All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church

Adult RE Book Discussion
2022-06-05 09:00 - 10:00, 2022-05-29 09:00 - 10:00, 2022-05-22 09:00 - 10:00, 2022-05-08 09:00 - 10:00, 2022-05-01 09:00 - 10:00 (America/New_York) | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Adult RE Book Discussion
Sundays 9:00 am
12 Rules For Life by Jordan B. Peterson
We will meet downstairs.
Masks are requested while in the building.

Potluck
2022-05-29 12:00 - 14:00 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
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!!!

Dr. Tim Berra -- Bourbon: What the Educated Drinker Should Know
2022-05-29 10:30 - 12:00 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Sunday Service — 10:30 a.m.
Speaker — Dr. Tim Berra
Leader — Brian Moore
Title — Bourbon: What the Educated Drinker Should Know
Topic — Berra’s latest book is totally different from his previous works. It is entitled Bourbon: What the Educated Drinker Should Know and was published by Acclaim Press in 2019. It defines what can and cannot be called bourbon and discusses the history of this uniquely American beverage. It describes how bourbon is made and explains the mash bill, cooking, fermentation, barrel making, distillation, and aging. The book is lavishly illustrated with Berra’s own color photographs of distilleries taken along Kentucky’s Bourbon Trail.
Bio: Dr. Berra is the former editor of The Ohio Journal of Science and was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Columbus Zoo & Aquarium where he also served on the Conservation and Collection Management Committee. He was also the ichthyological book review editor of Copeia, the journal of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. He resigned these positions at the end of 2000 to pursue fieldwork supported by the National Geographic Society in Australia in 2001. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.
He has done fieldwork on nursery fish in the Northern Territory of Australia and has made 8 research trips there between 2001-2016 resulting in 18 papers on their biology. The males of this bizarre fish carry eggs on a hook on their head.
*Mask are requested in the building*
Fellowship not available at this time.

Questions for Your Answers
2022-05-25 10:00 - 11:30, 2022-04-27 10:00 - 11:30, 2022-03-30 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.

Diane Howard -- Walking the Talk
2022-05-22 10:30 - 12:00 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Sunday Service — 10:30 a.m.
Speaker — Diane Howard
Leader — Reed Richmond
Title — Walking the Talk
Topic — Ways that we can follow through and help our neighbors using scripture references from James 2:15-17 and Luke 10:29-37
Bio — I have served on the board for the Matthew 25 Outreach Center for the past 4 years. Matthew 25 is an organization with the mission “Working together to meet needs as we build relationships” which we do through the distribution of produce in Ashland, Richland, and Wayne Counties. At the Mansfield distribution, my task is to help with the fun food which consists of pastries and snack food donated by an organization located in Wooster. I help organize the bulk food and direct volunteers to box the bulk items into family sized portions and then distribute it to those who come to the drive through distribution. During my service so far, I have helped to write multiple grants so that we can continue to expand our service to those who are hungry in the three counties we serve as well as explore opportunities to expand into other surrounding counties as we know there are many hungry people throughout our corner of the world.
*Mask are requested in the building*
Fellowship not available at this time.

Garland Gates -- Shirttail Relatives
2022-05-15 10:30 - 12:00 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Sunday Service — 10:30 a.m.
Speaker — Garland Gates
Leader — Fonda Kendrick
Title — Shirttail Relatives
Topic — Garland will share the relationship between the UUA and the United Church of Christ.
*Mask are requested in the building*
Fellowship not available at this time.

Board Meeting
2022-05-15 09:00 - 10:00, 2022-04-17 09:00 - 10:00, 2022-03-20 09:00 - 10:00 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
All Souls board meeting starting at 9 a.m.
*Masks requested*

Steve Cook -- Principles and Perpetrators
2022-05-08 10:30 - 12:00 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Sunday Service — 10:30 a.m.
Speaker — Steve Cook
Leader — Bambi Gordon
Title — Principles and Perpetrators
Topic — I speak about how elements of our Principles – justice, equity, dignity and compassion have been useful in the practice of law, using six real-life stories.
Bio — Stephen R. Cook, was Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, Emeritus, and served as Director of the New Business Legal Clinic and the Trial Litigation Clinic at the University of Akron School of Law. He received his B.S. from The University of Maryland, M.A. from Kent State University and J.D. from The University of Akron. Currently he is the Magistrate for the Village of Smithville Mayor’s Court. He is a member of St. Christopher’s Anglican Church. Cook and his wife, Susan, live in Wooster.
*Mask are requested in the building*
Fellowship not available at this time.

