Anton and Laura provide a refreshed viewpoint on the biblical Palm Sunday story, a way for modern spiritual travelers to reconsider sacred covenant and sacred sovereignty. Their talk will be supported with special music and the service will be followed by a concert at noon.
Outreach Offering to Homeless Teen Backpack Project.
(Team Two)
Rev. Patt Herdklotz reviews some history of immigration in the USA, looks at current policies, and how Unitarian Universalism calls people of compassionate faith to respond. Who may emigrate?…stay?…naturalize? …become citizens? How may we participate in the choices? Patt is a retired UU parish minister and hospice chaplain who loves to sing. She and her husband, Kim Yasutake, live in Ashland; they cherish two daughters and a granddaughter.
(Team One)
Shaped by her experiences as a person of color in white majority spaces, and being part of a multi- and trans-racial Oregon family, our pulpit guest will invite us to reconsider how to be a genuine ally to people of color. She is visiting this weekend as a facilitator with Oregon Humanities’ Conversation Project.
(Team Five)
Growing up in a Lutheran family, I assumed from what I heard about God from adults that I could ask “Him” for anything and there was a good chance I’d get it. I’ll tell you my frequent prayer as a child and I’ll trace the origin and growth of God and where we might go from here.
Outreach Offering of nonperishable food to the Food bank.
(Team Four)
What are the benefits of marking milestones in our lives with community? Together we’ll reflect upon the value of rites of passage we’re familiar with. We’ll wonder how to co-create “New” rites of passage to strengthen, transform and sanctify both individuals and community. Michelle Keip brings her life-long fascination with ritual to this interactive service.
Outreach Offering goes to Homeless Teen Backpack program.
In recognition of Black History Month, we’ll play a quiz game this morning, emceed by Philip Hughes-Luing. We’ll refresh and deepen our knowledge of history and amaze ourselves. Tucked inside this issue there’s a teaser list of clues to the answers.
The Evolution of the Theory UUGP member Camille Korsmo will acquaint us with the life and ideas of Dr. Erasmus Darwin, who conceived of a process by which life on earth might have begun and
developed by “common descent” from a single microscopic ancestor “millions of ages” ago. The Deist doctor embodied our fourth principle, affirming and promoting a free and responsible search for truth and meaning.
Outreach Offering goes to Josephine County Libraries.
When clients, all full of turmoil, would come to my guru friend and Jungian therapist mentor, Dr. Vasavada, he would gently urge them to “Be in it.” Our self is so much more creative and whole than our desires, fears and reactions. I’ll draw on Why Buddhism is True, Radical Honesty, and “Headwinds and Tailwinds” to help us live up to our UU Principles, and moreover, to our fuller selves.
Outreach Offering is for the Food Bank collected by the Women’s Roundtable.
Beginning with a brief service diving into them with Margaret Keip and service host Rachel Winters. Then we break for refreshment, and regather for our semi-annual Congregational Meeting.
Outreach gifts benefit the Homeless Teen Backpack project
Our multi-skilled pulpit guest is a marriage and family therapist, a public health educator, and a trained medicine man. His message inter-relates self-care, family and community care, and earth care; and how to apply them in ways that enhance our lives. (You can explore these further in a 2-hour workshop that afternoon.) He’ll add to the service with music and song.
