weekly announcements

Reserve Your Holiday Tree

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The number of Holiday Trees is limited this year. To reserve yours, please use the Order Form. Your reservation will be confirmed once payment is received and recorded. Payment can made be via Breeze to “Unpledged Donation” with note “Holiday Trees,” by check to UUFC with memo “Holiday Trees,” or by cash in an envelope marked with your name and “Holiday Trees.” The Breeze option is recommended because checks and cash will not be recorded until the Monday following receipt, and your tree will not be reserved until payment is recorded. The form will be updated daily to show trees still available. Unreserved trees will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

For more information on Holiday Trees, click here. Questions: treasurer@uucorvallis.org.

Oh – the Joyful Noise!

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You’re invited to join the Choir and get your heart pumping, your lungs expanding, and your feel-good hormones triggering. Plus, the choir is a place to improve memory and creativity and to improve social connections and confidence.

Under the direction of Steven Evans-Renteria, we are preparing songs for the holidays at UUFC and elsewhere. These are exciting times.

We meet every Wednesday at 7:00 PM in the Sanctuary. Contact Director Steven Evans-Renteria for more information at this link or just come for rehearsal. Hope to see you.

Adopt-a-Highway Cleanup, 11/8

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Our next Adopt-A-Highway litter pickup will be on Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025 9 AM – 12 noon.

Meet in the BiMart parking lot at the corner of 53rd and Philomath Blvd.

Wear sturdy shoes, clothes for the weather, and gloves. Reflective vests, pickers and bags will be provided.

Newcomers are very welcome. If we get 8 people, the total route breaks down to 1 mile per pair of pickers.

Use the SignUpGenius form https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0C4AAFA723A6F85-60108683-fall or email Scott Bruslind.

Childcare is available!

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

Outreach Offerings for November

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Our November Justice Outreach offering will support the Corvallis Daytime Drop-in Center (CDDC). CDDC is a community-based non-profit resource hub providing information, referral, and direct services for people experiencing homelessness and poverty in Benton County and beyond.

To learn more about their work, visit the CDDC website.

How to donate to the monthly Outreach Offering

Each month, the Fellowship gathers donations for a certain charitable cause. These are our Outreach Offerings. You can contribute to this month’s offering in a few ways:

  1. Give to the Sunday collection basket
  2. Donate online
  3. Donate to the refreshments during the social hour

The Social Concerns team donate an assortment of sweet and savory refreshments, including gluten-free and vegan choices, for our enjoyment at the social hour following Sunday worship. These items are purchased and prepared by the team to encourage donations to the Outreach Offering. Collection baskets are always found at the end of the refreshments table. The next time you’re eyeing something tasty on the table, consider putting a donation in the basket first to show how much you appreciate having that treat ready and waiting for you!

UUFC Grounds Work Party, 10/26

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Please come help care for our grounds on Sunday (Oct 26) 3 – 5 PM.  There are plants waiting patiently in pots to get their roots in the ground – and some soil amendments to make that ground more hospitable.  There are leaves to move off the lawn and parking lot – perhaps we can shred some of these to add to the soil in the new garden.  We hope you will find some time to join us on Sunday afternoon!

Childcare is available!

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

Monthly Vegan Potluck, 10/26 

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To support our status as a Green Sanctuary, the Fellowship hosts a Community Vegan Potluck on the 4th Sunday of every month.  Everyone is Welcome! The next gathering is THIS SUNDAY, October 26 at 5:30 PM in the Social Hall 

Bring a dish to share with others who are learning to eat in a more climate friendly way.  

Include Plant foods: grains, beans, fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, herbs & spices.  Exclude Animal foods: no flesh, fluids, or unborn young. 

Try it! You’ll like it!! 

Need recipes? 
https://www.pcrm.org/universalmeals/recipes

Need more info? Contact Ann M.

Childcare is available!

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

ETC Feel Alive & Thrive, 11/12

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Please join the Elders Thriving in Community (ETC) team in welcoming Julie Williams, fitness instructor, as she shares information and leads us in activities that will help us stay flexible, strong and agile as we age.

Wednesday, November 12, 3-4:30 PM
Social Hall at the UUFC

Childcare is available!

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

Photo Booth!, 11/9

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If you don’t have a profile photo in Breeze here’s your opportunity. Right after the Nov 9 service (which starts at 10 AM) the Membership Team will take headshot photos in the Sanctuary and post them to Breeze.

How to Write a Memoir, 10/28

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This Connect Up workshop will focus on how to write a memoir and either self-publish it or get it published. Kayla Garcia will share her experience with commercial publishers and with self-publishing. Kayla will offer practical tips on how to get started, keep going, and create a finished product that you can give or sell to others. Participants will start with blank pages and end up with an outline and a first paragraph.

Tuesday, October 28, at 5:30 PM in Room 3.

Please RSVP using the form below, or at this link.

Childcare is available!

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