This morning, we continued our month of reflections on Renewal with a message from our wider UU community.

Outside our own services, the UUA shares this reflection by Martha Durkee-Neuman, who found herself thinking about the apocalypse --- the end of the world, and the beginning of something new --- just when a personal relationship apocalypse and then the covid pandemic struck.  She writes: 
"Everything about my personal world and the world around me changed in the span of a week. Then the pandemic hit and the world changed again (and again). So many things ended; so many new things began. We're learning to live on shifting grounds. How long will this last? What will life look like on the other side? What will normal become? [...]
"Despite it all, [in author Octavia Butler's words,] God is change. And despite how painful, this change is holy. As I repeat these words to myself, grounding myself in the divinity of this only lasting truth, more of Octavia’s words come to me—'God exists to be shaped'—and I begin to work on shaping this change, reckoning with the knowledge that it is holy because it is mine to make."Renewal can be intentional healing, or it can be change that bursts upon us unwelcome, but we need not be victims of it.  We can embrace the holiness of change, and our ability to participate in that sacred process.

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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).

Submissions for our July newsletter are due TODAY.  Please email any last-minute items to Laura Gilkey ASAP ([email protected]).


An independent Insight Meditation group taught by Joe McCormack meets at our building Thursday nights at 7 pm.  For more information, contact Bob Antweiler.
This Friday, June 28th is our monthly Salvation Army meal.  Please contact Bob Antweiler if you can help provide food for those in need.


This Saturday, June 29th, our building is reserved for a private event from noon to 5 pm.  Contact Gennifer Monteer.

Our building is reserved by a community group Wednesdays and Saturdays starting at 6 pm.  If you have access to our building, please allow privacy at these times.

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Sunday morning, George Grimm-Howell --- now officially Rev. George Grimm-Howell --- joined us to continue exploring our June theme of Renewal.

Outside our own services, the UUA shares this reflection by Rev. Amanda Poppei who relates that as she was pregnant with her second child, her first child asked her:
"Who is it going to be?"
"I don't know!" she replied. "We're going to have to wait and see."

Renewal is like this; not so much a return to what we are used to (although a bit of that can be good for self-care sometimes), but something new becoming part of our world, some miracle never resolved, always in progress.  As Rev. Poppei concludes of our personal growth process:
"It’s usually been uncomfortable, and almost always inconvenient. The old me seemed fine, the one I was just yesterday; why bother with all this shifting? And yet when I come out the other side, I invariably think, Ah yes: this is the me I was supposed to become. This is who I am. Until next time. Who is it going to be?
"Who are you going to be, today? And tomorrow? Who are we all becoming, together?"

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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).

An independent Insight Meditation group taught by Joe McCormack meets at our building Thursday nights at 7 pm.  For more information, contact Bob Antweiler.

The UUFJC Board meets next Sunday, June 23rd at our building immediately after our Sunday morning services.  All are welcome to attend our board meetings.  For this month's agenda and more information, contact our president, Logan White.

Our building is reserved by a community group Wednesdays and Saturdays starting at 6 pm.  If you have access to our building, please allow privacy at these times.

Community Events this week:

This Thursday, June 20th at 6:30 pm, Missouri River Regional Library presents a program on the Missouri Historic Costume and Textile Collection.  Nicole Johnston, curator of the MHCTC at the University of Missouri, will describe this rich and extensive collection, which includes more than 7,000 items of apparel for men, women and children as well as accessories and household textiles. Objects range from the early 19th century to the 21st century as well as military apparel and world dress.The collection supports the teaching mission of the Department of Textile and Apparel Management in the College of Arts and Science. In addition to her curatorial work, Johnston teaches two dress history courses. She will bring some items from the collection for this program.  Contact Madeline Matson.  For more on library events, visit MRRL.org.

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Sunday morning, we shared a recent message from our neighbors at First UU of Springfield via video.  Rev. Michelle Scott-Huffman spoke "On Being a Pluralistic Faith."  The message is available to view online at First UU's website: https://springfielduu.org/2024/05/14/on-being-a-pluralistic-faith/

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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).

An independent 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 a community group Wednesdays and Saturdays starting at 6 pm.  If you have access to our building, please allow privacy at these times.

Community Events this week:

Even as I write this, Monday, June 10th at 6:30 pm, Missouri River Regional Library presents the latest installment of the LU-MRRL Lecture Series: "My Volunteer Experience in F2F Guatemala Travel."  The Cabras Para La Prosperidad project is a collaboration between F2F (USAID) and Fundacion Mario Lopez Estrad in the remote mountain area of Guatemala. The project sponsors at least 350 households characterized by pregnant women or mothers with children under five years old. Dr. Homero Salinas, assistant professor, and Extension State Specialist in the small ruminant program, will describe his work as a volunteer in this important program that helps families facing chronic malnutrition.  Contact Madeline Matson.  For more on library events, visit MRRL.org.

