From the minister

Let's Make a Difference

Bono, the lead singer of the Irish rock group U2, said of America "it's not just a country, it's an idea." At its best, this idea is a beacon to the world, the place of Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream where people of all faiths share a common faith in equality and justice for all people. At its best, this idea creates a place that treasures its farm fields and forests, shorelines and mountains for all the beauty that they instill in each of us and majesty that is their own. This Fellowship, too, is first and foremost an idea. It is a dream that was started nearly sixty years ago by people who hoped to create a liberal religious voice in the river valley of their homes. This dream gained concrete expression as visionaries dared to create a home for this growing community. That home has been expanded upon twice to reach its current shape.

While our structure is an expression of our dreams, it is only a container. This container only has meaning if we continuously create that meaning within it. Each Sunday, we gather in programs led by a variety of voices, from within our Fellowship and from the larger community as well. People like Vic Moss from the Emergency Residence Project bring the outside world into our hallowed walls, reminding us of the need for our ideals in the larger community. We speak in tones tinged with science, Christianity, Buddhism, earth-centered traditions, and other ways of understanding religions, attempting to create a respectful environment for all.

This is a difficult idea that we are trying to create. This idea is one that seeks to be a religious community where we can speak our truth, where we understand that how and what we believe shapes how we live our lives. This religious community will not offer proscriptions but does have high expectations. As a principle-based belief system, it requires that we be engaged with great integrity in our own religious journeys. Of course, speaking with integrity from our own position and acknowledging the limitations of that truth, the fact that others can have valid beliefs that are different means we have to operate with a great deal of tolerance, patience, and understanding. Seeking common ground for me has always been in the ethical realm of religious discourse.

For me this happens as we engage with our larger community. This can be an intimidating idea. Too often we think this is just those people on the marches, writing their legislators and serving on boards. It is, but just as important it happens in how we approach our jobs, how we treat our neighbors, when we're willing to mentor the young people of our religious community. By being part of the Fellowship, we are all strengthening our community by encouraging our members' support of The Emergency Residence Project, Habitat for Humanity, the Alternative Gift Market, Good Neighbor, and our continued conversation of joining AMOS (A Mid-Iowa Organizing Strategy). All of these organizations are ways for us to live out our beliefs-regardless of the spiritual source for that call to action.

Also, by supporting the Fellowship you are supporting my work in the community as well. I have been privileged to serve on the boards of many community organizations. Currently, I serve as treasurer and finance committee chair for Youth and Shelter Services and am active in bringing AMOS to Ames. My call to this congregation includes being an active presence in the community.

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February 5

In Support of Transformation

Rev. Brian Eslinger

What does it mean to support the Fellowship? Beyond the obvious brick and mortar and salaries, does support mean a willingness to engage with our own spiritual/ethical development so that we can be part of creating a better world for the next generation?
Special Music: Ed Carbrey, cello; Peggy Earnshaw, accompanist

 

February 12

What Does It Mean To Love?

Kelly Poole & Sam Wormley

What does it mean to love? The dictionary provides us many definitions of love: a deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection (e.g., toward a person); to like or desire enthusiastically (e.g., chocolate); or an intense emotional attachment or response (e.g., to art)...Join us as we discuss together the great loves of our lives.
Special Music: Reggie Greenlaw

 

February 19

In the Beginning

Rev. Brian Eslinger

There are almost as many creation narratives as there are cultures. Each one tells us something about what it means to be human, yet how do we understand that meaning in light of a scientific view of the universe?

 

February 26

The Decline of Civility and Ethical Values in American Life—Is It True?

High School Youth

The high school youth group will explore this subject in the realm of politics, religion, family life, and culture. Join us for another stimulating and thoughtful Youth Sunday.

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I also think of the subtle ways that we strengthen our community that will never make headlines. It's the Christmas tree and groceries shared with a family whose father had lost his job in December, the rides offered to the Social Services office to a person without a car so that their benefits wouldn't get cut off, the rental assistance check to keep a family's roof over their head. No one will know that people in our Fellowship took their time to help people. It's like the story of the beach littered with starfish and the little girl throwing them back into the ocean one by one. A man walks by and asks her what difference it can make throwing them back in? The girl finished tossing in her starfish and replied, "It made a difference to that one."

