Activities
Regular Monthly Meetings
- When: 6:30 - 8:30 p.m., the THIRD MONDAY of every month
- Where: The Unitarian Universalist Church of Jacksonville, 7405 Arlington Expressway, Jacksonville, FL 32211
- What: A formal program, usually a guest speaker, followed by questions and answers
Second Harvest Second Saturday: Community outreach opportunity for the nonreligious now available!
On the second Saturday of every month, 10:00 a.m. to noon, join FCFS members and JAM (Jacksonville Atheist Meetup) group members, as well as other unaffiliated religious, secular, and civic groups, to volunteer at the Second Harvest food bank warehouse, 1502 Jessie Street, Jacksonville. You can arrive as early as 9:00 a.m. Be sure to sign in at the warehouse as an FCFS member. You will participate in the sorting and bagging of produce and foodstuffs and the boxing of staples for distribution to the less fortunate in the North Florida area. Wear CLOSED toe shows and clothes you don’t mind getting dirty. For more information about volunteering with the FCFS, contact board members Richard Keene at 904-386-1121, or Fred Hill at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . You may post questions on the JAM website at http://www.jaxatheists.com/events. To learn more about Second Harvest North Florida, visit http://www.wenourishhope.org.
Humanist Book Discussion Group
- When: 2:00 p.m., the FIRST SUNDAY of every month
- Where: Books-A-Million, 9400 Atlantic Blvd., Jacksonville, FL 32225
What: Follow the link above to see current book, as well as past books discussed.
Monthly Social
- When: Drinks at 6:00 p.m., dinner at 7:00, the FOURTH TUESDAY of every month
- Where: Olive Garden Restaurant, 10144 Philips Highway, Jacksonville, FL 32256, across from The Avenues Mall Order from the menu.
Secular Sunday in the Park
- When: 10:00 a.m., the FOURTH SUNDAY of every month
- Where: Losco Regional Park, under the pavilion, 10851 Hood Road South, Jacksonville, FL 32257
Conversation and coffee in the fresh air
Monthly Newsletter
- Everyone can receive The First Coast FreeThinker via e-mail or download it from our website. Members are entitled to receive the U.S. Mail hard-copy version.
- A trial subscription of the hard-copy version is available at no charge, following which you need to join to continue to receive it.
Yahoo! Group for Freethinkers
- Join the FCFS Yahoo! Group, Jaxfreethought, to exchange e-mail with other freethinkers. You need not be a member of the FCFS to participate.
- To subscribe, send a blank email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Dinners for Doubters
- Dinners for Doubters is a convenient, easy way to create an instant dinner party, get to know other freethinkers, and make new friends in intimate surroundings. It works like this: Someone decides to host a Dinner for Doubters. The host or hostess picks a date and decides how many people he or she would like to invite. A party totaling eight seems to work well, but this is entirely up to you. You may want only four! We then put a sign-up sheet at the back table at our monthly meetings, and guests sign up to attend. When the guest list is filled, the host or hostess contacts each guest to arrange the menu and who will bring what. Often, the host or hostess provides the entrée, and the guests provide a salad, beverage, vegetable, dessert, etc. But again, who brings what is entirely up to the participants. In fact, if a person whose house is very small wanted to host a dinner, they could pick a restaurant and all go Dutch. The goal of Dinners for Doubters is to allow mixing and mingling, getting to know new and different people, and to allow freethinker friendships to flourish. Consider hosting a dinner. Be watching for a Dinners for Doubters sign-in sheet at the back table!
