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Join us on the 4th Friday of the month for a LGBTQIA+ social potluck in the main sanctuary building from 6 to 8 pm. Come as enjoy a relaxed evening of conversation and food. We encourage people to bring their own dishes and silverware so that we can reduce the amount of trash we create and the amount of cleanup we need to do.
Please join us on Friday, August 28th at 6pm for the next Family Friendly Film at KUUF! This is an all ages event - everyone is welcome! This month's selection is "Moana 2 (2024); a story of self-evolution, community connection, and embracing the unknown. If you would like to bring dinner and/or snacks, please note that the kitchen will be closed so we ask that you bring items that are already prepared.
The Worship Committee invites everyone to join us on Sunday, August 30 for our Late Summer Brunch and Blessing of the Backpack. This is NOT a potluck...the Worship Committee wants you to be our guests.
This will be an all-ages service (no children's program or childcare).
This week we focus on our 3S’s by creating care packages to share with our houseless
community members, reading Last Stop on Market Street, and taking part in a Paper Airplane Letter delivery activity.
You are invited to join us in our next monthly meditation mini retreat on the first Saturday of the month from 11:50 to 2:20pm. We will practice a variety of meditation styles: guided and silent, sitting and walking, and Loving Kindness (metta). The program will be divided into 20 minute meditations, with 5 minute breaks in between. You are welcome to join for all or part of the afternoon.
This course is for everyone from novices on trans identity to those with decades of life experience. Rather than simply offering a “trans 101,” this class pushes participants to the next level of congregational welcome, relationship-building, and skills-building. It counters mainstream narratives about who trans people are. supports understanding of non-binary identities, and employs a deeply intersectional approach.
Join us for our next Learning Forum: Voting as Compassionate Citizens.
This course is for everyone from novices on trans identity to those with decades of life experience. Rather than simply offering a “trans 101,” this class pushes participants to the next level of congregational welcome, relationship-building, and skills-building. It counters mainstream narratives about who trans people are. supports understanding of non-binary identities, and employs a deeply intersectional approach.
This course is for everyone from novices on trans identity to those with decades of life experience. Rather than simply offering a “trans 101,” this class pushes participants to the next level of congregational welcome, relationship-building, and skills-building. It counters mainstream narratives about who trans people are. supports understanding of non-binary identities, and employs a deeply intersectional approach.
This course is for everyone from novices on trans identity to those with decades of life experience. Rather than simply offering a “trans 101,” this class pushes participants to the next level of congregational welcome, relationship-building, and skills-building. It counters mainstream narratives about who trans people are. supports understanding of non-binary identities, and employs a deeply intersectional approach.
This course is for everyone from novices on trans identity to those with decades of life experience. Rather than simply offering a “trans 101,” this class pushes participants to the next level of congregational welcome, relationship-building, and skills-building. It counters mainstream narratives about who trans people are. supports understanding of non-binary identities, and employs a deeply intersectional approach.
This course is for everyone from novices on trans identity to those with decades of life experience. Rather than simply offering a “trans 101,” this class pushes participants to the next level of congregational welcome, relationship-building, and skills-building. It counters mainstream narratives about who trans people are. supports understanding of non-binary identities, and employs a deeply intersectional approach.
This course is for everyone from novices on trans identity to those with decades of life experience. Rather than simply offering a “trans 101,” this class pushes participants to the next level of congregational welcome, relationship-building, and skills-building. It counters mainstream narratives about who trans people are. supports understanding of non-binary identities, and employs a deeply intersectional approach.
This course is for everyone from novices on trans identity to those with decades of life experience. Rather than simply offering a “trans 101,” this class pushes participants to the next level of congregational welcome, relationship-building, and skills-building. It counters mainstream narratives about who trans people are. supports understanding of non-binary identities, and employs a deeply intersectional approach.
This week we focus on our 3S’s by creating posters that remind us to stay centered, taking part in a centering meditation, and creating laying Catch the Compliment.
Our guest speaker on August 23 will be our own KUUF Choir Director, Alena Hemingway. She has been a part of KUUF since she was 8 years old. She considers herself a lifelong UU. She feels very fortunate for this place and the people who have shaped her life in such beautiful ways.
She will be speaking on the topic: Why Do We Write Songs? and will use our new UU on-line hymnal, Sing Out Loud as a source. Throughout the service we will introduce you to the new on-line hymnal, and UUAs vision for it. We will be using this source more often starting in September.
This Sunday, as you shop the Farmers’ Market for delicious produce, check out the excess kitchen and Lost and Found items displayed on the breezeway.
If you see a pot or bowl or plate or knife that is yours, please take it home!
If you see an item that you want, take that home too!
You are invited to attend the last KUUF Musical BBQ at the Wilsons' home in Olalla on Saturday, August 22 from 12:30 to 4:00 pm! The KUUF Sax Quartet will play, as will other musicians in our Fellowship community. A terrific hamburger, hot dog, veggie burger, salads, beans, watermelon and dessert BBQ lunch will accompany the music!
Sarah van Gelder, YES! magazine founding editor, Suquamish Foundation board member, and former member of the Bremerton Race Equity Advisory Board will be the August 21 speaker for ENLIGHTEN. Understanding our diverse histories, righting old wrongs, and showing up for our neighbors could be the first steps in getting along - not just politely, but well.
