The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Corvallis
The Services & Goods Auctions are our biggest FUNdraisers of the year!
We’re building community together!
Tomorrow, Saturday, June 28, 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM is our 2025 UUFC Live & Silent Auction. We hope you will join us for the bidding fun and a light supper. Scroll through the catalog of items that will be auctioned, below!
Volunteer to Help
Sign up here to donate a salad for dinner or to volunteer to help during the live and silent auction. We need your help to make our auction successful.
Queerly Beloved July meet up
Sunday July 13, 2025 4:00-7:30 PM, UUFC
Join the Sexuality and Gender Diversity Team for a viewing of the inspiring movie “Milk” starring Sean Penn, telling the story of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk in the 1970s.
Movie will start at 4:00 PM, followed by pizza and a discussion, so plan to stay late! Pizza is provided; if you can bring a drink or snack to share, we welcome it.
This movie is rated R. If you need childcare for small children, please contact the Grandfolks Squad.
All are WELCOME – you don’t have to be gay to enjoy this movie! 🙂
Questions: contact Anya Ballinger
Sign up for an hour of 1-1 conversation with Jill, in the next two weeks, if you’re interested. A few more times have been added to the schedule. Place TBD after you sign up. Sign up at this link: https://calendar.app.google/XsnZe2AFZiwfooqP8.
As we get closer to a ministerial transition – a major event in the life of the Fellowship – let’s consider what ministry is in the UU tradition, what roles a minister plays in congregational life, and what that means for the lives of members and friends of the Fellowship.
With Rev. Jill McAllister, and special music from Johanna Beekman
These words were written in another June – 2023 – and are a good reminder now, given the changes that are both here and coming:
Good morning friends – Part of my daily practice is to read, in a way similar to an old Christian tradition called lectio divina. I generally choose a book or reading randomly, without a specific aim – pulling a book off of a shelf or a pile, opening to whichever page appears. Reading what is there and then letting it settle a bit. Watching for my responses, my wonderings, my surprise or acknowledgement. Sometimes I return to words I know well, and let them speak again; often they speak in new ways. This practice is as much listening as reading, and the listening happens in silence. In this way I experience openings – to my thoughts and feelings, to a moment, to a day.
It’s easy to simply keep moving in ways we are used to, along paths we have created in our minds and bodies, in directions we call normal. The world, our lives, offer so much more – more horizons, more paths, more colors and shapes. It confuses and confounds us that almost everything “more” begins with awareness of breath, and the small, imperceptible steps to deepen that awareness.
We begin again right here. It may look like the same place, a “normal” morning or moment. It is anything but. At the very least, this moment has the potential for everything new, things we’ve never even dreamed of. They are not far away, they are deep within. We may find or hear or see them, or we may not. The breath will be our guide, if we let it. Like words randomly chosen then followed or listened to in silence. Like doors that have always been there, which finally open and invite us in.
May there be moments like this for you this week, May you pause to follow your breath, and find yourself where it takes you. May you give thanks for another day given. Sending love to you all — Jill
The Services & Goods Auctions are our biggest FUNdraisers of the year!
We’re building community together!
The 2025 UUFC Online Auction: June 16, 9:00 AM – June 23, 5:00 PM is happening NOW. You’ll find the online catalog at https://fundraiser.bid/2025online. Click on Menu, then on Catalog.
Saturday, June 28, 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM is our 2025 UUFC Live & Silent Auction. We hope you will join us for the bidding fun and a light supper.
Volunteer to Help
Sign up here to donate a salad for dinner or to volunteer to help during the live and silent auction. We need your help to make our auction successful.
Sign up for an hour of 1:1 conversation with Jill, in the next two weeks, if you’re interested. Place TBD after you sign up. Sign up at this link: https://calendar.app.google/XsnZe2AFZiwfooqP8
