This morning, Rev. Mike joined us to begin exploring our September theme of "Renewal."  Rev. Mike explained his message title "Always Keep a Diamond in Your Mind", a song by Solomon Burke, meaning to be able to renew ourselves from the inside out.  He also shared many jewels from the book "The Miracle of Mindfulness" by the Zen master, Thich Nhat Hanh.  The book emphasizes keeping one's consciousness alive to the present reality.  Rev. Mike led us through a brief meditation, focused on breathing, explaining that breath is a bridge connecting our mind to reality.  By looking in we also look outwards.

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Next Sunday,September 13th:

Adult Forum - 9:15 am

"Peace is a Reality!," Betty Cooper

The Forum will focus on the International Day of Peace, as well as Restorative Justice.
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"Where the Action Is," Katherine Connor

Love without justice is not love. Compassion without deeds is not compassion. Faith without action is not faith. And religion without politics is not religion.  Katherine Connor will share and reflect on a reading from the UUA's Braver/Wiser resources: https://www.uua.org/braverwiser
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UUFJC News and Events this week:

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You can also mail donations and pledges to:
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Thank you for being with us and supporting us!

On Wednesdays at 2 pm, Laura Gilkey hosts a weekly virtual book club for UUFJC members and friends via Zoom.  Current selection: The Body Is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor.  We will listen to an audio version with accompanying onscreen text during meetings; you do not have to read the book on your own.  This week we will begin Chapter Two.
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On Fridays at 1 pm, Robin Duple of the UU Church of Columbia hosts a weekly Zoom get-together for crafters and creators of all stripes and has invited UUFJC members and friends to join in.  For more information, visit the UUCC website:  https://uucomo.org/event/crafting-club-online-weekly/all/

Next Sunday, August 13th, we are holding hosting a virtual birthday party for longtime member, pianist, and art and music chair, Patt Behler.  For more information, contact Katherine Connor.
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Our building is reserved by community groups Wednesdays and Saturdays starting at 6 pm; Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 5:30 pm; and Sundays starting at 7 pm.  If you have access to our building, please allow privacy at these times.

Community Events this week:

Tuesday, September 8th at 7 pm, Missouri River Regional Library presents the next installment of the LU-MRRL Lecture Series: Brotherhoods of Conservative White Men in Contemporary America.  Presented virtually via YouTube; link to be announced.  This talk will feature Dr. Mick Brewer, assistant professor of communication, culture and theatre, and speech/communication theory at LU. He will discuss some of the ways in which masculinity is tied to and shaped by national identity and how it becomes modified through and within friendships and other relationships. Dr. Brewer’s research has won multiple awards at regional and national conferences, has been published in the academic journal Sexuality & Culture, and will soon appear in a 2021 book.  Contact Madeline Matson.  For more on library events, visit MRRL.org.

This Thursday, September 10th at 7 pm, the local chapter of the American Association of University Women will hold their monthly meeting via Zoom.  Mrs. Sue Shineman, Missouri AAUW President, will speak on "Our Purpose and Positions on Fundamental Issues of the Day."  Open to the public.  Contact Charlotte Parsons for Zoom meeting information.

Our neighbors at Vipassana Buddhist Church / Center for Buddhist Development are holding online services via Zoom at 10 am on Sundays, as well as meditation nights via Zoom at 7 pm on Thursdays.  For more information, contact [email protected].

For more events, see our online calendars:

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Our September Newsletter is now ready to view or download:
UUFJC September 2020 Newsletter

These times of continuing pandemic and harm call on us both to accept what we cannot change, to adapt to the realities in order to keep each other safe, but also, in the words of Angela Davis, to change what we cannot accept.  In an August 28th e-mail, Unitarian Universalist Association President Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray addressed these intertwined needs:

"I am thinking of you and holding you in my heart. As we continue to learn more about what is happening in Kenosha, Wisconsin, it is all so infuriating, heartbreaking, and traumatizing. The violence inflicted on Black lives and Black communities needs our attention and response across this country.

