Prairie Fire
May 6, 2011
In this issue:
-calendar
-programs
-announcements
The Prairie Fire is published by Prairie Unitarian Universalist Society on the 6th and 21st of every month. View past issues at www.uuprairie.org
Contact Us:
President
Barbara Park
barpark@gmail.com
608-273-8775
Director of Religious Education
Rebecca Malke-Eliganti
youthcoordinator@
uuprairie.org
695-3435
Editor/ Congregational Administrator
Kate Liu
admin@uuprairie.org
271-8218
Office hours: M, T, F - 10 to noon
Prairie Web
Sites:
Home Page
www.uuprairie.org
News Group
http://groups.yahoo.
com/group/prairie
news/
Views
http://groups.yahoo.
com/group/prairie
views/
Social Action
http://socialaction.
madisonwi.us
Humanist Union
http://humanist.
madisonwi.us
Input Deadlines:
Calendar items, announcements, and program descriptions are due on the 1st and 15th of each month. Please send to Kate Liu at admin@uuprairie.org or call 271-8218.
Calendar
Saturday, May 7, 2011
4:30 am Homeless shelter
breakfast. Contact Paula Pachciarz for more information (273- 4806.)
9:00 WOW – Prairie's women's group – meets for breakfast
potluck and conversation.
5:00 Spring Fling!
Sunday, May 8, 2011
8:45 Choir Rehearsal
10:00 Service - "Sown in Tears: Family Letters From Bleeding Kansas,"
presented by Rev. Bobbie Groth.
Friday, May 13, 2011
7:00 Humanist Union Party at
the home of Barb and Bob Park.
Saturday, May 14, 2011
10:00 Adult RE class: Immigration.
Sunday, May 15, 2011
8:45 Choir Rehearsal
10:00 Service - “ Internal Conflicts in our
Environmentalism,” presented by Peter Anderson.
11:45 Spring Parish meeting. (Lunch and childcare available.)
Sunday,
May 22, 2011
8:45 Choir Rehearsal
10:00 Service - “100 Years of Universalism in Song,”
presented by Barbara Park.
11:45 Prairie Book club meets to discuss Cry
the Beloved Country by
South African author Alan Paton.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
2:00 Prairie Elders meet at
Oakwood; topic is favorite films. For more information please contact
Donna Murdoch, 238-3802.
Sunday,
May 29, 2011
8:45 Choir Rehearsal
10:00 Service
10:00 RE Game day
11:45
All-Prairie Memorial Day Potluck Picnic at Marlborough Park.
Monday, June 6, 2011
6:30 Spanish Speaker's Potluck
at the home of Ema Pachon, 1459 E. Main St. #205. Call Rosemary Dorney at 238-4382 for more
information.
Upcoming Programs
Sunday,
May 8, 2011, 2010, 10:00 am: "Sown in Tears: Family Letters From
Bleeding Kansas,"
presented
by Rev. Bobbie Groth.
Rev. Dr. Bobbie Groth will speak about the "story behind the story" of
her recent book published by Skinner House Books The Incredible Story
of Ephraim Nute: Scandal, Bloodshed, and Unitarianism on the American
Frontier. Rev. Dr. Bobbie Groth has been a UU Community minister in the
Milwaukee area for twenty years, serving victims of violence and other
social justice, interfaith, and political issues. She is a graduate of
Meadville/Lombard Theological School and her Unitarian and Universalist
roots go back at least 6 generations. Dr. Groth currently serves as
Secretary and UU Representative to the Executive Committee of the
Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee and plays fiddle for "The
Garlic Mustard Pickers" a Celtic traditional band. She is married to
Don Lawson, has four grown children, and two grandchildren. She divides
her time between South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and West Tremont, Maine.
Sunday, May 15, 2011, 10:00 am: “Internal Conflicts in our Environmentalism,” presented by Peter Anderson.
Sunday,
May 22, 2011, 10:00 am: "The First 100 Years of Universalism in Song,”
presented by Barbara Park. Our
own Barbara Park, choir director and president of Prairie, will take us
on a musical tour of the first 100 years of Universalist history in the
United States. Come prepared to sing! Barbara was raised Universalist
and grew up attending a Universalist church in Syracuse, New York.
News & Announcements
Soup
Sunday for the Parish meeting - volunteers needed.
We will have a Soup Sunday before the
Parish meeting on Sunday, May 15th. Volunteers are needed to bring
soups, salads, breads, and deserts; volunteers are also needed to help
clean up afterwards. The building is rented to the Autism Society of
Greater Madison beginning at 2pm, so we need to be cleaned up
efficiently after the meeting.
RE's
annual Spring Fling, Saturday, May 7th from 5-9 p.m.. This is an event open
to not just Prairie families but the entire Prairie congregation. If
you plan on attending please RSVP me or RE Chair, Robin Proud. Agenda:
5:00 Meet at Prairie for a Bar-B-Q; 6:00 Take a walk through the
UW-Arboretum. This will not be a planned Arboretum walk like last time.
This will be a walk we take on ourselves. We'll enter at the Seminole
Hwy/Frontage Rd intersection and walk through the trails and possibly
under the Beltline to the other side of the Arboretum. 7:00 Meet back
at Prairie (or if your group would like to continue walking you can
meet later) 7-9:00 Indoor games. Contact Rebecca Malke, DRE,
271-8218, dre@uuprairie.org, for more information.