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Our Purpose and Guiding Principles
November 26, 2025
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SUNDAY SCHEDULE
- 9:30am: Pre-service fellowship
- 10am: Worship in person and livestreamed (Facebook)
- 11am: Coffee, fellowship, and pickleball
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Pastoral Call Update
The Call Committee has identified a Final Candidate for the open Pastor position at United in Faith, and the Council has affirmed this choice. Please come to worship on December 7 to meet the candidate and hear her preach. Members are encouraged to come back to worship on December 14 for the congregational vote on whether to call this candidate. More information is in the December newsletter. (page 6)​
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Pastor Jeanie's last Sunday and farewell will be on December 28, 2025.
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Pastoral Care
Pastor Jeanie is usually available on Wednesdays & Thursdays (10am to 3pm). You can call the office at 773-283-2326 to schedule an appointment or use this link: https://appt.link/meet-with-jeanine-reardon/Pastor.
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​New Life for Old Bags
​​​Help make plastic sleeping mats for the unhoused out of plastic grocery bags. Work days at UIF are on the 1st Saturday of even months from 10am to 12pm. ​All are welcome! No experience necessary. December 6 is the last session for 2025.
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​Book Club News
January Book Club Saturday, January 24 at 10:00am
The Sound of a Wild Snail Easting by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
"In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature,
Elisabeth Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her uncommon encounter with a Neohelix albolabris —a common woodland snail. While an illness keeps her bedridden, Bailey watches a wild snail that has taken up residence on her nightstand. As a result, she discovers the solace and sense of wonder that this mysterious creature brings and comes to a greater understanding of her own confined place in the world. Intrigued by the snail’s molluscan anatomy, cryptic defenses, clear decision making, hydraulic locomotion, and mysterious courtship activities, Bailey becomes an astute and amused observer, providing a candid and engaging look into the curious life of this underappreciated small animal. Told with wit and grace, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating is a remarkable journey of survival and resilience, showing us how a small part of the natural world illuminates our own human existence and provides an appreciation of what it means to be fully alive." ---goodreads
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating earned a number of awards, including the National
Outdoor Book Award (2010), The John Burroughs Medal (2011), and The William
Saroyan International Prize for Nonfiction (2012).
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