Our Services
May Services
Saturday, May 4, 7:00 PM: “Vespers”
Rev. Monica Jacobson-Tennessen
We’ll enter our final worship theme of the year, “God,” with an evening look that includes both poetic and emergent ways of understanding what that small big word means. This service is available in person only.
Sunday, May 5, 10:30 AM: “When Justice Starts with Just Us”
Rev. Monica Jacobson-Tennessen and Joan Gray
Musicians: Nancy and Raymond Brungard
It’s sometimes said that the solution to despair about the world is to find a small way to make a difference for the better. In the same vein, as our justice-making efforts call us to challenge systems of oppression, we can find spiritual grounding and sustenance in our roots. Rev. Monica will share about the practice of radical genealogy - looking at our ancestries with a focus on gifts to bring forward, past wrongs to address, and connections to others who have worked for justice in the past.
Sunday, May 12, 10:30 AM: “Four Paths Through Mystery”
by Becky Brooks and Rev. Erika Hewitt
Presented by Regina McConaghy and Wanda Clifton. Musician: Fran Handy
Life presents us with gifts, and it is our work to make meaning out of our experiences and encounters. This worship service unfolds in four parts; participants will receive invitations to nourish their spirits, sit with a question, find direction, and take part in life’s sweetness. At each phase, we’ll also receive gifts from the universe. Each gift is an opportunity to allow Life to love us and shower us with inspiration or delight. Gather with us in community in the spirit of contemplation and sharing. What does a gift require of the recipient? This service is available in person only.
Sunday, May 19, 10:30am: “The Spirit in Our Music”
Nancy L. Brungard, Virginia Tomlinson, and CUUC Musicians and Choir
In this special intergenerational music rich service, we will enjoy familiar songs largely found in our Unitarian Universalist hymnals that bring the spirit into our music. As UUs, we come to our service music with many perspectives, and yet we find a way to respect and celebrate one another’s beliefs in our music. Come ready to listen and sing for as Kahlil Gibran tells us “Music is the language of the spirit.”
Sunday, May 26, 10:30am: “I’ve lived a good life.”
Leigh Terrass and Alex Emig
Musicians: Nancy and Raymond Brungard
On the 106th anniversary of her mother’s birth, Leigh will explore the varied life of her mom, Jackie Terrass. Only child, Universalist family, Great Depression childhood, teenage pilot, Stanford University graduate, WWII flight instructor, Red Cross Volunteer in India in 1945, Master’s from Columbia University, devoted Navy wife and mother, avid traveler and so much more. When told she was dying, at 80, she said “I’ve lived a good life.” This service is available in person only.
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