HUUF WEEKLY

Hello Beloved Community~

I am delighted to be back in your midst after taking the month of July to rest and rejuvenate with my family.  My daughter spent buckets of time in the warm ocean.  My partner and I got to revisit some of the beautiful and rugged places we once called home on the deeply-dear-to-us island of Hawaii.  And we got the increasingly rare opportunity to slow down and take Life in at the pace of presence, savoring, sensation.  Letting the days be guided from a place of moment-to-moment inquiry and awareness, rather than the agenda-driven, task-centric rhythm our larger culture so often demands of us.
I am deeply reminded of the essentialness of REST and PLEASURE and simply being in our humble, human bodies as we navigate the changes and challenges of this time we are in.
May we all be granted places and practices of Regeneration as we come together to be the change we want to see.

Aloha, Aho, Ashe.  May it be so.
yours,
in grace & gratitude,
Amy Day (she/her)
Director of Lifespan Religious Exploration, HUUF

ALL FELLOWSHIP RETREAT

Our Annual All-Fellowship retreat down on the Mattole River has been Cancelled due to Covid Concerns

In lieu of gathering at the Mattole, we will now gather for a single day of
FUN and FELLOWSHIP

Sunday August 14th – 11am at HUUF

at the
Better Together
Potluck Picnic Retreat Event

Bring your favorite summertime potluck dish to share & Expect to engage in a day of fun activities.

We’ll have an All-Ages service at 11am, followed by food, games and entertaining surprises.
BEST OF ALL there is the opportunity to gather safely for some joyful, silly play while deepening relationships with one another.

We Hope You Can Make It !

Registration is open for YRUUP’s Summer Con!

Conferences are weekend-long events in which youth from all around the region can gather together to bond, discuss issues, and share their faith. YRUUP holds four standard conferences throughout the year (Summer Con, Fall Con, Elections Con, and Spirit Con). Each one of these events begins Friday night at 7pm and ends Sunday afternoon at 1pm. Because they believe strongly in youth empowerment, conferences are youth-planned and youth-led.

For more information, or to register, visit here: https://www.yruup.org/cons

Peter Lehman is the founding director of the Schatz Energy Research Center. His research interests include green hydrogen and microgrids. He served as the lead faculty researcher for the Redwood Coast Airport Microgrid at the airport. In 2021 he was inducted into the California Energy Commission’s Clean Energy Hall of Fame in recognition of his lifetime of research advances in clean energy. He recently helped the Humboldt Transit Authority apply for and win a $38.7 million grant to fund a fleet of zero-emission hydrogen fuel cell electric buses to serve local routes and connect riders to Mendocino County and, ultimately, the San Francisco Bay Area. This project, including the Eureka Regional Transit and Housing Center (EaRTH Center), is the subject of his talk for the 350 Humboldt Speakers’ Series. There will be lots of time for questions and discussion.

Register HERE

On August 6, 2022, visit the northwest corner of the Arcata Plaza during Farmers Market. From 9 a.m. until 1:30 or 2, artists of all ages and abilities will be designing and making lanterns to be floated on Klopp Lake that evening. The ceremony of music, poetry, and brief statements will begin at 7:30 p.m. As dusk falls, lanterns will be floated. Please join us in appreciating the beauty of lighted lanterns afloat on the water as we raise our hopes and our commitments to peace.

If you are able to volunteer to help on August 6 anytime between 8:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. and between 6 p.m. and sunset, please send a text message to Lynda at 707-498-0431.
Needs include:
~a driver with a passenger van to help shuttle folks between the parking area at Samoa & I Streets and Klopp Lake;
~people to help city employees set up tables and chairs on the Plaza at 8:30 a.m.;
~Plaza table assistants to aid in providing materials and guidelines to would-be lantern-makers;
~help with clean-up and placing lanterns in boxes for transport to Klopp Lake;
and at 6 p.m. and following: *help set up chairs, *assist in directing parking, *usher those who need assistance finding a seat and walking on uneven ground, *help place LED candles in lanterns and in the luminaria along the path, and *offer light from your flashlight and extend an arm to those returning to the shuttle vans after sunset.

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A note about Rev. Farriday’s sermon recordings:

Recordings of the sermons Rev. Farriday offered at HUUF are no longer available to the general public via HUUF’s website. Yet recipients of the Weekly can still access those via this link: https://huuf.org/select-worship-services-2021-2022/ through 6/30/23

This limited access is because the HUUF Board supports both Rev. Farriday’s desire for online privacy, and the UUA and UU Ministers Association position that ministers’ sermons are their intellectual property. Hence Rev. Farriday asked that his sermons remain accessible to HUUF members and friends for a year, but not be publicly available.