Men's Fellowship
Every Wednesday - 6:30 PM
at Furrbie's restaurant (downtown)
Join our men for good food & great conversation.
Contact: Eric Berg
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Modern Thought
Nonfiction Book Group
Every Saturday, 4 to 5 PM
The book now being discussed is Guns Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies by Jared Diamond.
About the book - PBS
Free full-length documentary from NGS
About the group
Contact: Gary Schack
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 Nothing Much
Buddhist Study Group
Monday, July 14
(date correction)
7:30 - 8:30 PM
(Group meets on the 2nd and 4th Monday of every month)
Regardless of your level of knowledge or practice of Buddhism, you are invited to join the Nothing Much Buddhist Study Group as they meet for meditation, readings, and fellowship. Gatherings are facilitated by Rick Todd, and all are welcome.
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 Fiction Book Group
July 22, 2014
7 - 8:30 PM
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver.
An unusual gathering of monarch butterflies triggers a hard look at environmental and personal challenges.
Facilitator and Contact: Dick Moseley
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Communion and
Living the Questions
Discussion Group
(July only )
Great Decisions Discussion Group (summer)
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 Painting Day
Saturday, July 12 from 9 AM - 12 PM
It's time for some touchups! Put on your painting clothes and help. All will be warmly welcomed.
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July: VIRTUAL Board Meeting
Watch for (and respond to) Keralee's email agenda
(No in-person meeting this Sunday)
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 What are your talents?
The Leadership Development Committee is creating a skills/gifts/talents bank from which to draw in order to match the right people with the right jobs - and to help our members and friends develop their leadership skills.
We want to have one of these 10-question profiles completed for every Member and Friend. Please take the time to respond to yours!
The profile form also will be available in print at AUUF. If you are unable to attend during the next week or two, please contact the office at 806.355.9351 and ask that a copy be mailed to you.
Contact: Nina Stein
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 Caring Committee:
Call for members
In need of volunteers to help on this committee with sending cards, visiting members in hospital or making an occasional meal for those who are ill or have had deaths in their families. Contacts: Wendy Hearn or Maisie Everett
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 Centering Prayer
Every Tuesday
from 6:15 - 7:15 PM
at Chalice Abbey, 2715 Stanley Dr. ( map) Centering Prayer is a simple form of sitting meditation which has its roots in the bedrock of Christian contemplative tradition from the fourteenth century.
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Welcome to the Amarillo
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"Where everyone is welcome!"
If you're seeking a place of belonging where you can be free from judgment because of your beliefs or whom you love, or you simply need the freedom to grow on your own spiritual and intellectual journey, the AUUF might very well be the place for you.
Join us this Sunday at the Amarillo Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 4901 Cornell St. Come for either the 9:30 or 11 AM service - the content and format are the same. Childcare and school-age Children's Religious Education are provided during the 11 AM service only.
With events happening every week, we hope that you will find one or more that are of interest to you. Come to learn, to enjoy each other, and to work together. For a complete listing of events at the Fellowship, click on the Calendar icon to the left. Want more detail? Check both the News and the Events sections of our website, uuamarillo.org.
Also on our website, uuamarillo.org, you will find much more information about:
- our faith, Unitarian Universalism,
- our Fellowship,
- our calendar, and
- an ever-changing blog of news articles and items for thought which we believe are of interest to the liberal religious community.
All events are held at the Fellowship, 4901 Cornell St., unless otherwise noted. If you are unsure how to reach any of the individuals named as contacts, please email the AUUF office or call 806.355.9351 and leave a message. Your call will be returned during office hours, which are M-W-F from 9 AM to noon.
With welcoming arms for all,
The AUUF Beloved Community
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Sunday Worship
9:30 and 11 AM
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 July 13, 2014
Special guest Wes Reeves, Senior Communications Communications Consultant of Xcel Energy, is speaking on Green Energy Comes of Age.
July 20, 2014
 David Green is speaking on The Poverty Gap, discussing the disparity of wealth in our culture, the harsh realities facing those living in poverty, and what we can do to effect positive change in attitudes and policies.
July 27, 2014
 David Green is speaking on A Culture of Hospitality, discussing the religious and philosophical origins of hospitality, its value as a holistic practice, and the positive impact of hospitality as an expectation and practice in any corporate culture.
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Members & Friends Directory Update
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Have you checked?
Is your directory information up-to-date?
 We are preparing to print an updated AUUF Members & Friends Directory.If there have been any changes to your information since the llast edition was printed in Fall 2013 - or if anything printed there was incorrect - please let us know NOW! Also, particularly if you are a new member, be sure that we have your children and their birth dates.
Anything = name, address, phone(s), email(s), children (be sure to include birthdate). If you include more than one phone number and/or email address, please indicate corresponding names and (for phone numbers) whether home, work, or mobile.
Even if you believe that you have already submitted changes a while ago, please do so again so to make sure that we have corrected/added it.
We need your updates immediately!
To ensure that needed changes are included, contact the AUUF office by emailor phone (806.355.9351).
[Please do NOT just leave a note in the office or elsewhere - notes too often become misplaced.]
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 Worship at AUUFWorship at the Amarillo Unitarian Universalist Fellowship is welcoming, relaxed, and meaningful. It provides a time of serenity and reflection, and on any given Sunday can evoke a combination of laughter, tears, and intellectual stimulation. Every Sunday at 9:30 and 11 AM (both services offer the same format and content), we gather for excellent music, sharing joys and concerns, and to enjoy a message brought to us by our minister, one of our members, or a special guest speaker. Message topics range widely from week to week, but often include discussions of current social events, reflections on sacred texts, or explorations of music, art, literature, and history. A key element of our service is the lighting of our Chalice, which represents our commitment to share one another's joys and concerns, and represents the guiding principles that provide meaning and purpose to our lives. Read more
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 From Vicki Schoen, Director of CRE (Children's Religious Education)
Our children continue to work on the lasagna garden. This project gets us in touch with the first and seventh Principles of Unitarian Universalism. The seeds are planted and when ready, seedlings will be transplanted into the garden itself. Come view the lasagna garden, a layered garden in a large planter made of recycled materials. It has been decorated with our kids' hand prints. Stop by and admire their "handwork!" Contact: Vicki Schoen
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Unitarian Universalism:
15 Statements of Belief
The historical organizing principle of Unitarianism was the unity of God, not the trinity. The historical organizing principle of Universalism was the goodness of God, not the judgment of God. Unitarian: God is one. Universalist: God is love. We have evolved into a religion that has no creed. Each person is free to believe what they find to be true. This means that, on a Sunday morning, you might be sitting next to people who give different names to what they believe (theist, atheist, agnostic, Christian, Jewish, undecided, humanist, Muslim). We become Unitarian Universalists because we believe that humans need the freedom to grow toward their own beliefs. We gather in community to encourage one another in our spiritual growth, to learn how to live together in loving diversity, and to work together for good purpose in the world.
- Kathleen Hepler
(Reprinted from the pamphlet, " To the Point: 15 Unitarian Universalist Elevator Speeches," Alicia LeBlanc, Ed.)
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Our Vision
where all are valued and supported.
Our Mission
To be an inclusive progressive community
for spiritual, intellectual and social transformation.
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