Following a career in journalism and longtime editorship of the Grants Pass Daily Courier, our pulpit guest has focused his devotion to this community into directing the Josephine County Food Bank. Hunger haunts folks here. He’ll tell us about it. He sings, as a bonus, and will bring his guitar.
FALL BACK today! Standard Time esumed at 2:00 AM — if you turned back your clocks then heading to bed you can savor an extra hour of sleep.
In this season of harvest when we gather our bounty of foods, we reap also the goodness of our lives, our fellowship, our technologies, and our time in history. Let’s amplify our gratitude or this abundant bounty. Using all from scripture to brain science, let’s celebrate and augment the goodness we’re made of and for.
Our insightful guests from Bend seek with us to understand the escalating inequality in America and consider what we might do to address it. Welcome them back.
Outreach offering benefits the Homeless Teen Backpack
Fred Keip will use the “This I Believe” design by Rev. Sarah Schurr (of our Pacific Western Region staff), posing Big Questions that invite thinking about how I live my life and how I know what I know. We envision a series, inviting many of us, to explore and share their faith journeys.
Phil Hughes-Luing and his friend, Anya Stewart, will present the various “medicines”–aka wisdom–taught to our indigenous people by the native animals with whom they shared this land. Anya will read her story “Crow and The Talking Sticks” and display the illustrations she created for it.
Outreach offering aids the UU Service Committee.
Following the service the board will host an informational meeting regarding our revised 2018-2021 UUGP Strategic Plan.
It was one year ago this Sunday that Freebo stopped here on tour and highlighted our very first service in a building of our own. Welcome him back with us this morning.
We carry our grudges around on our backs, so bent over we can’t straighten up to see the world around us. This delightful service will help us forgive our enemies and ourselves in a skit, stories and discussion.
Outreach offering benefits the Homeless Teen Backpack
Let’s dive into the empowerment and possibility that Dr. Roger Howe perceived in our UU principles when he visited our pulpit 4 weeks ago. Margaret Keip offers a way to practice, guaranteed to
transform relationships.
We’ll recount the story of 19th-century Unitarian, Horace Mann, describe his expansive vision of public education in America, and trace his legacy up to now.
Our Outreach offering aids the Women’s Crisis Support Team
Our focus this Labor Day Sunday is turning toward WATER, as we flow into a new season of the year. If you carried a tiny bottle of water home from a summer journey,bring it with you.
