Sunday Services and Sermons

See past sermon videos See entire service videos

UU COMMUNITY WORSHIP

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!

LINK TO ZOOM SERVICE

Click the title below to view the description and order of service.

Sharing Joys and Sorrows
If you would like to have a joy or sorrow shared aloud during the worship service, please complete this form by 9am Sunday morning.

March 5, 2017: The Best Place to Hide From God

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

Read the Order of Service. It was during the first few years of my first settled call that I first started working with a spiritual director, and this guy was the real deal — spiritual director, Episcopal priest, and Jungian analyst. A seeker’s trifecta. I remember one day when we were talking about the wrestling I […]

February 26, 2017: Dreaming Creation

Posted on February 26, 2017 | Pastor: Guest Speaker

Read the Order of Service. There is the stuff of creation- the circles we call in our meditations, the human and animal beings, the trees and rivers, the oceans and streams– that beautiful amalgam. The creation– that some of us call God’s Creation. And then there are the acts of creation– of babies and symphonies and […]

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 […]