Brian Moore — Going With The Flow
2023-05-21 10:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Sunday Service — 10:30 a.m.
Leader — Jen Gibson
Speaker — Brian Moore
Title — Going With The Flow

Topic — The Tao and water are synonymous according to the teachings of Lao-tzu. You are water; water is you. We will explore the parallels between you and this naturally flowing substance that allows life to sustain itself. When you’re free to flow as water, you’re free to communicate naturally-information is exchanged, and knowledge advances in a way that benefits everyone.

Bio — Brian is the Chairman of the Pulpit and Worship Committee at All Souls but back for his 11th talk at the pulpit. Brian has been married to Jacqueline for 30 years, Owner of the Mid-Ohio Supply Company for 40 years and looking forward to life at 60. Brian has 2 cats, 3 dogs, over 35 fish, 2 grown children and 3 grandchildren. Brian is the curator of Sacred Stones Mystical Farm. Brian has a love for gardening, yardwork, cooking and plays music with his wife in the duo known as Tao Bridge. Brian loves being a Unitarian Universalist and serving the Church.

Fellowship has returned. Join us downstairs after service for coffee and conversation.
*Masks are requested in the building*

Board Meeting
2023-05-28 09:00 - 10:00, 2023-06-25 09:00 - 10:00 | All Souls Church Basement, 25 Church St, Bellville, OH, 44813, United States
All Souls board meeting starting at 9 a.m.
*Masks requested*

Rev. Will Humphrey — In the Care of Souls: Service and Meaning Making
2023-05-28 10:30 - 12:00 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Sunday Service — 10:30 a.m.
Leader — Hayley Young
Speaker — Rev. Will Humphrey
Topic — In the Care of Souls: Service and Meaning Making
Bio — Serving as our part-time parish minister, he was ordained with us and has served us since 2015. Rev. Will is also the settled minister of East Shore UU Church. Rev Will is active with anti-racism work within Knox, Richland, and Wayne Counties and throughout the state; he works with the Heritage Universalist groups, including the Universalist Convocation, and Rev Will is active within the Central East Region’s Summer Institute, serving on the ministry/chaplain team for the past four years. Passionate about liberation theological perspectives and eco-feminism, Rev Will advocates for LGBTQ+ rights, anti-racism and economic justice, affirming the worth and dignity of each person, fighting for justice, equity, and compassion in human relations. Rev Will believes that “the foundation of our faith, as Unitarian Universalists, is the Love that we live in our interactions and our daily Social Justice work.
Fellowship has returned. Join us downstairs after service for coffee and conversation.

*Masks are requested in the building*

Potluck
2023-05-28 12:00 - 14:00, 2023-06-25 12:00 - 14:00 | All Souls Church Basement, 25 Church St, Bellville, OH, 44813, United States
Join us after service for our end of the month potluck meal. If you are interested in bringing a dish, there will be a sign up list at the church.
We hope to see you there!!!

Questions For Your Answers
2023-05-31 10:00 - 11:30, 2023-06-28 10:00 - 11:30 | Bob Evans @ Hanley Rd., 30 W. Hanley Rd., Mansfield, OH, 44903, United States
Join us for our monthly meeting starting at 10 a.m.
Bob Evans on Hanley Road in Mansfield.
There we will discuss life, faith, and anything you want.

Wine with Friends
2023-06-01 19:00 - 21:00 | All Souls Church Basement, 25 Church St, Bellville, OH, 44813, United States
June 1 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Join members of the church and bring a friend for an evening of wine and conversation.
.Jackie will be offering an Animal spirit tarot card night. Everyone draws a card to find and learn about their wild unknown animal spirit.
Thursday June 1st at 7 p.m. in the church basement.
We ask that you bring a bottle of wine to share or a side dish.
There is a $5 suggested donation.
For more information, please see Carla Miller.

Spring Clean Up
2023-06-03 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Join us as we refresh the building of All Souls both inside and out!
We will be available all day for tasks and we can find a time for you to complete an item on the list. We have scheduled June 10th as our rain date for those outside cleaning tasks.
We have lots of tasks both big and small to complete.
See the sign up sheet a church or contact Rob Gibson for more information.

