Weekly
Newsletter
High
Country Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (HCUUF)
Weekly
Newsletter: October 8-14, 2018
CONTENTS
• Sunday
Services
• No
Service: Sabbatical Month
• Volunteer to
Help with the Community Dinner, October 16, 2018
• HCUFF
Volunteer for Oktoberfest
• Postponed:
Maria Cheng’s Moving Sale to Benefit HCUUF
• Touchstones
Corner: Formation
• Focus
on Formation
• Updated
plans for October from Myra Warren Isenhart
• Schedule
for Conflict Resolution Month
• Come
Join the Conversation- Civil Disclosure
• Taking
Care Seminar
• HCUUF
Member and Friend Directory
• A
Raid on the Inarticulate
• Fellowship
Event during October 2018
• HCUUF
Facebook Page
• Other
News Sent under Separate Cover
• HCUUF
Website
• Contact
Information for Newsletter Announcements
• Contact
Information for HCUUF
• Consulting
Minister, Board Members, Committees, Musician, Staff
• Sunday
Services
Our
weekly Sunday Services take place in the Fellowship Hall of the
Lord of the Mountains Church in Dillon, CO at 4:00 pm and are
followed by a Social Hour or Potluck at 5:00 pm. Potlucks
usually occur on the last Sunday of the month.
During
2018 we have had a short sabbatical during the months of
May and October during which no services are held but
other activities takes place from time to time.
• No
Service: Sabbatical Month
See
our daily posts on Facebook @ highcountryisnpiration
• Volunteer to
Help with the Community Dinner
Tuesday,
October 16, 2018, 4:30 to 7:30 pm
HCUUF volunteers
will be serving the Community Dinner on Tuesday, October 16,
2018 from 4:30 to 7:30 pm. We need approximately 12-14 people to
help. To volunteer, email Don Parsons at parsondo@hotmail.com.
The work also includes some set-up and clean-up.
This
weekly dinner, which began on March 3, 2009, has served over
100,000 people since then.
The
Community Dinner is held at the Elks Lodge, 1321 Blue River
Parkway, Silverthorne, CO 80498. Typically, 300 to 350 people
attend each week to eat.
We
still need committed volunteers by next week. PLEASE
VOLUNTEER!!!!!!!!!
• HCUUF
Volunteers for Oktoberfest
In
addition to the Community Dinner volunteer event on Oct. 16, we
are hosting a HCUUF Oktoberfest on Oct 21, 4 pm, at Uptown on
Main (formerly The Boatyard) on the South side of Frisco Main
Street between 3rd and 4th. We will provide appetizers and a
private room. Individuals are responsible for their own
drinks/other food.
Since
this is our sabbatical month, we would love for all to gather at
this event.
• Postponed:
Maria Cheng’s Moving Sale to Benefit HCUUF
Maria's
Moving Sale & Benefit for HCUUF has been postponed to
November 4th.
This
is the first Sun day when services resume after the fall hiatus.
It will still be 11-3pm at 10A Black Diamond Trail.
TAKE
WHAT YOU WANT AND CONTRIBUTE WHAT YOU WANT WHEN YOU WALK OUT THE
DOOR! ALL PROCEEDS GO TO HCUUF.
• Touchstones
Corner: Formation
Look
Well to the Growing Edge by Parker Palmer and
Carrie Newcomer
What’s
the growing edge of your life? Some find it inwardly, as they
reach for a deeper sense of meaning and purpose. Some find it
with other people, at an edge where a relationship needs to
begin, change, or end. Some find it in their work, as they look
for ways to bring their gifts into deeper alignment with their
souls’ imperatives and the world’s needs. Others find their
growing edge in joining the struggle for justice in a broken
world.
…We
seem to go through three stages before we can begin to see and
have confidence in the flowering.
The
first [stage] is a barely-perceptible nudge toward
“who-knows-what.” This often takes the form of feeling that
we’re somehow out of alignment with our souls, our
relationships, our work, the world’s needs.
…The
second stage might be called “arrival.” But in the place where
we’ve arrived, it can be hard to tell whether this is an ending
or a beginning. It may feel like an empty space where what came
before is long-lost, and what’s to come has yet to show up.
…The
third stage might be called “surrendering to new life.”
…The
deeper we’ve been able to go into our hardest experiences, the
better we’ve been able to understand their root causes…. They
want us to take our lives seriously enough to ask, “What’s
driving this, what steps do I need to take to stop succumbing to
it, and do I love my life enough to try to save it?”
• Focus
on Formation
Formation
is our theme for October. Formation involves the influence of
others as well as our own self-invention. Mary Catherine Bateson
calls it “composing a life.” It is as if we center ourselves on
a potter’s wheel with the intention of keeping our “impassioned
clay” pliable through all the changes of our life. Bateson
reminds us that the undiscovered self is an unexpected and
powerful resource. And there is always more to discover. Who are
you? Who are you becoming?
