This Week's Service
Sunday, October 25th, 10:30 AM
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Nothing Better to Do Than Listen
With Special Guest, the Reverend Amy Beltaine
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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About Our Speaker
Reverend Amy Beltaine provides a UU ministry of spiritual mentoring through individual and group appointments, Sunday services, rites, and rituals. She helps 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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Thank You to Sunday's Participants:
The Reverend Amy Beltaine, Guest Minister
Suellen Kipp, Director of Music
Leslie Gatto, 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 rather 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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Honoring Our Beloved Ancestors
At the November 1st Sunday service we will be honoring our loved ones who passed away and our beloved ancestors. If you would like photos of your loved ones in a slideshow on that date please email the photos to Lesley Petersen at unicorn@cyberstreet.com as soon as possible.
If you prefer not to email the image we will be asking you to bring photos with you to the Zoom Service that day. Thank you so much!
About the November 1st Sunday Service: The Virus and the Veil: Samhain in a Time of Plague
In many Pagan and Neopagan traditions, Samhain--coinciding with the celebration of Halloween and All Souls--marks the end of the old year and the start of the new, and offers opportunity for us to honor those who have passed this year as well as our ancestors, both of blood and spirit. Lore tells us that the veil separating the world of the living from the Otherworld is thin at this time of year; and in a year when over 200,000 lives have been lost to a preventable contagion, we must be more mindful than ever of our relationships and responsibilities both to those who have passed as well as to those who continue to live. Join us for an invitation into reflection and remembrance, and let this time of profound loss influence our purpose.
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CUUPs Samhain Circle
Merry meet and a blessed New Year to you and your kin! This year we have lived through the greatest crises of our generation. The state of our politics, environment and our very health has changed radically and in ways we could have never expected. It has caused us to question not only what we have witnessed, but who we are and what we stand for. This Samhain we call to the wisdom of those who have gone before to guide us forward and lead us to a higher vibration as we navigate these times of great challenge. Join us, (via zoom), the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans in Fort Myers on November 1st, 2020 at 6PM as we honor the legacy of our beloved dead and seek their wisdom to move through the year ahead. Blessed Be.
Please find the zoom link below:
Topic: CUUPS - Samhain Circle
Time: Nov 1, 2020 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 891 7804 7479
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UUCFM & Caloosahatchee Book Study
We will begin our new book on October 28th.
Book is : Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World
"A guidebook for how to use mindfulness to build our inner strength, find balance, and help create a better world."
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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The UUCFM Book Group
The Wednesday Book Group will be finishing its discussion of Marjory Stoneham Douglas’ The Everglades: River of Grass and selecting our next book. We meet on Zoom Wednesdays at 1:00 PM. If you’re joining for the first time, please email Mary Studer at mstuder929@gmail.com and she will send you the link to Zoom.
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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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Caring Network
If you or another member of the Congregation needs some extra attention during this time, your Pastoral Care Committee is here to help as much as we can while keeping us all safe and protected. Our Committee members include Mary Faegre, Joan Hickok, Mary Tracy-Sigman, Patricia Vivier-Naidl, Holley Rauen and Suzanne Ziemer.
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If any members of the Congregation are available to help during this crisis, please contact Mary Golbitz.
We can connect with you individually by phone if you are feeling isolated and offer other assistance. Please contact Mary Golbitz for information or assistance at marygcline@gmail.com 207 479-4082 (phone or text) or Holley Rauen at holleyrauen@gmail.com or
239-464-6556.
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Paula Copestick
On Friday, October 23rd at 11:00 am there will be a special gathering to honor Paula Copestick and scatter her ashes. There will be a short outdoor Service led by Holley Rauen in the Memorial Garden. If you feel called to be there (masks and social distancing observed) please RSVP by email to Holley to be on the guest list so that we have seating for everyone. holleyrauen@gmail.com.
To send condolences to Paula's family by email here is Paula's sister, Rhea Corrion's email address: rhea.corrion@gmail.com
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Membership
Why I Support This Church
by Don Maron
"During the past 27 years at UUCFM, I've served on the Board of Trustees and the Building and Grounds Committees. I've been active in UU Churches for 67 years. There have been times of stress and transitions in each. My wish is for a successful transition time and I support the efforts to save this wonderful UUCFM campus for years to come."
Don is currently on our Stewardship Committee and giving valuable historical views.
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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 16 Pati Maier
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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