From this week’s News to Note email newsletter: Show your love and appreciation for someone (or several someones) in the RVUUF community with Valentines … or give a Valentine to someone you would like to get to know better. On Feb. 14, right after the service, everyone is encouraged to spread the love around RVUUF … Continue reading Beloved Community Valentine exchange
During Religious Explorations classes on Sunday, the pre-kindergarten to second grade had a lesson in Integrity through the story of “Strega Nona” acted out and expressed through art. While Strega Nona is away, her assistant uses her magic pot to make spaghetti. But he can’t make it stop and the spaghetti overruns the town. … Continue reading ‘Strega Nona’ and lesson in Integrity
A very important date for you to make is Sunday, Jan. 31. RVUUF needs YOUR response to three important questions based on the model of Appreciative Inquiry. That Sunday service will be a “working” experience unlike all other Sunday services. Our children will be working at the same time in their R.E. classes answering the … Continue reading Nan’s News: Your input needed on Jan. 31
Kudos to Krynn Lukacs for her Craft Fair in December. There were 15 stations staffed by volunteers where participants could make various craft projects, anything from gingerbread houses to bourbon balls to jewelry; something for everyone. What an amazing idea and organizational achievement.
Parents, your children are being asked to share their ideas for a unified mission for RVUUF. Three questions for RVUUF’s young people have been posted as a PDF document to RVUUFian Parents on Facebook. Paper copies will be available this coming Sunday, Jan. 24. Children can think about and write out or draw their answers … Continue reading Children’s vision for mission of RVUUF
The RVUUF Board charged an ad hoc team to come up with a process to gain a greater sense of community and direction for RVUUF. This “Process Team” will guide the entire congregation, including children and youth, to ignite a new unified mission for RVUUF.
RVUUF offices will be closed on Monday, Jan. 18 for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
The Ashland Interfaith Clergy Circle will host a faith-based conversation, 7 to 9 p.m. Monday, Jan. 18 at Rogue Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 87 4th St. in Ashland. Everyone is invited to join the conversation.
RVUUF is examining the Soul Matters theme of “Faith” during February 2016, and this theme will be reflected in its Sunday services. Services take place each Sunday morning in RVUUF’s Great Hall. Gathering music begins at 10:25 a.m. and the service starts at 10:30 a.m.
RVUUF Adult Programs will show a DVD on early liberal thought, at noon on Sunday, Jan. 17 In Emerson House. “In the Beginning” is the first part in a UU history film series, “Long Strange Trip, A Journey Through Two Thousand Years of Unitarian Universalist History.” The film examines the early roots of liberal religious thought. It … Continue reading Film screening explores early liberal thought
