This event celebrates completion of the new Pollinator Garden! There will be a cake after the service and tours of the new garden.
Sunday, July 19 at 11:30 AM outside the Social Hall.
Cameron
To Be Seen
From the Minister, June 12, 2026
by Rev. Alex McGee
One of the greatest gifts one human can give another is the recognition of being seen. This is why babies thrive under attention from parents and community. This is why you, or I, under duress, do better when we can share vulnerably with another person and feel “seen.”
As Unitarian Universalists, we can offer this gift to each other and people in society who often have to make trade-offs about being seen. In June, for Pride month, we seek to make space in which people can bring their whole LGBTQ selves to UUFC.
Further, the Juneteenth acknowledgement reminds us of how many people lived enslaved lives, and then had to wait to be seen as free.
This matter of “being seen” has arisen in a new form in the past week in our country. The Department of Defense changed the forms that people fill out when enlisting in the military. No longer can a person check a box to claim the identity of “Unitarian Universalist.” Now, they are categorized as “Other.”
Let us not let this pass unnoticed. Please reach out to the military that you know who are also UU. Tell them that you see them! And read more in this statement from the UUA: https://www.uua.org/pressroom/press-releases/uu-military-chaplains-2026
The Right Relations Team is available
The Right Relations Team is available for conversations about covenant and to support brave spaces where people can move from defensiveness toward resolution. For the first step, reach out to rev.alex.mcgee@uucorvallis.org.
Global Partners Team, 6/14
With gratitude, the Global Partners Team acknowledges the “countless gifts that have been given – gifts of life and love and sustenance” – and what that brings to our work to deepen our relationships with partners around the world.
Please join us on Sunday, June 14 at 11:30 AM in the Library for our regularly scheduled Team meeting. We will discuss and develop a plan for distribution of funds in the new fiscal year.
Contact GPT lead, Heather E, at this link for more information.
Outreach Offerings for June
Our June Monthly Outreach offering will support TRUUST – Transgender Religious professional Unitarian Universalists Together.
The mission of TRUUST is to support and advocate for trans UU religious educators and ministers, and their ministries, and transform Unitarian Universalism and our world.
Read more at https://transuu.org/.
Opportunity for Sunday Service Lay Leader Role
If you are interested in exploring serving as a Sunday Services Lay Leader, please fill out the form linked below. Direct questions to Rev. Alex.
Finley Preserve Walk, 6/11
Rev. Alex invites all to an outing at Finley Preserve, led by Jim Wagner, on Thursday, June 11. Meet at UUFC parking lot at 6:30 pm and we will carpool and be back around 8:30 pm.
CLOSING JULY 19: Jam, Cookie, Peanut Butter, and Fudge Hutch
The goodie hutch operated by Nora C., Donn A., and Holley L. is open at 2921 NW Ashwood Drive in NW Corvallis! All money collected goes to Linn-Benton Food Share. Please help feed hungry people!
The stand is at the top of the driveway. The house is surrounded by a high deer fence, so you can’t miss it. Ashwood is one block from Elmwood, heading towards Walnut.
One jar of jam is $7. Two or more are $6 each.
To go with jam, there is homemade peanut butter, 100% peanuts at $4 per jar, made by Donn Z. He also makes the amazing oatmeal-chocolate chip-raisin cookies $1 each or 6 for $5.
Holley L. makes old-fashioned chocolate fudge, grainy dark chocolate like your grandma used to make from a 1946 recipe. It’s $1 per square, 6 for $5.
The stand is always open and works on the honor system. Take your goodies (put in a bag if you like in bottom right cubby) and put cash or check to LeoNora Cohen in the envelope in upper right cubby.
THANK YOU FOR HELPING LINN-BENTON FOOD SHARE!
Gratitude Letter from Minister Emerita Rev. Jill McAllister
At the Annual Meeting of UUFC membership on May 17, 2026, the congregation voted to offer Emerita status to Jill McAllister. The letter of agreement is here. Jill retired from the role of minister at UUFC in Summer 2025. Below is a note from Jill expressing her gratitude and well wishes to the Fellowship.
Dear Friends – I’m writing with thanks for your decision to confer upon me the status of Minister Emerita of the Fellowship. Thank-you! I take on this new status with gratitude and appreciation for our many years of shared ministry in challenging times, and for all we learned and accomplished together. I’m grateful every day for your support for my decision to retire – it was definitely the right time for me. I am still “settling in.” And, as Life has its own ways, I am exploring new horizons. A sibling with cancer – now I can visit often. And an upcoming move: due to a quite unexpected (and beautiful) job opportunity for Walter, my spouse, we’re moving to Germany for at least a couple of years, leaving at the end of June. And I know that you, the members and friends of the Fellowship are exploring new horizons and moving ahead too! Thank-you to all who are dedicating yourselves to this work. I look forward to what emerges between you. You will be in my thoughts, as ever, and I’m sending love to you all.
Jill McA
Café Justo coffee is available!
Enjoy some delicious, aromatic Café Justo coffee. When you order Café Justo coffee, a part of your purchase will be used to provide Café Justo to migrant shelters in Agua Prieta, Nogales, Sasabe, Sonoita, Tapachula, Gomez Palacio, and Matamoros in Mexico, as well as shelters in Columbus, Ohio, and in Silver City and Deming in New Mexico — through our “Love Mercy, Do Justice” ministry. That’s the “compassion” part of the “coffee and compassion.” Café Justo makes a great cup for you and me. Many hands go into the processing of your coffee before it ever reaches your cup. Coffee is one of the most labor intensive crops. Your purchase here helps communities in Mexico thrive.
(We regret that DECAF is not available until further notice.)