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This Sunday, our own Rev. Nancy TannerThies joined us for a Zoom service exploring Bewilderment.  Bewilderment is a common experience in these uncommon times, indeed a universal experience in any time, though we may try to keep it hidden.  As we approach bewilderment, Rev. Nancy suggested that we first acknowledge our confusion, then allow ourselves time to wander around and around.  We feel that a stable center is there, but we can't see it, and Rev. Nancy asked that we resist the urge to hurry and leap for it, that we pay attention to what we are tempted to kick aside in our rush toward solid ground.  If we stay present in the moment and take in more of our changing reality rather than try to escape it, the center will reveal itself in its own time.

As the poet Rumi wrote:
"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment; 
Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition."


Next Sunday, August 23rd:

September News Due.
Please submit your items for our September newsletter to Laura Gilkey, [email protected].

Adult Forum - 9:15 am
"Leadership for the Greater Good," Betty Cooper

The forum focuses on Azim Khamisa’s new book, Leadership for the Greater Good, and his concept of satyagrahi leadership.

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No UUFJC service this week.  Watch this e-mail list for announcements of upcoming Zoom services.

UUCC Online Services - 10:30 am

We have been invited to join our neighbors at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia.

These services will be offered via Facebook Live:
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As we find new ways to come together, we still need financial support, even without Sunday offering baskets.  We now have an online donation option 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!

On Wednesdays at 2 pm, Laura Gilkey hosts a weekly virtual book club for UUFJC members and friends via Zoom.  Current selection: The Body Is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor.  We will listen to an audio version with accompanying onscreen text during meetings; you do not have to read the book on your own.
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Later this Wednesday, August 19th, the UUFJC Board meets at 6 pm via Zoom.  All are welcome to attend our board meetings.  Contact our president, Katherine Connor.
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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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On Fridays at 1 pm, Robin Duple of the UU Church of Columbia hosts a weekly Zoom get-together for crafters and creators of all stripes and has invited UUFJC members and friends to join in.  For more information, visit the UUCC website: 
https://uucomo.org/event/crafting-club-online-weekly/all/

Our building is reserved by community groups Wednesdays and Saturdays starting at 6 pm; Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 5:30 pm; and Sundays starting at 7 pm.  If you have access to our building, please allow privacy at these times.

Community Events this week:

Our neighbors at Vipassana Buddhist Church / Center for Buddhist Development are holding online services via Zoom at 10 am on Sundays, as well as meditation nights via Zoom at 7 pm on Thursdays.  For more information, contact [email protected].

Monday, August 17th at 7 pm in their Art Gallery, Missouri River Regional Library hosts the latest installment of the LU-MRRL Lecture Series: "The Body as Evidence: Exploring Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology."  Were you a fan of the television series “Bones” or Kathy Reichs’ book series that inspired it? Then you are familiar with what out speaker, Dr. Christine E. Boston, assistant professor of anthropology and sociology at LU, is going to cover. Boston previously worked on a number of bioarchaeological projects throughout North and South America, and she has assisted law enforcement in forensic anthropological investigations in Canada. She will bring her experience and knowledge to this presentation as she describes how the human skeleton can be analyzed to assess various identity markers and used to track health and cultural practices.  Registration and masks required.  Contact Madeline Matson.  For more library events, visit MRRL.org.

For more events, see our online calendars:

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This Sunday, we were happy to welcome back Rev. Mike Adamek for his first online service with us.  Rev. Mike focused on the history of Unitarian Universalist Fellowships like ours --- congregations formed by lay people coming together, not led by a professional minister.  UUs in general value individual freedom, and in Fellowships this tendency can be especially strong, sometimes to unhealthy extremes; reactive intolerance toward any form of power or guidance can keep some faith communities from moving forward.  On the other hand, Fellowships can also be places for innovation, and particularly helped paganism and feminism to take their current place in UU thought and practice.

