How do you fit Beethoven (Dec. 16 is his birthday!), Job, Solomon, Mohammad and Buddha into one sermon? Well, they all have some wisdom to share on these subjects.
Share the plate: Center for Hope and Safety
Celebrant: Janet Stevens, Anchor: David Gortner/Tom Ellis
Music: Guy Hallman
The UUCS Annual Blessing of the Animals Service will be held (both services) in honor of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron Saint of animals and the environment. St. Francis was a lover of nature and all of what he considered God’s creations.
No RE classes.
Celebrant: Steve Rosen; Anchor: L.J. Frederickson
First Service Music: Aimee Larsen Amend; Second Service Music: UUCS Choir
Life is like a motion picture, yet we can turn it into freeze frame photography and get trapped in certain frames.
First Service Music: Sara Greenleaf
Second Service Music: UUCS Choir
Share The Plate: Microfinance Project
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A reflection on how we remember loved ones now gone.
Share the plate: Meals on Wheels
Celebrant: Sara Pickett, Anchor: David Gortner
Music: Guy Hallman
A time to cast our spiritual vision over all beings with whom we share this life.
Share the plate: IMIrJ Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice
Celebrant: Janet Stevens, Anchor: Sara Pickett
Music: Guy Hallman
Special Note: After the service, there will be cake in the fellowship hall to say good-bye to our Director, Christi Olsen.
Sometimes the earthiest realities can lead to deeper understanding of the meaning and purposes of our lives.
Share the plate: IMIrJ Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice
Celebrant: Sara Pickett, Anchor: Becky Harrison
Music: UUCS Choir
It’s easy to get stuck in life and think there’s no help for it. You’re “fatalistically resigned.” Stuck. Can you get unstuck? Let’s consider.
Share the plate: Minister’s Discretionary Fund
Celebrant: Lennie Martin, Anchor: David Gortner
Music: George Struble and Guy Hallman
Levels of trust in American society are sinking. Is this simply inevitable?
Share the plate: Minister’s Discretionary Fund
Celebrant: Sara Pickett, Anchor: Steve Rosen
Music: UUCS Choir
People keep falling into one of the greatest of all spiritual traps, again and again. It leads to personal and collective violence. Let’s look at that.
Share the plate: Oregon Prison Project
Celebrant: Gloria Holland, Anchor: Arrhiannon Kirkpatrick
First service music: Sara Greenleaf
Second service music: UUCS Choir
Please join us to hear about last summer’s pilgrimage to the historical birthplace of Unitarianism in the Transylvanian region of Romania.
Share the plate: Oregon Prison Project
First service music: Ryan Amend and Aimee Larsen-Amend
Second service music: Laura Christian and Sara Greenleaf
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