Let this simple expression be one of the ideals of our Fellowship, the desire to make a difference to the life of one person in need. Let us see that one child will have warm mittens, that one family will have food in their pantry, that one community will have a deeper understanding of what it means to organize to create a better tomorrow for every child, every senior, every person.

Our community recently experienced one of the most painful lessons in how difficult this idea of Fellowship can be to make real. People of good intention can and do understand events differently. Such a series of incidents has resulted in the resignation of our vice president, Sue Ellen Tuttle. Our president, Brenda Witherspoon, has addressed this issue elsewhere in this newsletter more completely than I will here. But let me echo Brenda's words in saying that I am available for questions and discussion. What we create together is a human construction, full of the beauty and struggle that are our attempts at making an idea a reality. My hope is that we will be patient and kind to one another during this act of faith.

From the Director of Youth and Children's Ministries

Who Owns the Fellowship?

Last year at this time I taught the children a silly song—Who Owns the Fellowship? I sang "Who owns the Fellowship?" and they answered "We do, we do!" "Who owns the telephones?" and they answered "We do, we do!" "Who owns the pretty quilts?" and they answered "We do, we do!" "Who owns the bell outside?" and they answered "We do, we do!" "Who owns the pianos?" and they answered "We do, we do!"

The questions went on and on to help the children realize that all of us are responsible to care not just for the concrete objects in the Fellowship but also for each other. We practice that sense of stewardship with our money certainly but also with our time and efforts.

It's important for the Fellowship children to realize that we are an organization that strives to practice its principles of promoting peace, justice, equity, caring, and encouraging each other to seek meaning and truth. Young children need concrete examples of how to do that. We can encourage them to donate part of their allowance on a Sunday morning to the Fellowship. We can suggest they help with the "Guest at Your Table" or UNICEF programs. We can ask them to help set up or take down chairs, bake cookies for our social time, make cards for members who are sick, pick up trash around the building or Pammel Woods, participate in Mission Trips, and probably much more.

I will put a "caring jar" on the cabinet in the RE hallway upstairs. The children can put their money in the jar and when the jar is full, we can determine how to use the money.

As adult members of the Fellowship, we complete pledge cards which remind us of our care for one another and appreciation of all the Fellowship offers. The children may also want to complete one such as this example which will be sent home.

"Living is giving. We live life best as we give our strengths, gifts, and competencies... We are called to serve, not survive. Our giving makes a difference in our families, our congregation, our community, and our faith." (adapted from Kennon L. Callahan)

- Benette

Wellspring Wednesdays:
Come For Potlucks and/or Classes

Every Wednesday from Feb. 1 through May 24 (excluding spring break), you have a standing invitation to join in a potluck at the Fellowship. After the physical nourishment, come join in some mental/spiritual nourishment. The potluck and most classes are drop-in, no registration necessary.

Spiritual Practices (Brian Eslinger)
First Wednesdays of each month (7-8:30 pm)

Feb 1, Intro to spirituality; March 1, Many ways to pray; April 5, Contemplation of the word; May 3, Spirituality and connection to the world.

Each unit will feature practices from various religious traditions, providing insight into the range of possibilities.

Feed the Body, Nourish the Spirit (Benette Sherman)

Second Wednesdays of each month (7-9 pm)

Feb 8, March 8, April 12, May 10 (registration required).

Investigate the connections between food and spirituality in Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, and Hinduism. We'll touch lightly on philosophy and make food from these traditions.

UU History and Theology (Brian Eslinger)

Third Wednesdays (fifth in March) of each month (7-8:30 pm)

Feb 15, Unitarian roots; March 29, Early American Unitarians and Universalists; April 19, The Transcendentalists and Free Religion movement; May 17, UU Theology today.

This group may explore organizing an adult UUFA trip to Boston later in 2006.

Men's Night at the Movies (Brian Eslinger)

Fourth Wednesdays of each month (7 p.m. start; length varies)

Feb. 22: Napoleon Dynamite (coming-of-age tales)
Mar 22, Apr 26, and May 24: open for suggestions.

The men of the Fellowship will gather for movies and discussion.

Modern UU Poets (Jane Vallier)

March 29, April 5, April 12 (7-8:30 pm)

Focus of the class will be on May Sarton, Mary Oliver, and other 20th century American UU poets, including litergists such as Kenneth Patten.

