with special guest, Michael Carter
One service at 10 am. The link for this Sunday’s Worship service is
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3651056593
Come and be in community, see friendly faces, feel welcomed, remember you are loved. Your loved ones are welcome to join our service.
Michael Carter Jr. is an 11th generation American/farmer, and is the 5th generation to farm on Carter Farms, his family’s century farm in Orange County, Virginia where he gives workshops on how to grow and market ethnic vegetables. With Virginia State University, he is the Small Farm Resource Center Coordinator for the Small Farm Outreach Program. Virginia Association of Biological Farmers (VABF) and Virginia Foodshed Capital have him sit on their respective boards of directors. He also serves as the state coordinator for the Black Church Food Security Network and as the food safety coordinator for the Six State Farm to Table organization. He acquired an agricultural economics degree from North Carolina A&T State University and has worked in Ghana, Kenya, and Israel as an agronomist and organic agricultural consultant. As a cliometrician, curriculum developer, and program coordinator for his educational, cultural, and vocational platforms, Hen Asem (Our Story) and Africulture, he teaches and expounds on the contributions of Africans and African Americans to agriculture worldwide and trains students, educators, and professionals in African cultural understanding, empathy, and implicit bias recognition.
Our Children and Youth will meet via Zoom. To log on: https://zoom.us/j/2404193933 The password is 542419.
This Sunday, October 18th, 2020:
9:15 am – The Littles Group (Pre-K through Grade 1)
We feel calm when we listen to the crickets chirping in the evening. Deeply listening makes us feel a part of all that is around us. We will explore bugs and other nature sounds we can listen to!
11:15 am – Children’s Group (Pre-K through Grade 4)
Deep listening to nature helps us heal and calms us by reminding us of our interconnectedness. When we hear and notice the crickets in the evening we are transported into the web of life. We are reminded that we are part of a family of wonderful creatures. You might even say we are part of the “choir of creatures.” We will try to make instruments together. Please find a comb and some wax paper (or plastic bag) before we meet.
1pm – Jr. Youth Group (Middle School)
Can nature make you happy? How about nature sounds? Join us this Sunday as we dive deeper into the idea of listening to nature and how it makes us feel.
UPCOMING: Sr. Youth Group Meeting
Sunday, November 8 from 12:30-2:00pm on Zoom
All Youth, Grades 9 and up, are invited to join with the Youth Group at UUCL for our monthly joint Youth Group meeting with the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Sterling. We will be meeting online and diving deeper into the theme “Healing”.
For questions, contact DRE, Kate Savidan (dre@uuloudoun.org).