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UUFJC Newsletter: Flame on the Water, November 2022
Note: Our Trivia Night fundraiser is coming this Saturday, November 5th! Please sign up, bring friends, and help us spread the word! Doors open at 6:30, and the game starts at 7 pm. Registration is $10/person or $60 for a table of 6. Enjoy not only the game, but also a silent auction and raffles, including a 50-50 raffle. We will have bottled water; please bring other refreshments if you wish. Child care will be available. See below or contact Bob Antweiler for more information.
As our month of reflection on Courage draws to a close, I would like to share the following reading from our wider UU community. Often as UUs we think about having courage to confront forces outside our faith, but we are also human and need to face our flaws and do better. Sometimes that can take great courage, and this reading calls on us to be thankful for that courage.
Please stay safe, well, and connected!
Laura Gilkey
Administrator, UUFJC
Let Us Give Thanks for the Whistleblowers
By Frances Koziar
Let us give thanks
for the whistleblowers / of our faith:
express our gratitude, as deep and pure
as the underground lakes / of the world.
Let us breathe in their pain / and exhale
our sensitivities, opening / our arms wide enough
for all the worlds / that be.
Let us grieve too, for those
who have been lost. For those
who left / because of the mistakes
of the many. Grieve / for our sisters
and our siblings who went looking / elsewhere
for belonging, not / finding it here.
Let us grieve for our own pain, as oppressions
come between us, as sharp
as broken glass, and as invisible
to those who aren’t / paying attention.
Choosing to leave,
—to heal, to protect yourself--
is sacred, and is something many / of us must do.
But let us give all the more thanks, then
for those / who stay, and those
who come back. Let us give thanks
for the poor people / and indigenous people
and the trans people: for those
who chose to stay / in conversation,
lifting stifled / voices in rooms
of hostility. Let us give thanks
for our whistleblowers, who gave / themselves
for our faith—fools, all of us
for martyring ourselves / for a dream,
for this dream, for congregations
who have hurt us / too many times
to count, for the cracked / and broken path
we tread / that we hope / will lead
to Beloved Community: to that place
we have never seen, and yet still / pursue,
that rainbow / that touches the ocean’s
horizon, a distant gleam / of the acceptance
we have never / found.
Let us give thanks
for those who chose / to be angry
rather than leave, for those
who put their broken hearts / into words,
for those who challenged / our institutions
and our leaders / when they erred
—as we all err.
Let us give thanks for their love,
for without them—without / us--
we would know nothing / of it.
[Source Editor's Note: In this piece the author draws on her experiences of being a whistleblower in UU spaces: of calling out oppression, and working to make UU congregations more inclusive to all kinds of people. Being a whistleblower even in a small way can bring social costs (like being labelled a disturber of the peace, or feeling like you and/or any marginalized groups you belong to aren't wanted in your congregation as you are); however, like all of the difficult caring conversations we must partake in on this path toward Beloved Community and radical inclusion, calling out oppression and working toward a better future is also an act of incredible importance and love.]
For those who would like to keep up with our neighbors at the UU Church of Columbia, their service message from this morning is available to view online: https://youtu.be/Lra3zT5crYg
Next Sunday, November 6th:
Daylight Saving Time Ends.
Please remember to set your clocks back one hour before joining us this morning.
Adult Forum - 9:15 am
Bob Boldt
Our Adult Forum is currently available both in-person and via Zoom.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/98858741051?pwd=d3ZMbHJSL3NjMGMxZEM5N1VxUysxQT09
Meeting ID: 988 5874 1051
Password: 047662
Phone
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago - US toll)
Find your nearest number: https://zoom.us/u/aeC2zyWdIo
Service and Religious Education - 10:30 am
Rev. Mike Adamek
Our services are currently available both in person and on Zoom:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/94285041130
Meeting ID: 942 8504 1130
By Phone (US toll):
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
Find your nearest number: https://zoom.us/u/ak1ZLCDJG
Children's Religious Education - 10:30 am
Children attending in-person are welcome to join RE Instructor Samantha Porter for a lesson during the service hour. This week's lesson: "Traveling the Path of Our Changing Selves."
Lunch after Service: If you would like to join other members and friends for lunch, look for a whiteboard in our entry hallway near the water fountain to see the weekly lunch location. Please add a tally to the whiteboard if you plan to attend.
Masks are currently optional for those attending UUFJC events in person.
If you have a joy or concern that you would like to have read during a service or shared in our weekly email, please submit it by noon on the Friday before through our website: http://uufjc.org/joys--concerns.html
We will also have paper forms available Sunday morning for submissions.
Zoom participants, please use the web form. Submissions made after noon on Friday may not be read or shared until the following week.
UUFJC News and Events this week:
For accessibility and convenience, we now have an option to donate to our Fellowship online through PayPal:
Donate to UUFJC
You can also mail donations and pledges to:
UUFJC
Attn: Treasurer
PO Box 1245
Jefferson City, MO 65102
Thank you for being with us and supporting us!
