UUFCC

Racial Justice Committee
2025-03-19 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Centre County, 780 Waupelani Drive, State College, PA, 16801, United States
Contact Janet Irons for the Zoom information.

Board of Trustees
2025-03-18 19:00 - 21:00 | UUFCC – Room 6, 780 Waupelani Drive, State College, PA, 16801, United States

Folk Dancers
2025-03-18 15:30 - 18:00, 2025-03-13 15:30 - 18:00, 2025-03-11 15:30 - 18:00 | UUFCC – Community Room, 780 Waupelani Drive, State College, PA, 16801, United States
Please join this group of folks passionate about dancing to international folk music. Explore different cultures through music and dance.
*On 3rd Thursdays we ends at 5:30PM (in time for Fellowship Supper).

Community Event - "Coloring the Conservation Conversation" w/ J. Drew Lanham
2025-03-18 12:00 - 13:00 | 001 Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Building (CEB), Shortlidge Road, University Park, PA, 16801, United States
Huck Distinguished Lecture in the Life Sciences: J. Drew Lanham – “Coloring the Conservation Conversation”
See event website here.
Join the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences for its distinguished lecture series featuring J. Drew Lanham from Clemson University. In this lecture, Lanham will discuss what it means to embrace the full breadth of his African-American heritage and his deep kinship to nature and adoration of birds. The convergence of ornithologist, college professor, poet, author and conservation activist blend to bring our awareness of the natural world and our moral responsibility for it forward in new ways. Candid by nature — and because of it — Lanham will examine how conservation must be a rigorous science and evocative art, inviting diversity and race to play active roles in celebrating our natural world.
About the Speaker:
A native of Edgefield, South Carolina, J. Drew Lanham is the author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature, which received the Reed Award from the Southern Environmental Law Center and the Southern Book Prize, and was a finalist for the John Burroughs Medal. Most recently, he is the author of Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts. He is a birder, naturalist, hunter-conservationist, and a 2022 MacArthur Fellow. An Alumni Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Master Teacher at Clemson University, he and his family live in the Upstate of South Carolina, a soaring hawk’s downhill glide from the southern Appalachian escarpment that the Cherokee once called the Blue Wall.

Centre County Interfaith Coalition for Gun Safety
2025-03-17 15:00 - 16:00 | UUFCC – Fellowship Hall, 780 Waupelani Drive, State College, PA, 16801, United States
The Centre County Interfaith Coalition for Gun Safety is an alliance of local religious leaders and community members committed to building a peaceful society free from preventable gun violence. Through our work, we educate on issues related to gun violence, advocate for responsible and safe gun ownership, and unite with local, state, and federal officials on matters of gun safety that benefit the whole community.

Meditation Monday
2025-03-17 12:30 - 13:00, 2025-03-10 12:30 - 13:00 | PA
Open to the public.
Join Kelle Kersten on Zoom for a guided meditation during your lunch to center yourself for the coming week!
Click here to join the Zoom meeting.

UUFCC Jazz Band Rehearsal
2025-03-16 12:00 - 13:30, 2025-03-09 12:00 - 13:30 | UUFCC – Sanctuary, 780 Waupelani Drive, State College, PA, 16801, United States
The UUFCC Jazz Band is open to all. Rehearsals occur on Sundays in the Sanctuary, although occasionally the band may rehearse in Room 6 due to major church events.
Contact David Morris if interested.

Mosaic: Fostering Belonging and Liberation - "Mixing and Huddling"
2025-03-16 11:30 - 12:45 | UUFCC – Room 6, 780 Waupelani Drive, State College, PA, 16801, United States
Session 1: “Mixing and Huddling”
If you are able to, please read the following before attending this session:

The Wisdom of Caucusing for People of Color
A Love Letter to White Unitarian Universalists regarding Cultural Competence and Appropriation

This is a new anti-racism curriculum curated by the UUA to help Unitarian Universalist congregations further their work of dismantling oppression. The 3 sessions will address identity caucusing, the history of racism in Unitarian Universalism, anti-racism, and white entitlement. Led by trained facilitators and organized by the Racial Justice Committee. Contact Suzanne Weinstein or Laura Liermann for more information.
Sign-up for any of the Mosaic sessions here!

Music & Play
2025-03-16 11:15 - 12:15, 2025-03-09 11:15 - 12:15 | UUFCC – Gathering Space, 780 Waupelani Drive, State College, PA, 16801, United States
New Music and Play class for elementary ages, led by Karen Maynard. Class will meet downstairs in room B, or the Gathering Space some weeks. Sign up here. Any questions, please email Karen Maynard.

