One of the holdovers from my California years is a particular fondness for the columns of Jon Carroll in the San Francisco Chronicle. Every now and then, I take a little trip to nostalgia land with a visit to the Jon Carroll archives on the Internet, and I’m reminded again how much I enjoy this man’s quirky irreverence.

Jon Carroll is the man we can thank for last April’s “Unitarian Jihad” column (sample paragraph):

Beware! Unless you people shut up and begin acting like grown-ups with brains enough to understand the difference between political belief and personal faith, the Unitarian Jihad will begin a series of terrorist-like actions. We will take over television studios, kidnap so-called commentators, and broadcast calm, well-reasoned discussions of the issues of the day. We will not try for "balance" by hiring fruitcakes; we will try for balance by hiring non-ideologues who have carefully thought through the issues.

(I will send the entire column electronically to anyone who requests it.)

Every year before the winter holidays (which he calls the “the-earth-is-just-resting-trust-me-on-this” holidays), Carroll writes a column about his favorite charity, the Untied Way. (Go back and read that again.) This charitable effort has no staff, no bureaucratic infrastructure, and no tax-exempt status. If you participate in Untied Way giving, your name will not appear on a plaque or a brick, there will be no awards given and no fancy fundraising parties you’re obligated to attend. The Untied Way has no overhead at all. One hundred percent of the money goes to clients, who apply it to self-identified need areas.

Here’s how it works. An Untied Way volunteer (this could be you—no special training is required) goes to her ATM and withdraws a considerable sum of cash, probably a bit more than you are comfortable giving away. (After all, this is about generosity, remember?) You then walk down the streets of any neighborhood where there are likely to be people who need money (they will self-identify), and give a $20 bill to anyone who asks for it. This practice continues until the money is gone. Then go buy yourself a cup of coffee.

At the end of the Untied Way, there are no forms to fill out. There are no follow-up studies. The wretched childhoods of your recipients will go largely unexamined. The thing is, your $20 might get them through to tomorrow. If there's tomorrow, there's hope. You've seen that work yourself; you know you have.

While the Untied Way might not be your charity of choice, you have to admit that it has a refreshing simplicity about it. After all, as Carroll points out, you have more money than other people, regardless of your economic status. You have, they need, you give. What could be more straightforward?

In all the hubbub of the holidays, I encourage you to consider the Untied Way, not necessarily as a vehicle for your actual charitable contributions, but as a symbol of the holiday spirit. You have time, someone needs some help, you give time. You have a car, someone needs a ride, you give a ride. You have food, someone is hungry, you give food. Get the idea?

Keep your holidays simple this year. And in the true spirit of Unitarian Jihad, be nice to people. They won’t know what to make of it.

See you in church! Judy

December Worship Services

December 4 Reading As a Spiritual Practice

Presented by Rev. Judy Welles; Carla Claycomb, Worship Associate; Carole Knisely, musician; Ken Laws, music for gathering.

Reading as prayer, reading as eating, reading as the search for truth, reading as magic – all of these are ways to think about the simple activity that has the power to change the world, and transform our lives at the same time. Today we will give the Unsung UU Award during the service, and will learn the results of the Outreach Grant Applications.

December 11 Generation X-cess

Presented by Virginia Jackson and Judy Marti, Worship Associates; Pat Spader,Ken Laws and Janet Folsom, musicians; UUCV Choir.

At the peak of the holiday shopping season, come learn about Affluenza--a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more.

December 18 They Shall Name Him Emmanuel: God Is With Us

The Revs. Duane Fickeisen and Judy Welles Musicians: Sally Beaver, Cameo String Quartet, and the UUCV Choir

Come and celebrate the advent season and the familiar story of the birth of Jesus, which grows ever more mysterious and inspiring.. We¹ll create our traditional on-the-spot pageant including Jesus played by the infant Ian Woodward, the youngest in our beloved community.

December 24 7:30 p.m. Christmas Eve Lessons and Carols

The Revs. Duane Fickeisen and Judy Welles Musician: Sally Beaver

Our traditional Christmas Eve service is family friendly and includes singing familiar carols, readings from the gospels, and modern stories. We will end in candlelight singing Silent Night. Come and share spiced cider and cookies after the service before heading home to hang the stockings by the chimney with care.

