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This Sunday,
March 13
Community Hour Hot, fair-trade Peace Coffee is available. Child care is provided. The FUS Library, Bookstore and Gallery are open. A Forum program (see below) is offered. Opportunities for great conversations and connections abound! FUS Gallery: The landscape exhibit in the foyer is by the Minneapolis Drawing Workshop. This is their first exhibit devoted to landscapes; previous annual exhibits have been totally devoted to the figure. This group of artists meet twice a week to draw from a live model. Information on each artist can be found in the three-ring binder on the podium at the end of the hall. The exhibit runs through March 20th.
FORUM at 9:30 a.m.
A Discussion with the Strategic Planning Committee
See the article to the right "Forum about the Future of FUS."
ASSEMBLY at 10:30 a.m. "All -- or None -- of the Above"Speaker: Rev. Dr. Kendyl Gibbons. We have been looking at the question of mission at FUS, and what kind of uncomfortable challenges we might be willing to face in order to be loyal to the purpose of this institution as we understand it. While it is important that we continue to struggle with the truth about our priorities and what we are willing to invest in them, I want to suggest another way of looking at the issue, that might focus the discomfort differently. Does it help us, in our uniqueness, to ask what the purpose of religious community in general is? And how do the ways in which we resolve this dilemma here also shape other aspects of our individual lives?
Click here to view descriptions of upcoming Sunday programs.
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FUS Email Contacts
Phone: 612-377-6608
Fax: 612-377-2151 |
Reminders
Adult RE Click here to check out all the great programs available at FUS this Spring! Caberet Join your FUS friends on March 13 at 2pm for "Cabaret" showing at the Centennial Showboat off Harriet Island in St. Paul. For questions, or to confirm a reservation, email Linnea Asp. Women's Awareness Group Meets March 14 FUS women will meet at 6:30 p.m. for a potluck at Adele Hansen's home. Contact Adele or Barb Lutz to RSVP and for directions. Donate Books and Magazines New and used books and magazines are being collected at FUS for the Pinon Reservation and the FUS Library Used Books sale on March 20. Nominations Due The FUS By-Laws outline steps to nominate candidates for the Board of Trustees. Written nominations must be received by Bruce Nelson, Vice President of the FUS board of Trustees 35 days prior to the 2011 Annual Meeting scheduled for May 18, 2011. So get your nominations in to Bruce by April 12, 2011. Financial Information FUS financial reports are available from Will Hegeman in the FUS office. SAC Flash To sign up to receive the Social Action Flash, sent twice per month, email Carol by clicking here. |
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Greetings from Mount Curve! 
The Service Auction is THIS Saturday March 12 at 5:00 p.m. Come!Then remember to "spring ahead" for daylight savings time, and be on time to hear Kendyl's sermon's about the future of FUS. (See description on the left.) The following weekend we'll celebrate the Spring Equinox together. There's lots happening; be a part of it! Click here to view the FUS calendar, and scroll through the dates to see descriptions of upcoming Sunday programs.
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Spring Into Action!
Service Auction
This Saturday, March 12 at 5 pm
View the Service Auction catalog online here!
Print a copy of the catalog here!
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Forum about the Future of FUS
Sunday, March 13 at 9:30 a.m.
The Forum this Sunday, "A Discussion with the Strategic Planning Committee" will center around the three focus points we have been considering as we envision this congregation's future.
Do we exist primarily to:
1. build connections and community among our members,
2. or to change the world and make it a better place,
3. or to spread awareness of Humanism through our public teaching and example?
Read and hear Kendyl's sermon "What We Choose Is What We Are" exploring these options by clicking here.
Of course, we always want all of these things, but which of them are we most willing to endure the discomfort of change in order to make happen?
This will be explored in Kendyl's next sermon, "All -- or None -- of the Above," at the 10:30 Assembly following this Forum on March 13.
This morning, members of the Strategic Planning Committee will invite us to focus on the personal dimension, by asking how you can imagine making your own life better, or in what dimension(s) you might hope to become a better person, and how your participation in a community like FUS could help that to happen. If you feel that there are no ways in which you would want anything about you to improve, we hope to hear that, too. But keep in mind that it is important to speak for yourself, and not at this time about how you would like other people to change. |
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 You'll Want to Be Here
Yes! Come to the Service Auction Saturday night, then go home and set your clock ahead an hour to be on time for Sunday's important forum and sermon about the future direction of FUS. |
New RE Adventure 
New activities and ideas to explore are awaiting children in the RE program starting this Sunday, March 13. Click here for information. |
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 Constructing Your Personal Worldview
This fabulous adult religious education class, taught by Rev. Dr. Kendyl Gibbons, will be starting one week later than originally advertised, on Thursday March 17 at 7:00 p.m. Sign up at the Ask Me table this Sunday, March 13, or email Kendyl to reserve your place. Click here to learn more about this class.
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The First Unitarian 
Spring 2011
A quarterly publication of the First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis Click here to read (and print, if you prefer) the latest edition.
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Bike Repair Blitz
Have a wheel-good time helping repair bikes for use by selected homeless clients of DCEH congregations. They will be available for clients to use when keeping medical appointments, going to job interviews and other necessary appointments. During the week of Sunday, March 13 the annual "Bike Repair Blitz" will take place at Mr. Michael Recycles Bicycles at 520 N. Prior Ave., St. Paul. If you can true a wheel, change a tire, adjust brakes, derailleur and cables you are just the person they are looking for! Contact Benita 651-641-1037 or email her at warns@pclink.com to find out more and join the crew!
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 Eat 'n Meet
Starting Friday, March 18This popular program is back - with a few twists! Click here to learn more!
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Spring Equinox Celebration
Sunday, March 20, 2011 Spring Equinox BreakfastServing from 9:00-9:45 a.m. Lower Assembly Hall Tickets at the Door Adults: $7, youth 18 & under: $3 ($20 family maximum) Sing-along Songs of the Season9:45-10:25 a.m. Upper Assembly Hall Intergenerational Assembly10:30 a.m. "The Pageant of Spring" Upper Assembly Hall Click here for more information.
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Used Book Sale 
Sunday, March 20, 9 a.m.-noon
The FUS library will be hosting a used book sale. If you'd like to donate books for the sale, please bring them to the FUS library.
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Obscure Board Game Night 
Tired of the same old Monopoly, Scrabble, and Clue? On March 25, let's try Pandemic, Small World, Hex Hex, or Tsuro instead. FUS has rarely seen a game night like this. Have your own favorite obscure board or card game? Bring it! Enjoy dinner at Eat 'n Meet beforehand. This cross-generational game night is open to persons of all ages from sixth grade to post-retirement. 6:30-9:00 p.m. in the Frank Lloyd Wright Room.
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 Free Workshop to Update Your Will Sunday, April 3, Noon-2:00 p.m.
Long-time member Allan Callander is offering his time and talents to help members create or update their wills. Join Allan and others on Sunday, April 3, after the Service. There is a sign-up sheet in the office. Registration is limited to 20 people. The first 10 registrants will receive a free soup lunch that Sunday, compliments of the Foundation of the First Unitarian Society.
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 UUs at WorkThanks for showing us what "hands that are willing to serve" can do! Twenty-five FUS-ers packed food at Feed My Starving Children on Saturday, March 5.  |
Kendyl Giving Judy Lecture 
at PSD Conference, April 8-10
You'll want to hear Rev. Kendyl Gibbons lecture on "Spiritual Maturity as the Goal of Faith Development" Even for highly rational humanists - like the presenter herself! - it is possible to understand the community of religious institutions as part of a path toward a deeper, more grounded spiritual life that makes us each more whole. |
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