Huntsville Unitarian Universalist Fellowship

P.O. Box 6751 Huntsville, Texas 77342-6751
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Welcome to the Huntsville UU Fellowship of Huntsville, Texas

 

We meet at 10:30 a.m. at the Laura Chapel in the Huntsville Memorial Hospital

(110 Memorial Hospital Dr.)

on the 2nd and 4th Sundays from September through June. 

In July and August we meet just once a month.  

  From 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m., we gather and have coffee. 

For more information call (936) 295-3170.

 

Please see this month's newsletter for more news and details.

Our Building is Progressing:  Our own church building at 144 East Mosley is now under a roof.  See a picture under photos.  The structure is now "dried in" and stage one of our pay-as-you-go building is complete.  Stage two is underway.  The building now has water, and the electricity will be connected soon.  After many, many hours and much volunteer labor, the caulking of the Hardi-plank is complete.  The painting of the outside of the building is tentatively planned to begin the first week of November.        

 

Sun, Nov 8:  Dr. John Wilson of Huntsville, our guest minister for this Sunday, will speak on "What is Life?"  His sermon is based on Ecclesiastes 8:10-17.  Wilson says, “Ecclesiastes in its negative tone challenges the thinking of each new generation. Living in the midst of uncertainty makes it challenging to keep our view on those things that make a ‘real’ difference in life.  The beauty of much of the wisdom literature and Ecclesiastes in particular consists in its ambiguity, which allows one to rediscover it with each new reading. In my view, Qoheleth has reflected on the inconsistencies he observes and wants to but cannot discover how God works in such a world.”  For more of Wilson’s comments, see this month’s newsletter.

 

With a long and varied career as an engineer, physicist, professor and Methodist minister, Dr. John F. Wilson exemplifies a life where faith and science coexists in harmony.  Wilson earned a doctorate in physics at the University of Houston, where he served as an assistant research professor in particle physics.  He also holds a Master’s in Theological Studies from Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University.

 

Sun, Nov 22:  John Pepper, Huntsville UU ministerial intern, will give the Thanksgiving message.  He says, 

"The contexts I plan to explore relate to the new church building currently under construction. Both the ‘thanks’ and the ‘giving’ parts of the service will be easy to address, but I plan to add a few twists you might not expect. Please join me in this celebratory service and if we continue to progress in 2010 as the Huntsville UU Fellowship has in 2009, this will be the last Thanksgiving service in the hospital chapel. Even though it is a beautiful chapel, the time is definitely right for the Huntsville UU Fellowship to grow and prosper in its own beautiful church."

 

Charitable Giving: Our charitable collection for this month will be for the  Senior Center of Walker County. Their mission is to improve the quality of life of Walker County seniors.   They serve meals on-site, deliver meals to homebound seniors, and provide transportation and homemaking services. Please make all checks directly to The Senior Center of Walker County.

Interfaith Prayer Service:  On Sunday, Nov. 15, 2:00 p.m., a prayer service to pray for the victims of crime, for all prisoners, including those on death row, and for abolition of the death penalty will be held in front of the Walls Unit.  See the flyer for more information. 

 

New Member:   We are growing!  Our newest member is Sandy Stokes, who is a student at SHSU and not new to Unitarianism.  Welcome, Sandy!  We now have twenty nine members.

 

Building Update:  Please contact Lee Stringer, Chair of the Building Committee, at 936-291-6009 to let him know if you have time this week (1st week in Nov) to help.  The tentative plan is to start spraying primer on the building exterior on Wed, Nov 4.  Volunteers are needed to tape newspapers over the windows before spraying, to brush paint the fascia boards, and to keep the spray guns going until the work is finished.

 

Lee reports, “Step by step we are getting closer to having a building that we can use while the remainder of the construction is done.  Starting off, it may not be 'pretty,' but we are working first to make it usable.  As we raise more funds over time, we will work to make it pretty as guided by the aesthetics committee.”

 

On Nov. 2 a year ago, we held a picnic on the land, and the building was just a dream.  This year on Oct 25th, twenty-two members and friends shared a picnic inside the facility.  Several stayed afterwards to finish the job of caulking on the east and west gabled ends.  Almost the entire congregation helped caulk during the past month.   

 

On Thursday  (Oct. 29) the electrical contractor ran the wires for all of the building except the kitchen, the hot water heater, and the heating and cooling system.