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Join the Birthday Club
Your birthday is a day to celebrate: it marks the day you joined fellow beings on this planet and gave your beloved community the opportunity to get to know and love you. –What a miracle!
A wonderful way within the UUFC to honor the threads of connection you are weaving in your life is to join the Birthday Club. What’s the Birthday Club?
It is a group of UUFC folks who commit to annually contribute on or near their birthday a dollar amount equal to their new age. Your contribution honors another year you’ve shared with us in community. It adds your dollars to the UUFC Endowment Fund, whose earnings are used to keep our intergenerational congregation vibrant for the long term. Recently, the endowment earnings have been used to provide childcare so that UUFC members can attend events and meetings at the UUFC, and have funded scholarships for families to attend summer camps at Eliot Institute.
Joining the Birthday Club is a gift to yourself and to the UUFC, since a robust Endowment fund ensures UUFC can continue to support both the people and the place that make up our community. Plus a sweet bonus: we’ll celebrate you and other birthday clubbers ~each calendar quarter with a big cake and a hearty huzzah!
We hope you’ll join the Birthday Club and help build our endowment fund, which will help ensure our future vitality. Contributions can be made by check (write Birthday Club on the memo line) and USPS mailed to UUFC, or online via the drop-down menu in Breeze.
Email Scam Alert
If you receive an email inviting you to a special event and asking you to click a link to view the invite or view the card, DO NOT CLICK THE LINK. The invite will probably come from an email address you recognize, belonging to another person at the Fellowship who fell victim to the scam. Please delete the email and inform Cameron at comms@uucorvallis.org that you were targeted.
Outreach Offerings for July
Our July Monthly Outreach offering will support Authentic Hope.
Authentic Hope is a non-profit counseling center located in Corvallis, Oregon. They provide individual therapy for adults, children, teens, young adults, including the LGBTQ+ community, and support clients and their families who struggle with anxiety, grief, and trauma recovery.
Read more at authentichopeoregon.org.
New Board Secretary, John Bailey!
The new Board of Directors has begun their service! John Bailey is now serving as Secretary of the Board, and so has taken ownership of the email address secretary@uucorvallis.org. Priscilla Galasso will no longer be checking the Secretary email. If you wish to reach Priscilla, please look up her contact info in our online member directory.
You can see the entire Board of Directors, and the contact info for the Officers, at uucorvallis.org/about/board/.
UUA Common Read: Social Change Now!, 7/14
Join the Justice Council and RE Council for a group exploration of this year’s UUA Common Read. The book this year is Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection by Deepa Iyer (Skinner House). This book provides tools for Unitarian Universalists to grow more authentic, connected, and effective as individuals and communities as we pursue transformative justice together.
If you have questions or need assistance purchasing the book, contact Robin Lancaster.
Please register using this form: https://uufc.breezechms.com/form/CommonRead2026
Deadline to register is July 6!
Childcare is available!
Free childcare can usually be arranged for any Fellowship event by using this link 1-2 weeks prior to the event.
Music Sharing Night, 6/29
Hi Everyone!
If you have music to share, this is your chance to shine! Music Sharing Night is coming up next Monday, June 29th, 7-9 PM.
To sign up to perform, please fill out this form:
Or just come and enjoy the music. Hope to see you there!
Questions? Please contact David at music@uucorvallis.org.
2025-26 Services Auction Feedback Request
In 2026, for the first time, the Services Auction was held off-campus. This was an experiment, and we ask for feedback using the linked form https://forms.gle/XerdBHzwPQmj2MZ2A to share their views on the Scout Lodge and their preferences with respect to hosting future auctions at UUFC, the Scout Lodge, or, potentially, other off-campus sites. Responses will be used by the fundraising team in making its recommendation to the Finance Council and Board on the venue for future Auctions.
If more than one adult in your household attended the Auction at the Scout Lodge, please ask them to also complete the form https://forms.gle/XerdBHzwPQmj2MZ2A.
Questions: Michael Hughes treasurer@uucorvallis.org.
Inquirers Series swap this week, 6/21
The Inquirers Series class this week (June 21, 2026) will be Membership 101. The Care & Support class will now be on June 28. This swap is temporary; the regular class sequence will continue after June 28.
Membership 101 is one of the three classes required before signing the membership book. If you’re interested in becoming a signed member of the Fellowship, you can read more on our Path to Membership page.
Democracy Action Team “Get Out the Vote” letters, 6/21
Let’s Get Writing to GET OUT THE VOTE in the 2026 midterm elections!
Join us to write, ask questions, and share good company – in person on Sunday, June 21, 11:45 am, in the Library or on Zoom on Tuesdays, every week, at 4pm (ZOOM LINK – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89739152521?pwd=ICCRN0wITf7Ws78wycvpXQckt0iChc.1)
Check out Vote Forward letter writing, get addresses and letter templates, at (https://votefwd.org/get-involved)
Contact Claire Montgomery for information.