Wendy Bartlett — Proud Out Loud: Why PRIDE Month is Every UU’s Celebration
2023-06-04 10:30 - 12:00 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Sunday Service — 10:30 a.m.
Leader — Bambi Gordon
Speaker — Wendy Bartlett
Title and Topic — Proud Out Loud: Why PRIDE Month is Every UU’s Celebration

Wear your rainbows! We kick off PRIDE month with much singing, joy, (and maybe, just maybe, a little dancing), as we celebrate prominent LGBTQIA+ UUs past and present and our role in speaking up and out for a rainbow of rights.
Bio — Wendy Bartlett has served as the Collection Development & Acquisitions Manager for Cuyahoga County Public Library since 2008. Wendy graduated from the Unitarian Universalist House of Studies with a Master of Divinity degree. She is involved with social justice issues including anti-racism and LGBTQ+ concerns. She lives with her grown-up son, a cat, and a grandcat in Fairlawn, Ohio.

Join us downstairs after service for coffee and conversation.
*Masks are requested in the building*

Annual Congregational Meeting
2023-06-04 12:30 - 14:30 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Sunday, June 4 at 12:30 pm
All are welcome to attend this annual business meeting.
Members will be voting to elect individuals for several board and trustee positions:
• Treasurer
• Religious Education
• Secretary
• Pastoral Care
Interested in running for a position?
Contact John Corba or Ed Fox for more information.

ACIM
2023-06-07 18:30 - 20:30, 2023-06-21 18:30 - 20:30, 2023-07-05 18:30 - 20:30, 2023-07-19 18:30 - 20:30 | All Souls Church Basement, 25 Church St, Bellville, OH, 44813, United States
Join Dr. Walter Kania for his bi-monthly class A Course In Miracles
Come down to our church basement at 6:30 p.m.

Spring Clean Up Rain Date
2023-06-10 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813

Rev. Dr. Elaine Strawn — Mysticism in Real Time
2023-06-11 10:30 - 12:00 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Sunday Service — 10:30 a.m.
Leader — Fonda Kendrick
Speaker — Rev. Dr. Elaine Strawn
Title — Mysticism in Real Time
Topic — In the 13th century of the common era, Rumi wrote this challenge:
You are a mountain full of gold.
Open the mine.
Let the mountain speak.
Hear what happens.
—Rumi (translation by Haleh Liza Gafori)
The mystics of all religious traditions seek an intimate relationship with God. Revelation is always happening. But it comes when we take time to put our assumptions aside and become open to the sacred wisdom within us.
Bio — Rev. Dr. Elaine served as the settled minister in the UU Fellowship of Wayne County in Wooster for 23 years before semi-retiring. She now co-chairs the regional Commissioned Lay Ministry Council and offers Spiritual Direction to a wide variety of people. Walking, gardening and tai chi keep her grounded and inspired.

Join us downstairs after service for coffee and conversation.
*Masks are requested in the building*

Illuman Men’s Council
2023-06-15 18:00 - 20:30, 2023-07-20 18:00 - 20:30 | All Souls Church Basement, 25 Church St, Bellville, OH, 44813, United States
Join Charlie Myking, Council Carrier, for this monthly group starting at 6:15 p.m.
Please RSVP to Charlie if you plan to attend by emailing him at cking62781@gmail.com

Open Mic Night Coffee House
2023-06-16 19:00 - 21:00 | All Souls Church Basement, 25 Church St, Bellville, OH, 44813, United States
Open Mic Night Coffee House
Join us tonight at 7 p.m. in the basement of the church.
Bring your poetry, writings, or songs for an evening of sharing with a cup of brewed beans.
Please consider bringing a favorite coffee blend or creamer to share.

Christopher Reynolds — The Oran Mor, the Great Mystery, and the Tao: May The Flame of the Chalice Sing.
2023-06-18 10:30 - 12:00 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Sunday Service — 10:30 a.m.
Leader — Reed Richmond
Speaker — Christopher Reynolds
Title — The Oran Mor, the Great Mystery, and the Tao: May The Flame of the Chalice Sing.

Topic — Oran Mor is Gaelic for “Great Song” or “Melody of Life.” Remembrance of The Oran Mor offers those of us with European ancestry insights into the Wakan Tanka, the “Great Mystery” of Indigenous wisdom and the Tao of the East. When we sing together with one heart and one mind for the good of all beings, past, present, and future, we know again the Beauty that makes life worth living. With our hearts thus enlivened, we more easily recognize that same Beauty in others, in all that lives, in our enemies, and in ourselves.

Join Christopher Reynolds for stories, sacred geometry and songs that renew one of the central meanings of the Unitarian Universalists’ flaming chalice.

Bio — F. Christopher Reynolds, M.Ed., is a singer, teacher and roving shaman. His mission is to sing, to teach, to heal the peace of dreaming onward. He does this through songs, chants, writings, ritual, concerts and workshops. He is a singer songwriter with 20 releases. He is the lead author on the only publications on depth psychology, soul, creativity, and giftedness. He is also published in organic creativity in the language classroom. Chris is the founder of No Man’s Folk. He is a co-founder of archetypal ecology. He assists in facilitation rituals for returning veterans with Warriors Journey Home. Learn more at his website: urrealist.com.

