Upcoming Special Services at the Fellowship |
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Every so often, maybe every 3-8 years, we are given the opportunity to do some amazing ritual services here at the Fellowship. However, coming up in May, we will have the chance to do two! Read on for more details about these meaningful services, and mark your calendars.
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On May 3, we will have a service of Installation for Rev. Hannah Roberts Villnave. We'll start with our final SoUUper Saturday of the program year with a soup dinner from 5-6:00 pm, followed by the Installation at 6:15 pm. A service of installation is an important ritual that helps our Fellowship acknowledge, solemnize, and celebrate that Hannah is a called and settled minister with us. Rev. Christina was installed here in 2017 when she was early in her called ministry here. This service of installation for Rev. Hannah will be to install her as co-minister alongside Rev. Christina, which will also shift Rev. Christina's settled relationship with our Fellowship. The service will include a sermon by Rev. Sean Neil-Barron (minister at Foothills UU Church in Ft. Collins, CO), guest speakers, and a chance to celebrate our shared ministry with Rev. Hannah.
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The Ordination of Stephen Sieck
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On May 31, at 4:00 pm, we will have a service of Ordination for Steve Sieck, our former music director who served our Fellowship from 2018-2023 until he left to do his ministerial internship at the First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee. Steve will be finishing his seminary education to be a Unitarian Universalist minister and has asked our Fellowship to be his ordaining congregation. Every UU minister is ordained only once in their career, and in our polity, it is the responsibility of the congregation to ordain the clergy. At that service, there will be a sermon by our
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minister emeritus Rev. Roger Bertschausen, as well as guest speakers and a ritual of laying on of hands to empower Steve with the mantle of ministry.
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If you would like to sing in the choir for either or both of these important services, contact music director John Popke at john@fvuuf.org.
Additionally, both of these services have attendant costs to make them successful, including food, honoraria for preachers, travel expenses, gifts, and music, among others. If you are able to donate to support these special events at the Fellowship, your generosity is greatly appreciated.
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