Pagan calendar is Samhain
(sau-ihn), in which we honor those who have gone before us, celebrate the end of harvest, and usher in the darker half of the year. In this service, Lady Vanessa and Ron Zorn, along with members of the Pagan and First Unitarian communities, facilitate an all ages service that highlights our 6th source of spiritual teachings/earth-centered traditions.

Children are welcome to attend the service and remain. There won’t be Children’s Moment or a dismissal from the service.

Lady Vanessa is a High Priestess of the Wica in Louisville, KY where she’s been active since 1981. Transformative and earth-centered practices are the focus of her spell work, tarot readings, rituals, and teachings. As an advocate for Pagan paths, Lady Vanessa has appeared on local media, but more often facilitates public rituals and classes through CUUPs at First Unitarian Church, Louisville Pagan Roots Festival (FKA Louisville Pagan Pride), and Clifton Unitarian Universalist Church. In addition to being a Unitarian Universalist Church member, she has a M.A.T. and holds ministerial credentials of public record through the New Wiccan Church. For fun, goodwill outreach, and charity, Lady Vanessa regularly dances with Bluegrass Black Hats.

Ron Zorn is a long-time member of First Unitarian Universalist Church and a Co-Facilitator of the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (CUUPS) here at First U. He is also the Treasurer and Co -Chair of the National CUUPS organization on their Board of Directors. He follows an Earth-Centered Spiritual path and enjoys collecting books on a variety of religious paths that are outside of the Abrahamic faiths.

or the zoom link, Click here. The Meeting ID is 4508929882 if you can’t attend in person.  You will not need a password. Contact the volunteer desk if you have trouble getting online.