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Small Group Conversation on Co-Ministry
A proposal has been offered to move in the direction of a shared ministry between Rev. Christina and Rev. Hannah. Final opportunity to join the Ministerial Call Discernment Team to ask questions, get to know Rev. Hannah and her family better, and engage in dialogue as a community.
•  Sunday, November 10 from 12:30-2:30 PM @ the Fellowship, ADA accessible; Childcare available; Light lunch provided
The ministerial call of Rev. Hannah is an important step in the future of our Fellowship. Please make plans to be a part of it by attending the final cottage meeting. See you there!
Ministerial Call Discernment Team
Brian Murton, Marti Wheeler, Sam Zinth, Dave Gerlach, and Tim Watson
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Sunday, November 17
11:15 am Central Time
There is a Congregational vote on the proposal to call Rev. Hannah as our co-minister, immediately following our one 10:00 am service.
Please plan to attend and cast your vote on this momentous occasion! Our bylaws require a quorum of 25% of our eligible voting members for this special Call meeting.
In-person attendance is encouraged if you are able but there will also be an option to participate via Zoom. Watch your email inbox for a meeting notice with more details about the meeting, including registering or absentee voting, coming in the first couple of days in November.
Have questions about what this call/co-ministry vote means to the future of our Fellowship? Please see the option for an in-person small group conversation in the section above.

Sunday Services

Sunday, November 3
9:00 am Central Time in-person
informal coffeehouse-style service with conversation
11:00 am Central Time in-person & livestream
traditional service with sermon
All Shall Be Well: An All-Ages Service of Hope, Grounding, and Stress-Release as We Approach the Election by Rev. Christina Leone-Tracy
Click HERE for Worship Service Zoom Information & the Order of Service 
•  Visit fvuuf.org/middlehour/ to learn more about middle hour.
•  Watch past sermons on our YouTube channel.
•  Upcoming Services HERE
•  See our website HERE for information about our Sunday religious exploration classes for children and youth.
•  Share the Plate: In November we share the plate between the Fellowship and ESTHER Interfaith Social Justice.

10:10 AM Middle Hour
Middle Hour offering this Sunday:
•  Election Anxiety Processing Space with Rev. Hannah and a member of the Care Team
Click HERE for future Middle Hour offerings.
Listening Session for Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender Diverse People and Their Immediate Families 
Join us this Sunday at 12:30 pm for an opportunity to discuss what is on your hearts and minds as we consider the election and the potential uncertainty that could follow. We'll talk about what trans, nonbinary, and gender diverse people and their families need and how the Fellowship could support and facilitate that. Folks who share our values from the wider community are welcome, but please share this invitation with them directly via email, text, call, or direct message. For security purposes, please do not post about this event on social media or other digital forums.
Please direct questions and RSVPs (welcomed but not required) to hannah@fvuuf.org.
For security purposes, please do not post about this listening session on social media or other digital forums.
Daylight Saving Time Set your clock back one hour on Sunday November 3rd

Adult Connection & Learning Opportunities

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Soup-er Saturday - November 2
(Formerly Soup Saturday)
First Saturday of each month, 5:00-6:00 pm CT (October – May) No Soup-er Saturday in December.
Join us at the Fellowship for an evening of fun, friends, conversation, and a potluck dinner. Soup is welcome! But feel free to also bring whatever other potluck food you wish to share (including vegetarian/ vegan/ and gluten-free options), bread, sides, maybe dessert… and your appetite!
Please direct questions to Angie or Matt (angiebaby826@yahoo.com or matthew_demers@yahoo.com). If you’d like to bring a game to share, feel free! It’s a low-key evening of fun. Hope to see you there!
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Circle Dinners are BACK!
These have been a longtime tradition at the Fellowship as a way to get to know new people in a relaxed, fun environment. On the evening of Sunday, December 8, between 5:00-8:00 PM, nine dinners will be hosted simultaneously at the homes of Fellowship members and friends throughout our community. Sign up for a spot at the table, and you’ll be treated to an evening of delicious food, good conversation, and Fellowship fun. 

