weekly announcements

Partner Church Minister Visit – .Join in! 9/20-9/30

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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:

  • Prep / serving at the Friday, Sept. 27 Hungarian Dinner
  • Hosting or co/hosting a tour of a local high school, of OSU, of a trip to the Coast, a day at the Fall Festival, a trip the the Corvallis Benton County Museum
  • Sharing a meal at your house
  • Other activities you’d like to offer

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, 9/16 CANCELLED

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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.

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2024 Women’s Retreat: Registration is Open!

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Register now for the 2025 Women’s Retreat! Read how here! Please register by October 5. 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

Neurodivergence & Mental Health Support Group, 3rd Sundays @ 11:45

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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. 

Family Pool Party, 9/29

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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!

Oregon Clean Power Cooperative Offers OSU College of Forestry Investment Opportunity

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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.

Pop-Up Parking Lot Rummage Sale, 8/31

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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.

Bread Bag Exchange

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We’ve been running an experimental exchange of bread bags to be used as dog poop bags. The supply side has been a huge success, with lots of bags contributed. However, the demand has been low, with few takers. We plan to give it another couple of weeks, but if bread bags are not an attractive option for after-dog clean up, we’ll discontinue the experiment.

Questions/suggestions: Contact Michael Hughes

Crafters & Artists Wanted for Holiday Fair, 12/7

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Calling All Crafters & Artists Our UUFC Holiday Fair is coming December 7. 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