In-Person: No Need to Pre-Register! Simply Show-Up! & Online Worship Link (click to join at 10:30am Sunday) Bring a flower from your garden, store, or roadside to contribute to the communal bouquets. Sunday, we enact the ritual of the Flower Communion Ceremony, reminding us of the many roles we take in creating community. This ceremony … Continue reading In-Person & Online: Flower Communion
In-Person: Register on Realm* (You’ll receive a confirmation email. Assistance: office@uudavis.org) & Online Evensong Link (click to join at 7:30pm Sunday) Sunset will arrive at 7:52pm. We’ll start our service with sunlight and end when darkness surrounds us. As the service moves to its conclusion, candlelight will fill illuminate our space. Meditative songs (masked singing), … Continue reading In-Person & Online: EvenSong: Awakening
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
