Giving Campaign for Our Neighbors’ Place Day Center Holiday Giving Campaign in support of Our Neighbors’ Place Day Center Items needed: towels and washcloths (new or gently used) laundry detergent body wash non perishable microwave food items like soup, pasta and ramen cups jerky sticks fruit cups, nutrition bars, other non-perishables that don’t need a can …
Book Club Book Club meets each month on the 2nd and 4th Sunday, after the service. Want to join the fun? Grab the book: Thomas R Smith’s Poetry on the Side of Nature, An Essay with Poems. Live Poets: The regular schedule will be the 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month after the service. New group opportunity: …
Social Action Committee The committee is working in three areas right now. Help out with these action steps: Support fair and peaceful elections. 1. Sign up to be an observer for the vote certification at the county clerk’s office. This generally happens one week after the election. Email UUSRFon65@gmail.com and put Social Action in the subject heading …
Nov. 3 “The Practice of Repair”, Randy Dean (Reminder: Reset your clocks. Daylight Savings Ends! ) As a church pastor for 50 years Randy has devoted himself to people he “affectionately calls, ‘spiritual refugees’; those who have left the normal confines of churches and other religious organizations.” Randy has worked extensively in the areas of mental …
Can UUSRF re-engage with our social activism selves? There are some easy ways for you to get involved: 1. Join the reforming Social Action Committee. Meetings can happen by email, Zoom or in person. 2. Help research UUSC and UUA social action initiatives to find ways UUSRF can connect with them. 3. Join a postcard …
For 34 years, beginning in 1977, Jens Gunelson, a UUSRF founding member, was the UW-River Falls campus photographer. The intimate nature photos taken by him that have been on display in the UUSRF auditorium and kitchen will comprise an exhibit in the Harriet Barry Gallery in the UWRF Chalmer Davee Library from Oct. 1 – 27, 2024.
Groups Meeting in September 2024 Book: Next meeting September 22, at noon (after the service). Want to join the fun? Grab the book: Thomas R Smith’s book Poetry on the Side of Nature, An Essay with Poems and read at least through Page 12. So far the group includes 7 people: Bob & Mary E, …
September Services: September: Practice of Invitation 1st Sunday, September 1st. Focus Spiritual September 8th, 2nd Sunday: This River Falls Journal ad invited people to help initiate UUSRF back in the spring of 1988. See the ad above to the right and below in a larger format. Questions concerning living love through the practice of invitation will be the focus of our September …
Jay’s memorial was held at the Unitarian Universalist Society of River Falls on July 20, 2024. Visitation was from 12 – 3:30 pm with the service at 4:00 followed by a meal, then an informal gathering at Rush River Brewing in River Falls. Many people we haven’t seen at UUSRF in a long time came …
Watch on-demand video of the 2024 UUA General Sessions and Sunday Morning Worship from Virtual General Assembly (GA) held June 20-23. For more information, see: https://www.uua.org/ga/off-site/2024
