Earlier this week, the Program and Worship Committee was able to give Rev. Peter his parting gift. The glass piece was created by Debi Cooper at the FireArts studio on south G street. Peter came up to Debi’s place to receive the piece and enjoyed visiting with some of her furry friends.
Thank you again Peter for your year of service!
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A Message from Rev. Farriday
Dear HUUF members and friends,
Many of you might want to know that after extensive consideration, informed by some actual and much virtual voyaging to several UU congregations these past months, I’ve accepted an offer from the UU Congregation of Duluth, MN to serve as their Interim Minister beginning August 1st. (Interim usually means two years, with a possible but unlikely revision to one or three.)
With a population about 3.5 times that of Eureka, Duluth is home to a sizeable state university, and is the tourism “base camp” of Lake Superior’s scenic North Shore. And being a two-hour drive from St. Paul/Minneapolis, it’s much closer to the metropolitan cultural options I discovered I missed after moving to Humboldt.
But besides feeling I can do strong work with this particular congregation, what clinched Duluth over other offers is that I was born and raised in those Twin Cities, and still have lifelong friends and a brother there, and other family nearby. While it tugs at my heart that this takes me further from my LA-based daughter and son for a time, it feels like a terrific work/life situation for two years, after which I can make other choices. (Assuming I make it through two northern Minnesota winters!)
I greatly appreciate many of you recently expressing good wishes on my next step, even without knowing what that was. I’m glad I can now share the specifics with you, and grateful for all that everyone at HUUF has graced me with over the past year.
Many blessings now and always,
Rev. Peter Farriday
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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.
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Enjoying Fellowship:
For our first discussion service of the summer, Laura and Pat will lead with a story followed by guided meditation, music, and discussion on this Sunday’s theme.
As we move into the lazy days of summer, where weekend schedules can turn toward summertime travel and impromptu trips to the river, we hope that you will continue to make an effort to join one another each Sunday for HUUF Services. The Program and Worship team has worked hard to embrace the casual nature of this time of year with an emphasis on creating a sense of community. Beginning on July 10 you can look forward to a series of discussion style services for the summer.
annual summertime All Ages Fellowship Retreat returns to our beloved community.
HUUF CAC Recommends
“Let us step out of the quagmire of war, disease, insurrection, political discord and impending climate disasters to focus on the positive steps we, Unitarian Universalists, are and will be taking to create and implement our vision of a better world for all.”