Looking at our Fellowship in particular, Rev. Mike saw many strengths.  We have a proud 30 year history, we are involved in the wider religious community of Jefferson City, we have welcomed insights from different ministers and leaders, and we have shown a willingness to adapt.  There are still areas where we can grow --- the size of our building and parking is beginning to hold us back, for example --- and growth is nothing to fear.  Welcoming more people in creates opportunities for more warmth and intimacy, not less.  And broadening the welcome is important, because our Fellowship plays a unique and vital role in our community, a place where people can find a sense of belonging that other churches may not provide for them.

Next Sunday, August 16th:

Adult Forum - 9:15 am

"The Pandemic," Bob Boldt

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Service and Religious Education - 10:30 am

Online Service - 10:30 am

“Bothered and Bewildered?,” Rev. Nancy TannerThies
In a continued exploration of how we respond to life in these days, Rev. Nancy will explore what we might do when we are “Bothered and Bewildered?”

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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

UUFJC News and Events this week:

As we find new ways to come together, we still need financial support, even without Sunday offering baskets.  We now have an online donation option 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!

Tomorrow, Monday, August 10th, Patt Behler hosts an unofficial discussion group for UUFJC members and friends.  This month's topic: "Fun."  Contact Patt for location and to RSVP.

On Wednesdays at 2 pm, Laura Gilkey hosts a weekly virtual book club for UUFJC members and friends via Zoom.  Current selection: The Body Is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor.  We will listen to an audio version with accompanying onscreen text during meetings; you do not have to read the book on your own.  This week we will try again to start on our new book selection.
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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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On Fridays at 1 pm, Robin Duple of the UU Church of Columbia hosts a weekly Zoom get-together for crafters and creators of all stripes and has invited UUFJC members and friends to join in.  For more information, visit the UUCC website:   https://uucomo.org/event/crafting-club-online-weekly/all/

Our building is reserved by community groups Wednesdays and Saturdays starting at 6 pm; Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 5:30 pm; and Sundays starting at 7 pm.  If you have access to our building, please allow privacy at these times.

Community Events this week:

Our neighbors at Vipassana Buddhist Church / Center for Buddhist Development are holding online services via Zoom at 10 am on Sundays, as well as meditation nights via Zoom at 7 pm on Thursdays.  For more information, contact [email protected].

And Missouri River Regional Library is beginning to offer in-person programs, with registration and masks required.  This week includes the following:

This Tuesday, August 11th at 7 pm in their Art Gallery, MRRL hosts an author talk with Richard McGonegal, who will discuss his first novel, a mystery titled Sense of Grace. A former editor at the Jefferson City News-Tribune, McGonegal is a longtime mystery reader who has studied this popular area of fiction in depth and met many well-known mystery authors before deciding to make his own contribution to the genre. The program will be in an interview format with adult programmer Madeline Matson and plenty of time for audience questions. The book will be available for sale and signing after the program.  Registration and masks required.  Contact Madeline Matson.  For more library events, visit MRRL.org.

This Wednesday, August 12th at 7 pm in their Art Gallery, MRRL presents "Reel Life Cinema: Before I Kick the Bucket."  What would you do if you only had months to live? In this heartwarming and ultimately life-enhancing documentary, the extraordinary Rowena Kincaid, a terminally ill young woman with a wicked sense of humor, goes in search of a bucket list.  Registration and masks required.  Contact Madeline Matson.  For more library events, visit MRRL.org.

For more events, see our online calendars:

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Dear UUFJC Members and Friends,

This morning, we joined our neighbors at the UU Church of Columbia for a "Question Box Service."  UUs tend to celebrate questioning.  We often say that "Revelation is not sealed" --- the answers aren't all laid out for us, and they never will be.  This opens us to new truths, to the joy of discovery and the sacred pain of learning, but it is also a challenge.  Our religion is not one that offers the comfort of certainty in uncertain times like these; instead it offers a place to belong and be held as we live the questions.

In that spirit, Rev. Molly Housh-Gordon, in place of a sermon, took questions from the congregation.  In the Zoom chat, she was asked whether sometimes it's all right to be certain, and she said yes; some questions are beneath consideration, such as those that are not posed in good faith or those that call anyone's humanity into question.  The congregation, on the other hand, had submitted many vital good-faith questions, including:
How to care for ourselves and let joy in without feeling guilty,
How a young white UU can help the Black Lives Matter Movement, and
How would Rev. Molly describe UUism in one sentence (she needed a few semicolons).

