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 Please join us for our next service on Sunday, September 5, at 10:30.  Since this is a holiday weekend we will be having a open forum discussion on the topic of Immigration. Here are some questions that may be considered during our discussion: 

1) Should being present in the U.S. without permission be considered a crime?
2) What should be done with people already here illegally?
3) Should children born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants be granted automatic citizenship?
4) Some argue that illegal immigrants help to keep prices low for things such as food, hotels, restaurants, landscaping, and other products and services. Are you willing to pay more for groceries, hospitality services, etc., in order to control illegal immigration?
5) How does fear affect US citizens' view on immigration today?
6) Some have proposed mass deportations of millions of people from the US who here illegally. What would be the consequences of the mass deportations?
 

We will be meeting at Wilkes Family Central at Lincoln Heights. Directions are from the mid-town intersection in Wilkesboro. This is the intersection where Wilkesboro Blvd, Main Street and Oakwoods Rd all intersect.

Traveling east through Wilkesboro, once you go through the light and up the hill you are on East Main. Continue on for .9 of a mile from the intersection.

Turn right at the Wilkes Family Central at Lincoln Heights sign. It's a yellow, red, black and white sign on a brick structure. Go .3 of a mile, through a residential area. You will see a gate and a drive that goes straight off the road, while the road turns to the left.  Drive through the gates and down the hill. Park in the parking lower parking lot that is near the picnic tables. We meet in this building. Come in the brown doors at the end. Go about half way down the hall to the Family Room, number 107 on the left.

Coffee and socializing at 10:00 AM

Childcare will be provided.

 For a sampling of recent sermons and programs, go to Sermon Archives above.

 

:: Three practical ideals...
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 Three practical ideals for getting through the day

1. Want what you have;

2. Do what you can; and

3. Be who you are.

From Forest Church's sermon, "How to Make the Most of Hard Times", see Sermon Archives  or click here.

 

"Our Liberal Faith" 

UU Faith is not a believe whatever you choose to believe faith, rather it is a faith in which each of us is free to believe what we are each compelled to believe based upon a free and disciplined search for truth…

Excerpt taken from UU Faith Sermon by D. Doreion Colter, see Sermon Archives "Our Liberal Faith".


 

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Sundays  10 AM  coffee time and socializing
10:30 to 11:30   Morning Lay Led Service 
coffee and socializing also following the service


We currently do not have a permanet place to meet.  Rose Glen Village has asked us to find a new location.  Some of the residents were upset at our presence and since Rose Glen is their home, the director felt that she had to ask us to leave. 

We have some ideas that we are pursuing. If you have any suggestions, please contact Clyde Ingle at 973-7839.   We cannot afford to pay very much rent.  We need two rooms, one for the service and a smaller one for religious education for the kids (usually just 2 or 3).  We need restroom facilities. 

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Americans View Islam as “Peaceful Religion”
 

A recent nation wide poll sponsored by the Washington Post and ABC revealed American views of attitudes toward Islam. Go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/05/AR2009040501586.html for the article and access to the complete survey.

About half of Americans according to the poll( 48 percent,) said they have an unfavorable view of Islam, the highest in polls since late 2001. Nearly three in 10, or 29 percent, said they see mainstream Islam as advocating violence against non-Muslims; although more, 58 percent, said it is a peaceful religion.
 
The specific poll question with responses over time is shown below:
 27. Every religion has mainstream beliefs, and also fringe elements or extremists. Thinking of mainstream Islam, do you think mainstream Islam encourages violence against non-Muslims, or is it a peaceful religion?

           Encourages violence   Peaceful religion   No opinion

 
3/29/09            29                   58               13
9/7/06             33                   54               13
3/5/06             33                   54               13
9/7/03             34                   46               20
10/15/02           23                   53               25
1/6/02             14                   57               29

 

 
Muslims make up about 1 percent of all U.S. adults. 
 
To participate in an on line poll of the same attitude toward Muslims in Wilkes County go to: http://yadkinuus.com/ .
 
 
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