Religious Exploration - Children & Youth

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Religious Exploration Giveaways!
Sunday, November 3
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This Sunday, November 3rd (an All Ages Service), the Religious Exploration Team will be giving away extra activity materials to anyone who would like to take them. The materials will be located on a table in the sanctuary lobby. We don't want to put these items back into the storage closet, so please help us and have fun at home making projects.
THANK YOU,
Miss Kim & Miss Jill
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Religious Exploration Program Year
We warmly invite all young curious minds to join us in fun and friendship in our Religious Exploration classes on Sundays during the 11:00 service. Kids in grades 4K-8 will discover our values through enriching lessons and activities that help them grow spiritually, ethically, and intellectually.
Every month, our students in grades 4K- 5 will explore a variety of major world religions and learn more about our new Unitarian Universalist values: Justice, Equity, Transformation, Pluralism, Interdependence, and Generosity (JETPIG). Finally, they will continue their journey of understanding and practicing their own UU faith.
Click HERE for information about each of our programs including nursery, children’s Sunday Religious Exploration, and HERE for our teen programs; Crossing Paths, Being a Teen, and Our Whole Lives.

Connect & Commit Spotlight

We Need You to Nominate Our January Share the Plate Recipient!
Each Sunday, our Fellowship shares our “plate” (financial offering collected during services and online) with outside organizations. Typically, we split the offering between the Fellowship’s mission and a worthy organization in the wider community.
Throughout the year we ask our Governing Board, X-Team, and social justice teams to suggest organizations. However, this coming January we will share the plate with YOUR CHOICE!
USE THIS LINK to nominate a local organization whose mission you support.
Between now and November 5, we will collect your nominations. We'll vote to narrow it to three, and then a second round of voting to select the winner. Each Sunday in January we will “share the plate” with the winning organization. 
For the 2024-25 program year we have shared, or are planning to share, our offerings with RCI REACH, Zion Lutheran Church Affordable Housing Project, UU Disaster Relief Fund, Help & Hope Together, ESTHER, Habitat for Humanity, Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance.

Thanks very much for your help!
Your Generosity and Engagement Ministries (GEM) Team:
Ann Fisher, Will Anderson, Hilary Haskell, Andrew Kramp, Heather Maass, Nan Middleton, Marti Wheeler
Connect and Commit: Engage, Serve, Give
Communication is vital to the life of The Fellowship. This year, our Generosity & Engagement Ministries (GEM) is focusing on the ways we Connect and Commit: Engage, Serve, Give.
Our goal is that each person will consider their connection and commitment to the Fellowship – How do you want to engage, serve, and give this year?
We need each of you to complete the Connect and Commit form, to let us know your hopes, goals, and intentions for the year. Our goal is to help each person find their place at the Fellowship so that we are all connected in meaningful ways. The information from the form will help us support your purposeful commitment to the Fellowship.

Please click HERE for details and to fill out the form. Paper forms are available in the Fellowship lobby.

Justice Action Ministry

The Invisible Class Documentary
Saturday, November 2nd - 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm, Doors open at 5:30 pm, film showing at 6:00 pm, Q&A with panelists will follow
Fox Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2600 Philip Ln, Appleton
On November 2nd, Fox Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Appleton and ESTHER will offer a public showing of “The Invisible Class,” a documentary about homelessness all across America, its criminalization, and the devastating impacts of the loss of affordable housing.
The film explores what it truly means to be homeless in America, challenging stereotypes and examining the systemic causes of mass homelessness in the wealthiest nation in the world. The film contains strong, potentially offensive language; not recommended for young viewers. Mass homelessness in the United States did not always exist, so how did we get to where we are today? What are the root causes? What should we know about homelessness in the Fox Valley region? What is being done to address it?
View the Trailer on YouTube. Please use this link to register for the event. Also, please bring a nonperishable food item. We will be donating it to help those in need. Thank you!
The November 5 Election is Finally Here
Be sure to make your plan to vote if you have not already voted. Continue to help with get-out-the-vote outreach through Tuesday. League of Women Voters and 29 other organizations urge a "no" vote on the constitutional amendment on the ballot. Thanks to all who helped get out 1,000 postcards at our 2 Fellowship events. www.myvote.wi.gov
Celebrate with ESTHER
Join ESTHER as we celebrate 20 years of justice work at our banquet on November 16th, 5:00 pm at Waverly Beach Bar & Grille, Menasha! Early bird discounted registration available through November 1st. The final registration deadline is November 8. Featured speaker is Keith Findley, co-founder of the Wisconsin Innocence Project. Register HERE.
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Click the image to view the Justice Hub
Justice Hub
Check out the Justice Hub, featuring 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.
When you click on an event, at the bottom of the description you can click “Copy to my calendar” to add the event to your calendar and never miss a chance to act courageously for justice in our world. 

