Fairhope Unitarian Fellowship

December 22: Holiday Stories
2024-12-22 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago) | Fairhope Unitarian Fellowship, 1150 Fairhope Ave., Fairhope, AL, 36532, United States
Come share your favorite holiday story and hear new ones. Recount some memorable, interesting, or amusing tales from holidays past. No subject is off limits. Members and friends are requested to come armed with a tale to tell!

December 15: Bah Humbug!
2024-12-15 11:00 - 12:00 | Fairhope Unitarian Fellowship, 1150 Fairhope Ave., Fairhope, AL, 36532, United States
The Fellowship will see the true story of the origin of our American celebration of Christmas with a cast of members. We have celebrated thus this last 4 years. Irene Wagner will direct.

Annual FUF Congregational Meeting
2024-12-08 11:00 - 12:00 | Fairhope Unitarian Fellowship, 1150 Fairhope Ave., Fairhope, AL, 36532, United States
This is the major opportunity for the FUF Board members to outline the developments over the past year, as well as plans for the future to the FUF congregation. It is the opportunity for FUF members to vote in a new Board for 2025 and to comment on and question what they are hearing.

WOW (Women of Wisdom)
2024-12-05 10:30 - 11:30 | Fairhope Unitarian Fellowship, 1150 Fairhope Ave., Fairhope, AL, 36532, United States

Presentation of 2025 FUF Board Candidates
2024-12-01 11:00 - 12:00 | Fairhope Unitarian Fellowship, 1150 Fairhope Ave., Fairhope, AL, 36532, United States
Candidates for the positions on the 2025 Fairhope Unitarian Fellowship General Board will talk about the work they would do if elected to the Board. There will be an opportunity to question the candidates about any issue, and to ask about how they will contribute to FUF. Members should see this as an opportunity to ask about the issues ranging from the color of the coffee cups for visitors to the direction the Fellowship is going.

FUF Nonfiction Book
2024-11-28 10:30 - 11:30 | Fairhope Unitarian Fellowship, 1150 Fairhope Ave., Fairhope, AL, 36532, United States

FUF Fiction Book Club
2024-11-27 15:30 - 16:30 | Fairhope Unitarian Fellowship, 1150 Fairhope Ave., Fairhope, AL, 36532, United States

Men's Group at Kind Cafe
2024-11-26 09:00 - 10:00, 2024-11-19 09:00 - 10:00 | Kind Cafe, 108 N Section St., Fairhope, AL, 36532, United States

Eastern Shore Uke Club
2024-11-25 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-11-18 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-11-11 14:00 - 16:00 | Fairhope Unitarian Fellowship, 1150 Fairhope Ave., Fairhope, AL, 36532, United States

November 24th: Bob Echols
2024-11-24 11:00 - 12:00 | Fairhope Unitarian Fellowship, 1150 Fairhope Ave., Fairhope, AL, 36532, United States
Albert Schweitzer and Reverence for Life: Love, Mercy, and Stewardship

Bob Echols will introduce attendees to the great humanitarian, Albert Schweitzer, and his renowned ethos of a reverence fro life, the irrefragable tenet that all life is possessed of innate worth and value, and that our sacred duty as mankind is to serve as stewards of all life around us. He will provide examples of reverence for life.

Bob Echols grew up in Exeter, NH and got his B.A. from New York University and his J.D./M.B.A. from Emory University. He served in the Army as an active-duty Army attorney at West Point from 1982 to 1986. He then worked as attorney and ethics/compliance officer for several Defense contractors. Bob then served as Founder/President of the Four Our Friends the Animals, constructing animal rescues and shelters. A cancer survivor, Mr. Echols writes about reverence for life.

Game Night
2024-11-23 18:30 - 20:30 | Fairhope Unitarian Fellowship, 1150 Fairhope Ave., Fairhope, AL, 36532, United States

Thursday Club
2024-11-21 17:00 - 18:00, 2024-11-14 17:00 - 18:00 | Sage Lebanese Cuisine & Cafe, 319 Fairhope Ave., Fairhope, AL, 36532, United States

November 17th: Ken Hudson
2024-11-17 11:00 - 12:00 | Fairhope Unitarian Fellowship, 1150 Fairhope Ave., Fairhope, AL, 36532, United States
Honest to God: Religion and Denial that Climate Change is Caused by Us
Data shows unequivocally that global warming is the result of human activity. The 2021 General Social Survey shows that a half of all Americans don’t accept that global warming is caused by us. The main causes of this appear to be fundamentalist Christian beliefs and a lack of scientific literacy in the United States.
Dr. Kenneth Hudson is Professor Sociology at the University of South Alabama. He holds degrees in religion, psychology, social work, and sociology from Mobile College, University of Louisville, and University of North Carolina. The focus of his teaching and research is on poverty, social stratification, human inequality, and research methods.

FUF Nonfiction Book Club
2024-11-14 10:30 - 11:30 | Fairhope Unitarian Fellowship, 1150 Fairhope Ave., Fairhope, AL, 36532, United States

Men's Group at Kind Cafe
2024-11-12 09:00 - 10:00 | AL

November 10th: Sarah Wright
2024-11-10 11:00 - 12:00 | Fairhope Unitarian Fellowship, 1150 Fairhope Ave., Fairhope, AL, 36532, United States
Sarah Wright: Alabama Cotton and Bemis Bags: Pieces into Quilt History
Feedsack quilts represent the artistic expression of American women in a distinctive textile era, 1930‒1960, when quilts were created from colorful, patterned fabrics that started out as feed or flour sacks. Many of these bags originated in the cotton fields of Alabama with Bemis Bro. Bag Company in Bemiston, Alabama. Once used these bags placed millions of yards of free fabric in the hands of creative women to create quilts.

Wright holds a B.A. in psychology from Samford University and was curator for “Our Quilted Past,” an exhibit of Alabama feedsack quilts and Bemis Bro. Bag Company, and her research on the subject is published in “Uncoverings 2013.” Sarah is a contributing author to “Alabama Quilts” (2020) and Southern Quilts (2017).

Game Night
2024-11-09 18:30 - 19:30 | Fairhope Unitarian Fellowship, 1150 Fairhope Ave., Fairhope, AL, 36532, United States
Join us every 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month for Game Night!
Come have fun with the FUF community!

November 3rd: Catherine Quiring
2024-11-03 11:00 - 12:00 | Fairhope Unitarian Fellowship, 1150 Fairhope Ave., Fairhope, AL, 36532, United States
Trust Yourself Again: Reclaim Your Inner Compass

Reclaim self-trust, learn about interoception and our ability to listen to all the information from our thoughts, emotions, beliefs, body, and intuition to form a collective inner wisdom or compass. Heal from authoritarian, colonizing, and fundamentalist worldviews and systems that taught it was not safe to trust yourself.

Catherine Quiring is a licensed mental health counselor, self-trust coach, reformed people-pleaser, and neuro-divergent ex-evangelical. She helps people to feel and think deeply to reconnect to their inner wisdom, heal from pressures and traumas they experience, reclaim their playfulness, and liberate through collective care.
