This Week's Service
Sunday, October 18th, 10:30 AM
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Discovering America Again!
With Special Guest, the Reverend Dr. Clyde Grubbs
Join Zoom Meeting Sunday at 10:30am
Meeting ID: 891 5048 2747
Password: chalice
Or, follow the link on our webpage for audio only: uucfm.org
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Thank You to Sunday's Participants:
The Reverend Dr. Clyde Grubbs, Guest Minister
Suellen Kipp, Director of Music
Jennifer Grant, Worship Associate
Lesley Peterson, Musician
Peter Golbitz, Musician
Walter Peterson, Tech Lead
Lesley Peterson, Tech Team Member
Mark Brandon, Tech Team Member
Jill Carville, Tech Team Coordinator
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UU Dialogues this Sunday
To participate in UU Dialogues, just stay in the main zoom meeting after the service ends and do not accept the breakout room invitation that pops up.
We will show a video for newcomers, obtain contact information from guests and visitors, have a general Q&A session with guest speakers and musicians from the service, and most importantly, participate in intentional dialogue. All are welcome to attend this session.
If you'd like to join a breakout room for casual conversation, please accept the pop up invitation after the service. Thank you!
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October Community Sharing- Visuality, Inc.
The mission of Visuality is to enhance and sustain the health and well-being of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer plus communities and our allies by providing activities, programs, educational events, and services that create community, empower community members, provide essential resources, advocate for civil and human rights; and embrace, promote and support out cultural diversity. We strive to end violence, harassment, and discrimination based on real or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity or sexual expression.
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Welcome New Members!
We are so pleased that you've decided to join us here at UUCFM. If you haven't had your New Member Ceremony and would like to, the next ceremony is Sunday, November 15th via Zoom at the 10:30 am service. Don't forget to invite your relatives and friends to join in the celebration. Please contact Carole carolelatino@gmail.com.
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Zoom Tips
Hi Zoomers! If you like to move around a lot during the Zoom service, please consider turning off your video. This allows you to stay in the service and your live video will switch to a black screen with your name or profile picture, if you've chosen one. The movement of people getting up and down can distract other participants. You can turn your video off temporarily or for the whole service. Please consider this if you are eating on camera or changing clothes. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation!
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Coming Up! October 25th Sunday Service
Reverend Amy Beltaine provides a UU ministry of spiritual mentoring through individual and group appointments, Sunday services, rites, and rituals. Helping friends and family of the oppressed to break open instead of being broken by the pain in the world. You crave a world of love and justice: Revive your spiritual verve! When (spouse) Hawthorne and Amy are not pulling their little home behind them they are at home in Portugal or in Portland, Oregon. A graduate of Meadville Lombard School for the Ministry, Amy is on the coordinating committee of the UU Spiritual Directors’ Network. Amy is an accredited Spiritual Director and supervisor, nearly life-long earth-honoring Process Pan-en-theist, and faculty member at Cherry Hill Seminary. Amy aspires to become a Love-Ninja. Connect with Amy at http://amybeltaine.info.
Reverend Amy is offering a “spiritual type assessment”. Go to her website at http://amybeltaine.info to take the quiz and to explore your spiritual direction
Sermon: Nothing Better to Do than Listen
Listening with attention and intention can be the best thing you'll ever do for others and yourself. Listening as a spiritual practice brings you closer to the sacred within and around you. In times of joy, but most importantly in times of trouble, companioning one another is life-giving. We need one another as we travel through the valley of the shadow, or grapple with change. When you listen you may hear other’s deepest and most important stories into voice, and you may connect your self, and your community, to your own hearts’ song.
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UUCFM Members and Friends
We want YOU to submit your thoughts, memories, and words of wisdom from your time in the military serving your country. Or, you might speak about one of your favorite veterans in your family. You can shoot the video from your phone and submit to the church office at uuchurch@uucfm.org. If you need help with tech, call the office at 561-2700. The fabulous UUCFM Tech Team will be creating a tribute to our veterans for a November service.
Please submit your Veteran Videos from now up and until October 15th. Please title your email video submission "Veteran Video" to help us keep track of all submissions.
Thank you for your help!
Suellen Kipp
Director of Music
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Message from the Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees would like to share this quarterly report on our current financial status. The “Actual” column shows revenue and expenses from April 1 through October 10, which is just over 50% of our fiscal year; the “Budget” column is the budget for the whole fiscal year adopted by our congregation at our May annual meeting; and the “% of Budget” column compares the other two columns. As you can see, our operating budget is about $117,000 overspent. However, the Reserves Transfers and Endowment Grant and Loan, plus the Paycheck Protection Program grant we received, will offset more than $106,000 of that deficit. The Board of Trustees is confident that, with your continued support and generosity, UUCFM will be able to complete the fiscal year within the parameters of the adopted budget.
Also, the Finance Committee is beginning to plan the budget for the upcoming fiscal year. As required by our by-laws, we invite you to propose items to be included in next year’s budget by December 31. Please send any questions or comments to Pati Maier, Treasurer, at treasurer@UUCFM.org.
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Caste Book Study
Our group is now studying Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson, the author of The Warmth of Other Suns.
"Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings."
We are now meeting on Wednesday from 1-2:30 p.m. on Zoom. For more information and to join, contact Helen Leddy at helen.leddy@gmail.com.
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Attention Gmail Users
This is a long newsletter- please make sure you click on "message clipped, click here for entire message" at the end of your email as shown below. Thanks!
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South Fort Myers Food Pantry
The board and volunteers at the Food Pantry say thank you for the food that you have dropped off during these very difficult months.
The best times to drop off food are 9 AM or 4 PM on Monday at the pantry itself, located at 8260 Cypress Lake Drive, Fort Myers in the back of the Cypress Lake Presbyterian Church. Any size donation will be accepted. Most needed foods are peanut butter & jelly, cereal, breakfast bars, canned fruits and vegetables, pasta and tomato sauce, protein-rich soups and beans. Please, no glass containers.
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Socially Distanced Saturdays Series
All shows are limited to less than 500 tickets per event, with social distancing between all seats.
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Happy Birthday!
Oct 15 Ted Brown
Oct 17 Holley Rauen
Oct 18 Doc Gatto
Oct 18 Jane Petrarca
Oct 23 Ruth Fotovat
Oct 27 Sima Robbins
Oct 30 Peter Golbitz
Oct 30 Sue Magee
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Board of Trustees & Staff |
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President Lesley Peterson
President Elect Lane Cook
Secretary Ruth King Fotovat
Treasurer Pati Maier
VP Ministerial Services Keith Hamlin
VP Operations Dorothy Van Howe
VP Programming Toni Latino
Member at Large Genelle Grant
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Please send all newsletter articles by Wednesday at noon for publication in Thursday's newsletter. Send articles to newsletter@uucfm.org.
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