Sunday Services

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

January 1: Come greet 2012

We will have a traditional burning ceremony to leave the unwanted of 2011 behind, and will share the most interesting ideas and events you encountered last year.

January 8: Four Stages of Unitarian Universalism

Over the years I have come to realize that our liberal religious process is distinguished by four stages that must be completed satisfactorily or, somewhere along the way, many members and their religious societies tend to part company.

These stages are important because they help us to understand a good bit about what UU societies are in the first place -- what they do and what value they are to us and we are to them. Understanding this process is important because it is what makes UUs different from most other religious groups. Rev. Don in the pulpit.

January 15: Liberal Love in a Hateful

World

This is the Sunday before Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Day, and we are surrounded by the sobering reminder in today’s world of what the absence of love does to people. This service will deal with what, in this morass of obviously misguided expectations of love, do religious liberals really have to offer. Rev. Don in the pulpit.

January 22: Coming Home

This service will point to the personal impact of discerning the difference between where we are and where our dream once promised we would be. Rev. Don in the pulpit.

January 29: Connect with Respect

Today the CCC—see page 5— will explain what the committee is, what they've been doing, and what it means to you. There will be demonstrations of some of the offerings of the committee. Come explore!

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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.