Services

Free to Be: Keeping Faith in Challenging Times (zoom)

After thousands of people around Los Angeles lost their homes in devastating fires, and a new authoritarian POTUS with plans for revenge was inaugurated, someone posted on Facebook that they’d tried the 2-week trial subscription to 2025 and wanted to cancel it. Funny, but sad as well — and nationally things have only gotten worse. How do we “keep hope alive” during times like this? How do we protect ourselves from despair? Can our UU ancestors offer us any clues?

The Joy of Harmony

Kate Campbell, local musician and director, knows that singing in harmony can enrich our music experiences, and that everyone can access the joy of creating harmony together. We will learn some easy songs in two- and three-part harmony to add to our personal and communal repertoires as Kate shares her insights into how to find that joy.

Congregational Meeting

As a lead into our semi-annual congregational meeting we will be discussing how our congregations govern themselves as part of the larger denomination, and how we treat our sister congregations and the members of our own congregation. What does it means to be a covenantal faith? How does our spiritualty intertwine with our polity? What is my role as a member or friend of UUGP?

Homegrown: Garden as Sanctuary

Rachel, along with some of UUGP’s constant gardeners will share the rewards their gardens have given them in story, poetry and song. Gardening can be spiritual practice, therapy, a place to engage with nature, a place for experimentation, or simply a place of peace and quiet.
There will also be a few sing-a-longs of garden songs that will make this collaborative Home Grown (pun intended!) service a happy morning.

This I Believe

By way of introducing herself to the UU community, Janet will touch on the familiar story she has told when asked to introduce herself, but then consider how beliefs and familiar narratives can limit us. She will share how the search for spiritual truth took her outside her comfort zones, how her faith evolved, and how her personal, musical and spiritual journey worked together to bring her into new ease and joy in life.

Awetheism Part 3: It’s Explosive! – Awe as a Tool (zoom)

In this explosive service, JD explores how awe can be manipulated for better and worse, in recreation, politics, education, and war. We will probe the boundary between awe and horror, and consider things that snap, crackle, pop, and echo through culverts, saxophones, and history. 

UUA General Assembly Worship Sermon

UUA General Assembly Worship: We will be showing the 2025 UUA General Assembly Worship sermon given by Rev. Dr. Nicole C. Kirk.

Gratitude and Wonder

In today’s service, we will explore gratitude and wonder through our own experiences. Instead of a sermon, there will be time for personal reflection, for storytelling, and for creating something to give away. If you’re joining from home today, you might want to gather some supplies. You could have a journal, art supplies, and/or a greeting card.

Women With Hope and a New Pope

The death of Pope Francis last month and the selection of Pope Leo got me to thinking about The Catholic Church and some powerful women I have encountered in that very patriarchal faith tradition. Those Popes and those women have offered to me messages of love and liberation that can reverberate far beyond the Sistine Chapel, perhaps even into our progressive Unitarian Universalist Congregations.

Grants Pass Remembrance

We deepen our knowledge and awareness of Juneteenth and the legacy of racism/slavery in our state with the showing of the PBS documentary, “Road to Sunrise”. The film tells the story of Taylor Stewart’s journey from learning about Oregon’s history of lynching to his committment to Rememberance, Repair and Redemption. Our members Sylvia Marr and Constance Palaia as well as Grants Pass activist Gabi Johnsen are featured in the documentary. Join us as we share reflections about our history as a sundown town.