Share the Plate
“Share the Plate” will be split with half going to support our Fellowship’s ministries, and the other half going to support a worthy organization.
Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance – Our April 2025 Share-the-Plate Partner
The Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance is passionate about safeguarding the waters that sustain our communities. Through collaboration with diverse partners, they have worked for over thirty years to protect and restore the Fox-Wolf River basin, ensuring it thrives for everyone who lives, works, and plays here. They work to give people and organizations the knowledge, practices, and financial support they need to join in restoring our waterways. They work on projects from very large, such as installing breakwaters and runoff treatment systems, to small, like helping homeowners with simple projects to impact stormwater quality. They monitor the water to ensure that our practices are effective and enlist citizen scientists who volunteer to help check their favorite places. People turn to them for information, advice, and financial support. But without enough funding and staff time, they have to say no to even worthwhile programs and projects. The Green Sanctuary JAM Team hopes that we can give generously to support the Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance and take this opportunity to learn more and support their efforts. https://fwwa.org/
To donate: Drop your offering in the collection plate or, visit fvuuf.org/give Choose Online Giving or VancoPlus Mobile, select “Share the Plate”. To text a donation, text 833-278-1690, enter the $ amount, space, Share ($50 Share). Or mail a check to FVUUF (2600 Philip Lane, Appleton WI 54915) with “Share” in the memo line.
Upcoming Installation & Ordination Events
Every 3-8 years, we are given the opportunity to do some amazing ritual services here at the Fellowship. However, in May we will have the chance to do two! What a joy!
On May 3, at 6:15 pm, we will have a service of Installation for Rev. Hannah Roberts Villnave. We’ll start with our final SoUUper Saturday of the program year with a soup dinner from 5-6:00 pm, followed by the Installation at 6:15 pm. A service of installation is an important ritual that helps our Fellowship acknowledge, solemnize, and celebrate that Rev. Hannah is a called and settled minister with us, serving our congregation in shared ministry for the foreseeable future.
On May 31, at 4:00 pm, we will have a service of Ordination for Steve Sieck, our former music director who served our Fellowship from 2018-2023. Steve has asked our Fellowship to be his ordaining congregation. Every UU minister is ordained only once in their career, and in Unitarian Universalism it is the responsibility of the congregations to ordain the clergy, so this is an honor.
- If you would like to sing in the choir at either service, contact John Popke at [email protected]
- If you’d like to donate to make these events a success, visit https://tinyurl.com/fvuufcelebrationreception, or mail a check with Celebration/Reception in the memo to 2600 Philip Ln., Appleton WI 54915.
