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March’s Ministry Theme: “The Practice of Paying Attention”

11 a.m. Sunday, March 8, 2026
Rev. Tim Temerson

Religion is often understood in terms of belief and having faith in a creed or a particular sacred text. Today’s service will focus on a different approach rooted in listening, humility, and the power of paying attention.

Those joining via Zoom are welcome to stay after service until 12:30pm for Zoom “Coffee Hour”.

Religious Education Sunday, March 8, 2026

Nursery care is provided for our littlest UUs concurrent with the worship service. This Sunday we will be exploring “My World Has Birds” and celebrating the beauty of our natural world as we anticipate the arrival of spring!

Spirit Play (4 year-olds through 1^st grade) will be hearing the story “Butterfly Friends”, which teaches compassion for the world as we look forward to the coming of spring! As always, we will have time for the children to explore the message of the story using a variety of material and a little snack.

2^nd-4^th grade class: This session of “Growing Anti-Racist UUs” is called “Remembering the Past” and helps our younger elementary children be aware of human rights as promised in this country’s founding principles. This session ties into the principles of respect for the inherent worth and dignity of every person, offering fair and kind treatment to others (red and orange in the Rainbow Chalice as well as insisting on peace and justice (indigo). The session explores the injustice toward children and families when freedoms and human rights are taken from them.

5^th & 6^th grade class: Our upper elementary class centers on the UU Rainbow Chalice and helping activities that we can do to make the world a more peaceful and loving place. Come have fun with your friends and live your UU values!

Our Whole Lives (7-9^th grade) meets at their regular time.

YRUU (senior high youth group) is meeting with Rev. Leia to plan the worship service they will be leading for the congregation on March 15!

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October 22, 2017: Teach-In

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

This service was part of the second UU White Supremacy Teach-In, which encouraged (and challenged) UU congregations around the country to look intentionally and explicitly at the ways we all participate in white supremacy culture. Peter Walpole contributed an original piece for the Opening Words, “Three Fifths Compromise.” I’m want you to hang on to […]

October 15, 2017: Roots Run Deep & Wide

Posted on October 15, 2017 | Pastor: Rev. Erik Wikstrom

See Rev. Wik’s Thoughts here. [Our Social Action Collection will go to the community food pantry we host on the first Friday of each month.]

October 8, 2017: Spiritual Roots

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

This month we are exploring the image of Roots. I am especially moved by the images on the altar in which glass jars show the roots which support these plants and draw up nourishment from the water. Today I am enquiring about our spiritual roots. I am encouraging all of us to know our spiritual […]

October 1, 2017: Story Sunday

Posted on October 1, 2017 | Pastor: Guest Speaker

Read the Order of Service. We will have guest preacher Walter Clark. (Walter received his Master of Divinity from Meadville Lombard Theological School in spring of 2016. He was an intern at the First Unitarian Universalist of Richmond for two years as well as an intern at the Fellowship of the Peninsula in Newport news […]

October 29, 2017: Ancestors Sunday

Posted on October 1, 2017 | Pastor: Rev. Erik Wikstrom

One of the “touchstone” services we return to year after year – Ancestors Sunday. It is a multigenerational service, the ceremony of child dedication will be offered, and the choir will be singing. [Remember: our choir rehearses in the sanctuary on Thursday evenings, starting at 7:15. If you love music, and want to be a […]

September 24, 2017: Metaphor of the Bowl Pt 2

Posted on September 24, 2017 | Pastor: Rev. Erik Wikstrom

For the last Sunday of the month, September 24th, we will be settled into our two-service, two-RE routine, and will be finishing up our playing with the metaphor/image of the bowl. Rev. Wik will be preaching, and our choir will once again sing. [Remember: our choir rehearses in the sanctuary on Thursday evenings, starting at […]

September 17, 2017: Metaphor of the Bowl

Posted on September 17, 2017 | Pastor: Rev. Erik Wikstrom

September 17th will be the first Sunday on which we again have two Sunday services (and two religious education programs for our children and youth). Worship and Religious Education will begin at 9:15 and 11:15, and Rev. Wik will be preaching. [Our Social Action Collection will go to support PACEM – People and Congregations Engaged […]

September 10, 2017: Balloon Sunday

Posted on September 10, 2017 | Pastor: Rev. Erik Wikstrom

On Sunday, September 10, 2017, the congregation I serve celebrated its annual Balloon Sunday. We heard the story we called “Grandmother’s Courage,” and my reflections were an exploration of its message. (Although the story is not included in this post, I think the lessons are clear even without knowing it.) In seminary I was taught […]

September 3, 2017: Of Cracks and Flowers

Posted on September 4, 2017 | Pastor: Rev. Erik Wikstrom

I have always loved the story Leia just read. I first heard it years and years ago, and it touched me then. All these years later it continues to move me. One of the reasons I so love that story is because I am that pot with a crack in it. I know only two […]

August 27, 2017: Changeless Values In Changing Times

Posted on August 27, 2017 | Pastor: Guest Speaker

Preaching: Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. We fall down and sometimes we are born down. In the history of life’s leaders, life’s transformers is to get up and see beyond the predicament. On the isle of Patmos, left to die, John saw a new heaven, a new earth beyond his predicament. Jefferson saw a way […]