"I also want to make sure that each of us is doing what we need to do to take care of ourselves and respond to the needs of our hearts and souls. Please, today, tomorrow, and in the days ahead, take time for your well-being.

"Religious community is one of the containers to express our collective grief and to be strengthened by the knowledge that we are not alone. This experience of interdependence creates compassion and calls us to act from that place of love for the things we hold most deeply. It kindles in us the courage to confront systems of injustice and nurture new practices of justice and care."

Next Sunday,September 6th:

Adult Forum - 9:15 am

"The Pandemic," Bob Boldt

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Service - 10:30 am

"Renewal: (Always Keep a) Diamond in Your Mind," Rev. Mike Adamek

Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan wrote this song for Solomon Burke for his comeback album, and I have always liked it. It is a phrase rich with Buddhist imagery and context, but Solomon Burke, who was also a Baptist minister, changed some of the phrases from the original lyrics so it was more theistic. I still like it.
Re-creation by going to the forests, rivers, mountains, deserts or seashores is a great way to renew but that can be difficult in a pandemic. So instead of renewing outside in, can we gain renewal by focusing on the inside out? Always keep a diamond in your mind.

Zoom meeting information to be announced.


UUFJC News and Events this week:

We now have UU-themed facemasks for sale in two designs:
UU Principles
Science is Real, Black Lives Matter, etc.
$10 each; proceeds support UUFJC.  Contact Katherine Connor: [email protected]

As we find new ways to come together, we still need financial support, even without Sunday offering baskets.  We now have an online donation option 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!

The unofficial deck discussion gathering previously planned for tomorrow evening, Monday, August 31st at Patt Behler's house, has been canceled.  Contact Patt for more about upcoming deck discussions.

On Wednesdays at 2 pm, Laura Gilkey hosts a weekly virtual book club for UUFJC members and friends via Zoom.  Current selection: The Body Is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor.  We will listen to an audio version with accompanying onscreen text during meetings; you do not have to read the book on your own.  This week we will finish Chapter One.
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On Fridays at 1 pm, Robin Duple of the UU Church of Columbia hosts a weekly Zoom get-together for crafters and creators of all stripes and has invited UUFJC members and friends to join in.  For more information, visit the UUCC website: https://uucomo.org/event/crafting-club-online-weekly/all/

Our building is reserved by community groups Wednesdays and Saturdays starting at 6 pm; Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 5:30 pm; and Sundays starting at 7 pm.  If you have access to our building, please allow privacy at these times.

Community Events this week:

Monday, August 31st at 7 pm in the Library Park, Missouri River Regional Library hosts a book discussion.  Come discuss your thoughts and reactions to the book to the book So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo. The book is available on Hoopla (for Cole & Osage County residents), and unlimited copies will be available in August on Libby/Overdrive. Librarians Qhyrrae Michaelieu and Madeline Matson will lead this discussion.  Registration and masks required.  Contact Madeline Matson.  For more library events, visit MRRL.org.

This Thursday, September 3rd, the local chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America is scheduled to hold its monthly meeting.  At last report, in-person meetings were on hold.  For information about online meetings, contact Susan Randolph.

This Friday, September 4th at 7 pm, MRRL is scheduled to present their monthly First Friday Film.  Registration and masks required.  For film selection and more information, contact Madeline Matson or visit MRRL.org.

Our neighbors at Vipassana Buddhist Church / Center for Buddhist Development are holding online services via Zoom at 10 am on Sundays, as well as meditation nights via Zoom at 7 pm on Thursdays.  For more information, contact [email protected].

