All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church

Sacred Fire Winter Solstice Ceremony
2022-12-18 13:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Sacred Stones Mystical Farm, 3072 State Route 430, Mansfield, OH, 44903, United States
After Christopher Reynolds service at All Souls, join us at Sacred Stones Mystical Farm for our annual Sacred Fire. We will also be enjoying a potluck lunch at 1 p.m. and the Ceremony will start at 2:00.

ACIM
2022-12-21 18:30 - 21:00, 2023-01-18 18:30 - 20:30, 2023-02-01 18:30 - 20:30, 2023-02-15 18:30 - 20:30 | All Souls Fellowship Hall, 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.

Spirit and Hymns
2022-12-22 18:30 - 21:00 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Join us on December 22nd for our annual Spirit and Hymns (formerly Beer and Hymns)
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and singing begins at 7 p.m.
We will sing holiday songs and enjoy a drink or two.
Consider bringing a side dish or a donation.

Candlelight Service -- Christmas Eve
2022-12-24 18:00 - 19:00 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Candlelight Service – 6 p.m.
Speaker – Rev. Will Humphrey
Leader – Jen Gibson
Please dress weather appropriate as we will be outside for a part of the service.
Bio — Rev. Will Humphrey served two Lutheran (ELCA) congregations as a youth pastor and a Church of Christ congregation as an educator prior to coming to All Souls. Serving as our parish minister, he was ordained with us and has served us since 2015. Rev. Will is bi-vocational, serving also as a public school educator. 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 three 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 not available at this time.
*Mask are requested in the building*

Christmas Day Closed
2022-12-25 | Ohio
We will be closed to services on Christmas Day. Please join us on Christmas Eve.

Questions for Your Answers
2022-12-28 10:00 - 11:30 | Bob Evans @ Hanley Rd., 30 W. Hanley Rd., Mansfield, OH, 44903, United States
Join us for our monthly meeting at Bob Evans on Hanley Road in Mansfield.
There we will discuss life, faith, and anything you want.

Cancelled -- Gentle Restorative Yoga with Karli Amstadt
2022-12-28 20:00 - 21:00 | All Souls Fellowship Hall, 25 Church St, Bellville, OH, 44813, United States
Gentle Restorative Yoga — Cancelled
Hosted by Karli Amstadt
Wednesday, December 28 at 8:00 pm in the church basement.
Free to members; any and all donations will go to a charity supporting Ukraine.

Rev. Will Humphrey -- Happy New Year!
2023-01-01 10:30 - 12:00 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Sunday Service — 10:30 a.m.
Leader — Kristin Ellis
Speaker — Rev. Will Humphrey
Title — Happy New Year!
Topic — Meaning making with a new year and true self
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*

Cancelled -- ACIM
2023-01-04 18:30 - 20:30 | All Souls Fellowship Hall, 25 Church St, Bellville, OH, 44813, United States
Cancelled.
Please join us later this month for this class.
Join Dr. Walter Kania for his bi-monthly class A Course In Miracles
Come down to our church basement at 6:30 p.m.

Wine with Friends
2023-01-05 19:00 - 21:00 | All Souls Fellowship Hall, 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 Sparkling Wines.
Thursday January 5th 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.

Board Meeting
2023-01-08 09:00 - 10:00, 2023-02-26 09:00 - 10:00 | All Souls Fellowship Hall, 25 Church St, Bellville, OH, 44813, United States
All Souls board meeting starting at 9 a.m.
*Masks requested*

