At 7pm: This will be our traditional service with readings and stories and carols. You are welcome to bring some of those extra Christmas cookies for sharing after the service. There will be non-alcoholic Wassail after the service.
at 10 am. Every year, the season revives us with light and memories and hope. There are no RE classes, but the nursery will be open.
At 4 pm, there will be a Blue Christmas Service with Rev. Strawn and Steve Cook, CLM We gather for readings, reflection and sharing. Not everyone looks forward to Christmas; maybe a death in the family or a crisis in your life, maybe just fatigue with the holiday stress. This is a reflective service of support and … Continue reading Blue Christmas
This morning, the 9:30 service will portray three wondrous births: Confucius, the Buddha, and Jesus in pageant form. The 11:00 service will simply focus on their stories.
What power can there be in such a short word? How many times has this simple concept pulled us through times of darkness?
Gratitude for what comes to us, for what we can share, for the amazing experiences life grants to us; gratitude for community itself. We gather to focus on all of these things as we share simple bread and clean water.
Faith: what exactly is it? Sometimes it rather scares us, in the context of blind faith or absolute faith. What role does doubt play? In Unitarian Universalism, we believe that faith and doubt reinforce one another, each making the other stronger through the years. We cannot have one without the other, can we?
If you don’t have a creed, what holds us together? Covenant, of course! Our determination and promise to stay here through good and bad, to create a community of support and growth, to find meaning together. It’s not easy; but it’s rich. We welcome new members in the services this morning.
Really. Whoever you are, we welcome you. This multi-generation service will feature Shel Silverstein story, creating words in many languages, and focus on welcoming our neighbors.
Hospitality has so many meanings. “Will you come to dinner?” “Come in from the cold.” “Let me offer you sanctuary from homelessness, deportation, loneliness.” What does it mean to you? Where have you experienced hospitality? When have you offered hospitality?