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This Sunday, we were invited to join our neighbors at the UU Church of Columbia for a message by Rev. Molly Housh Gordon about whether we believe in monsters.  UUs often pride ourselves on nuance, complexity, and going beyond black and white.  We are the kinds of people who tell our comic-book-loving children "we don't believe in good guys and bad guys" --- just people who can always make good or bad choices.  But the world we live in can challenge this stance when we turn on the news and see so much harm being done.  Especially when we feel a sense of danger, it can be comforting to "believe in monsters," to project the threat on something that feels understandable and controllable, to soothe our egos by knowing that "at least we're not like them."  But the comfort is hollow.  We cannot escape our connection to others or the vulnerability of not having control.  Rev. Molly argued that seeing no monsters, just people, helps us get to the spiritual work before us, calls us into the responsibility of holding ourselves and others accountable, helps us look beyond villains to the systems of harm they represent, and teaches us that our own flaws as well as others' are still within the boundaries of human worth and dignity and love --- for it is that worth and love that can foster positive transformation.

The full service is now available to view online: https://youtu.be/zoLD7q0nIoA

We now have UU-themed facemasks for sale in two designs:

UU Principles
Science is Real, Black Lives Matter, etc.

$10 each; proceeds support UUFJC.  Contact Katherine Connor: [email protected]

Next Sunday, August 30th:

Adult Forum - 9:15 am
Representative Dave Griffith

Griffith will share his work in the Missouri House and his plans for the upcoming legislative season.

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No UUFJC service this week.  Watch this e-mail list for announcements of upcoming Zoom services.

UUCC Online Services - 10:30 am

We have been invited to join our neighbors at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia.  Next week they will be holding their annual Water Ceremony.  For more about the service, see the UUCC website: https://uucomo.org/#Sunday

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You can also mail donations and pledges to:
UUFJC
Attn: Treasurer
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Thank you for being with us and supporting us!

Submissions for our September newsletter and print calendar are due TODAY.  Please e-mail any last-minute items to Laura Gilkey ASAP: [email protected]

On Wednesdays at 2 pm, Laura Gilkey hosts a weekly virtual book club for UUFJC members and friends via Zoom.  Current selection: The Body Is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor.  We will listen to an audio version with accompanying onscreen text during meetings; you do not have to read the book on your own.

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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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On Fridays at 1 pm, Robin Duple of the UU Church of Columbia hosts a weekly Zoom get-together for crafters and creators of all stripes and has invited UUFJC members and friends to join in.  For more information, visit the UUCC website: https://uucomo.org/event/crafting-club-online-weekly/all/

This Friday, August 28th is our monthly Salvation Army Meal.  Please contact Bob Antweiler if you can help provide food: [email protected].  The pandemic makes this outreach a potential risk, but the need is great.  Bob will have more information on how we are handling our Salvation Army meals at this time.

Our building is reserved by community groups Wednesdays and Saturdays starting at 6 pm; Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 5:30 pm; and Sundays starting at 7 pm.  If you have access to our building, please allow privacy at these times.

Community Events this week:

Our neighbors at Vipassana Buddhist Church / Center for Buddhist Development are holding online services via Zoom at 10 am on Sundays, as well as meditation nights via Zoom at 7 pm on Thursdays.  For more information, contact [email protected].

This Tuesday, August 25th at 7 pm, Missouri River Regional Library hosts Music in the Library Park with Osage Angels.  Zoe Rehagen, Abby Rehagen and Allie Hale formed the Osage Angels in February 2017. They began playing at local nursing homes and open mic nights and eventually progressed to other venues. They have played throughout mid-Missouri and as far away as Baton Rouge, Louisiana. These talented young girls, who now attend Fatima High School in Westphalia, not only sing but also play a multitude of instruments: violin, mandolin, bass, and guitar. Their music is a combination of folk, bluegrass and country.  Registration and masks required.  Contact Madeline Matson.  For more library events, visit MRRL.org.

