The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Corvallis
Sangha Jewel Zen Center Open House & Book Sale!
All are Welcome!
Saturday, June 29th, 10am-1pm
Come see the Zen Center! Get a tour, ask questions, learn about our offerings, have tea, check out the book sale, enjoy a musical offering, learn meditation, and build community!
Come anytime from 10am-1pm. Questions? hello@corvalliszencircle.co
This Sunday 6/9 join us in the UUFC Library at 11:30 to talk about happenings for the unhoused in Corvallis.
Shelter, food, transitional housing and new home for CHF (Corvallis Housing First).
The indoor plants are being fed & watered regularly, please don’t add water to them!
June 9th, 11:30 AM
Break out the sunscreen and join UU’s for an afternoon at BENEDITTO VINEYARD for wine tasting on their beautiful deck. Beneditto’s was a surprise winery last year and definitely worth visiting. They are west of Dallas just off Hwy 22 at 14020 Orchard Knob Road. They open at noon and it takes about 45 minutes to get there.
Bring food to share with the group and if you have a wine passport, the tasting is free. We will plan to leave UUFC after the service. You might consider carpooling. Please contact Heather E if you plan to attend so she can alert the Vineyard of our numbers.
Hope to see you for a fun connect up outing. Heather E
June 24th, 7-8:30 PM, we’re exploring the multiple award-winning and NYT best-seller book, The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkerson, to help us grasp more fully how the “great migration” changed America. Please contact Elona Meyer for more information and the Zoom link.
June 2 “River of Life Ceremonies” – DRE Skyla King-Christisen and UUFC Youth
June 9 “The Shared World” – Rev. Jill McAllister
June 16 “Summer Solstice : Considering the Sun” – Rev. Jill McAllister
June 23 “She, They, and Me” – Rev. Jill McAllister
June 30 “Be Careful What You Worship” – Rev. Jill McAllister
Our outreach offerings for the month of June will once again support Flaming Chalice International, the non-profit organization founded by Rev. Fulgence Ndagijimana to support both Burundian Unitarian refugees and Unitarians within Burundi. Our contributions help support job training, scholarships, housing and food for refugees, social justice projects focused on women’s health and dignity, and maintaining clean water supplies in remote villages. The Fellowship has been part of this international partnership for more than ten years. Our support makes a difference in lives of many Burundians and in the health and growth of global UUism.
June 22 is Pride Day in Albany—a big wonderful party with performers, information, advocacy. Joyce Marvel-Benoist and JF Benoist have been hosting a Support Booth each year on the lawn near the stage.
This booth makes space for people to come get a snack, relax and create some calm, ask for support, feel accepted.
We are looking for helpers that day for 2-3 hour shifts. You must be emotionally mature, and good at being present and calm and welcoming.
Contact Joyce at 808-756-2703 if you can be supportive all day that day.
Thanks to all for food and clothing for our unhoused neighbors. With Summer coming on SORT – the Street Out Reach Team – has need of food for those who cannot make it to the Corvallis Drop-in Center.
Here is a list – (please nothing that takes a microwave. Can make hot water or heat up small cans):
Thank you for your support –and if you have an hour or more on weekends, Stone Soup needs volunteers. Stone Soup has been serving one hot meal every day for over 2 decades, for anyone who asks.
We are so happy to welcome global vocalist and long-term sound teacher Gina Salā back to Corvallis! Join us for a moving chant evening that will open your heart! Then, join us in a special workshop as Gina guides us in the yoga of sound, bhakti chant, medicine song and sound tantra, along with warmups, raga (Indian singing), refined mantra and medicine songs! All welcome, come to one or both events. Come experience the power and pleasure of your voice!
About Gina Salā- Gina has been chanting since her early childhood ashram years living in a Hindu ashram. Her performance credits include Cirque du Soleil, the United Nations, festivals and ashrams and her repertoire spans 20 languages. Blessed with wonderful gurus throughout her life, Gina has led classes, workshops and international retreats for over 25 years in sound in bhakti chant, raga, mantra, sound for wellness, sound tantra and song. Her Awakening Voice Power of Love Sound School and other online offerings draw people from 4 continents. With warmth, humor and devotion, her passion is helping us sing ourselves awake to Who we are and the Love within.
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