[Uucf-bible] FW: UUCF President Christmas Message

[RevRonRobinson at aol.com]

I pass on this message to our UUCF online communities. Thanks and  blessings 
of the season,
Ron Robinson
 
UUCF President Christmas Message/Appeal
By Rev. Anita Farber-Robertson
 
 
O,  Come all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant 
Come ye, O come ye, to Bethlehem. 
So we sing together in a few short weeks…joyful and  triumphant. 
We sing with full and expanding hearts of the hope and love that was born  
that Christmas night so many years ago.  We sing with our sisters and brothers i
n the pews of Unitarian  Universalist congregations around the country.  It is 
the one time in the year when our  UU congregations are most willing and able 
to embrace the Christian tradition  from which they sprang, and to which they 
owe their world view and their  existence. 
There are 35 hymns in the hymnal devoted to the celebration of the  Christmas 
season.  There is no other  category to which we have devoted that number of 
pages.  And so we know that despite all of the  anxiety, suspicion, and 
distance UU congregations experience between themselves  and the Christian 
tradition, we are in the season when the UU veil between  Christian and non-Christian 
is the thinnest, when it is most likely that the  skeptics, the dismissers, and 
avoiders of the Christian tradition may find their  hearts and souls opening, 
may indeed be willing to enter, even for a moment, the  joy and wisdom of the 
Christian story. 
I want that to continue.  I want Unitarian Universalism to  continue to 
provide opportunities for our spiritual pilgrims to encounter UU  Christianity.  I 
want moments when  in worship or study, Unitarian Universalists can engage 
Christianity and  discover its beauty and its sustaining power.   
The UU Christian Fellowship provides the materials, the encouragement,  and 
the living Christian presence in Unitarian Universalist circles and  
congregations so that seekers can encounter Jesus, and non-seekers can become  seekers.  
Once we have found Jesus,  the UUCF helps us to maintain that essential and 
spiritual  relationship. 
We do it together- your UUCF board of volunteers, the editors of the Good 
News and the UU Christian, our journal, the members  of UUCF groups within 
congregations, the folks who flock to UUCF Revivals, and  Ron Robinson, our paid 
Executive Director of the UUCF.  It happens because we care, because we  
understand that only together are we the body of Christ, and because we know  that our 
presence and our message are of vital importance. 
All of this good work is possible because of your generous contributions.  As 
you give we can grow, providing more and more support to those who wish to  
build a Christian spiritual grounding for themselves, and who seek the  
opportunity to share it with others. 
Please, consider a gift to the UUCF in your holiday generosity.  It is a gift 
that will keep on giving,  to you, to others in need, and to the generations 
of Unitarian Universalists yet  unborn, who need to know that God is love, and 
Jesus walked this earth that we  might know that. 
Blessings of the season, 
And a  warmest  thank-you. 
Anita 
The Rev. Dr. Anita Farber-Robertson, president 
UUCF Office 
P.O. Box 6702 
Turley, OK  74156 
_www.uuchristian.org_ (http://www.uuchristian.org)  







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