We unconditionally welcome all, including LGBTIQ*, family and friends; and (in alphabetical order) Atheists, Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Humanists, Jews, Pagans, and other faiths. We also welcome the religiously wounded - many who thought they would never go back to church have found a spiritual home with us!
Spaghetti Supper and Sing-along on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday Evenings! - come join us!
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Upcoming Events and Programs Continental Breakfast is served Sunday mornings at 10:30 am, service is at 11:00):
Sunday June 7th -- "Spiritual Practices" -- Many of us have shared that we would like to begin, widen and/or deepen "spiritual practices" in our own lives. What is a "Spiritual Practice"? In our busy lives, how can & do we find time & motivation for beginning & continuing "Spiritual Practices"? Today will be based upon the first session of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations' Tapestry of Faith curriculum "Spirit in Practice."
Wednesday June 10th 6:00 pm -- Spaghetti Dinner (6:00 pm) and Rise Up Sing-Along (6:30 pm) -- Bring your Rise Up Singing songbooks, guitars, drums, banjos, dulcimers, flutes, & other instruments, and your voices too! After sharing a pitch-in spaghetti dinner (spaghetti & vegetarian sauce provided), we then use an informal, "Round Robin" format for singing and drumming together.
Sunday June 14th -- Celebrating LGBTIQA* Pride Sunday -- "Becoming Even More Welcoming and Friendly" -- We'll celebrate Pride Sunday, and come together to add to our congregational Welcoming and Friendly CUUF skills. (*LGBTIQA - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer, Questioning, Allies)
Wednesday June 17th, 6:30 pm – Drumming Circle – bring your percussion instruments and drum with us. We have extra instruments if you want to try this out but don't have a drum.
Thursday June 18th, 6:30 pm – "Choir Practice" – this does not mean, or at least does not necessarily mean that we will be singing hymns. This is an opportunity for those interested in helping to make music at our Sunday morning services to come together and come up with ideas and practice! Bring your instruments and voices and enthusiasm and join us!
Sunday June 21st -- Canoe Trip, -- Meeting at CUUF house & carpooling together from there, we'll go canoeing. There will also be a Sunday CUUF meeting at CUUF House, for those not going canoeing -- topic TBA.
Wednesday 24 June 2009 -- Spaghetti Dinner (6:00 pm) and Rise Up Sing-Along (6:30 pm) – (see June 10th for details)
Saturday June 27th, Sing-along on the Deck. POSTPONED! until July 18th.
Also June 27th at UUI 6:30 pm – UUI Interweave Discussion Group, in the cottage.
Sunday June 28th -- "Personal Spiritual Practices" -- Our better selves, our higher wisdom, our inner knowing, the collective unconscious, the Spirit of Life, deity—whatever we call it, it is forever speaking to us, encouraging us to make healthy choices, to live up to our ideals, to take the way of the greatest good. All of the various practices that our human family has created are merely ways for us to discover this "voice" so that we might benefit from what it has to say.
Wednesday July 1st 6:30 pm – Drumming Circle – bring your percussion instruments and drum with us. We have extra instruments if you want to try this out but don't have a drum.
Thursday July 2nd 6:30 pm – "Choir Practice" – this does not mean, or at least does not necessarily mean that we will be singing hymns. This is an opportunity for those interested in helping to make music at our Sunday morning services to come together and come up with ideas and practice! Bring your instruments and voices and enthusiasm and join us!
Sunday July 5th -- Music on the Deck -- Instead of a speaker or curriculum today, we'll sing along to CUUF faves, and listen to music presented for us by any of us who volunteer to do so. Bring your instruments, voices and your supportive and appreciative ears for this always enjoyable Sunday. (Assuming Dan, Pete, Annie, Beth, Don &/or other musicians can make it?)
Wednesday July 8th -- Spaghetti Dinner (6:00 pm) and Rise Up Sing-Along (6:30 pm)
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 is off for the summer. However, we are having Drumming on the first and third Wednesdays. Bring your drum, or we have extras if you don't have a drum. Sing-Along is still happening on second and fourth Wednesdays, preceeded 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!
"Choir Practice" on 1st & 3rd Thursdays
"Choir Practice" has started on first and third Thursdays at 6:30 pm. We put choir practice in quotes because this is not your grandmother's choir! While we won't avoid hymns, we will sing songs from many genres. Come help us with planning and performing for Sunday morning music!
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 Party - Saturday May 16th
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.
Please plan to attend our next work party on May 16th, starting at 9:00 am (or whenever you can get there). We will be painting the outside of the building, putting up signs, hanging doors, other yard work and having lunch with friends!
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