Are you new to UUFCC or to Unitarian Universalism? Are you wanting to find your way into community here? Or, have you been coming a long time and desiring to go deeper into your UU journey? Explore Starting Point with us! The first session focuses on our personal spiritual journey and the historical journey of Unitarian Universalism. On Dec 8, we'll move into the shared journey that fellowship members travel together and end by helping us discern which of the many “journey groups” in our congregation will be your “next step.” Sign up on here: https://uufcc.breezechms.com/form/StartingPoint24

Are you new to UUFCC or to Unitarian Universalism? Are you wanting to find your way into community here? Or, have you been coming a long time and desiring to go deeper into your UU journey? Explore Starting Point with us! This first session focuses on our personal spiritual journey and the historical journey of Unitarian Universalism. On Nov 24, we'll move into the shared journey that fellowship members travel together and end by helping us discern which of the many “journey groups” in our congregation will be your “next step.” Sign up on here: https://uufcc.breezechms.com/form/StartingPoint24

Look for more meeting dates to come! Learn how to be an anti-racism, anti-oppression facilitator This fall the UUFCC will support the training of a handful of its members in anti-racism facilitation in preparation for offering the UUA’s Mosaic Lifespan Anti-Racism Curriculum  at the UUFCC next spring. The training is offered by the UU Institute and the Racial Justice Committee will be hosting a discussion session on Sunday, October 27 for all who are signed up. The RJC will also be funding the $30 tuition for each participant. The training includes facilitation skills, classroom management, as well as specific skill building [...]

Join Rev Tracy and Ashley for a discussion on what Article II is, the progression of it's development, where it is today, and when it will be voted on. We will also include reflection about where we come from and what legacy we are leaving. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn about Article II if you haven't had a chance to understand it yet or to go more in-depth into your understanding. Please read this in preparation of this discussion: https://www.uua.org/uuagovernance/committees/article-ii-study-commission   Beyond Diversity: Calling White Unitarian Universalists to the Work of Dismantling White Supremacy in Our Faith https://www.uuabookstore.org/Assets/PDFs/Beyond%20Diversity.pdf   [...]

This year’s UU Common Read is On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (Beacon Press, 2022).   This Common Read offers a glimpse into one of our faith’s foundational sources, Judaism. Readers explore the call to accountability as we follow Rabbi Ruttenberg into a framework for making amends offered by the 12th century Jewish physician and scholar, Maimonides. On Repentance and Repair invites readers of any faith to explore practices for accountability that can bring us into wholeness and really make a difference in our personal, community, and national relationships. Drawing on personal experiences, [...]

Our companions in life are death and grief and yet they are so difficult to talk about, and rarely at that. In times of loss, how do we find healthy comfort? Further, is emotional comfort something human beings should even expect as part of life? In the death workshop we will go over practical matters, memorial services, and think about our own deaths. The grief workshop includes how to walk with grief, writing condolence notes, and digging deep into the grief of being human. The last workshop on comfort helps us understand how we can comfort ourselves naturally as well as [...]