weekly announcements

Just let any Board member or Rev. Jill know.

The UUA’s General Assembly will be held June 20-23 this year. The GA features worship, workshops, speakers, business sessions, and more. Delegates will take the final vote on the proposed new Article II of the UUA Bylaws.

This year’s GA will be all-virtual for the first time, saving you travel time, expense, and fossil fuel consumption.

UUFC is eligible for a number of delegates. There is a policy to help the Board select delegates from those who express interest.

Read the UUFC policy (2.8.1) on delegates.

You may also register to view many of the events.

Visit the General Assembly page on the UUA website.

*Sung to the tune of So You Wanna Be a Rock and Roll Star.

This Saturday we’re having a special Dance Planet at the Fellowship. From 7:30 to about 8:45 we’ll move, each in our own way, to a rhythmic flow of music from around the world and across the decades. But starting at 7 cellist Sabina Monn and percussionist George B. will create an auditory space for movement, stretching, or just listening.

Admission to this family-friendly event is a suggested donation of $5—15. One hundred percent of the proceeds will be donated to local environmental organizations.

We gather once more before the summer break to tend to our grief. The grief you hold may be for personal losses, transitions, or the sorrows of the world – all are equally welcome and worthy of attention.

Our time together will include gentle movement, poetry, writing, sharing and a simple ritual. Please join us.

Facilitators Anna Coffman and Susan Sanford

For information, contact Anna, email: anna.cupoftea@gmail.com, phone/text: 979-760-0910

Register for Tending Our Grief Circle 6/1

5/5/24 CINCO DE MAYO Dinner & Train , 5-8 pm, UUFC Social Hall Join this adult POP-UP PARTY just for fun.

Bring a Mexican-themed potluck item to share and your own beverage, plate and utensils (the UU kitchen will not be accessed for this event).

This is a no-frills event.

Please bring $5 as a donation to UUFC Minister’s Discretionary Fund – it’s somebody’s birthday week, after all.

We will gather, eat, drink and enjoy each others’ company while we play this fun and easy to learn tile game.

And please be mindful that everyone cannot bring chips and dip.
Need alternative ideas, see Mexican party food ideas.

If you have a Mexican Train dominos set, please let me know when you RSVP to hvephd@gmail.com by Saturday 5/4/24.

Seating may be limited. Hope to see you!

Hosted by Heather Emberson This is a Connect Up event! Members can offer to host a Connect Up event with the purpose of gathering together and building relationships.

Saturday, June 1, 10-12:30 p.m. Sanctuary

“Joy is the transformation of our suffering, not the escape of all we have to face.” – Mark Nepo

We gather once more before the summer break to tend to our grief. The grief you hold may be for personal losses, transitions, or the sorrows of the world – all are equally welcome and worthy of attention.

Our time together will include gentle movement, poetry, writing, sharing and a simple ritual. Please join us.

Facilitators Anna Coffman and Susan Sanford

For information, contact Anna, email: anna.cupoftea@gmail.com, phone/text: 979-760-0910

Sign up here

Help care for and nurture the wonderful sacred green space that is our UUFC campus.

We need folks to take responsibility for particular areas, big or small.
For more info, talk to me after service or via Michael Hughes.

Social Hall, 5:30 pm. 

Join us for a potluck exploring how to eat more Whole Foods Plant Based meals. It’s new! It’s confusing! It’s good for our health and our planet. No experience needed, and No Food Shaming! Whether you are a long-time plant-based eater, or have never heard of this before, you are welcome here. Let’s eat, laugh, and learn together. Children welcome.  

Bring a dish to share, in which all ingredients are plants:  

Plants: Grains, Beans, Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts & Seeds, Herbs & Spices. 

Not Plants: Animal flesh, fluids, and unborn young.  

Ideas for recipes

Hosted by Ann Marchant.  

Bread bags make excellent dog-poop bags.

As an experiment, on Sundays, there is a white bucket, labelled “bread bags”, discreetly to the right of the entrance to the Fellowship.

Those with bread bags but no dog, are invited to deposit bags.

Those with dogs are invited to help themselves to bags.

As noted, this is an experiment, and we’ll give it several Sundays to see if it catches on.

Contact Michael Hughes

In the Sanctuary at Noon:

Our Climate Action Team and Interfaith Power & LIght sponsor a free Earth Week screening of ‘Common Ground‘ a sequel to ‘Kiss the Ground’.

Common Ground unveils a dark web of money, power, and politics in our food system. Unjust practices are revealed that shaped our current ag system in which farmers are literally dying to feed us. The film profiles a hopeful and uplifting movement of white, black, and indigenous farmers engaging in ‘regenerative agriculture’ that could balance the climate, save our health, and stabilize the economy.

2023 winner of the Tribeca Film Festival.
Light discussion to follow.