Delivered during our 3/28/21 Sunday Service, this is the fourth in our "Yes We Can!" series of member testimonials as part of the 2021 – 2022 UUFP Canvass "Making the Foundation for What Follows." Good morning! My name is Ann Kunze, and I have been attending the UUFP for
Continue readingDelivered during our 3/21/21 Sunday Service, this is the third in our "Yes We Can!" series of member testimonials as part of the 2021 – 2022 UUFP Canvass "Making the Foundation for What Follows." Good morning. My name is Wayne Dawkins. I have been a member of this
Continue readingDelivered during our 3/14/21 Sunday Service, this is the second in our "Yes We Can!" series of member testimonials as part of the 2021 – 2022 UUFP Canvass "Making the Foundation for What Follows." Good morning. I am Steve Kadar, and I have been asked to talk to
Continue readingDelivered during our 3/7/21 Sunday Service, this is the first in our "Yes We Can!" series of member testimonials as part of the 2021 – 2022 UUFP Canvass "Making the Foundation for What Follows." The theme for this year’s Pledge drive is for each of us to consider ourselves as
Continue readingOur thanks to Joanne Dingus for these testimonials of the impact of Moral Mondays participation! July For the past few weeks, I’ve made a point of going to the Moral Mondays Witness events at the Fellowship. They have become a spiritual practice for me. I show up early to water
Continue readingThe event that was most meaningful to me at this 2020 UUA Virtual General Assembly (GA) was the remarks by the outgoing moderators, Elandria Williams and Rev. Barb Greve, in the last business session. I have known Elandria for over 20 years and enjoyed her active participation. In District meetings,
Continue readingBefore this year, I had never heard of Dr. Brené Brown, who has apparently enjoyed TED talk and author fame for a decade or two. Before this year, I had never heard of Dr. Ibram Kendi, now famous author of a number of books about anti-racism. In the last
Continue readingGeneral Assembly 2020 was a most unusual experience, just as are many of our individual and joint experiences this year. It felt odd for the largest assembly of Unitarian Universalists this year not to be gathered in person. Although we knew everyone was participating from their individual homes, offices or
Continue readingWhen our minister asks us to do these testimonials, he sends out a set of guidelines that says, basically, stick to how UUFP has transformed you. As many of you know, I tend to gravitate to what’s abstract and underlying rather than what’s concrete and easy to see. So of
Continue readingAs I give my second member testimony about my time here today, I think back on my first testimonial in 2013 talking about how personal connections made the path clear for me to become engaged in this fellowship. Today I want to talk about what happens when we become dis-connected.
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