Meetings
Summit Knitting Ministry
We will be meeting on Tues., May 13, at 9:30am in the Conference Room. Please join us - no experience necessary! Contact Rev. Kathleen for more information.
Freethinkers
Wednesday, May 14, Virginia Natwick will lead the Freethinkers morning group at 10:00 am. The topic will be the medical situation in this country. Is it possible to have universal healthcare in a medical environment as expensive as ours? How do we do it?
Fair Trade Coffee and chocolate bars will be for sale on May 11.
Summit Fellowship Nite, May 14, 6-8 pm.
Check your email for your evite and please rsvp.
We plan to have these fellowship gatherings periodically to give more of us a chance to intermingle and get to know each other in fuller ways. We will offer a light dinner, from 6-7 pm, catered by Skootz. Adult dinners will be $8. and kids eat free. You can “brown bag it” if you prefer. Choir rehearsal and short workshops for all ages will be from 7-8 pm. RSVP BY MAY 12 by phone, 619-562-0833, or “evite,” to be sure to save your spot!
-Rev. Kathleen will lead a workshop in music and movement for the children.
-Lois Santalo will lead a workshop in understanding and working with the Tarot cards.
-Norm Dessel will give a presentation on Atmospheric Warming, Its Causes and Implication For The Future Of All Animals and Humans & What Is Urgently Needed To Avoid Extinction.
Please call the office and let us know you will be there! 619-562-0833
Social Action Committee
Due to Mother’s Day the Social Action Committee meeting date has been changed to the 3rd Sunday, May 18.
Drumming Circle will meet on the 3rd Sunday (May 18) this month due to scheduling conflicts. Gather in the lobby at 5:30 and bring your instruments if you have them!
CELLO CONCERT! All Summit Families and Friends are invited to attend a special, FREE cello concert on Tuesday, May 20, at 7:00 p.m. at Summit. Our guest musician will be Rushad Eggleston, a very talented, young cellist known for his innovative, improvisational cello performances. Rushad has played with various folk and bluegrass bands and is an accomplished teacher as well. Join us for a fun and inspiring evening! For more information, please call Mary Ellen or Jack Shu at (619) 460-9315.
REV. KATHLEEN NEEDS YOU to consider leading or assisting in a Summit Summer Sunday Service! If you are passionate about quality Sunday Services, have a desire to learn about why and how we worship on Sunday mornings, and might consider helping with our summer service schedule, please let Rev. Kathleen know. A special WORSHIP WORKSHOP open to all Summitarians will be held on Sat., May 31, 10am-1pm, with lunch provided. Call the office (619) 562-0833 and let us know you’ll be there.
Weekly Events
Lunch Bunch - Please Note Change! - If you'd like to join other Summitarians for lunch and good conversation today after the Circle Discussion, sign up on the hanging clip board in the greeting room. We will be at Michael's Grill, 9621 Mission Gorge Rd.
Prayer/Meditation - Bring your joys and sorrows and join other UUs for an hour of silent prayer or meditation at 8:30 a.m. on this Wednesday. Sunday mornings start with Prayer/Meditation at 8:00 a.m. in the sanctuary.
Summit Singers - If you like to sing, we hope you’ll join us at 7:00 p.m. this Wednesday evening in the sanctuary where we will be practicing special music for future Sunday services. Contact Ed Henry at 619-460-4794 for more information.
Summit Concert Series
SATURDAY, June 14, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. The summit concert series will feature THE STRANGE WOODS The Strange Woods is a quartet of four accomplished musicians playing original compositions rooted in a broad range of folk styles. Ticket sales start this Sunday (more information is available at the ticket table)
Other Things You Should Know
Donations for Relief in Myanmar - If you would like to help in providing relief to those affected by the cyclone in Myanmar, please consider one of the organizations below.
For the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee go to http://www.uusc.org/info/support_cyclonenargis.html
For the Rescue Task Force based in El Cajon go to https://www.networkforgood.org/donation/ExpressDonation.aspx?ORGID2=330320141. This organization also has a log on how relief efforts are going in the area.
For this information go to: http://www.rescuetaskforce.org/log.php - Thank you - Summit's Social Action Committee
Please Note: CRE is no long doing the recycling program. Please DO NOT bring recycling to Summit. Our thanks everyone who has supported this program for the last two years!
Your Administrator
WE NEED YOUR HELP! Please sign up to bring refreshments or flowers, make coffee or serve as an usher or a greeter on some future Sunday. See the hanging clipboards in the greeting room/lobby.
Summit storage areas are undergoing a Spring organization blitz. As unclaimed and unclassifiable items have been uncovered they have been put in a lost and found area in the salon. Please look over these items, put things in their proper storage area at Summit or take it home. All left overs will be donated to the Goodwill or other charity at the end of the month. Thanks, Suzanne McQuaide, Bonnie Bowman
Solar Electrical System
Norm Dessel has donated his time and expertise to design and contract for a solar energy system. There remains a short time to qualify for state rebates. Although we are hopeful that we can raise the $30,000 needed, we can cancel the contract should we fall short. Several members have approached me wishing to, in addition to their pledges, donate funds toward the solar energy system. We are happy to answer any questions.
~ John McQuaide, Treasurer
Task Force on Growth
Summit's Board recently established a Task Force on Growth to look at ways to accommodate our growing attendance at Sunday Services and recommend to the Fellowship what might be a solution in the short term (next few months). Then we will look into long term solutions (1-5 years) for the increasing attendance Summit is experiencing. Lastly, we will address other issues related to increased membership (including RE growth and integration of new members). Also, please read the article in the April Newsletter.
Please speak to anyone on our Task Force or a Board Member about what we are doing and we will also keep the membership informed.
The TF members are (no chairperson) : Miles Beauchamp; Mark Bryning; Jai Ghorpade; Barbara Sorensen; Mark Weedman; Jennifer White. Rev. Kathleen is ex-officio.
We are keeping attention paid to "people" issues in our investigation. We are addressing variables of accessibility, comfort, safety, aesthetics, layout of sanctuary for getting around, getting in and out. We want to make sure and recommend the best solution for everyone’s use of our Fellowship’s campus.
Reserved Parking Signs
Five reserved parking signs have been placed in the southwest corner of Summit's parking lot (that's across from the handicapped parking spot in front of the Sanctuary). Two of the spots are Reserved For First Time Guests and three are Reserved For Seniors. You can see a diagram showing the exact location of the spots by going to Summit's website (www.summitarian.org). Go to the Home Page and click on the Parking link.
Directories
New Directories are available! For our members and friends, the first one is free. After that they are $2.00, if you need an extra copy for work or the car.
Summit Website
Check out our website! You will be seeing many changes on Summit’s website (www.summitarian.org) during the coming weeks. I’ll be experimenting with different designs and format and the data will be brought up to date. If you have any information that should be on the website, or see any incorrect data, contact me by email ASAP. LaMar Rogers: lamarrogers@cox.net
Badges
If you are one of the many who forget to turn in your name badge before you go to coffee, we have a solution. There is now a basket by the door in the Salon to put your badges in. The badges will be retrieved during the week and put where they belong.
Last Chance Please make sure you have taken anything you are interested in from the unclaimed items pile in the salon. Whatever is left will be donated to a deserving agency this week.