Elaine Tanner -- Appalachian Roots
2023-01-08 10:30 - 12:00 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Sunday Service — 10:30 a.m.
Leader — Bambi Gordon
Speaker — Elaine Tanner
Title — “Appalachian Roots” grow strong when the time comes to step up and find a way to support these impacted mountain communities.
Topic — On the morning of July 28th , 2022, a foot of rain was dumped in our mountain streams in just a few short hours. We will talk about the days that followed showing how people stepped up to help when we needed them most. Our priority was to make sure everyone was accounted for. Next, we had to make sure everyone had access to food and water. We housed and fed support teams that came to help dig out those hit hardest by the storm. We will look at where we are today and what the next steps will be as we rebuild from the ground up in many places.
“We were the fortunate ones living up in a holler where the water did rise 6 feet in the creek as it filled with stone and silt leaving the water little choice but to rise. It was 2 o’clock in the morning when the power went out. It was two days before we could get off the mountain to see the damage done. We are used to good rainfall in these mountains, but we are not used to 12-14 inches of rain in a few short hours followed by another rainfall the following day. This rain dumped on an entire region running off all our hollers at the same time. It took two weeks to clear some of the roads. People lost bridges and lost access to food and water. Others floated away in their sleep. The count rose to 41 dead today when the last missing body was discovered. The first few days the Appalachian Roots grew deep, and people connected to the community brought in water and supplies. Next came the environmental Friends and. org’s bringing in generators, tools and cleaning supplies. Then came the Churches and our Mighty Muckers came to the rescue. Finally the government came with the relief programs and helped to access the damage. We are in a remote holler and are on a long list to have our road and culverts repaired…still.”
Bio — Elaine Tanner, Friends For Environmental Justice founding now program director comes to you telling of the stories that plague our Appalachian mountain mining communities. Up until three years ago I lived and worked in the Ashland Richland area addressing environmental issues taking place around oil and gas storage and production locally and on a regional level around water quality and addressing policy that would improve the current conditions. In 2019 we relocated to Southeastern Kentucky challenging mining operations taking place in the Cumberland mountains of Appalachia. My roots run deep and wide in the Appalachian Mountains. My mother was from the coal fields of West Virginia and my father was from the Daniel Boone National Forest in Kentucky. As a child I saw the best and then I saw the ways industry disregarded the people and the environment. Today I live with my partner in SE Kentucky on a property that has been in his family for 6 generations. Some 20 years ago he purchased his 245-acre family homestead at auction. We planned to retire and enjoy the life on the mountains we remembered as a child. The plan was spoiled when it was discovered legacy mining had plagued the area having been stripped, gutted and fracked. We found the water was only fit to flush toilets and filed a Safe Drinking Water Petition and got water for 97 families in our community. By this time, we discovered the state of Kentucky inadvertently approved mining permits that were created under fraudulent conditions. This started a 20-year road to activism. Three years ago, we finally moved to the mountain. The conditions here have been challenging to say the least. Post and Pre Law mining have left us living under old mines that fill up with water and on several events since we have been here have caused mud and rockslides to come within feet of our backdoor. We are challenging this action through an administrative rule case we filed back in 2008. We appealed the cabinet’s ruling in circuit court and the judge ruled in our favor. The cabinet challenged the court’s decision, and we are preparing to take this to the next level, the Kentucky Supreme court
Fellowship has returned. Join us downstairs after service for coffee and conversation.
*Masks are requested in the building*

Cancelled -- Gentle Restorative Yoga with Karli Amstadt
2023-01-11 20:00 - 21:00 | All Souls Fellowship Hall, 25 Church St, Bellville, OH, 44813, United States
This event is cancelled until further notice.
Gentle Restorative Yoga
Hosted by Karli Amstadt
Wednesday, January 11th at 8:00 pm in the church basement.
Free to members; any and all donations will go to a charity supporting Ukraine.

Christopher Reynolds -- You Are Not Alone In This Darkness
2023-01-15 10:30 - 12:00 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Sunday Service — 10:30 a.m.
Leader — Fonda Kendrick
Speaker — Christopher Reynolds
Title — You Are Not Alone In This Darkness: The Importance of Sharing Winter Dreamwork
Topic — There is an Indigenous habit of sharing dreams in winter. The Cayuga, for example, say that winter dreams unshared will make you crazy. This is because when our homeland is coldest and darkest, we dream the deepest. We dream for and with each other about the future. Winter dreams then, are not private property. Dreams from our deepest darkness belong to all. We don’t have to carry them alone.
Join Chris Reynolds for songs, stories, and strategies on how we can honor the dreams of the children, the elderly, adolescents, adults, elders, all persons. He will also speak about his experience of sharing dreams with others working for democracy on the planet in Scotland, Ireland, UK, Wales, and Canada.
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.
Fellowship has returned. Join us downstairs after service for coffee and conversation.
*Masks are requested in the building*

Illuman Men’s Council
2023-01-19 18:00 - 20:30, 2023-02-16 18:00 - 20:30 | All Souls Fellowship Hall, 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

Sam Byrd -- “Be Happy” No Matter What
2023-01-22 10:30 - 12:00 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Sunday Service — 10:30 a.m.
Leader — Brian Moore
Speaker — Sam Byrd
Title — “Be Happy” No Matter What
Topic — Two 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 2 grandchildren.. He lives in Homerville with six dogs and 3 cats. 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*

Questions for Your Answers
2023-01-25 10:00 - 11:00, 2023-02-22 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.

