Upcoming Services
Sunday at 10:00 am
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September 1
The Blessings of Animals by Rev. Christina Leone-Tracy and Rev. Leah Hart-Landsberg
Henry Bergh, the founder of the ASPCA and fellow Unitarian, was born 206 years ago this week! Come celebrate his legacy with an Animal Blessing service. Well-behaved pets, on leashes or in crates, are welcome to join you today, or bring a stuffed animal or photo in lieu of pet. After our short all-ages service, we'll bring animals outside (weather permitting) for an individual blessing of each animal. A special collection for the Fox Valley Humane Association will also be held today, so bring a check, cash, or an item from their wish list to donate -- foxvalleypets.org/donate
September 8
Mingling of the Waters
by Rev. Christina Leone-Tracy & Rev. Leah Hart-Landsberg
Join us for our Mingling of the Waters Celebration to symbolize our community's re-connecting after the summer schedule. This is our last 10:00 am service, and we will partake in our annual ritual of mingling together our waters into a common vessel-- bring a small amount of water from your summer travels, your local lake, pond, or fountain, or from home! This is an all-ages service: Children can stay the whole time and participate with our quiet sensory station activities. Childcare will also be available if needed, for children up to approximately age 8 or as deemed appropriate by their family.
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Book Discussion: The Age of Overwhelm: Strategies for the Long Haul by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
2 sessions on September 5: noon – 2:00 pm (Bring your lunch if you'd like!) and in the evening from 6-8:00 pm
Our annual worship theme for 2019-2020 is healing. As we prepare to kick off the new program year, you’re invited to start broadly with a deep dive! Burnout and grief can be overwhelming in our society, and leave us wounded. It’s not always clear how to keep showing up and practicing good self-care. Sometimes doing less is more! Thankfully, there are tools that can help us do this. Rev. Leah is going to read this engaging and upbeat book for her September 22nd sermon and would welcome your thoughts, suggestions, stories, experiences, and challenges with the subject.
Copies of The Age of Overwhelm: Strategies for the Long Haul by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky are available at places books are sold.
Come to one (or both) of these community conversations. No RSVP needed.
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Senior Wonders
The September meeting of Senior Wonders will be on Tuesday, September 10 at noon at the Fellowship. Bring your lunch and beverage, as well as a snack to share if desired.
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Wellspring Wednesday
September 11, 6:30-8:00 pm
Four Spiritualities: Finding Your Spiritual Pathway with Mary Ellyn Vicksta
Peter Tufts Richardson, a retired UU minister, has successfully helped people discover their spirituality path by looking at religious and spiritual traditions and mapping out some consistent patterns. Later on, he realized there was a relationship to the Perceiving and Judging Functions associated with Jungian Type Theory and MBTI. This Wellspring workshop will give you a primer on the four spiritual paths that Richardson identified, with questions to help you identify your preferences and suggestions on how to make your spiritual journey even more fulfilling.
Sign up for childcare online HERE or at the Sign Up Spot at the Fellowship. We need at least one child signed up 24 hours in advance in order to have childcare.
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New Small Group: Express Yourself
Led by Fellowship Member Cindy Darling
Creating art together is a spiritual practice. This new small group aims to provide opportunities to create in a variety of ways together--we will move our bodies, we will manipulate paint, we will turn stones into art, we will play with words, and we will engage in the art of creating to music. There is so much to the idea of “art,” and this group aims to engage a bit with all of those aspects. Come to one activity or to all of them. No group membership required. Plus, no artistic skill required—and no supplies needed. Just bring an open mind and your creative spirit.
Painting Stones: Sunday, September 15, 1:00-3:00 pm, Cindy’s house in Kaukauna, CE and Crooks area. Call or text 920.205.9635 to sign up and for exact address.
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Class offering: “White People’s Work”
with Rev. Christina Leone-Tracy and Brian Looker
Tuesday, September 24th, 6:00-8:00 pm
In our quest to fully live out our UU values, we know that tackling racism is an important part of our spiritual practice. But people who identify as white need to be doing the most work in unlearning and dismantling the harmful effects of systemic racism. Join Fellowship member Brian Looker and Rev. Christina for a two hour class to start doing this important work together. This class is particularly geared toward white folks, but anyone is welcome.
(Optional reading in advance: White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo, which will also be available soon in our Fellowship bookstore, and in the Black Lives Matter lending library for borrowing.)
Sign up for childcare online HERE or at the Sign Up Spot at the Fellowship. We need at least one child signed up 24 hours in advance in order to have childcare.
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New Bookstore Additions!
Mistakes and Miracles: Congregations on the Road to Multiculturalism Shares how five diverse congregations encounter frustrations and disappointments, as well as hope and wonder, once they commit to the journey to create multicultural, antiracist Beloved Community.
How to Love a Country: Poems
A new collection from the renowned inaugural poet exploring immigration, gun violence, racism, LGBTQ issues, and more, in accessible and emotive verses.
How Does it Feel to be Unwanted?
In an era of increasing anti-immigrant sentiment and bigotry, each of these thirteen stories illuminates the issues affecting the Mexican community and shows the breadth of a frequently stereotyped population.
In Later Years
A Unitarian Universalist minister and chaplain explores questions of meaning and spirituality in aging through the stories and experiences of elders.
White Fragility
The reading companion for Rev. Christina Leone-Tracy and Brian Looker's upcoming class, "White People's Work".
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Save the Date!
The celebration and service celebrating Rev. Roger Bertschausen’s Minister Emeritus status will happen over the weekend of November 23-24. Roger was the senior minister of the Fellowship from 1990 until 2015. He guided the Fellowship through years of transitions in staff growth, service schedules and practices, building construction, relocation and expansion. Roger oversaw a period of almost constant growth in membership. This title is honorary and given for his dedication and care of this Fellowship. This title does not include any decision-making, pastoral care, or ministerial leadership functions. It also does not include any type of financial remuneration. More information about the events will be available soon.
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Joys and Concerns
As your faith community, we want to celebrate your joys with you and support you through times of concern.
To share a joy or concern with our ministers and/or at services, please email Rev. Leah at leah@fvuuf.org.
To be added to the Joys and Concerns email list, contact Cyndi Polakowski at cyndi@fvuuf.org.
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Weekly Calendar Saturday, August 31
6:30am Joyful Mind Zen Sangha
10:00am Spanish Charla
Sunday, September 1
10:00am Worship Service
6:00pm Smiling Dandelion Sangha
Monday, September 2
Office Closed
Thursday, September 5
12:00pm Book Discussion
6:00pm Book Discussion
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