Our theme this year is “Mission Possible!” We invite members to reflect on UUFEC’s accomplishments and your dreams to further our mission. Please give generously to help UUFEC grow. Each Sunday, a finance committee member will be available during snack time with pledge forms and answer your questions. Please also take a moment to check … Continue reading Mission: Possible – UUFEC’s Pledge Drive 2020-2021
The Reverend Doak M. Mansfield I’ve been thinking deep thoughts through Winter’s passing. I’ve been trying to understand life as an interrelated, interdependent organism and express myself on that idea. Current accepted science has offered the concept of the Big Bang Theory, evolution, and gradual structured change influenced by being as the way of … Continue reading Spring 2019 – Notes from the Journey
Our location impacts our relationship to the Winter season. We have our dramatic weather events but snow, cold, and long darkness are not significant elements of our life here on the Emerald Coast of Florida. I’m persuaded that the religious/meaning myths, customs, rituals from ancient times where powerfully informed by those ancestors whose region was … Continue reading December 2018: Winter Notes from the Journey
Autumn in Florida, even our panhandle, is not a time for turning leaves. Brilliant images of golds, reds, yellows foliage is more Shenandoah Valley, the Berkshires than Boggy Bayou. I’m assured my Halloween we’ll have some ‘fallish’ temps and weather. We’ll see. Our nation is in the midst a brutal political struggle with important elections … Continue reading October 2018: Autumn in Florida
“Once upon a time” is the classic, timeless beginning of fairy tales. I think it has wide utilitarian viability for most recounting of memories and even recasting of “facts” of what passes as history. When I was about 9 years of age I acquired an old set of World Book Encyclopedia from my Mother’s Mother, … Continue reading 9/1/2018: Once Upon a Time
Notes from Doak “Nesting” has a special meaning for me: I find it a compelling need to establish relationship with place and people. We’ve been in Florida and with y’all for just four weeks. Pegs has a vehicle now and is back to driving. Her health is much better and she is ready to explore. … Continue reading 08/17/2018: Nesting
In the coming weeks, I will be reaching out and asking for fall RE volunteers. Volunteering is a once monthly commitment for our preschool/elementary classes. It is a joy working with our children and a wonderful way to make a positive difference within our UUFEC community. Curriculum, supplies, and any needed training will be provided … Continue reading Fall Volunteers
This Sunday kicks off Summer Sundays! Summers at UUFEC allow our children to learn about new topics and get to know more of the adults in our fellowship. FRED BOYER will be having a lesson this week on MAPS.
Identity: Who are you? Who am I? Who are we together? We can look in the mirror and find some answers to these questions about our identity. However, it’s in conversations, asking and answering one another, seeing ourselves through another’s eyes that we truly come to know who we are. Earlier this fall, members of … Continue reading In the Interim… Come, Come, Whoever You Are: World Cafe II
*November Theme: Gratitude I suppose it’s obvious why the Religious Services folks chose gratitude for the November ministry theme. It’s the month of Thanksgiving the national day for remembering to be grateful for a few moments -before Black Friday ushers in the season of frantic shopping, bargain hunting and, yes, even greed. Thanksgiving did prompt … Continue reading In the Interim… Gratitude
