life-changing services for homeless youth 24 hours a day at virtually every street corner in Southern Nevada. NPHY’s wraparound programs stabilize young people’s lives, meeting their immediate needs and providing a safe, supportive environment and a path to self-sufficiency. NPHY’s individualized, holistic services empower young people to not only achieve long-term independence, but to craft the futures they want for themselves. Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth (NPHY) began in 2000 as a group of community members fighting legal barriers that were preventing homeless youth from accessing life-saving services

​NPHY falls under UUCLV's 2nd Principle: Justice, equity and compassion in human relations 

https://nphy.org/ 

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Earth Spirituality Group
First & Third Monday from 6:00 – 8:00 PM
July 19 - Practices & history of Lughnasadh
August 2 - Lughnasadh Ritual with Keri
August 16 - Music & Magic with Laura-Marie

For more information, you can message Kim at admin@uuclv.org

Pastor AJ Blackwood is a Southern California native and holds a Master of Divinity from Claremont School of Theology and a Bachelor of Art in Philosophy with a minor in Comparative Religions from the University of California, Irvine. AJ was raised in a Roman Catholic home with a strong Baptist influence in Anaheim, California.  It is here that he first realized he had a call to ministry.

In 2008, AJ took up the call to be a leader in the No on Prop 8 Campaign, later became a founding board member of the Orange County Equality Coalition and in 2010 developed Progressive Interfaith Alliance a community organization that works toward justice for underrepresented peoples.

On a personal side, Pastor AJ is engaged to Denard Thomas, he has two adult children Naomi-Rose and Jon-Luc who live in SoCal and furry baby Olympia Brown, a chocolate lab. Pastor AJ enjoys bicycling, sci-fi and fantasy TV and movies, sewing, and lively debates over politics, theology, and justice. 

"Abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass (c. 1818–1895) was born into slavery sometime around 1818 in Talbot County, Maryland. He became one of the most famous intellectuals of his time, advising presidents and lecturing to thousands on a range of causes, including women’s rights and Irish home rule." https://www.biography.com/activist/frederick-douglass

Today’s challenging times require a nimble and resilient spirituality. We need a demanding, inspiring faith and a love strong enough that it will not let us go. Join us as we draw the circle wide, gather our strength, and promise to stay in the struggle and joy until love wins.

List of Presenters: Musicians, Franco Holder, Aimee K. Bryant, and Dr. Randal Buikema, and religious professionals, Lauren Wyeth, Julica Hermann de la Fuente, and Revs. Arif Mamdani, Karen Hutt, and Jen Crow will lead the service.

Order of Service
https://www.uua.org/files/2021-06/2021%20Sunday%20Morning%20OOS.pdf

READ MORE ABOUT THIS SERVICE HERE:
https://www.uua.org/ga/program/highlights/sunday-morning-worship

At our normal worship time, 10:30 am, we will start our (UUCLVs) normal Sunday Zoom connection. We will have the breakout rooms available and would like you to come and share your experiences and feelings about the service.  The session will be available as long as people want to visit, or about noon, whichever comes first.

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Join us for a Norse Literature circle! We will he reading the book “The Seed of Yggdrasil” by Maria Kvilhaug. We will be keeping with the Scandinavian theme by holding our meetings at Saga in Henderson. For the first session please read pages 19-58.

This group is explicitly committed to creating an inclusive space where all who feel called can participate. This is an explicit anti-racist, pro-queer space. We welcome all no matter ability. Whoever feels called to study Norse mythology and agrees with the conditions of the group are welcome to join us.

Event Location:
Saga
10345 S Eastern Ave #100 
Henderson, NV 89052

​For more information, please contact us at admin@uuclv.org

Join us at UUCLV as we share a celebration Sunday. We will officially meet and greet our new members and celebrate them becoming one with us.  Also, its our Flower Communion Sunday and this day is intended to symbolize the way in which just as no two flowers are alike, so no two people are alike yet each has a contribution to make to the community. This is a wonderful way to affirm and celebrate our Unitarian Universalist faith and the spiritual community we create when we join together in our beloved  congregations life.

In order to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 virus, the UUCLV congregation has suspended most in-person programs and events for the time being.

UUCLV will hold Virtual Worshipful Gatherings on Sundays until such a time that we can come together in-person again.

You can join us at ​https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84823621393 on Sunday mornings.
The Zoom room opens at 10:25 AM. Worship begins at 10:30 AM
Please message us at admin@uuclv.org for the Zoom passcode.

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THE UUCCN COMMUNITY INVITES YOU TO A
JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION 
via Zoom on Saturday, June 19 at 1 PM Pacific / 4 PM Eastern

“Keep Your Dreams Alive”
by Rev. Dr. Hope Johnson

Listen. Light the way. Lend a hand. Make decisions. Commit. Take risks. Fall forward. Build community. Nurture meaningful relationships. Be real. Give thanks. Invest in someone, something, that you believe in. Live. Love. Dream. Dream big. Be transformed. Change the world. Lead. And keep your dreams alive.

The subject: FREEDOM! 

The words and pictures will speak to the dream, the reality, and the history around African Americans and all peoples striving for justice, human rights, and freedom.

Please tune in for an hour and a half of engagement and reflection. Join Rev. Gordon Clay Bailey and others to celebrate this historic day and recognize the ongoing struggle for civil rights, equality and freedom for all.  

Saturday, June 19, at 1 PM Pacific / 4 PM Eastern via Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81592116122
Meeting ID: 815 9211 6122

Dial by your location
+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)

The History of Juneteenth
Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the US.

President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves effective January 1863.

