Rev. Roger Bertschausen and Rev. Dottie Mathews

Program Year Schedule (September through May):

Services are held at 4:30 p.m. on Saturdays and at 8:00, 9:15 and 10:45 a.m. on Sundays. Nursery care is offered at all services for children from birth through age 3 and Religious Education classes for preschool through 5^th grade meet at all but the 8:00 am service. The Middle School Class meets on Saturdays at 4:30 and Sundays at 10:45, and the High School Youth Group meets on Saturdays at 4:30 pm. Please join us!

   
September 5, “The Pursuit of Happiness” by Cyndi Graham
The Pursuit of Happiness.  We all want it.  Many eternally "chase" it. Recognizing the joys within us and determining how to tap into that happiness can be a bit like trying to hold onto water, OR..it can be a natural state. 
 

September 12 , “Mingling of the Waters” with the Rev. Roger Bertschausen and the Rev. Dottie Mathews
Service on Sunday at 9:15am only

We’ll celebrate the start of the new Fellowship year with our annual “Mingling of the Waters” ceremony.  We have the joy this year of welcoming two lay members of our partner church in Transylvania to the service. Everyone is invited to bring water from your summer adventures near and far to share during the ceremony. Weather cooperating, the service will be held in the open space outside our Fellowship Hall. We’ll be sitting exactly where our new sanctuary will be! A pot-luck brunch will immediately follow the service.  You are invited to bring a chair for the service and a meal to pass for the brunch.  All are welcome to bring a memento from their summer adventures for the art project (see September newsletter for more art project information).

September 18-19, “I Walk Alone (Too Often)”  by the Rev. Roger Bertschausen

Program Year Service Times Begins this Weekend

The Green Day song “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” captures the sense that so many Americans have of walking alone in life. As the President of the UU Association asserts, we Americans are the most disconnected people who have ever lived on this earth. Here at the Fellowship we have found an antidote to this disconnection: spiritual community.  Nurturing this sense of community may be the most important thing we do—for each other and for everyone who might find a spiritual home here.

September 25-26, “Let Us Grow” by the Rev. Don Southworth
As we kickoff the capital campaign to help make Fox Valley a larger and more welcoming space, we will reflect on how and why giving generously to our religious community helps us grow as well. The Rev. Don Southworth is the acting Executive Director of the Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association and is one of the most powerful and compelling preachers in our movement.

October 2-3, “Where to Question Truly Is an Answer” by the Rev. Roger Bertschausen
This weekend kicks off our year-long worship and Wellspring Wednesday focus on the Big Spiritual Questions.  These questions—questions like “Are People Inherently Good or Out to Get Each Other?” and “What Happens After We Die?”—will also be the focus of our Coming of Age program.  Every year we have our Coming of Age program, many adults tell us they wish we had a similar program for adults.  Now we do—all you have to do is come to the first service of each month and our Wellspring Wednesday programs which will focus on the question explored at the first of the month sermon!