The UPDATE for Wed. Oct 12 – Wed. Oct 19, 2022

This Sunday, Oct 16, 2022

TO OUR VIRTUAL FRIENDS: Join us for our entire morning via Zoom. One Zoom meeting ID 989 0789 7878 will bring you to the Adult Forum and the Morning Assembly and tarry for Conversations & Calories, our answer to the traditional ‘coffee hour” 🤗

Adult Forum

10:00

In Person in the Alexander Room and streaming live

on Zoom Meeting ID: 989 0789 7878

Comparative Religions

A Video series from The Great Courses now through Jan

Details here

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The Morning Assembly

Gathering In Person in the Chapel

Virtual Friends join us on ZOOM using

ZOOM meeting ID 989 0789 7878

“Time In the Wilderness”

The Rev. Dr. Mark Y.A. Davies, leading

Our experiences and understandings of wilderness are quite varied. For some, wilderness is a place of life-threatening danger. For others, it is a place of trial and temptation. Some look at wilderness as wasted land that needs to come under the control, use, and ownership of human beings. Some see wilderness as a place of great beauty and spiritual inspiration. And some see wilderness as having value for its own sake as a place of biodiversity and flourishing ecosystems. This discourse will explore both historical and contemporary visions of wilderness with special attention given to the importance of preserving wilderness for sake of all life on earth. Read Mark’s bio here. 

The Fall Congregational Meeting is Next Sunday. Oct 16th

Open to All:

Potluck Lunch – 12:15 pm

Congregational Meeting – 1 pm

Read the Packet of Documents here

Members unable to attend …

PLEASE vote online here

(online voting counts toward the quorum)

polls close on Sat., Oct. 15, 2022

Minister Compensation Pledge Appeal

We are looking for additional funding to cover the annual Minister Compensation Package. Please let us know below if you are willing to support this by pledging/donating additional funds. You can fill out a pledge form online HERE.

Labor of Love Sunday Workday

This day was a terrific success! We had a good turnout of really eager, cheerful workers who got down to business and finished in record time.

• Don cleaned the porches and porch lights,
• David washed outside windows,
• Doug washed the Sneller Memorial Window in the chapel, polished the pulpit and chalice stand, then cleaned and organized the credenza in the foyer and organized brochures,
• Jim R. and Walter hauled the green chairs upstairs from the back hall,
• Cass hauled gray chairs down to the basement and covered them with contractor bags and she took the sheers home and washed and dried them, then spot cleaned the carpet,
• Jim R. repositioned the curtain rod and hung the sheers and vacuumed the green chairs in the chapel and upstairs,
• Walter washed windows inside and cleaned out old postings on the bulletin board,
• Marla, Jim H. and Carole cleaned and organized the office and worship supplies closet,
• Bruce and Jim H. organized and cleaned the basement,
• Marion and Elbert organized, cleaned the F. Church Library and added to the Little Free Library,
• Marsha cleaned and organized the nursery,
• Amy cleaned and organized the kitchen, made labels for drawers and organized the kitchen closet,
• Linn and Dawn worked on the Monarch Way Station,
• Marilyn watched, supervised and told people what needed to be done.

Then, Marilyn treated everyone to lunch at Dragon Thai. Some were

unable to go to lunch and they were missed.

A bunch of items were discarded from the second floor and the

kitchen. These items will be donated to the shelter and

Texoma Family Thrift store.

This was a very productive day. Thank you all for being proactive and working so hard to make our special church home attractive and welcoming.

Marilyn

Chair Yoga Class

meets on Tuesday mornings @ 10 in the Chapel. Open to all who wish to participate, especially

newcomers.

Need a Church Directory?

The new Members & Friends directory was sent to everyone listed in it last week. If you would like to have a directory, send an email to directory@redriveruu.org

(No video from Oct 9, it was our Labor of Love All Church Clean Up Day)

Watch the Oct 2, 2022, Morning Assembly

“Stages of Faith or Spiritual Development”

Download The Morning Program here

We’re the only liberal religious voice in Texoma and with your help we can do more. Online donations via Venmo, PayPal, Credit & Debit cards, or by check are safe, secure, and take only a minute or two.

With Gratitude we thank you.