Learning how to live from those who are dying. Rev. Sage Olnick. This Sunday Rev Sage will explore how her Community Ministry as a hospice chaplain inspires and deepens a Unitarian Universalist identity.

Sunday Service Hosted by UU Lancaster at 10 am. “We Can Get There from Here: Answering the Call to Make Reparation”. Jodie Geddes and Lenore Bajare-Dukes

Striving for Beloved Community. Carla M., Dennis W., Ebee B., Jeanne C., Pat U. We will explore how the actual meanings of what Jesus taught are good news for all people—leading to spiritual wholeness by calling us to dismantle oppressive systems.  Jesus, rather than maintaining the status quo, stood on the side of the marginalized.

What is In Your Bucket? Joanna Groebel, Lauren Fritz. We have been through months of enormous changes: changes in safety protocols, changes in work and school routines. changes in family dynamics and social habits, changes in emotional thresholds for difficulty, changes in how we live out social justice. changes in our willingness to see history. These months have hurled emotions piled high, one on top of one another.  It is easy to get lost in the layers of the larger traumas.  We can easily lose touch with our ability to effect positive change when things feel overwhelming.  This Sunday, we will take a look in our own personal buckets. We will see what needs cleaning out, and what is  there that is precious and worthy.  Through this exploration, we will re-ground and reconnect with our strengths and intentions, allowing us to focus with consciousness on moving our energy into being. 

Sunday Morning Worship at GA at 10 AM. Benjie Messer, Rev. Joan Javier-Duval, Rev. Mykal Slack. Join in the largest annual gathering of UUs joining in worship. This service will stream on uua.org/ga Sunday at 10 am. Rev. Joan Javier-Duval, Minister of the Unitarian Church of Montpelier, VT, is worship leader and will deliver the sermon. Rev. Mykal O’Neal Slack is co-worship leader. He is currently the Community Minister for Worship and Spiritual Care for Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism and a co-founder of the Transforming Hearts Collective. Benjie Messer who serves at the UU Congregation of Phoenix and has just completed the UUA’s Music Leadership Certification Program is the music director.

Practicing Compassion. Poncho Peña, Longtime member & guitarist, and Ebee Bromley, director of religious education & music leads us in this morning’s service. Quarantine has required a new level of compassion for ourselves and others.  Compassion is not just a matter of niceness and thoughtful feelings.  It’s a deeper type of feeling that drives us to action.  This Sunday we will consider how we practice compassion for those who fail us.

Sacred Acts of Justice & Compassion. Rev. Dr. Sandra Fees. Join us this Sunday as we reflect together on our individual and collective acts of justice and compassion. Hear from Pat Uribe-Licthty about our rainbow flag, which we are flying and dedicating. Hear from James Mannix, youth, about the Black Lives Matter march in City Park. Hear from Cesar Martinez-Garza about academia and Black Lives Matter. Hear from Jim Beidler about how our financial gifts advance justice. You’ll also hear from Rev. Dr. Sandra Fees on other sacred acts of justice, and Susan Pena will be providing piano music to hold our time.

Creating Altars of Justice. Rev. Dr. Sandra Fees.This Sunday we are delighted to welcome the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Lancaster who will be worshiping with us. Together we will explore creating sacred spaces for ourselves and our families and how to carry that work into the world to create altars of justice.

Rising to the Occasion. Rev. Sage Olnick, our Community Affiliated Minister, leads us in this morning’s service. Covid19 has required us to make many changes and sacrifices. This Sunday we will consider how we each have risen to the occasion and honored our commitment to the interdependent web of which we are a part. We will do so in song, reflection, and ritual.”

Breakthrough: The Practice of Feeling Pain. May 24, 2020 at 10:30 am. Rev. Dr. Sandra Fees.
Barbara Brown Taylor describes the spiritual practice of feeling pain as a breakthrough. This morning we’ll explore the ways that pain can move us toward the edge, the edge of new meaning and new ways of thinking. Today’s collection will be our monthly share-the-plate to benefit Olivet Boys and Girls Clubs.