Happy New Year!
新年明けましておめでとうございます。 (Japanese)*
新年快樂！（Chinese in traditional characters)
新年快乐！（Chinese in simplified characters)
Here is wishing all our dear friends at UCV a happy holiday, and a healthy new year of peace, joy, and inspirations!
We wanted to thank all of you for your tremendous hard work, sincere encouragement, and honest sharings, in reaching the adoption of the 8th principle in November!
We looked at the year’s end with gratitude, and to the new year ahead with continued hope and best wishes for spiritual, personal, and congregational growth.
IBPOC Plus Allies Team
Do you want to connect with our fabulous IBPOC members? Do you have connections to IBPOC communities that you’d like to share? Do you dream about cooking (and eating) pad thai or empanadas at the Sunday lunches? Do you want to be part of the 8th Principle in action?
Then you should join the IBPOC Plus Allies (IPA) team, and take part in the inaugural gathering this month! The IPA will be taking over the role of organizing UCV multicultural events in order to allow the IBPOC caucus to return to its original role as an affinity group. Everyone is invited to join! More helping hands, special skills and creative brains means more fun events for everyone!
At the inaugural meeting, we’ll go over the mission and vision statements (rough drafts), review important dates and deadlines coming up in the calendar, and then everyone will be invited to brainstorm ideas and contribute their skills.
IBPOC + Allies Team meeting
When: Saturday January 22, 2022, 10am-11:30am
Where: On Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84473555995?pwd=WmxRZW1QdmZIbEhRa1FmTjVSeW8xUT09
Due to Omicron, the planned full day workshop/lunch/team building event has been canceled.
Who: Everyone is welcome.
Please rsvp to [email protected] and put “IPA” in the subject line.
IBPOC Caucus
We are changing the days and times of our meetings and going back to all-Zoom (no in-person) gatherings. If you self identify as Black, Indigenous or Person of Colour) and are interested in checking out this group, please contact [email protected] and find out when the next meetings will be.
*Note from Hisako: In Japan, people used to celebrate the New Year according to the lunar calendar, just like the Chinese, but because of the westernization, the official date of the New Year was changed (calling it 新正月new new year’s day). However, when I was growing up, people in the countryside were still celebrating their New Year according to their tradition following the lunar calendar (calling it 旧正月old new year’s day). I am not sure how much of that lunar New Year tradition continues today.