Our December newsletter is now ready to view or download:
UUFJC Newsletter, Flame on the Water, December 2022

Sunday, November 27th, 2022:

This morning, we shared a recently recorded service by five Unitarian Universalist congregations along Massachusetts' North Shore recognizing Thanksgiving.  The service is available to view online: https://youtu.be/xyhgANxYnXo

As we wrap up our month of reflection on Change, I would like to share this reading, reminding us that creating the world we want doesn't just mean changing things outside ourselves and our faith community.  Becoming the beloved UU community we dream of calls on us to be transformed by love and with love.

The Unitarian Universalism That Does Not Yet Exist
By Natalie Fenimore

Shirley Chisholm was asked why she, a Black woman, was running for president: "You don't have a chance. Why are you doing that?" And she said, "Because I am in love with the America that does not yet exist," and that's how Unitarian Universalism is also. I'm in love with the Unitarian Universalism that does not yet exist. But I have to hold both the love for that thing and the love for the reality. It does not yet exist. It will probably not exist in my lifetime. I don't think it will in that of my children, but I can't deny my love for it. You know, wanting to be there in that struggle. That's why I'm fighting.
(published in Centering: Navigating Race, Authenticity, and Power in Ministry, p.77)

For those who would like to keep up with our neighbors at the UU Church of Columbia, their service message from this morning is also available to view online: https://youtu.be/UDrY9kIO2tQ


Next Sunday, December 4th:

Adult Forum - 9:15 am
"My Transformation," Greg White

Retired Sheriff Greg White has had an interesting spiritual journey, starting out undecided, studying Buddhism, and winding up an ordained Baptist minister, then sheriff.

Our Adult Forum is currently available both in-person and via Zoom.
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Service and Religious Education - 10:30 am
"Wonder Is a Route to Self-transcendence," Rev. Mike Adamek
Habit and routine kills wonder.  Curiosity and Doubt open up the possibility of Wonder, which is a route to self-transcendence. Otherwise, we are all chasing our tails by going around and around in circles going nowhere.

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 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: "Noticing the Wonder Around Us."

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, you can 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 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).

We are always in need of donations for our free community pantry.  Warm clothing and holiday items are especially helpful at this time.  Reimbursements are available; contact our treasurer, Bob Antweiler: [email protected].

On Thursdays at 5:30 pm, Katherine Connor hosts a weekly Zoom Happy Hour for UUFJC Members and Friends to gather and check in.
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Phone:
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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 Tuesday, November 29th at 6:30 pm in their Art Gallery, Missouri River Regional Library presents the latest LU-MRRL Lecture: The Lincoln University Poetry Workshop Live Series.  The undergraduate poets from the English 376: Intermediate Poetry Workshop and English 476 Advanced Poetry Workshop (taught by Elijah Burrell, poet and associate professor of English) will present a public reading and engage directly with a live audience.  This reading is open to the general public, and we hope friends of the English program at Lincoln University and students from neighboring colleges and universities will attend Poetry enthusiasts across mid-Missouri are always welcome to join the program in support of student writers.  Contact Madeline Matson.  For more on library events, visit MRRL.org.

This Friday, December 2nd at 7 pm in their Art Gallery, MRRL presents their monthly First Friday Film: "The Good House."  Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline star in this multilayered, wickedly funny portrait of a New England realtor whose revived romance with a high school flame digs up her troubled past. The film is based on Ann Leary's novel of the same title.  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  

Sunday, November 20th, 2022:

This morning, we shared a recent message from our neighbors at the UU Church of Columbia.  Intern Minister George Grimm-Howell explored the lessons of the  signature change in nature this time of year.  As the trees drop their leaves, they teach us lessons about letting go and about revealing our truth without shame, even when that truth is crooked or scarred by the storms we have been through.  The trees teach us that each individual is beautiful in their imperfection, but also that we are each part of something greater.  Recent discoveries show that trees communicate and support one another, and this can remind us of those who have supported us and whom we can support.  To let go of the old, to let our true selves be seen, and to live in beloved community --- truly, the trees have much to teach us.

The message is available to view online: https://youtu.be/mgeP9DYgFrQ

For those who would like to keep up even closer with UUCC, their service message from this morning is also available to view online: https://youtu.be/9pjA7Ku4Sa8


Next Sunday, November 27th:

Adult Forum - 9:15 am
"Eastern European Travel," Katherine Connor
The Connors have just returned.  They will share the high points and low points of their river-cruise trip.

