Important notes:
Last Sunday we were invited to share the online services of our neighbor congregation, the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia. In her sermon, Rev. Molly Housh Gordon pointed out that we are in an in-between time. In the cycle of the year, the past week saw the harvest moon and the autumnal equinox. In the covid pandemic, we are seemingly between the worst of it and the end. In current events, we are between the disruption and the resolution. Our brains hate this in-between-ness and crave clarity and predictability. At the same time, our spirits may be drawn to the possibility of such moments, and our bodies might be just plain tired. Rev. Molly offered some suggestions for navigating such times:
The sermon is now available to view online: https://youtu.be/sarN3I1aVzo
As if to underscore the point of navigating in-between times of change, those who gathered at our own building had technical difficulties and weren't able to watch the sermon this morning, but they made the best of it, singing hymns and enjoying fellowship as members of our faith community. In staying with the moment and honoring the ritual in whatever form in the familiar space, perhaps we see synchronicity --- Rev. Molly's advice coming in useful even when it wasn't heard.
Next Sunday, October 3rd:
Adult Forum - 9:15 am
Ron Fitzwater, Missouri Pharmacy Association
Fitzwater also serves as Ward 4 city councilman.
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
"Honesty, Empathy, Fidelity: Cultivating Relationship," Rev. Mike Adamek
Our sermon theme this month is not a plural, it is a singular, Relationship. How do we cultivate the relationship in our lives? For those who know, congratulations. For the rest of us, I offer three waypoints toward relationship that have been important in my life.
Our services are currently available both in-person and via Zoom.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/94285041130
Meeting ID: 942 8504 1130
By Phone (US toll):
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
Find your nearest number: https://zoom.us/u/ak1ZLCDJG
Children's Religious Education - 10:30 am
Children are welcome to join RE Instructor Samantha Porter for a lesson in the RE room during the service hour. This week: "Demonstrating Compassion."
Masks are currently required for everyone attending UUFJC events in-person. Free masks will be available if you do not have one.
If you have a joy or concern that you would like to have read during a service, please submit it by noon on the Friday before through our website: http://uufjc.org/joys--concerns.html
We will also have paper forms available Sunday morning for submissions, and online participants will have an opportunity to share Joys and Concerns via text chat.
UUFJC News and Events this week:
We are always in need of donations for our free community pantry. For more information about the pantry and current needs, contact Joan Kurtzeborn: j[email protected]. Reimbursements are available; contact our treasurer, Bob Antweiler: [email protected].
It's time to update our Members and Friends Directory! If you would like to make your contact information available to other UUFJC members and friends, contact our administrator at [email protected]. You can submit new information or any recent updates, and you can request a copy of the current directory to check that your information is correct.
Our regular Thursday Zoom Happy Hour is canceled this week. Our hostess, Katherine Connor, will be out of town.
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, September 30th at 7 pm in their Art Gallery, Missouri River Regional Library presents a Capital READ Author Talk with Allen Eskens. Registration required. Eskens is the author of five critically acclaimed and award-winning novels. In 1991, he began writing Nothing More Dangerous as a way to explore his feelings about prejudice and racism, working sporadically on the story during the intervening years. He published the book--his sixth--last year to high praise from both national and local publications. Nothing More Dangerous is different from his previous works; it's a story set in the Missouri Ozarks in the 1970s with a focus on family, loyalty, friendship, and simmering racial tension. Reviewers have called the book "a stunning small-town mystery": (New York Times Book Review) and "a coming-of-age book to rival some of the best..." (Library Journal, starred review). A mid-Missouri native, Eskens is a retired criminal defense lawyer who lives in Minnesota. After his presentation, Eskens will sign books and meet with local fans and appreciative readers. Contact Madeline Matson. For more on library events, visit MRRL.org.
This Friday, October 1st at 7 pm in their Art Gallery, MRRL presents their monthly First Friday Film. This month's selection: "The Courier." In this true-life Cold War spy thriller, a British businessman, Greville Wynne, becomes entangled in one of the greatest international conflicts in history. Recruited by MI6 and a CIA operative, Wynne forms a covert alliance with a Soviet spy, and both men risk everything in a dangerous race against time to provide the intelligence needed to prevent nuclear confrontation and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Rachel Brosnahan. 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
- No Thursday Happy Hour on Zoom this week
- It's time to update our Members and Friends Directory! Details below
- Our October newsletter is now ready to view or download: UUFJC Newsletter "Flame on the Water" October 2021
Last Sunday we were invited to share the online services of our neighbor congregation, the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia. In her sermon, Rev. Molly Housh Gordon pointed out that we are in an in-between time. In the cycle of the year, the past week saw the harvest moon and the autumnal equinox. In the covid pandemic, we are seemingly between the worst of it and the end. In current events, we are between the disruption and the resolution. Our brains hate this in-between-ness and crave clarity and predictability. At the same time, our spirits may be drawn to the possibility of such moments, and our bodies might be just plain tired. Rev. Molly offered some suggestions for navigating such times:
- We can anchor ourselves in our bodies and senses, being present to the moment.