Join us downstairs after service for coffee and conversation.
*Masks are requested in the building*

Summer Solstice Service
2023-06-20 19:00 - 21:00 | North Shelterhouse Mohican State Park
Join us at the North Shelter house in Mohican State Park at 7 p.m. for our first Summer Solstice Service.

Brian Moore — Humility
2023-06-25 10:30 - 12:00 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Sunday Service — 10:30 a.m.
Leader — Jacqueline Moore
Speaker — Brian Moore

Title — Humility
Topic — Cramming life with possessions, pride, and activities when we’ve obviously reached a point where more is less indicates being in harmony with ego, not the Tao. As the eternal Tao is in a continuous state of creating, it knows precisely when enough is enough. I will invite my listeners to be in spiritual rapport with this characteristic of the Tao.
Bio — Brian is the Chairman of the Pulpit and Worship Committee at All Souls but back for his 11th talk at the pulpit. Brian has been married to Jacqueline for 30 years, Owner of the Mid-Ohio Supply Company for 40 years and looking forward to life at 60. Brian has 2 cats, 3 dogs, over 35 fish, 2 grown children and 3 grandchildren. Brian is the curator of Sacred Stones Mystical Farm. Brian has a love for gardening, yardwork, cooking and plays music with his wife in the duo known as Tao Bridge. Brian loves being a Unitarian Universalist and serving the Church.

Potluck to follow
Join us downstairs after service for coffee and conversation.
*Masks are requested in the building*

Matthew 25 Outreach Volunteer Day
2023-07-01 | OH
Join us on July 1st at 8 a.m. to help distribute food to our community.
A sign up sheet will be available at church.
We will meet at Mansfield Senior High School located at
124 North Linden Road
Mansfield, OH, 44906
Community ministry is care for the world outside the walls of the local congregation. Community ministry has deep roots within Unitarian Universalist movement, dating back to Joseph Tuckerman’s pioneering work among the poor of Boston in the 1820s. Today, community ministry is a growing and thriving vocation for both lay and ordained people. https://www.uua.org/careers/ministers/community

Rev. Sam Byrd —“Be Happy No Matter What" – 2 Steps to Inner Freedom
2023-07-02 10:30 - 12:00 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Sunday Service — 10:30 a.m.
Leader — Jen Gibson
Speaker — Rev. Sam Byrd
Title — “Be Happy No Matter What” – 2 Steps to Inner Freedom
Bio — Rev. Sam Byrd is a graduate of Methodist Theological School. He has a Master of Theology and a Master of Divinity. He has two sons and two grandchildren. He lives in Homerville with eight dogs, three cats, and fiancée Vikki. He is currently teaching Intro to World Religions at Lorain County Community College. As a transgender man he is active in the local LGBTQ+ community.
Fellowship has returned. Join us downstairs after service for coffee and conversation.

*Masks are requested in the building*

Wine with Friends
2023-07-06 19:00 - 21:00 | All Souls Church Basement, 25 Church St, Bellville, OH, 44813, United States
Join members of the church and bring a friend for an evening of wine and conversation.
We will be enjoying: Reds, Whites, and Blue…wines of the Willamette
and Russian River Valley
Thursday July 6th at 7 p.m. in the church basement.
We ask that you bring a bottle of wine to share or a side dish.
There is a $5 suggested donation.
For more information, please see Carla Miller.

Ron Boyd — Walking the Way of Spirit On Native American Journeys
2023-07-09 10:30 - 12:00 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Sunday Service — 10:30 a.m.
Leader — Hayley Young
Speaker — Ron Boyd
Title — Walking the Way of Spirit On Native American Journeys
Topic — Starting in 2016 life took me in directions I could not have anticipated. On my own personal growth journey, part of that journey was internal, other parts of it required journeying outward. I will share with you portions of that journey both internal and external. Some of it required travelling to spend time with Native or First Nation people, learning some about their history and perspective, and understanding the importance of sharing that journey with you.
Bio — In 2016 Ron founded his organization Mystic Spirit Presentations which serves to inform, educate, and inspire interested parties throughout Ohio and beyond. He is the past president of Merging Hearts Spiritual Center in Canton Ohio, where he led numerous programs on topics pertaining to spiritual growth, religious education, and environmental education.
Ron attended and served his local UU congregation for over 20 years, a twice past president of his local congregation, and has spoken for numerous UU congregations and religious organizations over the years. He speaks on a variety of topics, drawing from a diverse range of sources. He is a strong advocate for finding solutions for our current environmental issues, and sees this as one of the most critical moral issues we are facing in our time.
Ron sees our values as UU’s lead us into a wider circle that eventually expands to include the entire planet. We do not seek to make others believe exactly like us but rather to become more inclusive in our diversity and acceptance, with the goal of a world community united in the bond of love.
Fellowship has returned. Join us downstairs after service for coffee and conversation.