December 25 Simply Enjoying Christmas

Presented by Revs. Judy Welles and Duane Fickeisen

After the rush of getting ready for the holiday, let’s get together to enjoy it in a warm and simple way. Everyone, including children, is invited to bring a favorite Christmas memory—it could be the best gift you ever gave, the best gift you ever received, or the memory of sharing the holiday in a special place or with special friends. We will sing together, tell stories, hear stories, and enjoy the quiet of this special holiday. (There will be no children’s R.E. program today.)

January 1 Resolutions and Intentions as We Begin the New Year

Presented by the Revs. Duane Fickeisen and Judy Welles

We’ll celebrate the beginning of the New Year and the call from Janus to reflect on the year just ended and also to cast our gaze ahead to the year just beginning. Come and share hopes and aspirations as we consider making resolutions for the days that lie ahead. We’ll have a burning bowl to ritualize letting go of the past and embracing your intentions for the future.

COFFEE UPDATE Our coffee volunteers are taking a holiday on Christmas Day, so there will be no coffee served unless someone volunteers who is planning to attend the December 25 service anyway. However, there are still three Sundays before the big day when you can buy fair trade coffee, cocoa and organic chocolate bars (we have both milk and dark chocolate) as holiday gifts at the UUCV Coffee Store. See you there!

Unspoken Announcements

We have stopped making spoken announcements during the social hour after worship on a trial basis, responding to expressed concerns that they interrupt conversations and are ineffective means of communicating. Please pay particular attention to the printed announcements in the order of service. If you have e-mail and are not getting our regular Wednesday evening e-mailed PreViews announcements, contact Judy at jcwelles@earthlink.net to subscribe.

Our committees will seek creative means of communicating during the social hour through more effective use of their table displays and in other ways. Be sure to cruise the tables and attend to the less intrusive means of communicating with you. A gong will announce the beginning of the Newcomers’ Orientation or Path to Membership Meeting. If you hear the gong and are talking with someone who is still relatively new, ask if they would like to attend the orientation and escort them to the Library. Let’s all continue to practice a radical hospitality of welcome to newcomers; seek out and engage at least one person you have not yet met in conversation every Sunday.

Religious Education News

From Director of Religious Education Kevin Snow

Is it December all ready? Does that mean I have to start shopping for those dreaded holiday gifts? In case you can’t tell from those two questions, I am not a big fan of the Holiday Season, save for Thanksgiving. I never look forward to cramming into stores to search out for that "special" gift for people when all I want to do is spend good quality time with my family and eat a great meal. It is hard to be an American who is not a fan of Christmas sometimes. When the country and commercials seem to be pushing harder and harder every year to buy more, buy bigger, buy shinier things, it is reassuring to realize I have a religious home that supports some different ideas and approaches to the Holidays.

That is why I am writing you this season to encourage you to focus on the many good things we can accomplish through UUCV for others in need at this time of year. The Mitten Tree will soon be up and Guest at Your Table boxes are available for you to place on your dining room table. Both of these efforts require everyone’s participation, from adults to children, so someone else can have a need met. Don’t forget to bring those Guest boxes brimming with coin and more around Christmas Sunday so the funds can be sent to the UU Service Committee. For more details on where the proceeds are going this year, with a focus on clean water supplies for the needy, check out the display in the Social Hall.

Speaking of Christmas Sunday, please note that due to Christmas and New Years being on a Sunday this year, there will not be any Religious Education for the children those two Sundays so all of our teachers and helpers can be with their families those days. There will still be a service those Sundays, so please come and enjoy it with your children. If you are like my family, who holds our main gathering on Christmas morning, it will be difficult to attend a service that day, despite how much I might want to come. My spirit will be with UUCV Christmas Sunday if my body will not. Isn’t the Holiday season about spirits, after all?

Maybe that line of thinking is just an explanation for my absence, but our spirits can be present in many ways this Holiday season, especially in the form of our giving to needy causes. If we could trace where our donations go once they leave our hands, wouldn’t that be a fascinating journey? To see the impact the spirit of giving and charity has on another’s life. Please give to any chosen cause with a generous heart this year, so many lives in so many places need something extra to survive right now. Merry Holiday!!!

Outreach Grants Awarded

Attend Worship 12/4 for the Full Scoop!