Rev. Will Humphrey -- Building community amongst our differences
2023-01-29 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. Will Humphrey
Title/Topic — Building community amongst our differences
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.
Potluck to follow service
Fellowship has returned. Join us downstairs after service for coffee and conversation.
*Masks are requested in the building*

Potluck
2023-01-29 12:00 - 14:00 | All Souls Fellowship Hall, 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!!!

Wine with Friends
2023-02-02 19:00 - 21:00 | All Souls Fellowship Hall, 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 and Rose
Thursday February 2nd 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.

Wendy Bartlett -- Kindred: The Power and Prescience of Octavia E. Butler
2023-02-05 10:30 - 12:00 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Sunday Service — 10:30 a.m.
Leader — Kristin Ellis
Speaker — Wendy Bartlett
Title — Kindred: The Power and Prescience of Octavia E. Butler
Topic — For decades, author Octavia E. Butler was something of a hidden figure among futuristic fiction writers, thanks to mainstream white culture. Black, poor, and brilliant, her visions of what society might become are only now beginning to be recognized for their power and genius. Come find out why Octavia E. Butler belongs on your “Must Read” list for 2023.
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.
Fellowship has returned. Join us downstairs after service for coffee and conversation.

*Masks are requested in the building*

Rev. James "Seamus" Dillard -- Saint Brigid
2023-02-12 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. James “Seamus” Dillard
Title — Saint Brigid
Topic — From Pagan Goddess to Catholic Saint, Brigid has long been worshiped in Ireland. Let’s explore the myth and history concerning her.
Bio — Rev. James “Seamus” Dillard has been active in the Columbus Ohio Pagan community for over 19 years and is been a member of ADF (ÁrnDraíocht Féin: A Druid Fellowship), RDNA (Reformed Druids of North America and founder of The Columbus Sanctuary.
He has served ADF both locally and internationally including as Vice Archdruid, Warrior Guild Chief and Senior Druid. Seamus has co-written or contributed to three books, Fire on our Hearth, Call of the Crane and Pagan Fires: Ritual Fundamentals and wrote the ADF Warrior’s Guild 1st Circle Training Program and companion book Modern Day Warrior. He is currently writing a book on root-working.
Seamus has also given workshops around the US, including Universal Life Expo, Earth Warriors Festival, Desert Magic Festival, Trillium Gathering, Wellspring Festival, Summerlands Festival, Sirius Rising Festival, and Starwood Festival, among others.
He follows Hoodoo, Asatru’ (Norse) and Druid paths.
Fellowship has returned. Join us downstairs after service for coffee and conversation.
*Masks are requested in the building*

Galentine's Day
2023-02-12 13:00 - 15:00 | All Souls Fellowship Hall, 25 Church St, Bellville, OH, 44813, United States
Join us this Sunday after fellowship for Galentine’s Day.
Our annual event is back and we look forward to seeing you there. If you have any questions, you may post here or email Fonda at allsoulsohio@gmail.com

Rev. Dr. Elaine Strawn -- “The Unmistakable Benefits of Awe “
2023-02-19 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. Dr. Elaine Strawn
Title — “The Unmistakable Benefits of Awe “
Topic — We take vitamins, drink 8 glasses of water a day, get our 7k steps in…or we try. And yet health experts miss the spiritual daily requirement: one dose of awe. One daily dose of comprehending that we are part of something larger and that we are not alone feeds our psychological, spiritual and physical self. One daily dose of awe.
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.
Fellowship has returned. Join us downstairs after service for coffee and conversation.
*Masks are requested in the building*
