   We are an Open Spiritual Community in the North Georgia Mountains
Where Each Positive Progressive Week Begins Sunday At 11:00 AM
January 2012 January 1 - Hopes and Dreams of Three Members for 2012 - Kelly Lieberman, Mary Lasris, David Broad. Kelly, Mary, and David will share their dreams for GMUUC in the New Year. Service Leader: M.Lasris January 8 - “Why We Worship” The Rev. Dr. Barry Whittemore. How many of us can answer the "who, what, when, where, and how" of a Unitarian Universalist worship service? The forms we use are very old and have evolved over the years. The Rev. Whittemore will try to make sense of it all for us, always coming back to the "Why?” Service Leader: M.Lasris January 15 – “Bullying” – The Rev. Jeannie Ward. The Rev. Ward will address the topics of non violence and bullying, while exploring The Golden Rule, and its principles and application, in our personal lives as well as our world. Service Leaders: K.Klemenchich/D.Broad January 22, 2012 - “Experiencing the 7 Principles on Our Road Trip” - Robert & Wynne Ewing. Wynne and Robert will describe some of the 7 principles experienced during their cross-country motorcycle trips. Service Leader: M.Lasris January 29 - “Death as Soul Friend; What Death Can Teach Us about Life” – The Rev. Chris Glaser. Academic credit is sometimes given for "life experience," but "death experience" also counts in the spiritual life. The Rev. Chris Glaser will share some of the lessons that Death – like an inscrutable Zen master – has taught him in the hopes that listeners might discover their own learnings from deaths in their lives. In Chris's latest book he describes death as "The Final Deadline" that can assist us in accomplishing rather than postponing our dreams. January 29 - SECOND HOUR "Our Lives HOUR 12:30 – 1:45 p. as Sacred Texts." For those who would like an hour-long workshop experience in discerning the sacred in everyday experience as Chris Glaser described in his sermon, "Our Lives as Sacred Texts," stay after worship when he preaches on Sunday, January 29. Using a safe and interactive model of presentation, meditation, and conversation, we will discover a few of the holy moments in our life histories. A light lunch will be served as we begin. Service Leaders: K.Klemenchich/M.Lasris
Are you seeking a church:
 That keeps an open mind to the religious questions you have struggled with in all times and places? Where personal experience, conscience and reason are believed to be the final authorities in religion, and that in the end religious authority lies not in a book or person or institution, but in yourself?Where no one is required to subscribe to a creed?Where everyone is welcomed in a safe, accepting community with open hearts and minds?Where people nurtue one another in spiritual growth and the expression of personal values through service to people and the planet?Where the congregation is self-governing. Authority and responsibility are vested in the membership?Georgia Mountains Unitarian Universalist Church may be for you.
Come and visit. Service is held every Sunday at 11:00 am.
Dress is Casual. Children's Religious Education meets concurrently
 Our mission is to be a safe,
accepting community
of diverse people with
open hearts and open minds
who nurture one another
in spiritual growth
and the expression
of personal values
in service to
people and our planet.
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