This Wednesday at 6:45 pm, MRRL hosts a presentation on "The Better Business Bureau: From Scams and Frauds to Helpful Home and Personal Info."  Khesha Duncan, the new Columbia regional director for the Better Business Bureau, will explain the many services provided by this respected organization and how the Bureau acquires and promotes this information to business and individuals.  Contact Madeline Matson.  For more on library events, visit MRRL.org.

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Sunday morning, Sabrina Trupia joined us again to begin exploring our monthly theme of Renewal.

Outside our own services, the UUA shares these words:

Waiting for Now
by Mandie McGlynn
(abridged; full version at UUA WorshipWeb)

Everything
is about to change.
And
it already has.

It will be. It was. It is.

The dawn you eagerly await
to end the long, cold darkness
is already full sun
far off in the east.

Stones of justice
have been tossed in the lake
but their ripples have not yet arrived,
have not resolved into the kin-dom
already present among us.

While we wait, let us seek
—in the darkness of
the Now and Not Yet--
for the treasures God has hidden there,
the riches of the secret places
only found by night.

This is what is promised us:
the wheel of life turns ever on
and darkness is a path to joy.

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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 Thursday, June 6th at 7 pm,  we are invited to join our neighbors at First UU of Springfield for their monthly “Date with Death Club” via Zoom.  These are standalone sessions exploring our shared mortality.  More information about the program can be found at https://datewithdeathclub.com.  Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87033373838

An independent Insight Meditation group taught by Joe McCormack meets at our building Thursday nights at 7 pm.  For more information, contact Bob Antweiler.

This Saturday, June 8th, George Grimm-Howell will be ordained as "Reverend" at First Unitarian Church of St. Louis. All are invited to attend virtually or in person if desired. The ordination invitation may be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e3_dUVWH-rFmKunfmLliVDKwWHRPqRcO/view?usp=sharing. The link to view the streaming service may be found here:

Next Sunday, June 9th, our Intergenerational Book Study group meets at 2 pm at our building.  This month's selection: Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes.  Contact Emma Regnier and Betty Cooper.

Our building is reserved by a community group Wednesdays and Saturdays starting at 6 pm.  If you have access to our building, please allow privacy at these times.

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Sunday morning, George Grimm-Howell led a Memorial Day-themed service titled "The Fierce Angel of Moral Injury." The phrase, from the book Soul Repair, by Rita Nakashina Brock and Gabriela Lettini, reminds us that many of our veterans return home from war alive but morally damaged. As a faith community, we are called to care for these wounded veterans and others who have suffered trauma by making four specific commitments offered by Jennnifer Baldwin in her book Trauma Sensitive Theology. These include: honoring bodily experience, full acceptance of trauma narratives, knowledge that humans are multilayered and inconsistent, and finally that we must have faith in the resiliency of trauma survivors.  (Summary by George.)

UUFJC News and Events this week:

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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).

An independent 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 a community group Wednesdays and Saturdays starting at 6 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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Dear UUFJC Members and Friends,

Sunday morning, we held our Annual Business Meeting, our annual day to carry out the democratic process we uphold in our UU Principles.

Our outgoing President, Rich Burdge, delivered a report on the past year.  Our Fellowship faced many challenges, especially the still-ongoing recovery from our kitchen fire, but also Nancy TannerThies's indefinite leave of absence, and other issues we have dealt with or need to address in the near future.

However, we also have much to be grateful for.  Our members have risen to the moment to help our Fellowship weather the challenges and grow.  We have a thriving RE program, frequent visitors, and have welcomed several new members.  We finished paying off our building, which put us in a financial position to support a local cause.

Hopefully we can keep this momentum going to help our Fellowship thrive and welcome our community to connect with us.  There are many ways for people to get involved, and every person's unique viewpoint, interests, and talents can help carry us forward!

Many thanks to Rich for his years of service, and many thanks to the incoming board, who has now officially assumed their offices!

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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).

Submissions for our June newsletter were due yesterday.  Please email any last-minute items to Laura Gilkey ASAP: [email protected].

An independent Insight Meditation group taught by Joe McCormack meets at our building Thursday nights at 7 pm.  For more information, contact Bob Antweiler.

This Friday, May 24th is our monthly Salvation Army Meal.  Contact Bob Antweiler if you can help provide food for those in need.


