...with Elaine Jurs and Cathi Alloway. In this season of gift-giving, we pause to consider gifts from the heart, unexpected gifts, gifts given in love, and the nature of giving gifts. What memorable gifts have you received in your life? We will welcome a guest violist, John Roxburgh, and Martha Jordan will be hymn accompanist. Members of the Choir will assist in leading the hymn singing, which includes “Tis a Gift To Be Simple,” and “Life is the Greatest Gift of All.”

...with Rev. Tracy Sprowls. Loneliness is a universal condition experienced by each one of us or by those we love. During the holiday season it can be particularly hard to navigate.

...with Rev. Tracy Sprowls. Join us for our annual holiday play that brings to life the different holidays of the season. The holiday party follows the service.

...with Rev. Tracy Sprowls. Our theme this month is holding both/and. How do we hold the challenges of our times and the joy? How do we move into a possibility difficult future and live meaningful lives? And what does honey have to do with it all?

...with Elaine Jurs. On the cusp of a new year, like the God Janus, we look both backward and forward. What do we need to let go of? Past regrets, fears for the future, things left undone or unsaid? And what do we look forward to? Together, we will ponder these questions. Through music, readings, sharings, reflections, and a communal ritual, we will help one another to have hope in these trying times. Music: Bhakti Chan, piano

...with Manfred Keune. Wherever you come from, where do you consider your “home?” What memories, positive or negative, come to mind when you think of home?  In this Worship Service, through stories, music, readings, and sharings, we will consider the concept of home in its many interpretations. Music by Ron Smith, piano, and Kiersten Keune, flute

...with Rev. Tracy Sprowls. I think there is a connection between our spiritual lives and the strength of our community. I am defining spiritual here as relating to or affecting the human spirit. I also look at spiritual as where I put my focus. Going into the new year, let’s explore the depth of our spiritual lives and the potential we can tap into by doing so.

...with Rev. Tracy Sprowls. In this intergenerational service we contemplate the lives of MLK Jr and other leaders, like former President Jimmy Carter, who led from a spiritual center.

...with Rev. Tracy Sprowls. Margaret Renkl wrote, “The world lies before you, a lavish garden. However hobbled by waste, however fouled by graft and tainted by deception, it will always take your breath away. We were never cast out of Eden. We merely turned from it and shut our eyes. To return and be welcomed, cleansed and redeemed, we are only obliged to look.” Come, let us take a look.

...with Rev. Tracy Sprowls. Side with Love is the Unitarian Universalist Association’s public advocacy organization that seeks to harness love’s power to stop oppression. Each year around this time they run the 30 days of love campaign. The theme this year is Inhabiting our Freedom Dreams. What's this look like in 2025? Today we celebrate Scout’s Day, usually celebrated on Feb 8. Wear your scout uniform!