All Ages Connection & Learning Opportunities

Stories & Tea Party Event with Drag Queen Anita Bobbypin!
Sunday, November 24, 1:00 - 3:00 pm
Cost: $10 per person or $25 max per family
Join us for an afternoon of stories, learning, connection, and fun with a tea party! We will welcome Fox Valley’s favorite drag queen, Anita Bobbypin, to share stories with us. Then, for an hour, kids are welcome to join Anita and some Fellowship adults to prepare for a tea party celebration. They’ll get to know Anita, ask her questions, and interact as they make crowns and tiaras, enjoy face paint, and decorate cookies. Meanwhile, the adults will join Rev. Christina and Fellowship member Amanda Kramp (who is a local award-winning burlesque performer, who goes by the stage name Daisy Chains) to discuss how to talk to others in our lives, kids and adults, about gender and sexuality diversity. Afterward, we will all join together for a celebratory tea party with tea and cookies.

Notes

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Winter Fellowship Art Display
The theme for our next art show will be “A CELEBRATION OF COLOR.”  If you have colorful art, either original or just something you love, please consider sharing it with the Fellowship for a few months.  We would love to brighten up the Fellowship Hall walls during the long winter months. We will be hanging the show on Sunday, December 8 after the 11:00 service. Unfortunately, we cannot take submissions after the show is hung on December 8, but we encourage you to hang onto your pieces for future Fellowship art shows. Any pieces you share should have your name and the title of the work on the back.  Also, if you currently have art on display, please remove it by 1:00 that day. And if you’d like to get involved in the work of the art committee, please let me know. Thanks! Mary Gerlach (gerlachmz@gmail.com)
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Introducing the Sensory Support Station
Have you seen the new shelf in the sanctuary lobby? Our “Sensory Support Station” includes lots of resources for folks of any age to borrow on Sunday mornings to support sensory needs. Please take what you need and return it in the same condition to the shelf at the end of the service so others might benefit from those resources as well
•  Headphones/earmuffs if you are sensitive to loud noises
•  Assistive listening devices if you have low hearing
•  Large-print hymnals, and magnifiers for print if you have low vision
•  Paper/ pens if you like to doodle or take notes, and knitting kits if you knit to keep your hands busy
•  A variety of fidget tools if keeping your hands busy allows you to focus
•  Kids' activity bags
We welcome your whole body to this community, and we hope the sensory support station will help you feel more comfortable and welcome here.
New Books in the Lending Library
Did you know we have a lending library at the Fellowship? It is located in the front of the building, near the office wing. There are three shelves—one for general/adult UU books, one for social justice, and one for kids and families. We encourage you to check out one or two books at a time, borrow for a few weeks, and return them to us. Please check out the books on the clipboard inside the library nook. Some new books were just stocked, including “The Every Body Book of Consent” for kids, “Nothing Gold Can Stay” a book about grief for adults, “In Later Years” a book about the gifts of aging, and “White Borders” a book about the history and ongoing challenges of immigration in the US. There are many more books, these are just a few highlights! If you have questions about the lending library, please reach out to our Fellowship librarian Penny Robinson at pennyrobinson1@gmail.com.
Care and Support
To submit a Joy or Concern, fill out the form on our website or contact Rev. Hannah Roberts Villnave, Assistant Minister, at hannah@fvuuf.org or 920-731-0849. For pastoral emergencies call 920-383-1565.
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