ART COMMITTEE

Jan. 14 - Mar 18: ASHLEY KYBER AND ISU STUDENTS Artist's Talk : Feb. 10, 6-7 p.m. Reception: Feb. 10, 7-8 p.m.

Ashley Kyber and ISU Students Exhibition is an installation and documentation of public art work in St. Louis, Tulsa, and Detroit. Kyber's professional artist work, research, and community outreach projects with students is shown through photography and work done with clay from Boone County, books using found materials, wood carvings, and more.

- Jean Hagert Dow

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS

Stewardship means taking good care of our resources—and one of our Fellowship's biggest resources is our building and the grounds it rests on. We have been taking good care of this resource so far, and we even added onto it not long ago. This spring we plan to do a major landscaping of this new addition. Other projects are in the wings—we hope to be able to refinish the wood floor in the Fellowship Hall and to buy new chairs for that room; the roofs of the older parts of the building need to be inspected and repaired; and the list goes on and ultimately ends with the need for another resource: funds. It costs money to maintain this important resource. It costs even more to enhance it. Please think generously of our building and what it means to you when planning your annual support of the Fellowship.

- Ken Lane

CARING COMMITTEE

Our Caring Committee is restructuring to become a Caring Ministry Council. What this means is that there will be several committees with "point people" at the top who will e-mail members when a need occurs. There will be three of us plus Brian who will meet quarterly and then let the point people know of needs. They will then contact their members with concerns that need to be addressed. We are setting these committees up according to surveys that members filled out last year. If you did not get a survey or would like to join a committee, please call Becca at the office or e-mail her to let her know how you would like to help. I will list the "point people" here. We need some more "point people" so if you signed up for a committee and would be willing to call the members or e-mail them when a concern comes your way, please let Lynne Van Valin, Trish Strah or Peggy Gurau know. Here are committees with the point people:

• CARDS: Lynne Van Valin
• CHILD CARE: Jamie Gurganus
• HOUSEHOLD TASKS: need point person
• MEALS: Peggy Earnshaw
• MEMORIALS: Trish Strah
• NEW BABIES: need point person
• PHONE CALLS: Lynne Van Valin
• TRANSPORTATION: Rod Brink & Mark Witherspoon
• VISITS: Benette Sherman
• YARD WORK: need point person

If you do not remember which committees you signed up for, please call the Fellowship Office or Lynne Van Valin.

- Lynne Van Valin

CHRISTIAN AFFINITY GROUP

The newly formed Christian Affinity Group will meet in the Tower Room on the first and third Sundays of each month, 4-5:30 pm. This group is an outgrowth of discussions resulting from Mary Sawyer's Jan 8 presentation "What's In It For Us: Christianity and Community." (Note: Mary's presentation is available by e-mail from the office.) All are welcome for discussion and exploration. Our first meeting is Feb 5.

- Nancy Schroeder

CONSCIENTIOUS KNITTERS

In the deep midwinter—what better way to spend some time on a Sunday afternoon than with warm friends and a warm activity? The Conscientious Knitters meet the second Sunday of the month from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in the Tower Room. We're quite inclusive—no age, gender, or skill-level restrictions, and we welcome other needle arts practitioners, too. Bring your own project to work on, or try a new project with help from other CKs. We're also doing a joint charitable project that you can get in on. Our next meeting is Feb. 12.

- Mary Richards

DRAMA GROUP

I'm a newcomer to the Fellowship, and I want to produce the play Mother Wove the Morning. Auditions are Feb 22-23. More details are at www.sacredwoman.org.

- Sarah Hobart

EMERGENCY RESIDENCE SHELTER

For many of us, stewardship takes the form of our time and our talents as well as our financial contributions. For almost two decades, UUFA members and friends have been practicing stewardship by taking the Tuesday evening meal to the Emergency Residence Shelter. If you'd like to be part of this stewardship legacy, look for the ERS sign-up clipboard (usually available between services) or contact Chris White , Joanne Barnes, or the UUFA office.

	Emergency Residence Project	Shelter Meal Volunteers 2/7: Zilber/Mann 2/14: Eslinger 2/21: Marsden 2/28: Perrin
Providing Food and Shelter

- Chris White

FELLOWSHIP VOICES

The Fellowship Voices are grateful to Rachel Tell for directing the choir for the past several busy months during Erv Luedder's hiatus. We will welcome Erv back as Director in February.

