After a joyful, meaningful Candidating Week consisting of two services, two potlucks, a parade, and more than a dozen meet & greet Q & A sessions, UUFD voted Reverend Jamie Elaine Boyce to be our next Settled Minister on Sunday, April 28. Ninety-one members voted unanimously YES. Immediately following the vote confirmation by the Board and contract signing, members and friends … Continue reading The big news: WE SAID YES!
The Pine Song Retreat Team is excited to announce that Julie Wolfrum will be joining us as one of our retreat leaders. She is a teacher and spiritual guide who uses movement and dance to enhance spiritual growth and connection. Appropriately, her work fits with this year’s retreat theme, “Forging Connections.” Click here for her … Continue reading Pine Song Retreat Update
Candidating Week is here! Our ministerial candidate, Rev. Jamie Boyce, will be with us April 19-28. Please click on this calendar of meetings and different opportunities for you to meet and greet Rev. Jamie! Members will be making a decision about whether to call Rev. Jamie as our next Settled Minister during the congregational meeting on … Continue reading MSC News Updates: Candidating Week is Here!
Faith Formation Plans for Welcoming Rev. Jamie Jamie Boyce Sunday, April 21, 2024: Immediately after service there will be a congregation-wide pot luck with Rev. Jamie. The important part, of course, is ice cream. At 1:00 that same day, Rev. Jamie is invited to join Faith Formation families, youth, and kids for an Ice Cream Social. … Continue reading Faith Formation April Happenings
UUFD is a co-sponsor of the 2024 Earth Day event on April 20 at Buckley Park (see more here). Join the parade throng and our Environmental Justice Team starting at 10:30 am at the Train Station and walk to Buckley Park. Visit our booth (and all the others) at the park. There will be lots … Continue reading Show UU Support for Earth Day!
The final recital in this year’s Recital Series will take place on April 26 at 7:00 p.m. and will feature Drea Pressley, mezzo-soprano, and Marilyn Garst, piano. The program of varied musical styles will open with two arias from the 17th and 18th centuries by Giacomo Carissimi and Christoph Willibald von Gluck followed by a set … Continue reading Final recital features Presley, mezzo-soprano, and Garst, piano
Candidating Week is coming soon! Mark your calendars for Sunday, April 21 – Sunday, April 28. That week will be your chance to meet and greet our candidate, to ask questions, and to extend our welcome to our fellowship. Following are some details about the schedule for the week: Sunday, April 21 – The candidate … Continue reading The latest news: Please note Congregational Meeting on April 28
From Dependence, to Independence, to Interdependence “Breathe with me.Know that with each breath we take in molecules of airthat were breathed by every person that ever lived… Breathe with me,and know that we are all interdependent… Breathe with me,as we come together to do the holy workof interconnection and relationship…”~Rev. Matt Aslpaugh As Mother Earth … Continue reading April news from Faith Formation
In February, the Social Justice & Responsibility Team is spotlighting “Mission: Support Kids,” the brainchild of Alex Todak-Schwartz, a long-time UUFD member. Alex is the adopted daughter of UUFD friends Betty and Norbert Schwartz. Mission: Support Kids has been a long-time dream of Alex’s since she grew up in foster care before being adopted as … Continue reading Featuring Mission: Support Kids
“Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.” ― Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid The concept of fair gets to the heart of proposed Article II values of justice and equity and also to the Golden Rule, which most of us learn soon after we learn to talk … Continue reading February news from Faith Formation