Our building is reserved by a community group Wednesdays and Saturdays starting at 6 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 morning, we continued exploring our monthly theme of Pluralism with a sermon from our wider UU community via video: "The Perspective of Pluralism" by Rev. Amy Rio, delivered just the Sunday before at Piedmont Unitarian Universalist Church.  They summarize: "Pluralism celebrates each person's spiritual journey - and Unitarian Universalists try to honor this great American tradition. But we may still fall short, when we fail to see the world through others' eyes. Rev. Amy shares how we can pull off our spiritual blinders."

The message is available to view online:
https://www.youtube.com/live/DypqHPKuEGY&t=2057

UUFJC News and Events this week:

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You can also mail donations and pledges to:
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Attn: Treasurer
PO Box 1245
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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).

An independent Insight Meditation group taught by Joe McCormack meets at our building Thursday nights at 7 pm.  For more information, contact Bob Antweiler.

Next Sunday, May 19th, the UUFJC Board meets at our building at 3 pm.  All are welcome to attend our board meetings.  For agenda and more information, contact our incoming president, Logan White.

Our building is reserved by a community group Wednesdays and Saturdays starting at 6 pm.  If you have access to our building, please allow privacy at these times.

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Sunday morning, we began our month of reflections on Pluralism with a message from our neighbors at First UU of Springfield, Missouri; on June 14, 2022, Rev. Michelle Scott-Huffman delivered a message titled "Blessings That Arise From Pain."

This was part of a service in which First UU observed the Pulse Day of Remembrance.  (Content note: in what follows, there will be talk of gun violence and death.)  According to the OnePulse Foundation “The Pulse Day of Remembrance is a day of quiet reflection and love dedicated to honoring the senseless loss of innocent life and remembering the horrible attack that occurred on June 12, 2016 at Pulse Night Club in Orlando, Florida.”  Such remembrance is a sobering reminder that our commitment to Pluralism is a radical and vulnerable one, which is at times opposed and targeted.  However, Pluralism also gives us gifts of resilience to weather such tragedy and find blessings on the other side.  The original service at First UU included this blessing, written by Jan Richardson:

Blessing When the World Is Ending
Look, the world
is always ending
somewhere.
Somewhere
the sun has come
crashing down.
Somewhere
it has gone
completely dark.
Somewhere
it has ended
with the gun,
the knife,
the fist.
Somewhere
it has ended
with the slammed door,
the shattered hope.
Somewhere
it has ended
with the utter quiet
that follows the news
from the phone,
the television,
the hospital room.
Somewhere
it has ended
with a tenderness
that will break
your heart.
But, listen,
this blessing means
to be anything
but morose.
It has not come
to cause despair.
It is simply here
because there is nothing
a blessing
is better suited for
than an ending,
nothing that cries out more
for a blessing
than when a world
is falling apart.
This blessing
will not fix you,
will not mend you,
will not give you
false comfort;
it will not talk to you
about one door opening
when another one closes.
It will simply
sit itself beside you
among the shards
and gently turn your face
toward the direction
from which the light
will come,
gathering itself
about you
as the world begins
again.


Recordings from the service and a fuller version of Richardson's writings are available at First UU's website: https://springfielduu.org/2022/06/14/blessings-that-arise-from-pain/

UUFJC News and Events this week:

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Attn: Treasurer
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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).
The UUFJC Worship Team meets this Tuesday, May 7th at 4:30 pm at our building.  (Note that this is a different date and time from what was listed in our May newsletter.)  All are welcome to get involved in creating our Sunday services, in ways big and small (and remember, we're a friendly audience!).  For more information, contact our vice president, Lisa Sanning.


An independent Insight Meditation group taught by Joe McCormack meets at our building Thursday nights at 7 pm.  For more information, contact Bob Antweiler.

Next Sunday, May 12th, our Intergenerational Book Study meets at our building at 2 pm.  This month includes two selections: Sounder by William H. Armstrong, and Old Yeller by Fred Gipson.  Contact Emma Regnier and Betty Cooper.
And we are now less than two weeks away from our Annual Business Meeting, coming Sunday, May 19th.  Voting members, please plan to attend.  For the meeting agenda and more information, contact our board.


Our building is reserved by a community group Wednesdays and Saturdays starting at 6 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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Our May Newsletter is now ready to view or download:
UUFJC Newsletter: Flame on the Water, May 2024

Sunday morning, we wrapped up our month of reflections on Interdependence with a message from our wider UU community via video: "Interdependent is not Co-Dependent" by Rev. Gail Lindsay Marriner at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Santa Fe, New Mexico.  The message is available to view online:

Outside our own services, the UUA offers these words on coming together in interdependence with each other, the past, the future, and the mystery of creation, by John Daniel:

A Prayer among Friends
Among other wonders of our lives, we are alive
with one another, we live here
in the light of this unlikely world
that isn’t ours for long.
May we spend generously
the time we are given.
May we enact our responsibilities
as thoroughly as we enjoy
our pleasures. May we see with clarity,
may we seek a vision
that serves all beings, may we honor
the mystery surpassing our sight,
and may we hold in our hands
the gift of good work
and bear it forth whole, as we
were borne forth by a power we praise
to this one Earth, this homeland of all we love.