- Kitty Fisher

NUTS & BOLTS

Usually Nuts & Bolts asks for your time and doesn't mention money, but at budget time we want to remind you that milestone candles and Fair Trade Coffee are line items in the budget. Coffee purchases reflect our principle of supporting small farmers and the environment, but the price is a little higher than conventional coffee, even when we buy on sale or in bulk. (P.S. We have a full rotation of coffee makers in our core rotation. We still need 2nd Sunday Flowers, 4th Sunday Chair Setup and Coffee Cleanup, and 5th Sunday Chair Setup.)

- Susan Franzen

From your Friends in Finance...

The UUFA Finance Committee is Doug Marek, Ann Martin, James Pritchard, Dirk Scholten, and Liz Weber, who meet periodically with the treasurers. Our role is to monitor the Fellowship's overall financial health and make recommendations to the board to ensure wise use of funds.
We cultivate a bird's eye view of UUFA income and outgo, with one eye trained on the future. We strive for fairness and objectivity. None of us advocates for any one program without regard for the impact on other programs.

Serving on the Finance Committee is engaging work. It is also challenging, especially when resources are inadequate to cover all the needs and wants, from salaries to utility bills to new programs that help us live our values and promote our faith in the wider world. Imagine being able to compensate our staff fairly, improve religious education, bolster our visibility in the community, AND join with other churches to work on social justice issues! In fact, these goals are within our reach. But it will take all of us reaching deeper into our pockets for UUFA to fulfill its mission as an instrument of social change and a liberal religious beacon in the community, as well as a place where we care for each other. The most important thing any member can do to ensure the continued vitality of a "favorite" UUFA program is to pledge generously and encourage others to do likewise. UUFA will need a 10 15% income increase next year to do the right things, and to do those things right.

The Finance Committee will solicit budget requests next month. Meanwhile, we encourage UUFA members to stop in the office and request a copy of our current fiscal year budget, or to contact us any time. It's important for members to understand the budget-balancing act the finance committee and board undertake each spring. Until then, we thank you for your generosity past and future, and for your trust as we work in good faith. P.S.: Three cheers for the new Stewardship Committee, which will play a critical role in ensuring UUFA's vitality.

From Your Stewardship Friends ...

As we prepare for the 2006-07 Pledge Drive—"Gather the Spirit"-please begin considering how you might support the Fellowship in the coming year. For your consideration, here is the Fair Share Giving Guide, which can also be found on the UUA website.

To determine income:

INTERNSHIP COMMITTEE

If the Fellowship hosts a ministerial intern in 2006-07, we will need 5 to 7 people to meet with the intern monthly to provide feedback. Please contact me if you would consider such a role. You need not make a firm commitment, but we'd like to gauge interest in this important component of any internship.

- Brenda Witherspoon

MONTHLY POTLUCKS

Since February is Stewardship month, let's concentrate on those specific activities. There will be no potlucks in February, so take advantage of your free night to attend one of the stewardship events. We'll resume potlucks with renewed appetites for food and fellowship on the first weekend in March, March 3, 4, and 5, not the usual second weekend.

- Bobbie Warman

PARTNER CHURCH I

Many thanks to all of you who contributed to the Giving Tree for our Partner Church in Tordátfalva. $xxxx was collected. Another $xxx is being retained as seed money for scholarships for their high school students. Tordátfalva has no high school, so to continue schooling, students have to pay room and board as well as tuition. We're exploring continued funding for this.

- Joan Mathews

PARTNER CHURCH II

Help bring our Tordátfalva Partner Church friends to Ames! The minister, Lajos Lõrinczi, and his wife, Tunde, have been invited to visit us and to attend General Assembly in St. Louis. We also hope to include additional congregation members as funds and frequent flyer miles allow. If you are willing and able to donate funds and/or frequent flyer miles, please contact me. It's about 5,000 miles one-way per person; airfares range between $850 and $1,000 round-trip. The visit will happen mid-June with a "Transylvania Night" party on June 17.

- Deb Kline

UUFA DAYTIME CIRCLE

The Daytime Circle meets at 1:30 p.m. every other Monday (in February that will be Feb. 6 and 20). This is our third year, and we have added three new members in the past three months. We get to know each other by exploring concerns that we share. If you're curious, please come to the Tower Room and join us, or call me for more information.

