Our new vines are in honor of our efforts to become a "Green Sanctuary"
congregation
NOTICE that Fellowship has been canceled due to weather this Sunday Feb 6th
Circle Unitarian Universalist Fellowship is an intentionally lay-led community of equals sharing our individual life journeys and supporting one another in our spiritual growth. Our beliefs and actions draw inspiration from the Sources and Principles of the Unitarian Universalist Association of which we are a Member Congregation.
Circle Fellowship welcomes all persons whose beliefs are in harmony with our Principles, be they Atheists, Christians, Humanists, Jews, Pagans or other faiths. As an official Welcoming Congregation, we expressly extend this welcome to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered individuals.
Spaghetti Supper and Sing-along on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday Evenings! - come join us!
Hear the sermon 'The Great Teacher' by Dr. Susan Ritchie
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"Voices
of a Liberal Faith" (and
other UU Videos)
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Special
Announcements!
Upcoming Events and Programs Fellowship with Continental Breakfast served Sunday mornings at 10:30 am, service is at 11:00):
Sunday, January 3: Beyond Resolutions: Aspirations for 2010 (CUUF members) - It’s not about losing weight or getting a better job. Looking deeply within yourself, how can you better align your life’s activities with who you really are? We'll symbolically lose what's been holding us back and identify (if only to ourselves) our highest aspirations for the new year.
Sunday, January 10: Sunday, January 10: Finding
Balance - Paul Whitmore, communications manager at Veolia
Water Indianapolis. Finding balance: weighing the
sometimes competing needs of infrastructure and the
environment. It happens often and we’ve all seen it.
Headlines decrying a public works project as harmful or even
destructive to nature or community. But many times, work to
save critical infrastructure must occur to avoid even
further devastation down the road. How do you get from point
A to point B so that progress happens with minimal, if any
effect on the natural environment or surrounding community?
Communication. Not just talking, but listening. Paul talks
about a recent plan to preserve a 170 year-old piece of
Indianapolis history (that also supplies 60% of the city’s
drinking water) and the transformation from negative
headlines to compromise, resulting in a project most can be
happy with.
Also Sunday, January 10: 3:00 pm, Shaman
Studies – Shamanism Group led by BJ Shepard. BJ has
studied Peruvian and other forms of Shamanism.
Sunday, January 17: Learning To Be White – based on the book by the UU Theologian Thandeka, presented by Annie Johnson – Thandeka asked white colleagues and friends to play the race game – to simply say 'my white friend Dan plays a mean guitar' for a day or week. To the surprised of everyone who agreed to play the game, they either could not do it or found it very difficult. The first question was why it was so hard. But further questions she asked are ever more interesting. Come join us to learn about learning to be white!
Sunday, January 24: Tree Days on Mt. Rainier or How You CAN Win for Losing. with Rev Robin Myers – Rev. Myers recounts lessons learned from the months of training to climb Mt. Rainier with his son and the surprising challenges of the climb itself. Robin is an associate pastor at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Indianapolis. He is a longtime practitioner of yoga and an individual with rare compassion and insight.
Sunday January 31: January 31: “The Mankind Project” The ManKind Project® is a global not for profit that conducts challenging and highly rewarding trainings for men at every stage of life. They help men through any transition, men at all levels of success, men facing almost any challenge. MKP’s flagship training is the New Warrior Training Adventure.
Please come and visit us!
Circle Fellowship is located on 57th Street one block East of Michigan Road. 57th Street is one block North of Kessler Blvd. Click here for a map. Some people have had trouble finding us - this picture is for your convenience.
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Sunday Mornings
Fellowship conversation with continental breakfast starts at 10:30, followed by the service at 11:00. Service typically ends with discussion of the meeting topic, so that service ends about 12:15.
Wednesday Evenings
Chalice Group, Choir Practice and Drumming have ceased for the moment. Please let Annie, ReaRae, or Alex know about your preferences relative to these activities. Sing-Along is still happening on second and fourth Wednesdays, preceded by a spaghetti dinner! Bring your voices, instruments, enthusiasm and excitement and join us for a great time! This is a loose, friendly non-professional, have a good time gathering!
More about Circle Fellowship
Circle Fellowship is a diverse family on a free-ranging spiritual journey. We are lay led (have no professional clergy), and draw on ourselves and the community for programs. Sunday program topics are wide ranging.
Chalice Architecture from the inside
Visitors to Circle Fellowship might enjoy Buddhist meditation one week, classical guitar the next and the history of the early Christian church the next. One of our most popular program series has members share about their journeys to their own beliefs. Our Fellowship is small enough to give everyone a voice and, if they wish it, an active role in planning and helping with various projects and activities.
For more about circle Fellowship go to About Circle Fellowship/about CUUF above or click here.
*LGBTIQ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer or Questioning.
Work Parties
One of the non-monetary ways you can give to Fellowship is by attending work parties. The phrase "the more the merrier! definitely applies to work parties. If only 2 or 3 people show up it can seem like more work than party, but if 6 or 8 or more attend, it becomes more party than work! And even better, we get lots done! - many hands make light work.
Thoughts
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Nelson Mandela
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings
because it has a song.
Maya Angelou
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right
thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
Norman Schwarzkopf
There are two types of people - those who come into a room
and say, Well, here I am! and those who come in and say, Ah,
there you are.
Frederick L. Collins
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder
without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the
companionship of at least one adult who can share it,
rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of
the world we live in.
Rachel Carson