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.

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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.
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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.
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.



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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.

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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.
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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 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: 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

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Service and Religious Education - 10:30 am
Rev. Mike Adamek

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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 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.
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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 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
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Note: Next week's lunch after services is Potluck!  Please bring a dish to share!

Also, there is only one week left to donate raffle or silent auction items for our upcoming Trivia Night!  Contact Bob Antweiler or see below for more information.


Sunday, October 23rd, 2022:

This morning, we shared a recent message from our neighbors at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia: "Plant Yourself in Rich Soil."  Rev. Molly Housh-Gordon talked about how our connections create the "rich soil" for liberation and courage, like the roots of trees intertwining and supporting each other through agitation.

And we do need agitation.  As our month of focus on Courage starts to wind down, I would also like to share these words from our wider UU community:

Do Not Fear Agitation
By Tania Márquez

Do not fear agitation, for agitation is the rhythm of life itself; to be put into motion, to be stirred.
Do not fear the movements that decenter what you always thought permanent.
You carry within the center of your understanding, the compass to show you the way.
Carry with you the love that will hold you, the vision that will guide you, the relationships to all beings and the world that will ground you. Go in peace and in gentle agitation to stir this world to the side of love.

No temas a la agitación, puesto que es el ritmo de la vida misma: ser puesto en movimiento, incitarte.
No temas los movimientos que decentran lo que creías permanente. Llevas dentro el centro de tu entendimiento, la brújula que te muestra el camino.
Lleva contigo el amor que te sostendrá, la visión que te guiará, las relaciones con todos los seres y el mundo que te pondrán los pies sobre la tierra. Ve en paz y, con una suave agitación, mueve a este mundo hacia el lado del amor.

For those who would like to keep up with our neighbors at the UU Church of Columbia, their service from this morning is available to view online: https://youtu.be/9xEEW0hPQMQ

Next Sunday, October 30th:

Trivia Night Donations Due.
If you would like to donate silent auction or raffle items for our Trivia Night fundraiser, contact Bob Antweiler: [email protected].

Adult Forum - 9:15 am
"Missouri Actresses," Dr. Sarah Jones

The Hall of Famous Missourians in the Missouri Capitol contains the images of Josephine Baker, Betty Grable, and Ginger Rogers.  Dr. Jones' presentation will include short video clips.

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Service and Religious Education - 10:30 am
UUCC Service
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: "Halloween Courage: Exploring the Path of Facing Fear."

Lunch after Service: Potluck!  Please bring a dish to share!

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 uufjc1@gmail.com to join).

Submissions for our November newsletter are due TODAY.  Please email any last-minute items to Laura Gilkey ASAP: uufjc1@gmail.com.

Coming 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.  Please note, the deadline to donate auction and raffle items is one week from today, Sunday, October 30th.  For more information or to register, contact Bob Antweiler.

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: [email protected].

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.

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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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, October 28th is our monthly Salvation Army meal.  Contact Bob Antweiler if you can help provide food for those in need.

Next Sunday, October 30th, the UUFJC Board will meet at 3 pm in our building.  All are welcome to attend our board meetings.  For agenda and more information, contact our president, Rich Burdge.

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:

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

Note, this Saturday, October 22nd, Nancy TannerThies and her family will hold a memorial service for her husband and beloved UUFJC member Roger TannerThies at 2:30 pm in our building.  Nancy has invited UUFJC members and friends to join in this celebration of Roger's life.

October newsletter: UUFJC Newsletter: Flame on the Water, October 2022

Sunday, October 16, 2022:

This morning, Dick Dalton joined us for a message on "The Judging Virus."  This contagion, common in our culture, drives us to judge others as "good" or "bad" and as "better" or "worse" than ourselves.  It takes courage to embrace the truth that we do not have to be better than others to be worthy, and that everyone is more complex than good or bad, better or worse.  But that courage is well worth it.  As Dalton wrote, "Healing/forgiveness comes when we deliberately and consistently substitute a different belief" for these contagious temptations of judgment.

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/qJDua1STxps


Next Sunday, October 23rd:

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

Adult Forum - 9:15 am
"I read the local news, do you?," Patt Behler

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Service and Religious Education - 10:30 am
UUCC Service
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: "Social Courage: Exploring the Path of Taking Action."

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:

Coming soon on 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; the deadline to donate auction and raffle items is Sunday, October 30th.  For more information or to register, contact Bob Antweiler.

