Northwest Seasonal Workers Association NSWA
Northwest Seasonal Workers Association is an independent membership association of workers in the seasonal industries of agriculture, timber and tourism which has been active in Jackson County since 1976.
Services
UUGP Sunday Service Committee: Gathering of the Waters
As the summer fades and we return from travels, visits with family and friends and the adventures of the hot summer months, UUs around the country return to the formal beginning of a new church year. We invite you to bring a memento of your adventures in the form of a sample of the waters from your summer days. For some this might be water from distant lands. For others it might be the life sustaining water from your backyard well, hillside spring, or the faucet in your kitchen that brings the water of the Rogue River and its headwater’s mountain streams to our community. Let these waters be a symbol of both the miraculous life-giving systems of mother earth, and the beloved community that is our UUGP congregation.
My Experiences as an RN in the Prison System
Kurt will talk about his healing work in prisons and how these experiences helped the Heart Based Institute in launching the recently released video program on the Spiritual Heart onto Endovo, an online platform that currently reaches 1,250 prisons and jails across America.
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.