Share the Plate for April- Horizon Get Out the Vote - Learn more HERE.
Spirit of Justice Discussion - Meets 2nd Tuesdays 7pm-8:30pm on Zoom - https://zoom.us/j/96944175454 - Next Meeting: Tuesday, March 12th via zoom - Email justice@horizonuu.org to receive email reminders and updates.
Metrocrest Services - Our regular group volunteering opportunity is first Saturdays in the food pantry. Sign up HERE by scrolling down to the date of interest.
UU the Vote and Horizon Get Out the Vote (GOTV) for 2024 is ramping up. Watch for more information to come out soon. Dave Troiano has agreed to lead this effort. We are looking for other volunteers to help plan activities. Email socialresponsibility@horizonuu.org if this interests you. Follow the teams’ work on at https://www.horizonuu.org/vote.
Carrollton Pride - Members and allies of local LGBTQIA+ community are invited to attend the Carrollton Pride monthly dinners, typically the 2nd Wednesday of each month. Next dinner will occur March 13th at 7 pm. Contact Sandy Steele at justice@horizonuu.org for more information.
A new affinity group - Now forming at Horizon for all members and visitors that identify as LGBTQIA. Sign up HERE to receive information. The group will have its first meeting in February.
Community Garden - Workday scheduled for March 2. Sign-up HERE. Without a strong community to support it, the garden’s sustainability is in question (Hundreds of pounds of fresh veggies are donated to Metrocrest pantry from our harvests.) Plots available, volunteers needed weekly and monthly, composting encouraged and many other ways to participate. Contact communitygarden@horizonuu.org.
Radical Welcome Task Force has completed its assessment of Horizon’s welcoming culture and we have a lot of strengths to build upon. Radical Welcome means more than just inviting people in; instead, it means also being a place of inclusion, affirmation and advocacy for those who fall outside of Horizon’s dominant culture. Stay tuned as we build our plans for 2024. We are leading the worship service with Rev Chris on April 7.
MLK Day Parade - The morning of January 13th was chilly but the 30th annual Carrollton MLK Parade was well attended. Thanks MC Meador for leading the group.
Coming from TXUUJM (Texas UU Justice Ministry) in 2024:
Our We Cry Justice Reflection group will now meet on the Fourth Thursday evenings, with a focus on Reproductive Justice during the first quarter of the year. You can sign up using our events page. And be sure to pick up the books (or give your justice-seeking friends the books) at Beacon Press or your local bookseller.
Feb. 9-11, 2024: Southwest UU Women's Conference at Camp Allen in Navasota. Rev. Kiya Heartwood of TXUUJM member congregation UU Church of the Brazos Valley will be the keynote, and Rev. Erin Walter from TXUUJM will host a workshop. Register here.
Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024: The Theology of Reproductive Justice with Rev. Dr. Rebecca Todd Peters (author of one of our 2024 We Cry Justice books) in Bryan/College Station & Virtual. (see Texas Impact announcement)
Saturday, March 23, 2024: TXUUJM Spring Gathering at First UU Dallas & virtual. Subscribe to TXUUJM's EveryAction events page for upcoming registrations.
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This discussion group welcomes fresh ideas and voices. What discussion topic would you like to facilitate? Let us know at justice@horizonuu.org.
Join the monthly discussion every second Tuesday from 7:00p-8:30p at https://zoom.us/j/96944175454. This is a way for you to find out what’s happening at Horizon with justice, social action, and community service. Each month Horizon opportunities are announced and planned and then those attending discuss the month’s topic. This is an open group, and you can drop-in any month.
Horizon Votes is the team at Horizon that works on voter education, registration, and access. The 2024 Federal elections will be here before we know it. Please let us know if you are a VDR and are interested in helping with voter education and registration. Email socialresponsibility@horizonuu.org if you have questions or ideas.
