ONLINE WORSHIP: Opening to Joy: Tips for Survival––Pay Attention to the Joy
Online Worship Link
What you pay attention to grows. Our music will be joyful!
Speaker: Rev. Beth Banks
First Sunday In-Person Worship: Outdoor Multigenerational Deck the Halls
CELEBRATION!
Join Rev. Beth Banks and Rev. Morgan McLean for a brief outdoor multi-generational worship, including the Sparks Choir, and a message for all. Worship will be followed by making ornaments and our traditional tree trimming. We’ll be decorating a larger space than we’ve done in past … read more.
ONLINE WORSHIP: Discovery: Reaching Out
Discover: Reaching Out is an occasional service series for exploring and receiving inspiration from faith stories of new and long-time people who attend this congregation.
ONLINE WORSHIP: Creating a History of Love and Delight
The Universalist heritage has love at its central message. It’s a love that savors relationship and connection. Universalism’s love isn’t passive but goes into action to strengthen what is good in the world. This service is focused on the moment of delight: when … read more.
ONLINE WORSHIP: Tips for Survival: Never a Failure, Always a Lesson
Gratitude Focus: Recognition of Veteran’s Day
Who decides how the past is remembered? There is a larger truth that includes more perspectives than ours, alone. If we rely on one author for the history of our family or our nation, we may fail to … read more.
IN-PERSON & ONLINE WORSHIP: Celebration of Remembrance
In-Person Arrival Time: 10:15–10:30am
Come together on the UUCD grounds for an outdoor Celebration of Remembrance and worship enjoying the beauty of the brilliant pistache trees.* We’ll create an altar. Bring a memento or photo to represent someone from your life who … read more.
IN-PERSON WORSHIP: Memorial Grove Service
This annual service honors those in our congregation who have died in the past year.
We dedicate their names in our Memorial Grove and celebrate the ways they were connected to our community. We will gather on the Patio for this service.
To join us remotely, … read more.
ONLINE WORSHIP: Tips for Survival: Relationship is Everything
When life gives us unexpected and unwelcome surprises relationships support us, give us strength and inspiration. This is service comes from recent personal experience, but even more so from the founding principles of adrienne maree brown’s emergent strategy and the studies of … read more.
ONLINE WORSHIP: Tips for Survival: Be Like Water
Sarah Larkin, Worship Associate
From those who are religious contemplatives, to long-time activists working to shape justice, we hear the message to “be like water”. UU musician and song writer, Peter Mayer, wrote a song about living with the ambiguity of on-going change … read more.
IN-PERSON WORSHIP: EvenSong
8-8:30pm, UUCD Patio
Lu Higgs & Jim Nakayama
This evening’s music includes Jim Nakayama on percussion. Jim establishes connection through collaboration. You can listen or join with us.
Please RSVP on Realm, and a personal communication will be sent to you a few days prior to our service. … read more.