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April’s Ministry Theme: Embracing Possibility
11 a.m. Sunday, April 26, 2026

“May Day! May Day!”
Rev. Leia Durland-Jones and Frank Dukes

The term “May Day” means different things. It is an internationally recognized call of distress and the celebration of International Workers Day in some countries. It is also the festival of Beltane honoringthe season’s fertility in northern hemisphere pagan traditions. Let’s explore and embrace together the power and possibility we can find in the many faces of May.

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July 17, 2016: A Part of or Apart From?

Posted on July 17, 2016 | Pastor: Rev. Erik Wikstrom

Read the Order of service Our seventh principle states that we, as Unitarian Universalists, affirm and promote respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part. Yet we humans tend to talk (and think!) as though we are apart from the rest of the natural world rather than recognizing ourselves as […]

July 10, 2016: The Road More Travelled

Posted on July 10, 2016 | Pastor: Rev. Alex McGee

Read the Order of Service Thanks to Christine Gresser for brainstorming and reflecting together and contributing metaphors and phrases for this sermon. THE ROAD MORE TRAVELLED The poet Robert Frost wrote a poem called The Road Less Taken about a traveller who comes upon a fork in a road. The traveller considers options for a […]

July 3, 2016: Celebrating In(ter)dependence Day

Posted on July 3, 2016 | Pastor: Guest Speaker

Read the Order of Service. As we prepared to celebrate our nation’s birth, we considered what it meant to be independent—as individuals, as a denomination, and as a country. How might our legacy of independence be keeping us from reaching our full potential? Is it time to move beyond independence to interdependence, and if so, what […]

June 26, 2016: What’s so great about simplicity?

Posted on June 26, 2016 | Pastor: Rev. Erik Wikstrom

Read the Order of Service We began the month by looking at some of the “gifts” of simplicity, but why do people make such a big deal about it? Why do we put such a high value on living “simple” lives while actually living lives that are just about anything but? Let’s explore this together […]

June 19, 2016: Juneteenth

Posted on June 19, 2016 | Pastor: Rev. Erik Wikstrom

Read the Order of service. I am embarrassed to say that I had never heard of “Juneteenth” until relatively recently. I keep discovering just how much American history I never learned and, perhaps even more disturbingly, that no one ever thought important enough to try to teach me – all that history that gets lifted up each […]

June 12, 2016: Moses’ first trip up the mountain

Posted on June 12, 2016 | Pastor: Rev. Erik Wikstrom

Read the order of service. There is a midrash on the story of Moses receiving the Ten Commandments on Mt. Sinai which tells of two trips up the mountain. First, it is said, Moses’ sister Miriam went up to receive God’s command, after which Moses re-made the trek. Why? (Hint: It has to do with simplicity.) […]

June 5, 2016: ‘Tis a gift to be simple

Posted on June 5, 2016 | Pastor: Rev. Erik Wikstrom

Read the Order of service. Worship for June 2016: “What does it mean to be a people of simplicity?” The well-known Shaker hymn tells us that it’s “a gift to be simple, a gift to be free.” Just what is the gift of simplicity? What does it have to do with freedom? And how does any […]

May 29, 2016: What’s a Blessing?

Posted on May 29, 2016 | Pastor: Rev. Erik Wikstrom

Read the Order of Service. Monthly Theme: What does it mean to be a people of blessing? Having spent a month exploring what it means to say that we are “a people of blessing,” some of us may still be wondering about this concept of “blessing.” What is it? What isn’t it? How do we recognize […]

May 22, 2016: The Blessings of our UU Youth

Posted on May 22, 2016 | Pastor: Guest Speaker

Read the Order of Service. What Does it Mean to Come of Age as a UU? As a culmination of their Coming of Age class, our 8th, 9th and 10th graders lead the congregation in worship at both the 9:15 and 11:15 services. Come and hear what our fabulous youth have to share about what it […]

May 15, 2016: Counting Our Blessings

Posted on May 15, 2016 | Pastor: Rev. Erik Wikstrom

Monthly Theme: What does it mean to be a people of blessing? We are frequently encouraged to “count our blessings,” yet some see the potential for more than a little hubris in this practice. It does seem, though, that this could be a remedy to the perhaps more common practice of enumerating our failures and […]