The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Corvallis
It’s that time of year again — school is starting, and facilities are being spruced up for the arrival of children and teachers. That goes for the Magic Flute Pre-School and our own Sunday Spirit Play program. The RE playground gets lots of use, and is in need of it’s annual replenishment of wood chips. Six or seven volunteers makes the spreading easy. Join us on Saturday morning, Sept. 7, for this fun and easy spruce-up job.
Questions?
contact Michael Hughes
More than 380 Corvallis School District students are identified as homeless and many more experience food insecurity and financial hardship. This Program connects families with critical resources so that students can arrive at school ready to learn. By donating to the Program, you can help provide access to essential community resources like housing, healthcare, emergency financial assistance, food pantries, employment opportunities, DHS benefits, and other forms of support.
Our Transylvanian Partner Church minister, Rev. Katalin Szasz-Cserey and her son Mate will be visiting us Sept. 20 – 20. The Partner Church team is making arrangements and welcomes help from all who are interested. Please contact Patricia and Janet if you would enjoy spending time with Kati and Mate who both have some English skills and access to Google Translate.
Ways to help:
Rev. Kati will preach on Sunday Sept. 29, followed by the dedication of our relocated Memorial Garden and the traditional Hungarian Szekely Gate at its entrance.
Grief Tending Circle 6-7:30 p.m. Monday September 16 in the UUFC Library
Come join us as we share our grief in a circle of compassion to acknowledge, listen to, and tend to the broken heart. Grief and its accompanying emotions like anger, frustration, loneliness, numbness, and confusion can be overwhelming to process alone. Whether your grief is from surviving the loss of a loved one, a breakup, a life transition, or bearing witness to the calamities of our planet including climate grief, wars and genocides, this gathering is for you.
Our time together will include poetry, sharing, writing, and a simple ritual.
Facilitators: Anna Coffman and Susan Sanford
Please sign up so we can be prepared for you and let you know what to bring.
Contact Susan and Anna for more information.
SAVE THE DATE! UUFC Women’s Retreat October 17-18 at the UUFC. Theme: Right Here, Right Now: Peace through Practice. We’ll gather to strengthen our center, strengthen our connections, strengthen our community. Volunteers, suggestions, and questions are welcome at womensretreat@uucorvallis.org. Team facilitators are Heather Thomas, Kimi Mayo, and Priscilla Galasso
THIS GROUP IS ON SUMMER HIATUS. PLEASE JOIN US IN SEPTEMBER.
3rd Sunday of each month @11:45
This group for mutual support in the realm of living with neurodivergence or mental health challenges is facilitated by Anthony Acquilano.
This group is not intended to be a substitute for professional care, and participants are discouraged from attempting to provide solutions to other members’ challenges. Instead, this is a space to share experiences, feel heard, learn from the experiences of others, and share resources.
Please register here to receive an email reminder on Thursday before each gathering.
All Fellowship families with children in RE are invited to a HEATED pool party on September 29th from 2-4.
If it’s not your child’s weekend with you, but you want to mingle with other parents, come anyway. If you’ve got a baby who’s not ready for swimming, come anyway and meet other families. Deeply connected families are the foundation of Fellowship life!
Location information will be sent to all registered families the week before.
More information can be found at the registration page HERE!
All who identify as men are welcome to join our gatherings on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of each month beginning at 11:45 AM, in Room 9, upstairs in the classroom wing.
The UUFC itself and UUFC members have invested in Oregon Clean Power Cooperative (OCPC) projects in the past. OCPC has a new offering for solar work OSU’s College of Forestry. Loans will be two-year with rate varying from 1-4%. The UUFC will soon be repaid for a loan we made to OCPC for a project at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. The Fellowship may reinvest in other OCPC projects once we have had an opportunity to explore other investment options. The UUFC invests ~4% of its reserve funds in “alternative” investments. These are investments that may not be quite at market rate but offer some return and benefit our local community.
Russ Karow, Chair UUFC Financial Oversight Council
See the OCPC Website for more information.
Our Pop-Up Parking Lot Rummage Sale is Saturday, August 31 – 10:00-1:00 There’s just one more week to gather items you no longer need, price them, and bring them to our UUFC Parking Lot on Saturday, August 31.
• Stay for 3 hours and “sell” your items
• Send buyers to a central cashier
• Take home any unsold items at the end of the sale It’s a fun event and an easy way to recycle items you no longer want while helping to support the Fellowship.
Please join us and tell others. We need “sellers” and buyers.
Public welcome.