We are here for on another. Many UUFECers are extra busy taking care of family, checking in on one another, and tending to our neighbors. We are almost done setting up a UUFEC phone tree to make sure we are systematically checking in on everyone. In the mean-time, please contact Rev. Doak Mansfield (minister@uufec.com) or … Continue reading Taking care of our UUFEC community: “Phone tree” starting soon
Consider the pandemic a sabbath? Many of us have to sit still, or at least more still than we are used to. UU Minister Rev. Lynn Ungar has written a poem asking us to consider this a sacred act. The poem that has gone, well, viral…. It has been re-posted by movie stars and led … Continue reading Pandemic Poem
UUFEC Board of Trustees will be meeting Monday, March 30th at 6:32 pm. Interested members are invited to attend, however because of the need for safe practices, this meeting will be limited to a total of 10 people and will adhere to the 6 foot interpersonal distance requirement.
I hope you are all healthy, enduring and staying connected in this truly unprecedented time of disruption, fear and isolation. I wanted to give you updates on what is happening with our UUFEC community at this time. Sunday Services: Our Sunday services anchor our consistency and tradition. They are a scheduled window of time in … Continue reading UUFEC Covid Update 3/20/2020
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, after significant discussion and soul searching, the UUFEC Board of Trustees has voted to cancel UUFEC Sunday Morning Services for a minimum of the next 4 services. This decision was made in consideration of several factors: the national UUA recommendations; the fact that a confirmed case of Covid 19 … Continue reading UUFEC Services Suspended Through Sunday April 5th, 2020
Our theme this year is “Mission Possible!” We invite members to reflect on UUFEC’s accomplishments and your dreams to further our mission. Please give generously to help UUFEC grow. Each Sunday, a finance committee member will be available during snack time with pledge forms and answer your questions. Please also take a moment to check … Continue reading Mission: Possible – UUFEC’s Pledge Drive 2020-2021
The Reverend Doak M. Mansfield I’ve been thinking deep thoughts through Winter’s passing. I’ve been trying to understand life as an interrelated, interdependent organism and express myself on that idea. Current accepted science has offered the concept of the Big Bang Theory, evolution, and gradual structured change influenced by being as the way of … Continue reading Spring 2019 – Notes from the Journey
Our location impacts our relationship to the Winter season. We have our dramatic weather events but snow, cold, and long darkness are not significant elements of our life here on the Emerald Coast of Florida. I’m persuaded that the religious/meaning myths, customs, rituals from ancient times where powerfully informed by those ancestors whose region was … Continue reading December 2018: Winter Notes from the Journey
Autumn in Florida, even our panhandle, is not a time for turning leaves. Brilliant images of golds, reds, yellows foliage is more Shenandoah Valley, the Berkshires than Boggy Bayou. I’m assured my Halloween we’ll have some ‘fallish’ temps and weather. We’ll see. Our nation is in the midst a brutal political struggle with important elections … Continue reading October 2018: Autumn in Florida
“Once upon a time” is the classic, timeless beginning of fairy tales. I think it has wide utilitarian viability for most recounting of memories and even recasting of “facts” of what passes as history. When I was about 9 years of age I acquired an old set of World Book Encyclopedia from my Mother’s Mother, … Continue reading 9/1/2018: Once Upon a Time