The answers to all of these are "under construction," but what Rev. Molly said is available to view online: https://youtu.be/StGBSPN7yJc

(Note: Sorry this post is late, a new webmaster is learning the ropes.  Thank you for your patience!)

Last Sunday, Rev. Nancy TannerThies explored our monthly theme of Compassion.  Compassion, she said, goes beyond mere pity; where pity is a form of sadness bordering on despair, compassion calls us into kindness and helping.  It is, however, more difficult; true compassion requires us to come with our whole selves, including the "undesirable" parts that we tend to stuff away, out of view: our "-isms," fears, wounds, and failures.  As terrifying as it is to open those things we hide away, until we work through them with compassionate curiosity and accept them, we will find ourselves projecting them onto others and blocking our compassion for them.  When we have compassion for ourselves, then we can move into compassion for others, and in a future of thriving together.

Next Sunday, June 28th:

Adult Forum - 9:15 am
"Silly Poetry: a Lockdown Respite," Frank Rycyk
Tired of "gloom and doom?"  Frank will read some Shel Silverstein poetry.  He may even recite his poem, "Idiots."  Bob Boldt will read silliness from classical authors.  Bring silly poetry.  Bring silliness.
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Service and Religious Education - 10:30 am
To Be Announced
On some Sundays, we have UUFJC Services via Zoom.  Watch this e-mail list for developments.
If you have a joy or concern that you would like to have read during a Service, please submit it by noon on Friday through our website: http://uufjc.org/joys--concerns.html

UUCC Online Services - 10:30 am
We have also been invited to join our neighbors at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia.
These services will be offered via Facebook Live:
https://www.facebook.com/UnitarianUniversalistChurchOfColumbiaMO/?eid=ARCFLwfOPhvNekpA6bZuhuMke8zRihU5cX37pHO0Ig0hKx3TtbHgCgOx6CG-2K9kJWv-gRxpo4lI5kdW
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UUFJC News and Events this week:

As we find new ways to come together, we still need financial support, even without Sunday offering baskets.  We now have an online donation option 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!

Our national covenant organization, the UUA, holds its annual General Assembly this week, Wednesday, June 24th through Sunday, June 28th.  This year's GA is fully virtual.  Off-site registration ($150) provides access to all GA events, and there are also several events that will be publicly streamed for anyone at no cost, including worship services.

This Wednesday, June 24th at 2 pm, Laura Gilkey is hosting a weekly virtual book club for UUFJC members and friends via Zoom.  Selected book: Silas Marner by George Eliot.  We are listening to the book with accompanying text during meetings.  This week we will listen to chapters 17 and 18.
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Later on Wednesday, June 24th at 6:30 pm, the UUFJC Board will meet via Zoom.  They will be discussing our Fellowship's approach to re-opening; if you want to weigh in, please contact a board member in advance or plan to attend.  For more information, contact our president, Katherine Connor, at [email protected].  To attend, use the Zoom link below:
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This Thursday, June 25th at 5:30 pm, Katherine Connor will be hosting a weekly Zoom Happy Hour for UUFJC Members and Friends to gather and check in.
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This Friday, June 26th, is our monthly Salvation Army meal.  If you would like to help provide food for those in need, please contact Bob Antweiler: [email protected]

Our building is reserved by community groups Wednesdays and Saturdays starting at 6 pm; Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 5:30 pm; and Sundays starting at 7 pm.  If you have access to our building, please allow privacy at these times.

Community Events this week:

Our neighbors at Vipassana Buddhist Church / Center for Buddhist Development are holding online services via Zoom at 10 am on Sundays, as well as meditation nights via Zoom at 7 pm on Thursdays.  For more information, contact [email protected].

And Missouri River Regional Library is offering virtual events while the library is unable to host physical gatherings.  For more information, visit https://www.mrrl.org/events/upcoming.

