Holidays focus a lens on our lives which make the good so much better and the bad so much worse.
I remember being 8 months pregnant with Liam and ordering Chinese food for a Christmas meal with Bill, Mom and my brother Mike. It was … read more.
It always amuses me how clean and shiny the stable appears in the nativity pictures and how magically recovered Mary seems to be. Birth is messy and exhausting. Stables are filthy, dusty, and stinky much of the time. Babies are beautiful … read more.
At its November 22 meeting, the Board reviewed local COVID-19 indicators and the status of the building. The current building use policy is still in effect.
There is good news!
Local indicators continue to show steadily declining COVID-19 risk in Okaloosa County.
The work of … read more.
“Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.” – John Lennon
I am a planner. I always have a plan, a back-up plan and often a back-up to the back-up. My purse always contains the usual wallet and keys plus … read more.
UUFEC member, Miriam Lavandier, appears in a film, “Someone Waits for Me,” premiering this Friday, November 12, at the Pensacola Little Theater at 7:00 p.m. In addition to Miriam the film features several LGBT people in this area, a gay couple and one … read more.
Mary Oliver writes about the Alligator as a fixture in the Florida landscape:
“In beautiful Florida, he is king of his own part of the black river, ” and she celebrates the strength, speed, beauty, ferocity of this animal.
I recently saw a video … read more.
Dear UUFEC Members and Friends,
It is with great sadness that I announce the resignation of our beloved Director of Religious Education, Sophia Lopez, effective the end of December. Sophia joined us in the fall of 2019 and kept our children’s RE program going strong … read more.
A giant inflatable Santa went up Tuesday next door to my lodgings in Ft. Walton Beach. I laughed out loud as I walked past, but it was a slightly nervous laugh.
I haven’t been able to freely enjoy Christmas since I was in college. … read more.
A big thank you to all who attended the Oct 31 Congregational meeting. We elected our 2022 Board and updated members on church developments.
Election of 2022 Board members
President: Jane Park
Vice President: Karen Lauer
Secretary: Linda Carson
Member at Large: Judy Byrne Riley
The 2022 Board will … read more.
On Sunday, we will meet for our fall Annual Meeting during which we will elect officers to serve our congregation in 2022. I can’t emphasize strongly enough how important it is that everyone join the zoom to participate in this meeting.
The democratic process … read more.
