Microfinance will tell us how UUCS donations of $3000-$5000 per year have helped address global poverty elsewhere in the world.
Share the plate: Microfinance
Celebrant: Gloria Holland, Anchor: Benjahmin Boschee
First Service Music: Ryan Amend and Aimee Amend
Second Service Music: UUCS Choir
Significant controversy stirred within the entire UUA after the UU minister Rev. Todd Ekloff distributed his book “The Gadfly Papers: Three Inconvenient Essays by One Pesky Minister.” You are called to be involved: The voice of the laity is essential for this to be a healthy process.
Share the plate: DACA
Celebrant: Janet Stevens, Anchor: Becky Harrison
Music: UUCS Choir
It was a great day when our congregation voted to provide sanctuary for those in danger of unjust deportation. Yet the idea of sanctuary is about more than providing physical space. Who needs sanctuary? How do we find it? How does this help us in our spiritual lives?
Share the plate: UUCS Microfinance Program
Celebrant: Sara Pickett, Anchor: Laura Christian
Music: Guy Hallman
Paradoxically, even as we are more connected digitally, the more isolated and alienated many become. Social disconnection is a grievous condition that more and more fall prey to. To counter the forces that drive us apart Martin Luther King, Jr. held out a vision of “Beloved Community” What does this mean for us?
Share the plate: Family Promise of the Mid-Willamette Valley
Celebrant: Sara Pickett, Anchor: Laura Christian
Music: Alma Marianos and Sally Crawford
Who are your spiritual ancestors? Who are the great souls whose lives of goodness, courage and compassion inspire you in your own? Come hear the story of one truly exceptional Unitarian forebear, one who has shaped my very ministry.
We will have a Halloween Costume Parade through the Sanctuary.
PLEASE NOTE: For this service we will create an “Ancestral Altar.” Please bring a picture, photo or image of a loved one who has died or perhaps an image of a figure you deeply revere.
Share the plate: UUCS Microfinance Program
Celebrant: Gloria Holland, Anchor: Sara Pickett
Music: Christie Smith
So often, you may try to keep a “stiff upper lip” (don’t show sorrowful emotion), but sometimes you just need a time and place to be true to yourself.
Share the plate: Family Promise of the Mid-Willamette Valley
Celebrant: Sara Pickett, Anchor: Lennie Martin
Music: UUCS Choir
This will be a multi-generational service (all ages welcome) in which we ponder upon the role of stories in our lives, including the Thanksgiving story.
Share the plate: Meals on Wheels
Celebrant: David Gortner, Anchor: Arrhiannon Kirkpatrick
Music both services: Ted Cory
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Is there a way toward greater understanding between Islamic and Western societies?
Share the plate: Meals on Wheels
First service music: UUCS Choir
Second service music: Sara Greenleaf
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Both services will explore Native American spiritual strength, with The Aztec Dancers. Multi-generational services (all ages welcome). NO RE classes.
Share the plate: Salem Interfaith Hospitality Network
Celebrant: Lennie Martin, Anchor: David Gortner
First service music: Ryan Amend and Aimee Larsen-Amend
Second service music: UUCS Choir
SUNDAY ANNOUNCEMENTS
When you look at others, or yourself, what do you look for? What do you see? In such matters it’s good to be aware of the spiritual perils of “lookism.”
Share the plate: Salem-Keizer NAACP
Celebrant: Benjahmin Boschee, Anchor: Joanne Manson
First service music: Cheryl Randall
Second service music: UUCS Choir
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