*Masks are requested in the building*

Ric Sheffield — We Got By: A Black Family’s Journey in the Heartland
2023-07-16 10:30 - 12:00 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Sunday Service — 10:30 a.m.
Leader — Bambi Gordon
Speaker — Ric Sheffield
Title — We Got By: A Black Family’s Journey in the Heartland.
Topic —Life along the color line in rural Ohio was hard. Being Black often meant feeling frightened and alone. For a family like Ric S. Sheffield’s, examining this reality closely meant confronting challenges and tragedies that often felt overwhelming, even as their odyssey also included the joyful and inspiring. Navigating day-to-day existence in a world where trusting white neighbors required a careful mixture of caution and faith, Sheffield and his kin existed in a space where they were both seen and unseen.
Spanning four generations and assessing the legacies of traumatic events (arrests, murders, suicide) that are inextricable from the racial dynamics of the small community his family called home, this gripping memoir is a heartfelt, clear-eyed, and rare chronicle of Black life in the rural Midwest. Experiencing the burden of racism among people who refused to accept that such a thing existed only made the isolation feel that much worse to Sheffield and his relatives. And yet, they overcame the obstacles and managed to persist: they got by.
I am very pleased to announce the publication of my new book, We Got By: A Black Family’s Journey in the Heartland. Filled with revealing glimpses of life along the color line for 4 generations of my family, I hope you find the stories that I share in this book to be both touching and inspiring. Thank you for your support and encouragement for the various projects that I’ve undertaken to explore notions of rural diversity and the Black experience in small town America. The paperback is available for pre-ordering. You can find the book on Amazon here. You can also order it directly from the publisher and receive a 35% discount by using the code GOTBY (case sensitive) for a limited time. using the link here. Be sure to enter the code and click “Apply Code” to get the discount when you are checking out.
Bio — Professor Emeritus Ric S. Sheffield, author of We Got By: A Black Family’s Journey in the Heartland, has researched, taught, written, and lectured extensively about rural diversity in general, and the Black experience in small town America in particular. As co-director (with Prof. Howard Sacks, Kenyon College) of the award-winning Community Within: Black Experience in Knox County, Ohio project and co-director (with Prof. Brooke Bryan, Antioch College) of the Great Lakes Colleges Association’s (GLCA) Oral History in the Liberal Arts (OHLA) program, he has designed and executed projects intended to explore minority communities in small town America. He also offers workshops on exploring diversity in rural geographies and cultural contexts.
Fellowship has returned. Join us downstairs after service for coffee and conversation.

*Masks are requested in the building*

Rev. Joan VanBecelaere — Stories of Challenge and Change
2023-07-23 10:30 - 12:00 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Sunday Service — 10:30 a.m.
Leader — Reed Richmond
Speaker — Rev. Joan VanBecelaere
Title — Stories of Challenge and Change
Topic — Summer is a perfect time for stories. On Sunday July 23 we will hear several different kinds of stories including folk tales, wisdom stories, a modern parable and even a story from the Bible. These are stories that may help us understand others and ourselves a bit better. Stories that speak to our lives and the world we live in. Stories that challenge and change.
Bio — Rev. Joan VanBecelaere is a retired Unitarian Universalist community minister living in Columbus, Ohio. Prior to retirement, she was the Executive Director of Unitarian Universalist Justice Ohio where she worked in collaboration with dozens of local, statewide and national non-profits, voter advocacy groups and other social justice organizations.
Rev. VanBecelaere currently serves on the board of the StoryTellers of Central Ohio and believes that effective story work can help us understand ourselves, one another and change minds and hearts.
Prior to her work with UU Justice Ohio, Rev VanBecelaere was regional Lead with the Central East Region, district executive for the old Ohio Meadville District,, vice president for student services at Iliff School of Theology in Denver CO, and taught as an adjunct instructor in UU polity.
She is a member of the North Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Lewis Center, Ohio. She lives in Columbus with her spouse, Jerry, and four very active felines.
Fellowship has returned. Join us downstairs after service for coffee and conversation.
*Masks are requested in the building*
