Sign up for an hour of 1-1 conversation with Jill, in the next two weeks, if you’re interested. A few more times have been added to the schedule. Place TBD after you sign up. Sign up at this link: https://calendar.app.google/XsnZe2AFZiwfooqP8.
weekly announcements
Movie night: “Milk”, the story of Harvey Milk, 7/13
Queerly Beloved July meet up
Sunday July 13, 2025 4:00-7:30 PM, UUFC
Join the Sexuality and Gender Diversity Team for a viewing of the inspiring movie “Milk” starring Sean Penn, telling the story of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk in the 1970s.
Movie will start at 4:00 PM, followed by pizza and a discussion, so plan to stay late! Pizza is provided; if you can bring a drink or snack to share, we welcome it.
This movie is rated R. If you need childcare for small children, please contact the Grandfolks Squad.
All are WELCOME – you don’t have to be gay to enjoy this movie! 🙂
Questions: contact Anya Ballinger
UUFC Services Auctions, 6/28
The Services & Goods Auctions are our biggest FUNdraisers of the year!
We’re building community together!
Tomorrow, Saturday, June 28, 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM is our 2025 UUFC Live & Silent Auction. We hope you will join us for the bidding fun and a light supper. Scroll through the catalog of items that will be auctioned, below!
Volunteer to Help
Sign up here to donate a salad for dinner or to volunteer to help during the live and silent auction. We need your help to make our auction successful.
UUFC Services Auctions, 6/15 – 23 and 6/28
The Services & Goods Auctions are our biggest FUNdraisers of the year!
We’re building community together!
The 2025 UUFC Online Auction: June 16, 9:00 AM – June 23, 5:00 PM is happening NOW. You’ll find the online catalog at https://fundraiser.bid/2025online. Click on Menu, then on Catalog.
Saturday, June 28, 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM is our 2025 UUFC Live & Silent Auction. We hope you will join us for the bidding fun and a light supper.
Volunteer to Help
Sign up here to donate a salad for dinner or to volunteer to help during the live and silent auction. We need your help to make our auction successful.
Grounds Team Meeting, 6/22
The UUFC Grounds Team is meeting on Sunday, June 22 at 12:45 PM on the Social Hall Patio to discuss grounds maintenance and new plantings for the summer. Please join us if you’d like to hear about our work or get involved!
Happy Hours with Jill, 6/26 & 7/2
Join with Jill and others for one or two happy hour gatherings, to talk and reminisce. Thursday June 26 and Wednesday July 2, 5:30 PM, on the Fellowship deck and patio. Bring your own favorite beverage and a snack to share if you like.
Conversations with Jill
Sign up for an hour of 1:1 conversation with Jill, in the next two weeks, if you’re interested. Place TBD after you sign up. Sign up at this link: https://calendar.app.google/XsnZe2AFZiwfooqP8
Congregational Profile Package
Several people have asked what was included in the congregational profile that we submitted for the interim minister search. A copy of the submitted package—all 19 pages—is at the link below. Compile your suggested revisions to inform the next search committee!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SVFICpH6K5GpwhQdimB-DBTmrPVQPqbW/view?usp=sharing
Time to Set Up your ’25-’26 Pledge Fulfillment
Thank you to all who pledged to support the UUFC in 2025-26. That support enables our Fellowship to pursue its mission: Explore. Love. Act. We gather as an inclusive religious community to search for meaning, build deep connections, and inspire action toward a better world for all.
Fiscal Year 2025-26 begins on July 1st, and it is now time for Step 2 in the stewardship process: updating your contribution payment method and assigning it to Pledge ‘25-’26. If you authorized us -– the UUFC treasurer or business manager – to update your pledge payment in Breeze, that is being done.
If you chose to do the update yourself, please do so by July 1, but wait until after your final pledge payment for ’24-’25 has completed. Instructions on how to do the update can be viewed by clicking the button below, but if you need additional help, email <treasurer@uucorvallis.org> or <businessmgr@uucorvallis.org>.
A final ask: please email <treasurer@uucorvallis.org> once you have updated your pledge, saying that you have done so.
Thank you.
Michael Hughes <treasurer@uucorvallis.org>
Connect Up Hike, 6/28
Come join the Connect Up Hiking group on a Jackson Creek Lollipop Loop hike! Meet at the UUFC parking lot to carpool at 9:30 AM. We’ll gather at the Chip Ross Natural Area trailhead (west end of Lester Ave. in Corvallis) at 9:45 AM and begin hiking at 10:00 AM. We’ll take the Chip Ross Trail (named for one of our founding UUs, Charles Ross), the Lower Dan’s Trail and then loop around Jackson Creek on forest road 612 and back to those same two trails toward the trailhead. Total distance: about 2.5 miles; elevation gain: about 200 ft. An easy summer hike.
If you’ll be joining us, please fill out this RSVP form so we know you’re coming!