- Susan Franzen

UUFA WOMEN'S BOOK GROUP

Please join us at the Book Group in the Tower Room at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 6. We will be discussing From Here You Can't See Paris by Michael S. Sanders. This book is a leisurely exploration of life in a hilltop village in a remote corner of France untouched by the modern era, a story of its struggle to survive, of a dead artist whose legacy began its rebirth, and of a chef and his wife, whose bustling restaurant-the village's sole business-has helped ensure the village's future.

The Book Group always meets the first Monday of the month. Our calendar for the rest of the year includes Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik (March 6), Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (April 3), Nine Tailors by Dorothy Sayers (May 1), and Mermaid's Chair by Sue Monk Kidd (June 5).

- Barbi Greenlaw

UUFA WRITING GROUP

Is "putting pen to paper" (or fingers to computer keyboard) one of your New Year's resolutions? Are bits of poetry or scraps of memoir floating about in your mind waiting for you to translate them to writing? Have you been writing for ages and want a thoughtful and welcoming audience for your efforts? Are you not yet writing but want to be inspired by the writing efforts of comrades? Then we have just the group for you: the UUFA Writing Group meets the second Monday of the month, 7 to 9 p.m., in the Tower Room. Our next meeting is Feb. 13.

- Barbi Greenlaw

Stewardship gifts of volunteering time and talent are making the improvement and expansion of the Dustin Berger Memorial Library a reality. So many people have helped with building items for the library, providing computer support, working with labelers and card pockets, figuring out a cataloging scheme, and much more. Our UU library is becoming a truly wonderful place to spend quiet, reflective time. Here is a place that's available for volunteers of all ages-providing an opportunity to help the library grow and develop, and also providing an opportunity for you to use the library for your own personal growth. It's a win-win situation!

Contact any library committee member for more information (Anita Beal and Barb Abbott, co-chairs, and Roger Berger, Tom Muhlenbruch, and Benette Sherman). And drop in and take a look around. It's your library.

60TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UUFA

This will be a very special year for our Fellowship. We can expect a celebration of all the vision and dedication of the members who have gone before us—and a gala event for us just for being here to enjoy it! From 1946-47, when we became one of the first three fellowships in the country, our members have given generously of their money as well as their time. Imagination and hope were important components of the group. Bobbie Warman tells the story from around 1960 when our number had dwindled to just six families. They met to decide what to do with the $50 left in the treasury. The decision was made to start a building fund with it. It was not long afterwards that Roy Warman found the lots now occupied by this building. By 1970, we dedicated this building. We have extensive archives showing these and many other people and events in our history. Thanks to the Archives Committees of the past, under the leadership of Janet Klaas and Barbie Greenlaw, we have several scrapbooks; two file cabinets of clippings, directories, and other materials; tapes of most Sunday programs; boxes of photos; and memoirs of members. These need to be made accessible to anyone who is interested in them. If you would like to adopt a project, here's a sampling:

• Make scrapbooks (we have ten matching archival scrapbooks).
• Copy articles from newsprint articles taken from bulletin board and file them in the archival files in the office.
• Scan slides and photos so that they will be digitally available. (We have a 120GB portable hard drive for storage.)
• Inventory and catalog so people know what is available and where.
• Record oral histories from long-time members.
• Contact former members for interviews.

There's a lot to be done, with plenty of opportunities for creativity as well as perseverance.

- Susan Franzen

Book Review - Mary Richards
February, 2006*

Darwin's Dangerous Idea

by Daniel C. Dennett

© 1995 Simon & Schuster

Let me start by saying it's a dangerous idea to assign me the task of choosing just any book from our Fellowship library to read and review. You never know what you might get. Some of you might remember from a 2005 summer program my fascination with studies of evolution and the writings of Richard Dawkins. Well, I've found another "hero" in the field of explaining evolutionary ideas so that the non-scientifically trained (like me) can understand them. Dennett and Dawkins are contemporaries and mutual fans of each other's work. One significant difference is that Dennett is trained as a philosopher, while Dawkins's background is in zoology, but their insights and investigations work together hand-in-glove.

