Mollie Napier, Susan Steinbach, Mary Higgins MacDonnell Poet Dawna Markova wrote, “I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise.” What is central in your life, that could move and guide … Continue reading In-Person & Online: Awakening: A Life of Promises
Intergenerational Service LuAnn Higgs, Music Director; Linda Birse & Kyria Boundy-Mills, Juuliebells Co-Directors Our Music Sunday focuses on the theme of awakening. The Christian Easter theme tells a story of endings that allow for what was previously unimagined, to be created. How many times have we thought we were witnessing an ending, only to find … Continue reading In-Person & Online: Easter Music Sunday: Endings Become Our Beginnings & Egg Hunt
There are many ways to feel a sense of wholeness that transcends specific relationships, or experiences. This service will touch on the nature of the connections that help bring a deep sense of well-being. Before attending the service, ask the question, “Whose are you?” To whom do you belong? Draw the circle wide and consider … Continue reading In-Person & Online: Awakening: Something Beyond Ourselves – Beliefs We Hold in Common
Susan Steinbach, Worship Associate We may need to sacrifice some part of our identity to be in a continually awake to the world. What are we willing to give-up to have the exhilarating experience of awakening? You’ll hear an important Unitarian Universalist belief embedded in the spiritual practice of being awake to life. In-Person: No … Continue reading In-Person & Online: Awakening: The Empty Cup – Beliefs We Hold in Common
March 27, 10:30am In-Person: Register on Realm (You’ll receive a confirmation email. Assistance: office@uudavis.org) & Online Worship Link (no need to register) Dr. Melissa James, Guest Speaker There are times in our personal and collective lives when change seems like the only constant thing around us. In those moments we have the opportunity to see anew who … Continue reading In-Person & Online Worship: In This Time and Place
Sheryl Reneé Counter, Presenter UUCD Sanctuary Our hymnals are filled with African-American Spirituals and Gospels. Learn where this wonderful music came from, as we work the “8th Principle.” In-Person: Register on Realm (You’ll receive a confirmation email. Assistance: office@uudavis.org) & Online Link (no need to register) Sheryl Reneé Counter is a Sacramento-based singer who has performed with many … Continue reading Presentation: Origins, History, and Contemporary Music of Spirituals and Gospel Music
March 20, 10:30am In-Person: Register on Realm (You’ll receive a confirmation email. Assistance: office@uudavis.org) & Online Worship Link (no need to register) Covenantal Relations Committee (CRC)* Liz Garman (chair), Kyria Boundy-Mills, Louise Conrad, CRC Lay Leaders Part of a series of services to help us become acquainted in a new way. At each service, congregation members will … Continue reading In-Person & Online Worship: Discovery: Reaching Out
Reaching Out Weekend (Full Details)! March 13, 10:30am In-Person: Register on Realm (You’ll receive a confirmation email. Assistance: office@uudavis.org) & Online Worship Link (no need to register) Rev. Vail Weller Rev. Beth Banks & Stewardship Team, Worship Support Gifts constantly flow into and out of our life, whether we are paying attention or not. We understand even on … Continue reading In-Person & Online Worship: The Ecology of Generosity
Reaching Out Weekend (Full Details)! Your Stewardship Team invites you to join us for a morning of Reaching Out Opportunities and Hands-On Activities. We will be collecting supplies* to assist families in starting over with a new home through Empower Yolo AND we will have hands-on activities for you to do: making signs for the … Continue reading Reaching Out: Opportunities & Hands-On Activities
March 6, 10:30am In-Person: Register on Realm (You’ll receive a confirmation email. Assistance: office@uudavis.org) & Online Worship Link (no need to register) Rev. Morgan McLean Rev. Beth Banks, Worship Support Rev. Morgan speaks on her first Sunday back from sabbatical. Details in the upcoming bulletin.