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: [email protected].

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.

On Thursdays at 5:30 pm, Katherine Connor hosts a weekly Zoom Happy Hour for UUFJC Members and Friends to gather and check in.  Sharon Hanson will be filling in this week while Katherine is traveling.
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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.

This Saturday, October 22nd, a Memorial Service for Roger TannerThies will be held at our building at 2:30 pm.  See above.

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.

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UUFJC Newsletter: Flame on the Water, October 2022

Sunday, October 9:

This morning, we continued exploring our monthly theme of Courage with a recorded service from our wider UU Community: Courage, led by Rev. Dr. Natalie Fenimore, from the UU Church of Shelter Rock in New York.  Drawing on examples from Michael Servetus to Rosa Parks and taking inspiration from the recent Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, Rev. Dr. Fenimore reminded us that any act can bring us face-to-face with fear.  Failure is always possible; criticism is often likely.  Courage is not the erasure of fear, but the mastery of fear, listening to its reasonable cautions but moving beyond it when we need to to live into our highest values.  As flawed human beings, we will fail at times, and we will cause hurt sometimes despite our best intentions; facing this truth can be the most fearful task of all, but we must find the courage to forgive, recommit, and move forward.  This is the lesson of Yom Kippur; may our faith community also help us to find this courage.

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/u3Z74FcO1UA
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Next Sunday, October 16:

Adult Forum - 9:15 am
Chief Gary Hill, Lincoln University Police Department

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Service and Religious Education - 10:30 am
"The Judging Virus," Dick Dalton
The Judging Virus is a meme, an expression of cultural information spread by social intercourse, infecting at least 99.9% of humanity. Superior and inferior thoughts/beliefs with their attendant feelings and actions are experienced by the host and are very contagious. Healing/forgiveness comes when we deliberately and consistently substitute a different belief in its place.

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Children attending in-person are welcome to join RE Instructor Samantha Porter for a lesson during the service hour.  This week's lesson: "Personal Courage: Exploring the Path of Doing Hard Things."

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:

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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).

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: [email protected].

Coming 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; the deadline to donate auction and raffle items is Sunday, October 30th.  For more information or to register, contact Bob Antweiler.

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.

On Thursdays at 5:30 pm, Katherine Connor hosts a weekly Zoom Happy Hour for UUFJC Members and Friends to gather and check in.  Sharon Hanson will be filling in this week while Katherine is traveling.
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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, October 11th, the emergency housing subgroup of the Jefferson City Homelessness Working Group holds its monthly meeting.  To get involved in this or other aspects of the Homelessness Working Group, contact Patt Behler.

This Thursday, October 13th at 7:30 pm, the local chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America holds its monthly online meeting.  To register or for more information, contact Alicia Erickson at [email protected].

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

Sunday, October 2, 2022:

This morning, Rev. Mike Adamek joined us to begin our month of reflection on Courage.  Rev. Mike explored the courage that is necessary as we face suffering through the ups and downs of life, the courage that can lead us through the low times to something better.

His theme also reminded me of this poetic blessing from our wider UU community:

A Blessing for Risk-Takers and Failures
By Robin Tanner

Today we share in a blessing for losers, risk-takers, all failures far and wide....

Blessed are they who fall in the mud, who jump with gusto and rip the pants, who skin the elbows, and bruise the ego,
for they shall know the sweetness of risk.

Blessed are they who make giant mistakes, whose intentions are good but impact has injured, who know the hot sense of regret and ask for mercy,
for their hearts will know the gift of forgiveness.

Blessed are they who have seen a D or an F or C or any letter less than perfect, who are painfully familiar with the red pen and the labels as "less than,"
for they know the wisdom in the imperfect.

Blessed are they who try again, who dust off, who wash up, who extend the wish for peace, who return to sites of failure, who are dogged in their pursuit,
for they will discover the secret to dreams.

Blessed are they who refuse to listen to the naysayers,
for their hearts will be houses for hope.

Blessed are they who see beyond the surface of another,
for they will be able to delight in the gift of compassion.

Blessed are they who stop running the race to help a fellow traveler, who pick up the fallen, who stop for injured life,
for they shall know the kindness of strangers.

Blessed are they who wildly, boldly abandon winning,
for they shall know the path of justice.


