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UUFC Women’s Retreat 2025 – deadline to register is 10/5

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Please register by Oct. 5 for the Women’s Retreat –
“Right Here, Right Now: Peace through Practice” – We will share practices that may help you find peace in your center, peace in your connections, and peace in your community. At this time, Peace through Protest is a way to be in balance, even if we’re wobbly.

The Women’s Retreat will be held at the UUFC on Friday night Oct. 17 from 6:30 – 8:30 pm and from 9:00 am – 7:00 pm on Saturday, Oct. 18. On Saturday, lunch will be served at noon, and there will be program options that include participating at the No Kings protest at the county courthouse. The $55 fee for the retreat includes two meals on Saturday catered by Forks and Corks.

Please register using this form. https://uufc.breezechms.com/form/wr2025.
Payment can be made online or by check to the UUFC with “Women’s Retreat” in the memo line.
Volunteers, suggestions, and questions are welcome at womensretreat@uucorvallis.org.

LEGATO potluck, 10/8

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Everyone is welcome to join the choir and band for a meal of laughter, goodwill and perhaps song! The Fall weather beckons a warm, cozy meal shared with others. The LEGATO potluck is Wednesday, October 8 at 6:30 PM. Come early if you can help set up tables. This is followed by rehearsal at 7:00 PM.

Bring a dish to share (please identify all ingredients), a serving utensil (if needed) AND YOUR OWN PLACE SETTING & WATER BOTTLE – this is a low-impact meal.

This is a Connect Up Event with the purpose of building community within the UUFC congregation.

Kirtan with Gina Sala and Friends, 10/10

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Featuring Jeanette Kangas (tabla), Johanna Beekman (vox), David Campbell (trumpet) & friends.

Come feel your mind, body and heart relax and reconnect Friday, October 10, 7-8:30 PM in the UUFC’s Sanctuary as we immerse in world chants, meditative manra, groove and story with life-long chanter and long-term teacher and sound yogni Gina Salā and her wonderful band.

Let’s raise the vibration!

Democracy Action Team, Tuesdays & Thursdays

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The DAT is proud to announce that letter writing is officially back! Join us in person on Tuesdays (in the UUFC library) and on Zoom (link HERE) on Thursdays – both at 5:30 pm. We’ll write to voters in Pennsylvania asking them to retain State Supreme Justices who oppose partisan gerrymandering and to Virginia to inform voters of issues that will help them understand the choices they face in the upcoming state election. We will also write to our legislators. We’ll have addresses and supplies on Tuesdays.

Contact Claire M. for information.

Information Session on Being a Sunday Service Reader, 10/11

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Have you ever felt a calling to serve as a reader during Sunday Service? Please come learn more about this opportunity, October 11, Saturday, at 9:30 – 11 AM in the Sanctuary! You will have a chance to read from the pulpit and see how it feels. After attending this info session, any participant can let Rev. Alex know that they would like to be on a roster of readers to be asked to read in worship.

Elders Thriving in Community, 10/8

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Aging Successfully in community
Aging Successfully in community

Listen to a panel of UUFC members hosted by the Elders Thriving in Community team on Wednesday, October 8 at 3 PM in the Sanctuary. Saying YES to Life even when it’s hard: a panel of older UUFC members will share their perspectives on staying engaged and connected, thriving & finding joy, throughout life’s changes & challenges.

Speaking of Democracy Online Discussion Series (Sept 16 – Oct 21)

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The Statewide UU Advocacy organization, Oregon UU Voices for Justice is sponsoring weekly online gatherings for UUs to meet to share and learn about actions that each of us can take to save our Democracy. Beginning Sept. 16, we will gather on zoom each week on Tuesday evenings at 6:30 PM. There will be time to acknowledge what we are experiencing in the moment and also to get resources and information about topics concerning our current moment of democratic backsliding.

Email Robin Lancaster for the link or join the Democracy Action Team in person for a watch party in the Fellowship Library. We will continue to learn and listen about how our Fellow UU Congregations are responding to this difficult moment in American civic life.

Sept. 16 The UUA Action of Immediate Witness: Faithful Defiance of Authoritarianism

Sept. 23 Characteristics of Successful Pro-Democracy Movements

Sept. 30 Boycotts and Economic resistance

Oct 7 Digital Safety

Oct. 14 Mis and Dis information

Oct. 21 Advocacy

Celebrating the Wonders of Faith, 10/5

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The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, the Corvallis Interfaith Network and the Interfaith Kirtan Band are hosting the event “Celebrating the Wonders of Faith” on Sunday, October 5 at 3 PM in the Sanctuary and Social Hall. We invite members of any religious affiliation, faith community, or spiritual path to join us. We welcome members who are non-affiliated spirit seekers as well. Each presenter is encouraged to share their individual ways of living their spiritual lives, not in an attempt to convert another, but as a way to seek the universal truths alive in all people.
Please join us for an evening with members from many faiths as they share their music and wisdom!
Enter with an open mind, listening ears and a gracious heart — leave in faith, trust and LOVE.
Strengthening UNITY
In our CommUNITY!