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Trying, Learning, Trying Again

On July 2 UUCF tried a new thing: an intentional multigenerational service. We are planning on having one multigen service every month and one service a month with a Message for All Ages. The July 2nd service was on Improv and being open to new things. It was quite appropriate that the Sunday we try out something new the electricity was out. We made the best of it even though it didn’t go quite as we had hoped or planned. It was definitely an experience in being open to what we do not yet know. So why are we doing…

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Yes/And!

At our service on Sunday, July 2 we focused our service together around the idea of what it would be like to say Yes! to questions or ideas that others presented to us. Using the framework of Improv, we dived deep into the Improv rules and considered how they might apply to our UUCF community. Two resources that I want to share with you is Shonda Rhimes’ book “The Year of Yes” and Victor Frankl’s book “Yes to Life.” Two very different sources (we are UUs, after all!) but both talk about the importance of saying yes even – especially…

Sunday Service

General Assembly Service 2023

Join us for the largest annual gathering of UUs joining in worship. This powerful, communal worship experience will stream on Sunday, June 25, 2023 at 11:00 am. The Office of the UUA President, the Rev. Susan Frederick Gray, is pleased to announce that the Rev. Manish Mishra-Marzetti, Senior Minister of the First UU Congregation of Ann Arbor, MI will lead the 2023 Sunday Service at GA.

Sunday Service

The Small Stuff

Song sermon by Julie Beutel, a local folk singer and song leader. “What it comes down to are the Little Things. Songs and quotes to inspire, get you thinking, (maybe singing), and remind us what really matters when it’s all said and done.”

Sunday Service

Pride

Come celebrate Pride Sunday with the UU Farmington community! Through music and readings – which will include the choir performing Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” – we will explore what it means to live authentic and proud lives.

Sunday Service

Is it Time for an 8th Principle?

At the General Assembly (GA) in 2017 there was discussion of adding an 8th Principle, specifically to address racism in our congregations. At this service our speaker will explain more about the 8th Principle and Article II revisions and share why as a lifelong UU, Director of Religious Education and a UU consultant she supports them both. Article II will be introduced at this year’s GA, if it receives a simple majority, the final vote on Article II will be carried to GA 2024.

Sunday Service

Be a Good Stranger

Sarah Flynn joins us this Sunday morning with her presentation on being a good stranger. Her central theme will be showing kindness in situations where one’s first inclination might be to shut down or run away. In three short stories from her road life: a car accident in California, meeting a homeless couple in Montana, and participating in community safety in Colorado, she will highlight how strangers have helped her and how she has tried to pay it forward.

Sunday Service

Invitation to Immensity

Dennis invites us to explore the science of how humans perceive the world differently from animals and from other humans. We participate in a fun chemistry experiment and find many examples from a new book called “An Immense World” by Ed Yong (2022) to discover that what we thought we knew from our senses just ain’t necessarily so! The implications are vast and amazing as we progress through the mathematics of infinity, examples of perception among animals, and challenges to popular beliefs. From this new perspective we get fresh insights of the principles of Unitarian Universalism: search for Truth, worthiness…