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A Note About Fellowship Activities and Staff
Like many of your workplaces and schools, the Fellowship building remains closed until further notice. Yet our virtual doors are open and accessible! Your ministers are available to provide pastoral care and support via phone, email, video conferencing, and social media. Program staff is working to deliver meaningful worship and creative opportunities to engage with the Fellowship community in a variety of ways.
Your administrative staff continues to provide support with limited office presence. All core staff will continue to monitor their voice and email messages and respond to you as promptly as they can.
We will continue to communicate any significant or urgent changes to the Fellowship’s operational status via all Fellowship emails. Normal (or new normal) offerings and activities will continue to be communicated via the Fellowship’s Weekly Scroll. Announcements and events will be posted on our Facebook page and all are welcome to share in our Facebook group.
Please read further for more Fellowship news and ways to connect…
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Upcoming Service
Sunday, April 12 at 10:00 am central
Link for Worship Service HERE
Click HERE for the Order of Service.
Emptiness as a Sign of Life by Rev. Christina Leone-Tracy
Right now, as so many places are empty, including our Fellowship building, we remember the story of the empty tomb-- emptiness can mean love, and life. Hope is not always what it seems on the surface; let's worship together and celebrate hope, life, and love on this powerfully unique Easter morning.
Sunday Morning Connections for Kids & Youth!
In addition to our 10:00 am worship service, we will be offering two separate gatherings for children and youth! 9:00 am for kids (elementary/ younger age) and 11:00 am for youth (middle/ high school).
To join one of those gatherings, click the link you received in your email! Registered families and teachers received an invitation.
If you didn’t get the email, contact director of religious education Kim Hartman at kim@fvuuf.org or be sure to register!
Recording of April 5 ServiceLife Persists by Rev. Christina Leone-Tracy HERE.
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Click HERE for more information on these offerings!
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Thursday, April 9
Friday, April 10
12:00 pm Ecumenical Good Friday Service Click HERE password Cross
Sunday, April 12
10:00 am Worship Service HERE
Monday, April 13
Tuesday, April 14
Wednesday, April 15
Thursday April 16
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Spanish Charla: Online! Saturdays, 10:00-11:00 am
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/341371537
Whether you learned Spanish in high school and want to re-learn, currently speak Spanish, but want an ongoing chance to keep it fresh, or you are just starting to learn, join us for this new conversation group led by GinaMaria Opalescent. Contact director of congregational life, Marie Luna, at marie@fvuuf.org with questions.
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Music Conversations through the Fellowshipwith Music Director Steve Sieck
Wednesdays 7:00-8:00 pm
Now that we are entering the most difficult stretch of this pandemic, the stress and fear of each day grows heavier. There is a comfort in knowing that past generations, too, have endured, and even written sublime music to soothe heavy hearts in the midst of it all. Join Steve on Wednesday at 7:00 pm to explore music written in difficult times. If you have earphones, Steve recommends using them for this guided listening session. All are welcome. Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/921791427
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Spill it Sister Small Group: Online! Thursday, April 9th; 6:30-8:00 pm
This group is open for all who identify as female and who want a few more pals to hang with, no commitment, no big agenda, just checking in and sharing. We meet on the 2nd Thursday of each month and usually don’t have a planned topic, but are open to whatever folx want to talk about. We sometime bring things to share; poetry, songs, etc. We look forward to welcoming you into our circle. Contact Kate Hancock-Cooke at rugbykate@new.rr.com with questions.
Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/128895820
Or call: 312-626-6799
Meeting ID: 128 895 820
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Monthly Challenge for a Photographic Spiritual Journey Please join Mary Ellyn Vicksta for a photographic monthly challenge in a new pop-up group over Zoom where the intention is to use contemplative photography and reflection as a part of a spiritual practice. She will introduce the monthly challenge in the format of “Prepare”, “Do”, and “Reflect” and answer any questions that you might have. We may even share a photo or two using screen share.
