Sunday September 8 is our annual Balloon Sunday service as we celebrate the start of another year of lifelong learning together. After the service, there will be a gathering to say farewell to Christina Rivera who has served as our Director of Administration and Finance. There will be all you can eat soup for a […]

Sunday September 1 we celebrate our annual Water Communion service. Remember to collect a small bit of water from your summer journeys (whether you journey around the world or simply enjoy the beauty of your own neighborhood) to add to our congregation’s communal vessel during this service.

Rev. Jamie McReynolds led this service. During this transitional time in the life of TJMC, this congregation can choose how to be in community. How shall we contribute to increasing the amount of belonging or relatedness that exists in the world? Abundant Community It was the coldest winter ever. Many animals died because of the […]

A report from our youth on their Appalachian service trip.

The service was led by Rev. Alexandra McGee. We made it. We made it to the two year anniversary after the tragic events of August 12 2017. In our town this year, grassroots organizations are teaming up with city organizations to educate, inspire and celebrate what is good and true about this town. Yesterday I […]

Our guest minister is Rev. Dawn Cooley who serves Unitarian Universalism as one of the Congregational Life Staff of the Southern Region. Walking Through Spiderwebs: If we are not intentional, being in community can be like walking through spiderwebs on a morning hike – something we stumble through haphazardly and then have a strong reaction […]

The service will be led by Rev. Ed Piper, retired minister from Waynesboro, and Laura Horn, Worship Weaver

The service will be led by Pastor Lehman Bates of Ebenezer Baptist Church and Laura Horn, Worship Weaver. “Show Me Your ID”. In any organization, leadership transition provides an opportunity to identify, investigate, and inventory. Identification reminds and reaffirms us of WHO we are. Investigation helps us to uncover and rediscover WHERE, WHEN, HOW, and […]

The service was led by Rev. Alex McGee, Assistant Minister and Bob Gross, Worship Weaver. This text and notes are generally what I said from the pulpit, but some extemporizing and changes occurred during delivery.  Please give credit when citing sources. For today, I picked the sermon title “What Does Love Ask of Me?” As […]

The service was led by Rev. Karen Lewis Foley, retired UU minister from New England, now living in Charlottesville, and Bob Gross, Worship Weaver. Opening Words: “The Rabbi’s Gift,” as told by William Houff in Infinity in Your Hand: in which an abbot of a monastery which has fallen on hard times with decreasing members […]