- We can offer our brains small rituals, expectations that can be realized.
- We can build a safe, cozy physical space where we can go to recharge.
- We can tune in to the natural rhythms of the world around us.
- And we can tune in to the little moments of in-between-ness. As we step through any doorway, we can take a breath and look at the possibilities of the new space we're entering.
The sermon is now available to view online: https://youtu.be/sarN3I1aVzo
As if to underscore the point of navigating in-between times of change, those who gathered at our own building had technical difficulties and weren't able to watch the sermon this morning, but they made the best of it, singing hymns and enjoying fellowship as members of our faith community. In staying with the moment and honoring the ritual in whatever form in the familiar space, perhaps we see synchronicity --- Rev. Molly's advice coming in useful even when it wasn't heard.
Next Sunday, October 3rd:
Adult Forum - 9:15 am
Ron Fitzwater, Missouri Pharmacy Association
Fitzwater also serves as Ward 4 city councilman.
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
"Honesty, Empathy, Fidelity: Cultivating Relationship," Rev. Mike Adamek
Our sermon theme this month is not a plural, it is a singular, Relationship. How do we cultivate the relationship in our lives? For those who know, congratulations. For the rest of us, I offer three waypoints toward relationship that have been important in my life.
Our services are currently available both in-person and via Zoom.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/94285041130
Meeting ID: 942 8504 1130
By Phone (US toll):
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
Find your nearest number: https://zoom.us/u/ak1ZLCDJG
Children's Religious Education - 10:30 am
Children are welcome to join RE Instructor Samantha Porter for a lesson in the RE room during the service hour. This week: "Demonstrating Compassion."
Masks are currently required for everyone attending UUFJC events in-person. Free masks will be available if you do not have one.
If you have a joy or concern that you would like to have read during a service, please submit it by noon on the Friday before through our website: http://uufjc.org/joys--concerns.html
We will also have paper forms available Sunday morning for submissions, and online participants will have an opportunity to share Joys and Concerns via text chat.
UUFJC News and Events this week:
We are always in need of donations for our free community pantry. For more information about the pantry and current needs, contact Joan Kurtzeborn: j[email protected]. Reimbursements are available; contact our treasurer, Bob Antweiler: [email protected].
It's time to update our Members and Friends Directory! If you would like to make your contact information available to other UUFJC members and friends, contact our administrator at [email protected]. You can submit new information or any recent updates, and you can request a copy of the current directory to check that your information is correct.
Our regular Thursday Zoom Happy Hour is canceled this week. Our hostess, Katherine Connor, will be out of town.
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, September 30th at 7 pm in their Art Gallery, Missouri River Regional Library presents a Capital READ Author Talk with Allen Eskens. Registration required. Eskens is the author of five critically acclaimed and award-winning novels. In 1991, he began writing Nothing More Dangerous as a way to explore his feelings about prejudice and racism, working sporadically on the story during the intervening years. He published the book--his sixth--last year to high praise from both national and local publications. Nothing More Dangerous is different from his previous works; it's a story set in the Missouri Ozarks in the 1970s with a focus on family, loyalty, friendship, and simmering racial tension. Reviewers have called the book "a stunning small-town mystery": (New York Times Book Review) and "a coming-of-age book to rival some of the best..." (Library Journal, starred review). A mid-Missouri native, Eskens is a retired criminal defense lawyer who lives in Minnesota. After his presentation, Eskens will sign books and meet with local fans and appreciative readers. Contact Madeline Matson. For more on library events, visit MRRL.org.
This Friday, October 1st at 7 pm in their Art Gallery, MRRL presents their monthly First Friday Film. This month's selection: "The Courier." In this true-life Cold War spy thriller, a British businessman, Greville Wynne, becomes entangled in one of the greatest international conflicts in history. Recruited by MI6 and a CIA operative, Wynne forms a covert alliance with a Soviet spy, and both men risk everything in a dangerous race against time to provide the intelligence needed to prevent nuclear confrontation and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Rachel Brosnahan. 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
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