Become a Volunteer Deputy Registrar - All VDR certifications expired on December 31, 2022. Watch www.marchtothepolls.org for possible 4-county certification events or go to Denton County, Dallas County, Collin County, or Tarrant County to do the training online and then go to your county elections office to get your certificate. Once you are a registrar in your home county you may go to other counties and show them your certificate and they will get you set up for their county.
Horizon Community Garden, support of Metrocrest Services, the sale of Equal Exchange Fair Trade in our bookstore, and monthly Share The Plate collections are our on-going service opportunities found on the Serve page. Horizon Community Garden news, volunteer opportunities and bed adoption information are on the Community Garden page. You’ll also find information about composting and leaf donations.
Take part in public witness . Examples: March in the Carrollton MLK Parade in January and help plan the 2024 Carrollton Pride Day Event.
Hear voices that are in concert with yours and help build a religious community that supports reproductive freedom by following the work of Just Texas.
Join Horizon’s Vision & Values facebook group - Horizon members and friends share ideas, resources, and local news on our Vision & Values facebook group. Ask to join today by clicking the “Join Group” button and see what others are doing in this time to continue our Welcome, Love, Grow, Serve mission. If a member of the group knows you they will invite you to join. If you need assistance joining email justice@horizonuu.org.
The Horizon Green Sanctuary Task Force invites you to join them in helping Horizon maintain our Green Sanctuary certification and lead the congregation in areas of environmental justice. Email greensanctuary@horizonuu.org.
Supporting the democratic process is one of the UU principles. Click for more info.
Save the Date! Volunteer! Sign-up for a vendor booth. Click for more info.
Participate in the UU Ministry For the Earth’s Spring 2024 programs. Click for more info.
The UUSC is advancing human rights together with an international community of grassroots partners. Click for more info.
Click to go to UUA common read site.
The new UU Common Read is On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (Beacon Press, 2022).
This UU Common Read was announced at the UUA 2023 General Assembly. Available now are an overview of this UU Common Read, Introduction to the Discussion Guides, and Workshop 1 of three that are planned. More Info HERE.
This Common Read offers a glimpse into one of our faith’s foundational sources, Judaism. Readers explore our own call to be accountable in these modern times as we follow Rabbi Ruttenberg into a framework for making amends offered by the 12th century Jewish physician and scholar, Maimonides.
On Repentance and Repair invites readers of any faith to explore practices for accountability that can bring us into wholeness and really make a difference in our personal, community, and national relationships. If you would be interested in facilitating a discussion of this book at Horizon please email justice@horizonuu.org.
Read the March 2024 newsletter from the Southern Region.
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Support the work of Texas UU Justice Ministry and follow their FB page. Get organized to effectively communicate with Texas legislators about issues where our values demand we speak out.
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An 8th Principle For a Living Tradition
The 7 Principles and 6 Sources of Unitarian Universalism are part of “Article II Principles and Purposes” of the Unitarian Universalist Association bylaws. This is the covenant that congregations make with each other when they join the UUA. UU is a living tradition. We have reviewed and rewritten our principles as time changes us and the world. The Article II Study Commission was charged at the 2020 General Assembly with reviewing and proposing amendments to Article II. They were expressly encouraged to consider incorporating the spirit and intention of the 8th Principle. “We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, covenant to affirm and promote: journeying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions.”
As of June 18, 2023, 274 UU congregations and groups have adopted the 8th Principle. Congregations and members are encouraged to participate in the work of the commission. Should Horizon add its voice to the support of the 8th Principle? Let’s learn more and have a conversation or three about it. Start the journey by reading the information at 8th Principle and Article II Study Commission. More resources here and HERE.
Learning about the realities of the prison industrial complex will help you engage in both prison ministry and justice work. This event is hosted by the Worthy Now Prison Ministry Network (a program of the Church of the Larger Fellowship), in partnership with Horizon and NTUUC.
Join Horizon and NTUUC and march in the annual Pride Parade at Fair Park.
Watch “Before Stonewall” and make signs for Pride Parade.