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This Sunday, our own Rev. Nancy TannerThies joined us for a Zoom service exploring Bewilderment.  Bewilderment is a common experience in these uncommon times, indeed a universal experience in any time, though we may try to keep it hidden.  As we approach bewilderment, Rev. Nancy suggested that we first acknowledge our confusion, then allow ourselves time to wander around and around.  We feel that a stable center is there, but we can't see it, and Rev. Nancy asked that we resist the urge to hurry and leap for it, that we pay attention to what we are tempted to kick aside in our rush toward solid ground.  If we stay present in the moment and take in more of our changing reality rather than try to escape it, the center will reveal itself in its own time.

As the poet Rumi wrote:
"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment; 
Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition."


Next Sunday, August 23rd:

September News Due.
Please submit your items for our September newsletter to Laura Gilkey, [email protected].

Adult Forum - 9:15 am
"Leadership for the Greater Good," Betty Cooper

The forum focuses on Azim Khamisa’s new book, Leadership for the Greater Good, and his concept of satyagrahi leadership.

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No UUFJC service this week.  Watch this e-mail list for announcements of upcoming Zoom services.

UUCC Online Services - 10:30 am

We have been invited to join our neighbors at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia.

These services will be offered via Facebook Live:
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As we find new ways to come together, we still need financial support, even without Sunday offering baskets.  We now have an online donation option 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!

On Wednesdays at 2 pm, Laura Gilkey hosts a weekly virtual book club for UUFJC members and friends via Zoom.  Current selection: The Body Is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor.  We will listen to an audio version with accompanying onscreen text during meetings; you do not have to read the book on your own.
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Later this Wednesday, August 19th, the UUFJC Board meets at 6 pm via Zoom.  All are welcome to attend our board meetings.  Contact our president, Katherine Connor.
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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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On Fridays at 1 pm, Robin Duple of the UU Church of Columbia hosts a weekly Zoom get-together for crafters and creators of all stripes and has invited UUFJC members and friends to join in.  For more information, visit the UUCC website: 
https://uucomo.org/event/crafting-club-online-weekly/all/

Our building is reserved by community groups Wednesdays and Saturdays starting at 6 pm; Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 5:30 pm; and Sundays starting at 7 pm.  If you have access to our building, please allow privacy at these times.

Community Events this week:

Our neighbors at Vipassana Buddhist Church / Center for Buddhist Development are holding online services via Zoom at 10 am on Sundays, as well as meditation nights via Zoom at 7 pm on Thursdays.  For more information, contact [email protected].

Monday, August 17th at 7 pm in their Art Gallery, Missouri River Regional Library hosts the latest installment of the LU-MRRL Lecture Series: "The Body as Evidence: Exploring Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology."  Were you a fan of the television series “Bones” or Kathy Reichs’ book series that inspired it? Then you are familiar with what out speaker, Dr. Christine E. Boston, assistant professor of anthropology and sociology at LU, is going to cover. Boston previously worked on a number of bioarchaeological projects throughout North and South America, and she has assisted law enforcement in forensic anthropological investigations in Canada. She will bring her experience and knowledge to this presentation as she describes how the human skeleton can be analyzed to assess various identity markers and used to track health and cultural practices.  Registration and masks required.  Contact Madeline Matson.  For more library events, visit MRRL.org.

For more events, see our online calendars:

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This Sunday, we were happy to welcome back Rev. Mike Adamek for his first online service with us.  Rev. Mike focused on the history of Unitarian Universalist Fellowships like ours --- congregations formed by lay people coming together, not led by a professional minister.  UUs in general value individual freedom, and in Fellowships this tendency can be especially strong, sometimes to unhealthy extremes; reactive intolerance toward any form of power or guidance can keep some faith communities from moving forward.  On the other hand, Fellowships can also be places for innovation, and particularly helped paganism and feminism to take their current place in UU thought and practice.