WorshipWeb is grateful to Mr. Daniel for granting permission to publish this poem, which appears in his book Of Earth: New and Selected Poems, published by Lost Horse Press.
Copyright 2018 John Daniel

UUFJC News and Events this week:

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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 Thursday, May 2nd at 7 pm,  we are invited to join our neighbors at First UU of Springfield for their monthly “Date with Death Club” via Zoom.  These are standalone sessions exploring our shared mortality.  More information about the program can be found at https://datewithdeathclub.com.  Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87033373838


An independent Insight Meditation group taught by Joe McCormack meets at our building Thursday nights at 7 pm.  For more information, contact Bob Antweiler.
And we are now only three weeks away from our Annual Business Meeting, coming Sunday, May 19th.  Voting members, please plan to attend.  For the meeting agenda and more information, contact our board.


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, May 3rd, at 7 pm in their Art Gallery, Missouri River Regional Library presents their monthly First Friday Film: "The Way."  Martin Sheen stars in this thoughtful film about a California doctor who travels to Spain to recover the body of his estranged son, who died while walking the thousand-year-old Camino de Santiago pilgrimage trail. He decides to walk the trail himself in an effort to deal with his own grief and to better understand his son. The film was directed by Sheen's son, Emilio Estevez.  Contact Madeline Matson.  For more library events, visit MRRL.org. 

For more events, see our online calendars:

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Sunday morning, we shared a message from our wider UU community, from Rev. Jenny Amstutz at Columbine UU Church.  They summarize: "In 1853 abolitionist Unitarian minister Rev. Theodore Parker said, 'I do not pretend to understand the moral universe. The arc is a long one. My eye reaches but little ways. I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by experience of sight. I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.' Join Rev. Jenny Amstutz as we examine how we find hope among the ashes."

To connect that theme to our monthly theme of Interdependence, each one of us has a viewpoint and sphere of action that "reaches but a little ways," but together we can see and do more than we ever could alone, and so our interdependence becomes one place to find hope for that "bend toward justice."

The message is available to view online:

UUFJC News and Events this week:

For accessibility and convenience, we have an option to donate to our Fellowship online through PayPal:

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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).


Submissions for our May newsletter were due yesterday.  Please email any last-minute items to Laura Gilkey ASAP: [email protected].
We are now in our annual pledge season!  Everything we do is possible because of generous donations from our members and friends, and submitting an estimate of what you plan to give helps us plan and prepare for the future.  Pledge forms are available at our building, or contact our Treasurer, Bob Antweiler.

And it already looks like we will be able to put more resources into social action.  The board is asking for ideas for specific existing local causes where our Fellowship can make a difference.  Please contact a board member by Sunday, April 28th with your suggestions.  The board will consider everyone’s ideas and present a chosen selection of them for a final vote at our Annual Business Meeting next month.

An independent Insight Meditation group taught by Joe McCormack meets at our building Thursday nights at 7 pm.  For more information, contact Bob Antweiler.
This Friday, April 26th is our monthly Salvation Army meal.  Please contact Bob Antweiler if you can help provide food for those in need.


Next Sunday, April 28th, the UUFJC Board meets at our building at 3 pm.  All are welcome to attend our board meetings.  For this month’s agenda and more information, contact our president, Rich Burdge.

And we are now only four weeks away from our Annual Business Meeting, coming Sunday, May 19th.  Voting members, please plan to attend.  For the meeting agenda and more information, contact our board.


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 evening, Monday, April 22nd, Missouri River Regional Library hosts a Capital READ Book Discussion at 6:30pm in their Art Gallery.  Join MRRL board president Robert Priddy for a discussion of The Book of Charlie, the 2024 Capital READ by David Von Drehle.  Contact Madeline Matson.  For more library events, visit MRRL.org.

Tomorrow, Tuesday, April 23rd 6:30 pm in their Art Gallery, MRRL presents the latest installment of the LU-MRRL Lecture Series: "Behind the Walls—Teaching in LU’s Prison Education Program." Drug trafficking, Manslaughter. Armed robbery. Typical crimes associated with inmates serving time at Jefferson City Correctional Center (JCCC). The same inmates studying for a college degree in a new Lincoln University prison education program at JCCC. Will Sites, associate professor of journalism, will discuss how teaching in the program is changing the lives of his incarcerated students and improving the quality of his life on and off campus. Contact Madeline Matson.  For more library events, visit MRRL.org. 

For more events, see our online calendars:

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