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UU COMMUNITY WORSHIP

Blessings of the Dark & Light:
a Winter Solstice Celebration
Revs. Leia Durland-Jones & Tim Temerson,
Lauren Doran & Georgina Todd

Come welcome the return of the light as we honor the Winter Solstice. The coming months invite us to embrace the dark of the year as we rest and prepare for what will be born in us in the spring. We worship this Sunday in multigenerational community as we celebrate the solstice through story, song, and ritual. The service has been designed to be accessible for all ages and includes story, song, and reflections.  All ages are warmly welcomed.

Food Sharing for Members of our Congregation – 
Those who are able are invited to bring perishable and non-perishable foods as well as cleaning supplies and place them in the sanctuary on the chancel at the 11AM service. Anyone who would like is invited to stay after the service and take items home. Rev. Tim will also have grocery gift cards available so please see him if you would like one. “From you I receive, to you I give, together we share, by this we live.”

All are welcome in the sanctuary, social hall, or online for the full hour. Child care is available during worship for children 5 and younger in Lower Hall Room 1 during the service.

 

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Sharing Joys and Sorrows

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Children & Youth – Sunday December 22, 2024

11:00 AM

All are welcome in the sanctuary, social hall, or online for the full hour.  Child care is available during worship for children 5 and younger in Lower Hall Room 1 during the service.

Celebrating Me & My World (infant through 5-year-olds): Our nursery-aged children will meet as usual in the Nursery space.   This week’s lesson will be “I can Give” and we will explore the joys of gift giving.

12:15-1:30 PM

Coming of Age  (8th, 9th & 10th Grades) Meets this Sunday at 12:15 in Summit House 1. Fun snack, interesting conversation, time with friends awaits!

YRUU (11th & 12th grades) today is a day for celebrating solstice yummy holidays snacks and card decorating!

Please register all children (infant through high school seniors) to participate in religious education for the 2024-2025 RE year.


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Ingathering​​​​​ – UUCville Director of Music Scott DeVeaux Welcome and Call to Worship​​​ – Breck Gastinger, Worship Weaver Opening Hymn – Morning Has Come composed and offered by Jason Shelton Chalice Lighting – ​​​​​​the Jaeger-Landis family Chalice Song – Spirit of Life by Carolyn McDade, sung by the Orange County UU Choir, signed by UUCVille […]

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We welcome to our worship the voices and music of UU ministers and leaders from around the nation, assembled by the Unitarian Universalist Association 30 Days of Love program. The sermon offered is titled “What If I Had Only 30 Days to Love?” Our service will include greetings from our Social Action Collection recipient PHAR […]

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Sunday, Jan. 23rd at 11am EST: Showing Up

Rev. Linda speaks of the important value of showing the reality of our values through all the ways we show up in the world – what we say, what we do, what we make visible – so that our intentions move from inner thoughts to openly experienced. Prelude     Scott DeVeaux, Director of Music […]

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We welcome to our pulpit, the Rev. Brenda Brown-Grooms, Co- Pastor of New Beginnings Christian Community in Charlottesville, who offers the sermon entitled “Trees Talk”. We are grateful to hear from this community leader, a partner of UUCville in the Charlottesville Clergy Collective. And on this Martin Luther King holiday Sunday, Rev. Linda honors the […]

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Join Rev. Leia as together we mark the beginning of the New Year and begin our exploration of January’s ministry of “Living with Intention.” Several months of winter are ahead for us. How might we find the gifts in this dark, cold, and fallow season and make space for what could be born or reborn […]

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