The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Corvallis
The 2024 Women’s Retreat will be October 18 & 19 at the Fellowship. This year’s theme is “Resilience: Build Your Own Toolkit”. The Retreat will run from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm on Friday night and 9:00 am to 8:00 pm on Saturday. Please register by October 6.
The cost of our retreat – including a Forks & Corks catered lunch and dinner, snacks, and materials – is $50.
To contact the Retreat Planning Team, please email: womensretreat@uucorvallis.org
3rd Sunday of each month @11:45
This group for mutual support in the realm of living with neurodivergence or mental health challenges is facilitated by Anthony Acquilano.
This group is not intended to be a substitute for professional care, and participants are discouraged from attempting to provide solutions to other members’ challenges. Instead, this is a space to share experiences, feel heard, learn from the experiences of others, and share resources.
Please register here to receive an email reminder on Thursday before each gathering.
All Fellowship families with children in RE are invited to a HEATED pool party on September 29th from 2-4.
If it’s not your child’s weekend with you, but you want to mingle with other parents, come anyway. If you’ve got a baby who’s not ready for swimming, come anyway and meet other families. Deeply connected families are the foundation of Fellowship life!
Location information will be sent to all registered families the week before.
More information can be found at the registration page HERE!
All who identify as men are welcome to join our gatherings on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of each month beginning at 11:45 AM, in Room 9, upstairs in the classroom wing.
The UUFC itself and UUFC members have invested in Oregon Clean Power Cooperative (OCPC) projects in the past. OCPC has a new offering for solar work OSU’s College of Forestry. Loans will be two-year with rate varying from 1-4%. The UUFC will soon be repaid for a loan we made to OCPC for a project at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. The Fellowship may reinvest in other OCPC projects once we have had an opportunity to explore other investment options. The UUFC invests ~4% of its reserve funds in “alternative” investments. These are investments that may not be quite at market rate but offer some return and benefit our local community.
Russ Karow, Chair UUFC Financial Oversight Council
See the OCPC Website for more information.
Our Pop-Up Parking Lot Rummage Sale is Saturday, August 31 – 10:00-1:00 There’s just one more week to gather items you no longer need, price them, and bring them to our UUFC Parking Lot on Saturday, August 31.
• Stay for 3 hours and “sell” your items
• Send buyers to a central cashier
• Take home any unsold items at the end of the sale It’s a fun event and an easy way to recycle items you no longer want while helping to support the Fellowship.
Please join us and tell others. We need “sellers” and buyers.
Public welcome.
We’ve been running an experimental exchange of bread bags to be used as dog poop bags. The supply side has been a huge success, with lots of bags contributed. However, the demand has been low, with few takers. We plan to give it another couple of weeks, but if bread bags are not an attractive option for after-dog clean up, we’ll discontinue the experiment.
Questions/suggestions: Contact Michael Hughes
Calling All Crafters & Artists Our UUFC Holiday Fair is coming December 7. Do you enjoy jewelry making, calligraphy, quilling, ceramics, woodworking, making greeting cards, knitting, crocheting, quilting, painting, photography, glass making, etc.? Turn your hobby into cash for yourself and UUFC, and joy for the buyers who love getting hand-crafted items for themselves or as gifts. UUFC retains 25% of the selling price and you get the rest. Do you have limited inventory? Then share a table with another UUFC crafter. Start creating now.
Tom & Isabel Prusinski are coordinating artists/vendors.
Please let them know you wish to participate.
Additional seats are now available in the Less is More waste reduction workshop offered by Master Recycler, Betty Shelley, in the UUFC Sanctuary, Mondays 6:30-7:30 pm on October 1, 8, 15 , and 22. The Climate Action Team expands the offering of this 4-part workshop to those who missed bidding on seats in our April auction. The workshop is $25 /person (cash or check at the first session) which will help support the Fellowship. Friends and non-members are also welcome.
Less is More: Getting to One Can of Garbage a Year
Join this 4-part workshop to learn why and how to reduce your waste. Reducing your waste is a simple, profound way to decrease your environmental impact on our world and save money at the same time. Presenter Betty Shelley is a Master Recycler and a former Recycling Information Specialist for Metro Regional Government in Portland. Betty and her husband, Jon, have generated only one can of garbage a year since 2006.
For more information, contact Betty Shelley
Updated program: We will gather in the social hall or deck, in conversational-size groups to enjoy an opportunity to become better acquainted. Each table group will have a facilitator to help keep the conversation flowing and meaningful. This will provide more ways to make the connections that we all hope for and need. Come help build your sense of community! Iced tea & cookies will be provided.