Provide Welcome Info for Rev. Alex

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Greetings, UU Fellowship of Corvallis! I have been preparing to move across the country and thinking ahead about settling in there. When I join you in August to begin the interim ministry time, we will have many activities and opportunities for getting to know each other — some more serious, some more fun. I welcome your wisdom about the local area. To gather some of your insights, I’ve made a list of questions, such as your recommendation for a local mechanic, an easy day trip from Corvallis, and your favorite event in the annual life of the congregation. If it would be fun for you, please use the survey form linked below to answer my questions. I look forward to learning more about you and Corvallis!

Rev. Alex McGee

Click here to fill out the form!

Installation help wanted in the Classroom Wing!

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It’s “Clean-It-Up and Move-It-All-Back” time for the classroom wing! We need one more round of help! Now that volunteer painting is finished (thank you, everyone!) and the professional painters have completed their tasks, we need to plan the next steps:

Clean-It-Up Help Wanted

Volunteer to help with room-by-room cleaning on July 16, 17, 18, doing the following:

  • Remove and clean all window screens
  • Wash windows and window frames
  • Wash floor vents
  • Wash sinks and counters
  • Wash inside cupboards
  • Remove staples and paint flecks
  • Clean the floors

Each cleaning day has multiple 2-hour shifts:

  • Wednesday July 16
    • 10 AM – 12 PM
    • 1 – 3 PM
    • 3 – 5 PM
  • Thursday July 17
    • 10 AM – 12 PM
    • 1 – 3 PM
  • Friday July 18
    • 10 AM – 12 PM

We’d like to get four people per shift! Teams of 2 make for easier window removal!

Installation Help Wanted

Volunteer to help with various installation projects July 21 – 31. Projects include:

  • Window blinds
  • Attaching bulletin boards and signs
  • Mounting shelves
  • Mounting fire extinguishers
  • And more!

We will schedule when you are available !

Contact Wolfgang Dengler through Breeze to sign up, or sign up using the sheets on the table in the Foyer.

7/13/2025 A Celebration of Shared Ministry

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We come to the end of a chapter in the life of the Fellowship – a chapter covering twelve years of ministry shared between us. Twelve years of immense change in the world, twelve years of leaning into it all together.  I have so much gratitude – it would be impossible to thank you enough, but I will aim in that direction.  Now we move toward the future  – two new chapters: the ongoing life and health of the Fellowship, and my transition into retirement.  We will move in different directions, but the connections we’ve made and the love we’ve shared will remain.  Let’s share blessings for each other as we take these new steps.   

With Rev. Jill McAllister

After the service, stay to dance! Adriel Molk will lead several easy folk dances. Room TBD, depending on temperatures….

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Another huge blow to the health and well-being of Americans – and others, and the Earth — this week.  With the approval in Congress of this terrible bill –  called ‘Beautiful’ as an indicator of cultural insanity — an era of cruelty,  greed, exclusion, vengeance, inequity and injustice is re-affirmed. These are clearly the values of those who dominate the power structure of our country right now.  But dominant values are not the only values, and never have been.  We must take some time to feel the pain and the fear, we must take time to grieve and lament, and then we must find our footing again and return to love.  

To return to love is to be ever more clear about our values of justice and compassion, inclusion and generosity, reason and wisdom and peace.  To examine our own lives ever more closely and deeply to discover our own contradictions, our own edges for growth.  To take risks for our values, to join voices with others for our values, to practice and teach and embody our values without ceasing. 

As a good next step, tomorrow, Monday July 7, you’re invited to join in a workshop on Creative Lament – a form of medicine for these times – offered by our Religious Exploration (RE) department.   Registration is required.  See This Week At UUFC for more information.

Greeter Team is Ready!

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It’s summer time and the Greeter Team is ready for action! If you would like to join this up-beat team, please contact anyone at the Greeter desk, or contact the team lead via the button below. We can all use a helping hand.

Beyond the mechanics of opening the door or preparing a name tag, greeters provide a friendly face, a warm handshake, and a welcoming greeting. We may offer guidance to the sanctuary, distribute bulletins, answer questions, and help with any immediate needs.

See you Sunday!

Contact Greeter Team Lead

Outreach Offerings for July

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Our Sunday Outreach offerings in July support DRUUMM – Diverse & Revolutionary UU Multicultural  Ministries – which is a Unitarian Universalist People of Color Ministry and anti-racist collective.  As an all-volunteer ministry, DRUUMM continues to  lead efforts to fulfill the aims of becoming an anti-racist, anti oppressive, multicultural UUA, creating space for youth, young adult and our families of color to heal and  work collectively, and steward an effective organization that develops new leadership and manages  consistent communication with members. DRUUMM is a collective of people who identify as People of  Color. Allies are welcome and organized as Allies for Racial Equity. Together we are open to all people.  At the Fellowship, our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Justice Team works in partnership with DRUUMM.

Outreach Offering for July

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Our Sunday Outreach offerings in July support DRUUMM – Diverse & Revolutionary UU Multicultural  Ministries – which is a Unitarian Universalist People of Color Ministry and anti-racist collective.  As an all-volunteer ministry, DRUUMM continues to  lead efforts to fulfill the aims of becoming an anti-racist, anti oppressive, multicultural UUA, creating space for youth, young adult and our families of color to heal and  work collectively, and steward an effective organization that develops new leadership and manages  consistent communication with members. DRUUMM is a collective of people who identify as People of  Color. Allies are welcome and organized as Allies for Racial Equity. Together we are open to all people.  At the Fellowship, our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Justice Team works in partnership with DRUUMM.

“Between Us” 7/6/2025

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In the end, all the elements of a religious and spiritual life – the practices and beliefs, the things we learn, the ways in which we change, what we yearn for and need, and more – lead into how we exist in relation to ourselves, others and Life.  What we do, think and feel, affect what occurs between us.   For thirteen years this has been my framework, shared in writing and preaching.  This morning let’s think about interdependence, and I’ll aim to summarize what I’ve learned with you and from you.    

We’ll also take time to reflect on the huge project of renovation of our classroom wing, now almost finished.  We’ll extend our thanks and appreciation to the volunteers who made it possible, and invite all to have a tour of the renewed spaces after the service. 

With Rev. Jill McAllister

Meeting on the Landscape Planning Process, 7/6

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We are people with ideas.  In a congregation-wide series of meetings held last August and September, many of us shared our ideas about what our landscape should look like, the elements it should contain, the purposes it should support and the values it should uphold.  A small group (Joyce Federiuk, Mona Hotchkiss and Ginger Chatfield) has taken the group input and put it into a form that we can more easily consider and prioritize.  

Jill is convening a group meeting on Sunday, July 6 at 4pm at the UUFC to complete this process.  Our goal is to identify our most important priorities so that ultimately, they can be shared with a professional landscape architect to use in creating a master plan for the property.  This will be done in tandem with any building expansion that we may undertake.  

Please plan to attend this meeting if you had interest and input in the prior meetings.  The intention is to vote on the priorities previously identified – rather than add in new elements or lobby for favorite items.  Hope to see you there!