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Join us Sundays for worship at 9:15 a.m. or 11:15 a.m. in our Sanctuary located at SW 12th and Main. Both services are identical.
(Summer Services are at 10 a.m. only, June 13 - Sept. 5)
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Our worship service is both traditional and celebrative, and lasts approximately one hour. It includes readings from a variety of inspirational sources, hymns, a thought-provoking sermon (see list of Upcoming Sermons below), prayer and meditation, and time for sharing congregational joys and concerns. On most Sundays, one of our three adult choirs supports the service with special pieces of music from a variety of styles. Our fine pianist and organist and occasionally one of our handbell choirs provide additional music.

UPCOMING SERMONS:

Mar. 14: “Making Our Inner and Outer Lives Whole” Rev. Preston Moore, Minister in Residence              Note: Daylight Savings begins; move clocks forward one hour Saturday night.
Carl Jung once said, “Your vision will become clear when you look into your own heart.” What is the connection between these two kinds of seeing? Jung’s language is poetic, his idea fascinating; but how can we put this into practice?

Mar. 21: “Evidence of Things Not Seen” Rev. Preston Moore, Minister in Residence
The word faith does not appear anywhere in our seven UU Principles or the Sources of Our Living Tradition; and yet we often call ourselves a faith community. We are skeptical of deeds done on the basis of blind faith, and yet we would not call ourselves faithless. We are wary of wrapping our arms too tightly around faith, and yet troubled at the idea of pushing it away. Come look upon these puzzles with new eyes.

Mar. 28: “Apocalypse When? Creation and Re-creation”  Leisa Huyck, Intern Minister
Many Western religious traditions hold that there will be an end to the world, and it is coming soon. Current discussion of global warming has a similar sound. But what does apocalypse really mean? What do our six sources offer us in terms of a hopeful eschatology?

Apr. 4: “Love Has Touched Us and We Will Never Be the Same Again”  
EASTER SUNDAY   Rev. Thomas Disrud
Sunrise Service at 7:30 a.m. in the Eliot Chapel. Two regular services at 9:15 and 11:15 a.m. in the Sanctuary, and two family services at 9:15 and 11:15 a.m. in the Eliot Chapel.
These words from the writer Elizabeth Tarbox remind us that love is a gift of immense proportions and that once it has been shared we are forever changed. The Easter story is about the love present in the world that will never leave.

Apr. 11: “Be The Change You Want to See: Speaking Truth to Power”   Dr. Charlie Clements, UUSC President
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” El Salvador’s recent history, including stories about the many people who gave their lives, is a testament to how change happens. Dr. Clements is the newly named executive director for the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School. He has stepped down as head of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee to take that position. We will honor Charlie’s leadership in our movement as he preaches one more time in our church.

Apr. 18: “Earth Day: Ceremony of Grieving and Healing”  Leisa Huyck, Intern Minister
Come join in an intergenerational ceremony that will help us safely express both our pain for the earth and our hopes of healing it.

Apr. 25:  Preacher and topic to be announced.