Upcoming Services
Upcoming Sunday Services
To request ASL interpretation for an upcoming service, please contact the office. Interpretation services require 10 days advance notice.
Services are at 10:30 a.m. at 2425 Sierra Avenue
Child Care Staff on duty from 10:15-12:00
Our Children and Youth Programs are also at 10:30 a.m.
August 2
Wisdom of the Crone
Rev. Lucy Bunch, leading, with Worship Associate Jenni Gouine, Pianist Irina Tchantceva, Dawn Walker, flute Presenters Christie Braziel, Ellen Shaeffer, and Kim Fuller
Elderly women are often discounted in our society as irrelevant. And yet crones have a powerful wisdom to share from their life journeys. This Sunday we will hear the wisdom of elder women who have claimed the power of the crone.
- Candles of Joys and Sorrows during the service (first Sunday of each month).
- Before the service: Labyrinth meditation in the meadow at 9:30
- After the service: Memorial Service for Fran Clarke at 2 PM
August 9
The Power of Sacred Places
Rev. Lucy Bunch preaching with Rev Dr Roger Jones, Worship Associate Celia Buckley, Music Director Anthony Tavianini, Pianist Irina Tchantceva
What do Stonehenge, the Pyramids, Notre Dame, Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu have in common? They are human-build structures that have taken on sacred meaning. What makes them sacred, and what do they represent about humans and our relationship to the divine?
After service: Newcomers’ Orientation & Tour (meet at Welcome Table)
Young Adults Meet & Greet at 12:00 pm
Forum on Pilgrimage to Poland with Rev Roger and Patty Innes
August 16
Gifts of an Earth Brother: The Simplicity and Resistance of Henry David Thoreau
Rev. Dr. Roger Jones preaching with Worship Associate Eric Gudz, Pianist Irina Tchantceva
Brought up as a Unitarian, this schoolteacher and inventor who died in 1862 continues to inspire us with his loving descriptions of the natural world and encouragement to slow down and pay attention to the ordinary details of life. Moreover, his nonviolent acts of “resistance to civil government” (and book of the same name) left a legacy for Mohandas K. Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and all of us.
Spiritual Practice: Tai Chi & Qi Gong in the Fahs Classroom at 9:30
Men’s Group after the service at 12:00 noon
August 23
I Love My Chicken: The Avoidable Suffering of Animals and Humans
Rev. Dr. Roger Jones preaching with Worship Associate Andy Cramer, Music Director Anthony Tavianini, Pianist Irina Tchantceva
This service draws on resources of the Unitarian Universalist Animal Ministry, which celebrates loving relationships between people and their pets; it also promotes ways to reduce the suffering of animals raised for food in the massively mechanized food-animal industry. Factory farming hurts farm workers too. Come to learn ways we can diminish harm.
We start the service with a Backpack Blessing for a new school year. Come and be recognized, whether you are a teacher, tutor, staff or student—in preschool, home school, grades 1-12 as well as college, vocational, or professional school. Take the love and goodwill of UUSS to school!
Before service: Embodied Spiritual Practices at 9:30 am in the Fahs Room
Parents & Caregivers’ Meeting with tea & snacks in Room 12
After the service: People of Color Caucus meet & greet at noon.
After the service: Exploring Unitarian Universalism at noon with Rev. Roger
Photo by Hans, unsplash.com
August 30
Old Turtle and the Broken Truth
A Circle Service for All ages led by Rev. Dr. Roger Jones, with Rev Lucy Bunch, Worship Associate Connor Lane, Religious Education Coordinator Crystal Fountain, Puppet master Elizabeth Leonard, kids and youth from Summer RE, plus Music Director Anthony Tavianini, pianist Irina Tchantceva
Do we have all the truth, or only half of it? The beloved picture book by Douglas Wood will be narrated and acted out with enormous puppets being made in RE this summer under the leadership of Elizabeth Leonard. If you are a child or youth, there is still time to participate! Contact re@uuss.org. Today’s 5th Sunday Shared Offering supports Effie Yeaw Nature Center.
*After the service, we celebrate the completion of our Memorial Wall in the meadow!
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