The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Corvallis
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The UUFC is hosting a Red Cross Blood Drive in the afternoon of Friday, February 13 from Noon to 5 PM in the Social Hall. Sign up to donate at https://www.redcrossblood.org/ – search by ZIP code 97330 and date of February 13. For questions or to volunteer as a welcomer, email Tricia B.
Love is the power that holds us together and the New Year urges us to begin again. Everyone is welcome to join the choir and band for LEGATO potluck on Wednesday, January 14 at 6:30 PM. Come early if you can help set up tables.
Bring a dish to share (please identify all ingredients), a serving utensil (if needed) AND YOUR OWN PLACE SETTING & WATER BOTTLE – this is a low impact meal.
This is a Connect Up Event with the purpose of building community within the UUFC congregation.
Free childcare can usually be arranged for any Fellowship event by using this link 1-2 weeks prior to the event.
The Partner Church Team is a forward-facing and forward-thinking group that promotes international understanding, social justice, global ethics, and liberal religion through partner church relationships.
Put your faith into action by joining this team. We continue to support the Unitarian congregation in Körispatak, Transylvania, Romania and the Muhira Community Center in Burundi, East Africa; we hope to build relationships with the UUF San Miguel de Allende in Mexico and the UU Church of the Philippines in Manila.
We meet the 2nd Sunday of each month in Room 3. Our next meeting is this coming Sunday, January 11! Contact Heather at this link for more information. See you there!
Free childcare can usually be arranged for any Fellowship event by using this link 1-2 weeks prior to the event.
Corvallis resident Jaclyn Moyer will read excerpts from her book On Gold Hill, a 2025 Oregon Book Award winner. Moyer’s story combines food and culture. In raising wheat and vegetables on a 10-acre California farm, she discovers her Punjabi ancestry and the origins of organic agriculture.
Sunday, January 18, 2026, 12 noon – 1 PM in the Sanctuary.
Free childcare can usually be arranged for any Fellowship event by using this link 1-2 weeks prior to the event.
Each of us has a spiritual autobiography. When we stand back and look at the arc, what seasons do we see? What narrative do you want to claim today to carry you forward?
Rev. Alex McGee will preach
The Justice Theatre Team is gearing up for its 8th annual production! This year’s show will take place on Friday and Saturday, March 27th and 28th, and the team will be staging 12 Angry Jurors, a play by Reginald Rose that will be directed by Sarika Rao. Proceeds from the production will go to the Campaign to Support Equal Justice in Oregon, a legal aid organization that provides free civil legal services to low-income and senior Oregonians.
Auditions will take place on Monday and Tuesday, January 26th and 27th at 7pm at the UUFC. NO experience is necessary to try out for these productions, and it’s a great way to make social connections while lending your talents to a great cause. Auditions will consist of reading excerpts of the script with other actors, and it will be low-key and lots of fun!
These auditions are for an unpaid, amateur performance opportunity. For maximum accessibility, this is a memorization-optional production—actors will have the option to carry some or all of their lines in a notebook or on a clipboard prop if they so choose.
If you have any questions about the team, the production, or the audition process, please reach out to justice.theater@uucorvallis.org.
A 19-year-old man has just stood trial for the fatal stabbing of his father. “He doesn’t stand a chance,” mutters the guard as the 12 jurors are taken into the bleak jury room. It looks like an open-and-shut case—until one of the jurors begins opening the others’ eyes to the facts. “This is a remarkable thing about democracy,” says the foreign-born juror, “that we are notified by mail to come down to this place—and decide on the guilt or innocence of a person; of a man or woman we have not known before. We have nothing to gain or lose by our verdict. We should not make it a personal thing.” But personal it is, with each juror revealing their own character as the various testimonies are re-examined, the murder is re-enacted and a new murder threat is born before their eyes! Tempers get short, arguments grow heated. The jurors’ final verdict and how they reach it t will electrify the audience and keep them on the edge of their seats.