Sunday Service - "Celebrating UU Women in History"
2025-03-16 10:00 - 11:00 | UUFCC – Sanctuary, 780 Waupelani Drive, State College, PA, 16801, United States
with the Worship Committee. Music: UUFCC Choir
Long before women were permitted to vote or to be ordained as ministers, many of them played important roles in building the faith we know today as Unitarian Universalism. Activists, suffragettes, religious educators, journalists, formerly enslaved people, many of them ultimately found their way to the pulpit. We will share the lives of several of them, including Sophia Lyon Fahs, Frances Barrier Williams, Maja Capek, Sofia Betancourt, and Susan Frederick-Grey, who have contributed, each in their own way, to the tradition of our liberal religion.

RE Pre-K/K: "Seeing"
2025-03-16 10:00 - 11:00 | UUFCC – Gathering Space and Room D, 780 Waupelani Drive, State College, PA, 16801, United States
Each week our kids will gather to explore our world in light of our UU values.
Pre-K/K friends will engage in guided exploration of various topics with their wonderful teachers. Sue Smith and Rocky Landers, downstairs in Room D.

RE Middle School Class (6th-8th Grade)
2025-03-16 10:00 - 11:00 | UUFCC – Gathering Space, 780 Waupelani Drive, State College, PA, 16801, United States
Soul Matters – In the Middle – The Practice of Repair 4 Session One: Democracy (The Tool to Repair Not Having a Say) from November packet

RE 1st-5th Grade: "Justice; stronger when we work together"
2025-03-16 10:00 - 11:00 | UUFCC – Gathering Space, 780 Waupelani Drive, State College, PA, 16801, United States
LEGO ValUUes Workshop 8 Value: Justice Title: We are stronger when we work together.

Child Care
2025-03-16 09:30 - 13:00, 2025-03-09 09:30 - 13:00 | UUFCC – Room C, 780 Waupelani Drive, State College, PA, 16801, United States

Educational Justice League
2025-03-15 10:00 - 12:00 | UUFCC – Room B, 780 Waupelani Drive, State College, PA, 16801, United States
EJL’s mission is to establish a powerful social justice coalition that actively advocates for and promotes equity for marginalized populations.
We are committed to addressing the unique challenges faced by communities of color, individuals who identify as women, LGBTQ+ individuals, promoting accessibility for people with disabilities, respecting and supporting individuals of all religions, and bridging the socioeconomic gap through equitable education.

Song Circle
2025-03-14 19:00 - 21:00 | UUFCC – Sanctuary, 780 Waupelani Drive, State College, PA, 16801, United States
The UUFCC Song Circle offers a fun, monthly opportunity to make music together with voices, guitars, banjos, ukuleles, drums, kazoos, etc. Anyone from the Fellowship or local community can join us to play, sing, or listen. We go around the circle with each person choosing the next song, either from our song-books or a song they brought to share.
Contact Pam Short for more information.

UUFCC Choir Rehearsal
2025-03-13 19:00 - 21:00 | UUFCC – Sanctuary, 780 Waupelani Drive, State College, PA, 16801, United States
Performs for hymns and extra music during Sunday Services three times a month.

AA Meeting for Women
2025-03-13 18:30 - 19:30 | UUFCC – Room A, 780 Waupelani Drive, State College, PA, 16801, United States
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting. Open to any woman to walk in.

Finance and Stewardship Committee
2025-03-13 13:00 - 15:00 | UUFCC – Room 6, 780 Waupelani Drive, State College, PA, 16801, United States

Game Nights
2025-03-12 18:00 - 21:00 | UUFCC – Fellowship Hall, 780 Waupelani Drive, State College, PA, 16801, United States

Caring Committee
2025-03-11 19:00 - 20:00 | PA

UU Wellspring: Love At the Center
2025-03-09 11:30 - 12:45 | UUFCC – Room 6, 780 Waupelani Drive, State College, PA, 16801, United States
UU Wellspring is a national UUA program which focuses on spiritual deepening in a small group setting. Rev Tracy will lead this small group where we will engage in an in-depth exploration of our shared faith by looking at our values and covenant statements which are our aspirational hopes for how we want to live our lives. We will engage in experiences that help us explore how we are in relationship to one another in diverse communities as well as our relationship with the whole world. Watch this video for an overview of this exciting program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mgo65vFi7E&t=145s
The five centers of value exploration are:

Grounding in Love
Centering in Community
Acting in Faith
Nurturing Growth
Transforming in Love

Sign up here: https://uufcc.breezechms.com/form/UUWellspringLove

Sunday Service - "Women who Shook the World: Ida B Wells"
2025-03-09 10:00 - 11:00 | UUFCC – Sanctuary, 780 Waupelani Drive, State College, PA, 16801, United States
…with Rev. Tracy Sprowls. Music: UUFCC Choir.
Our theme this month is transformation and so with a nod to women’s history month we’ll take a look at Ida B Wells, a transformational figure in journalism and civil rights. How does her life guide us today?

RE Elementary (Pre-K-5th Grade) - All Ages RE
2025-03-09 10:00 - 11:00 | UUFCC – Gathering Space, 780 Waupelani Drive, State College, PA, 16801, United States
Our Childcare team will lead a fun morning of games.
