Get Ready to Spring Forward!
Remember to set your clocks an hour ahead on Saturday night.
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Women's Simply Salad and Soup Fellowship
Wednesday, March 11 - 6 PM
at the Fellowship
Bring a dish to share and join the fascinating conversation and camaraderie of our women's group.
Contact: Ann Benedetti or
Minnie Venable
Men's Fellowship
Every Wednesday - 6:30 PM
at Furrbie's restaurant (downtown).
Get to know the men of our Fellowship! Join them weekly for Furrbie's good food and interesting conversation.
Contact: Eric Berg
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Nothing Much Buddhist Group
Monday, March 9 from 7:30 - 8:30 pm
 Regardless of your level of knowledge or practice of Buddhism, you are invited to join the Nothing Much Buddhist Covenant Group as they meet for meditation, readings, and fellowship.
The group is now studying Jack Kornfield's The Eightfold Path for the Householder. This week we will discuss chapter 7.
Contact: Rick Todd
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Fiction Book Group: Stone Mattress
Tuesday, March 24 from 7 - 8:30 pm
 Selection for March: Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood - Imaginative and mystical stories of love and betrayal. The Fiction Book Group meets on the 4th Tuesday of each month (excluding December) at the Fellowship to discuss a new novel or collection of essays chosen by retired English professor Dick Moseley, who also facilitates the conversation. All are welcome to attend, read the month's selection, and enjoy delving deeper into some of today's best new literature.
Contact: Dick Moseley
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Exciting New Discussion Group for Women
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Monday, April 6 From 6 PM - 7:30 PM
(Every 1st and 3rd Monday)
 AUUF will begin a Woman's Covenant Group with the purpose of studying and discussing feminine spiritual and social topics. We will launch this group by studying an 11 session UU adult RE curriculum, Cakes for the Queen of Heaven - a woman honoring curriculum by Rev. Shirley Ranck. It examines pre-Judeo Christian cultures that may have worshiped the female as divine. The concepts of equality and reverence for the female in a religious setting are eye-opening to many participants.
More than Goddess 101, this workshop series examines important elements of today's women's lives; personal, interpersonal and societal. It examines how our culture has been influenced by Judeo Christian values. The primary question raised is: How would your life have been different if, when growing up, the divine had been imaged as female? Participants are encouraged to share their own experiences and beliefs, creating trust and strong bonds of friendship.
Join us as we learn and grow together as UU goddesses!
Contact: Keralee Clay
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Our 11:00 service is usually packed - and what a wonderful problem for us to have. However, churches stop growing when 80% of the seats are filled - as ours usually are at the later service.
You can be part of the solution as we work to grow our congregation and faith community, extending the warmth of our Beloved Community to more Amarillo and area residents.
Will you help by attending the 9:30 service at least once a month? We look forward to seeing you there!
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SNACK PAK 4KIDS -
Cash Donation
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 We are now accepting cash donations for Snack-Pak 4Kids! Be sure to notate on your check or on the donation envelope that you want the money to go to Snack-Pack, drop it in the offering bowl, and we will take care of it from there. Thank you all so much for your support of this terrific program! Contact: Yvonne Moore
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Taizé Service
Friday, March 13 from 6 - 7 PM
Bishop de Falco Retreat Center (Map)
 Designed to help people learn to be still and receptive to the voice of God, Taizé is a short, meditative service with songs, scripture, prayers, and silence practiced in the evening with candlelight. A Taizé prayer service open to the entire Amarillo community is offered the 2nd Friday of the month at 6:00 PM, September through May. Please check the St. Andrew's Episcopal Church calendar each month for locations as the service moves around to different locations.
Bishop de Falco Retreat Center address: 2100 N. Sprint St.
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Welcome to the Amarillo
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship! |
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Experience our Beloved Community
We invite you to explore our Fellowship, a place of belonging where you are welcome regardless of who you are, what you believe, your background, or whom you love.
Worship.
Join us this Sunday at 4901 Cornell St. for
either the 9:30 or 11 AM service.
Childcare and school-age Children's Religious Education are provided during the 11 AM service only.
Learn; get to know us. In addition to the events described in this newsletter, you can find a complete listing by clicking 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 can learn more about our Fellowship and our faith, Unitarian Universalism.
Connect. Find and "Like" us on FaceBook!