At its November meeting, our Board of Trustees awarded three UUCV Outreach Grants totaling $2,000. These grants were made possible by the success of our pledge campaign for the 2005-2006 fiscal year.

A grant of $200 was made to the Welcoming Congregation Initiative of UUCV’s Social Action Committee to sponsor the recent public lecture by Marc Adams, which was held on November 18th at Dickinson College. Co-sponsors of the lecture were the gay and lesbian support group at Dickinson College, the Gay-Straight Alliance at the Carlisle Area High School, and PFLAG (Parents, Family, and Friends of Lesbian and Gays) of Central Pennsylvania. The lecture was attended by about 45 persons and was followed by a discussion moderated by the Reverend Judy Welles.

A second grant of $1,300 was designated for an advertising campaign in the Carlisle Sentinel proposed by Leslie Carr. As she wrote in her application: “Many of us sense that if the word got out—of our existence and what we stand for—then more people will come to join our ranks. . . . This is one step in what I call OUTREACH. Once people come, they have to be inspired, they have to be engaged, they have to be retained—yes—but this is a needed first step.” Our hope is that some of UUCV’s creative minds will assist Leslie in this program, and that all will welcome, inspire, and engage the newcomers who fill our entryways.

The third and last grant ($500) was made for a program proposed by Dot Everhart, but for now it’s TOP SECRET. You’ll have to attend worship on Sunday, December 4th to learn the details. It’s bound to be interesting, challenging, and kind of fun, too. Please come and be a part of it.

All members and friends of UUCV should be proud that we have the resources to reach out in this way during the 2005-2006 fiscal year. The Board, the Finance and Fundraising Committee, and the Canvas Committee will continue to explore ways to fund congregational outreach as long as the essential facilities and programs of UUCV receive your generous support. Thank you!

Thanks for Another Successful Auction!

Do UUCVers know how to put on a fundraising auction or what? Our Feelin’ GrUUvy Auction 2005, held at the Meeting House on November 12^th, was a huge success. The official tally for the event was $19,280.25. Post-auction sales are ongoing and will eventually push the total beyond the figure which was anticipated in our 2005-2006 budget.

It takes dozens of energetic, creative persons to put on an event of this magnitude – too many in fact to mention all by name. We would like to single out our charismatic emcees, Sherri Holston and Phil Reynolds, and our splendid auctioneer Tammy Erb, who offers her considerable professional skills every year in exchange for a modest gift.

Especially deserving of all UUCVers’ praise and gratitude are auction committee co-chairs Cindi Butzer and Susan Walker. Together they took on one of the most challenging jobs in our little universe and succeeded with flying colors. We sure appreciate it.

If you were one of the legion who chipped in to make it happen, THANK YOU! If you didn’t help out, well, you missed out on half the fun! We hope you’ll join us next year. Planning begins in August; so keep your eyes peeled for announcements of our organizing meetings.

'Tis The Season . . . For Music!

From Sally Beaver, Co-chair, Music Committee

The holiday season is here, and there's music in the air! The Music Committee announces the following special musical offerings for this joyous season:

Sunday, Dec. 11th, the Choir will raise their voices in song to celebrate the season.
Sunday, Dec. 18th, The Cameo String Quartet will be our special guests for the service. This all-women's quartet was established in 1989, and is one oldest performing quartets in the greater Harrisburg area. Sally Beaver was one of the founding members of the Quartet, and will be playing cello with them on the 18th. Other players include Hannah Belser and Pat McKeon, violins, and Debra Anderson, viola. The Choir will also be lending their voices for this outstanding musical occasion.
And don't forget Christmas Eve, Dec. 24th, when the Choir will again join us, singing the glorious music of the season!

We hope to see you at all of these holiday celebrations.

