Author: UUFJC1
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Bread Communion Tomorrow
Tomorrow we celebrate with Bread Communion, a cherished celebration to many of us led by our beloved Katherine Connor. You are encouraged to bring a bread of your choice to share. It may be one that speaks to your heritage or, in my case, my dietary restrictions. There will be butter, apple butter, jelly, honey…
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Bread Communion on Sunday, November 23
In bread communion, people bring different kinds of bread to share. Some bring breads that are part of their cultural heritage, like pita bread from the Middle East, or Irish soda bread. Breads around the world are very different, but every civilization that has ever lived on the earth has made some type of bread.…
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Subversive Gratitude by Rev. Sasha Ostrom
This Sunday, we’ll explore how gratitude can be a radical, restorative force in a broken world.
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Food Drive Update
Our fellowship is collecting a non perishable food drive to donate for our Jefferson City Salvation Army food pantry. I spoke with a manager there named Karen. She reports that the number of people served this past month is nearly double that of previous months. As you can imagine, the decrease in available food for…
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From Missouri Faith Voices
The last several meetings we have talked about the unhoused population in Jefferson City and coming up with ideas how to help. The other big issue is concern for how ICE is dealing with Immigrants and how they are being detained and treated. These are the two main issues we are dealing with at the…
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Food drive open until 11/16
Our Social Justice Committee has spent much effort on current national and state issues. But at this time, we have a country of people who for the first time are accessing our food pantries. Also, there is a decrease in federal funding for food. It is “a perfect storm”. Therefore, we are having a food…
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On Gratitude by Rev. Jamie Hinson-Rieger
Gratitude is a foundational spiritual practice that connects us to joy and is associated with resilience. However, gratitude can be complicated too–it can be accompanied by guilt, or serve as a form of denial, or veer into toxic positivity. This Sunday we will explore all the facets of gratitude before returning to where we started–that…