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We're almost there... Donate Today to Help Us Shine Together!
The Solar Project is finished (hurrah!) and we will have our final payment due soon. While the mini-capital campaign is going well, we’ve had some wonderful large pledges to the campaign that can’t be paid until December. If you can help us make our upcoming payment with a gift, please consider donating today. Thanks for helping to make this dream a reality for our beloved community!
For details about the solar project, click the button below.
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Sunday, September 27
Why We Need Each Other: Bring-a-Friend Sunday
by Rev. Christina Leone-Tracy
• 9:00 am informal coffeehouse-style service with conversation
• 11:00 am traditional service with sermon, livestream available
(all times are Central Time)
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Middle Hour 10:00 – 10:50 am
Sunday, September 27
Adult Offerings:
- Pluralism Practice: Middle School & Adults
- UU Connection Path: Newcomer Q&A
- Hallway Table: UU the Vote
Nursery Care
Parents: Bring kids 4-10 to the RE Launchpad, and sign in
- Chalice Kids - 4K to 1st grade
- Spirit Explorers - 2nd to 5th grade
Parents: After Middle Hour, sign kids out in their classrooms
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Volunteer Roles Open!
We need your help... Share your skills with us!
Please let Seth know if you are interested in any of these roles... We will connect you with the leader of the group to discuss and see if it's a good fit for you! (seth@fvuuf.org)
- Fun Team, seeking 1-2 more members - Help us plan fun events for our Fellowship Community!
- Children & Youth RE Team, seeking 1 more member - Help us coordinate an amazing program for our children & youth! Must be organized and have some knowledge or skill with children & youth educational practices.
- Adult Faith Formation Team, seeking 1-2 more members - Help us recruit, coordinate, and support adult Middle Hour, camps, and events. Must have good communication and follow-through skills.
- Membership Team, seeking 1 more member - Help us welcome newcomers, support people new to membership, and stay connected with existing members. Must be a Fellowship member for at least 1 year and have a willingness to connect by email, phone, or in-person with people.
- Audit Committee, seeking 1 more member - Help us ensure our financial records and other resources are all as they should be. Need to pass a background check and have financial or accounting background.
- Care Team, seeking 1-2 more members - Support our ministry of care and listening to people when they're in a time of need. Need to pass a background check, have strong interpersonal skills, and maintain high standards of confidentiality and ethics.
- RE Volunteers for children & youth, seeking several new helpers both one-time-only, and ongoing roles for leaders and assistants. See RE article, below.
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Music Ministry
If you are interested in participating in music ministry on Sunday mornings, please contact Tam Masters, our music coordinator, at tam@fvuuf.org.
For information about music at the Fellowship, click the button:
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We need YOU to support our Religious Exploration progams!
As we plan our upcoming program year (beginning September 20!), we are still in need of several people to support our Sunday morning Children's Religious Exploration programs. Here are some details:
- Approximately once a month, flexible scheduling available.
- Very little prep work: the program structure will "frame" the activities which will be provided to you in advance.
- Most R.E. roles are now during Middle Hour (10:00-10:50 AM). Help our programs and you can still attend your service of choice!
- Connect with a great team of adults, learn from & have fun with our amazing kids.
- Learn more about our Fellowship and UU faith while supporting learning and connection for our young people.
- We also need people to support our UU in Action elementary program during the 2nd service: ONE TIME commitment to bring your knowledge or passion to our kids; we'll work with you to craft the lesson.
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Register Now for Religious Exploration!
Our 2026-27 program year is here, and our updated RE registration form is live! Every child or youth, ages 6 months to 18 years, should be registered regardless of which program(s) they plan to attend.
You will be prompted to log in to Church Center and then choose which children to complete the form for. If you have no children connected to your household, please add them first.
Step 1) CHILD & YOUTH ENGAGEMENT FORM: CLICK HERE to complete this information form for each child, which requests specific safety, behavior, and support needs.
