Congregation and Community News
Learn a Skill – Help Your Neighbors
Winter is a great time to learn how to knit or crochet! It keeps your hands busy, lowers anxiety – and you end up with a warm garment! The yarn service team can help you via video and loan/give you some tools to start out. A simple scarf or shawl can really brighten a friend’s … Continue reading Learn a Skill – Help Your Neighbors
Odds and Ends Add Up To – Something Special!
The yarn service team of RVUUF has been able to continue our service to the community in 2020 without any funding due to a very generous donation of yarn odds-n-ends from wonderful owners of Web-sters of Ashland. And some generous contributions of yarn stashes from our members. Lovely soft yarn but in small quantities that don’t … Continue reading Odds and Ends Add Up To – Something Special!
Let’s Make This a Christmas Eve to Remember! Planning meeting open to all – Thur, Nov 19, 1pm
Even if you’ve never been involved with Worship at RVUUF before, we hope you’ll join Rev. Sean & Intern Minister Alison to plan a way to honor Christmas Eve that fills our hearts while keeping our community safe from COVID-19. We want to do something more than a pre-recorded worship, and we need YOU to … Continue reading Let’s Make This a Christmas Eve to Remember! Planning meeting open to all – Thur, Nov 19, 1pm
Harvest the Power 2020-Virtual Justice Convergence & Decolonization Teach-In, Nov 19-26
Hosted by the Unitarian Universalist Association, UU Ministry for Earth, UUSC, & many partners. In 2016, Unitarian Universalists voted to pay special attention to learning our history and rethinking Thanksgiving in the year 2020, in observance of the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims landing in Plymouth. Now is the perfect time to gather and think … Continue reading Harvest the Power 2020-Virtual Justice Convergence & Decolonization Teach-In, Nov 19-26
UPDATED w/Zoom Link: Indigenous Cultural Awareness Training Sat, Nov 7, 11am-1:30pm
UPDATE: Join this event via Zoom on Sat, Nov 7 at 11am by clicking HERE. Alison Duren-Sutherland writes: “Thanks to the folks at UU Fellowship of Klamath County, Monica YellowOwl of the Klamath Tribes will hold a cultural awareness training for members and friends of the Southern Oregon UU Partnership congregations on November 7th, from … Continue reading UPDATED w/Zoom Link: Indigenous Cultural Awareness Training Sat, Nov 7, 11am-1:30pm
Alison’s Aspirations: Toward Healing Together
My ministry in October has been focused on trauma and healing. Our Southern Oregon UU Partnership community came together with the UU Trauma Response Ministry on October 10th to share our experience of the September wildfires. We learned that so many of the responses we may be experiencing — including irritability, lack of focus, headaches … Continue reading Alison’s Aspirations: Toward Healing Together
A People of Healing~November 1, 2020~RVUUF Together Online Service
Reaching Out to One Another
Part of our mission is to get people connected to each other – build community and empower connection. More than at any other time in our lives people are worried about each other. We may want to know how others in our fellowship are doing. As members of RVUUF, we all should be encouraged to stay in … Continue reading Reaching Out to One Another
UU Open Space Election Night -Tue, Nov 3, 6pm PST-9pm PST
UU Open Space Election Night Tue, Nov 3, 6pm PST-9pm PST Hosted by Kristin Grassel Schmidt Online Event – http://www.ccny.org/ On this Election Night like no other, you are invited to join with other Unitarian Universalists for community, company, and comfort. Ministers from around the country will drop in to hold space and hold us in loving and … Continue reading UU Open Space Election Night -Tue, Nov 3, 6pm PST-9pm PST