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Miami Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship | | Starting Point: Membership Class | |
SAT, JUN 27th @ 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM | Zoom
New to UU or MVUUF? Join us to share your Spiritual Journey, explore the covenantal nature of Unitarian Universalism, learn a bit about our history, and discover what it means to be a member of MVUUF!
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SAT, JUN 27th @ 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM | Chapel
Our Worship Team helps shape hearts and minds through worship by organizing worship associates and guest speakers. Today, they are meeting to do some planning. If you are interested in doing some worship planning, you are welcome to join them!
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SAT, JUN 27th @ 7:00 PM | Chapel
What a better way to relax and build community than to play some games together! All are welcome.
| Membership Committee Meeting | |
SUN, JUN 28th, After Congregational Meeting | Conference Room
Interested in tending to the life of the congregation? Nurturing new and established members alike? Join our Membership committee for their meeting today!
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SUN, JUN 28th, After Congregational Meeting | Chapel
Do you weave, sew, crochet, knit, felt, do needlework or macrame? Are you just starting to learn? If so, this group is for you! Please bring your own project to work on.
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SUN, JUN 28th @ 6:30 PM | Chapel
Join our pagan group, Chalice of the Willow (CUUPS), as they gather to celebrate the full moon! Ritual to be followed by a potluck meal.
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WED, JUL 1st @ 7:30 PM | Zoom
(ATTENTION! NEW DATE!)
Our production team does the important work of making our services accessible, both on site and off, by creating the service power point, running the service zoom, managing our service sound, and broadcasting our service. Interested in making sure our services remain accessible? Join their meeting tonight!
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EVERY SUN @ 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM | Zoom
Explore sacred texts from the world’s religions. Current text of study: the 1819 Classic sermon “Unitarian Christianity” by Rev. William Ellery Channing which explains the founding ideas of our UU faith.
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EVERY SUN @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Zoom
This small group ministry for women explores a different spiritual concept each month. This month's concept: Transcendence.
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Weekly Witness:
Social Justice
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Below is a list of upcoming social action opportunities. More events, advocacy opportunities, and drives can be found at...
Happening this week...
SAT, JUN 27th @ 10 AM to 11:30 AM | Zoom
"Community Centered Solutions to Gun Violence,” Conversations with UU’s from around Ohio. Sponsored by UUJO (UU Justice Ohio). Register through zoom.
SAT, JUN 27th @ 11 AM to 2 PM | Dayton Main Library, 1st Floor Forum (215 E. Third St.)
World Refugee Day Celebration. Family Friendly Celebration with hands on activities, food, performances. Learn more on Facebook.
SAT, JUN 27th @ 2:30 PM | Intersection of Brown & Stewart St.
Rally for Peace, Saturday, Organized by the Greater Dayton Peace Coalition. Learn more on Facebook.
MON, JUN 29th @ 7 PM | Zoom
Flock Cameras 101. Join Common Cause Ohio, ACLU of Ohio, ABLE, 614 Ice Watch and others to learn about Flock cameras, the struggle to shut down the dangerous misuse and overreach of this surveillance technology, and how you can take action. Register for the Zoom here.
Advocacy
Send “Save Ohio Parks” a message or your revision to urge Gov. De Wine to again veto dangerous legislation. SB 219 would allow drilling inside Ohio's parks for the first time. It would strip ODNR of its ability to regulate injection wells and orphan wells, and it would prevent the state from fining companies that cause spills or break the rules.
Advocacy
Tell Congress to End Family Detention. Help reinforce the efforts of descendants of Japanese Americans and allies on their four day walk this week from the site of a WWII internment camp in Texas to the Dilley Family Detention Center. Send a prepared message or your revision at Child Defense and learn more at abc27.
Advocacy
Thank Governor DeWine for Vetoing the Voter Suppression Bill HB 472 which would have made voting by mail much more difficult. Contact him here. And thanks to all who called and emailed him about this!
