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Newsletter - March 13, 2015
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Get to know us
Men's Fellowship
Every Wednesday - 6:30 PM 
at Furrbie's restaurant (downtown).
 
Get to know the men of our Fellowship! Join them weekly for Furrbie's good food and interesting conversation.

Contact: Eric Berg 
Learn with us
Fiction Book Group: Stone Mattress
Tuesday, March 24 from 7 - 8:30 pm
Selection for March: Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood - Imaginative and mystical stories of love and betrayal.  

The Fiction Book Group meets on the 4th Tuesday of each month (excluding December) at the Fellowship to discuss a new novel or collection of essays chosen by retired English professor Dick Moseley, who also facilitates the conversation. All are welcome to attend, read the month's selection, and enjoy delving deeper into some of today's best new literature.

Contact: Dick Moseley
Help High Plains Food Bank        
                As You Get Healthier
Our Fellowship has long been a supporter of our local food bank. HPFB works to alleviate hunger in the Texas Panhandle.
 
Two new apps available for iPhone and Android will benefit both you and HPFB. First, the Charity Miles app. Download it to your smartphone from the app store. Then select Feeding America from the choice of charities, and every mile you run, walk, or bike will earn two meals for the food bank.
 
Second is the foodTweeks app. Tell the app what you're making, and it offers you three "tweeks" to make your meal healthier. The calories saved are donated to HPFB as meals. Every 600 calories saved earns a meal - and if you enter the promo code HPFB, foodtweeks will double its donation. This is a great app for those looking to make get healthy.

Click here for more information.
SNACK PAK 4KIDS - 
            Cash Donation
We are now accepting cash donations for Snack-Pak 4Kids! Be sure to notate on your check or on the donation envelope that you want the money to go to Snack-Pack, drop it in the offering bowl, and we will take care of it from there. Thank you all so much for your support of this terrific program!
 
Contact: Yvonne Moore
Have you turned in your pledge for 2015-2016 yet? While most members and friends returned their "Estimate of Giving" cards during February, there are some that have not yet done so - and we are still short of our $140,000 goal for the upcoming year.
 
As you make your annual estimate of giving, consider all that the Fellowship means to you and what it can mean to others.
 
If you have not yet returned your Estimate of Giving card, please do so right now. Mail it today - bring it with you on Sunday - or pick up one from the greeters' desk before the service to complete and drop in the offering bowl. Let's finish up the stewardship drive this week! 
March is Half Over

Our 11:00 service is usually packed - and what a wonderful problem for us to have. However, churches stop growing when 80% of the seats are filled - as ours usually are at the later service.  

  

You can be part of the solution as we work to grow our congregation and faith community, extending the warmth of our Beloved Community to more Amarillo and area residents.

  

Will you help by attending the 9:30 service at least once a month? We look forward to seeing you there! 

In the Community
Sunset, Wild Winds, &  
Wine Wednesdays
Wed., March 25 from 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Wildcat Bluff Nature Center ( map)

The first of the season! Come with kids, grandkids, aunties, best friends, cousins, sisters and brothers, partners, and parents. Just come. Things will start with some wine, soft drinks and nibbles. You bring something to share.

Come for a casual get-together - to hang out and talk, watch the sunset, wander about Libb's trail, and maybe go for a hike. There will be things for the kids to do. There might even be some music!

Wildcat Bluff Nature Center address: 2301 N. Soncy Rd.

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Welcome to the Amarillo
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship!
Greetings! 
Experience our Beloved Community

We invite you to explore our Fellowship, a place of belonging where you are welcome regardless of who you are, what you believe, your background, or whom you love.
 
Worship.
Join us this Sunday at 4901 Cornell St. for
either the 9:30 or 11 AM service
.
Childcare and school-age Children's Religious Education are provided during the 11 AM service only.

Learn; get to know us. In addition to the events described in this newsletter, you can find a complete listing by clicking on the Calendar icon to the left.

Want more detail? Check both the News and the Events sections of our website, uuamarillo.org
Also on our website, you can learn more about our Fellowship and our faith, Unitarian Universalism.

Connect. Find and "Like" us on FaceBook!

Questions?
All events are held at the Fellowship,
4901 Cornell St. , unless otherwise noted.