Looking at our Fellowship in particular, Rev. Mike saw many strengths.  We have a proud 30 year history, we are involved in the wider religious community of Jefferson City, we have welcomed insights from different ministers and leaders, and we have shown a willingness to adapt.  There are still areas where we can grow --- the size of our building and parking is beginning to hold us back, for example --- and growth is nothing to fear.  Welcoming more people in creates opportunities for more warmth and intimacy, not less.  And broadening the welcome is important, because our Fellowship plays a unique and vital role in our community, a place where people can find a sense of belonging that other churches may not provide for them.

Next Sunday, August 16th:

Adult Forum - 9:15 am

"The Pandemic," Bob Boldt

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Service and Religious Education - 10:30 am

Online Service - 10:30 am

“Bothered and Bewildered?,” Rev. Nancy TannerThies
In a continued exploration of how we respond to life in these days, Rev. Nancy will explore what we might do when we are “Bothered and Bewildered?”

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If you have a joy or concern that you would like to have read during a Service, please submit it by noon on the Friday before through our website:  http://uufjc.org/joys--concerns.html

UUFJC News and Events this week:

As we find new ways to come together, we still need financial support, even without Sunday offering baskets.  We now have an online donation option 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!

Tomorrow, Monday, August 10th, Patt Behler hosts an unofficial discussion group for UUFJC members and friends.  This month's topic: "Fun."  Contact Patt for location and to RSVP.

On Wednesdays at 2 pm, Laura Gilkey hosts a weekly virtual book club for UUFJC members and friends via Zoom.  Current selection: The Body Is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor.  We will listen to an audio version with accompanying onscreen text during meetings; you do not have to read the book on your own.  This week we will try again to start on our new book selection.
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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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On Fridays at 1 pm, Robin Duple of the UU Church of Columbia hosts a weekly Zoom get-together for crafters and creators of all stripes and has invited UUFJC members and friends to join in.  For more information, visit the UUCC website:   https://uucomo.org/event/crafting-club-online-weekly/all/

Our building is reserved by community groups Wednesdays and Saturdays starting at 6 pm; Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 5:30 pm; and Sundays starting at 7 pm.  If you have access to our building, please allow privacy at these times.

Community Events this week:

Our neighbors at Vipassana Buddhist Church / Center for Buddhist Development are holding online services via Zoom at 10 am on Sundays, as well as meditation nights via Zoom at 7 pm on Thursdays.  For more information, contact [email protected].

And Missouri River Regional Library is beginning to offer in-person programs, with registration and masks required.  This week includes the following:

This Tuesday, August 11th at 7 pm in their Art Gallery, MRRL hosts an author talk with Richard McGonegal, who will discuss his first novel, a mystery titled Sense of Grace. A former editor at the Jefferson City News-Tribune, McGonegal is a longtime mystery reader who has studied this popular area of fiction in depth and met many well-known mystery authors before deciding to make his own contribution to the genre. The program will be in an interview format with adult programmer Madeline Matson and plenty of time for audience questions. The book will be available for sale and signing after the program.  Registration and masks required.  Contact Madeline Matson.  For more library events, visit MRRL.org.

This Wednesday, August 12th at 7 pm in their Art Gallery, MRRL presents "Reel Life Cinema: Before I Kick the Bucket."  What would you do if you only had months to live? In this heartwarming and ultimately life-enhancing documentary, the extraordinary Rowena Kincaid, a terminally ill young woman with a wicked sense of humor, goes in search of a bucket list.  Registration and masks required.  Contact Madeline Matson.  For more 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  

Dear UUFJC Members and Friends,

This morning, we joined our neighbors at the UU Church of Columbia for a "Question Box Service."  UUs tend to celebrate questioning.  We often say that "Revelation is not sealed" --- the answers aren't all laid out for us, and they never will be.  This opens us to new truths, to the joy of discovery and the sacred pain of learning, but it is also a challenge.  Our religion is not one that offers the comfort of certainty in uncertain times like these; instead it offers a place to belong and be held as we live the questions.