Our Adult Forum is currently available both in-person and via Zoom.
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Service and Religious Education - 10:30 am
UUCC Service
This week, our building will be open for those who wish to come and share the online services of our neighbor congregation, the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia.  Those joining from home are encouraged to connect to UUCC directly.  Information and live-streaming links are available on their website: uucomo.org.

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 Changing the Winter Holidays."

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:

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!

We are always in need of donations for our free community pantry.  Due to the colder, wetter weather, our pantry coordinator Joan Kurtzeborn suggests that during November we contribute items such as umbrellas, gloves, hats, scarves or socks for our pantry.  Items are useful for children or adults.  For more donation ideas and information, contact Joan.  Reimbursements are available; contact our treasurer, Bob Antweiler: [email protected].

Submissions for our November newsletter are due TODAY.  Please email any last-minute items to Laura Gilkey as soon as possible: [email protected].

Alberta Mobley teaches her own Chair / Accessible yoga classes at our building Tuesday mornings at 9:30 am.  Donations requested.  This week will be the last session of this class.  For ongoing yoga options, contact Alberta Mobley or Jan Harcourt.

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
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Phone:
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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.
This Friday, November 25th is our monthly Salvation Army Meal.  Please contact Bob Antweiler if you can help provide food for those in need.  Reimbursements are available.

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.



For more events, see our online calendars:

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Sunday, November 13, 2022:

This morning, we shared a recent message from our neighbors at First Unitarian Universalist of Springfield via video.  First UU minister and friend of UUFJC Rev. Michelle Scott-Huffman delivered her Halloween message focused on last month's theme of Courage, but the ideas are also tied to this month's theme of Change.  Halloween and All Hallows' Eve have invited us to think about death and fear in ways that are both playful and somber, but too often we try to hold death at arms' length.  We tend to fear change --- and death is the ultimate change --- and our fear can paralyze us or let us avoid engaging with the change we want to create.  Rev. Scott-Huffman invited those of us who can do the work while taking care of ourselves to explore the spiritual growth to be found in making peace with our mortality and thinking deeply about the change we want to leave behind.

Rev. Scott-Huffman's message is available to view online: https://youtu.be/3bdEv0zy3-Q

For those who would like to keep up with our neighbors at the UU Church of Columbia, their service message from this morning is also available to view online: https://youtu.be/mgeP9DYgFrQ


Next Sunday, November 20th:

Newsletter Submissions Due
Please email your items for our December newsletter to Laura Gilkey at [email protected].

Adult Forum - 9:15 am

"Beyond Homelessness," Stefani Thompson and Lisa Sanning
Many efforts to address homelessness are taking place in Mid-Missouri.  Thompson and Sanning will deliver a progress report.

Our Adult Forum is currently available both in-person and via Zoom.
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Service and Religious Education - 10:30 am
UUCC Service
This week, our building will be open for those who wish to come and share the online services of our neighbor congregation, the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia.  Those joining from home are encouraged to connect to UUCC directly.  Information and live-streaming links are available on their website: uucomo.org.

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 Changing Thanksgiving."

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).

We are always in need of donations for our free community pantry.  Due to the rainy and cool weather, our pantry coordinator Joan Kurtzeborn suggests that during November we contribute items such as umbrellas, gloves, hats, scarves or socks for our pantry.  Items are useful for children or adults.  For more donation ideas and information, contact Joan.  Reimbursements are available; contact our treasurer, Bob Antweiler: rp8mm9@gmail.com.

The local chapter of the American Association of University Women meets at our building and online tomorrow, Monday, November 14th at 6 pm.  For more information, contact Charlotte Parsons.

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
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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 Thursday, November 17th at 6:30 pm in their Art Gallery, Missouri River Regional Library presents: "How to Resolve America’s Immigration Crisis."  More than most issues today, debates over immigration are caught up in our image of ourselves as a nation and a people and are influenced by powerful symbols such as the Statue of Liberty or even “the border” that can be manipulated and misunderstood by all parties to the debate. To make any progress toward resolving the conflicting interests at stake in immigration policy, we need to reconsider some basic aspects of this complex and fraught issue.  The Library is honored to host Dr. Peter Skerry, professor of political science at Boston College and a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, for a program that will address these important issues. Skerry is a contributing editor at American Purpose and a member of the editorial board of Society.  Contact Madeline Matson.  For more on library events, visit MRRL.org.

