The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Corvallis
Democracy Gathering
Sunday June 15, 11:45 AM, UUFC Social Hall
Join us in the back of the Social Hall for a SHORT (less than an hour) gathering to share our No King’s Day experiences and to watch Scott Pelley’s Wake Forest University inspiring commencement address. Help us plan – do face-to-face gatherings at UUFC help keep you active? How often should we meet? What kind of agenda?
It’s almost here – our biggest FUNdraiser of the year! We’re building community together!
2025 UUFC Online Auction: June 16, 9:00 AM – June 23, 5:00 PM
You’ll find the online catalog at https://fundraiser.bid/2025online
We hope you will join us for the bidding fun and a light supper at our 2025 UUFC Live & Silent Auction, Saturday, June 28, 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM.
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.
Please don’t water our indoor plants. Overwatering will kill them. They’re getting weekly care. Thanks!
Puppet Camp is coming soon, and there will be an end-of-camp puppet show that is open to all Fellowship members.
Join us on Friday, June 27th at 10:45 for light refreshments and a delightful show created and performed by our campers on the Fellowship lawn.
Buy your ticket and meet us in section 2 of Goss Stadium on June 29th for a night of scream singing Sweet Caroline and cheering for the home team!
Opening pitch is at 5:00. Come a little early so we can all sit together! By registering HERE, you’ll help us know how many seats to try to save, but there’s no guaranteed seating in general admission. If enough people register to buy a discounted block of tickets together, I will let you know the week before.
With gratitude and hope, we share food with one another at our last LEGATO potluck on June 11 at 5:45 (arrive at 5:30 if you can help set up). Hope to see you there.
Bring a tapas (hor d’oeuvre) dish to share (please identify all ingredients) and your beverage of choice. We’ll aim to sit on the patio.
This is a Connect Up Event with the purpose of building community within the UUFC congregation.
A giant THANK YOU! to all who have already volunteered painting time or signed up to do so on June 13, 14, or 20.
We have completed Phase One of interior painting, and 2/3 of the exterior siding staining. Everything looks clean and fresh!
Commercial painters will paint the new Fire Suppressant Sprinkler System pipes starting (tentatively) July 7. After that 3 – 4 day job, they will also paint the remaining 1/3 of the exterior siding in areas unsafe for volunteers.
We are re-scheduling the planned Move-Back-In weekend from June 28 – 29 to July 19 – 20. Requests and sign-up sheets will start in early July.
Painting Help
Phase Two Painting starts Friday June 13 and Saturday June 14 9 AM – 12 PM and 1 – 4 PM, and Saturday June 20 9 AM – 12 PM and 1 – 4 PM.
We especially need 2-3 people on the 14th 9 – 12 shift, and more help on June 20 both shifts.
(Please sign up on sheets on foyer table or contact Wolfgang)
General Help needed (time TBD)
Tasks include installing many shelves in the mezzanine storage room; installing blinds in windows in all the rooms; installing bulletin boards, fire extinguishers, signs, cabinets.
Contact Wolfgang Dengler in Breeze with questions.
Buy treats from a local UU-owned goody stand to support Linn-Benton Food Share (LBFS)! Holley Lantz, Donn Zellet and Nora Cohen operate a goody stand selling homemade jams, old-fashioned fudge, and scrumptious chewy oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. This is the 17th year they have sold treats to benefit the food bank. They donate all proceeds to LBFS, and last year raised $1,024! Your purchases of jam, fudge, and cookies make a difference! LBFS is filling a critical need feeding more and more people who can’t stretch dollars far enough.
The goody stand is at 2921 NW Ashwood Drive – a small “C”-shaped street halfway between Circle and Walnut west off 29th – at the top of the driveway. It’s always open! Goodies are sold on the honor system. Leave cash or check (made out to LeoNora Cohen) in an envelope in the upper right cubbie. Take change if you need it.
Fudge and cookies cost $1 per piece, 6 for $5. Jam is $7 for one jar, or $6 per jar for multiples.
The fudge is made by Holley Lantz from a 1946 recipe. It is grainy like your grandma used to make and is deep, dark chocolatey goodness! Donn makes the most delicious, large chewy oatmeal cookies full or chocolate bits, cranberries and raisins. Cookies and fudge will be available June 8 or earlier. The jam is made in small batches by Nora Cohen in her kitchen. There are multiple flavors available:
Strawberry Mango (Shuksan U-pick strawberries, frozen mango)
Italian Plum (from Nora’s trees)
Apricot
Fig (from Nora’s tree) with toasted walnuts, honey, fresh ginger and cinnamon
Sweet Cherry and Mango
Strawberry-Red Currant
Blueberry
The selling season ends August 15!
And thank you for returning jars and rings.
Greetings, Families!