Building & Grounds Updates

BUILDING & GROUNDS CHANGES MEETING DATE Due to numerous scheduling conflicts on Wednesdays, the new monthly meeting date for December will be Tuesday December 13^th at 7:00pm. We always welcome new members to join our committee. Please wear work clothing as we may be doing some painting. Questions: contact Rick Heckman (#245-9525) or Paula Terry (#258-1928)

THE HEAT IS ON! The renovation of the meetinghouse heating system is now complete. There are new thermostats throughout the building. The entire system functions on a scheduler that controls the status (Occupied/Unoccupied) of each room on a weekly basis. Each room has a preset ‘Occupied’ temperature of about 68 degrees (F) and an ‘Unoccupied’ temperature of about 55 degrees. If you wish to heat a room that is currently in an “Unoccupied” status, push and hold for a few seconds the small black button on the right side of the thermostat. This will call heat to the room for about one hour. The thermostat will automatically return to its “Unoccupied’ status after the hour has passed. The slider at the bottom of the thermostat provides several degrees of additional variation. In most cases, the slider should remain in the middle of its range. If the room is being heated, and it feels a bit too warm, push the slider to the ‘Cooler’ side. If it feels a bit too cool, push it to the ‘Warmer’ side. Please note: Pushing the slider to the ‘Warmer’ side will not cause the room to heat up faster from its “Unoccupied’ state. Please ask Rick Heckman if you have additional questions.

*Special note: Many thanks to Rick Heckman who has shouldered months of responsibility obtaining estimates, meeting with contractors and responding to questions during installation. Rick, your behind the scene efforts on this huge building improvement have not gone unnoticed. As we sit warmly on our pews this winter we say – THANK YOU

A FREINDLY REMINDER… We request anyone considering donating items to UUCV to please check with B&G or the appropriate chairperson before dropping anything off at the church. Certain used furniture, computer parts, power equipment, etc. which we have no use for will only create storage or disposal problems. Donations should be in excellent working condition.

LEAF RAKERS BRAVE THE COLD Thank you to the volunteers who showed up on a very cold Saturday morning to rake leaves and clean out the flower beds. The hearty clean up crew included: Cindi Butzer, Cary Garland, Cindy Good, Syliva Hardman, Rick Heckman, Sunny Hettenschuller, Letty Kress, Dave Mooney, Terri Smiley, and Paula Terry.

Congregational Happenings for December

Send your January Happenings to the Newsletter Editor, Kim van Alkemade, kivana@comcast.net, by Monday, December 19.

December 2 First Friday Potluck! Bring a dish to share and join us at 6:30 for candlelight dining and good conversations at pot luck supper. Childcare will be provided with DVDs, storybook reading and Lego construction projects.

December 10 The Writer's Group will meet on Saturday from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. at the home of Charlotte Klein, 2624 Walnut Bottom Road, Carlisle. Call or email Charlotte if you plan to attend - 776-0132; charklein@pa.net. Come join us for a fun and creative afternoon. It's a time for sharing the prose or poetry you've written or you can read something written by your favorite author. As always, new members most welcome!

December 11 Ministers’ Holiday Open House Members and friends of UUCV are invited to come by the ministers’ home on Sunday afternoon, December 11, for our holiday open house. Enjoy a festive holiday buffet. We’ll be “at home” to receive you from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. at 145 East Pomfret Street in Carlisle, directly across from St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church. Children are welcome. Berry, the truck-driving dog, will be present.

December 11 Mitten Tree Begins! Please help warm the hands and hearts of those in need! UUCV will once again be collecting mittens, gloves, and hats to decorate our holiday tree. Beginning on Sunday, December 11^th, we will be hanging the items on our Mitten Tree during Sunday service. The items collected will be donated to a local organization and distributed to those in need.

NOTE: The Serious Stuff Book Group will resume in January.

Give to UUCV While You Shop

A Great Opportunity to Plan for Holiday Gift-giving and Give to UUCV at the Same Time. As the holidays approach, remember that you can easily do your online holiday shopping and contribute to UUCV all at the same time! Hundreds of merchants participate in igive.com, an online “shopping mall” where you can designate a portion of your purchases to support UUCV. Best of all, it won’t cost you a thing! Barnes & Noble, Bass Pro Shops, Best Buy, Boscov’s, Dunham’s Sports, Eddie Bauer, Gap, Harry and David, JC Penney, Lands’ End, Linens–n- Things, Office Depot, REI, the Sierra Club, Starbucks, and United Airlines are just a few of over 600 merchants that participate. Registering is easy. Just go to www.igive.com and start shopping!

Change for the World

From Carol McAnulty

Your Change for the World donations in September went to a family who were the victims of Hurricane Katrina, now settling in Carlisle. We gave them a Visa gift card in the amount of $350 to help with expenses. I'm sure our gift will be put to good use to get them back on their feet. October's Change for the World went to help the Correctional Justice Initiative. We collectively donated $245 for this cause.