(from https://www.uua.org/worship/words/blessing/blessing-risk-takers-and-failures)


Next Sunday, October 9th:

Adult Forum - 9:15 am
"Who are the Peace Activists?" Betty Cooper
This session focuses on the life and work of the peace activists discussed in Betty Cooper's book,  Family: Vital to us and Society, chapter 7.  If a copy of the book is needed, pick up a copy in the Forum Room 

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Service  - 10:30 am
UUCC Service
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: "Wholehearted Courage: Exploring the Path of Being Yourself."

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.  For donation ideas, guidelines, and more information, contact Joan Kurtzeborn.  Reimbursements are available; contact our treasurer, Bob Antweiler: [email protected].

Coming 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.  We will have items for silent auction and raffles, as well as a 50-50 raffle.  Child care will be available.  For more information or to register, contact Bob Antweiler.

Tomorrow, Monday, October 3rd at 6 pm, the local chapter of the American Association of University Women meets at our building and on Zoom.  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.

On Thursdays at 5:30 pm, Katherine Connor hosts a weekly Zoom Happy Hour for UUFJC Members and Friends to gather and check in.  Sharon Hanson will be filling in this week while Katherine is traveling.
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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.

Next Sunday, October 9th at 3 pm, Emma Regnier leads her own monthly intergenerational classic book study group at our building.  This month's selection: "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller.  Contact Emma Regnier or Betty Cooper.

Later next Sunday afternoon, October 9th at 4:30 pm, our Worship Team meets at our building.  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 Friday, October 7th at 7 pm in their Art Gallery, Missouri River Regional Library presents their monthly First Friday Film: "The Duke."  In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60-year-old taxi driver stole Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery's history. Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government agreed to provide television for free to the elderly. What happened next became the stuff of legend. Only 50 years later did the full story emerge--a startling revelation of how a good man set out to change the world and in doing so saved his son and his marriage. British acting legends Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren star in this inspiring film.  Contact Madeline Matson.  For more on library events, visit MRRL.org.

For more events, see our online calendars:

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• Our October newsletter has been delayed. Our editor appreciates everyone's patience!
• Help spread the word! Our UUFJC Trivia Night Fundraiser will be Saturday, November 5th!  More details below, or contact Bob Antweiler.

Sunday, September 25th, 2022:

This morning, we wrapped up our month of focus on Belonging with our Water Communion, an annual ritual expressing the gathering of our Fellowship community.  Members and friends brought samples of water to add to a communal bowl, water that came from or represented significant places or experiences.  The mixing of the water symbolizes how our various gifts come together, and every year, we save part of the water for the ritual in years to come.  All the waters that were added over the years remain with us.  Everything we contributed together today and everything offered by beloved members and friends in the past remains and helps to build our community of belonging.

Next Sunday, October 2nd:

Adult Forum - 9:15 am
Led by Bob Boldt.

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Service - 10:30 am
Rev. Mike Adamek

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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: "Exploring the Many Paths of Courage."

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.  For donation ideas, guidelines, and more information, contact Joan Kurtzeborn.  Reimbursements are available; contact our treasurer, Bob Antweiler: [email protected].

Coming 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.  We will have items for silent auction and raffles, as well as a 50-50 raffle.  Child care will be available.  For more information or to register, contact Bob Antweiler.

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.

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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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, September 27th at 6:30 pm in their Art Gallery, Missouri River Regional Library presents their Capital READ Lecture with Dr. Gary R. Kremer.  You're invited for a special presentation by this distinguished historian and author of This Place of Promise, the 2022 Capital READ. The book commemorates Missouri's bicentennial of statehood, and has received much praise from readers and reviewers. It is the product of Kremer's many years of research into the state's political and social history, written to satisfy both general and scholarly readers. Kremer is the author of 10 books dealing with aspects of Missouri history, in particular books on race, education, urban-rural divisions, and the role of government. He taught history at Lincoln University and William Woods University and currently serves as executive director of the State Historical Society of Missouri. His book will be available for sale and signing after the program.  Contact Madeline Matson.  For more on library events, visit MRRL.org.

For more events, see our online calendars:

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Note: Next week's Sunday service is our annual Water Communion.  All are invited to bring meaningful samples of water to share in this annual ceremony; symbolic water will also be provided.

