Green Sanctuary April Dates

Plan ahead to participate in these intergenerational activities:
Butterfly Talk and Pictures with Doug Allen
Wednesday, April 11, at 7 PM & repeated Sunday, April 15, 12:15.
Easy Butterfly Hike at Blue Wall Preserve, Saturday, April 14, meet at 9 am at the church.

Need plants?
Hatcher Garden Plant Sales April 6-7, Fri & Sat (definitely want to go on Friday for best choice);
Spartanburg Men's Garden Club Plant Sale April 14
Upstate Chapter of SC Native Plant Society Sale April 28

March Social Justice Schedule

Love, Knit, Crochet Etc Friday Mar. 16, 9:30-11:30 am. All are welcome to join us for handwork,conversation, and a little meditation in the middle! We’ll finish current projects and plan our next ones. We’ve made baby clothes for Haiti and Spartanburg Children’s Home, scarves for the homeless, and shawls for our church members unable to attend Sunday service due to illness. If you'd like to learn knitting or crochet, we can teach you-- bring needles size 12 or J hook (we have yarn to learn on).

LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER FOR March 31st annual gathering of the Western Carolinas Cluster of the Southeast District, at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville. This is a special opportunity to share in a reunion of UU Civil Rights veterans of the 60’s! We are all invited-- register by March 15th.

Learn from our UU Civil Right Veterans and Prepare to lead your congregation forward in Immigrations Rights and Marriage Equality

Morning session with Civil Rights activist and dynamic speaker Dorothy Cotton who will involve UU ministers who served in southern congregations.
Afternoon: choose between two workshops for leading your congregation in social justice for Immigration Rights and Marriage Equality

Registration: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BVY7GX6
Cost of $25.00 includes lunch

Here’s just a little background on Dorothy Cotton (born 1930) from wikipeidia: She was a leader of the 1960s African-American Civil Rights Movement[1] and a member of the inner-circle of one of its main organizations, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). As the SCLC's Educational Director, she was arguably the highest ranked female member of the organization. This meeting would be worthwhile just for the opportunity to hear her speak!


Marriage Equality. Sunday, March 25th, is Justice Sunday, and we’re planning a service about marriage, and what marriage means to all of us, including LGBT folks, families, and friends.
We invite YOU to contribute and to participate—this opportunity is open to all our congregation, gay & straight alike -please talk to Rev Linda or send thoughts and ideas you would like to share to minister@uucs.org Be sure you indicate whether or not you would like your ideas to be acknowledged by name.
Have you attended a gay wedding yet? Do you have photos to share at our service? Please send your photos of GLBT weddings, commitment ceremonies, anniversary celebrations, and similar to socialjustice@uucs.org and Alice will weave them into a slide show for us to enjoy at the beginning of the service.

And regular Soc Jus meeting on March 28th, 7 pm-- again, all are welcome!