Learn more about the supported organization, the Campaign to Support Equal Justice in Oregon, by CLICKING HERE: https://cej-oregon.org/
Justice Theatre @ the UUFC is a community theatre venture aimed at staging small-scale productions with pay-what-you-will performances supporting social justice causes. Past beneficiaries have included the ACLU, the Corvallis Cold Weather Mens Shelter, CARDV, and the Mid-Willamette Trans Support Network. Our mission is to create theatre that fosters discussion about the world around us, to make theatre that is completely open and accessible to audience members of any income level, and to use performance to generate donations for good causes. The company is part of the Fellowship’s larger commitment to justice work under the auspices of the Justice Council. Organized by the Justice Theatre Team, the Fellowship generally stages one production every year or so with amateur actors who donate their time (which helps to maximize profits for donations!), and these productions are intended to comment on something going wrong in the world while raising money to help right that wrong.
Free childcare can usually be arranged for any Fellowship event by using this link 1-2 weeks prior to the event.
Our January Justice Outreach Offering will support We Care. We Care is a local coalition of faith communities, businesses, foundations and other non-profit organizations which provides emergency assistance for Benton County residents. Each week, We Care helps people pay for rent, utilities, and other expenses to prevent evictions and homelessness or the shut-off of water or electricity. The Fellowship has long been a supporting partner.
To learn more about their work, visit the We Care website.
Each month, the Fellowship gathers donations for a certain charitable cause. These are our Outreach Offerings. You can contribute to this month’s offering in a few ways:
The Kitchen team donates an assortment of sweet and savory refreshments, including gluten-free and vegan choices, for our enjoyment at the social hour following Sunday worship. These items are purchased and prepared by the team to encourage donations to the Outreach Offering. Collection baskets are always found at the ends of the refreshments table. The next time you’re eyeing something tasty on the table, consider putting a donation in the basket first to show how much you appreciate having that treat ready and waiting for you!
Get your pens ready! Join the Democracy Action Team in writing to prospective 2026 election year voters. Sunday, Jan 4th is the first day of our first writing project in 2026.
WHAT: News Boosting Postcards to Georgia to educate voters about the impact of the “Big Beautiful Bill” on rural hospitals. You can see the postcards at Informed Voters of America initiative website at https://www.informedvotersus.org/.
HOW: We have 200 postcards to write and mail by Feb 5, 2026. We will distribute them in packets of 10 (with addresses, stamps, and instructions) at the Democracy Action Team table in the Social Hall after Sunday worship (which starts at 10 AM) – starting on Jan 4. Look for us there! Take the supplies and follow the instructions!
Or – you can get the supplies from Claire Montgomery.
Or – you can sign up with Postcards to Swing States at https://secure.ngpvan.com/NPCPSG0VaUqaLw7w6AbNDg2 and have them mailed to you directly. You can choose where to write (Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, North Carolina) but the minimum order is 100 postcards.
Contact Claire Montgomery (UUFC Democracy Action Team) for more information.
Do hand-written letters and postcards increase voter turnout? YES. Randomized Controlled Trials demonstrate statistically significant increases in voter turnout of 1-3%. That may not seem huge – but swing state elections are close and that could be more than enough to tip the scale. Check out Vote Forward experiments at https://votefwd.org/impact (click on “See Our Tests”) and Progressive Voter Turnout Project experiments at https://turnoutpac.medium.com/a-gateway-to-activism-postcards-win-close-elections-5bf7f45da15a.
Happy writing!
There’s nothing to be afraid of and all it takes is that first step. Like a New Years resolution, change might be scary – but honest! We’re friendly.
The choir is a welcoming group of singers who enjoy learning music and sharing it with the Fellowship. There is no audition.
We meet every Wednesday at 7:00 PM in the Sanctuary. Contact Director Steven Evans-Renteria for more information at this link.
Join Jaya Lakshmi and her band for an uplifting evening of mantra, kirtan and original sacred music.
Friday, January 16, 2026, 7:00 – 8:30 PM at the Fellowship.
Tickets $25 in advance, $30 at the door. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Buy tickets online using this link: https://jayalakshmimusic.com/event/6393721/748516126/jaya-lakshmi-kirtan-and-sacred-music-concert.
Free childcare can usually be arranged for any Fellowship event by using this link 1-2 weeks prior to the event.