Every Wednesday - 6:30 PM
at Furrbie's restaurant (downtown)
Join our men for Furrbie's good food & interesting conversation.
Contact: Eric Berg
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Modern Thought Nonfiction Book Group
 Every Saturday, 4 to 5 PM
at the Fellowship
The book now being discussed is
Guns Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies by Jared Diamond. Discussions are led by Dave Stebbins.
The meeting format is to watch about 20 minutes of the free full-length NGS documentary and then discuss specific chapters. You are invited to join us at any time - you can catch up by watching the first 60 minutes of the documentary. About the book - PBS
About the group
Contact: Gary Schack
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Work with us!
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Building Group
Saturday, Sept. 6 at 10 AM
Contact: Brent Biles, Tad Clay, or Ken Graham
Membership Committee
Saturday, Sept. 6 from 10:30 - 11:30 AM
More information
Contact: Marilyn Van Petten
Social Action Committee Saturday, Sept. 6 at 2 PM
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Discussion group on hiatus
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Living the Questions
Resumes in October
Contact: Lyle Raker
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Thursdays through September 11
7 - 8:30 PM
Nonviolence
...in our lives
...in our communities
...between nations
...toward Mother Earth
Join us and help build toward the global celebration of nonviolence on September 21st, the International Day of Peace
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We will deepen our understanding of nonviolence with study of Father John Dear's book, The Nonviolent Life, every
Thursday until September 11th. Meetings will be at the Amarillo Unitarian Universalist
Fellowship, 4901 Cornell.
As we "study war no more", we will also be brainstorming and planning for our peace action on September 21st. Bring your energy and ideas and join us each Thursday - and help build a vibrant peace community in Amarillo. The Peace Farm
Question War Amarillo
AUUF Social Action
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Dorothea Lange Documentary
Friday, August 29 at 8 PM
A new episode of AMERICAN MASTERS is coming to Panhandle PBS. It's called Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning and chronicles the life and times of the great American photographer.
More than four decades of 20th-century America are filtered through Lange's life and lens. Known for her powerful images from the Great Depression, her haunting Migrant Mother remains emblematic of that period. In 1936, when photographs of the poverty-stricken mother of seven, stranded in a camp in California, were published, a national awareness began.
As America matured into a world power, Lange continued to bear witness - mass migration, increasing urbanization and the cost of war at home - bringing subjects alive, transmitting raw emotions and capturing the human condition.
Preview
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Welcome to the Amarillo
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship! |
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 "Where everyone is welcome!"Are you seeking a place of belonging where you can be free from judgment because of your beliefs or whom you love? Do you need the freedom to grow on your own spiritual and intellectual journey? Try the Amarillo Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - it might very well be the place for you.
Join us this Sunday at 4901 Cornell St. 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.
Our committees are getting to work! Several will meet next Saturday, Sept. 6. Check the list of that day's meetings and follow the link for additional information about the specific plans for that day's meeting. Learn more about our committees and chairs. A variety of events happen every week, and 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, you will find much more information about our faith, Unitarian Universalism, as well as our Fellowship.
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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August 31, 2014
 David Green is speaking on The Second Chances Club, discussing how our emotional lives and relationships can often be experienced in a natural process of stability, decline, and rebirth.
September 7, 2014
 David Green and others will lead Water Communion,
a traditional Unitarian Universalist observance at the end of summer. During this service members pour water from individual vials - representing our uniqueness - into a common vessel, blending together to symbolize our unity.
September 14, 2014
 David Green is speaking on Culture of Conflict, discussing the paradigm of conflict and extremism among American religious, social, and political groups
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The Meaning of Water Communion
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The core symbolism of the Water Communion is that we all come from water: as a species on a planet where life began in the ocean, as mammals who float in amniotic fluid as we are readied for birth, as beings whose cells are mostly water.
And yet we are separate from each other, and we have been apart-since there tends to be a slowing-down, a different rhythm in the summer months, even in churches that have services and religious education right on through the summer-and now we are reuniting. We are separate and together, the way water scatters into rain and streams and clouds and springs and ponds and puddles and yet flows together again and again, one great planetary ocean.
Not only is no drop of water superior to any other; all water comes from the same place. -- Amy Zucker Morgenstern
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Unitarian Universalism:
15 Statements of Belief
In our faith, God is not a given, God is a question. God is not defined for us, God is defined by us. Our views are shaped
and changed by our experiences.
As we grow, our faith grows.
We struggle with what it means to be alive
and yet have to die.
We probe the depths of our own being
for little hints of meaning.
We create a faith by which we can live
and struggle to live up to it.
Throughout, each of us is fated to travel
his or her own path.
In the larger sense,
we have chosen to journey together
because we find that it is helpful.
We find that it is good.
- Forrest Church
(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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