Sunday Services

Unless noted, we have one Sunday worship service at 10:00 a.m.
Child care is available at all services.

September 5: Labor Day Potluck

A celebration of Labor with Brunch and Song. Don’t the great rousing Labor songs make you want to rally for everything and anything?  If you have songs to share, send to Jill Clarridge and she will make copies for us all.  Bring something edible to share!

September 12:   “The End Is Where We Start From”

This is a famous line from T.S. Eliot that is true as far as it goes.  However, there is both a gap between ending and starting that is easily identified and an overlapping of the two that is easily obscured.  The beginning of this interim year is an appropriate time to examine this aspect of transitions.  Rev. Don Vaughn-Foerster in pulpit 

September  19: "Friends in a Transitory World"

The swirl of the world around us sometimes seems to paralyze our ability to reach out and to be reached.  And so, a prime reason for belonging to a church is really to belong.  This Sunday we will explore this need and make some suggestions as to how it can be met.  Getting to know a small group of people well helps.  Rev. Don Vaughn-Foerster in pulpit.

September 26: “Our Unique Prophetic Claim”

A prophecy is an inspired utterance, so says my Webster’s Dictionary.  Usually it is an utterance springing from what the utterer takes to be divine or mystical inspiration.  This is seldom characteristic of Unitarian Universalist “utterers” but there is an inspired utterance (a “prophecy”, as it were) characteristic of us Unitarian Universalists.  This UU will identify what he takes that prophecy to be.  Rev. Don Vaughn-Foerster in pulpit.

October 3:  Service Sunday

Come in your work clothes and together we’ll make our fellowship shine.

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Our ChaliceWe meet for worship each Sunday at 10:00 a.m.  Our children's religious education classes meet during the 10:00 am.

The Fellowship Hour follows worship services, with coffee and tea served, and supervision is provided for children on our playground. Our Sunday services draw from Jewish, Christian and earth-centered religious traditions, as well as from the wisdom of Eastern religious thought. We also seek meaning in personal experience and witness, social issues, literature and the sciences.

Our services begin with a warm welcome and the lighting of our Unitarian Universalist symbol, the flaming chalice. Our minister leads services about 3 times per month with the support of lay leaders and our Worship Committee. We also have guest speakers and fully lay-led services throughout the year.

A rich tapestry of music is interwoven with each service, with exuberant congregational hymns, a wonderful choir, and beautiful piano solos. We are a singing congregation, enjoying the spiritual connection music brings us each week.

During the months from mid-September to mid-June, the children begin the morning in the sanctuary with their parents, proceeding to their classes after a time of "sharing for all ages." Our sanctuary has wide windows which look out over a majestic forest, encouraging us to honor the spiritual in the natural world, and to "walk softly on the earth." You'll find great diversity in how our members dress on Sunday mornings - but "Northwest casual" (yes, even jeans) is the norm for many of us.