Join us on Friday, August 21, from 5:00–7:00 p.m. for an evening of outdoor fun and games!
Are you new to KUUF and wonder what Unitarian Universalism is all about? Do you want to know more about this Fellowship? Do you want to know how and when to become a member and what that means for you? If you have questions about KUUF, this is the time and place to ask them!
The harvest is upon us! Are you celebrating the season? Do you feel close to the abundant Earth? Want to talk about Pagan and Earth-centered spirituality? Meet, mingle, and make merry at this gathering!
This week we focus on our 3S’s by taste testing fair trade chocolates, taking part in a chocolate meditation, and play nature connected games.
What do Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, Howard Thurman, Rosa Parks, John Lewis, Thich Nhat Hanh and other great spiritual activist leaders have in common? They were “Universe Disturbers” in the best sense. Living in challenging times, these activists sustained and inspired others by their spiritual practices to work for justice, inclusion, equality and freedom. This message offers seven simple yet surprisingly effective spiritual practices they used with some self care tips accessible to all who advocate, hope and pray for a better world.
This Sunday, as you shop the Farmers’ Market for delicious produce, check out the excess kitchen and Lost and Found items displayed on the breezeway.
If you see a pot or bowl or plate or knife that is yours, please take it home!
If you see an item that you want, take that home too!
August is Make A Will Month. Fewer than one quarter of American adults have a will. If you are among the majority who have not gotten around to writing or updating your will, this is the event for you. Join us Wednesday, August 12, 2:30 pm in the KUUF Sanctuary for Estate Planning.
Are you ready for One Heart Wild's BIGGEST event of the year?
You will enjoy live music, local artist booths, yummy floats, kids & adult's activities, story walks, beer & wine garden, and free tours.
Help us raise: $15,000 to purchase one year's worth of hay for our animals!
Pre-purchase your parking, entry, and floats to avoid waiting in line. Military discounts available.
Pets are not allowed due to sensitivity of Sanctuary animals
Dr. Leyla Welkin: Learning Forum guest presenting her experiences working with forced migrants and refugees
11:50 AM to 12:45 PM at the KUUF Sanctuary
A learning opportunity to promote UU values
This week we focus on our 3S’s by helping beautify Mother Earth here at KUUF, taking part in a Kindness meditation, and going on a nature walk.
Earlier this year Kitsap Unitarian Universalist Fellowship created a vision for its future: it calls this community to deepen its roots, widen its circle, and brighten its flame. Why is holding love at the center so necessary for living into that vision?
This Sunday, as you shop the Farmers’ Market for delicious produce, check out the excess kitchen and Lost and Found items displayed on the breezeway.
If you see a pot or bowl or plate or knife that is yours, please take it home!
If you see an item that you want, take that home too!
The KUUF Grief Support Group meets the first Sunday of the month. The next meeting will be this Sunday, August 2 at 11:45 am in the Elmore Room.
This week we focus on our 3S’s by writing cards of encouragement for our elders, taking part in a Time Travel meditation, and playing red light green light.
This sermon begins to explore the Congregational Study Action Issue accepted by our UUA delegates on Abolition, Transformation, and Faith Formation.
The Truth Quest Book Group meets again via Zoom on Sunday, August 2, 8:30 to 9:30 am when we will be continuing sharing about "Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death” by John Halifax.
You are invited to join us in our next monthly meditation mini retreat on August 1, the first Saturday of the month from 11:50 to 2:20pm. We will practice a variety of meditation styles: guided and silent, sitting and walking, and Loving Kindness (metta). The program will be divided into 20 minute meditations, with 5 minute breaks in between. You are welcome to join for all or part of the afternoon.
Sunday, July 26 will be our third quarter Potluck Sunday, and Chalice Circle #9 will be our hosts. Thank you CC #9 for hosting our July potluck once again!
This week we focus on our 3S’s by putting together treat bags for the humane society, taking part in a Lost Animal meditation, and play an animal sound game outside.
Ground and Grow-What does Lifespan Faith Formation look like at Kitsap Unitarian Universalist Fellowship? Melinda Hughes, Director of Lifespan Faith Formation will be sharing what faith formation is at KUUF and the variety of opportunities you’re invited to join in beginning in September.
Ground and Grow: What does Lifespan Faith Formation look like at Kitsap Unitarian Universalist Fellowship? Melinda Hughes, Director of Lifespan Faith Formation, will be sharing what faith formation is at KUUF and the variety of opportunities you’re invited to join in beginning this September.
Join us for good food and community next Friday, July 24 at KUUF! This event is open to anyone who identifies as LGBTQIA+. Bring something to share if you can. We do ask if it is possible that you bring your own dishes and utensils to help cut down on the amount of clean up at the end of the night and limit the use of disposable items.
Please join us on Friday, July 24 at 6:00 pm for the next Family Friendly Film at KUUF! This is an all ages event - everyone is welcome!
Are you new to KUUF and wonder what Unitarian Universalism is all about? Do you want to know more about this Fellowship? Do you want to know how and when to become a member and what that means for you? If you have questions about KUUF, this is the time and place to ask them!
Summer is here and the sun is shining! Are you celebrating the season? Do you feel close to the joyous Earth? Want to talk about Pagan and Earth-centered spirituality? Meet, mingle and make merry at this gathering!