Questions? All events are held at the Fellowship,
If you are unsure how to reach any of the individuals named as contacts, please email the AUUF office or call our Office Administrator, April Myers, at 806.355.9351 and leave a message. She will return your call during her 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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March 8, 2015
 David Green is speaking on Emotional Intelligence, discussing the theory of "EI" and arguments for and against the ability to identify, measure, and control personal and communal beliefs and behaviors.
March 15, 2015  David Green is speaking on Caring, Craft, and Cause, discussing how lessons from Aristotle's "Rhetoric" can be adopted by individuals and organization
March 22, 2015
 A very special guest - Mark Twain! - will speak on Man and His Religions. Don't miss this insightful and entertaining lecture by America's greatest author.
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We have two new videos from February 8 service. Don't forget to "Subscribe" to our YouTube channel. You will receive email notifications each time a new video is added. Be sure to do this - not all video links will be published in the newsletter!
Hear David Green's message about
"Belonging: The Primal Need"
Mike Fuller and Brent Biles performing
"Citizen of the World,"
by Ellis Paul and Vance Gilbert.
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Path to Membership Gathering
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Saturday, March 7 from 9 AM to 1 PM
The Path to Membership gathering provides important information on the beliefs, practices, history, and structure of the Amarillo Unitarian Universalist Fellowship and Unitarian Universalism. It is open to anyone wishing to learn more about the Fellowship, and is a crucial step in the Path to Membership process for anyone desiring to become a member. This one-day session is facilitated by Rev. David Green with the participation of longer-term AUUF members. Refreshments are provided, and childcare is available upon request.
Please RSVP to office@uuamarillo.org.
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Meet the Artist -
Pam Mayes, Painter
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Tuesday, March 10 from 7 to 8 PM
 Our own Pam Mayes, painter, will be the featured artists for March. Enjoy and discuss her creative process.
Amarillo artist Pam Mayes graduated with a MA in painting from West Texas State University in 1981 and has continued showing her work by invitations and competitions throughout the US.  She has taught art in several colleges as well as art centers. Her work has evolved from structures of the grid and the infinity knot influenced by location, education and experimentation.
On the 2nd Tuesday of every month, a different acclaimed visual, performing & literary artist will display, perform, and discuss his/her work. Refreshments served; free and open to the community. Invite your friends to join you for this exciting series.
Contacts: Ann Hicks and Pam Mayes
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Our 7th Principle in Action
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 The 7th Principle of Unitarian Universalism is "Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part." In keeping with that principle, we encourage all to work with us to respect our planet - reduce, reuse, and recycle!
REUSE:
GUEST CARDS and PLEDGE ENVELOPES. We reuse blank guest cards and contribution envelopes. Just place them in the brown basket at the rear of Chandler Hall when you leave the Sunday service.
RECYCLE:
CUPS. The cups we use at AUUF are biodegradable, with a corn-based lining instead of petroleum-based plastic and are made with fiber from sustainable harvested wood. They are compostable in an industrial composting facility. Please be sure to put your cups in the green recycle bins near the coffee pot so that they can be composted.
PLASTICS, GLASS, ALUMINUM. Look for the appropriately labeled receptacles in the coffee area and across from the kitchen.
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 We're proud to introduce the new UUA.org, website of the Unitarian Universalist Association! Serving newcomers and lifelong Unitarian Universalists alike, this site is home to thousands of pages of information, tools and resources about the Unitarian Universalist faith and our 1,000 local congregations.
Read the story behind the new website, and check it out for yourself at uua.org
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Children's Religious Education (CRE)
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We have been planning activities designed to appeal to each of 3 age groups, but have not had a sufficient number of youth in the ages 10 and up group to meet - please know that we welcome your young family members and friends to make this group happen!
Birth to age 5 (taught by Sarah Brown)
Ages 6 - 9 (taught by Vicki Schoen)
Ages 10 and up (temporarily suspended)
Contact: Vicki Schoen
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We are brave, curious, and compassionate
thinkers and doers.
We are diverse in faith, ethnicity,
history and spirituality,
but aligned in our desire
to make a difference for the good.
We have a track record
of standing on the side of love, justice, and peace.
We have radical roots
and a history as self-motivated spiritual people:
we think for ourselves and
recognize that life experience influences our beliefs more than anything.
We need not think alike to love alike.
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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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