Sunday, September 18th, 2022:

This morning, as we continued our month of focus on Belonging, our own Betty Cooper shared a message highlighting the blessings and the call of our belonging to our broader society and world.  Drawing on ideas from actor/producer Jeremy Gilley and author Stephen Pinker, Betty pointed to how the positives of our human nature and our efforts -- the "better angels of our nature," in Pinker's words -- can help us come together, turn from violence toward peace, and better our society.

We also have breaking news: we are planning a Trivia Night fundraiser in October, and we want to hear your ideas!  Everyone is invited to a planning session this Tuesday, September 20th at 6 pm in our building.  See details below or contact our president, Rich Burdge.

Next Sunday, September 25th:

Adult Forum - 9:15 am
"Spreading Peace Every Day," Betty Cooper

September 21st is “The International Day of Peace.”  Now our task is to spread “peace” every day. Possibly ideas from Stephen Pinker’s book, The Better Angels of Our Nature, can be helpful. It is a tale of six trends, five inner demons, four better angels, and five historical forces that in the past decreased violence.  I am hopeful that using our “better angels” will decrease violence in our homes, schools and all societal structures.

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Service and Religious Education - 10:30 am
Water Communion, Katherine Connor

Those attending are invited to bring meaningful samples of water to add to this annual ceremony.  Symbolic water will also be provided.

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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: "Belonging and the Bigger Picture."

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!

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).

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

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: [email protected].

Alberta Mobley's Tuesday yoga class at our building is on hold this week as she is out of town.  Classes will continue after Alberta returns, although she is seeking a new teacher.  For more information, contact Alberta.

This Tuesday, September 20th at 6 pm, we are holding a planning meeting for our upcoming Trivia Night Fundraiser.  In lieu of a rummage sale this year, the Board has decided to hold a Trivia Night at our building on October 21st or 22nd. We thought this would be a great opportunity to not only raise some funds, but also have a social event and reach out to the wider community.  But it will take a lot of planning and working together to make it a success! This Tuesday's planning meeting is meant to get the ball rolling on this project. Everyone is welcome to come, and bring your ideas!  For more information --- or to share ideas if you can't make it to the meeting --- contact our president, Rich Burdge.

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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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, September 23rd is our monthly Salvation Army meal.  Please contact Bob Antweiler if you can help provide food for those in need.

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 week, Missouri River Regional Library will hold Capital READ book discussions in their Art Gallery on Monday, September 19th at 1 pm and Thursday, September 22nd at 1 pm.  This ongoing series of discussions highlight This Place of Promise: A Historian’s Perspective on 200 Years of Missouri History, the 2022 Capital READ. The discussions will be led by community members who will focus not only on the book’s overall content but also on specific aspects of the state’s history as covered in the book.  The Monday session will be led by Claudia Young, MRRL library director, and Madeline Matson, MRRL reference and adult programmer, with a special focus on rural and urban population issues in Missouri.  The Thursday session will be led by Bob Priddy, longtime broadcast journalist and author of The Art of the Missouri Capitol: History in Canvas, Bronze, and Stone; Only the Rivers Are Peaceful: Thomas Hart Benton’s Mural; and the multi-volume Across Our Wide Missouri.  Contact Madeline Matson.  For more on library events, visit MRRL.org.

Later on Monday, September 19th, MRRL presents the latest installment of the LU-MRRL Lecture Series: "Charting Gender Identity Through Language and Social Interaction."  Discussions about gender have taken on a more powerful, visible form over the last five or so years. This relatively swift change has prompted much public concern, debate, and support over the ever-evolving landscape of gender and gender identities in the 21st century. Dr. Mick B. Brewer, assistant professor of communication studies, will explain the ways gender functions as a social, linguistic, and symbolic phenomena in the new millennia. He will discuss a variety of approaches to the study of gender as a communication process, with the hope of providing the audience with conceptual resources to better understand and meaningfully engage with gender as a social, political, and cultural institution.  Contact Madeline Matson.  For more on library events, visit MRRL.org.

For more events, see our online calendars:

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Community Events  

Sunday, September 11th, 2022:

This morning, we shared a recently-recorded service by our neighbors at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia, in which they celebrated the music and legacy of "American bard and prophet" Woody Guthrie.  Through words of poetry and sounds of music that stir heart and body, Guthrie both inspired and celebrated marginalized people and struggles for justice.  Nearly 100 years later, those struggles continue, but Rev. Molly Housh-Gordon called on us not to lose heart and instead to keep singing.  Through music, or through whatever form of "song" arises from our hearts, the struggle itself can bring us together in joy and celebration.  As Rev. Molly put it, we can "keep walking that freedom highway" not only as a means to a destination, but to join in the parade of freedom and love.

