Universalist Unitarian Church of Farmington
Seek Answers Everywhere, Include Everyone, Live With Compassion
This service will create space for honoring those in our lives who are no longer with us physically but are always held in our hearts. This multigen service will include families in costumes, remembrance altars, and special music from the choir.
Understanding the importance of your heritage illuminates your life’s museum colors as you consider your values, beliefs, traditions, Identity, and social context. Understanding your heritage also tethers the charge of causing a greater ripple in history or interrupting the current.
All sentient beings have the ability to bless us humans if we are open to experiencing their presence. In this service, we will honor and bless our animal companions and thank them for their love. Animals on leashes or in containers are welcome to attend this service with their humans!
From the compelling collection of their recently published, award-winning book, “The Ones Who Remember; Second-Generation Voices of the Holocaust”, two contributing authors will read excerpts highlighting the gifts and challenges of growing up with their Holocaust Survivor parents and share insights on the themes revealed in writing by the second generation. Audience Q &A, along with the opportunity for book purchase and signing, will follow after the service. Purchase the book here: https://www.secondgenerationvoices.com/book.html
Using themes from the Pixar movie Coco, this multigen service will explore how stories from our past influence our present and impact our future. This service will have opportunities to connect and build relationships acroos generations.
This Sunday we will be looking at life’s changes through the lens of the fall Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. This time period between these two holidays and the beginning of the new year in Judaism is a wonderful time to reflect on things we did (or didn’t do) in the previous year and commit to living our values better in the year to come.
Rev. Karen Madrone, September 21, 2023 Recently one of my minister colleagues posted a question on Facebook that got me thinking about our congregation and the ministry we create together. My colleague asked, “what do you enjoy about being part of a congregation?” The answers varied but the consistent theme was, “Congregations are the last place left in our world where we build multigenerational connections. They are a place where we are together, not for transactional relationships, i.e., you help me, I help you, but for learning and growing together.” In our UU congregations in particular, we come together across…
What would it look like to be pre-welcoming of people we haven’t yet met? In the UU world right now there is discussion of a new concept, “Preemptive Radical Inclusion.” In this service we will consider what hospitality and welcoming looks like – and feels like – for people we haven’t yet imagined.
In my short time serving the people of UUCF, I have been very impressed with the caring I’ve seen between community members. The stories of folks checking in on each other after a crisis and stories of folks just checking in on each other to say hello, have been inspiring to me. I have had several conversations with the chair of the Caring Cooperative and we have talked about ideas to facilitate even deeper connections. I’m excited to see where these ideas take us! As the UUCF community continues to evolve, change, and grow, it’s important that everyone knows that…
The UU Water Ceremony is our annual Ingathering, our “Welcome Home” service. In this multigenerational service we will share the story of a village council that learns to share their resources with each other. Everyone is encouraged to bring water from their summer travels or from home. The service will be immediately followed by the Memorial Garden dedication.
