How do we maintain hope when everywhere we turn, news tells of yet another story of tragedy and hate. Can we defend a hopeful heart when there is so much wrong in the world? Welcome second-career minister Leslie Chartier, visiting us from Albany.
We’ll have sea-washed stones for everyone to choose from, and then take off from there to glean diverse meanings from our title and explore the breadth and depth of our stone heritage.
Nonperishable grocery items are collected for the Food Bank.
Sylvia will share the faith she has evolved, growing up nurtured in Unitarian Universalist values. How has her unique experience illuminated her life thus far?
Outreach donations today support our Homeless Teen Back Pack project.
What possibilities might exist if our body could more effectively support us in living our UUGP principles? Would we breathe more fully, speak more compassionately, listen more deeply or move more fluidly? Mind-Body Coach Jo Anna will show us how to tune up our brain so we can bring our Best Self to our community. Learn more about Jo Anna at www.joannashaw.net.
POTLUCK TODAY after the service.
We’ll consider the geologic reality of “the ground of our being,” remember 19th Century faith in new Adams and Eves (including key Unitarians and Universalists) and renew that faith with recent scientific discoveries about us and Life. Spoiler Alert: The Middle is Near!
Therapist and educator Jerry Allen returns with his skills and his music to nurture and encourage us in addressing the many vital and massive issues that vie for our attention.
What lead to the advent of mankind and how did we become who we are today? Follow the trail of the ancient Hominids to ourselves and the clues to why we are the only genus Homo present today.
Outreach donations will aid Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon.
Nonperishable foods are collected for the Food Bank.
Belonging is the theme of this morning’s brief service, preceding the mid-year Congregational Meeting. We will sing, celebrate new member Amy Hendrickson, and invite members, as you will, to speak of the meaning that membership holds personally for us.
He will offer an overview of the “Men’s Movement” from the late 1980s to present and share how it has impacted his life for the better. We will ponder how our society’s restrictive stories on what it is to be a man shape young men and how we might re-vision those stories.
Outreach Offering will be collected for the Homeless Teen Backpack Project.
We often sing the virtues of community – of what Martin Luther King, Jr. envisioned as “The Beloved Community” yet the reality of our community reflects the reality of ourselves: with brokenness as well as wholeness. How do we co-create Beloved Community even when it, and we, are already broken? Our pulpit guest has been a hospice chaplain in Corvallis and Eugene for the past six years, following a dozen years serving UU congregations.
