9/13/2026 Ice Cream Social

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Registration is requested HERE

WHAT: Free ice cream, games, and community building

WHEN: Sunday, September 13th from 5–6:30 PM

WHERE: Fellowship lawn

WHY: Because it’s good to connect, play together, and eat frozen sugar!

All ages are invited to join us for a cold treat and meet ’n’ greet on the Fellowship lawn on Sunday, September 13th from 5 to 6:30 PM, hosted by the RE Council teams!

Have a casual chance to reconnect and start the new Fellowship year off right, and find out what’s coming up in RE for adults, families, children, and youth in the year ahead. Discuss your brilliant ideas with RE team leaders and Skyla. Catch up with old friends and maybe even meet your new Fellowship bestie over a sundae bar!

We’ll have gluten-free and vegan options available, as well as board games to share.

It would be super helpful in our planning if you would REGISTER HERE, but if you forget, please do come anyway!

See you there!

Interim Pianist Opening

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Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Corvallis 

6-12 Month Interim Pianist Job Description 

Position Summary 

The pianist works under the direction of the Senior Minister and provides music at scheduled Sunday morning service(s), provides Accompaniment to the choir during performances and scheduled weekly rehearsal(s).

This is an interim position but may be added to the staff in future. 

Essential Functions 

Under the leadership of the Senior Minister, the pianist provides music pertaining to the worship services – typically, congregational singing, a prelude and postlude, and music for congregational singing. 

  • The pianist is expected to play a variety of types of music and have the ability to improvise. 
  • The pianist accompanies the choir and other planned music for Sunday morning worship services. 
  • The pianist accompanies adult choir rehearsals once per week.
  • If an absence is anticipated or an emergency occurs that prevents your availability, the pianist must notify the pastor or worship chairperson as early as possible, and assist in arranging substitutes to the extent possible. 
  • The pianist should understand that a variety of traditions and styles of music are frequently appropriate for the services and that different instruments are often included. 

Job Qualifications and Requirements 

  • Experience accompanying choral groups and ensembles – soloists, duets, trios, etc…
  • Ability to improvise thematic and melodic background music. 
  • Ability to collaborate with the Senior Minister, and lay musicians. 
  • Experience in a variety of musical styles and ability to perform with other instrumentalists. 
  • Ability to work with people of diverse sexual orientations, ethnic, racial, social, cultural, and economic backgrounds. 
  • Completion of a background check is required for all UUFC employees. 

Hours and Pay 

Pay: $100 each Sunday and each Wednesday (7-8:30 pm) for choir practice. 

Please respond to personnel@uucorvallis.org with resume and/or any questions.

Help Needed Installing New Playset

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We need your help!

We have been kindly gifted a new-to-us playset for the RE and preschool playground. On Monday (Aug. 24) we’ll need assistance to take down and remove the old structure. On Tuesday we’ll be picking up and assembling the new structure. The timing for this is very fortunate because the preschool is closed this coming week. 

If you can help on either day, please show up at the Fellowship at 1pm on Monday Aug. 24 and/or 9am on Tuesday Aug. 25. Bring hammers, wrenches and work gloves.

Any help would be appreciated

Questions please contact Steve Ferrell or Brian Egan.

Once the old structure has been taken down, the wood will be stored in the northern part of our grounds next to the parking lot. Please help yourself if you would like.

Parents Under Stress Supporting Teens Under Stress

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Dear Congregation:

Last Sunday, I read parts of a book during the Time for All Ages.  The name of the book is Wildfire, by Breena Bard (see photo).