In that spirit, Rev. Molly Housh-Gordon, in place of a sermon, took questions from the congregation.  In the Zoom chat, she was asked whether sometimes it's all right to be certain, and she said yes; some questions are beneath consideration, such as those that are not posed in good faith or those that call anyone's humanity into question.  The congregation, on the other hand, had submitted many vital good-faith questions, including:
How to care for ourselves and let joy in without feeling guilty,
How a young white UU can help the Black Lives Matter Movement, and
How would Rev. Molly describe UUism in one sentence (she needed a few semicolons).

The answers to all of these are "under construction," but what Rev. Molly said is available to view online: https://youtu.be/StGBSPN7yJc

(Note: Sorry this post is late, a new webmaster is learning the ropes.  Thank you for your patience!)

Last Sunday, Rev. Nancy TannerThies explored our monthly theme of Compassion.  Compassion, she said, goes beyond mere pity; where pity is a form of sadness bordering on despair, compassion calls us into kindness and helping.  It is, however, more difficult; true compassion requires us to come with our whole selves, including the "undesirable" parts that we tend to stuff away, out of view: our "-isms," fears, wounds, and failures.  As terrifying as it is to open those things we hide away, until we work through them with compassionate curiosity and accept them, we will find ourselves projecting them onto others and blocking our compassion for them.  When we have compassion for ourselves, then we can move into compassion for others, and in a future of thriving together.

Next Sunday, June 28th:

Adult Forum - 9:15 am
"Silly Poetry: a Lockdown Respite," Frank Rycyk
Tired of "gloom and doom?"  Frank will read some Shel Silverstein poetry.  He may even recite his poem, "Idiots."  Bob Boldt will read silliness from classical authors.  Bring silly poetry.  Bring silliness.
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Service and Religious Education - 10:30 am
To Be Announced
On some Sundays, we have UUFJC Services via Zoom.  Watch this e-mail list for developments.
If you have a joy or concern that you would like to have read during a Service, please submit it by noon on Friday through our website: http://uufjc.org/joys--concerns.html

UUCC Online Services - 10:30 am
We have also been invited to join our neighbors at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia.
These services will be offered via Facebook Live:
https://www.facebook.com/UnitarianUniversalistChurchOfColumbiaMO/?eid=ARCFLwfOPhvNekpA6bZuhuMke8zRihU5cX37pHO0Ig0hKx3TtbHgCgOx6CG-2K9kJWv-gRxpo4lI5kdW
And via Zoom:
Join Zoom Webinar:
Webinar ID: 380 411 489  
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Phone
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UUFJC News and Events this week:

As we find new ways to come together, we still need financial support, even without Sunday offering baskets.  We now have an online donation option 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!

Our national covenant organization, the UUA, holds its annual General Assembly this week, Wednesday, June 24th through Sunday, June 28th.  This year's GA is fully virtual.  Off-site registration ($150) provides access to all GA events, and there are also several events that will be publicly streamed for anyone at no cost, including worship services.

This Wednesday, June 24th at 2 pm, Laura Gilkey is hosting a weekly virtual book club for UUFJC members and friends via Zoom.  Selected book: Silas Marner by George Eliot.  We are listening to the book with accompanying text during meetings.  This week we will listen to chapters 17 and 18.
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Later on Wednesday, June 24th at 6:30 pm, the UUFJC Board will meet via Zoom.  They will be discussing our Fellowship's approach to re-opening; if you want to weigh in, please contact a board member in advance or plan to attend.  For more information, contact our president, Katherine Connor, at [email protected].  To attend, use the Zoom link below:
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This Thursday, June 25th at 5:30 pm, Katherine Connor will be hosting a weekly Zoom Happy Hour for UUFJC Members and Friends to gather and check in.
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 918 4396 6450
Password: 918925  
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Phone:
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
Find your nearest phone number: https://zoom.us/u/aeC2zyWdIo

This Friday, June 26th, is our monthly Salvation Army meal.  If you would like to help provide food for those in need, please contact Bob Antweiler: [email protected]

Our building is reserved by community groups Wednesdays and Saturdays starting at 6 pm; Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 5:30 pm; and Sundays starting at 7 pm.  If you have access to our building, please allow privacy at these times.

