The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Corvallis
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9:15 AM – 3:15 PM at UUFC
All Fellowship members and friends are invited to join in the annual meeting of Oregon UU Voices for Justice – a state-wide UU collaborative – hosted at the Fellowship on Saturday Oct. 5 from 9:15 – 3:15. The theme is Saving Democracy: We Are the Majority. Sessions will include shared work on Environmental Justice, Human Rights and Economic Equality. Register online at https://bit.ly/2024UUV4JAnnualMeeting
The Secure Housing and Food for All team will have their monthly meeting on 8/18 at 11:45 in the Library. Please join us to discuss what is happening now for the unhoused in Corvallis and share information about new opportunities for UUFC folkx to help.
Our UUFC Holiday Fair is coming December 7. If you’d like to be part of the planning, please join in our next meeting on Sunday, August 25, after the Sunday service. Do you enjoy jewelry making, calligraphy, quilling, ceramics, woodworking, making greeting cards, knitting, crocheting, quilting, painting, photography, glass making, etc.? Turn your hobby into cash for yourself and UUFC, and joy for the buyers who love getting hand-crafted items for themselves or as gifts. UUFC retains 25% of the selling price and you get the rest. Do you have limited inventory? Then share a table with another UUFC crafter. Start creating now.
Tom & Isabel Prusinski are coordinating artists/vendors. Please let them know you wish to participate. Contact Tom and Isabel
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM in the Social Hall
Do you love to play Mexican Train Dominoes? Or maybe you’ve never played before and it sounds like fun.
Join the Queerly Beloved social group as we snack, chat, maybe sing, and play on Sunday afternoon, August 18 from 4:00 to 6:00 in the Social Hall. Bring snacks to share if you wish. All kind souls are welcome!
Check out the UUFC Merch Store for tee-shirts, hats, coffee cups, backpacks, umbrellas, and more! Support our Fellowship with great gifts for yourself and your loved ones. Find it under the “about” tab on the UUFC website.
Join the Democracy Action Team for a fun, casual gathering where we will talk about ranked choice voting and learn how we can encourage our neighbors to vote YES on the critical ballot measure in November. You’ll even have a chance to try out ranked choice voting with a mock election.
DATE: August 18
TIME: 11:45 am, following the UUFC Fellowship Service
PLACE: UUFC Sanctuary (near the door to the Fellowship Hall). For more information, contact Deborah Clark.
Among the many things we know (and think we know) is that we are part of a Life which is much more than our individual selves. Understanding what this means is one of the fundamental religious questions. Understanding how to live with what this means is a foundation for spiritual practice. What is involved, for each of us?
with Rev. Jill McAllister
Several years ago, in the first summer of the pandemic, we were trying to cope with the realization of a long road ahead of us, the unknowns at at every turn, the fear and sadness. Together we were building a daily practice of centering and giving thanks. This passage, written one August morning, reminds me of the never-ending need for that practice:
“How does a morning look and feel to you, where you are? And how do you know? Do you check a weather report first, or go outside? Do you gather resignation as you get out of bed, or catalogue current pains, or give thanks for a new day? Have you imagined or tried dedicating your first breaths to goodness or compassion?
Or saying a morning prayer as the first thing? Daily practice is about orienting and turning to the day aiming toward love. It involves taking in — being present to – more than assumptions and judgements we carry from yesterday. Taking in the sky, the clouds and trees, the sunlight and shadows, birds, flowers, insects, the fact of the earth. Being present to the realities of human limitations, our own and others, while at the same time remembering the immensity of time and space of which each and every life is one small part. Acknowledging, remembering, the possibilities for love (which contains justice and compassion and joy.) Reverence is a good word to describe this process of remembering, orienting and turning.
We begin in reverence for the day and for all it brings – everything welcome and not welcome, everything we think we know and all we do not. With thanks each breath that enters the body. With thanks for the hazy morning sky and the sun coming over the trees once more. With thanks for a chance to let love hold us and move through us for one more day.
May we breathe in and breathe out and bow to the morning, and to Life.”
Join us for the UUFC Tuna Roast and Picnic in the Park at Avery Park’s Lion Shelter on Labor Day afternoon!
This family-friendly, annual social event will begin at 4:00pm with games and conversation. The marinated, grilled, fresh tuna and corn on the cob will be served beginning around 5:00pm. Plan to bring along your own plate, utensils, and drink ware, and a dish to share with others. Seating is limited so camping chairs are also encouraged. Near the Lions Shelter are a small play structure, swings, a train engine for climbing and exploring, the dinosaur bones, and plenty of space to run or roll down hills.
Contact Rich Brainerd with questions.
10:00 AM -1:00 PM in the UUFC Parking Lot
You surely have unwanted items in your closets, drawers, cupboards, or garage that have been languishing there for too long. Put them to use by selling them at our annual UUFC parking lot rummage sale. Someone will be happy to have your unwanted items and the Fellowship will benefit from your donations.
Get ready for the bargains at the UUFC PARKING LOT POP-UP RUMMAGE SALE – Saturday, August 31: 10:00 am – 1:00 pm. Public welcome.
• Reduce, Recycle, Reuse. Gather items that you no longer need or want.
• Price items and bring to our parking lot on 8/31 by 9:40 am.
• Display and “sell” your items.
• Send buyers with their purchases to central cashiers. All sales benefit UUFC.
• At 1:00 take any unsold items back with you.
It’s fun! It’s social! You will de-clutter your house and earn money for the Fellowship.
Questions: Contact Bonnie Morihara