Read the Order of Service.

With the start of a new school year our congregation feels as if it’s starting off on a new year, too.  Each year we symbolize this “ingathering” through the creation of a common pool of water as part of our “water communion” service.  Everyone is encouraged to bring a small container of water with them – from an inner or outer journey you’ve been on this summer.  During the service we will pour these separate vials of water into one bowl, modeling how we can come together as separate individuals yet form one community.  In this coming together we are encouraged to reflect on our mutual accountability.   

[Note:  there is still only one service this week, at 10:00 am, and it is truly multigenerational.]

Worship Theme for September:  What does it mean to be a community of covenant?
At the core of our Unitarian Universalist faith tradition is the concept of “covenant” – the promises we make to one another to offer encouragement, comfort … and challenge, too, when it’s called for.  We make these promises to one another in community, to ourselves in integrity, and to the “spirit of life” in our interconnectedness to all that is.  This month we will be exploring the meaning of covenant in both our individual and collective lives.