Community Events this week:

Our neighbors at Vipassana Buddhist Church / Center for Buddhist Development are holding online services via Zoom at 10 am on Sundays, as well as meditation nights via Zoom at 7 pm on Thursdays.  For more information, contact [email protected].

And Missouri River Regional Library is offering virtual events while the library is unable to host physical gatherings.  For more information, visit https://www.mrrl.org/events/upcoming.

For more events, see our online calendars:

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

Please stay safe, well, and connected!

This Sunday, Rev. Nancy TannerThies explored our monthly theme of Compassion.  Compassion, she said, goes beyond mere pity; where pity is a form of sadness bordering on despair, compassion calls us into kindness and helping.  It is, however, more difficult; true compassion requires us to come with our whole selves, including the "undesirable" parts that we tend to stuff away, out of view: our "-isms," fears, wounds, and failures.  As terrifying as it is to open those things we hide away, until we work through them with compassionate curiosity and accept them, we will find ourselves projecting them onto others and blocking our compassion for them.  When we have compassion for ourselves, then we can move into compassion for others, and in a future of thriving together.

Adult Forum - 9:15 am
Silly poetry with Frank Rycyk, Bob Boldt, and you!
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 988 5874 1051
Password: 047662  
https://zoom.us/j/98858741051?pwd=d3ZMbHJSL3NjMGMxZEM5N1VxUysxQT09
One tap mobile
+13126266799,,98858741051#,,#,047662# US (Chicago)
Phone
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Find your nearest number: https://zoom.us/u/aeC2zyWdIo

UUCC Online Services - 10:30 am
We have also been invited to join our neighbors at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia.
These services will be offered via Facebook Live:
https://www.facebook.com/UnitarianUniversalistChurchOfColumbiaMO/?eid=ARCFLwfOPhvNekpA6bZuhuMke8zRihU5cX37pHO0Ig0hKx3TtbHgCgOx6CG-2K9kJWv-gRxpo4lI5kdW
And via Zoom:
Join Zoom Webinar:
Webinar ID: 380 411 489  
https://zoom.us/j/380411489
One tap mobile
+13126266799,,303350454# US (Chicago)
Phone
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
Find your nearest phone number: https://zoom.us/u/aeC2zyWdIo

UUFJC News and Events this week:

As we find new ways to come together, we still need financial support, even without Sunday offering baskets.  We now have an online donation option 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!

This Wednesday, June 24th at 2 pm, Laura Gilkey is hosting a weekly virtual book club for UUFJC members and friends via Zoom.  Selected book: Silas Marner by George Eliot.  We are listening to the book with accompanying text during meetings.  This week we will listen to chapter 16.
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 957 765 341
https://zoom.us/j/957765341
Phone
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
Find your nearest phone number: https://zoom.us/u/aeC2zyWdIo  

This Thursday, June 25th at 5:30 pm, Katherine Connor will be hosting a weekly Zoom Happy Hour for UUFJC Members and Friends to gather and check in.
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 918 4396 6450
Password: 918925  
https://zoom.us/j/91843966450?pwd=djBwTEx4YUxseW9SdytSZjJGS0xrdz09
Phone:
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
Find your nearest phone number: https://zoom.us/u/aeC2zyWdIo

Our building is reserved by community groups Wednesdays and Saturdays starting at 6 pm; Thursdays starting at 5:30 pm; and Sundays starting at 7 pm.  If you have access to our building, please allow privacy at these times.

Community Events this week:

Our neighbors at Vipassana Buddhist Church / Center for Buddhist Development are holding online services via Zoom at 10 am on Sundays, as well as meditation nights via Zoom at 7 pm on Thursdays.  For more information, contact [email protected].

