Michael Becerra will lead a discussion of Resistance. While there are many kinds of resistance, we will concentrate on resistance to actions and words that threaten peace and inclusion in our society.

There are many actions locally and nationally based on fear, misinformation, and hate that threaten a major portion of our society. Sometimes, careful changing of words in the discussion can have a profound effect. Other times, more direct action is needed. What we cannot do is sit back and watch the decline of society, hoping that someone else will do something.

What is it about Unitarian Universalism that fits into our beliefs and in our lives? For each of us who embraces Unitarian Universalism, the Seven Principles serve as a guide in our lives. Unitarian Universalists have many common values that we share in community. Yet, it is incumbent on us to make our own free and responsible search for truth and meaning. Join us this Sunday as several MVUUF members share what Unitarian Universalism and our Fellowship means to each of them. Presented by Don Morishita.

Timothy Ellis will deliver a sermon and Jen Okelberry will be the Worship Associate.

Buddy Gharring, pastor of the Twin Falls First United Methodist Church, has invited us to celebrate Palm Sunday and community. Buddy will bring an item, perhaps chicken, and others are invited to bring a covered dish or a salad or other food item.

Paula Dodd will be leading a drum circle. That’s an amazing thing, not to be missed. And games will be set up for children and families.

The potluck will begin at approximately noon in the Twin Falls City Park.

What comes to mind when imagining free community meals, or soup kitchens? It could be a scene of people who *have* sharing with people who *have not*. This over-simplified story is told and retold a thousand ways in religious texts, poetry, and song. It is one that implicitly requires some people to *have* and some to *have not*. Which do you want to be? Who among us is always only one or the other? Join us Sunday morning, Mach 26th, for our visiting minister’s message. Rev. Jenny Peek serves our sibling UU congregation in Pocatello, Idaho, and joins us via Zoom.

Perri Gardner is the Worship Associate

Melody Lenkner will lead a discussion of the book “Nice Racism; How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm” by Robin Diangelo. This book calls upon us to be open to the feeling of vulnerability that its message may engender.

Join Daniel Gardner, local performer and educator, for a reflective and engaging conversation about the power of being vulnerable in our creative and artistic endeavors.

Perri Gardner is Worship Associate.

Daylight Savings Time begins March 12th. Reset your clock and “Get me to the church on time!”

The Rev. Timothy Ellis will share about the vulnerability of love. We’ll explore some of the nervousness of connecting with others and asking for our needs to be met, along with the moments of connection that are the building blocks of relationships. Timothy is our intern minister.

Pam Blankenheim is the Worship Associate

The Rev. Jenny Peek will speak. Sometimes climate change feels like the elephant in the room we struggle to talk about. We may feel carried away by Joanna Macy’s steady message of the decades, frightened by the harsh truths as told by Naomi Klein, and moved to tears and action by Greta Thunberg’s clear minded message and school strikes for climate.

And still, here we are. When human ingenuity fails to save the day, what is next?

Rev, Jenny serves our sibling congregation in Pocatello, Idaho.

Melody Lenkner is the Worship Associate

Pam Blankenheim will lead the discussion of the thirteen original Freedom Riders. One of them was Pam’s husband, Ed Blankenheim, who traveled from Washington, D.C. to the deep South in hopes of sitting blacks and whites together to challenge the Jim Crow laws that were active in the South despite UCC rulings that desegregated interstate travel.

The bus Pam’s husband was on was firebombed. These thirteen Freedom Riders barely escaped with their lives. Ed was a young Marine in North Carolina, where he witnessed segregation and racism.

Perri Gardner will lead a celebration of chocolate. “In all its varied and protean forms, love is the tether binding our whirling lives. Without that biological anchor, all of us are flung outward, singly, into the encroaching dark” (Thomas Lewis, A General Theory of Love, 2000).

Join Magic Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship congregant Perri Gardner for a conversation about how love defines who we are and how we live in community. This service will incorporate an emerging Unitarian Universalist ritual–chocolate communion. Chocolates will be provided!

Cindy Strausbaugh is Worship Associate