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Please join us for our next service on Sunday, September 5, at 10:30. Since this is a holiday weekend we will be having a open forum discussion on the topic of Immigration. Here are some questions that may be considered during our discussion:
1) Should being present in the U.S. without permission be considered a crime?
2) What should be done with people already here illegally?
3) Should children born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants be granted automatic citizenship?
4) Some argue that illegal immigrants help to keep prices low for things such as food, hotels, restaurants, landscaping, and other products and services. Are you willing to pay more for groceries, hospitality services, etc., in order to control illegal immigration?
5) How does fear affect US citizens' view on immigration today?
6) Some have proposed mass deportations of millions of people from the US who here illegally. What would be the consequences of the mass deportations?
We will be meeting at Wilkes Family Central at Lincoln Heights. Directions are from the mid-town intersection in Wilkesboro. This is the intersection where Wilkesboro Blvd, Main Street and Oakwoods Rd all intersect.
Traveling east through Wilkesboro, once you go through the light and up the hill you are on East Main. Continue on for .9 of a mile from the intersection.
Turn right at the Wilkes Family Central at Lincoln Heights sign. It's a yellow, red, black and white sign on a brick structure. Go .3 of a mile, through a residential area. You will see a gate and a drive that goes straight off the road, while the road turns to the left. Drive through the gates and down the hill. Park in the parking lower parking lot that is near the picnic tables. We meet in this building. Come in the brown doors at the end. Go about half way down the hall to the Family Room, number 107 on the left.
Coffee and socializing at 10:00 AM
Childcare will be provided.
For a sampling of recent sermons and programs, go to Sermon Archives above.
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Three practical ideals for getting through the day
1. Want what you have;
2. Do what you can; and
3. Be who you are.
From Forest Church's sermon, "How to Make the Most of Hard Times", see Sermon Archives or click here.
"Our Liberal Faith" 
UU Faith is not a believe whatever you choose to believe faith, rather it is a faith in which each of us is free to believe what we are each compelled to believe based upon a free and disciplined search for truth…
Excerpt taken from UU Faith Sermon by D. Doreion Colter, see Sermon Archives "Our Liberal Faith".
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Sundays 10 AM coffee time and socializing
10:30 to 11:30 Morning Lay Led Service
coffee and socializing also following the service
We currently do not have a permanet place to meet. Rose Glen Village has asked us to find a new location. Some of the residents were upset at our presence and since Rose Glen is their home, the director felt that she had to ask us to leave.
We have some ideas that we are pursuing. If you have any suggestions, please contact Clyde Ingle at 973-7839. We cannot afford to pay very much rent. We need two rooms, one for the service and a smaller one for religious education for the kids (usually just 2 or 3). We need restroom facilities. |
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About the Yadkin Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
The first Unitarian Universalist congregation in Wilkes County, Yadkin Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (YVUUF) is a vibrant, diverse and growing Fellowship, meeting first and third Sundays each month. We currently are looking for a new place to meet. Until we find a place we will be meeting at various places or taking field trips to Boone UUF. At 10 Am we start with coffee and socializing. The approximately hour long lay-led service starts at 10:30. Children are offered religious education during the service. More coffee and socializing follows the service.
We also have a Social gatherings quarterly at various members’ homes.
Our Fellowship met for the first time in April of 2005.
YVUUF is a church of religious liberals, open to all people of faith, any faith, whether it is faith in God, whatever one may conceive God to be, or faith in humanity and belief in the inherent worth and dignity of every person.
For those of you unfamiliar with Unitarian Universalism, UUs, as we call ourselves, believe each individual should be encouraged to develop his/her own personal theology and be able to express their religious beliefs and opinions without fear of censure or reprisal. The role of the congregation is to be supportive of individuals seeking their own religious truths, in an atmosphere of enthusiasm, tolerance, love and respect.
UUs believe the ultimate authority in religion is not a church, a document or an official, but the personal conscience and reason of each individual. We believe that all people on earth have an equal claim to life liberty, and justice-and no idea, ideal, or philosophy is superior to that claim. UUs also believe in the ethical application of religion. Good works are the natural product of a good faith, evidence of an inner grace that finds expression in social and community involvement.
YVUUF is active in both our local and global communities, and has contributed generously to Our House (Child Abuse Prevention Team), Friends Feeding Friends, Wilkes Cares, United Way, and the UUA Gulf Coast Relief Fund. We also have a Volunteer Ministry to assist local families under Hospice care with chores & home maintenance, and have provided tuition assistance to a local WCC student. Other community service projects are always in the works. Members also participate in local, national, and international movements for peace and human rights.
YVUUF is confirmed as an Emerging Congregation with the Unitarian Universalist Association, and is listed on their website, www.uua.org. Our Fellowship joins an ever-growing number of UU fellowships in North Carolina including nearby congregations in Boone, Hickory, Winston-Salem and Charlotte. YVUUF is also a member of the Western Carolinas Cluster of UU Congregations. Visit our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/pages/Wilkesboro-NC/Yadkin-Valley-Unitarian-Universalist-Fellowship/76259597668
Members and visitors enjoy the spiritual fellowship of free religious community, and if they so choose, the opportunity to contribute their talents and energy toward building a spiritual community dedicated to the UU principles of:
- the inherent worth and dignity of every person,
- justice, equity, and compassion in human relations,
- acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations,
- a free and responsible search for truth and meaning,
- the right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within the congregation and in society at large,
- the goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all, and
- respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.
Please join us for a Sunday service or a Social and experience the unique joy of spiritual fellowship in a free religious community.
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