For more events, see our online calendars:

UUFJC Events
Virtual Gatherings
Affiliated Events 
Religious Education
Building Use (other)
Community Events  

Please stay safe, well, and connected!

This Sunday, Rev. Nancy TannerThies explored our monthly theme of Compassion.  Compassion, she said, goes beyond mere pity; where pity is a form of sadness bordering on despair, compassion calls us into kindness and helping.  It is, however, more difficult; true compassion requires us to come with our whole selves, including the "undesirable" parts that we tend to stuff away, out of view: our "-isms," fears, wounds, and failures.  As terrifying as it is to open those things we hide away, until we work through them with compassionate curiosity and accept them, we will find ourselves projecting them onto others and blocking our compassion for them.  When we have compassion for ourselves, then we can move into compassion for others, and in a future of thriving together.

Adult Forum - 9:15 am
Silly poetry with Frank Rycyk, Bob Boldt, and you!
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UUCC Online Services - 10:30 am
We have also been invited to join our neighbors at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia.
These services will be offered via Facebook Live:
https://www.facebook.com/UnitarianUniversalistChurchOfColumbiaMO/?eid=ARCFLwfOPhvNekpA6bZuhuMke8zRihU5cX37pHO0Ig0hKx3TtbHgCgOx6CG-2K9kJWv-gRxpo4lI5kdW
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UUFJC News and Events this week:

As we find new ways to come together, we still need financial support, even without Sunday offering baskets.  We now have an online donation option 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!

This Wednesday, June 24th at 2 pm, Laura Gilkey is hosting a weekly virtual book club for UUFJC members and friends via Zoom.  Selected book: Silas Marner by George Eliot.  We are listening to the book with accompanying text during meetings.  This week we will listen to chapter 16.
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This Thursday, June 25th at 5:30 pm, Katherine Connor will be hosting a weekly Zoom Happy Hour for UUFJC Members and Friends to gather and check in.
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Our building is reserved by community groups Wednesdays and Saturdays starting at 6 pm; Thursdays starting at 5:30 pm; and Sundays starting at 7 pm.  If you have access to our building, please allow privacy at these times.

Community Events this week:

Our neighbors at Vipassana Buddhist Church / Center for Buddhist Development are holding online services via Zoom at 10 am on Sundays, as well as meditation nights via Zoom at 7 pm on Thursdays.  For more information, contact [email protected].

And Missouri River Regional Library is offering virtual events while the library is unable to host physical gatherings.  For more information, visit https://www.mrrl.org/events/upcoming.

For more events, see our online calendars:

UUFJC Events
Virtual Gatherings
Affiliated Events 
Religious Education
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Community Events  

Please stay safe, well, and connected!

Sunday morning, we were invited to join the UU Church of Columbia for an online service focused on the grief and rage of this moment, brought on by the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and a heartbreaking litany of other black lives, cut short in their developing stories and their sacred worth.  This is a moment to center ourselves in our humanity, to recognize that the grief and rage is born of love and thus recognize the depth of the black community's love.  Rev. Molly Housh-Gordon reminded fellow white people (like myself) that our heartbreak is also needed, not at the center of this moment, but in support and solidarity.  White people have work to do in the silence of our hearts, to get better at loving, while also showing up for justice.

The service also included a message from black philosopher-in-residence CW Dawson, a gorgeous performance by an all-black wind ensemble, and a collection benefiting the Movement for Black Lives (whom you can donate to at any time on their website).

The entire service is now available to view online: https://youtu.be/eVndyZPReus

Next Sunday, June 14th:

Adult Forum - 9:15 am
This week's topic is yet to be announced, but it is sure to be a lively discussion.
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Service and Religious Education - 10:30 am
To Be Announced
On some Sundays, we have UUFJC Services via Zoom.  Watch this page for developments.
If you have a joy or concern that you would like to have read during a Service, please submit it by noon on Friday through our website: http://uufjc.org/joys--concerns.html

UUCC Online Services - 10:30 am
We have also been invited to join our neighbors at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia.
These services will be offered via Facebook Live:
https://www.facebook.com/UnitarianUniversalistChurchOfColumbiaMO/?eid=ARCFLwfOPhvNekpA6bZuhuMke8zRihU5cX37pHO0Ig0hKx3TtbHgCgOx6CG-2K9kJWv-gRxpo4lI5kdW
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UUFJC News and Events this week:

As we find new ways to come together, we still need financial support, even without Sunday offering baskets.  We now have an online donation option 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!