Rev. Elaine Strawn -- The Danger of a Single Story
2022-05-01 10:30 - 12:00 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Sunday Service — 10:30 a.m.
Speaker — Rev. Elaine Strawn
Leader — Jen Gibson
Title — “The Danger of a Single Story”
Topic — Chimamanda Ngosi Adichie is a Nigerian author of challenging, enlightening stories, like the 2014 novel, Americanah. Speaking with humor and deep wisdom, her words break through assumptions and invite readers into a wider world.
This is May Day, Beltane, hope awakens into a seemingly broken world. Nature invites into multiple visions of reality.
Bio — Rev. Dr. V. Elaine Strawn 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.
*Mask are requested in the building*
Fellowship not available at this time.

Hayley Young -- Beatles Sunday
2022-04-24 10:30 - 12:00 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Sunday Service — 10:30 a.m.
Speaker — Hayley Young
Leader — Hayley Young
Title: Beatles Sunday
Topic: Come Together as we dive into some of the Fab Four’s most iconic songs that exemplify the human experience.
*Mask are requested in the building*
Fellowship not available at this time.

Flower Communion
2022-04-17 10:30 - 12:00 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Sunday, April 17 during the Service
The Flower Communion is an annual ritual that celebrates beauty, human uniqueness, diversity, and community.
In this ceremony, everyone in the congregation brings a flower. Each person places a flower in a shared vase. The congregation and minister bless the flowers, and they’re redistributed. Each person brings home a different flower than the one they brought.

Rev. Will Humphrey -- Liberation and Hope
2022-04-17 10:30 - 12:00 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Sunday Service — 10:30 a.m.
Speaker — Rev. Will Humphrey
Leader — Kristen Ellis
Title: Liberation and Hope
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.”
*Mask are requested in the building*
Fellowship not available at this time.

John Lorson -- St. Francis and The Rail Trail Naturalist
2022-04-10 10:30 - 12:00 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Sunday Service — 10:30 a.m.
Speaker — John Lorson
Leader — Karen Gotter
Title: St. Francis and The Rail Trail Naturalist
Topic: I will draw upon my experiences–told through photographs and stories–of my daily, year-round bicycle commutes to and from work through rural Wayne and Holmes Counties.
Bio: By day, you might find John Lorson ankle deep in the byproducts of Ohio’s agricultural bounty as Program Administrator for the Wayne Soil and Water Conservation District. While deeply moving in many ways, livestock manure isn’t John’s only passion. He draws great inspiration from his year-round, daily, bicycle commute to and from work in the heart of Ohio’s Amish Country—a Sisyphean journey now in its 15th year. The trip has spawned hundreds of stories that have fueled stand-up bits, keynote presentations and a decades-long presence in newsprint. The thousands of photographs that corroborate those stories have appeared in gallery shows, live presentations and several years of large format calendars. They’ve also spawned a loyal following on Instagram @railtrailnaturalist and Facebook @JohnLorsonSendHelp. John’s nature column “Rail Trail Naturalist” appears twice monthly in “The Bargain Hunter” newspapers in Wayne and Holmes Counties.
When the work, the ride or the countryside fail to fully inspire, the constant cacophony of children, pets and eccentric friends that surround John and his wife of 33 years, artist Kristin Kovach Lorson, always seems to pull through. Many folks know John and Kristin through their weekly humor columns “Send Help” and “Drawing Laughter” a story-and-cartoon collaboration which have collectively appeared in local newspapers in Wayne and Holmes counties every week for over 25 years.
*Mask are requested in the building*
Fellowship not available at this time.

New Member Class
2022-04-03 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-03-27 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-03-20 12:00 - 13:00 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Rev. Will Humphrey is holding a series of three classes for anyone wishing to become a member of All Souls. These will be held after service.
*Mask are requested in the building*

