The Partner Church Team is expanding its vision and embracing new goals to work for mutual benefit with partners around the world. There’s a place for you on our team!
The PCT wants to create awareness about partnerships with members and friends of UUFC and discuss transformational opportunities for learning and service.
Please join us on Sunday, September 14 at 11:45 AM in Room 7 of the RE wing. The timing couldn’t be better for you to join us as we prepare for a new church year!
A small group of highly motivated UUs, spawned from the Democracy Action Team, are organizing to create the Freeway Banner Brigade. We will make large banners to display on I-5 overpasses in the Albany area, following the guidance of a Washington group that has been doing this for years. We just ordered our banner-making supplies, and are looking for volunteers to join us. Participate at whatever level you’d like—organizing, banner making, or show up to help hold the sign at our bannering events. We needs lots of sign holders! With this project, a small group of people can make a big impact. For more information or to volunteer, contact Jeanne Holmes.
Dance Planet is back! Move in your own way to a rhythmic flow of music from around the world and across the decades. We’ll start with live warmup music from harpist Laura Zaerr and cellist Sabina Monn with rhythmic support from George Beekman. All three are members of Compass Rose. At 7:30 PM, DJ Geo will create a global music journey. Suggested donation: $5–15 (or more) – 100% of the proceeds are donated to local environmental organizations.
Our Sunday Outreach offerings in September support Jackson Street Youth Services, who offer youth a safe place to live and resources to work through crises and towards a brighter, more stable future. Founded to fill a gap in housing for homeless youth, they serve youth throughout Linn and Benton Counties. Read more about them at https://www.jacksonstreet.org/.
Bring water to pour into the common bowl as you name the qualities and commitments you bring for the year ahead. We will commission the board and Interim Minister. We will offer blessings to the guides who will work with children and youth this year and the sermon will reflect on the urgency of helping the world by raising the next generation with UU values.
The choir will be back, and Rev. Alex will preach.
We’ll be holding our annual Parking Lot Rummage Sale on September 20 from 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM. Do you have items you no longer need and want to get rid of? Will you kindly donate all the sale proceeds to UUFC?
Here’s what you do:
Price your items (thrift store prices or less and whole dollar amounts only)
Bring you items to our parking lot and sell them. Send buyers to the cashier with their items. You don’t have to collect any money
At 2:00 PM take all unsold items home or deliver them to your favorite thrift store.
Tell your friends, neighbors, and OSU folks. The Rummage Sale is open for everyone to shop.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED • At 9:30 AM to bring tables and chairs from our building to the parking lot. • At 2:00 PM to return tables and chairs to the building.
After the Tuna Roast, this Monday, September 1st, join friends of the Secure Food and Housing Justice Team at TAP TALK: SHARE THE LOVE 2 at Corvallis Common Fields.
From 5:30pm – 7:30pm Meet 4 local organizations working to create a better future: South Corvallis Food Bank, Corvallis Housing First, Friends of Outdoor School, and Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center. Join us for a FREE public event with presentations and info on how to get involved, fun activities, and ways to support their missions.
If you can’t make it while our Justice Team is there, you can still visit and learn about these wonderful local organizations! Enjoy yummy food and drink anytime between noon and 9 pm, and Common Fields will donate 10% of sales to the groups.
All are welcome to participate, connect with community members, and be a part of the solution!
Look at this photo of my office door in the fresh new Religious Exploration wing of the building! How wonderful that all the effort for renovations and fix-up have borne fruit and are ready to welcome youth on September 7. I am grateful to the crew who worked on signage so I have a bulletin board outside the door of the office I use. Perhaps in the photo you can see it is Room 1 – right inside the doors of the RE wing, which are to the right of the parking lot door.
Most important, this photo shows that on my door I have taped a copy of the congregational covenant. Can you see that green piece of paper? The Fellowship covenanted to this in May 2023, and it reminds us of love, respect, listening, celebrating differences, clarifying misunderstandings, and returning to covenant. I have it on the door of my office to remind myself and all who enter here of how we agree to relate together.
One of the reasons I am attracted to Interim Ministry is because it is journeying with people during times of change. And change has so many aspects: excitement, uncertainty, grief, creativity, exhaustion and many more feelings. In fact, there are as many feelings as there are people reading this message. My goal is to honor all those truths, offer compassion for the discomfort, and help you stay true to your deepest values as you navigate this time. Please offer yourself and others spacious compassion and curiosity as this new chapter in the life of the Fellowship is unfolding.
Through chanting Sanskrit mantra, music, teachings, Q&A, and storytelling, this kirtan intends to awaken the Heart of Love. Sitaram Dass will be joined by Jeannette Kangas (tabla) and Clark Stacer (bass). Friday, September 5 at 7 PM in Room 7.
Sitaram Dass (he/him) spent several years serving his beloved teacher Ram Dass on Maui, where he was shown the path of Bhakti, the yoga of service and devotion to God. He is an author, teacher, kirtan singer, spiritual therapist, and lover of God. As the director of the Sacred Community Project, he works to lower the barriers of access to contemplative and devotional practices.
