Celebrate your birthday! Give the amount of your age to help sustain the UUFC and its work. Donate by check payable to UUFC, with memo Birthday Club. Donations are allocated 50% Operations, 20% Endowment, 20% Reserves, and 10% Justice Outreach. Questions: email Michael Hughes at treasurer@uucorvallis.org.
weekly announcements
House Party Democracy House Party, 8/18
Join the Democracy Action Team for a fun, casual gathering where we will talk about ranked choice voting and learn how we can encourage our neighbors to vote YES on the critical ballot measure in November. You’ll even have a chance to try out ranked choice voting with a mock election.
DATE: August 18
TIME: 11:45 am, following the UUFC Fellowship Service
PLACE: UUFC Sanctuary (near the door to the Fellowship Hall). For more information, contact Deborah Clark.
UUFC Merch Store
Check out the UUFC Merch Store for tee-shirts, hats, coffee cups, backpacks, umbrellas, and more! Support our Fellowship with great gifts for yourself and your loved ones. Find it under the “about” tab on the UUFC website.
Queerly Beloved Game Day, 8/18
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM in the Social Hall
Do you love to play Mexican Train Dominoes? Or maybe you’ve never played before and it sounds like fun.
Join the Queerly Beloved social group as we snack, chat, maybe sing, and play on Sunday afternoon, August 18 from 4:00 to 6:00 in the Social Hall. Bring snacks to share if you wish. All kind souls are welcome!
Calling All Crafters & Artists (Holiday Fair Planning Meeting), 8/25
Our UUFC Holiday Fair is coming December 7. If you’d like to be part of the planning, please join in our next meeting on Sunday, August 25, after the Sunday service. 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. Contact Tom and Isabel
UUFC Secure Housing and Food for All, 8/18
The Secure Housing and Food for All team will have their monthly meeting on 8/18 at 11:45 in the Library. Please join us to discuss what is happening now for the unhoused in Corvallis and share information about new opportunities for UUFC folkx to help.
Oregon UU Voices for Justice – Annual Meeting, 10/5
9:15 AM – 3:15 PM at UUFC
All Fellowship members and friends are invited to join in the annual meeting of Oregon UU Voices for Justice – a state-wide UU collaborative – hosted at the Fellowship on Saturday Oct. 5 from 9:15 – 3:15. The theme is Saving Democracy: We Are the Majority. Sessions will include shared work on Environmental Justice, Human Rights and Economic Equality. Register online at https://bit.ly/2024UUV4JAnnualMeeting
Share Your Produce
Too much zuchinni? Apples to share? Gardeners and gathers are welcome to bring and share produce with others at the Fellowship each Sunday morning. The exchange usually happens on and around the bench just outside the Firwood entry doors.
Consider Becoming a Grandfolk!
The Grandfolks Squad is a group of (mostly) older adults who are willing to provide occasional childcare on an as-needed basis so that young parents can attend Fellowship functions without incurring a cost for childcare. This is a great way to get to know younger families and connect deeply with the next generation of Unitarian Universalists. In your free time, you can provide the loving care that we wish for every child and parent in our midst.
If you have extra love to give and time to share, please consider becoming a Grandfolks Squad member.
To join the squad, email Skyla (dre@uucorvallis.org) to set up a meeting. Grandfolks are interviewed and background checked before service, and receive a snazzy button to show the world that they’re proud Grandfolks!
We’re looking forward to having you on he squad!
UUFC August Hike, 8/24
The August Fellowship hike will be to Cone Peak, near Tombstone Summit east of Sweet Home on Saturday, Aug 24, 2024. It is shifted from its normal last Saturday due to the popular Rummage Sale on the last Saturday this month.
Contact Jim Wagner for more information.