Note: our lunch after service on September 18th will be at Fuji Steakhouse for a special celebration of our beloved longtime member and music/art leader Patt Behler's 95th birthday!  See below for details.*

Next Sunday, September 18th:

Newsletter Submissions Due.
Please send your items for our October newsletter to Laura Gilkey ([email protected]).

Adult Forum - 9:15 am
"Active Transportation Plan," Katrina Williams
Williams is with the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization.

Our Adult Forum is currently available both in-person and via Zoom.
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Service and Religious Education - 10:30 am
"We, the People, Better Society," Betty Cooper

We, the people, better our society, a fact demonstrated by Jeremy Gilley, British actor and film producer and Stephen Pinker, Harvard researcher and cognitive psychologist.  Briefly Gilley's accomplishment is discussed, as are a few of Pinker’s ideas of how violence lessened.  Also, Pinker believes that less violence continues, when “we, the people, effectively use our “better angels.”

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: "Belonging and Yourself."

*Lunch after Service: For our lunch this week, we will celebrate Patt Behler’s 95th birthday with lunch at Fuji Japanese Steakhouse (inside Capital Mall).  In memory of the 75 year anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, we will be accepting donations in Patt’s honor to the Harry Truman Library Institute.  You can donate to the Institute online, mail donations to: 5151 Troost Ave, Suite 300, Kansas City, MO 64110, put donations in the basket at the Fellowship, or give them to Lauraine at lunch.  If you donate online, please make sure to fill out the Give In Honor section with Patt’s name and comments section: "Patt’s 95th".  For any donation by check, please identify that it is for "Patt's 95th."  For more information, contact Lauraine Connelly.

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:

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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).

Community Pantry Update: Our pantry coordinator, Joan, sends a request for members to bring paper goods next Sunday for the Neighborhood Pantry.  For example: toilet paper, napkins, paper towels etc.  Canned goods can be donated again (but glass and perishables still cannot).  Our neighbors are using the pantry, and it is empty every few days.  Thank you for your donations!  For more information, contact Joan Kurtzeborn.  Reimbursements are available; contact our treasurer, Bob Antweiler: [email protected].

Tomorrow, Monday, September 12th at 6 pm, the local chapter of the American Association of University Women meets at our building and on Zoom.  This month, Professor Bryan Jack of Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, will present on " Crossing the Red Sea, St. Louis and the Exodusters."  For more information, contact Charlotte Parsons.

Alberta Mobley's Tuesday yoga class at our building is on hold this week as she is out of town.  Classes will continue after Alberta returns, although she is seeking a new teacher.  For more information, contact Alberta.

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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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 week, Missouri River Regional Library will hold Capital READ book discussions in their Art Gallery on Monday, September 12th at 1 pm and Thursday, September 15th at 6:30 pm.  This ongoing series of discussions highlight This Place of Promise: A Historian’s Perspective on 200 Years of Missouri History, the 2022 Capital READ. The discussions will be led by community members who will focus not only on the book’s overall content but also on specific aspects of the state’s history as covered in the book.  The Monday discussion will be led by Anita Randolph and Anne Rottmann, Missouri River Regional Library board members, with a special focus on the Civil War in Missouri.  The Thursday session will be led by Dr. Darius Watson, interim dean of admissions, Lincoln University, and Dr. Thomas J. Gubbels, American history professor, Lincoln University, with a special focus on race in Missouri.  More sessions are scheduled for next week.  Contact Madeline Matson.  For more on library events, visit MRRL.org.

This Tuesday, September 13th, the emergency housing subgroup of the Jefferson City Homelessness Working Group holds its monthly meeting.  To get involved in this or other aspects of the working group, contact Patt Behler.

This Friday, September 16th at 6:30 in their Art Gallery, Missouri River Regional Library presents: Missouri Wines for the Season: A Perfect Pairing.  Registration is required.  Shannon Yokley, marketing specialist for the Missouri Wine and Grape Board, will present a Wine 101 class and discuss what's new and exciting in the state's wine industry. The program will feature a tasting of five wines and some food pairings that demonstrate flavor profiles and differences.  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