...with Chloe Crabb. Music: Dr. Adam Smith. This service will talk about the mission and services of AIDS Resource Alliance, a local non profit that provides resources for people living with HIV and the LGBTQ+ community. It will explore themes of health justice, stigma, and the importance of non-discriminatory access to healthcare in relation to our 1st and 7th principles.

With Clinton Judy, Leslie Brown, Ken Riznyk, and Dr Adam Smith. Join us in singing any of your favorite hymns from the UU hymnals, including Spirit of Life, Blue Boat Home, and many others. People will be given the opportunity to call out their favorite hymn for everyone to sing! Members of the choir will also be there to help to lead us in singing. Our 1st Sunday Plate Collection for August is Good Day Cafe.

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.

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.

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.

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 [...]

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.