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are listed in Pacific Standard Time.
This is the weekend we return to PST!
Fall Back! Turn your clocks back one hour
when you go to bed Saturday.
The Marriage of
Rev. Gregory and Mr. Stillman Stewart
Sunday, November 2 at 11 am in the Church Sanctuary
The Honorable Mark Leno and The Reverend
Dorsey Blake, presiding
You are cordially invited to attend the
marriage of The Reverend Gregory
Stewart and Stillman Stewart as
witnessed by their five sons and the
Congregation.
Participants in the service will include Sam
and Julia Thoron, Rev. Doug Fitch,
Angeli Fitch, and the assembled friends and
Members of the First Unitarian Universalist
Society of San Francisco.
The public is invited to the wedding. Please
bring your friends to share our joy.
A Reception Honoring the Newlyweds
Sunday All Over the Church
Celebrate the wedding of Stillman
Stewart and Senior Minister The
Reverend Gregory Stewart at a reception
immediately following their wedding.
We'll have music, food, friends, and frolicking!
Stillman and Greg have been together for 28
years. But, you'll get to party with them in
their first moments as a legally married couple!
If you'd like to help build their wedding cake
made of cupcakes, just bake or buy your
contributions and bring them to the church
Sunday morning. Please let Lucy Smith know
today that you're bringing a donation
so she knows how much to expect. Lucy can be
reached at 510-528-8540 or by email.
California Assembly Member Mark Leno
Sunday Forum in the Martin Luther King Room at 9:15
from Karen Melander-Magoon
California Assembly Member Mark Leno will
speak on the propositions and issues on the
San Francisco ballot at the breakfast Forum.
Elected to the Assembly in 2002, Assemblyman
Leno represents the 13th District which
includes San Francisco. He is one of the
first two openly gay men elected to the
Assembly. He
currently chairs the Assembly Appropriations
Committee, and he also serves on the Election
and Redistricting and Labor Committees.
Prior to his election to the Assembly, Leno
served on the San Francisco Board of
Supervisors from April 1998 to November 2002.
The free program will start at 15 minutes
earlier than normal, at 9:30. Come at 9:15
for conversation, coffee, and (for a slight
charge) a light breakfast. A basket
collecting questions for Assemblyman Leno
will be at the entrance of the Martin Luther
King Room.
A Vigil in Defense of Marriage for All
Starting Monday (November 3) at 7 pm on the front Steps
from Peter Olandt, Ministerial Intern and
Laura Hadden, Young Adult Group
Join in community Monday (November 3)
starting at 7 pm for a vigil celebrating
Marriage Equality. All are welcome to gather
on the front steps for music before
processing inside
together for a 7:30 service.
It will be a time for prayer, music,
community, and joy.
The service will mark the beginning of the
Society's 24-hour Marriage Vigil. Clergy
will be available all night and all day
until poll closing time, 8 pm, on Election
Day (November 4) to marry anyone wishing to
wed.
At 9 pm Monday the Marriage Vigil will screen
the film
Inlaws
and Outlaws. The movie weaves
together the true stories of couples and
singles both gay and straight into a
collective narrative that is
hilarious and heartbreaking.
The film's producer, Larry Schliesinger, will
be present at the Vigil. He and members of
the Young Adult Group will host a reception.
Sunday School Classes Join the Wedding
from Betty Skwarek
Acting Director of Religious Education
Children and youth will celebrate Rev.
Greg Stewart and Stillman
Stewart's wedding with the Congregation.
They are invited to join the wedding
procession and scatter confetti in the aisle
before the grooms make their entrances.
Religious Education activities will begin at
10 with a sing-along in the Chapel.
Participants will sing favorite songs, get
out the instruments to play along, and
practice music for the wedding.
As always, care for children up to age 5
begins in Early Childhood Room 1 at 9:45.
Preschool instruction begins at 11. Preschool
children may join the other children for the
wedding procession.
Stand on the Side of Love
from Rob Packenham and
the Unitarian
Universalists for Marriage Equality
The outcome of Proposition 8, the Marriage
Ban, is too close to call and opponents need
one final push to get out the vote and
mobilize supportive voters with on-street
actions.
Society Members and friends will hand out No
On 8 materials and hold up signs in high
visibility areas around San Francisco. Please
join fellow Unitarian Universalist volunteers
and sign up for a shift between Thursday and
Election Day (November 4th).
To sign up, visit the NoOn8
site and enter the Zip code where you
want to volunteer. Let other Unitarian
Universalists know you've signed up by
emailing Rob.
Help get the word out that Prop 8 is wrong,
it's unfair, and it must be defeated.
Interfaith Service in Opposition to Proposition 8
Saturday (November 1) 11 am at Glide Church, 330 Ellis Street
from Rev. Rev.
Lindi Ramsden and the
Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry
Come to a major, uplifting celebration
that will help you get ready to take it to
the streets Saturday at 11 am at Glide
Memorial United Methodist Church, 330 Ellis
Street.
This multi-faith, multi-ethnic service will
include powerful and moving testimony,
prayers, and music as communities of faith
from across the Bay Area gather to affirm
marriage equality.
A Get Out the Vote training will follow. Join
in as faith communities say "Yes" to equality
and justice, and "No On Prop 8!"
Good and Welfare
We send healing
wishes to Millicent Rutherford who is
resting comfortably at home after a fall.
She would enjoy telephone calls or written
messages. She and husband
John are looking forward to a visit
from their daughter in mid-November.
Samhain
from Nancy Buffum, Pagan Interest Circle (PICT)
Samhain (SAH-win), October 31, is the time of
the dying of the year, when the veil thins
between the world of the Dead and the world
of the Living. Passage is possible between
the worlds. Through the veil, our Beloved
Dead return to us. Through the veil come the
energies of life renewing itself.
The Pagan Interest Circle invites you to
remember your Beloved Dead, ancestors known
or unknown, and those who have passed
recently; and to honor and celebrate the
Newly Born in your life, whether a new child
or a new endeavor, new achievement or new love.
You may write messages and names and post
pictures on the two Altar Boards at the
entrance to the Thomas Starr King Room: one
for the Beloved Dead, and a Welcoming Altar
to loved
ones and things that are newly born. The
Boards will be up through November 9.
What is remembered lives.
Big Plans for a Big Hospital
Cathedral Hill Meeting 7 pm tonight (October 30) at St. Mary's
from George Mayer
California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) will
present their latest proposal for their
Cathedral Hill Medical Center Campus to the
Cathedral Hill Neighborhood Association
tonight (October 30) at St. Mary's, 1111
Gough Street. The very large proposed building
would be located across from the Unitarian
Universalist church and
would significantly alter the character of
the neighborhood.
CPMC's presentation will be in the meeting
room on the lower level, and refreshments
will be provided.
You are invited to bring your questions and
concern to this free forum.
