Help Restore Equality for All

For anyone interesting in helping reverse Proposition 8 and work towards additional equality for all of our GLBTQ friends and neighbors, Orange County Equality Coalition (OCEC) has tentatively planned meetings on January 17th and February 28th. Please save the dates. Further details to come. For questions, contact Jocelyn Cooper at .

International Convocation Of UU Women

Join us for the first international gathering ofUnitarian Universalist women and progressive women of faith to be held from February 26 through March 1, 2009 in Houston, Texas. The convocation will focus on education, faith, action and transformation. We will celebrate, worship and sing as we gather together to explore ways we can improve women's lives around the world. Rev. Mitra will be attending. For more information, please contact Charlotte Clarke at

Adult Religious Eduction

Adult Religious Education courses begin in January 2009. See the course offerings on the Adult Religious Education page.

Green Sanctuary

Toxic Waste Collection Jan. 4, 2009

The Green Sanctuary's Sustaining Life Committee is holding a toxic waste collection on Sunday, January 4, 2009 from 10:00 a.m. to 12 noon.

Bring in your old electronic equipment for recycling including, computers, telephones, DVD & video players, batteries, etc. & also, toxic waste to be taken to the hazardous waste dump! Contact Carol Semelroth at with any questions.

Harvesting the Sun’s Energy

Help the earth and Tapestry by exploring the installation of solar panels on your home. Contact Jim Semelroth at for information on solar panels.

Social Gatherings

Tapestry has interesting, fun, intelligent, kind, and wonderful people in our congregation. UU Social Gatherings are a great way to become better acquainted with these great people. Social gatherings can help visitors learn what a great place Tapestry is.

These Gatherings don’t have to be fancy, or take a lot of preparation or planning. They can be a breakfast, brunch, lunch, picnic in the park, supper, wine and appetizers, or dessert and coffee any day of the week. Use your imagination and plan for the number of people you are comfortable hosting. It could be as few as four or as many as fifteen. You decide the theme, the Coordinators will give you a list of people to choose from, and you will contact them with the date, time, location, and the type of dish you wish them to bring.

Contact Sheryl Hagen at or Carol Semelroth at .

$crip $tuff

Loretta Joseph, Anne Farrell, & Carol Wheeler work hard to make the scrip program an important source of needed income for our congregation. They are making an effort to persuade all households to participate on a monthly basis, even if only minimally. The emphasis now is on purchases which everyone has to make each month — supermarkets, drug stores, and gas stations, etc. They will be asking members and friends which places they patronize so that a supply of the needed scrip is always at hand.

For more info the scrip programs we particiate in see the scrip page.

Tapestry Bookstore

Please check out the offerings on UU history, spirituality, social action, etc., on the second and fourth Sundays after the service. Please contribute your suggest ions at the Bookstore or contact Alison Holt at

Choir

All interested in participating in choir, please contact Bill Hunker at . Rehearsals occur most Sundays at 8:30 a.m.

Save the Trees - Get Your ComUUnique Newsletter by Email

About 20% of our congregation has chosen to get this newsletter as an attachment to email. Would you like to join them? Your next newsletter will come earlier and in color on your computer screen.

To open the newsletter attachment you will need Adobe Reader, which can be downloaded free from Adobe. To request your copy of CommUUnique by email, contact Jim Semelroth at

Fair Trade Coffee & Tea

Coffee Talk
Hi, your Coffee Dragon here again. My bosses are on my, uh, back again to move some of this new shipment of coffee, tea and chocolate. To top it off, my girllizard friend left me, so it’s back to the shrink again. Can you help me out by buying some Equal Exchange products? What you pay for coffee goes directly to growers’ coops and not to big coffee houses. We don’t sell here to raise money, but as a social action to help poor farmers make a decent return. Our price is $7.00, less than other organizations are charging for their coffee, tea and cocoa. Makes great gifts. You may purchase our coffee every Sunday at the self-service box at the back of the social hall. For questions, call our EE Coordinator, Terry Smith at .

Sunday Service Announcements

An announcement slip sheet is included in the order of service each Sunday. Please send all announcements to be printed to by Wednesday afternoon.

Like Flowers on the Altar?

Volunteers provide them. Sign up in the lobby or contact Marie Ferguson (). We will announce if flowers are in honor of a special occasion or a loved one.