This Wednesday, June 10th at 2 pm, Laura Gilkey is hosting a weekly virtual book club for UUFJC members and friends via Zoom.  Selected book: Silas Marner by George Eliot.  We are listening to the book with accompanying text during meetings.  This week we will listen to chapter 14.
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This Thursday, June 11th at 5:30 pm, Katherine Connor will be hosting a weekly Zoom Happy Hour for UUFJC Members and Friends to gather and check in.
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Phone:
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Our building is reserved by community groups Wednesdays and Saturdays starting at 6 pm; Thursdays starting at 5:30 pm; and Sundays starting at 7 pm.  If you have access to our building, please allow privacy at these times.

Community Events this week:

Our neighbors at Vipassana Buddhist Church / Center for Buddhist Development are holding online services via Zoom at 10 am on Sundays, as well as meditation nights via Zoom at 7 pm on Thursdays.  For more information, contact [email protected].

And Missouri River Regional Library is offering virtual events while the library is unable to host physical gatherings.  For more information, visit https://www.mrrl.org/events/upcoming.

For more events, see our online calendars:

UUFJC Events
Virtual Gatherings
Affiliated Events 
Religious Education
Building Use (other)
Community Events  

Please stay safe, well, and connected

Our June newsletter is now available to view or download:
UUFJC June 2020 Newsletter

This Sunday, while we did not have our own services, our neighbors at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia welcomed us at their annual Youth Service.  The UUCC youth explored the concept of allyship, which takes on new importance in light of recent events.  The unjust deaths of black people and their struggle for change have many of us wondering how we, often white and privileged, can help.  The UUCC Youth led us to ground ourselves in our own experience of being helped by others, remembering what they did and what it meant to us.  They encouraged us to take on the struggle as our own, even when the going gets tough.  We must put aside our own ego, our desire to run the show or clothe ourselves in virtue.  We should go beyond standing up to be counted and really do the hard work, go beyond defensiveness to listen and learn when our mistakes are pointed out, and go beyond our desire for safety to be prepared for risk.  They emphasized that allyship is not an identity we can subscribe to --- it is not something to be, but something to do, and to keep doing through thick and thin.

Next Sunday, June 7th:

Adult Forum - 9:15 am
"The Spirituality of Death and Dying," Bob Boldt
Bob will share readings from some of his studies.  Frank Rycyk and others will share their ideas.  Bring readings.  Bring ideas.
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Service and Religious Education - 10:30 am
To Be Announced
On some Sundays, we have UUFJC Services via Zoom.  Watch this page for developments.
If you have a joy or concern that you would like to have read during a Service, please submit it by noon on Friday through our website: http://uufjc.org/joys--concerns.html

UUCC Online Services - 10:30 am
Note: This Sunday, UUCC will be holding their annual business meeting.
If we do not have our own online services, we have been invited to join our neighbors at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia.
These services will be offered via Facebook Live:
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And via Zoom:
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UUFJC News and Events this week:

As we find new ways to come together, we still need financial support, even without Sunday offering baskets.  We now have an online donation option 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!

This Wednesday, June 3rd at 2 pm, Laura Gilkey is hosting a weekly virtual book club for UUFJC members and friends via Zoom.  Selected book: Silas Marner by George Eliot.  We are listening to the book with accompanying text during meetings.  This week we will listen to chapters 12 and 13.
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This Thursday, June 4th at 5:30 pm, Katherine Connor will be hosting a weekly Zoom Happy Hour for UUFJC Members and Friends to gather and check in.
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Our building is reserved by community groups Wednesday, June 3rd starting at 6 pm; Thursday, June 4th starting at 5:30 pm; and Saturday, June 6th starting at 6 pm.  If you have access to our building, please allow privacy at these times.

