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How can we engage deeply in a virtual year?!
By Marie Luna, director of congregational life
We have had to figure out how to be part of a faith community in ways that many of us could not have anticipated. I talk to my UU colleagues across the country and we are all saying the same thing—how do we help people stay engaged when we can’t meet in person? This hasn’t been easy, and it will unfortunately be lasting longer than we had hoped. Here are some suggestions to help stay connected, and know we are here for you to help!
• Call or email someone you used to see at service or part of a group who you haven’t connected to in a while. Email marie@fvuuf.org if you need contact information. Or join the Pen Pal Program to get to know someone!
• Check out the current list of small groups meeting via zoom.
• Learn about or grow deeper in your Unitarian Universalist faith with our adult faith development opportunities.
• Mark your calendar for the 2nd Wednesday of the month for a one of a kind Wellspring Program, that is being led by ministers and other faith leaders from across the country (and even Asia!).
• Email or call me to talk about how you can get connected or if you need support. I am here for you!
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Sunday Service10:00 am CST
Reclaiming Power by Rev. Leah Ongiri
Click HERE for Worship Service details
Call in: 312-626-6799
with meeting ID 176 319 484
- Click HERE for worship service Zoom link
- Listen to past sermons HERE
- Watch some of our past sermons on our Youtube channel
- Click HERE for information on hosting a traveling chalice in your home
- Religious Education for children and youth kicks off this Sunday. See below for more information.
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Click the image above for details on all these events.
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| - September 17 - Is this a new religion? with Marie Luna, director of congregational life
- September 22 - How do we "do church"? with Rev. Christina Leone-Tracy, Senior Minister
- September 30 - Anti-racism Learning Group Discussion Part 1 of 3 with Rev. Christina Leone-Tracy, Senior Minister
- October 1 - How do we live our values? with Marie Luna, director of congregational life
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| Religious Education - Children and Youth
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Religious Education Classes Start this Sunday, September 20 We are very excited about our virtual Sunday programs for our young people this year! All classes have been designed to be fun and engaging with online learning in mind. Don’t miss connecting with our Fellowship friends and family this year!
Children and youth must be registered for religious education by September 27 in order to continue receiving the link for Children’s Chapel and Youth Connection this year. Please contact Kim Hartman or Eve Rosera for more information. Register today!
Our new program year format begins this week:
• Pre-K through 1st grade will meet the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month at 9:00 am CST
• 2nd through 6th grade will meet the 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month at 9:00 am CST
*All of the above students are invited to attend all classes; however the classes will be geared for the target ages
• 7-12th grade will meet each Sunday at 11:00 AM CST
Please visit our website for more information about our classes.
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Travel Meeting for DevaSunday, September 20 from 11:00-12:30 pm CST
Zoom link HERE
Meeting ID: 852 3600 5761, Passcode: 789131
Call In: 301-715-8592
Please join us for a fun and informational meeting to discuss our next trip to Deva in June of 2022. It will be a multi-generational trip, with a youth focus, to deepen our roots in our UU faith. Our meeting will have pictures, stories, and ways to get ready for the trip. We will discuss fundraising strategies, information about the history, culture, and language of Transylvania. Youth grades 6 and up are encouraged to attend the meeting as well!
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Do you wish there was someone, anyone, who would deliver cookies to your house every month? Or could fix that darn broken step? Or watch your cat while you take a mini-vacation? Tell us your dreams, and maybe we can help. We're bringing back the Fellowship Service (and Goods) Auction! Read more...
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Checking in with our CompasLess than 6 months ago, many of our lives changed abruptly in so many ways due to the pandemic. You may recall during those days of upheaval in March that joyful news was shared. Through the support of the Immigration Justice Team, a young mother and her son seeking asylum had arrived safely to the Fox Valley. Shortly after, a 14-year-old girl, alone in the US after her mother was deported, also arrived. They are all being supported by our team. Read more and hear from our compas
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The Justice Hub webpage is now live! Information about our JAMs and justice groups, and justice events and opportunities here at our Fellowship and out in the community is right there at your fingertips any time you need it. Check it out: Justice Hub
This week:
• If you signed up for the Anti-racism Facebook group but would prefer to receive the material via email, let Rev. Christina know
• Sign up to help serve a meal on September 28 at the Pillars shelter with Fellowship friends
• Express interest in participating in an environmental and racial justice book-read with our Fellowship’s Green Sanctuary team
• UU the Vote information including phone-banking alongside UUs from around the country
• Save the date of October 21, 6:00 – 8:00 pm CST. Join intern minister Ali and others from our Fellowship for a phone-banking event. Read more...
• UU webinar on the federal Breathe Act and criminal justice reform
• Local election information including virtual candidate forums
• ESTHER (interfaith organizing) information: Training, task force meetings, and register now for their upcoming virtual “banquet” on November 1
If you want to share something on the Justice Hub webpage, please do so by completing this form by Thursday to be posted when the page is updated each weekend. Submissions may be subject to staff approval and editing.
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A Note from Rev. LeahI was honored to have the text and audio recording of an essay I wrote, based on some research for Fellowship services (most recently when I preached on August 9th, which you can hear here) included in Quest for Meaning, a project of Church of the Larger Fellowship, a Unitarian Universalist congregation without walls.
The Quest for Meaning site engages people of all ages and stages in Unitarian Universalism, and its many ministries nurture depth and meaning in places as diverse as family dinner tables, prison cells, and military mess halls. Their theme this month was imagination.
Check out my contribution and a variety of materials HERE.
Most importantly, thanks for being a place that supports me in contributing to conversations in the larger UU community. The Fellowship encourages my imagination and for that I am grateful!
Love, Leah
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Notable Extras
- Black Lives Matter Lending Library
- Zoom Guidance
- Masks Available at the Little Free Library
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Click HERE for details about these groups.
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- Anti Racism Fellowship Facebook Group
A group for people affiliated with our Fellowship who want to learn about racism, anti-racism, and how to be better allies in the struggle for racial justice ongoing, find the group and ask to join by clicking HERE.
- Fellowship Community Journal
Ongoing, submit your work to leah@fvuuf.org
More information HERE.
- Fellowship Pen Pals - Click HERE for information.
- Journey Group Facebook Group - Click the small groups link for information
- Joyful Mind Zen Sangha; Saturdays, 7:00 am CST
- Men's Group, First Wednesdays & Third Tuesdays, 7-9:00 pm CST
- Music-Making Online - Click the small groups link for information
- Pollinate (BIPoC), Email pollinate.BIPoC@hotmail.com for meeting information
- Smiling Dandelion Sangha, Sundays, 6-7:30 pm CST
- Spill it Sister, Second Thursday of the month, 6:30-8:00 pm CST
- Third Thursday Book Club, Third Thursday of the month, 2:00 pm CST. Click the link above for the reading list.
- UU Parenting Support Group, First Monday of the month, 6-7:30 pm
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