Next Sunday, November 20th from 2 to 4 pm in their Art Gallery, MRRL hosts an Art Reception: "Damsel in the Press: A Missouri Printmaking Exchange."  Shelly Forbis is a Columbia printmaker who earned a BFA in printmaking from Truman State University. She began hosting printmaking exchanges under the Damsel in the Press mantle in 2012. In the case of exchanges hosted by Damsel in the Press, each artist receives one of every print submitted to the exchange. The original motivation for Damsel in the Press was to keep a means of communication open with other Truman State printmaking alumni. Now the exchange is a means of connecting artists from all over the USA and a few printmakers from overseas. The current display represents Missouri artists from 10 different printmaking exchanges.  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  


And visit us online at http://uufjc.org/

​Our November newsletter is now ready to view or download:
UUFJC Newsletter: Flame on the Water, November 2022

Note: Don't forget Election Day this Tuesday, November 8th!  In the spirit of our 5th UU Principle, “the right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large” we encourage our members and friends to vote using their best discernment.
More information about this election's ballot is available at the Missouri Secretary of State's voter website: sos.mo.gov/elections/goVoteMissouri.

Sunday, November 6, 2022: 

This morning, Rev. Mike Adamek joined us to begin our month of reflection on Change.

Our wider UU community is often focused on Change: on changing ourselves and our world for the better and on navigating the challenges that change always brings.  This poem seeks to capture the place where many of us find ourselves, and I hope it will inspire some helpful reflections for you this month:

To Outgrow the Past
By William Laurence Sullivan

To outgrow the past but not extinguish it;
To be progressive but not raw,
Free but not mad, critical but not sterile, expectant but not deluded;
To be scientific but not to live on formulas that cut us off from life;
To hear amidst clamor the pure, deep tones of the spirit;
To seek the wisdom that liberates and a loyalty that consecrates;
To turn both prosperity and adversity into servants of character;
To master circumstances by the power of principle,
And to conquer death by the splendor of loving trust:
This is to attain peace;
This is to pass from drear servitude to divine adoption;
This is to invest the lowliest life with magnificence.
And to prepare it for coronation.


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/Ci9Sg9VwDb0

Next Sunday, November 13th:

Adult Forum - 9:15 am

"Rotary Peace-Building Initiatives," Stephen Stark
Rotary has many peace-building efforts: youth exchange, conflict resolution training, and more.  Stark will tell us about the "more."

Our Adult Forum is currently available both in-person and via Zoom.
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Service and Religious Education - 10:30 am
This week, we will share a message from our wider UU community via video.

Our services are currently available both in person and on Zoom:
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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 Changing Our World."


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:

We are always in need of donations for our free community pantry.  Due to the rainy and cool weather, our pantry coordinator Joan Kurtzeborn suggests that during November we contribute items such as umbrellas, gloves, hats, scarves or socks for our pantry.  Items are useful for children or adults.  For more donation ideas and information, contact Joan.  Reimbursements are available; contact our treasurer, Bob Antweiler: rp8mm9@gmail.com.

Note: the local chapter of the American Association of University Women has rescheduled their meeting this month due to Election Day, so they will not be meeting in our building this week as they normally would.  Watch for their meeting next week, or contact Charlotte Parsons for more information.

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
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Meeting ID: 918 4396 6450
Password: 918925    
Phone:
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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.

Next Sunday, November 13th, Emma Regnier leads an Intergenerational Classical Book Club at our building at 1 pm.  This month's selection: "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair.  For more information, contact Emma Regnier or Betty Cooper.

Later next Sunday, November 13th, our Worship Team meets at our building at 6 pm.  To get involved in creating our Sunday services, contact our vice president, Lisa Sanning.

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 Thursday, November 10th, the local chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America holds its monthly virtual meeting at 7:30 pm.  To register or for more information, contact Alicia Erickson at [email protected]

For more events, see our online calendars:

UUFJC Events
Virtual Gatherings
Affiliated Events 
Religious Education
Building Use (other)
Community Events