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December 13, 2018
OUUF Weekly UpdateAn Inclusive Community
1033 N. Barr RoadP O Box 576
Carlsborg, WA 98324
Upcoming December ServicesCalendarDec 13 - 23
NovOc 21OctoberOctANNOUNCEMENTS
OUUF BOARD OF TRUSTEES
President:Dianne Whitaker
[email protected] President:Elaine Webber
Secretary:Dave LargeTreasurer:
Sylvia [email protected]
Trustees-at-Large:Susan Kowitz
Rose PrestipinoGreg SensibaNick Dante
OUUF STAFF
Elinor Tennyson
Administrative Coordinator
Pattie Miles
Social Media [email protected]
Newsletter Creation & Distribution
Children's Religious Education Staff
[email protected] Green
Sandy Goodwick
Julia Buggy
Thursday, December 13Reflections,
Women’s Group 1:00 P.M. (scent free)
Contact: Serena Mylchreest at [email protected]
Saturday, December 15Holiday Craft Event, 12noon
Contact: Jolie Will: Holiday Craft Event
Sunday, December 16Potluck, 11:45am, please include written ingredient
information with your dish.Board of Trustees Meeting,
12:30pm
Monday, December 17Dance Exercise for Parkinson’s
Disease, 10:30amContact: Marsha Melnick,
(360) 683 - 5712
Tuesday, December 18Reading for the Fun of It,
10:30A.M.Short Story Group at Member’s
Home, Elaine Webber, Reading for the Fun of It
This group meets on the first and third Tuesdays.
Choir Practice, 3:00 - 4:30pmContact: Joel Yelland at [email protected]
Community Drum Circle6:30pm
Contact: Penny Burdick at Community Drum Circle
or (360) 683-3819
Wednesday, December 19Men’s Breakfast Group,
8:00amBob Nuffer at
mailto:[email protected]
Dance Exercise for Parkinson’s Disease, 10:30am
Contact: Marsha Melnick, (360) 683 - 5712
All Things Considered, Women's Evening Group, 7:
00pm, Member's HomeContact: Jean Stratton
(360) 452-6719,
Men's Evening Group, 7:00pm, Member's Home
Contact: George Stratton (360) 452-6719
Sunday, December 23Social Justice Committee,
12noon
Social Media Editor, Pattie Miles will be on vacation December 25 - 29. There will be no Weekly Update on Thursday, December 26 because of the Christmas Holiday. There will be announcements in the Sunday Bulletin. Send your Sunday Bulletin announcements to Pattie at [email protected] and she will forward them to the Sunday Services Committee.
CHRISTMAS POTLUCK. Once again, your Christmas can be brightened by coming to our Christmas potluck on Dec. 25 (when else?). I think we will eat about 1:00 so we have time to do our White Elephant gift exchange. Let me explain the term. Long ago in India, white elephants were considered sacred. They could not be used for any labor and were to be given only the best food. Maharajas would give white elephant as gifts because they were useless and ate
too much. Thus, a white elephant is something useless that you already have, and you want someone else to provide room for. Look around your house and find that White Elephant just sitting, waiting for a new home. Sign-up sheets will be at OUUF on Sunday. See you on Christmas! Contact: Dana Casey, [email protected].
As part of our winter celebration this year, UUSC is collecting cards, drawings, and welcome messages to send to our partners on the U.S.-Mexico border who are working tirelessly to support asylum-seekers as they arrive in the United States. These cards will be shared with migrant children and families who have recently arrived to remind them that they have a home and are welcome here.The children and young at heart are invited to make welcome messages - please remember to bring your completed message/card back to the fellowship and place in the basket by name tags next Sunday, December 9. Contact: Sandy Goodwick, [email protected]: https://www.uusc.org/initiatives/share-a-message-of-welcome-and-joy/
Grace Yelland and Jolie Will are hosting a holiday craft event on December 15th, at OUUF, from 12noon-4pm. It is open to all ages and we will be making reusable gift bags and a simple decoration. Supplies will be provided. RSVP PLEASE!! to Jolie Will: [email protected] OR sign up at OUUF Sunday Service so that we will have enough supplies.
What does ‘December’ look like, feel like… to UU children? Hanukkah and Advent. Winter Solstice and Kwanzaa. During ‘Story for All Ages”, we will touch briefly on all these events… and then (hopefully) tie them together with the deeper threads found in our sixth principle. So, come and make/take home a OUUF AdventUURE kit! Questions? Want to help our OUUF kids? Please contact Sandy Goodwick ([email protected]). Go to this link for complete details: RE December Activities
At popular request, we will be holding the Peninsula Community Drum Circle 1 week early this month, on December 18, 2018, from 6:30-8:30 PM. As usual, we will gather at the OUUF hall. Everyone is invited, regardless of age or experience (new to drumming or seasoned drummers). Come on over and drum with us in the joyous spirit of the season! We'll provide the drums & rattles! Contact: Penny Burdick, mailto:[email protected]
Tuesday Brunches. A lucky 13 of us had a rollicking good time at 2nd Tuesday Brunch on the 11th. Good conversation was the order of the day and Milt Patrie sang Good King Wenceslas for us. We will not be meeting on the 4th Tuesday of this month, because that turns out to be Christmas Day. (Let's all go to the OUUF Christmas potluck instead!) So, our next brunch at the Mariner will be at 11:00 am on Tuesday, January 8th. The picture is for nostalgia's sake. It was taken at a Tuesday Brunch in February 2015.
OUUF BOARD OF TRUSTEES
President:Dianne Whitaker
[email protected] President:Elaine Webber
Secretary:Dave LargeTreasurer:
Sylvia [email protected]
Trustees-at-Large:Susan Kowitz
Rose PrestipinoGreg SensibaNick Dante
OUUF STAFF
Elinor Tennyson
Administrative Coordinator
Pattie Miles
Social Media [email protected]
Newsletter Creation & Distribution
Children's Religious Education Staff
[email protected] Green
Sandy Goodwick
Julia Buggy
ONGOING GROUPS
Social Justice
ONGOING GROUPS
Social Justice
THANK YOU
Thank you to all the OUUF Elves and Angels
You all are INCREDIBLE! Over 55 people (I know it’s more since I don’t know how many folks gave cash in the donation box) either purchased items or provided cash for items to be purchased for gifts for children in foster care. This year we helped 33 children from ages 7 months to age 18 have a wonderful holiday. We served the most teenagers (18%) we ever have. This completes the eighth year OUUF has participated. A church member who purchased a tree adorned with stuffed animals gave many of them to us to put in the gift bags.
We were also able to get 150 books from the Clallam County Literacy Council to add books for all the children served in the entire gifts for children in foster care program county-wide.
Your generosity is awesome. There was such care and thoughtfulness in the gifts that you gave. It took many car loads to take all the items (including two bicycles and one tricycle). I am so proud of this congregation! Wishing you all peace this holiday season. Thank you so very much, Florence