Community Events this week:

Our neighbors at Vipassana Buddhist Church / Center for Buddhist Development are holding online services via Zoom at 10 am on Sundays, as well as meditation nights via Zoom at 7 pm on Thursdays.  For more information, contact [email protected].

And Missouri River Regional Library is offering virtual events while the library is unable to host physical gatherings.  For more information, visit https://www.mrrl.org/events/upcoming.

For more events, see our online calendars:

UUFJC Events
Virtual Gatherings
Affiliated Events 
Religious Education
Building Use (other)
Community Events  

Please stay safe, well, and connected!

Our June newsletter is now available to view or download:

UUFJC June 2020 Newsletter

This Sunday, we held our Annual Business meeting via Zoom --- even during physical distancing, we can still honor our commitment to democratic process.

We elected our board for the coming year:
President: Katherine Connor
Vice President: Lisa Sanning
Treasurer: Bob Antweiler
Secretary: Gennifer Monteer
Director of Religious Education: Kim Connor

We also named this year's nominating committee: Tom Crane, Charlotte Parsons, and Amy Regnier.

Many thanks to everyone who has stepped up or continues to serve!

We also took the opportunity for members to share their thoughts on how to approach any return to physical gatherings, although no decisions were made.  The board will consider the matter further at their upcoming meeting on June 24th.  Feel free to contact a board member or plan to attend the board meeting if you wish to share your thoughts as well.

Next Sunday, May 31st:

Adult Forum - 9:15 am
Carrie Tergin, Mayor of Jefferson City
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Service and Religious Education - 10:30 am

UUFJC Services - To Be Announced
We may have UUFJC Services via Zoom.  Watch this page for developments.
If you have a joy or concern that you would like to have read during a Service, please submit it by noon on Friday through our website: http://uufjc.org/joys--concerns.html

UUCC Online Services - 10:30 am
If we do not have our own online services, we have been invited to join our neighbors at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia.
These services will be offered via Facebook Live:
https://www.facebook.com/UnitarianUniversalistChurchOfColumbiaMO/?eid=ARCFLwfOPhvNekpA6bZuhuMke8zRihU5cX37pHO0Ig0hKx3TtbHgCgOx6CG-2K9kJWv-gRxpo4lI5kdW
And via Zoom:
Join Zoom Webinar:
Webinar ID: 380 411 489  
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Phone
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
Find your nearest phone number: https://zoom.us/u/aeC2zyWdIo

UUFJC News and Events this week:

As we find new ways to come together, we still need financial support, even without Sunday offering baskets.  We now have an online donation option 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!

This Wednesday, May 27th at 2 pm, Laura Gilkey is hosting a weekly virtual book club for UUFJC members and friends via Zoom.  Selected book: Silas Marner by George Eliot.  We are listening to the book with accompanying text during meetings.  This week we will listen to chapter 11.  New participants are welcome to join in!
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 957 765 341
https://zoom.us/j/957765341
Phone
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
Find your nearest phone number: https://zoom.us/u/aeC2zyWdIo  

This Thursday, May 28th at 5:30 pm, Katherine Connor will be hosting a weekly Zoom Happy Hour for UUFJC Members and Friends to gather and check in.
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Meeting ID: 918 4396 6450
Password: 918925  
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Phone:
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
Find your nearest phone number: https://zoom.us/u/aeC2zyWdIo

Our building is reserved by community groups Wednesday, May 27th starting at 6 pm; Thursday, May 28th starting at 5:30 pm; and Saturday, May 30th starting at 6 pm.  If you have access to our building, please allow privacy at these times.

Community Events this week:

Tomorrow, Monday, May 25th at 6:30 pm, Faith Voices for Jefferson City is normally scheduled to hold their monthly meeting.  For more on the status of Faith Voices' meetings, contact  Rev. Kim Woodruff: [email protected]

As another Sunday Service Option, our neighbors at Vipassana Buddhist Church / Center for Buddhist Development are holding online services via Zoom at 10 am on Sundays.  For more information, contact [email protected].

