weekly announcements

Adult Religious Exploration is back! We’re kicking off a new year of Adult RE with a deep dive into some of the juiciest controversies, failures, and missed opportunities in UU history. We’re talking about those turning points that left our faith tradition forever changed. What can you learn about how we got to where we are and use it to help us get to where we want to be? Come find out!

Sundays @3, 10/13-11/17

REGISTRATION is kindly requested.

You can check out the complete list of scheduled Adult RE opportunities HERE.

On Friday, Sept. 27, at 6 PM, during the visit of our Partner Church minister, Rev. Katalin Szasz-Cserey, all are invited to a Fellowship Dinner featuring “traditional” Transylvanian Hungarian foods. Tickets will be $10 for adults, $6 for children under 12. Come meet new friends and old, learn more about our long partnership, enjoy a great meal and pictures of Transylvania.

Our first Leadership Supper of the year, this coming Friday, is for all leaders of teams, councils, projects, events and the Board. We’ll focus on Council structure and communication, facilitation, and coordination of work and events. All leaders are needed and welcome. Please plan to attend. Supper provided by the Committee on Ministry and friends.

The Fellowship choir meets once a week (Wednesday nights from 7:00-9:00) to prepare music which enhances our Sunday services throughout the year. We embrace a wide range of music from this wide web of life, — as old as the 1300s and as recently composed as this year and many things in between.

The choir typically sings in Sunday services twice a month. If you or someone you know would like to join a group of singers searching for beauty and wisdom in life through music, join us! ALL are welcome in the UUFC choir.

Happy Practicing and I hope to see you on any Wednesday at 7:00PM.

Steven Evans-Renteria, Choir Leader

Many thanks to all who participated in the first session of this planning process, which aims to create a 3-5 year plan for our Fellowship Buildings and Grounds. The second session will take place on Saturday Sept. 14, from 9-11AM. Attend again, attend for the first time, or send an email to Jill McAllister with your ideas and hopes for our campus, to be incorporated into a strategic plan.

If you have ideas or opinions, now is the time to share them!

All are welcome.

UU Singer/ Songwriters Sandy O and Pat Humphries are returning to the Fellowship for an evening of both new and beloved songs about justice, compassion and right relations. Sandy and Pat are favorites of many UU congregations and General Assemblies.

Tickets are $18 in advance and $22 at the door. Please join us, and invite your friends!

 

The UUFC Climate Action Team encourages gardening to provide local food, shade, and carbon sequestration. Information on local gardening, food, and community will appear in the new Neighborhood Planters Kiosk next to the Circle Blvd sidewalk area shared with the Sangha Jewel Zen Center. The colorful kiosks are a collaborative project of the Corvallis Sustainability Coalition Food Action Team, Benton County Master Gardeners, Corvallis Evening Gardening Club, and City of Corvallis Civic Beautification and Urban Forestry group and are provided at no cost. The info will be changed on a mostly weekly basis by the Climate Action Team.

(Photo: Dianne Roth viewing info in the kiosk window)

Join UU friends for an afternoon at Springhill Cellars Winery on Sunday September 8, 2024.

We will leave from the UU parking lot at 11:45 for the 20-minute drive out to 2920 NW Scenic Drive in North Albany (take Hwy 20 toward Albany, look for Scenic Drive after you pass Hyak Park). We typically stay a couple hours.

Bring finger food to share with the group (if you bring food that requires cutting or scooping, then bring necessary utensils). Heather will provide paper plates and napkins. You might also want to bring water.

Those with the Visit Corvallis WINE PASSPORT, you will have a free tasting flight.
It’s a fun, relaxed way to get to know some UU’s better. Hope you can join us.

Please contact Heather if you’d like to attend.

The UUFC has owned a gas-powered Dixon riding zero-turn lawn mower for 10+ years. After limited use the last several years and mowing team concurrence, the mower was sold at the Aug 31 UUFC parking lot sale and found a new loving home. The buyer had driven a Dixon as a youngster and added it to his mower fleet with begrudging support from his wife. Your UUFC mowing team is now totally electric!

We are also short on mowers. Team member Lynn Evans is moving to Kansas to be with family (thanks Lynn!) and so his backyard mowing slot is open. If anyone is looking for a way to support the UUFC and get some exercise at the same time, please contact Russ Karow, Mowing Team Lead.

Contact Russ Karow