weekly announcements

Donna De Lory and Friends, 7/17

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Donna De Lory is a singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist whose radiant voice and expansive musical vision encompass pop, world music, electronica and devotional mantras. In the pop realm, she’s perhaps best known for her work with Madonna as a backup singer and dancer. At the same time, De Lory is one of the world’s foremost singers of devotional mantras and songs of spiritual inspiration. Throughout the 2000s, she released a string of evocative, eclectic, beautifully produced albums that have captured the hearts of listeners in mindfulness, wellness, meditation and yoga communities and beyond.

DONNA DE LORY

An Evening of Mantra and Sacred Song

Special Guests

Joss Jaffe

Johanna Beekman

Benjy Wertheimer

$25 in advance

$35 at the door

Buy Tickets Now

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Corvallis

2945 NW Circle Blvd. Corvallis, OR

Event Sponsored by SoHA Sanctuary of Healing Arts

Climate Action Team (CAT) Newsletter📰

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The UUFC CAT newsletter contains good news, news of note, actions and solutions that can be undertaken, and upcoming dates or past recordings of climate-related concerns and events. Articles and announcements are curated or written by CAT members.

If you would like to subscribe to the free, twice per month e-mailed newsletter, send your name and email address to cat@uucorvallis.org or see Brian Lee. You may also read the articles without subscribing using the links on the Climate Action Team page.

Visit Climate Action Team Page

Global Partners Team, 7/12

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THANK YOU to all pledging members of the UUFC who supported the Global Partners Team with our budget request! It’s the start of the new fiscal year so it’s time for the Team to get our financial house in order. We will review our goals and objectives and document allocation of funds at 11:30 in the library.

Come join us for what will, actually, be a scintillating conversation.

Contact Team Lead, Heather E, for more information.

Heather E Breeze Contact Page

Service Auction Venue

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In 2026, for the first time, the Services Auction was held off-campus. This was an experiment, and this form provides the opportunity to share your opinions on the Philomath Scout Lodge and your preferences with respect to hosting future auctions at UUFC, the Scout lodge, or, potentially, other off-campus sites.

Services Auction Venue Feedback Form

Responses will be used by the fundraising team in making its recommendation to the Finance Council and Board on the venue for the 2027 auction, and they will be summarized in the August Monthly Journal.

Join the Birthday Club

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Your birthday is a day to celebrate: it marks the day you joined fellow beings on this planet and gave your beloved community the opportunity to get to know and love you. –What a miracle!

A wonderful way within the UUFC to honor the threads of connection you are weaving in your life is to join the Birthday Club. What’s the Birthday Club?

It is a group of UUFC folks who commit to annually contribute on or near their birthday a dollar amount equal to their new age. Your contribution honors another year you’ve shared with us in community. It adds your dollars to the UUFC Endowment Fund, whose earnings are used to keep our intergenerational congregation vibrant for the long term. Recently, the endowment earnings have been used to provide childcare so that UUFC members can attend events and meetings at the UUFC, and have funded scholarships for families to attend summer camps at Eliot Institute.

Joining the Birthday Club is a gift to yourself and to the UUFC, since a robust Endowment fund ensures UUFC can continue to support both the people and the place that make up our community. Plus a sweet bonus: we’ll celebrate you and other birthday clubbers ~each calendar quarter with a big cake and a hearty huzzah!

We hope you’ll join the Birthday Club and help build our endowment fund, which will help ensure our future vitality. Contributions can be made by check (write Birthday Club on the memo line) and USPS mailed to UUFC, or online via the drop-down menu in Breeze.

Contribute Online with Breeze

Email Scam Alert

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If you receive an email inviting you to a special event and asking you to click a link to view the invite or view the card, DO NOT CLICK THE LINK. The invite will probably come from an email address you recognize, belonging to another person at the Fellowship who fell victim to the scam. Please delete the email and inform Cameron at comms@uucorvallis.org that you were targeted.

Outreach Offerings for July

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Our July Monthly Outreach offering will support Authentic Hope.

Authentic Hope is a non-profit counseling center located in Corvallis, Oregon. They provide individual therapy for adults, children, teens, young adults, including the LGBTQ+ community, and support clients and their families who struggle with anxiety, grief, and trauma recovery.

Read more at authentichopeoregon.org.

New Board Secretary, John Bailey!

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The new Board of Directors has begun their service! John Bailey is now serving as Secretary of the Board, and so has taken ownership of the email address secretary@uucorvallis.org. Priscilla Galasso will no longer be checking the Secretary email. If you wish to reach Priscilla, please look up her contact info in our online member directory.

You can see the entire Board of Directors, and the contact info for the Officers, at uucorvallis.org/about/board/.

UUA Common Read: Social Change Now!, 7/14

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Join the Justice Council and RE Council for a group exploration of this year’s UUA Common Read. The book this year is Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection by Deepa Iyer (Skinner House). This book provides tools for Unitarian Universalists to grow more authentic, connected, and effective as individuals and communities as we pursue transformative justice together.

If you have questions or need assistance purchasing the book, contact Robin Lancaster.
Please register using this form: https://uufc.breezechms.com/form/CommonRead2026

Deadline to register is July 6!

Childcare is available!

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