Ron Boyd -- Ancient Egyptian Origins of Bible Teachings
2022-04-03 10:30 - 12:00 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Sunday Service — 10:30 a.m.
Speaker: Ron Boyd
Leader: Brian Moore
Title: Ancient Egyptian Origins of Bible Teachings
Topic: Ron was raised with the teachings of the Bible when he was younger. More recently, when studying Ancient Egyptian teachings he came to see some of the Bible teachings in a new light.
While UU’s recognize many religious sources and paths, the teachings of Ancient Egypt is not one of them.
In fact, until the hieroglyphs were deciphered around the year 1800, much of this knowledge and wisdom was lost.
Even today, this knowledge is probably only common in academic circles, and the general public is largely oblivious to it’s insights and influences.
Join us on this intriguing journey of rediscovery.
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 recent past president of Merging Hearts Spiritual Center in Canton Ohio, where he has led numerous programs on topics pertaining to spiritual growth, religious education, and environmental education.
Ron was UU for over 20 years, a past president of his congregation, and has spoken for numerous UU congregations and religious organizations over the years.
Ron speaks on a variety of topics, drawing from a diverse range of sources, such as religion, spirituality, philosophy, psychology, mythology, sociology, science, mathematics, and ecology, to name a few.
Ron 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.
*Mask are requested in the building*
Fellowship not available at this time.

Rev. Will Humphrey -- Lean into the discomfort: The Lenten Journey & the path to liberation
2022-03-27 10:30 - 12:00 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Sunday Service — 10:30 a.m.
Speaker — Rev. Will Humphrey
Leader — Reed Richmond
Title — Lean into the discomfort: The Lenten Journey & the path to liberation
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.”
*Mask are requested in the building*
Fellowship not available at this time.

F. Christopher Reynolds -- Field Notes on the Messiah Complex: Songs, Stories, Ideas
2022-03-20 10:30 - 12:00 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Sunday Service — 10:30 a.m.
Speaker — Christopher Reynolds
Leader — Fonda Kendrick
Title: Field Notes on the Messiah Complex: Songs, Stories, Ideas
Topic: The Messiah is you, but not you by yourself. It’s you in a loving community with others – at least one other. Everyone is a microbiome, a complex being of many life-forms. Join Christopher Reynolds for songs, stories, and field notes about the Messiah Complex that we all share. All life returns at this time of year. All are rising up from the sleep of winter. We are all invited to bring our voices to the many songs of life, the Great Song that the Celts called, Oran Mor.
Bio: F. Christopher Reynolds, M.Ed., is a singer, teacher and community shaman. His mission is to sing the dream of Peace on Earth onward through songs, writings, ritual, healing 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. Learn more at his website: urrealist.com.
*Mask are requested in the building*
Fellowship not available at this time.

Ivie Sorkin -- Keeping the Joy in Our Lives
2022-03-13 10:30 - 12:00 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Sunday Service – 10:30 a.m.
Speaker: Ivie Sorkin
Leader: Bambi Gordan
Title — Keeping the Joy in Our Lives
Topic — In these times, it’s hard to stay focused on who we are, as humans, as UU’s, as ourselves living our first principal, the inherent worth and dignity of every person..
We should also be preaching the 3rd principal, Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations. But our first and most important principle is taking care of our Joy, acceptance of ourselves, and our spiritual journey.
Bio — Ivie lives in Orrville, OH works in the Paint dept at Ventrac (a Toro co). Ivie’s Home Church is Unitarian Universalist fellowship of Wayne county for 5 years. She was a worship associate and on the stewardship committee, before becoming a Commissioned Lay Minister for 3 years. Involved in the pastoral care committee for 3 years she enjoys playing with her cat Joy, gardening, building landscapes, and just sitting down chatting with friends eating good food and a Fat Tire beer, or a good bourbon.
*Mask are requested in the building*
Fellowship not available at this time.

Rev. Sam Byrd -- Blessings, Blessings, Blessings
2022-03-06 10:30 - 12:00 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Sunday Service – 10:30 a.m.
Speaker: Rev. Sam Byrd
Leader: Jen Gibson
Title — Blessings, Blessings, Blessings
Bio –Rev. Sam Byrd is a graduate of Methodist Theological School. He has a Master of Theology and a Master of Divinity. He has 2 sons and 2 grandchildren. He lives in Homerville with 6 dogs and 3 cats. Currently he is teaching Intro to World Religions at Lorain County Community College. As a transgender man, he is active in the local LGBTQ community and is honored to be here today.
*Mask are requested in the building*
Fellowship not available at this time.

Rev. Will Humphrey -- The Empty Basket
2022-02-27 10:30 - 12:30 | All Souls UU Church, 25 Church St., Bellville, Ohio, 44813
Sunday Service – 10:30 a.m.
Speaker: Rev. Will Humphrey
Leader: Kristin Ellis
Title: The Empty Basket
Topic: A look at Taoist UU Wu Wei
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.”
*Mask are requested in the building*
Fellowship not available at this time.