There are two upcoming opportunities for this initial meeting and April Challenge:
April 10 from 11:00 to 11:30 am or April 13 from 6:00 to 6:30 pm
Feel free to join either one!
Join Zoom Meeting HERE
Meeting ID: 174 746 495
Password: Photos
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Open Discussions to Unlearn White Supremacy Culture
Wednesday, April 22; 6:30-8:00 pm
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/831372869; Or call in: 312-626-6799, Meeting ID: 831 372 869
The third of five open discussions on characteristics and antidotes of white supremacy culture. Need not attend all five sessions for each one to be meaningful. These discussions will be facilitated and are based on the anti-racism learning the staff and Governing Board have been doing this year. We will meet on the 4th Wednesday through May; please join us. When you look at the readings you will notice they are set up for each month; we will be discussing the ones for March and April this month. The readings are not long and it is helpful if you read them before we meet. Click HERE for the discussion information online. Contact Marti Wheeler at mwheeler@new.rr.com with questions.
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Watch for an all Fellowship email for details and how-to user guide!
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New to Zoom?All of our online Sunday services and most of our activities will be happening via zoom. Go to http://zoom.us/test for guidance on how to connect and visit www.tinyurl.com/zoomUU for a tutorial video about how to use it. If you are still having problems, email Marie Luna at marie@fvuuf.org and she will find someone to talk you through it.
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Masks Available at Fellowship Little Free LibraryIf you have need for a home-sewn mask or a few, we are attempting to make them available in our little free library on Philip Lane in front of the Fellowship. People without masks are encouraged to get and wear them. People who sew or have extra are encouraged to offer them. Please use caution when visiting the library by using a wipe or plastic to touch the handle and/or using sanitizer directly after contact. Also make sure to wash anything you take. We are also accepting donations of cleaning supplies, non-perishable food items, and toilet paper. If masks have all been claimed when you get there, please email leah@fvuuf.org and we will try to get more. Please feel free to spread the word about this resource.
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Fellowship Community Journal
The coronavirus global pandemic is a historical event. Amid the many challenges of this time, we have the unique opportunity to join people throughout time and culture who, finding themselves in unprecedented situations, pick up personal diaries. Making it a habit to record a few thoughts, questions, memories, ideas or longings can be tremendously helpful in cultivating hope and calm, whether it’s a daily disciple or a more occasional activity. And it leaves a fun record for us and our descendants! Let’s take it one step further at the Fellowship, and weave our individual voices into a collective tapestry. Rev. Leah will send out monthly prompts to encourage reflection. Consider writing a paragraph, page, or more (however often you might choose). She will compile them, with the intention of being able to share the collection with the community at a program or worship service sometime in the future!
March Writing Prompt
When and how did you first learn about the novel coronavirus? What kinds of conversations did you have with loved ones, and at work? How seriously did you take the threat? What did you first do to prepare for new measures of precaution, isolation, quarantine, and distancing?
April Writing Prompt
What are the most meaningful changes in your daily life as you adjust to the new normal? What’s the same and what’s different?
If you journal on these subjects or anything else, please consider submitting your work to leah@fvuuf.org.
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Parents and Caregivers!
If you're not registered for Religious Education, you might have missed the pastoral letter about pandemic parenting from Rev. Leah. Click HERE for the letter. Click HERE to register your kids for RE.
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Blessing for Healthcare Workers
Click here for a special blessing from Rev. Leah for those who work in healthcare these days, or know someone who does.
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Email Scam Warning!
It seems that while most people have drastically changed their normal lives and routines during this pandemic, scammers have not taken a break.
You may have received an email that appears to be coming from Rev. Christina. The emails often start initially saying something very vague, like trying to reach you or I need your help, etc. If you reply, they ask you to purchase gift cards, scratch off the codes or pins on the cards and send a photo via return email.
These are not legitimate emails and are not from a Fellowship email account. Remember, Fellowship leadership and staff will NEVER email direct requests for money or gift cards! Do NOT respond to any email that says it’s from a Fellowship staff person unless it is coming from an “FVUUF.org” email address.
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