Advocacy
Many Ohio Assembly Bills to Oppose or Support: click on “Go to the Statehouse Legislation Tracker” at Ohio Against Extremism.
Information
Visit Hands Off Ohio. This webpage is for the new coalition formed in response to the more than 100 FBI and DHS agents who last week raided the offices of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative and homes of their staff.
See the invitation from the Montgomery County Jail Coalition below for an additional offering this week.
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Invitation from the Montgomery County Jail Coalition | |
Next Tuesday, June 30 at 12p, the Montgomery County Jail Coalition will host a virtual event to explore how an online dashboard could improve jail operations, increase transparency, and build public trust. The costly renovations currently underway at the jail are intended to modernize the facility and improve the safety and well-being of detainees and staff. In order for us to know that, track that, and adequately protect the investment we're making in the jail, it is crucial to build-out the necessary data infrastructure as well.
We will host officials from Polk County, IA (Des Moines); Hennepin County, MN (Minneapolis); and Harris County, TX (Houston)--all jurisdictions with jail dashboards. By learning from experiences and best practices, we can develop a proposal that works in our county.
The Jail Coalition has been researching transparency mechanisms since our campaign for civilian oversight in Summer 2025, which delivered a petition with 2000 signatures but no action from County officials. This is an issue of significant concern for voters and taxpayers and our hope is that a dashboard -- coupled with quarterly town hall events where the sheriff can engage with the public -- can be a tangible and effective outcome. We have been invited to formally present the proposal to a working session of the Board of County Commission on July 7.
We hope you can join us for next week's virtual event! RSVP here. Reach out with any questions.
| | | | July 2026 Congregational Meeting | |
Sunday, June 28th at 1:00 PM
Rev. Kellie Kelly & the Board
| This congregational meeting is scheduled to be multi-platform: onsite as well as on Zoom. | |
Children & Youth Religious Enrichment this week:
Children in Preschool through 5th Grade will start in their classrooms at 1 PM. Families should plan to pick up their children after the meeting.
No Youth Group this summer.
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About the Congregational Meeting:
As a Unitarian Universalist congregation, we believe that our congregational governance is an important part of our faith and feel it is appropriate to center this work twice a year in the place of our standard worship services. All are welcome. Only lifetime members and voting members may vote. If you are not a member, but are interested in becoming a member, please contact Meredith Plummer. Congregational Polity - it's a praxis!
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If joining us by phone via Zoom:
Dial 1-312-626-6799
or 1-646-876-9923
Enter Meeting ID (953 8114 7453) and Passcode (869000) at prompts.
| This service will be recorded. If you do not want to be included in the recording, please turn off your camera, mute your microphone, and change your name to "MVUUF" once you are in the zoom. | | |
Missed last week's service?
View past worship services at your convenience on our website. New worships uploaded by Wednesday of each week. See here.
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If you have a recurring gift set up through Breeze for the 2025-2026 pledge year, you should review it to see if it needs changed. See Breeze 101 for instructions. If you have questions, Brianna, our bookkeeper, is happy to assist! | Newsletter submissions are due by 9 AM on the fourth Monday of the month (July 27). eBlast submissions are due by 9 AM on Thursday. Please email articles to Meredith Plummer and Rev. Kellie. | Discover more - events, inspiration, community - with MVUUF's monthly newsletter "The Forum." June's Issue is out now. Read it here. | | | | |
General availability varies from staff to staff. It can be tricky keeping track of all the schedules. Here is an overview of the days our staff is available by phone or email...
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Rev. Kellie: MON / TUE / WED
- Rev. Kellie will be on study leave Monday, June 29th through Sunday, July 19th. She will not be available, except by phone, for Pastoral Care emergencies only.
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Meredith, Director of Congregational Life: MON / TUE / WED / THUR
- Meredith will be out of the office Thursday, July 2nd through Sunday, July 5th, as well as Friday, July 17th through Sunday, July 26th. They will not be available by phone, text, or email.
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Somaya, Director of Religious Enrichment: MON / WED
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Meg, Coordinator of Music: TUE / WED
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