On the People We Meet: Reflections on Relationships & "Otherness."

January 10, 2016 at 9:00 AM

Speaker: Joanne Almaney, member of the congregation. 


About the Service: The Service will explore a lifetime of relating to otherness. From early experiences in an elementary school populated predominantly by children with special needs, through the high school years as a gentle minority, and adulthood encounters with persons with racial, ethnic, religious, and gender orientations different than my own. These associations with so many “others” were learning experiences that formed my own personal belief system, and the resulting life lessons are what drew me to Unitarian Universalism.

About the Speaker: Joanne Almaney is a member of PCUUC. She is retired now, but was an executive assistant to the president of three different firms, an office manager for two companies, and lastly, a small business owner. She edits an annual publication for the Wednesday Journal, a publisher in Oak Park. Joanne is the mother of four, grandmother of ten, great grandmother of two children, and the mom of a retired racing greyhound.

For your children: childcare is available for ages up to 3 and children’s religious education for preschool through high school runs concurrent to the adult service.

Our location:

Prairie Circle Unitarian Universalist Congregation.

1561 Jones Point Road (Byron Colby Barn)

Grayslake, IL 60030

How to find Us:

We are located on Jones Point Road, a block west of Rte. 45, in Grayslake’s Prairie Crossing community. Jones Point Road connects with Rte. 45 about one mile south of Rte. 120, and about one mile north of Rte. 137.

Our invitation to you to learn more about us:

•web site: www.prairiecircleuuc.org

•e-mail: office@prairiecircleuuc.org

•postal mail: PO Box 858 -- Grayslake, IL 60030

•telephone (church office): 847.604.1908