Change for the World for December will go toward The Army Community Service “Baby Layette Program” which is part of the Outreach Program for needy service members and their families. It is designed to help mostly junior enlisted service members who are experiencing financial difficulty and unable to purchase items needed for their newborn or toddler. To identify needy service members and their families, a needs assessment is completed by staff from the Exceptional Family Member program, a Financial counselor, and staff from the Army Emergency Relief Program.

Examples: If a service member has a fire and is unable to purchase food or clothing for their newborn or toddler, the Baby Layette Program will assist that soldier. If a service member is unable to afford pampers, milk or clothing…this program will help. If a service member is deployed overseas and his/her family can not afford to purchase food, pampers, or clothing for the newborn or toddler, this program will provide these items free of charge. The Baby Layette Program is designed to help in emergency situations only. This program will also provide assistance to the service member by coordinating with other community resources for additional services.

Meeting Our Mozambique Bolseiras

From Priscilla Laws, SAC Bursary Project Coordinator

I spent several days in northern Mozambique earlier this month visiting the group of girls that UUCV helped to support during the 2005 school year. On Friday November 4^th I flew north from Maputo to Quelimane in Mozambique. After had a quick lunch with Karena Butt and Adelia Raul of the Christian Council of Mozambique, four of us spent 6 hours driving farther north to Namarroi to meet the bursary girls or bolseiras in Portuguese. (Bursary is the term used in southern Africa for a school support stipend.)

Twenty-one of the girls we sponsored last you had just completed their year of school. Since some villages only have schooling through 5^th grade and others through 7^th grade, the group was living in the settlement Namarroi where some of girls attended 6^th grade and others 8^th grade. During the next few days, I had a thrilling time getting acquainted with the girls and accompanying them back to four different villages—Rogone, Maqueringa, Mucisse and Molumbo. I had a chance to meet their parents and attend community meetings in each village. I was amazed by what I saw. The newly acquired confidence of the girls, their joyful singin, and the pride and gratitude of their families bore witness to the success of the program.

At the end of my three days with the girls, I met with Karen Butt who is managing our bursary project for the Christian Council of Mozambique (CCM). Although Karen would define herself as a missionary, her primary mission is preventing the spread of AIDS and enabling girls from rural villages to become community leaders. Many of this year’s girls want to be teachers and health care workers when they eventually return to their villages. In our meeting Karen identified 48 girls who would benefit from support in 2006. There are 21 girls who want to continue and 27 new students most of whom have just graduated from their village schools. Karen said that if we could raise about $250 per girl ($12,000) for the coming year, she and Adelia Raul, another CCM staff person, could provide administrative support for all 48 girls.

We have already raised $5400 from our Change for the World Collections, from UU congregants who read the article describing our program in UU World and from others with whom I talked casually during the year.

The Social Action Committee holding a sale of Fair Trade Christmas items from Africa and other countries -- especially food baskets. The sale is December 4^th from 12 noon to 5 p.m. in the Dickinson College Holland Union Building Social Hall. The Committee will also be selling additional Christmas items in the Social Hall after services on December 11^th and 18^th. We hope you can come. The sale is coordinated by Kathy Bell and I. This is a good chance to get a head start on Christmas gifts.

If you have questions or want to learn more about how you can help the Social Action Committee with the project, please contact me at lawsp@dickinson.edu or 243-9525 (H), 245-1242 (O).

End of Year Tax-Deductible Contribution Option

Would you like to make any of your 2005-06 operating budget pledge payments by credit card? Normally, this is not an option, but the Finance & Fundraising Committee decided to make this alternative available on just two Sundays in December, 12/4 and 12/11. We decided to offer this method on a trial basis because our merchant account will still be open because of its use during the auction. (Of course, although UUCV will pay a percentage/transaction fee for any credit card payments, some may want to take advantage of making their end-of-year tax-deductible contributions on credit.) Look for the table in the Social Hall after services if you’d like to avail yourself of this limited-time opportunity.

UUCV Longaberger Basket Raffle FAQs

You may have heard that we’ll be having another Longaberger Basket raffle fundraiser early next year, but have no idea what this is about. So, here are some Frequently Asked Questions on this topic.