Step 2) R.E. REGISTRATION FORM: CLICK HERE to register your child(ren) for the RE programs they will participate in this year. Fee is $30/ child, max $75/ family. If this cost is prohibitive, use the discount codes in the form.
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Soup Saturday - now on 2nd Saturday!
Second Saturday Soup Social - October 10, 5:00 pm
Join us for a low-key evening of fun, friends, conversation, and a potluck dinner. Soup is welcome! But feel free to bring whatever other potluck food you wish to share (including vegetarian, vegan, or gluten-free options), bread, sides, maybe dessert… and your appetite! Games to share are also welcome.
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Stone Soup Fall Weekend Camp
November 14 & 15
For details and to register for camp, visit fvuuf.org/weekend-camps (registration deadline is Oct. 26). Join us for a weekend (Saturday 9-4:00, Sunday 10:30-3:00) of learning, connection and fun! There's something for everyone!
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UU the Vote
Action is the Antidote to Despair. During Middle Hour, on Sunday, October 4th and October 11th, our UU the Vote team is asking UU members to personalize and send 1,000 post cards to voters in this area. In combination with other Wisconsin UU organizations, over 10,000 post cards will be sent to voters. Please be available during Middle Hour OR after the 11 AM Service to write post cards. You can even take post cards home to write. Mailing labels and stamps will already be on the cards-you just need to add your personal message on the card and we will provide suggested messages.
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Building a New Way
A Gathering of Our Social Justice Ministries
Saturday, October 3rd 3pm-5pm at the Fellowship
Facilitated by Rev. Allison Farnum, Sabbatical Support Minister, register HERE.
The world is asking hard questions of us right now — and we believe our congregation has something powerful to offer in response.
Join us for Building a New Way, a conversation and community-planning gathering where we come together not to return to what didn't serve us, but to imagine — and start building — what comes next. This is a space to dream boldly about our shared work for justice, to talk honestly about the crises unfolding around us, and to ask: how do we want to show up? Not just for ourselves, but alongside our community partners and, most importantly, alongside those most impacted by systemic oppression in our own backyard. Come with your questions. Come with your hopes. Come ready to listen, to imagine, and to help chart the path forward.
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The Wisconsin UU State Action Network (WUUSAN) and Minnesota UU Social Justice Alliance (MUUSJA) announce the Northland Solidarity Summit! This one-day event will bring together UU’s, faith leaders and community leaders for a day of relationship building and idea exchange so we can reimagine the democracy we live. We are all motivated to bring the election to a successful conclusion in November. But, rather than call it a day and go about our other business, WUUSAN and MUUSJA will be continuing to build relationships that can sustain through this election cycle and into the next several cycles.
The Solidarity Summit will be held on October 3, 2026 at the Our Savior Lutheran Church in Duluth, MN. Leading speakers will include Shenai Mattson, and Cultural and Art Organizer in northern Minnesota, and Matt Kendziera of Wisconsin Faith Voices for Justice. The agenda also includes the Side With Love curriculum entitled “We Are Builders”, designed to help everyone gain more skills in building networks across cultural, political, economic, and ethnic boundaries.
There is no fee to attend and a light breakfast, lunch and snacks will be provided. Lodging information will be available soon. More details HERE.
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Justice Hub
Check out the Justice Hub, an easy-to-use calendar! Each event on the calendar includes time, location, and program details to help you learn more about how to get engaged with our wider community.
Wider Community Justice Events
• September 30: 6:30 - 8:00 pm Candidate forum at the Fellowship for Assembly District 3: Ron Tusler and Michael Goodwin
• October 18: ESTHER hosts a Hope & Justice Sing-a-Long with Sale of Chilli, Eggrolls, and Baked Goods, details HERE, 5:00- 6:30 pm at First Congregational UCC, Appleton
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Thriving Together: Community Fun Night & Auction
The Fellowship is excited to offer both an online and in-person auction in November. Help us reach our goal of $25,000 by either donating items to the auction or attending the in-person auction.
