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| Newsletters & Sermons UUFD NOW UUFD Rummage Sale Registers SuccessAn enormous
thanks to Kathy Vaught and her crew for yet another great UUFD Rummage
Sale (the 14th). This year, we netted more than $1,100, which will
be used for expenses our Fellowship incurs in the coming year. The
help of many made for a phenomenal sale. Of special note were the
folks who stayed after the Memorial Day Service and helped bring
Moving or cleaning out?
Greetings from your Prez, by Marge EvansBouquets to Kathy Vaught for organizing and running another fantastic rummage sale. Bouquets to Vern for all his picking up and toting. And bouquets to all who helped in so many ways! Did Mark say $11,10.05!! Wow! "Next-day" bouquets go to all who helped on our annual "Cleanup Day." Bouquets to Terry Hogg, who took on our front garden, which has been needing TLC. Darwin and his Building & Grounds team did a fine job. Many hands made the work a "play day," and I'm proud to be a part of UUFD. We are planning another "FUNdraiser" to help us with our visionary budget. "Books, Bites and Botanicals" is coming Saturday, Oct. 16. We picture a time for folks to browse through the "good" books we'll have to offer, while they listen to good music from our new sound system; to nibble and sip for free, but then buy tasty treats to take home with the pretty plant that will brighten their home over the winter. Perhaps
you would like to expand on this vision! Sandy Dattoli has agreed
to chair this event, and Vern Thistlethwaite, Jennifer Gardner and
Anne Reeser also have volunteered, so you'll be in good company!
In John's WordsLast Tuesday during office hours, I had been asked by one of our members, Lois Worley, to help with the planning of a memorial service at the Fellowship. Our meeting was to plan her own memorial service, and it is with Lois' permission I write this column. I considered it remarkably thoughtful that someone would want to design their own memorial service; so much so it has inspired me to do the same. I've come
to see that pre-planning one's own memorial service is a very considerate
and loving act. It is one of those final gifts one gives to a grieving
extended family and friends. It eliminates any guesswork as to what
is appropriate to a person's life. It makes easier those Many may not find it easy discussing such things as their memorial. As Lois and I sat in the church office that afternoon I could sense those expected emotions arising as tears welled up . her voice gave way. she choked as she spoke. For me as well, it was deeply moving. As we moved through the words of the service, I could sense her relief and a kind of burden gradually being lifted. What was on the other side was a sense of joy and completion. It was simply a magnificent moment. The service
Lois selected seemed just the right words for her. She found them
in a Skinner House book I had given her titled: "In Memoriam:
A Guide to Modern Funeral and Memorial Services" by Edward
Searls, a UU minister. The particular service she had chosen originated
from a Native American tradition and was called "Circles Within
Circles." It adapted the medicine wheel concept with contemporary
spirituality and conveyed what So I invite you to consider designing your own memorial service. If not with me, then with another. To do so would be for me to deeply respect your own worth and dignity inherent as an individual. It would honor your conscience in matters of life, death and meaning. As your
minister, I would consider it a privilege and responsibility to
respond to your request with care, sensitivity and love. For us
both to know what words would truthfully speak your deepest beliefs
would make for a service that would be at once honest as well as
Please
feel free to call upon me at any time. Office hours
Joys & ConcernsHappy birthday to ...
Dollarsense A special
thanks to Vicky and Randi Clark for their donation of a gas stove
for the kitchen and to Ryan Raleigh for helping Mark Sorensen with
the installation. Pledgers: Please mark on your checks in July whether
donation is for an old 2003-2004 pledge or new 2004-2005 pledge.
Fellowship expenses average $4000 per month. Members and friends
may make a tax-deductible donation of money, stocks or property
to the Trust at any time of the year. If interested, please contact
Ken Robertson. Much thanks to Darwin Shroyer for coordinating the
replacement of our #2 air conditioner unit to cool our central pod.
The cost of this will come from our UUFD Trust Fund. Thanks to Darwin
and Eric Devore for replacing and repairing damaged wood siding
on the Fellowship.
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