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May’s Ministry Theme: The Practice of Imagination
11 a.m. Sunday, May 4, 2025

A Bouquet of Love and Service:
Flower Communion Sunday

Rev. Tim Temerson

Join us as we celebrate the many gifts and blessings we share at UUCville. Today’s service will feature our annual Flower Communion ritual, a celebration of leaders and volunteers, and the presentation of the Connie Cheetham award for distinguished service to our congregation. You are invited to bring flowers to share as part of Flower Communion.

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Sharing Joys and Sorrows
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Children & Youth

11:00 AM

Celebrating Me & My World (infant through 4 years-old)

Our lesson this week is titled “People Help Me”. Through a book and activities, we will look at the ways in which other people help and support us, as well as how we can help others!

Spirit Play

This week, the Spirit Play class will be telling and discussing the story “Going on a Picnic”.

Lego ValUUs

Lego ValUUs will be continuing their discussion of UU values through interactive Lego projects and books. This week, they are talking about love; specifically, how we show love through our actions.

Moral Tales

The Moral Tales lesson for this week focuses on working together and the power of collaboration. The students will hear a story adapted from Aesop´s Fables, and do an activity that ties in.

Neighboring Faiths

Neighboring Faiths will meet on Sunday. Watch for an email from the class leaders for details about Sunday’s plans.

12:15 PM
Coming of Age and YRUU both meet this Sunday from 12:15-1:30PM

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February 19, 2017: Can You Be Anybody You Want?

Posted on February 19, 2017 | Pastor: Rev. Erik Wikstrom

We’ve been saying the same words of welcome to and with one another for several years now. “Whoever you are, whomever you love, however you express your identity … you have a place here. We all have a place here. We all are welcome here.” At the end of this morning’s service we’re going to […]

February 12, 2017: A Service About Service

Posted on February 12, 2017 | Pastor: Guest Speaker

Read the Order of Service. The members of our senior high youth group (YRUU) will be offering today’s worship, encouraging us all to explore the idea of “service” as a part of our UU identity. Drawing on their own experiences with service – in both large and small ways – our young people will offer the […]

February 5, 2017: Gauguin’s Three Questions

Posted on February 5, 2017 | Pastor: Rev. Erik Wikstrom

Read the Order of Service. These three questions were inscribed by the artist Paul Gauguin on a painting in 1897, and they form the basis of one of our hymns. (Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?) They also suggest an intellectual approach to forming identity — our identity (individual or […]

January 29, 2017: The Making of a People of Prophecy

Posted on January 29, 2017 | Pastor: Rev. Erik Wikstrom

Read the Order of Service. After coming home from General Assembly this past summer, our Director of Faith Development, Leia Durland-Jones, told me that I should watch the Sunday morning service and, particularly, to listen to the sermon that had been given by the Rev. Nancy McDonald Ladd. Not that much after, our Director of Administration […]

January 22, 2017: The Prophetic Role

Posted on January 22, 2017 | Pastor: Rev. Erik Wikstrom

“After a long absence, The Twilight Zone returns with one of the most ambitious, expensive and controversial productions in broadcast history.” This description of a then still upcoming television program was published in a Scottish newspaper last week. It continues, “Sci-fi writers have dabbled often with alternative history stories – among the most common is […]

January 15, 2017: The Price of Prophecy

Posted on January 15, 2017 | Pastor: Guest Speaker

Read the Order of Service. On being Called Out, Called In and Showing Up. Religious Educator, and our own Director of Administration and Finance, Christina Rivera will preach this Sunday about the ways in which Unitarian Universalism (and showing up for allyship) mean responding in new ways to being called out and called in. Special guest […]

January 8, 2017: The Prophetic Life

Posted on January 8, 2017 | Pastor: Rev. Alex McGee

What does it mean to live a prophetic life? What does it take to live a prophetic life? What sorts of practices support living a prophetic life? Rev. Alexandra McGee will help us to explore questions like these. [Note: This will be a Story Sunday.]

January 1, 2017: Prophetic Vision – past, present, and future

Posted on January 1, 2017 | Pastor: Guest Speaker

Read the Order of Service. Kathleen McTigue’s reading for New Year’s Eve asks us to consider what we will do with “this great gift of Time, this year.” A prophet’s vision is firmly rooted in the grounding of the present moment, yet it extends backward to the past, and forward to the possible. Can we learn […]

December 25, 2016: Coming Together

Posted on December 25, 2016

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!

December 24, 2016: Christmas Eve Services

Posted on December 24, 2016 | Pastor: Rev. Erik Wikstrom

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 […]