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What Now: Healing in Uncertain Times. Rev. Dr. Sandra Fees. In this post-election service, we will gather to begin to imagine what’s next and how we might heal amid uncertainty.
What Now: Healing in Uncertain Times. Rev. Dr. Sandra Fees. In this post-election service, we will gather to begin to imagine what’s next and how we might heal amid uncertainty.
Beginning this Sunday (Nov. 7) we’ll be going to a new Zoom room that has real-time closed captioning (not all Zoom virtual meeting rooms/meeting IDs have closed captioning). You will need to be using a current version of the Zoom Client App (the latest version is 5.4.1). Each participant will be able to toggle closed … Continue reading Did you hear the announcement Rev. Fees made at the beginning of service last week?
Dia de Los Muertos. Cesar Martinez-Garza, Rev. Dr. Sandra Fees. Join us for our annual celebration of Dia de Los Muertos led by Rev. Dr. Sandra Fees and Cesar Martinez-Garza. This year will feature a virtual ofrenda of our beloveds who have died.
Friends and members are invited to participate in ADORE’s Second Sunday Listening Café on November 8 at noon. Since this date comes shortly after Election Day, we will give you an opportunity to share responses to the election and the turbulent times that will follow and to practice deep listening. First UU Church of Berks … Continue reading ADORE Second Sunday Listening Café
Join us on Monday November 2nd, @ 7:00pm when gather together to contemplate Color, and the role it plays in our lives. Contact Jane Rohrbach (windowsjmr@comcast.net) or Nadine Smet-Weiss (njw1258@hotmail.com or 484-333-4015) for further information; contact Nadine to receive the zoom link for this gathering.
by nadine j. smet-weiss once for a lifetime i fought to hold all the pieces together until the struggle became far more than I could bear so at long last i surrendered to falling apart simply because i could not not it was only then that i began to discover how life is born of … Continue reading healing breakthrough
Listening to the Wise Ones: Elders, Ancestors, The Other.
Rev. Dr. Sandra Fees. This morning we’ll reflect on the practice of Deep Listening that honors our wise ones. What wisdom do our elders, ancestors, and the other have to teach us?
This fall choir is meeting over zoom every other week. Each meeting we get to stretch our voices from the comfort of our own homes. The commute time to choir has decreased to the click of a zoom link and the fun has increased to the speed of a laugh. We have fun at choir! … Continue reading Choir this Fall – All Are Welcome
Listening to Self. Rev. Dr. Sandra Fees. The Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh says that Deep Listening is Compassionate Listening. This morning we’ll reflect on the practice of compassionate listening that honors our own voice and power. Next week we’ll explore what it means to listen deeply to ancestors.
We are doing a costume contest!! Please share pictures all month. You can send them to to our group fb page or Ebee (director.religious.education@uuberks.org) or Erin(epcjjc@gmail.com) ! Not only are we showing our most awesome costumes – but there is a category for best Jack o Lantern. On 10/30 we will hold an online RE Monster … Continue reading Halloween Costume Contest