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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
Next Sunday, October 16:
Adult Forum - 9:15 am
Chief Gary Hill, Lincoln University Police Department
Our Adult Forum is currently available both in-person and via Zoom.
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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'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: "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:
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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 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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