Because I was speaking to children and youth of all ages, and only had an about five minutes, I lifted up only a few themes from the book.  But this amazing graphic novel covers many themes pertinent to families who have just gone through a tragedy.  In this book, the family loses their farm in rural Oregon during a wildfire and relocates to Portland.  In their effort to be strong for the kids and get through daily logistics, the parents don’t share their grief with their kids.  And in an effort not to be pitied by new friends, the main character, a teen, does not share that she knows one of the boys who started the fire — who is now also in her new Portland school.  By the end of the book, the pressure builds to a point where the parents and teen are finally able to talk about their grief and anger.  This came about in part because of a school teacher who observed the overwhelm in the teen.  One lesson from this is that safe adults outside a family can often be a buffer and link to healing within a family.

When I was 16, my father had a stroke and became paralyzed on his left side.  During that next year, the church was a place where parents of my friends made space for my emotions.  Further, the church’s pastoral counselor offered family counseling sessions where I discovered that saying hard things to my parents could actually lead to all of us feeling better.  

My wish for all of us, of all ages, is that when life sends us painful curveballs, and when stress overwhelms us, that we eventually find our way to talking with our closest loved ones.  And if any part of the Fellowship can help with that, may it be so.

With care,
Rev. Alex

Democracy Action Team Gathering, 8/16

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Meet once monthly during daylight hours to plan and support each other in reaching our goals to uphold and renew our democratic principles and to educate and enjoy ourselves along the way. Karen Josephson, contact.

11:45 AM in the Library.

We will chat and write letters. If you need materials, we are bringing both Letters and postcards. Stamps are available for all writers.

Vegan Potluck New Time. 6:30pm, 8/23

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To support our status as a Green Sanctuary, the Fellowship hosts a Community Vegan Potluck at 6:30 on the 4th Sunday of every month.
Everyone is Welcome! Join us in the Social Hall.

Bring a dish to share with others as we learn to eat in a more climate friendly way.
Include Plant foods: grains, beans, fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, herbs & spices.
Exclude Animal foods: no flesh, fluids, or unborn young.

Try it! You’ll like it!!
Need more info? Contact Ann Marchant.

Men’s Retreat – Sign Up by Oct. 1

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Playing the Game of Life: How Do We Roll?

Register ONLINE at https://uufc.breezechms.com/form/mensretreatregistration2026.

Join us at Camp Harlow near Eugene (only an hour’s drive from Corvallis). This is a great opportunity for those who identify as men to get to know each other better and build deeper connections. The fee for the retreat is on a sliding scale, based on what you can afford. Check out the flyer with details at this link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KIMivMGszgBUKOD_mSq7pUeyUU0Qa3Dj/view?usp=sharing

More information: contact Alan Kirk <mensretreat@uucorvallis.org>

ETC (Elders Thriving in Community), 9/10

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GOAL SETTING & LIFESTYLE CONSIDERATIONS FOR RETIREMENT

“Enriching our retirement with thoughtful planning”
Thursday, Sept. 10 @ 3:00 – 4:30pm in the Sanctuary
With people living longer and in better health than our predecessors, we may have several active years in this phase of our lives. Whether you are already retired or thinking ahead, let’s give this some thought together as we face the openness and freedom that retirement can offer. It can be time to pursue interests that have been put off for years even if we don’t have so much spring in our step! A panel of fellow UUFC retirees will share their thoughts and experiences as they began this era of their lives. Open discussion to follow.

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.” – Rumi

Parking Lot Rummage Sale, 9/12

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Find items in your closets, attic, garage that you no longer need and donate them to the annual UUFC Parking Lot Rummage Sale. Pre-price the items at home (whole dollar amounts, thrift store pricing) and bring them between 8:00 – 8:45 AM to the UUFC parking lot. Display the items on tables there or ones you bring. Join with a friend or two to stay by the table and encourage sales. Send buyers to a central cashier. At 1:00 PM pack up any unsold items and take home or to a thrift store. It’s a win-win for you and the Fellowship. Encourage all your friends and neighbors to come.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: We need volunteers to post flyers in Corvallis, Albany, and Philomath no later than September 5, help set up and take down tables and cashier on September 12. Use this Sign Up Genius link to sign up now.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0444AEA72DA7F4CE9-64895823-uufc