Sunday, November 13, 2022:
This morning, we shared a recent message from our neighbors at First Unitarian Universalist of Springfield via video. First UU minister and friend of UUFJC Rev. Michelle Scott-Huffman delivered her Halloween message focused on last month's theme of Courage, but the ideas are also tied to this month's theme of Change. Halloween and All Hallows' Eve have invited us to think about death and fear in ways that are both playful and somber, but too often we try to hold death at arms' length. We tend to fear change --- and death is the ultimate change --- and our fear can paralyze us or let us avoid engaging with the change we want to create. Rev. Scott-Huffman invited those of us who can do the work while taking care of ourselves to explore the spiritual growth to be found in making peace with our mortality and thinking deeply about the change we want to leave behind.
Rev. Scott-Huffman's message is available to view online: https://youtu.be/3bdEv0zy3-Q
For those who would like to keep up with our neighbors at the UU Church of Columbia, their service message from this morning is also available to view online: https://youtu.be/mgeP9DYgFrQ
Next Sunday, November 20th:
Newsletter Submissions Due
Please email your items for our December newsletter to Laura Gilkey at [email protected].
Adult Forum - 9:15 am
"Beyond Homelessness," Stefani Thompson and Lisa Sanning
Many efforts to address homelessness are taking place in Mid-Missouri. Thompson and Sanning will deliver a progress report.
Our Adult Forum is currently available both in-person and via Zoom.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/98858741051?pwd=d3ZMbHJSL3NjMGMxZEM5N1VxUysxQT09
Meeting ID: 988 5874 1051
Password: 047662
Phone
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago - US toll)
Find your nearest number: https://zoom.us/u/aeC2zyWdIo
Service and Religious Education - 10:30 am
UUCC Service
This week, our building will be open for those who wish to come and share the online services of our neighbor congregation, the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia. Those joining from home are encouraged to connect to UUCC directly. Information and live-streaming links are available on their website: uucomo.org.
Children's Religious Education - 10:30 am
Children attending in-person are welcome to join RE Instructor Samantha Porter for a lesson during the service hour. This week's lesson: "Traveling the Path of Changing Thanksgiving."
Lunch after Service: If you would like to join other members and friends for lunch, look for a whiteboard in our entry hallway near the water fountain to see the weekly lunch location. Please add a tally to the whiteboard if you plan to attend.
Masks are currently optional for those attending UUFJC events in person.
If you have a joy or concern that you would like to have read during a service or shared in our weekly email, please submit it by noon on the Friday before through our website: http://uufjc.org/joys--concerns.html
We will also have paper forms available Sunday morning for submissions.
Zoom participants, please use the web form. Submissions made after noon on Friday may not be read or shared until the following week.
UUFJC News and Events this week:
For accessibility and convenience, we now have an option to donate to our Fellowship online through PayPal:
Donate to UUFJC
You can also mail donations and pledges to:
UUFJC
Attn: Treasurer
PO Box 1245
Jefferson City, MO 65102
Thank you for being with us and supporting us!
And remember all our ways to stay in touch! You can visit our website at uufjc.org. You can also join our open-posting "UUFJC Cafe" Google Group to chat with other members and friends via e-mail and receive additional announcements and reminders (contact the Administrator at [email protected] to join).
We are always in need of donations for our free community pantry. Due to the rainy and cool weather, our pantry coordinator Joan Kurtzeborn suggests that during November we contribute items such as umbrellas, gloves, hats, scarves or socks for our pantry. Items are useful for children or adults. For more donation ideas and information, contact Joan. Reimbursements are available; contact our treasurer, Bob Antweiler: rp8mm9@gmail.com.
The local chapter of the American Association of University Women meets at our building and online tomorrow, Monday, November 14th at 6 pm. For more information, contact Charlotte Parsons.
Alberta Mobley teaches her own Chair / Accessible yoga classes at our building Tuesday mornings at 9:30 am. Donations requested. For more information, contact Alberta. (Note: these classes will be ending after Nov. 22nd.)
On Thursdays at 5:30 pm, Katherine Connor hosts a weekly Zoom Happy Hour for UUFJC Members and Friends to gather and check in.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/91843966450?pwd=djBwTEx4YUxseW9SdytSZjJGS0xrdz09
Meeting ID: 918 4396 6450
Password: 918925
Phone:
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago - US toll)
Find your nearest number: https://zoom.us/u/aeC2zyWdIo
An Insight Meditation group taught by Joe McCormack meets at our building Thursday nights at 7 pm. For more information, contact Bob Antweiler.
Our building is reserved by community groups Wednesdays and Saturdays starting at 6 pm and Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 5:30 pm. If you have access to our building, please allow privacy at these times.
