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UUFJC Newsletter: Flame on the Water, February 2023
Sunday, January 29th:
This morning, we shared a recent message from our neighbors at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia. Two weeks ago, intern Minister George Grimm-Howell honored Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday with a sermon sermon titled "The Road to Jericho," in which he explored themes from Dr. King’s sermon “On Being a Good Neighbor.” Stories from Toni Morrison, the parable of the Good Samaritan, and George’s chaplaincy experiences among the urban poor of St. Louis helped point the way to our personal transformation on our personal roads to Jericho. (Summary adapted from the UUCC Youtube page with additional notes from Rich Burdge.)
Reflections on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legacy form a timely bridge from our January theme of Finding Our Center to our upcoming February theme of Love. Many of us, and UUism as a movement, work to center ourselves on the kind of justice Dr. King worked for: justice that reaches out in love, lifting up the full diversity among us and forming beloved community.
The message is available to view online: https://youtu.be/R7yxqD6HMPI
Next Sunday, February 5th:
Adult Forum - 9:15 am
Bob Boldt
Our Adult Forum is currently available both in-person and via Zoom.
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Service and Religious Education - 10:30 am
"Love is a Rose," Rev. Mike Adamek
Is there only good Love or is there both good Love and bad Love? My take is simple. Love is a positive virtue, a positive form of human excellence and yes there are myriad ways we fool ourselves when we act badly and blame it on love. Love does not inoculate us against great pain however, but it can help us weather it. If Love is a rose, where you touch it, always on the stem and never on the petals, naturally comes surrounded with thorns.
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 month's theme: "Love." This week's lesson: "Love for Self."
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:
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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 seeking a volunteer to manage our website and Facebook page. Please contact our president, Rich Burdge, if you can help.
We are always in need of donations for our free community pantry. Cereal, Vienna sausage, and tuna would be especially helpful at this time. For more donation ideas and information on the pantry, contact Joan Kurtzeborn. Reimbursements are available; contact our treasurer, Bob Antweiler: [email protected].
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 independent Insight Meditation group taught by Joe McCormack meets at our building Thursday nights at 7 pm. For more information, contact Bob Antweiler.
Our building is reserved by 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 Wednesday, February 1st, begins Black History Month.
This Friday, February 3rd at 7 pm in their Art Gallery, Missouri River Regional Library presents their First Friday Film. This month's selection: "Brooklyn." Ellis Lacey, a young Irish immigrant, navigates her way through 1950s Brooklyn in this award-winning film. Her initial homesickness soon gives way to romance, but when her life is disrupted by news from her hometown, she is forced to choose between two men on opposite sides of the world. Based on a bestselling novel by Colm Toibin, the film stars Saoirse Ronan and was nominated for multiple awards in the U.S., Britain and Ireland. Contact Madeline Matson. For more library events, visit MRRL.org.
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