And remember all our ways to stay in touch! You can visit our website at uufjc.org. You can also join our open-posting "UUFJC Cafe" Google Group to chat with other members and friends via e-mail and receive additional announcements and reminders (contact the Administrator at [email protected] to join).
This Saturday, November 5th, we will be holding a Trivia Night fundraiser, so please help us spread the word! Registration is $10/person or $60 for a table of 6. Child care will be available. We will have items for silent auction and raffles, as well as a 50-50 raffle. For more information or to register, contact Bob Antweiler.
Donations of raffle and silent auction items for our Trivia Night fundraiser are due TODAY. If you have any last-minute donations, please contact Bob Antweiler ASAP.
We are always in need of donations for our free community pantry. For donation ideas, guidelines, and more information, contact Joan Kurtzeborn. Reimbursements are available; contact our treasurer, Bob Antweiler: rp8mm9@gmail.com.
Alberta Mobley teaches her own Chair / Accessible yoga classes at our building Tuesday mornings at 9:30 am. Donations requested. For more information, contact Alberta. (Note: these classes will be ending after Nov. 22nd.)
On Thursdays at 5:30 pm, Katherine Connor hosts a weekly Zoom Happy Hour for UUFJC Members and Friends to gather and check in.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/91843966450?pwd=djBwTEx4YUxseW9SdytSZjJGS0xrdz09
Meeting ID: 918 4396 6450
Password: 918925
Phone:
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago - US toll)
Find your nearest number: https://zoom.us/u/aeC2zyWdIo
An Insight Meditation group taught by Joe McCormack meets at our building Thursday nights at 7 pm. For more information, contact Bob Antweiler.
Our building is reserved by community groups Wednesdays and Saturdays starting at 6 pm and Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 5:30 pm. If you have access to our building, please allow privacy at these times.
Community Events this week:
This Friday, November 4th at 7 pm, Missouri River Regional Library presents their monthly First Friday Film. This month's selection: "Judgment at Nuremberg." Considered one of the greatest films of all time, "Judgment at Nuremberg" is acclaimed as a magnificent achievement in filmmaking by director Stanley Kramer and an all-star cast including Spencer Tracy, Maximilian Schell, Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, William Shatner, Marlene Dietrich, and Montgomery Clift. American judge Dan Haywood presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. Contact Madeline Matson. For more on library events, visit MRRL.org.
For more events, see our online calendars:
UUFJC Events
Virtual Gatherings
Affiliated Events
Religious Education
Building Use (other)
Community Events
UUFJC Newsletter: Flame on the Water, November 2022
Note: Our Trivia Night fundraiser is coming this Saturday, November 5th! Please sign up, bring friends, and help us spread the word! Doors open at 6:30, and the game starts at 7 pm. Registration is $10/person or $60 for a table of 6. Enjoy not only the game, but also a silent auction and raffles, including a 50-50 raffle. We will have bottled water; please bring other refreshments if you wish. Child care will be available. See below or contact Bob Antweiler for more information.
As our month of reflection on Courage draws to a close, I would like to share the following reading from our wider UU community. Often as UUs we think about having courage to confront forces outside our faith, but we are also human and need to face our flaws and do better. Sometimes that can take great courage, and this reading calls on us to be thankful for that courage.
Please stay safe, well, and connected!
Laura Gilkey
Administrator, UUFJC
Let Us Give Thanks for the Whistleblowers
By Frances Koziar
Let us give thanks
for the whistleblowers / of our faith:
express our gratitude, as deep and pure
as the underground lakes / of the world.
Let us breathe in their pain / and exhale
our sensitivities, opening / our arms wide enough
for all the worlds / that be.
Let us grieve too, for those
who have been lost. For those
who left / because of the mistakes
of the many. Grieve / for our sisters
and our siblings who went looking / elsewhere
for belonging, not / finding it here.
Let us grieve for our own pain, as oppressions
come between us, as sharp
as broken glass, and as invisible
to those who aren’t / paying attention.
Choosing to leave,
—to heal, to protect yourself--
is sacred, and is something many / of us must do.
But let us give all the more thanks, then
for those / who stay, and those
who come back. Let us give thanks
for the poor people / and indigenous people
and the trans people: for those
who chose to stay / in conversation,
lifting stifled / voices in rooms
of hostility. Let us give thanks
for our whistleblowers, who gave / themselves
for our faith—fools, all of us
for martyring ourselves / for a dream,
for this dream, for congregations
who have hurt us / too many times
to count, for the cracked / and broken path
we tread / that we hope / will lead
to Beloved Community: to that place
we have never seen, and yet still / pursue,
that rainbow / that touches the ocean’s
horizon, a distant gleam / of the acceptance
we have never / found.
Let us give thanks
for those who chose / to be angry
rather than leave, for those
who put their broken hearts / into words,
for those who challenged / our institutions
and our leaders / when they erred
—as we all err.
Let us give thanks for their love,
for without them—without / us--
we would know nothing / of it.