If you are unsure how to reach any of the individuals named as contacts, please email the
AUUF office or call our Office Administrator, April Myers, at 806.355.9351 and leave a message. She will return your call during her office hours, which are M-W-F from 9 AM to noon.

With welcoming arms for all,  

The AUUF Beloved Community


Sunday Worship 

9:30 and 11 AM
March 15, 2015
David Green is speaking on Caring, Craft, and Cause, discussing how lessons from Aristotle's "Rhetoric" can be adopted by individuals and organization
 
March 22, 2015 
A very special guest - Mark Twain! - will speak on Man and His Religions. Don't miss this insightful and entertaining lecture by America's greatest author.

March 29, 2015 
David Green is speaking on The Blame, discussing the tragic legacy of antisemitism and its roots in the
Gospel of John's  
passion narratives.

 

Breakfast on 3rd Sundays
Sunday, March 15 at 9 AM
Breakfast is served! At 9 AM on the third Sunday each month, the Women's Simply Salad and Soup Fellowship is providing a yummy breakfast. Enjoy a hearty breakfast, and stay for worship at 9:30 AM or Adult Religious Education at 10 AM.
Exciting New Discussion Group for Women
Monday, April 6 From 6 PM - 7:30 PM
(Every 1st and 3rd Monday) 

AUUF will begin a Woman's Covenant Group with the purpose of studying and discussing feminine spiritual and social topics. We will launch this group by studying an 11 session UU adult RE curriculum, Cakes for the Queen of Heaven -  a woman honoring curriculum by Rev. Shirley Ranck. It examines pre-Judeo Christian cultures that may have worshiped the female as divine. The concepts of equality and reverence for the female in a religious setting are eye-opening to many participants.

More than Goddess 101, this workshop series examines important elements of today's women's lives; personal, interpersonal and societal. It examines how our culture has been influenced by Judeo Christian values. The primary question raised is: How would your life have been different if, when growing up, the divine had been imaged as female? Participants are encouraged to share their own experiences and beliefs, creating trust and strong bonds of friendship.

Join us as we learn and grow together as UU goddesses!

 

Contact: Keralee Clay
Join Us: Reuse and Recycle"
REUSE:
GUEST CARDS and  PLEDGE ENVELOPES. We reuse blank guest cards and contribution envelopes. Just place them in the brown basket at the rear of Chandler Hall when you leave the Sunday service.

RECYCLE:
CUPS. The cups we use at AUUF are biodegradable, with a corn-based lining instead of petroleum-based plastic and are made with fiber from sustainable harvested wood. They are compostable in an industrial composting facility. Please be sure to put your cups in the green recycle bins near the coffee pot so that they can be composted.

PLASTICS, GLASS, ALUMINUM. Look for the appropriately labeled receptacles in the coffee area and across from the kitchen.
Children's Religious Education (CRE)
Sunday, March 15
The younger children are learning about spring. These lessons began last week and will continue for the next few weeks.

The older group is following a series of lessons provided by UUA called Creating Home*. This week we will be focusing on the animals with whom we share our homes. These are the animals we can see around our houses-squirrels, spiders, prairie dogs, lady bugs. Before Sunday, encourage your children to notice those animals that share your habitat.

*The Creating Home program helps children develop a sense of home that is grounded in faith. Together with your group you will ask questions about the purpose of having a home and the functions a home serves, for us as humans and for other animals. The program speaks of home as a place of belonging and explores the roles each of us play in the homes where we live. The program introduces the concept of a "faith home" - your congregation - which shares some characteristics with a family home. Like a family home, a faith home offers its members certain joys, protections, and responsibilities.

Contact: Vicki Schoen 

We are brave, curious, and compassionate

thinkers and doers. 

We are diverse in faith, ethnicity,
history and spirituality, 

but aligned in our desire
to make a difference for the good. 


 We have a track record 

of standing on the side of love, justice, and peace.

We have radical roots
and a history as self-motivated spiritual people:
we think for ourselves and
recognize that life experience influences our beliefs more than anything.

 

We need not think alike to love alike.  

 

From uua.org " Who We Are"

Our Vision

 

A world without borders

where all are valued and supported.

 
  Our Mission
 

To be an inclusive progressive community
for spiritual, intellectual and social transformation.

 
Amarillo Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
4901 Cornell St.
Amarillo, TX  79109
806.355.9351

 

 

 

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