How Do We Pay for all this Stuff at SCUU? We Pledge!!

We pledge.[Pledging Thoughts Link]

In the spring, Each household or family makes a yearly commitment during our pledge drive. Our pledge committee carefully, mindfully, gently and without nets approaches members each year to discuss pledging and our members' pledge. Meanwhile, the Treasurer and finance committee creates a budget with the SCUU Board that is presented to the congregation and voted upon by the congregation during our Congregational Meeting at the start of our fiscal year in June. The budget is in part based on the results of our pledge drive. Members and Friends pledge each as they are able. We encourage everyone to give until it feels good and not until it hurts. It's a wonderful LEAP OF FAITH and commitment.

We must not forget that at any time, as new members join they are asked to pledge. Friends of the congregation pledge too. Friends are people who are not members but choose to help SCUU financially.

Useful Forum on Beliefnet regarding UU Pledging

There's also the FUNdraising committee. We have fundraising events to help us meet our financial commitment. However the majority of our funding comes from pledging.

Main point: We need your brains, hearts, efforts, MONEY and votes.

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When you sign the visitor log and give your email address you'll get the SCUU Digest via email. As an example, a recent one appears below. If you click on the Messages link you can view all the Digest Archives. There are quite a few digest announcements in the archive -- 446!!

From: scuu_announcements@yahoogroups.com on behalf of JP Vidas
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 12:27 PM
To: SCUU_Announcements
Subject: [scuu_announcements] Digest 12/29/2006

Items in this digest include:
-SCUU-
1. This Sunday's Service (12/31, 5th Sunday) - "Windows and Doors" - Jim Wyckoff/Misty Bloom
2. January newsletter available online
3. Donate evergreen boughs by 12/31 for the property!

-JPD/UUA-
4. Rev. Sinkford's holiday address5. Solstice piece

---SCUU---
1. This Sunday's service is titled "Windows and Doors" and will be led by Jim Wyckoff and Misty Bloom. Summary: "Jim and Misty will lead a service of pictures, poetry and music. The theme is a metaphor for the life we lead mostly as observers, but just now and then as active participants in the activities and causes we hold dear. This will also be an opportunity to focus on being fully present in the "now" and actively visualizing the future you wish to attract. This will be a time for quiet reflection after the hectic holiday season."
2. The January SCUU letter is available online now at:http://www.scuu.org/newsletters.htmlThanks to Marida and Kathleen for pulling it together!
3. From the Landscape Committee:For those who have live Christmas trees, please help Sugarloaf House to pass inspection by donating your evergreen boughs to SCUU. We need them to fill the "flower boxes" along the edge of the new deck.Rather than recycling your tree through the County composting operation, please cut the boughs off the tree and either drop them at Sugarloaf House (at the edge of the parking lot would be fine), or else bring them with you to church on Sunday, December 31st, and Tom Cooke will transport them to the property. Then Tom will stick them into the boxes, prior to next week's scheduled inspections. This is just a temporary filling for the boxes; a permanent solution will be carefully considered and presented soon to you. But for now, we need lots of evergreen boughs, and your used Christmas trees are an excellent source. When we're finished using the boughs, they'll be composted on the property.Please don't donate anything after Monday morning, New Year's Day. Thanks for your help with this,
-- Your Landscape Committee

---JPD/UUA---
4. The UUA website often has interesting, thought-provoking articles on it, and this time of year is no exception.
Here is a link to Rev. Sinkford's holiday message: http://www.uua.org/president/061213_holiday.html
5. And here is a link to an article reflecting on the solstice.http://www.uua.org/news/2006/061219_solstice.html

Have a Happy and safe New Year!--JP

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