Worship Services
June 2013 Sermon Topics
2 June Happiness is ………… Religious Education Sunday and Flower Ceremony - This annual multigenerational worship service is the time for our RE program to shine! Join us as each class presents a special learning from this past church year. We will honor our volunteer teachers, award Boy Scouts with the emblem they have earned and bridge our high school seniors into young adulthood. Please bring a cut flower or two or three for the Flower Ceremony. 9 June Here’s to Happiness! One service @10:00 am Rev. Melissa Carvill-Ziemer, Director of Religious Education Karen Lapidus and Worship Associat...
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The Angel of the Battlefield – May 26, 2013
Led by the Rev. Melissa Carvill-Ziemer and Worship Associate Justin Czekaj - This Memorial Day weekend we will return again to the story of Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross. Barton devoted her life to tending the needs of soldiers. How are we tending the needs of soldiers and their families today and caring for veterans and their families when they finally return home?
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Lessons from the Life of Malcolm X – May 19, 2013
Led by the Rev. Melissa Carvill-Ziemer and Worship Associate Kristina Spaude - If Malcolm X were still alive, he would have been turning 88 years old on this day. Over the course of his life cut too short, Malcolm X made an incredible journey from an exclusivist affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood to an expan-sive embrace of what he called “the family of man.” This morning we will tell his story and listen for the inspiration it holds for our...
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Family Matters – Sunday, May 12, 2013
Led by the Rev. Melissa Carvill-Ziemer and Worship Associate John Marfy - We often say that families come in all shapes and sizes and that love is what makes a family. This morning we will again affirm the many ways in which families are formed and nurtured as we reflect upon why it is that families still matter.
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Three Mortalities – Sunday, May 5, 2013
Led by the Rev. Melissa Carvill-Ziemer and Worship Associate Elaine Bowen The poet Wendell Berry writes, “No, no, there is no going back. / Less and less you are / that possibility you were. / More and more you have become / those lives and deaths / that have belonged to you.” This morning we will explore what it means to become the lives and death that have belonged to us through three particular mortalities selected by last fall’s service aucti...
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5 May Three Mortalities Led by the Rev. Melissa Carvill-Ziemer and Worship Associate Elaine Bowen The poet Wendell Berry writes, “No, no, there is no going back. / Less and less you are / that possibility you were. / More and more you have become / those lives and deaths / that have belonged to you.” This morning we will explore what it means to become the lives and death that have belonged to us through three particular mortalities selected by last fall’s service auction sermon winner, Gene Wenninger. 12 May Family Matters Led by the Rev. Melissa Carvill-Ziemer and Worship Associate John Marfy We oft...
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Does Life Long Learning Have to Be ALL My Life? – Sunday, April 28, 2013
Led by the Rev. Elaine Strawn and Worship Associate Bonnie Harper - Continuing Education requirements never end…neither does spiritual development. We will try to integrate psychological and spiritual ideas to understand where we are in the scope of things. Rev. Elaine Strawn is the minister of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Wayne County. Along with Melissa, she is participating in a three congregation pulpit swap this morning. M...
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Growing Greener – April 21, 2013
Led by the Rev. Melissa Carvill-Ziemer and Worship Associate Mary Lou Holly Join us for our annual celebration of Earth Day! This year we will lift up a few of the many ways individuals and communities are exploring to grow greener lives and a greener planet.
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Like This Service – April 14, 2013
Led by the Rev. Melissa Carvill-Ziemer and Worship Associate Max Grubb - A colleague recently asked me whether I have ever used the teleprompter app on an iPad when preaching my sermons. I didn’t even know a teleprompter app existed! There are so many technologies being devised to help us work, learn, connect and play better and more efficiently. How do we decide when technological developments can help and when they might actually hinder our gro...
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Change and Growth as Young Unitarian Universalists – April 7, 2013
Led by the Youth – Through music, readings, ritual and individual reflection, our high school youth will offer the congregation a window into what it means to grow up UU. Join us for this beloved annual worship experience. See p. 4 for comments about Youth Sunday from Karen Lapidus.
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Sunday Mornings
Sunday morning is the time that we all gather together to be in community as a whole. Along with the Worship Service, we offer a variety of programming for all ages. At least once each month, children are invited into the Sanctuary for an intergenerational service.
Worship Services
Our services may be led by our minister, a visiting minister, or a lay member or guest of the congregation. Service topics are announced in our monthly newsletter, The Chalice Flame. Come dressed as you’re comfortable; you will find people dressed in both business casual and casual clothes. Please see our Children’s Religious Education page regarding how our children participate in services.
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Please join us for coffee and other light refreshments downstairs in Fessenden Hall between services. We always have an activity such as drawing available for children. In July the coffee hour will follow our one service. In August the coffee hour will begin around 10:30 and in September the coffee hour will begin at about 11:00.
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