Category: Sunday Service

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.

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.

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.

The 2500 year old teachings of the Buddha on compassion, interconnectedness, and living an examined life can serve us well in today’s turbulent, divisive times. This talk focuses on how we can use the teachings of the Buddha to helps attain both personal and global peace and security.

Truly living from our core of Universalism – all are loved – transforms us into people who practice love as a way of being in the world. We are the love people! Come let us explore what it means to let love transform us and the world.