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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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December 25, 2016: Coming Together

There will be no worship service or RE on Christmas morning.  TJMC will be open, however, for a pot luck Christmas brunch at 10:00 am.  Whether you are looking for a place to go, or just want to expand the size of your family, this could be just the thing!

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December 24, 2016: Christmas Eve Services

4:30:   Christmas Pageant Read the Order of Service. Our annual highly participatory Christmas Pageant is a fully family-friendly event. 7:00:  UU Christian Community Our Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship offers communion in the Unitarian Universalist tradition. 8:00:  A Service of Stories and Carols Read the Order of Service. Hear the meaning of Christmas through different lenses, sing some […]

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Read the Order of Service. During this “holiday season” there are celebrations to mark the birth of the Prophet ﷺ, Winter Solstice, Yule, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and New Year’s Eve (not to mention Festivus).  What are Unitarian Universalists to make of this, and what might this season tell us about being a people of presence?  Rev. […]

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December 4, 2016: Be Here Now

Read the Order of service. When I was a kid, two of my favorite possessions were a copy of The Whole Earth Catalog and Baba Ram Dass’s book Be Here Now, admittedly a pretty trippy book that has been called a “countercultural bible,” and a “seminal” text for the 1970s hippie culture.  And while it’s three-word title is now quite common […]

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November 27, 2016: Sharing Our Stories

Read the Order of service. This month we have said that we are “a community of story.”  On this Sunday after Thanksgiving, many of us no doubt have stories to tell – stories from this year, and stories of years gone by; stories that evoke laughter, and those that bring out tears.  Today we will have […]

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Read the Order of Service. The image of “the welcome table” has been fully embraced in religious metaphor, but if its fruits can be seen nearly everywhere, it is important to remember that its roots are in slavery.  Enslaved African Americans sung about a “welcome table” at which they would one day be free to […]

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November 13, 2016: The Long View

Rev. Alex McGee and Worship Weaver Cypress Walker will help us reflect on how the “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”  This quote is based on the theology of Unitarian leader Theodore Parker (1810-1860).  Come share in comforting songs and stories.  [Note:   this will be a Social Action […]

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November 6, 2016: Truth and Story

It begins with a stoning and it ends with a stoning, and in between there are some important teachings about truth and judgement, and there’s one big challenge.  That’s my 15-second synopsis of the 8th chapter of the Gospel of John, the passage my friend, and your pastor, suggested that each of us preach from this […]

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October 30, 2016: Healing Our Past

Mainstream American culture acts as if everything important happened today, or will happen in the near future, like a car driving down the highway with no rearview mirror.  Yet the majority of other world cultures know that our past is intimately intertwined with the present.  Día de los Muertos, and festivals like it, are a […]

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