Perhaps you might think that a book a decade old would be hopelessly out of date in a field like evolutionary studies, where mind-boggling discoveries seem to be made in quick succession these days. This book, however, has an element of timelessness because it seeks to explain why the Darwinian premise concerning the existence and evolution of life "works" and is the only theory we have that stands up under rigorous scientific (and philosophical) testing. His is one of the clearest explanations I've found about why "luck-of-the-draw" coin-toss algorithmic processes can end up producing sharks and sequoias and Shakespeare. He thoughtfully provides at the end of each chapter a summary of the information in that chapter and a brief statement of what he will present in the next. And he writes with clarity and humor-not exactly easy things to achieve given the complexity of the subject matter. An example: "Imagination is cheap if we don't have to bother with the details."

Dennett does not shy away from talking about the appeal and staying power of faith-based interpretations of the origins and varieties of life on this planet. He calls such approaches "sky-hooks", those physically impossible constructs that can be called on in imagination, à la Superman, to get one out of the way of an exploding volcano, say, or a thundering avalanche. And he proceeds to show how the origins of life and subsequent evolutionary complexities can instead be explained by "cranes"—mechanisms that are physically possible. "Design" is a part of the world as we know it, in Dennett's discussion, but the "Intelligence" needed to perform it can be explained by the idea that "this Intelligence could be broken into bits so tiny and stupid that they didn't count as intelligence at all"... in other words, bits that together make up the algorithmic processes of evolution.

Giving a really complete review of this book would require several things: a lot more space than is available here; a better grounding in philosophy and science than I possess; and having completely read the whole book. But I can tell you that I am thoroughly enjoying it, and that I find it greatly expanding my familiarity with both Darwin's dangerous idea and the efforts of some to resist its truths. As Dennett says: "There is no future in a sacred myth. Why not? Because of our curiosity... Whatever we hold precious, we cannot protect it from our curiosity, because being who we are, one of the things we deem precious is the truth." So if you're curious about this topic, plan to check this book out of the Dustin Berger Library when I return it!

*We hope to make book reviews a regular feature. Wouldn't you like to do one?

From the president

Where Do We Stand?

In the current incarnation of my home office hangs a poster from when I lived in New Zealand. It shows a woman and a man in the background and a stream cascading down a mountain between two stands of native trees. Below, on a background of indigenous carvings, are the words mana whenua.

Mana whenua is a phrase that speaks both to drawing strength from the land and having a responsibility toward that land. It speaks not to ownership but to a collective exercise of guardianship.

As I think of our Unitarian Universalist Fellowship and the notion of stewardship, this idea of mana whenua resonates for me. As many of us are wrapping up three years of capital pledges, we are surely aware of our ownership (still in conjunction with our bank) of the building itself. But I think many of us also recognize a more holistic sense of ownership, one that means taking responsibility, as when we speak of owning our thoughts and our actions.

We share an ownership, then, that is expressed as collective guardianship. By our chosen affiliation, we are entrusted with not just sustaining our vital community but leaving it better than when we arrived. We are entrusted with helping it grow in depth and breadth. We are entrusted with eventually handing it off to children-ours and those of people we've never met-as the precious inheritance it is.
The idea of mana whenua is also entangled in my mind with another Maori concept, that of turangawaewae, which speaks to a place to belong or a place to stand—not physically but in the sense of what affirms and validates our identity.

I believe our Fellowship offers this place to stand. For some of it, it is one of many anchors; for others, it is by far the heaviest of those anchors. We invest in our homes and families, which are also places to stand. We invest in our passions, whether they are expressed in our careers or as release from the world's daily expectations. We should invest no less in our Fellowship, in recognition of what it offers each of us and what it offers our community and world.

In a group such as ours, though, it can be hard to know what responsible guardianship looks like for any individual person or family. I urge you to look at the fair-share giving guide printed in this newsletter, rather than simply considering what you might have done in the past, here or elsewhere. A formula that accompanies the chart allows you to adapt for unique family circumstances. But the chart itself offers some grounding, some sense of appropriate place, to consider along with other criteria you use to make your decisions.

Giving to that which we believe in should be rewarding. Paying the bills is a need in the present; investing in intangible growth and possibility is a statement to each other and to the world about where we stand now and into the future.

- Brenda

Next Board Meetings:
7pm Wednesday, February 8
7pm Wednesday, March 8