And Missouri River Regional Library is offering virtual events while the library is unable to host physical gatherings.  For more information, visit https://www.mrrl.org/events/upcoming.

For more events, see our online calendars:

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

Please stay safe, well, and connected!

Sunday morning, we were invited to join the UU Church of Columbia for an online service focused on the grief and rage of this moment, brought on by the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and a heartbreaking litany of other black lives, cut short in their developing stories and their sacred worth.  This is a moment to center ourselves in our humanity, to recognize that the grief and rage is born of love and thus recognize the depth of the black community's love.  Rev. Molly Housh-Gordon reminded fellow white people (like myself) that our heartbreak is also needed, not at the center of this moment, but in support and solidarity.  White people have work to do in the silence of our hearts, to get better at loving, while also showing up for justice.

The service also included a message from black philosopher-in-residence CW Dawson, a gorgeous performance by an all-black wind ensemble, and a collection benefiting the Movement for Black Lives (whom you can donate to at any time on their website).

The entire service is now available to view online: https://youtu.be/eVndyZPReus

Next Sunday, June 14th:

Adult Forum - 9:15 am
This week's topic is yet to be announced, but it is sure to be a lively discussion.
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+13126266799,,98858741051#,,#,047662# US (Chicago)
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Service and Religious Education - 10:30 am
To Be Announced
On some Sundays, we have UUFJC Services via Zoom.  Watch this page for developments.
If you have a joy or concern that you would like to have read during a Service, please submit it by noon on Friday through our website: http://uufjc.org/joys--concerns.html

UUCC Online Services - 10:30 am
We have also been invited to join our neighbors at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia.
These services will be offered via Facebook Live:
https://www.facebook.com/UnitarianUniversalistChurchOfColumbiaMO/?eid=ARCFLwfOPhvNekpA6bZuhuMke8zRihU5cX37pHO0Ig0hKx3TtbHgCgOx6CG-2K9kJWv-gRxpo4lI5kdW
And via Zoom:
Join Zoom Webinar:
Webinar ID: 380 411 489  
https://zoom.us/j/380411489
One tap mobile
+13126266799,,303350454# US (Chicago)
Phone
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
Find your nearest phone number: https://zoom.us/u/aeC2zyWdIo

UUFJC News and Events this week:

As we find new ways to come together, we still need financial support, even without Sunday offering baskets.  We now have an online donation option 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!

This Wednesday, June 10th at 2 pm, Laura Gilkey is hosting a weekly virtual book club for UUFJC members and friends via Zoom.  Selected book: Silas Marner by George Eliot.  We are listening to the book with accompanying text during meetings.  This week we will listen to chapter 14.
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 957 765 341
https://zoom.us/j/957765341
Phone
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
Find your nearest phone number: https://zoom.us/u/aeC2zyWdIo  

This Thursday, June 11th at 5:30 pm, Katherine Connor will be hosting a weekly Zoom Happy Hour for UUFJC Members and Friends to gather and check in.
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 918 4396 6450
Password: 918925  
https://zoom.us/j/91843966450?pwd=djBwTEx4YUxseW9SdytSZjJGS0xrdz09
Phone:
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
Find your nearest phone number: https://zoom.us/u/aeC2zyWdIo

Our building is reserved by community groups Wednesdays and Saturdays starting at 6 pm; Thursdays starting at 5:30 pm; and Sundays starting at 7 pm.  If you have access to our building, please allow privacy at these times.

Community Events this week:

Our neighbors at Vipassana Buddhist Church / Center for Buddhist Development are holding online services via Zoom at 10 am on Sundays, as well as meditation nights via Zoom at 7 pm on Thursdays.  For more information, contact [email protected].

And Missouri River Regional Library is offering virtual events while the library is unable to host physical gatherings.  For more information, visit https://www.mrrl.org/events/upcoming.

For more events, see our online calendars:

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

Please stay safe, well, and connected