But it wasn’t until more than two years later, on June 19, 1865, that Union soldiers landed in Galveston, Texas, with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. After this, more than 250,000 slaves across the state learned that they were finally free.

The celebration of June 19 was coined “Juneteenth” and grew with more participation from descendants, who treated the day as their Independence Day, according to the Texas State Library. It spread to other states and has been celebrated every year since.

In 1872, Rev. Jack Yates led a fundraising effort to purchase land for Emancipation Park in Houston.

On January 1, 1980, Juneteenth became an official state holiday in Texas. It’s a day to celebrate African American freedom and achievement while encouraging self-development and respect for all cultures.

Juneteenth As A Holiday:
Though not a federal holiday, 47 states and the District of Columbia recognize Juneteenth as a state or ceremonial holiday. The only three states that do not recognize the holiday are North Dakota, South Dakota and Hawaii. Texas was the first state to recognize the holiday in 1980. 

Which states celebrate Juneteenth?
Texas, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia (plus Washington DC) have designated Juneteenth a paid holiday.

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 white people to work for racial justice.  He’s a social justice educator who writes and speaks widely on courage for racial justice, feminism for men, lessons from past movements, and creating healthy culture and leadership for progressive activism.  He works with community groups, schools and spiritual/faith communities to develop leadership and momentum for social justice action. 

He was a founder of the anti-racist movement building center, the Catalyst Project, and helped launch the national white anti-racist network, SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice).  Rooted in his Unitarian Universalist faith, he works with congregations, seminaries, and religious activists to build the Spiritual Left, and he is a leader in the national network, Organizing White Men for Collective Liberation.  He is also the author of Towards Collective Liberation: anti-racist organizing, feminist praxis, and movement building strategy and Towards the “Other America”: Anti-Racist Resources for White People Taking Action for Black Lives Matter.  You can learn more about his work at www.chriscrass.org.

Storytelling is the oldest form of education. Cultures have always told tales as a way of passing down beliefs, traditions, and history to future generations. Stories are at the core of all that makes us human.

Stories are the way we store information in the brain. A list of facts will be forgotten, but stories are remembered. Stories help us to organize information and tie content together. Stories go straight to the heart. Because humans are emotionally involved creatures and truly enjoy storytelling, it can help to create a positive attitude toward the process of humanizing us. 

Telling stories from around the world creates an awareness and appreciation of different peoples, cultures, ethnicities, genders, orientations and all of the many ways we live our human experience.

The Fifth Sun Project is a small WOC-Led Group Focused on Cultural Awareness, Indigenous Activism, Raising Funds & Support for our Community. Our group is a small grassroots organization that started in 2016 as a fundraising collective to gather Support and monetary donations for bigger nonprofit organizations that support marginalized communities. We have since been organizing and collaborating with local justice advocacy groups to create outreach events for marginalized communities. We can associate with all principles of UU Having an open mind and believing that everyone has worth and opportunity. Having compassion and being inclusive.

https://www.facebook.com/FifthSunProject
https://www.instagram.com/fifthsunproject/
https://linktr.ee/fifthsunproject

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Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 10:30 AM 
Compassion for You and Me
with The Reverend Gordon Clay Bailey

Come worship with the UUs!

Emerson said that 
            “you must take the whole society to find the whole (hu)man.” 
Human wholeness involves something more than isolated individuals “amputated” from community.  Join us at UUCLV this morning as we seek greater care for each other and possibly, for ourselves. 

In order to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 virus, the UUCLV congregation has suspended most in-person programs and events for the time being.

UUCLV will hold Virtual Worshipful Gatherings on Sundays until such a time that we can come together in-person again.

You can join us at ​https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84823621393 on Sunday mornings.
The Zoom room opens at 10:25 AM. Worship begins at 10:30 AM
Please message us at admin@uuclv.org for the Zoom passcode.

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Sunday, April 11, 2021 at 8:30 AM 
Becoming: We are Constantly in a State of Becoming; Are You Ready for What Comes Next?
with The Reverend Gordon Clay Bailey
“For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.”  -Michelle Obama, Becoming

So, if we are continually in  a state of becoming; an endless state of flux in which we are constantly changing, evolving, and becoming more (and less) at the same time.  Are we open to becoming what we ultimately become?  Join us as we look a bit more closely at ourselves, our congregation, and our nation as we become.

In order to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 virus, the UUCLV congregation has suspended most in-person programs and events for the time being.

UUCLV will hold Virtual Worshipful Gatherings on Sundays until such a time that we can come together in-person again.

You can join us at ​https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84823621393 on Sunday mornings.
The Zoom room opens at 10:25 AM. Worship begins at 10:30 AM
Please message us at admin@uuclv.org for the Zoom passcode.

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We had 9 wonderful submissions and now it’s time to vote for your favorite design.  Please make your selection below.  Voting closes on April 16th.  The winning design will be announced after service on April 18th. And Yes, you can vote more than once. (Clicking on a photo will make it larger.)

     Yes that’s our own Cooper volunteering at Camp!

Camp de Benneville Pines welcomes UUs and kindred spirits to connect in nature, igniting creativity, and building capacity to influence positive change in the world. Camp de Benneville Pines was founded 59 years ago and is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation. The majority of it's operational funds come from summer camps and camp rentals, all which have been canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Camp de Benneville Pines needs to raise $600,000 in order to limp along for the next 18 months.  

OUR VISION:  
     We are integral to the growth of our Unitarian Universalist faith and we are impactful:
     for people, communities, and our environment.

OUR VALUES:
     We cherish and want to preserve our natural environment
     We promote play and recreation in life-affirming ways
     We encourage lifelong learning and spiritual growth
     We build a beloved community
     We change the world for the better

​https://www.uucamp.org/
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