The Women's Simply Salad & Soup Fellowship
Wednesday, March 25 - 6:00 PM
Join the Women's Fellowship and enjoy the night out! The group meets at a local restaurant on the 4th Wednesdays of each month, and on the 2nd Wednesdays, they meet the the Fellowship.
For this week's restaurant, contact:
Ann Benedetti
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 23 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.
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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Help High Plains Food Bank
As You Get Healthier
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 Our Fellowship has long been a supporter of our local food bank. HPFB works to alleviate hunger in the Texas Panhandle. Two new apps available for iPhone and Android will benefit both you and HPFB. First, the Charity Miles app. Download it to your smartphone from the app store. Then select Feeding America from the choice of charities, and every mile you run, walk, or bike will earn two meals for the food bank. Second is the foodTweeks app. Tell the app what you're making, and it offers you three "tweeks" to make your meal healthier. The calories saved are donated to HPFB as meals. Every 600 calories saved earns a meal - and if you enter the promo code HPFB, foodtweeks will double its donation. This is a great app for those looking to make get healthy. Click here for more information.
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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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World Café
Sundays, March 22
Potluck/Cocktails at 6 PM; Discussions at 7 PM
World Café is a powerful social technology for engaging people in conversations that matter, offering an effective antidote to the fast-paced fragmentation and lack of connection in today's world.
Held at Chalice Abbey, the group is exploring Gretta Vosper's work AMEN: What Prayer Can Mean In a World Beyond Belief. Vosper is a self-identified minister, author, and atheist, who says, "Let's start a conversation about just and compassionate living. I believe people can support each other with love and wisdom in a church with or without the god called God."
You need not have attended the previous sessions in order to meaningfully participate. Each World Café session stands well on its own and makes an apt gateway into the conversation.
Chalice Abbey Address:
2717 Stanley St, Amarillo, TX
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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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 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.
March 29, 2015
 David Green is speaking on The Blame, discussing the tragic legacy of antisemitism and its roots in the
Gospel of John's
passion narratives.
April 5, 2015  Talented musicians and vocalists Mike Fuller, Eric Berg, Brent Biles, John Cates, Keralee Clay, Danny Dobervich, and Rick Todd will offer The Gospel According to James Taylor. A collection of the most beloved music of James Taylor illustrates how the message in JT's music beautifully echoes our 7 UU Principles and the loving ethos of our congregation.
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Have you turned in your pledge for 2015-2016 yet? While most members and friends returned their "Estimate of Giving" cards during February, there are some that have not yet done so - and we are still short of our $140,000 goal for the upcoming year. As you make your annual estimate of giving, consider all that the Fellowship means to you and what it can mean to others. If you have not yet returned your Estimate of Giving card, please do so right now. Mail it today - bring it with you on Sunday - or pick up one from the greeters' desk before the service to complete and drop in the offering bowl. Let's finish up the stewardship drive this week!
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Camp WUULF is Calling You!
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 You do not want to miss this incomparable experience! Starting June 22, UU's and like-minded families will gather in the picturesque Ghost Ranch, near Abiquiu, New Mexico to create a community called WUULF. Join us for a week of programming in outdoor, spiritual and intellectual activities - and lots of just plain fun.
This year's theme is Enchantments, Secrets and Sacred Places. We will have three theme speakers - Author Lesley Poling-Kempes, speaking on "Writing with a Sense of Place;" author/historian Nancy Bartlit, speaking on "How Wildlife, Sacred to the Dine, Shaped a Navajo Code, Shortening WWII;" and lecturer/instructor David Gutierrez, speaking on "The Sacred Places of Northern New Mexico." During these programs the kids will be hiking, climbing, and creating their own fun together under the supervision of our excellent, volunteer RE staff. During the week there will be a wide variety of planned activities- some new like Memoir Writing and TED talks; others by request; such as 'all-ages-welcome' square dancing, game night, rafting, and "To Tell the Truth."
Western Unitarian Universalist Life Festival 2015 is now open for registration. Camp fills up quickly - so don't delay. Please go towuulf.org to see the full 2015 catalog of activities and register now.
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From World Water Day to Earth Day ( March 22 to April 22, 2015), Unitarian Universalists and other people of faith and conscience will begin a spiritual journey for climate justice organized by Commit2Respond.org, the new climate justice initiative led by groups across the Unitarian Universalist (UU) faith movement.
March 22: World Water Day; Climate Justice Sunday
Week 1: Reveling in our connection with the natural world and its gifts.
Week 2: Reckoning with the effects and injustices of climate change, exploring where our energy comes from.
Week 3: Reconnecting with hope through relationships, exploring who is affected by our energy sources.
Week 4: Committing to long-term actions to shift energy, advance human rights, and grow the climate justice movement
April 22: Earth Day: committing to a future of clean, renewable energy
Sign up to receive a daily action alert during Climate Justice Month
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Children's Religious Education (CRE)
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The younger children are learning about spring. These lessons began last week and will continue for the next few weeks.
The older group is following a series of lessons provided by UUA called Creating Home*. This week we will be focusing on the animals with whom we share our homes. These are the animals we can see around our houses-squirrels, spiders, prairie dogs, lady bugs. Before Sunday, encourage your children to notice those animals that share your habitat.
*The Creating Home program helps children develop a sense of home that is grounded in faith. Together with your group you will ask questions about the purpose of having a home and the functions a home serves, for us as humans and for other animals. The program speaks of home as a place of belonging and explores the roles each of us play in the homes where we live. The program introduces the concept of a "faith home" - your congregation - which shares some characteristics with a family home. Like a family home, a faith home offers its members certain joys, protections, and responsibilities.
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A theological house can be a place of hospitality
to any who seek its shelter;
it can honor religious diversity and
welcome creative exchange
among multiple religious practices and perspectives.
It can greet the Other as a holy guest and
urge its own residents to venture out
to engage with the world.
Rebecca Ann Parker, A House for Hope
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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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