Connect Up Activities

Connect-Up Hiking Leader needed

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Greetings UUFC Walkers, Amblers, Plodders, and Hikers: Did you know that UUFC has a Connect-Up group for you? There is a little problem, though. It now lacks an organizer/leader. Jim Wagner started the most recent incarnation of this group at the start of the COVID epidemic and the varying group visited many area locations from Mary’s Peak to Mac Forest to Cascade Foothills. Jim is no longer able to lead hikes. Priscilla Galasso has done this nicely for a while but is also moving on. Jim is willing to help find and assist someone who can lead hikes. Organizing is just a matter of picking a location that fits likely weather and participants; Jim can particularly help with this. Your primary responsibility would then be a few hours, typically on the last Saturday of each month, enjoying both the personal connections and the marvelous places that are accessible by trail or path. If you, or several of you, can fill the role of hike leader and/or organizer, please contact Jim Wagner.

LEGATO potluck, 1/14

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Love is the power that holds us together and the New Year urges us to begin again. Everyone is welcome to join the choir and band for LEGATO potluck on Wednesday, January 14 at 6:30 PM. 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.

Queerly Beloved, 12/7

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Queerly Beloved is meeting at a new time – after Worship Service, 11:45 AM – 1:45 PM, the first Sunday of the month, room 6C. Please come for discussion and connection during the holiday season. Bring a craft to work on, if you like, as we talk, and a snack to share, if you are willing and able.

Queerly Beloved is a LGBTQIA+ connection group. Come share, listen, connect, create community. Allies, family members, children, welcome

Childcare is available!

Free childcare can usually be arranged for any Fellowship event by using this link 1-2 weeks prior to the event.

LEGATO potluck, 12/10

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The LEGATO potluck is Wednesday December 10 at 6:30 PM. Come jump-start the holiday season by joining the choir and band for a meal before rehearsal. 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.

Connect Up: Rich hosting Thanksgiving Dinner/Potluck, 11/27

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Thanksgiving will be here in just a few days: why not celebrate it with eighty or more people at UUFC?   Members, friends, family, and out-of-town guests are welcome.  Instead of staying home and doing all the work and cooking, come here and do just a little work (if you are willing and able), a little cooking, and with little expense.  The Fellowship provides turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, beverages, and the Social Hour appetizers.  Also a five pound tofu turkey, vegan and GF.  Each family unit (of 1 or more humans) brings a potluck dish (salad, bread, dessert, veggie side dish, vegetarian/vegan main dish, cranberries, potatoes/yams, stuffing, etc.) or cooks one of the 4 turkeys (cost reimbursed).  The suggested donation is $5.00/person to cover costs, but no one is turned away for lack of funds.  Any surplus money will go to the Minister’s Discretionary Fund, or the South Corvallis Food Bank.

We need to know how many tables and chairs to set up for dinner, so sign up after Sunday service (starting at 10 AM) on 11/23, or call/email Rich, or sign up on Breeze, by Wednesday night, November 26, and also tell him what food you will probably bring, and if you are able to volunteer for a job.

Schedule:
10:30 a.m.  Set up at UUFC.
4:30 p.m.  Social hour at UUFC.
5:30 p.m.  Turkey dinner with vegetarian/vegan alternatives.  $5.00 suggested.  RSVP.
7:30 p.m.  Conversation, table games, and clean up.  Please stay and mellow out, visit, or bring a favorite board game.   Is anyone interested in doing charades?

HELP! As of newsletter deadline, I still need people to sign up for clean up, and putting away the tables and chairs, and to help with the social hour.  Also, many people signed up to come but gave no indication of what they might be bringing to the potluck.  At the moment we have only 4 desserts, and two vegetable side dishes.

Childcare is available!

Free childcare can usually be arranged for any Fellowship event by using this link 1-2 weeks prior to the event.

LEGATO potluck, 11/12

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We have so much to be thankful for. Let’s share that feeling over a meal. The LEGATO potluck is Wednesday November 12 at 6:30 PM. Come early if you can help set up tables. Everyone is welcome whether you’re singing or not. Choir rehearsal is at 7:00 PM.

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. We will not use the kitchen.

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.

Monthly Vegan Potluck, 10/26 

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To support our status as a Green Sanctuary, the Fellowship hosts a Community Vegan Potluck on the 4th Sunday of every month.  Everyone is Welcome! The next gathering is THIS SUNDAY, October 26 at 5:30 PM in the Social Hall 

Bring a dish to share with others who are learning to eat in a more climate friendly way.  

Include Plant foods: grains, beans, fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, herbs & spices.  Exclude Animal foods: no flesh, fluids, or unborn young. 

Try it! You’ll like it!! 

Need recipes? 
https://www.pcrm.org/universalmeals/recipes

Need more info? Contact Ann M.

Childcare is available!

Free childcare can usually be arranged for any Fellowship event by using this link 1-2 weeks prior to the event.

How to Write a Memoir, 10/28

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This Connect Up workshop will focus on how to write a memoir and either self-publish it or get it published. Kayla Garcia will share her experience with commercial publishers and with self-publishing. Kayla will offer practical tips on how to get started, keep going, and create a finished product that you can give or sell to others. Participants will start with blank pages and end up with an outline and a first paragraph.

Tuesday, October 28, at 5:30 PM in Room 3.

Please RSVP using the form below, or at this link.

Childcare is available!

Free childcare can usually be arranged for any Fellowship event by using this link 1-2 weeks prior to the event.

LEGATO potluck, 10/8

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Everyone is welcome to join the choir and band for a meal of laughter, goodwill and perhaps song! The Fall weather beckons a warm, cozy meal shared with others. The LEGATO potluck is Wednesday, October 8 at 6:30 PM. Come early if you can help set up tables. This is followed by rehearsal at 7:00 PM.

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.

Connect Up Fall Festival, 9/27

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The Corvallis Fall Festival takes place on the last weekend of this month in Central Park. Saturday, September 27, 2025, 10 AM-6 PM.
Saturday Night Street Dance: 6 PM-9:30 PM
Get your steps in as you visit the artist booths and dance the night away! There will be UU friends there – check out the Benton County Historical Museum booth, for example.

There will be no Connect Up hike this month.