The Global Partners team is meeting this Sunday, March 8 at 1 PM in Room 3.
Our Global Partners Team meeting will de-brief the March 1, 2026 sermon, discuss the September 8, 2026 pilgrimage to Transylvania, consider other engagement with partners, and address our normal team agenda. Come join us as we build and strengthen our many relationships.
The Global Partners team promotes international understanding, social justice, global ethics, and liberal religion through partner church relationships between UUFC and the Unitarian congregation in Körispatak, Transylvania, Romania, the Community Center in Burundi, Africa, and elsewhere.
The LEGATO potluck is Wednesday, March 11 at 6:30 PM. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn from one another and celebrate our differences and commonalities. 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.
Childcare is available!
Free childcare can usually be arranged for any Fellowship event by using this link 1-2 weeks prior to the event.
This morning, the United States, in coordination with the state of Israel, launched military attacks against Iran. According to news reports, the U.S. will undertake more military actions over the next several days.
The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) has long opposed any intervention into Iran by the U.S. military and supported the pursuit of diplomatic resolutions in the region that protect innocent life and global human rights. In 2008, Unitarian Universalists (UU) voted in favor of an Action of Immediate Witness that called upon UU congregations to urge Congress to prohibit an attack on Iran without specific congressional authorization and discourage an attack by an ally, and to urge Iran to cooperate with inspections of its nuclear program. Sadly, 18 years later, those calls remain even more relevant today.
In June 2025, the UUA reiterated its opposition to such military action. We do so again this morning, and every day these armed attacks continue. We and our member congregations will continue to work for a world where the shared values of pluralism and interdependence are realized, and where the inherent dignity and worthiness of all people are upheld.
Search: What does it mean to be open to searching in life, and what are the practicalities and joys of the UU process for ministerial Search?
Jones Hollister will be our guest speaker. Jones served as chair of the search committee at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Eugene. Jones went on to serve as board president, finishing their term last year.
Our March Justice Outreach offering will support our Partner Congregations in Bozod Korispatak, Transylvania, which is in Romania and our Partner Congregation in Burundi, Africa. Our partnerships are 30 and 10 years old, respectively. In that time, we primarily supported the educational pursuits of students in both locations. The UUFC has inherited a commitment to global faith partners. As we consider the uneven local, national and worldwide terrain, it is incumbent upon us to evolve, to engage in collaborations of affection, respect, and trust with others, and to learn, support where asked, and innovate for our sake and for our children. The Global Partners Team is the group through which the UUFC can advance our UU principles of love and justice in the world.
Information about the Monthly Outreach Offering, as well as about UUFC Justice Teams, is posted on the bulletin board at the northeast corner of the Social Hall. Learn more about our Global Partners Team there.
How to donate to the monthly Outreach Offering
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!
Planting seeds of relationship. Planting seeds of relationship for a group that will trust. Planting seeds of a relationship among a Search Team that will listen, then go out and work hard and come back with a new possibility for UUFC.
Planting seeds like coins in a piggy bank. Planting coins, one by one, week by week, month by month. Like the seeds bring fruit over time, the coins bring new possibilities over time.
Planting seeds like prayers. Planting hopes and visions. Planting a YES.
It is the season. The season for forming a Search Committee. The season for a pledge drive. The season for listening inwardly, then acting outwardly.
Blessed be.
from Rev. Alex McGee, for the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Corvallis, as you enter into your Search Team formation process in March 2026, and your pledge drive for the 2026-2027 year, beginning March 22
Save the date for our annual Services Auction to be held Saturday, May 16. And be thinking about what service you can offer or items for the Silent Auction table. We need your donations and your purchases to make our largest fundraiser of the year successful.
Childcare is available!
Free childcare can usually be arranged for any Fellowship event by using this link 1-2 weeks prior to the event.
Come join us Monday, March 2 at 1:00 PM in the Library and help plan the annual Live & Silent Auction event taking place on May 16. We can use your ideas.
The Democracy Action Team seeks to help fill Corvallis streets with the largest crowd ever at No Kings III, March 28th.
Indivisible’s plan for March 28th, is compelling and it urgently requests that citizens partner with them to build what is needed from OSU to Central Park and the Courthouse. So our request is that our Democracy Team join in by each of us signing up for the tasks we can do. Some work can be done at home.
No Kings III will be a peaceful demonstration, starting at OSU at noon with speeches and songs, then marching along Madison Ave. to Central City Park, and ending at the Courthouse. At Central Park, there will be art and activities for the kids, as well as music at the gazebo. And at the Courthouse, back by popular demand, another Dance of Defiance. Of course, 4th St. will be filled with people waving signs the entire time.
Remember, every protest is a food drive!
To pull this off, the organizers will need 100 safety/peacekeeping volunteers, plus dozens of people to set up tables, art, and sound equipment; staff information and first aid tables; and clean and pack up afterwards. To volunteer for the day of the event, please email indivisible.bc.or@gmail.com with the subject “No Kings volunteer” and indicate which of the above you are willing to do.
The organizers also need help with a variety of tasks ahead of time, To be added to the “Put me to work” email list, email indivisible.bc.or@gmail.com with the subject “No Kings Worker Bee”. Once or twice a week, you’ll get a list of possible tasks you can volunteer for. Or ask to join the Signal group for more frequent requests (and the opportunity to select the best ones before others take them)!
This Sunday, March 15, please join us at our daytme Meeting, 11:45 am in the Library. We will discuss the most urgent messages sent out by Ezra and Leah of Indivisible National, the most up-to-date folks I know to listen to, and we’ll look at getting signed up to Volunteer.
We have two more Democracy Team gatherings in March, before the Protest.
TUESDAY March 17th 5 pm in the Social Hall: Sign Making Event
CANCELLED: De-Escalation training.
Childcare is available!
Free childcare can usually be arranged for any Fellowship event by using this link 1-2 weeks prior to the event.
The next time you step into the UUFC sanctuary you will notice new art on the walls. The Willamette Abstract Group, a collective of 18 local artists who specialize in abstract work, have installed their work on our walls this week.
In support of them we will be hosting a reception in the Sanctuary on Friday, March 6th, from 6 PM to 8 PM. There you will have the opportunity to view the art and meet the artists.
You may have wondered what “abstract” art is all about and here is an opportunity to learn from the creators. If this reception is a success we will consider hosting similar events in the future. Please join us in welcoming the artists and showing them how much we appreciate their work on our walls. This exhibit will run until the end of May and most pieces are for sale with a percentage of the sales going to support our Fellowship.
Childcare is available!
Free childcare can usually be arranged for any Fellowship event by using this link 1-2 weeks prior to the event.