And Missouri River Regional Library has begun offering virtual events while the library is unable to host physical gatherings.  For more information, visit https://www.mrrl.org/events/upcoming.

For more events, see our online calendars:

UUFJC Events
Virtual Gatherings
Affiliated Events 
Religious Education
Building Use (other)
Community Events  

Please stay safe, well, and connected!

Don't forget, next Sunday, May 24th is our Annual Business Meeting!  We will elect officers, vote on a budget, and more.
Meeting Agenda
Last Year's Annual Meeting Minutes (to be approved)
For information on the Budget proposal, contact our Treasurer, Bob Antweiler: [email protected]
For more information, contact our President, Katherine Connor: [email protected].  

This Sunday, we held services via Zoom, and Rev. Nancy TannerThies explored our monthly theme of Thresholds.  During this time of pandemic, she reflected, we are in a kind of prolonged threshold moment; we have left the way things were before, and we don't know when we'll be able to enter the way things will be after.  Rev. Nancy encouraged us to stay with this in-between time, not to shield ourselves with un-knowing but not to rush to figure it all out either.  She pointed to the "rites of passage" of many cultures, which have common elements of separation, transformation, and reincorporation.  During this separation, we can give ourselves space to transform, to foster the seeds of a future for ourselves and the underprivileged.  We can stay with this in-between time long enough to invite new growth that we can bring when we are able to reunite.

Next Sunday, May 24th:

Newsletter Submissions Due
Please submit your items for our June newsletter and print calendar to Laura Gilkey at [email protected].

Adult Forum - 9:15 am
"Nutrition and Health," Sarah Eber, Lincoln University Extension
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UUFJC Annual Business Meeting via Zoom - 10:30 am
After a short service, we will elect officers, vote on a budget, and more.
Meeting Agenda
Last Year's Annual Meeting Minutes (to be approved)
For information on the Budget proposal, contact our Treasurer, Bob Antweiler: [email protected].
For more information, contact our President, Katherine Connor: [email protected].
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; there will also be an opportunity to share via text chat.
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Meeting ID: 954 7265 9878
Password: 991351
Find your nearest number: https://zoom.us/u/aeC2zyWdIo

UUFJC News and Events this week:

As we find new ways to come together, we still need financial support, even without Sunday offering baskets.  We now have an online donation option 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!

This Wednesday, May 20th at 2 pm, Laura Gilkey is hosting a weekly virtual book club for UUFJC members and friends via Zoom.  Selected book: Silas Marner by George Eliot.  We are listening to the book with accompanying text during meetings --- you do not have to read the book on your own.  This week we will listen to chapter 10.  New participants are welcome to join in!
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 957 765 341
https://zoom.us/j/957765341
Phone
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
Find your nearest phone number: https://zoom.us/u/aeC2zyWdIo  

This Thursday, May 21st at 5:30 pm, Katherine Connor will be hosting a weekly Zoom Happy Hour for UUFJC Members and Friends to gather and check in.
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 918 4396 6450
Password: 918925  
https://zoom.us/j/91843966450?pwd=djBwTEx4YUxseW9SdytSZjJGS0xrdz09
Phone:
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
Find your nearest phone number: https://zoom.us/u/aeC2zyWdIo

This Friday, May 22nd is our monthly Salvation Army Meal.  If you want to help, contact Bob Antweiler: [email protected]. 

Our building is reserved by a community group Wednesday, May 20th and Saturday, May 23rd starting at 6 pm.  If you have access to our building, please allow privacy at these times.

Community Events this week:

As another Sunday Service Option, our neighbors at Vipassana Buddhist Church / Center for Buddhist Development are holding online services via Zoom at 10 am on Sundays.  For more information, contact [email protected].

And Missouri River Regional Library has begun offering virtual events while the library is unable to host physical gatherings.  For more information, visit https://www.mrrl.org/events/upcoming.

For more events, see our online calendars:

UUFJC Events
Virtual Gatherings
Affiliated Events 
Religious Education
Building Use (other)
Community Events  

Please stay safe, well, and connected!