We made it through another fabulous Fellowship year! 🙌 With some of your favorite RE activities on summer hiatus, you might be wondering what other opportunities are coming for children, youth, and families. Well, wonder no more!
Grab your calendars and get ready for summer goodness you won’t want to miss!
SUMMER EVENTS for FAMILIES
6/8 Family Hike at Lewisburg Saddle, 1-2PM, register here
6/23-27 Play to Your Values summer camp, 8:30 to 11:30 on the Fellowship Lawn
6/29 Corvallis Knights Game, 5-8ish at Goss Stadium, register here
7/6 Sunday Morning Kids’ Lemonade Stand, during and after the service
7/13 Family Hike at Fitton Green, 1-2PM, register here
8/3 Sunday Morning Sidewalk Chalk Values, during the service for kids Canceled
8/10 Family Hike and Splash at Mary’s River Natural Area, 1-3PM register here
8/16 Outdoor movie night and camping on the lawn, 9PM register here
8/24 Ice Cream Social, 7PM on Fellowship Lawn, register here
SUMMER EVENT for YOUTH
8/24 Youth kickoff river float, noon to whenever, register here
More information about our events can be found below, and info for all events can be found at uucorvallis.org by clicking “News” in the menu bar and then selecting “RE Council” from the drop down menu.
The second Sunday of each month, June through August, we’ll be hosting a family hike. We ask that families preregister so that we know who to wait for at the trailhead, and hikes with fewer than 2 registered families will be canceled via text.
We’ll be starting with Lewisburg Saddle and a little visit to the spot my family calls Salamander Heaven because there are tons of salamanders to see. Then we’ll hit Fitton Green in July. We’ll wrap up the summer with a short walk followed by a splash in a bend in the river that has shallows for little humans and a deeper pool for our confident swimmers on the back side of Mary’s River Natural Area.
Exciting news! The youth will have a dedicated youth room in September and they’ve chosen a wild accent wall to paint themselves. We will begin painting this Sunday and continue on Sundays until the job is done. Please have youth arrive in clothes that can get paint on them.
On the first Sunday of each month, we will have a multiage activity for the kids. In July, we’ll prepare a lemonade stand again to raise money for the charitable organization that the children vote to give to. In August, we’ll spend some time on the playground talking about our shared values and what they mean to us, and then sidewalk chalk the heck out of firwood entrance with 6 word statements about our values.
If you’re nervous about having the kids in the sanctuary again, know that you’ll have relief on the first Sunday of each month!
In addition to hikes and during-service activities, we have a couple of night time activities that are open to the entire congregation, and geared specifically toward families.
On June 29th, we’ll have a ballpark night with the Knights. Buy a ticket and join us in section 2 so we can sing and cheer and eat junk together. Register for that event HERE.
And on August 16th, we’re going to show the classic My Girl on an outdoor movie screen and you’re invited to camp on the lawn and show up to the service in your jammies the next day. Registration for the movie night with camping is HERE. You do not have to camp to come enjoy the movie!
It’s been so much fun getting to know your children over the course of this last year. They are delightful in all the ways and it’s the biggest honor to get to spend time with them week after week and get to know their quirks and gifts.
Thank you for raising such amazing humans and for being committed to doing it in community!
Before you go, some parents have requested to be contacted about RE happenings via text. Our church management software allows for that, but only once you’ve opted in. If you are interested in receiving things like this newsletter via text, please use this form to opt into that service. And please communicate with me about how it’s going if you opt in. Breeze can be a bit fussy, so this will be a new experiment. I’ll be counting on your feedback!
And as always, if you’d like to stop receiving updates about Fellowship RE activities, email me and let me know.
Happy June, Y’all!
“Welcoming our sorrow eases the hardened places within us, allowing them to open and freeing us to once more feel our kinship with the living presence around us. This is deep activism, soul activism that actually encourages us to connect with the tears of the world. Grief keeps the heart flexible, fluid, and open to others… Our activism is directly connected to our heart’s ability to respond to the world. A congested heart, one burdened with unexpressed sorrow, cannot stay open to the world, and consequently, cannot be fully available for the healing work so needed at this time.” – Frances Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow:
WHEN: July 7th @ 6:00-8:00
WHERE: Social Hall
WHAT: Workshop offered by Skyla to explore lamentation — the ancient practice of passionately expressing sorrow through language and art. Participants will engage with a formal structure for writing a personal lament and artistically express their grief in the format of a small zine. No artistic skills are needed, and all supplies will be provided.
This workshop was generously provided to religious professionals around the nation by Rev. JaKaren Bell and the UU College of Social Justice, with the invitation to teach this practice in our home congregations. It is our hope that this spiritual practice will provide spiritual sustenance to fuel your justice work.
All youth and adults are welcome.