• Sunday Worship

    Sunday Service – “hUUmor Sunday”

    UUFCC - Sanctuary 780 Waupelani Drive, State College, PA, United States

    with Peter and Elaine Jurs. Music: Ron Smith and also the Jazz Band with David Morris, conductor extraordinaire. Join us for our annual hUUmor Sunday summer service devoted to looking at our UUselves and the wider world with a sense of humor through jokes, stories, music, cartoons, and much, much more. Wear your most outlandish shirt or blouse and come prepared to laugh! Bring a short joke to share during the open mic part of the service.

  • Sunday Worship

    Sunday Service – “Tuning in to History and Humanity: a reflection on my sabbatical”

    UUFCC - Sanctuary 780 Waupelani Drive, State College, PA, United States

    with Ashley Hamlin. Join Ashley on an interactive quest for rest, discovery, learning, and growth as she guides us into deeper connection with our wider State College community, our work in bending the arc of history toward justice, and establishing joyful rejuvenation as we get into "good trouble" on the road that stretches far into the distance.

  • Sunday Worship

    Sunday Service – “Cosmic Connections: Astronomy, Spirit, and Our Shared Responsibility”

    UUFCC - Sanctuary 780 Waupelani Drive, State College, PA, United States

    with Kadri Nizam and Lukas Stone. Music: Bhakti Chan.  Join us for a thought-provoking exploration of how the vastness of the cosmos can deepen our understanding of both the universe and our shared human responsibility. This presentation will connect the awe-inspiring discoveries of astronomy with Unitarian Universalist principles, highlighting the importance of scientific inquiry in shaping our future and advocating for the continued support of space exploration and scientific research.

  • Sunday Worship

    Sunday Service – “Clean Up Our Act!”

    UUFCC - Sanctuary 780 Waupelani Drive, State College, PA, United States

    with Elaine Jurs. Music: Adam Smith. Join us for a short Worship Service, followed by a "work hour!" You may choose from a list of tasks both inside and outside the building. Grab a snack after the service, and come ready to help tidy up our Fellowship spaces. Working together is an act of service and love for our Beloved Community! We will have tasks for those who need to sit. Thank you!

  • Sunday Worship

    Sunday Service – “Ingathering- Water Ceremony”

    UUFCC - Sanctuary 780 Waupelani Drive, State College, PA, United States

    with Rev. Tracy Sprowls and Ashley Hamlin, DLRE. Music: UUFCC Choir Welcome to another year of community, love, and possibility! This service for all ages welcomes you to a new program year with a backpack blessing, music, story, and ritual. Please collect a bit of water  from a place that is special to you, whether it be from your travels or somewhere close. Bring this water to the Water Ceremony where we will have an opportunity to share and mingle our water. This water is later purified and used in blessings and child dedications. Additionally, we will have our ingathering picnic [...]

  • Sunday Worship

    Sunday Service – “A Blessing Called Sanctuary”

    UUFCC - Sanctuary 780 Waupelani Drive, State College, PA, United States

    with Rev. Tracy Sprowls. Jan Richardson, the writer, artist, and minister writes, “You hardly knew how hungry you were to be gathered in, to receive the welcome that invited you to enter entirely—nothing of you found foreign or strange, nothing of your life that you were asked to leave behind or to carry in silence or in shame.” We visit this theme often, but this morning we go a little deeper into what sanctuary means in today’s political climate.