Community Events this week:
This 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/
This morning, we shared a recent message from our neighbors at First Unitarian Universalist of Springfield via video. First UU minister and friend of UUFJC Rev. Michelle Scott-Huffman delivered her Halloween message focused on last month's theme of Courage, but the ideas are also tied to this month's theme of Change. Halloween and All Hallows' Eve have invited us to think about death and fear in ways that are both playful and somber, but too often we try to hold death at arms' length. We tend to fear change --- and death is the ultimate change --- and our fear can paralyze us or let us avoid engaging with the change we want to create. Rev. Scott-Huffman invited those of us who can do the work while taking care of ourselves to explore the spiritual growth to be found in making peace with our mortality and thinking deeply about the change we want to leave behind.
Rev. Scott-Huffman's message is available to view online: https://youtu.be/3bdEv0zy3-Q
For those who would like to keep up with our neighbors at the UU Church of Columbia, their service message from this morning is also available to view online: https://youtu.be/mgeP9DYgFrQ
Next Sunday, November 20th:
Newsletter Submissions Due
Please email your items for our December newsletter to Laura Gilkey at [email protected].
Adult Forum - 9:15 am
"Beyond Homelessness," Stefani Thompson and Lisa Sanning
Many efforts to address homelessness are taking place in Mid-Missouri. Thompson and Sanning will deliver a progress report.
Our Adult Forum is currently available both in-person and via Zoom.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/98858741051?pwd=d3ZMbHJSL3NjMGMxZEM5N1VxUysxQT09
Meeting ID: 988 5874 1051
Password: 047662
Phone
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago - US toll)
Find your nearest number: https://zoom.us/u/aeC2zyWdIo
Service and Religious Education - 10:30 am
UUCC Service
This week, our building will be open for those who wish to come and share the online services of our neighbor congregation, the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia. Those joining from home are encouraged to connect to UUCC directly. Information and live-streaming links are available on their website: uucomo.org.
Children's Religious Education - 10:30 am
Children attending in-person are welcome to join RE Instructor Samantha Porter for a lesson during the service hour. This week's lesson: "Traveling the Path of Changing Thanksgiving."
Lunch after Service: If you would like to join other members and friends for lunch, look for a whiteboard in our entry hallway near the water fountain to see the weekly lunch location. Please add a tally to the whiteboard if you plan to attend.
Masks are currently optional for those attending UUFJC events in person.
If you have a joy or concern that you would like to have read during a service or shared in our weekly email, please submit it by noon on the Friday before through our website: http://uufjc.org/joys--concerns.html
We will also have paper forms available Sunday morning for submissions.
Zoom participants, please use the web form. Submissions made after noon on Friday may not be read or shared until the following week.
UUFJC News and Events this week:
For accessibility and convenience, we now have an option to donate to our Fellowship online through PayPal:
Donate to UUFJC
You can also mail donations and pledges to:
UUFJC
Attn: Treasurer
PO Box 1245
Jefferson City, MO 65102
Thank you for being with us and supporting us!
And remember all our ways to stay in touch! You can visit our website at uufjc.org. You can also join our open-posting "UUFJC Cafe" Google Group to chat with other members and friends via e-mail and receive additional announcements and reminders (contact the Administrator at [email protected] to join).
We are always in need of donations for our free community pantry. Due to the rainy and cool weather, our pantry coordinator Joan Kurtzeborn suggests that during November we contribute items such as umbrellas, gloves, hats, scarves or socks for our pantry. Items are useful for children or adults. For more donation ideas and information, contact Joan. Reimbursements are available; contact our treasurer, Bob Antweiler: rp8mm9@gmail.com.
The local chapter of the American Association of University Women meets at our building and online tomorrow, Monday, November 14th at 6 pm. For more information, contact Charlotte Parsons.
Alberta Mobley teaches her own Chair / Accessible yoga classes at our building Tuesday mornings at 9:30 am. Donations requested. For more information, contact Alberta. (Note: these classes will be ending after Nov. 22nd.)
On Thursdays at 5:30 pm, Katherine Connor hosts a weekly Zoom Happy Hour for UUFJC Members and Friends to gather and check in.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/91843966450?pwd=djBwTEx4YUxseW9SdytSZjJGS0xrdz09
Meeting ID: 918 4396 6450
Password: 918925
Phone:
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago - US toll)
Find your nearest number: https://zoom.us/u/aeC2zyWdIo
An Insight Meditation group taught by Joe McCormack meets at our building Thursday nights at 7 pm. For more information, contact Bob Antweiler.
Our building is reserved by community groups Wednesdays and Saturdays starting at 6 pm and Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 5:30 pm. If you have access to our building, please allow privacy at these times.
Community Events this week:
This 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/
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