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.

with Rev. Tracy Sprowls. This summer, Tracy was minister of the week for the UUs at the Chautauqua Institution. The theme for the week was The Power of One and the interfaith theme was Whose Body, Whose Choice? Tracy shares her Chautauqua sermon this morning.