Labor Day weekend has traditionally marked the close of the summer season; the last chance for a long weekend to enjoy the beach, lake, or community pool. Even though the temperature does not appear to be changing drastically, this Sunday we will once again celebrate the change of seasons with our water ceremony. You are … Continue reading All Church Annual Water Ceremony
Stories are powerful ways of sharing experiences that are bigger than rational explanations, getting to know the lives of friends and strangers, connecting with each other’s similarities and differences, inspiring us to compassion and social responsibility, exemplifying our UU principles, and probing our multi-faceted sources. This year children and youth will participate in religious education … Continue reading Storysharing: Getting to Know Ourselves, Each Other, and the World
Join in a lively, multi-generational worship service that celebrates our year in Children and Youth Religious Education, exploring how we talk and listen from the heart. Children and youth will help lead our liturgy, sharing what they have learned and accomplished this year, and we will recognize our dedicated Children and Youth RE teachers and … Continue reading Heart Talk: Celebrating a Year in Children and Youth Religious Education
Have you heard people around the church talk about OWL and wondered what it was? OWL, or Our Whole Lives, is a comprehensive, lifespan sexuality education curricula developed by the UUA in collaboration with the United Church of Christ, UCC. OWL may well be one of the greatest gifts we offer our young people, and … Continue reading What’s Religious About Sexuality Education?
A Youth-Led Multigenerational Service Join the Transformers and Searchers Youth in a creative youth-led multigenerational service that explores ways we can communicate from our hearts. Through drama, music, art, and more, we will continue to investigate how Compassionate Communication, or Heart Talk, helps us learn authentic ways to connect with each other based on our … Continue reading Communicating from the Heart
We can officially give thanks for a full year in our new church home as we celebrate our annual bread sharing ceremony, or Bread Communion. This is a service for all the generations of our church community. Bread is called the “staff of life,” because it is a basic life-sustaining food. I think it safe … Continue reading Welcome Table Bread Sharing Service
Our Annual Christmas Pageant! The Children’s and Youth Religious Education program presents Joyce Poley’s “Would You Like to Hold the Baby,” retelling the Nativity Story from a Unitarian Universalist perspective and inviting the congregation into reflection on its meaning for today. This musical, multi-generational service features the UUCH Choir, congregational singing, a Christmas pageant of … Continue reading Would You Like to Hold the Baby
