Nora Unitarian Universalist Church June, 2006 - Sunday Services -
June 4: “Religious Education Sunday” June 11: “Faith at Fifty” June 18: “Flower Communion” (Greeters & Servers - If you are not able to serve on the date assigned, please switch with someone or find your own replacement. Thank You!) Have a great summer! Until August!
Spirit Lake Ministry Just a reminder that Don will be spending the month of July as summer minister to an emerging UU congregation in Spirit Lake, IA. Use his cell phone (507-276-8464) in the event of an emergency.
The Minister’s Discretionary Fund is designed to offer one-time assistance in legitimate need situations: utility bills, emergency travel, motel room or food. Your contributions are welcome and tax deductible. Just write “Minister’s Discretionary Fund” in the memo line. Thank you!
A Rollin’s Roast Help Celebrate Don’s 50th Birthday !
Friday, June 2
Bring a snack or salad to pass, or bring nothing! Bring a joke, a song, a story to share.
Questions? Nora Annual Meeting Just a reminder that the Annual Meeting for Nora is the second Sunday in June this year. Along with the usual committee reports, vote for new board members, and vote on the 2006-2007 budget, we will have two more items on the agenda. There will be votes concerning by-law changes that simply reflect changes in technology and inflation. These changes will be posted on the bulletin board in the foyer for you to review before the vote. There will also be a vote on what is to be done concerning the steps and sidewalk on the north side of the parsonage. If you have any questions before the meeting please contact Sheldon and he will be glad to help you.
Nora Social Justice committee is wrapping up events for this year. We plan to honor the Coming of Age participants for their helpful involvement on social justice issues this past year. Specifically their presence at the Food for All dinners in St. James as well as their work on the Children of Iraq spaghetti dinner saved the day with enough willing and eager hands. We also are looking forward to participating in our last Food for All meal, Saturday, the 10th of June, for this church year. ANYONE ABLE OR WILLING TO HELP us with this commitment please CHECK IN with one of the Social Justice COMMITTEE members. As I'm sure you remember we arrive in St. James in the morning and help serve a meal and are done by late morning. Comments from past Nora volunteers speak to the fulfillment of supporting and lending our hands to such an event. As we look forward to next year and based on the results from the questions we asked you about congregational interest areas, the Social Justice committee plans it's involvement to continue with Food for All as well as some sort of fundraising event around Martin Luther King Day supporting children's needs. We also have received recent contact concerning our sister church in Transylvania. They look forward to Nora's relationship continuing and so we'll continue to look at ways we can be of help there. We have an email address if anyone is interested in communicating directly. We welcome new ideas and members so feel free to give one of us a call. Mark and Brenda Wiger, Darrell and Jeanie Hinsman, Chris Bodick, Sheldon Rieke,
Tarrie Swenstad
Religious Education 
Thank you to all of the people who have volunteered to teach Sunday School this past year. Your commitment of time and energy to the children and youth of Nora is remarkable. Your contributions have helped to make our Religious Education (RE) program successful. Many of the same people that volunteered to teach Sunday School this past year
have generously volunteered to teach for the coming year. The majority of these
volunteers are women. We strongly encourage men of the congregation to also volunteer
to teach Sunday School. It is important that the youth have both male and female
role models. The Sunday School teachers will meet in June to brainstorm and plan for the coming year. Please keep an eye open for an e-mail from Anne for possible meeting dates. We will meet on the date that works the best for most people. We’d like to welcome Kristi Bodick to the RE Committee. She joins Julie Sellner and Jeanie Hinsman. And here’s a special thank you to Jeanie and Julie for their support, time and work this past year. Your help is and was greatly appreciated. Have a fun summer. See everyone in August. To Keep In Touch
Lunch Bunch
 UUA General Assembly 2006 Visit the UUA Web site for more information and to register!
Up-date on Benced, Nora’s Partner Church As you are probably already aware, Benced, Nora’s partner church, is in
the area that was damaged by flash flooding last year in Transylvania. They have
been in the process of re-building since. Part of the process, as it turns out,
is that Meanwhile, the Benced community is also publishing a local newspaper, has applied for a grant to get village access to the internet, has arranged for courses for people in the community and is looking at longer term issues to be addressed. In short, there has been a lot of progress in a very short time in terms of organizing and energizing this community. And all of this has happened with no money so far other than the villagers' own. Cathy Cordes of the Unitarian Universalist Partner Church Council is asking our congregation to re-connect with our partner church given there is now a new minister coming and 25 energetic and motivated people from Benced who would love to have a partner - a partner they apparently did not even know they had. There has also been a person identified in the village who speaks English - Krisztina Pall – through whom we could communicate more easily. For more information, please talk with Brenda Wiger of the Social Justice Committee or Don.
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