weekly announcements

Faith-based climate action this week, 1/7/2024

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Good News

Climate-action Opportunities

Of Note

Save the Date

Climate Action Opportunities: We track (row 25) the number of clicks on the respond link for each suggested climate-action opportunity. The climate-action opportunity tracking results (an average of 3.4 clicks/opportunity) suggest this has not been an effective way to engage members/friends in climate action. Please consider committing the approx. 2 minutes per week needed and/or suggest ways to encourage and boost participation in this, our influence project.

Corvallis Sustainability Coalition: UUFC is a proud listed as one of the engaged partners of the Corvallis Sustainability Coalition, with Laura Craig as our representative.  There are multiple ways to get involved in the Corvallis Sustainability Coalition to help promote an ecologically, socially, and economically healthy city and county.  The Coalition’s annual meeting is this Wed, Jan 10, 4:30 – 6:00 PM, at the Corvallis Community Center, 2601 NW Tyler Ave.

Tree Planting: We still need volunteers to help plant ten (up from  our originally planned eight) trees in the islands in the Crystal Lake Playing Fields/Willamette Park parking lot, 10:00 AM to Noon, Sat 20 Jan. This is our third year of collaborative tree planting with the City’s Urban Forestry Program. Questions and/or to volunteer, email Michael Hughes with Subject Tree Planting.

Carpooling to Sunday Service: You’re invited to join the UUFC carpool group at Gomates. Questions: email Scott Bruslind

Cheers, Michael

The one thing we need more than hope is action. Once we start to act, hope is everywhere.

Greta Thunberg

Congratulations!

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Congratulations to Fellowship members Blaise Ntakarutimana and Gisele Akima, living now in Portland, on the birth of baby Miley Anaya Shimineza in December. Everyone is doing well, and siblings Shanti and Josh are very excited!

From the “Secure Housing and Food for All” Team

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We hope you all had a joyful holiday season. Thank you very much for sharing your time and effort to help the people of Corvallis who are struggling each day to survive by donating warm clothing and food items. It’s a new year and we continue with our efforts to help our less fortunate community.

The Unity Shelter is open again and can use volunteers, the Corvallis Drop-in Center is in need of warm clothing, and the South Corvallis Food Pantry needs to refill its shelves.

The Secure Shelter and Food for All team is meeting in the library of the UU on January 14 after the service. Please join us if you want to become active in this group.

Donation Needs

  • Shoes – Especially Boots! (men’s 9+ or women’s 10+)
  • Gloves
  • Belts (plain, size 30-36)
  • ANY Outdoor Wear: hoodies, coats, sweatpants. Water-resistant preferred.
  • Bandanas and head wraps

Think Outdoorsy!

Thank you, Corvallis!

Democracy Action Team: Let’s Buy Some Stamps!

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During the last election cycle, members of UUFC’s Democracy Action Team wrote 20,000 letters to voters around the country, encouraging all to vote.  Our team is gearing up for another critical election season this year, and to prepare, they need to buy stamps for all those letters.  (Given the price of stamps, the cost of being a letter-writer can be prohibitive for some).  Several members of the team are offering a one-to-one match for all donations to the Stamp Fund:  All donations up to $5000 will be matched!   Stamp prices increase on January 21 – can you help raise another $5000 to support this important work? 

DONATE

An Adventure in Connection and Belonging 2/17 @ 9

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An engaging, honoring, accepting safe space.

The solution to our problems is not more correction — fixing oneself and others over and over.  The solution is experiencing ourselves differently—in connection. What does it mean to really experience connection primarily?

Facilitated by UU member and author/trainer JF Benoist.

Suggested donation for the UUFC $50

Or whatever you can pay ~ 

No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Everyone is welcome!

Please register for this event HERE.

IMPORTANT UPDATE for Brilliant Minds

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An incorrect registration link went out in the weeklies and the newsfeed for the Brilliant Minds Workshop. If you believe you have already registered via one of those , please take a look at THIS registration link and verify that it is the one you used. If you signed up on the clipboard and or via the bulletin board QR code, you are already good to go! Thank you so much for your interest in this offering!

Congratulations!

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Congratulations to Fellowship members Blaise Ntakarutimana and Gisele Akima, living now in Portland, on the birth of baby Miley Anaya Shimineza in December. Everyone is doing well, and siblings Shanti and Josh are very excited!