Collective Liberation: Culture, Power and Us (07/19)
All are welcome!
Come as you are ~ your voice, your presence, and your spirit are needed and welcome.
Our world is shifting, fast. Headlines are loud, the stakes are real, and relationships between us matter more than ever. This Sunday we will discuss the big picture: how history, culture, and power shape the moment we’re living in, and why our liberation has always been bound together.
Join us for a service exploring what it means to live our principles in real time, in collaboration with The Mountaintop UU, UUs for Racial Justice, and Temecula Valley UU Fellowship. We are also honored to welcome Rev Sally Mabelle of Taupo UU into our community to open our gathering with a solidarity blessing offered all the way from Aotearoa (New Zealand).
This service will be led by Jewell Faamaligi, a writer and human rights advocate whose work from grassroots organizing to the United Nations moves across culture, history, politics, and power.
Speaker: Jewell Faamaligi (She/Her)
Hosts: Pastor AJ and Rev Angela
Jewell Faamaligi is a human rights advocate and community organizer based at the U.S.-Mexico border, supporting a sanctuary in Tijuana that provides vital resources to over 2,500 (im)migrants and refugees.
They have served congregations as both a Religious Education Director and a Multicultural Outreach and Inclusion Educator. Strengthening connections among religious educators by developing and contributing to antiracism, anti-oppression, and collaboration resources for the Liberal Religious Educators Association’s LREDA Members Portal.
Their lifelong social and racial justice advocacy work is rooted in mobilizing people for collective action and fostering transformative change through inclusive collaboration. As an International Communications Director for human rights campaigns, she has consistently mobilized grassroots movements, community leaders, and parliamentarians, from local organizing efforts to the United Nations, catalyzing unprecedented international recognition for Indigenous Pacific Islanders and all marginalized Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.
They continue to advance equity and inclusion as an organizing member of The Mountain Top UU, UUs for Racial Justice, and DRUUMM California.
Our Common Table
If you are joining us in-person in Denver, we invite you to our monthly Our Common Table Potluck and Crafts time together before our Community Celebration. This is more than a meal, It’s an act of spiritual ingathering, celebration, and radical hospitality. In addition to this nourishing our bodies we will nourish our souls with time for fellowship and arts & crafts. Bring what you can and receive what you will, a favorite dish or desert, as well as a story, and your imagination, all are welcome at our table.
Join us every 3rd Sunday on ZOOM or in person at:
| First Universalist Church of Denver 4101 E Hampden Ave Denver, CO 80222 5:00 pm MT: Potluck & Crafts 6:00 pm MT: Evening Service (ZOOM Opens) 7:00 pm PT: Conversations on Race (Caucus Space for TMT and UURJ) |
| Temecula Valley UU Fellowship United Church of the Valley 41685 Date St Suite 100 Murrieta, CA 92562 5:00 pm PT: Evening Service (ZOOM Opens) 6:00 pm PT: Conversations on Race (Caucus Space for TMT and UURJ) |
What to bring with you:
An Open Heart
Your favorite dish to share (if you can)
Breathing Buddy: Small plush animal or toy (If don’t have one, we will provide one)
More About our 3rd Sunday TMT/UURJ Community Celebration
Our 3rd Sunday Community Celebration is a time to be spiritually rejuvenated and renewed in the midst of the month. We will offer BIPOC centered and led inspiration, reflection, and a deep sense of connection. Through music, word, and shared wisdom, we will gather to nourish our spirits and strengthen our commitment to racial justice and collective liberation.
NOTE: Following the service, all are invited to stay for The Mountain Top UU and UUs for Racial Justice caucus conversations, providing space for deeper dialogue, shared learning, and community building. Come as you are—your voice, your presence, and your spirit are needed and welcome.
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