Apr
26
The Growth Task Force has issued its Preliminary Report to the congregation.
It is available by clicking here.
We are soliciting any comments by May 1, 2010.
Consider these key questions:
Send your comments along to growth@uufkw.org
Feb
23
YOU ARE INVITED !!!!!
Saturday, March 13 - DIVINE DINING:
early dinners around town; Fellowship Hall at 7; $25/ticket
New to DD?? Here’s the overview of the evening’s events:
-dinner with friends, fellow UU’s, neighbors;
-fellowship at our Hall including entertainment, wine and beer table, yummy desserts and coffee;
-auction–live and experiential–which means you are bidding on life experiences and tapping into your fellow UUs’ talents and skills.
This is one action-packed evening!! See you there!!
Questions: contact Joy Taylor at (305) 587-7833 or jbt22ster@gmail.com
or go to
Nov
11
Amy Carol Webb, songweaver extra ordinaire, will be sharing musical postcards of her life’s journey in concert on Saturday, November 15, at 7:30 at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at 801 Georgia Street at Petronia.
“Amy Carol Webb” is defined as “beloved song weaver.” She is passionate, powerful, and poignant. She’s the girl next door and no ordinary woman. Born and reared in Oklahoma, Amy traces her heritage back to Native Americans through her Great-Grandmothers who settled Oklahoma when it was still a Territory. Amy’s music reflects the same pioneering spirit, tenacity, integrity and never-quit grit. At the age of 5, her folks put her on the stage for the first time. She got her first guitar - a used Harmony gut-string - Christmas day, age 11 and taught herself “Red River Valley” before nightfall. By 14, she was writing and playing music at hometown events, studying works from a remarkably diverse palette of artists - Guthrie to Gershwin, Leonard Cohen to Leonard Bernstein, Bonnie Raitt to Beverly Sills - then graduated college with a degree in performing arts and hit the road from the lower 48 states to Japan, Canada and Mexico to launch her own music career. After taking a break to bring two sons into the world, she burst back onto the acoustic music scene in 1995. Five popular and critically acclaimed independent CD’s later, Amy’s on the road again, packing the house from Miami to Boston, from celebrated concert halls and festival stages to spiritual gatherings and intimate house concerts, sharing stages with many whose work inspires her own, from Richie Havens to Janis Ian, David Roth to Vance Gilbert. She is “beauty and vulnerability, genuine, sympathetic and electrifying.” (Gables Gazette) Her joy is infectious, her courage inspiring, her songs gifts of literate, humorous, often profound poems of one woman’s remarkable journey from precious child, to woman to mother …
… to “Songweaver.”
Some other kudos for Webb include:
The November 15 concert is open to all, with a suggested $10 donation at the door.
Sep
7
The Sunday gathering at 11am will occur as usual for those who are still in Key West.
As part of that time together, we will gather our thoughts to those who have left in advance of Hurricane Ike, those who will leave later, and those who will remain here - may we all be safe where ever we may be.
Also, as the storm does visit us, be aware that the following modes of communication with the rest of the fellowship will be up and running: my home phone will be working, connecting into my cell phone, even if power and phone service in the Keys in interrupted: (305) 735-3990. My email will also be available since the server is far away from the Keys: minister@uufkw.org
If you are in need, or just want a listening ear to hear (or read) what is happening for you, please be in touch.
I hold you all in my heart in the days ahead.
Rev Randy
Sep
3
The planned Thursday noon discussion series on the “Religion of Our Nation’s Founders” is delayed until Thursday, September 11.
“Unfortuntely,” Rev. Randy said, “a changed pastoral commitment means the change of the start of this series. But, we will then continue for the full four weeks.”
The series will look beyond the myths about our founders’ religious beliefs, including many claims of conservative Christian tendencies, to see what they believed in their own words and actions.
“While it may be true that our country was founded by deeply religious and spiritual people, it is not true that they would be considered practicing Christians by today’s definitions, ” Rev Randy adds.
All will be welcomed to participate in all or any single session of the series.
Aug
17
As Tropical Storm Fay makes its way across Cuba and heads for our area, we hold in our hearts and thoughts all the residents of the Keys and south Florida whose lives may be affected.
May the winds blow more gently than predicted;
May the oceans rise less than expected;
May the rains fill our reservoirs but not our houses;
May those who have evacuated soon return to us safely;
May we and all of our neighbors be safe;
Untll Fay is but a name of a storm that did not live up its billing.
Blessed Be!
Rev Randy
Jul
28
VIGIL SERVICE
in support of our sisters and brothers in Knoxville
Wednesday, July 30, 7:30pm at the Fellowship
As many of you know by now, a tragic event of violence took the lives of two members of the Tennessee Valley UU Church in Knoxville on Sunday. A gunman unrelated to the congregation entered the building during the Sunday morning service of worship and began firing a shotgun.
The heroic acts of an usher (who lost his life in the process) and of several members of the congregation brought about a quick disarming of the gunman who was held until police arrived.
Since the service had featured a number of children from the church’s summer music program, there was great concern for the young people; none of them was physically hurt in the event, but all were witnesses to the violence.
Our Association has responded to the tragedy by dispatching our Trauma Response Team and President Bill Sinkford will travel to be with them today. In the meantime, our best support for our sister congregation is to offer up our thoughts, meditations, prayers, and healing energy.
I know that events which enter our lives in this way, touching institutions and people related to us by beliefs, may stir up deep emotions for some of us. I am available for any in our congregation who feel the need for pastoral support in dealing with those emotions - contact me either by email (minister@uufkw.org) or phone ( 305-735-3990). To our sisters and brothers in Knoxville: we stand with you in sympathy.
Rev Randy
Jul
24
Sunday, August 17 Service:
Poetry, Poetry and More Poetry,
coordinated by Cynthia Edwards.
It’s time again for the Fellowship’s annual summer poetry service. Many fellowship members and friends are poets who generously share their work with the congregation in this service each year. Others are invited to bring old favorites, including whimsical poems by the late Carolyn Wanson, a member who was the Poet Laureate of the Conch Republic.
So dust off your portfolio or pull out your beloved poetry volumes and bring a poem for this special service.
The service is dedicated this year to the memory of UU poet Ric Masten, who wrote, Let it Be a Dance, one of the congregation’s favorite songs. Masten died this spring, on the California coast, surrounded by his family and admirers.
Cynthia and Rick Boettger met Masten at the UU Berkeley (Cal.) church in June of 07. Some of his powerful poems will be featured in the service.
Jun
13
Our booth for PrideFest is up and greeting people.
Come and see for yourself.
Friday, June 13, until 8pm (special gathering around 5pm for snacks, beverages, and socializing)
Saturday, June 14, 11am to 4pm
We are on Duval between Petronia and Olivia.
See you there!!!!!
May
28
6:00 pm TWIS at the home of Mabel Paul, 2328 Harris Ave, 294-9840
Please bring a finger food or beverage to share