[Source Editor's Note: In this piece the author draws on her experiences of being a whistleblower in UU spaces: of calling out oppression, and working to make UU congregations more inclusive to all kinds of people. Being a whistleblower even in a small way can bring social costs (like being labelled a disturber of the peace, or feeling like you and/or any marginalized groups you belong to aren't wanted in your congregation as you are); however, like all of the difficult caring conversations we must partake in on this path toward Beloved Community and radical inclusion, calling out oppression and working toward a better future is also an act of incredible importance and love.]
For those who would like to keep up with our neighbors at the UU Church of Columbia, their service message from this morning is available to view online: https://youtu.be/Lra3zT5crYg
Next Sunday, November 6th:
Daylight Saving Time Ends.
Please remember to set your clocks back one hour before joining us this morning.
Adult Forum - 9:15 am
Bob Boldt
Our Adult Forum is currently available both in-person and via Zoom.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/98858741051?pwd=d3ZMbHJSL3NjMGMxZEM5N1VxUysxQT09
Meeting ID: 988 5874 1051
Password: 047662
Phone
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago - US toll)
Find your nearest number: https://zoom.us/u/aeC2zyWdIo
Service and Religious Education - 10:30 am
Rev. Mike Adamek
Our services are currently available both in person and on Zoom:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/94285041130
Meeting ID: 942 8504 1130
By Phone (US toll):
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
Find your nearest number: https://zoom.us/u/ak1ZLCDJG
Children's Religious Education - 10:30 am
Children attending in-person are welcome to join RE Instructor Samantha Porter for a lesson during the service hour. This week's lesson: "Traveling the Path of Our Changing Selves."
Lunch after Service: If you would like to join other members and friends for lunch, look for a whiteboard in our entry hallway near the water fountain to see the weekly lunch location. Please add a tally to the whiteboard if you plan to attend.
Masks are currently optional for those attending UUFJC events in person.
If you have a joy or concern that you would like to have read during a service or shared in our weekly email, please submit it by noon on the Friday before through our website: http://uufjc.org/joys--concerns.html
We will also have paper forms available Sunday morning for submissions.
Zoom participants, please use the web form. Submissions made after noon on Friday may not be read or shared until the following week.
UUFJC News and Events this week:
For accessibility and convenience, we now have an option to donate to our Fellowship online through PayPal:
Donate to UUFJC
You can also mail donations and pledges to:
UUFJC
Attn: Treasurer
PO Box 1245
Jefferson City, MO 65102
Thank you for being with us and supporting us!
And remember all our ways to stay in touch! You can visit our website at uufjc.org. You can also join our open-posting "UUFJC Cafe" Google Group to chat with other members and friends via e-mail and receive additional announcements and reminders (contact the Administrator at [email protected] to join).
This Saturday, November 5th, we will be holding a Trivia Night fundraiser, so please help us spread the word! Registration is $10/person or $60 for a table of 6. Child care will be available. We will have items for silent auction and raffles, as well as a 50-50 raffle. For more information or to register, contact Bob Antweiler.
Donations of raffle and silent auction items for our Trivia Night fundraiser are due TODAY. If you have any last-minute donations, please contact Bob Antweiler ASAP.
We are always in need of donations for our free community pantry. For donation ideas, guidelines, and more information, contact Joan Kurtzeborn. Reimbursements are available; contact our treasurer, Bob Antweiler: rp8mm9@gmail.com.
Alberta Mobley teaches her own Chair / Accessible yoga classes at our building Tuesday mornings at 9:30 am. Donations requested. For more information, contact Alberta. (Note: these classes will be ending after Nov. 22nd.)
On Thursdays at 5:30 pm, Katherine Connor hosts a weekly Zoom Happy Hour for UUFJC Members and Friends to gather and check in.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/91843966450?pwd=djBwTEx4YUxseW9SdytSZjJGS0xrdz09
Meeting ID: 918 4396 6450
Password: 918925
Phone:
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago - US toll)
Find your nearest number: https://zoom.us/u/aeC2zyWdIo
An Insight Meditation group taught by Joe McCormack meets at our building Thursday nights at 7 pm. For more information, contact Bob Antweiler.
Our building is reserved by community groups Wednesdays and Saturdays starting at 6 pm and Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 5:30 pm. If you have access to our building, please allow privacy at these times.
Community Events this week:
This Friday, November 4th at 7 pm, Missouri River Regional Library presents their monthly First Friday Film. This month's selection: "Judgment at Nuremberg." Considered one of the greatest films of all time, "Judgment at Nuremberg" is acclaimed as a magnificent achievement in filmmaking by director Stanley Kramer and an all-star cast including Spencer Tracy, Maximilian Schell, Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, William Shatner, Marlene Dietrich, and Montgomery Clift. American judge Dan Haywood presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. Contact Madeline Matson. For more on library events, visit MRRL.org.
For more events, see our online calendars:
UUFJC Events
Virtual Gatherings
Affiliated Events
Religious Education
Building Use (other)
Community Events
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