Due to the conflict with the Holiday Fair, we are rescheduling the Fifth Annual Tree Planting with the City to a Saturday in January. Look for more info to come.
JusticeUU
Partner Church team meeting, 11/9
Change Your Perspective with the Partner Church Team.
We are a standing committee of the UUFC Justice Council and our mission is to enhance and deepen the relationship between our congregation and our partner churches.
The process of “reframing” your perspective involves self-reflection, embracing humility to learn from others, and a commitment to challenging your own limiting stories and beliefs.
We will continue the conversation at our next meeting. Please join us.
To find out more and to join our team, please contact Heather E. via email.
Childcare is available!
Free childcare can usually be arranged for any Fellowship event by using this link 1-2 weeks prior to the event.
🐦Trick-or-Treat CAT Prize Winners🐦
Those who visited the Climate Action Team table at the UUFC Trick-or-Treat last Sunday and answered a bird question received a chance to win a bird suet feeder + 2 suet cakes.
The winning ticket number is CAT 97.
Two runner-up numbers, CAT 730 and CAT 30, were also drawn and will each receive 3 packets of hot chocolate mix.
Please contact cat@uucorvallis.org or Brian Lee by Nov. 16th to claim your prize.
Help The UU Provide Turkey For The Tables Of Families In Need
South Corvallis Food Bank is running a Special Thanksgiving Food Drive called “Turkey For The Table”. With an unprecedented number of families loosing access to Food assistance this November, let’s step up and make their Thanksgiving special.
Donate $30 or a Frozen Turkey to the South Corvallis Food Bank and say you are donating as part of the UU “Flock”. This enters the UU in a raffle to win a prize, which we will proudly display…somewhere.
Join us in this bleak season to give in kindness to our neighbors and occasion some thanks worth giving.
— UUFC Secure Food and Housing For All and Democracy Action Teams
Join the Visibility Brigade, 11/8 and 11/11
Saturday, Nov. 8: Bannering on the East side of the Highway 34 bridge to catch people coming into town for the OSU home football game, from 3:30 – 5:00 PM. RSVP to visibilitybrigadebc@gmail.com for a map and more details.
Tuesday, Nov. 11, Veterans Day: No Oath to Trump National Overpass Bannering Day from 3:00 – 4:30 PM at the Highway 20/I-5 overpass in Albany. We are collaborating with the local chapter of Veterans for Peace for this event. Across the nation, teams will hold visibility events on overpasses and bridges. Millions of people will see our messages! The purpose of this event is to give veterans a platform to express their outrage with the Trump administration’s steamrolling of our Constitution and rules of law. Our main banner will read: VETS DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION. Vets and non-Vets are welcome. Please RSVP to visibilitybrigadebc@gmail.com for a map and more details.
Childcare is available!
Free childcare can usually be arranged for any Fellowship event by using this link 1-2 weeks prior to the event.
Fifth Annual Street-Tree Planting, 12/6
On the morning of Sat. 6 Dec., UUFC, through the Climate Action Team, will do our fifth annual collaboration with the City of Corvallis to plant street trees. In the past, we have twice planted along NW Conifer Blvd and once each in Willamette and Avery Parks. This year we will plant eight deciduous trees along the north side of SE Goodnight Drive between Collins Pl and Aldrin Pl.
We need a dozen volunteer tree planters. Please email treasurer@uucorvallis.org to sign up for a couple of hours of fellowship and righteous physical labor on the morning of Sat 6 Dec, rain or shine.
Childcare is available!
Free childcare can usually be arranged for any Fellowship event by using this link 1-2 weeks prior to the event.
Democracy Action Team, Tuesdays & Thursdays
The DAT is proud to announce that letter writing is officially back! Join us in person on Tuesdays (in the UUFC library) and on Zoom (link HERE) on Thursdays – both at 5:30 pm. We’ll write to voters in Pennsylvania asking them to retain State Supreme Justices who oppose partisan gerrymandering and to Virginia to inform voters of issues that will help them understand the choices they face in the upcoming state election. We will also write to our legislators. We’ll have addresses and supplies on Tuesdays.
Contact Claire M. for information.
Join Rep. Val Hoyle’s Town Hall by Zoom, 10/7
The Democracy Action Team will be watching the town hall with Rep. Hoyle at 5:30 PM on Tuesday, October 7 in the UUFC Library. The town hall will be followed by the regularly-scheduled Speaking of Democracy discussion at 6:30 PM, which will be about Digital Safety.
No Kings Protest, 10/18
Join us on Saturday, October 18 at 12 PM at the Benton County Courthouse for the No Kings protest!
A little worried about recent developments? What we know is that the only way out of this slide to dictatorship is for everyone to get involved. THAT is what has stopped a tyrant. And only that. No one else is going to save us, as much as we watch and hope things will change. So WE must make the 18th the largest protest ever on the planet. So each ONE bring ONE (or ten) to the October 18th protest.
For more information and resources, visit https://www.nokings.org/.
Join the Signs of Solidarity team
Members of the Democracy Action Team are collaborating with Benton County Indivisible and Standing Up for Racial Justice to place signs of solidarity supporting immigrants around Corvallis. If you would like to join this effort, contact Karen J. Or you can print out your own copies of the posters and take them to local businesses! You can find the digital poster files here: https://brandfolder.com/indivisibleproject/signs-of-solidarity.