What are Circle Suppers

In the spirit of trying to strengthen our mutual relationships by meeting others in the fellowship, UUFS runs a monthly program called Circle Suppers.  Once a month on a weekend we will arrange for a group of UU folk to get together for a coordinated potluck at the houses of some of our members.  

Note that this is a re-start of a program that UUFS ran successfully for many years prior to Covid. 

How Circle Suppers work

We have a fixed schedule – the 2^nd Saturday of each month at 6pm.   A couple of weeks prior to that date an email will be sent to the UUFS Community (Sunnyvale) Google Group.   Anyone interested should respond as instructed. From the responses we will put together a group (usually of 6-8 people) for each venue and send out a confirmation email.  Each host will then contact the assigned guests to arrange potluck contributions.

The goal is to use this as an opportunity to make new friends and build stronger relationships within UUFS – especially for newer members. 

How to Participate

Circle Suppers are coordinated via email and the UUFS Community (Sunnyvale) Google Group.

If you are not a member of the Google group, send an email to connections@uufs.org including your name and relationship to UUFS. You will then be added to the Google group and given more info about it. The google group will then forward you an email whenever one is sent to the group.  

If you wish to host a Circle Supper, please send an email to circle.suppers@uufs.org (or the google group) describing any specifics of the dinner and how many guests you wish to invite. This should be sent during the previous month to the scheduled supper.

About 2 weeks before the monthly Circle Supper, you will receive a notice email (through the google group) to see if you are interested in that month’s dinner. If interested, please reply within one week of receiving the notice. If you might need a ride in order to attend, please include that in your response and we will try to make arrangements.

Once all the replies are received, the participants will be assigned to that month’s hosts. The hosts will then contact their assigned guests to arrange their choice of potluck contribution. Contributions might be appetizers, salad, main dish, side dishes, dessert, bread/butter, or drinks/beverages, The host will provide the table settings.