What’s a Longaberger Basket? It’s one of a set of specialty, collector’s value baskets (or other decorative items) prized by many, and the object of pursuit at many a local basket bingo event. They typically range in price from $20 to $100 and more.

When will you be selling tickets? From December through the end of February

When will the baskets be raffled? EACH day during the month of March

What??? Every evening a three-digit Pennsylvania daily lottery number from 000 – 999 is drawn, numbers which can be seen on television at 7:00 p.m. and in the newspaper the next day. If either of your numbers is drawn you win the item listed for that day.

What?? What numbers?? Each raffle ticket has two numbers on it. This means that you can win on either of them.

What do you mean, “the item for that day”? Each ticket has a listing of baskets, pottery, wrought iron or glassware, one for each day. If either of your numbers wins on that day, you win the specified item for that day.

Does that mean I can win only once? No, you can win thirty-one times, since there are 31 days in March! (But then we’d come and get you for graft.) Seriously, though, you have two opportunities to win EACH day during the month of March, or 62 times for only $5, a great deal!

What’s the likelihood that the tickets UUCV is selling are winning tickets? 100%

100%?? That’s right. If all 500 tickets are sold, each day one of our ticket holders will win, since the set of tickets are double numbered to include ALL of the eligible ticket numbers for the daily lottery.

Okay, I’m sold, or will be, once tickets are available. From whom do I get them and how much do they cost? Kim Clark and Lischa Walters will be selling them for $5 each in the Social Hall after services.

Can I get any for friends? This seems like a great opportunity! Sure – and we hope you will!! Consider taking a pack of ten or twenty to work, the gym or to the daycare center and see if you can sell some. They are pretty popular in the local area and the collectors will be interested in getting their chance at getting even more.

What if I can’t sell the tickets I take? Just be sure to return any unsold tickets to Kim or Lischa by Sunday, February 12 so someone else can have the opportunity to get one. In 2004, a number of baskets were not able to be awarded because the winning ticket was unsold.

Are these cash-only sales? Both cash and checks are fine. Make checks payable to UUCV, and list “basket raffle” in the memo portion of the check.

Will they be available for stocking stuffers? It’s very likely – and that’s a great idea! A notice will be in the Previews and Sunday announcements once they’re available.

S.H.A.R.E. In The News

The spirit of Thanksgiving is alive and well at UUCV. Thanks to the generosity of many we were able to supply ten needy families with all the trimmings for a Thanksgiving dinner. Several people also gave turkeys. The weight of the ten bags was 141 lbs. and an additional 30 lbs. was also donated for a grand total of 171 lbs. of food contributed for the month of November. What a statement of caring and sharing! The date for the Christmas ingathering is December 11.

All in the UUCV Family

Laurel Belding has a new position at the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry, where she is now Director of Business Development; she also will soon be commissioned as a phone volunteer for CONTACT Helpline, a 24-hour listening and referral service for people in crisis or need in Cumberland, Perry, Dauphin, Adams and Franklin counties. Priscilla Laws received a major award from the American Association of Physics Teachers, being named one of the 75 best physics teachers in the last 75 years. We are delighted that Melissa Stolley is recovering well from surgery after a few initial setbacks. Congratulations to Ed Glasgow and Liz Hoffman, who were married by Duane and Judy in late October. Congratulations also to Jane Freeman and Ralph Watts on their engagement. Jane is celebrating the birth of a grandson, Skyler Allen, born on November 11. Hooray that Janet Spencer is feeling better! And we share the relief of Dan and Joan Bechtel that their son, Tim, came through brain surgery so well. Congratulations to EmmaRose Atwood for her dance debut at Whittaker Center in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Many of our UUCV members and friends have family members serving in the military; please offer them love and support during this holiday season when it is difficult for families to be so far apart, with loved ones in danger.

Calling all Young Adult Wandering Souls...

Always wanted to visit other UU churches? Join other UU Young Adults each month as we visit a different congregation in the Joseph Priestley District (JPD). Wandering Souls is an activity of the JPD UU Young Adult Network. Directions and more information available at www.jpd-uuyan.org. 2005-2006 Dates: December 4, 2005, First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia; January 8, 2006, First Unitarian Church of Baltimore, MD; February 5, 2006, Unitarian Church of Harrisburg, PA; March 5, 2006, Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington, VA; April 9, 2006, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Centre County (State College), PA.