Sponsors Needed: We are looking for businesses to partner with us as a sponsor. Financial sponsorship helps cover our event hosting costs, ensuring every dollar raised goes directly into our core work. Partnering with us as an event sponsor shows your commitment to a vibrant local community. A sponsoring business will be recognized at the event, in event materials, through our online auction, and via social media both before and after the event.
Donations are being accepted now through September 27th. Looking for ideas on what to donate? Do you have a special skill? How about a vacation home? Would you like to donate a basket for a coffee lover, date night, or spa day? This year the Fellowship Auction team has a goal of 75 basket or silent auction items with an average value of $150-$200. The team will combine items in order to create fun and interesting baskets or groups of items.
Please use this link to donate items. Submissions must be completed online. We plan to host a laptop station to help anyone submit their items in person.
Note: We are not ready to collect and store items at the Fellowship at this time. Someone from the Auction Team will contact donors when it is time to drop off items at the Fellowship.
The online auction site will be live starting October 31st at 3:00 pm and will close on November 7 at 7:50 pm. Get ready to bid on items. The in-person auction items will also be available for preview.
The in-person auction will be on Saturday, November 7th, 3:00 - 8:30 pm. Ticket sales will begin on September 17. The community fun night and auction will include carnival games provided by TCT Concessions with Christman Amusements, food from Osorio's Latin Cuisine and desserts from Sweet Jules Bakes. More information will be coming, so please watch the newsletter or check the Auction Page of our website for details.
If there are questions, please feel free to contact Angie Miller at auction@fvuuf.org.
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Check out our events and news page to see what's coming up!
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Church Center Directory is Live!
One of the most anticipated and asked-for features of our new Fellowship portal, Church Center, is now live!
IMPORTANT! You will get an email letting you know you've been invited to the directory. You need to open that message, and accept the invitation and update and opt in/ out of any information you wish to share. You will not be added to the directory unless you do this.
The directory will be a very useful tool for everyone, even if you only include your name and photo, so please do that!
In addition to name and photo, address is available to be displayed (or you can opt to hide your address). No other information you have shared on Church Center will be displayed in the directory.
If you choose to share your email, it will NOT be displayed directly in the directory. Instead, Church Center will put a button by your name in the directory that says "Contact Me" and if someone wants to email you, they click that button and send the message through Church Center. You will receive the message to your email inbox, but unless you reply, Church Center will not reveal your email address. It's a handy way for Fellowship folks to reach out to you, while still keeping your email address secure.
For more info about the directory, read about it on the Church Center website by CLICKING HERE.
VISIT CHURCH CENTER, HERE.
Be sure to always use the same phone number and email address for your login to avoid creating duplicate profiles.
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Rev. Hannah Roberts Villnave's Sabbatical
Rev. Hannah is on sabbatical through November 14, 2026. Please click the button below for more information.
Don't forget to pick up a sabbatical BINGO card in the entry lobby (adults & kids) to play for a chance to win some great prizes. Click HERE to see the cards online.
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Care and Support
When you share your Joy or Concern, you can choose to share privately with the ministers or care team, request contact, or share with the wider congregation.
For pastoral emergencies, call 920-268-4512.
Thank you to Care Team chair, Megan McLachlan, for "staffing" the emergency line and supporting the Care Team from now until the end of November to support Rev. Christina during Rev. Hannah's sabbatical.
Did you know? An email is sent each week to subscribers to share about our congregation's joys and concerns. Fellowship members who want to be included on our weekly joys and concerns email list may contact Cyndi at cyndi@fvuuf.org.
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Fellowship Office Hours
Fellowship Office Hours:
8:00 am - 1:00 pm Sun., Mon., Tues., Thurs.
Office closed Wed., Fri., Sat.
If you have a group meeting or event that occurs outside of office hours, those will continue as scheduled.
To meet with individual staff members, please contact them directly to schedule an appointment. Contact information can be found at https://fvuuf.org/contact/.
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