Information about RE Events can be found on the RE online calendar here

R.E. Giraffe Art Happening at SNUUC this Sunday (April 25) in honor of Earth Day!

Bring small items (no larger than two-by-two inches) to help create a giraffe sculpture for Earth Day. Bottle caps, small toys, old game pieces, bits of fabric, puzzle pieces, costume jewelry, anything small that you would like to contribute we will glue onto our giraffe. (Check out those junk drawers!) We are in need of letters (like from an old Scrabble games or from beads) in order to create names of endangered animals on the giraffe. We will get started at 11am on April 25 in RE wing and go until 1:30pm (with a half hour for clean-up). Totem pole creation available as well! Email Diane Hawkins at parkviewdesign@verizon.net for further information.

UU Connect is part of LIAC, the Long Island Area Council of UU congregations, which encourages events and participation for all youth and families of member congregations. Senior Youth may be dropped off at events with advanced registration. Junior Youth and younger need a responsible adult. For information about events, or to help chaperone, see Ilene Corina.

The Senior Youth Group are preparing for a Midnight Run on Monday, March 29. They are holding a Bake Sale on Sunday, February 28 during coffee hour. Please bring an item to donate and plan to purchase baked goods to take home! Items and cash donations are being accepted for supplies for the Midnight Run. See any senior youth or Ilene Corina. The Midnight Run, www.midnightrun.org, is a volunteer organization dedicated to finding common ground between the housed and the homeless. Volunteers distribute food, clothing, blankets and personal care items to the homeless poor on the streets of New York City. The late- night relief efforts create a forum for trust, sharing, under- standing and affection. That human exchange, rather than the exchange of goods, is the essence of the Midnight Run mission.

The Youth will bring personal care items and prepare 100 meals to take on the Midnight Run and are requesting your support in donations of any of the following items: peanut butter, jelly, tuna fish, granola bars, fruit bars, individually wrapped cookies, juice boxes, water bottles, plastic wrap, foil, napkins, toothpaste, toothbrushes, soap, sham- poo, plastic shopping bags, small paper bags, hot cups, spoons. Any money they collect will go towards purchasing deli meat, eggs, chili and fresh fruit. Thank you!

The Bess and Maurice Forge Scholarship is awarded to a graduating high school senior presently enrolled in the SNUUC RE / Youth Program or involved with SNUUC and who has been involved in social justice and community service. Bess and Maurice Forge were long time members of SNUUC and social activists during their lifetimes. They were leaders in social justice issues and denominational affairs and active members of the Social Action Committee.  Applications are due no later than April 1, 2010 and must be submitted online to be distributed to the Forge Committee members. Please contact Ilene Corina, icorina@aol.com, or the SNUUC office, office@snuuc.org, for an application.

The Student Activity Fund (SAF) is a grant program funded by the UU Veatch Program at Shelter Rock that enables UU high school seniors and undergraduate college students to perform significant community service while earning money to help finance their education.

The purpose of the Student Activity Fund is to encourage young UUs to live their religious values through internships in social action, advocacy and service provision. Through the years, students have participated in the program in their home towns and all over the world. The program is open to high school seniors and undergraduate college students whose families are members of Long Island UU Congregations. Read about the experiences of last year's student participants on the Long Island Area Council website, http:// www.liacuu.org.

Application deadline for Summer 2010 participation is April 15. Applications and more information about the Program are available on the LIAC Website (http://www.liacuu.org) or by contacting Linda Pfeiffer, Coordinator of the SAF Program by e-mail (lpfeiffer@optonline.net) or phone (631-584-6854).

A great way to help out the environment is to recycle cell phones. Cell phones have toxic chemicals in them that can be hazardous if they are not recycled properly. Greenphone.com makes it easy to recycle your phone correctly, and for every phone received the company will plant a tree. Senior Youth will be holding a phone drive at SNUUC. There is a box in the senior youth room for the old cell phones. For more information speak to Miranda Sherrock or visit www.greenphone.com

Attention High School seniors. The Music Committee of the UU Congregation at Shelter Rock is offering a $1,000 scholarship to graduating high school music students in Nassau County. For more information go to www.uucsr.org and click on Music Ministries.

HEIFFER INTERNATIONAL FUNDRAISER
The Junior Youth is proud to report that with your help we raised $457 for Heifer International. Because of SNUUC's generosity we are able to give the following:
- A llama (provides families with wool for blankets, ponchos, carpet and rope),
- a half share of a water buffalo (which provides power for planting rice and potatoes, milk for protein and manure for fertilizer and fuel),
- a trio of rabbits and a share of rabbits (helps families increase their protein intake and income, because rabbits have so many offspring),
- honeybees (helps earn income through the sale of honey, beeswax and pollen),
- a flock of chicks (provides eggs to eat, share & sell)
- and a flock of hope (chicks, ducklings and goslings that will grow up to lay eggs that mean hope and increasing health and prosperity for hungry families).

For more information, log on to heifer.org for further information on how this organization works.

SCHOOL SUPPLIES
Thank you for all your generosity that enabled us to once again send school supplies to children in Nicaragua. The youth at SNUUC packed five boxes full of school supplies and collected $135 to pay for both the shipping costs to the warehouse in Virginia and the donation requested to pay for the shipping from Virginia to Nicaragua.

PICTURES

The Churches of Freeport

Catherine's Ordination

Spring Break

Fall

Summer

Spring

Apple Picking with Max

YUUTH Sleepover

RE Halloween

Thanksgiving

December Holidays

Talent Show Picts

Fair Trade Coffee

One of our many cool fundraisers for the congregation is our 'Fair Trade Coffee', There are new flavors and whole bean and teas and hot chocolate in the basket on the buffet in the foyer with a price list and an envelope for your money or checks to be made out to: SNUUC YOUTH GROUP. Please remember that the farmers get their fair price for the coffee and SNUUC gets $3.00 a bag as an on going fund raiser. So please try the coffee and we are sure you will be coming back for more. Questions? See the Sr. Yuuth Group.

Forms for SNUUC Youth Activities

Student Activity Fund (SAF) registration (link goes to LIAC)

Jr/Sr High OWL registration (link goes to LIAC)

COA registration form (link goes to LIAC)