Poetry Sunday
Come with your favorite poems to share – either written by yourself or anyone else. Our annual Gifts and Goodies fundraiser will follow the service with handmade and homemade treats you can buy for holiday giving and yourself.
Services
As we approach Thanksgiving, Eli will lead us in recognizing how much we have to be grateful for even during these difficult times. We will practice gratitude with a sincere commitment to sharing a call to right relationships with each other and our community.
The Power of Singing
We draw on singing to feel closeness, to educate, to express joys and sorrows, to protest, to feel the joy of laughter and fun and feel liberation. We will sing together and explore some of how singing brings us together.
In the In-Between: More Than Meets the Eye
Bee invites you to wonder at and embrace both the Seen and the Unseen in the in-between. Can there be a better integration between art and science beyond today’s perceived separateness and through the lens of art, between science and spirituality? Can art shine a deeper, wiser understanding about the true nature of reality, the power of consciousness over mere matter?
Hearing the Call of Your Soul’s Song
In these times of often chaotic noise of the world, how can we remember and tune into the loving song within our heart? How can we expand into greater peace and trust as we bring harmony to our inner sound? How does the welcoming stillness of nature assist in this organic process? Kathleen will reflect on how we can use sound meditation to listen within, and come into aligned coherence with the guidance of our soul and the Divine. She will share the pure sounds of her alchemy crystal singing bowls, and take us into the place of peace and knowing within each heart and soul.
So?!
Someone once told our guest speaker that “So?!” may be “the greatest affirmation of all.” Come and find out why, and why it’s needed today more than ever.
Twenty years after the groundbreaking Unitarian Universalist book “Worship That Works” first shaped understanding of Unitarian Universalist liturgy, Seminarian, LaVonne Limpus, revisits its core principles with insights of evolving community needs. She will reflect on how the book’s call for authenticity, intentionality, and spiritual depth still resonates, but now, how we can challenge our congregations to move beyond inherited forms and into co-created ritual that honors pluralism, ecological urgency, and embodied presence. Drawing from her chaplaincy work and professional speaking, she invites worship leaders to see liturgy not as performance, but as communal transformation, where silence, story, and symbol are tools for resilience in a time when UU Values are needed more than ever.
Unity Through Prayerfulness
Prayer brings us together. Different people call prayer by different names, yet it is the same unified feeling behind our activity of prayer. In the Native American tradition we immerse ourselves in prayer and gratitude every day. Today we honor Indigenous People’s Day, joining each other in circle in a prayerful way. Jesse invites and encourages all to come share in this practice of connectivity through prayer in circle.
Blessing of the Animals
We are very excited to offer a Blessing of the Animals officiated by Rev. Stephen Landale, a hospice chaplain from Eugene. If you plan to bring your companion animal, they need to be unaggressive and kept on a leash, or in a crate or cage, while in the building. Alternatively, you could also bring a photograph of your pet, or an image on your phone or tablet – or participate virtually with your pet, via Zoom.
Imagining a Post-Abolition World (zoom)
The UU Church of the Larger Fellowship (CLF) is a world wide internet community of people who do not live near a UU church, serve in the military or are incarcerated. At the UUA General Assembly this year CLF proposed the topic of “Abolition, Transformation, and Faith Formation” to be the 2025 Congregational Study Action Issue. The delegates at GA voted for this proposal. Rev. Dr. Michael Tino, a CLF Lead minister will join us via Zoom with a message about why abolition of our prison system is fundamentally a UU value.