This Sunday, we were honored to welcome Rev. Dottie Mathews, a Community Minister from the UU Church in Columbia. Many of us have been touched, angered, or saddened by news of suffering at our nation's border, and Rev. Dottie shared the life-changing experience of witnessing the situation of these immigrants firsthand on a pilgrimage with rabbis and supportive clergy of various faiths. She shared a reading by a UCC minister asking: who are we waiting in this blessed Christmas season? For a child denied room in the inn and left to sleep in a manger, but still blissfully silent? For a child who will save us without making us hear the cries of the outcast? Rev. Dottie reflected that we live in difficult times when the needs of compassion and justice can easily drain us, but although we can't do everything, we have a responsibility to do our part. We must realize the dissonance of celebrating a season of peace and love while closing our nation's doors to those in danger and in need, and hear that dissonance not as noise to be avoided, but as a call to live our values.
Next Sunday, December 23rd:
January News Due.
Please submit your items for our January newsletter and print calendar to Laura Gilkey by e-mail ([email protected]) or in writing.
Adult Forum - 9:15 am
"Awakening to the Mystery of Life", Betty Cooper
The title of Rabbi Michael Lerner’s editorial in the fall edition of Tikkun was: “Don’t Let the Light Go Out.” These six words are meaningful to me. In March, I felt as if my “light for living” had “gone out.” Immediately I began listening to tapes and reading books from “Wisdom Writers.” During the process, I felt as if the “mysteries of life” were inside “loving, compassionate, caring words.” In this session we’ll discuss “Wisdom Ideas” and discern if they reveal “the mystery of life.” Come prepared to share ideas that have awakened you to the “mystery of life.”
Service and Religious Education - 10:30 am
Message (corrected 19 Dec): "What Gifts Do You Bring?"
A holiday service with presentations by various UUFJC members.
Also including an opportunity to hang gift tags with your own gift reflections written on them, on the tree near the piano.
If you have a joy or concern that you would like to have read during the Service, please submit it by noon on Friday through our website: http://uufjc.org/joys--concerns.html
Plus Children's RE
UUFJC News and Events this week:
We are migrating our weekly e-mail list to a new Google Group. If you have suddenly stopped receiving our weekly e-mails or just wish to start receiving them, please use our contact form and ask to be added.
We need someone to step forward and coordinate our Salvation Army meals. The coordinator will have a lot of help learning the ropes and providing the food. If we don't have a coordinator by the end of this year, we will probably have to give up this longtime community service of our Fellowship. If you are willing to step forward, please contact Roberta Dunkel. (Note, we are not serving at the Salvation Army in November or December due to the holidays.)
The Membership Committee is looking for people willing to give rides to members and friends who can't drive to church on Sundays. We currently have three people needing rides. If you can help even once a month, please contact Bob Antweiler.
This Friday, December 21st, our building is reserved by a community group starting at 6 pm. Please allow privacy.
Community Events this week:
Monday, December 17th at 7 pm in their Art Gallery, Missouri River Regional Library hosts an Author Talk: "American Honor: The Creation of the Nation’s Ideals during the Revolutionary Era." The American Revolution was not only a revolution for liberty and freedom. It was also a revolution of ethics, reshaping what colonial Americans understood as “honor” and “virtue.” Dr. Craig Bruce Smith, assistant professor of history at William Woods University, will discuss his new book, American Honor, which focuses on prominent Americans who came of age before and during the Revolution—notably John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington—and shows how a colonial ethical transformation caused and became inseparable from the American Revolution, creating an ethical ideology that still remains. Contact Madeline Matson. For more library events, visit MRRL.org.
This week, Capitol City Cinema presents "Beautiful Boy" (Thursday through Sunday). For showtimes, more events, and more information, visit capitolcitycinema.org.
For yoga and even more events, see our online calendars:
UUFJC Events
Affiliated Events
Religious Education
Building Use (other)
Community Events
Have a great week!
Next Sunday, December 23rd:
January News Due.
Please submit your items for our January newsletter and print calendar to Laura Gilkey by e-mail ([email protected]) or in writing.
Adult Forum - 9:15 am
"Awakening to the Mystery of Life", Betty Cooper
The title of Rabbi Michael Lerner’s editorial in the fall edition of Tikkun was: “Don’t Let the Light Go Out.” These six words are meaningful to me. In March, I felt as if my “light for living” had “gone out.” Immediately I began listening to tapes and reading books from “Wisdom Writers.” During the process, I felt as if the “mysteries of life” were inside “loving, compassionate, caring words.” In this session we’ll discuss “Wisdom Ideas” and discern if they reveal “the mystery of life.” Come prepared to share ideas that have awakened you to the “mystery of life.”
Service and Religious Education - 10:30 am
Message (corrected 19 Dec): "What Gifts Do You Bring?"
A holiday service with presentations by various UUFJC members.
Also including an opportunity to hang gift tags with your own gift reflections written on them, on the tree near the piano.
If you have a joy or concern that you would like to have read during the Service, please submit it by noon on Friday through our website: http://uufjc.org/joys--concerns.html
Plus Children's RE
UUFJC News and Events this week:
We are migrating our weekly e-mail list to a new Google Group. If you have suddenly stopped receiving our weekly e-mails or just wish to start receiving them, please use our contact form and ask to be added.
We need someone to step forward and coordinate our Salvation Army meals. The coordinator will have a lot of help learning the ropes and providing the food. If we don't have a coordinator by the end of this year, we will probably have to give up this longtime community service of our Fellowship. If you are willing to step forward, please contact Roberta Dunkel. (Note, we are not serving at the Salvation Army in November or December due to the holidays.)
The Membership Committee is looking for people willing to give rides to members and friends who can't drive to church on Sundays. We currently have three people needing rides. If you can help even once a month, please contact Bob Antweiler.
This Friday, December 21st, our building is reserved by a community group starting at 6 pm. Please allow privacy.
Community Events this week:
Monday, December 17th at 7 pm in their Art Gallery, Missouri River Regional Library hosts an Author Talk: "American Honor: The Creation of the Nation’s Ideals during the Revolutionary Era." The American Revolution was not only a revolution for liberty and freedom. It was also a revolution of ethics, reshaping what colonial Americans understood as “honor” and “virtue.” Dr. Craig Bruce Smith, assistant professor of history at William Woods University, will discuss his new book, American Honor, which focuses on prominent Americans who came of age before and during the Revolution—notably John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington—and shows how a colonial ethical transformation caused and became inseparable from the American Revolution, creating an ethical ideology that still remains. Contact Madeline Matson. For more library events, visit MRRL.org.
This week, Capitol City Cinema presents "Beautiful Boy" (Thursday through Sunday). For showtimes, more events, and more information, visit capitolcitycinema.org.
For yoga and even more events, see our online calendars:
UUFJC Events
Affiliated Events
Religious Education
Building Use (other)
Community Events
Have a great week!
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