From Our Co-Ministers

March 2008

If you haven't yet come to the 9:00 Sunday service, we invite you.

More people participate in the leadership of the 9:00 service, the order of service is projected onto the new screen, and we sing from the new hymnbooks Singing the Journey. There's piano and guitar or trombone music and sometimes soloists or quartets and liturgical dance.

We're enjoying the 9:00 service which feels more informal, lighter. The two of us and Christopher Holton Jablonski, minister of Religious Education, have enjoyed creativity as we learned Power Point to create slide shows of images and photographs that go with the service. The service is over around 9:45, and we find we feel energized for the rest of the morning and the 11:00 service.

Most weeks the 11:00 service has Luminescence, the adult choir, and organ music. The 11:00 service is more formal and both services feed our spirits as we hope they do yours.

In between the 9:00 and the 11:00 services there is the 10:00 Education Hour with classes for children and adults (see page 2 for more information) along with conversation, coffee, tea, and plenty of breakfast snacks in the social hall.

Sundays after the 9:00 service and after the 11:00 service there are formal and informal Conversations about Unitarian Universalism. For more information, just ask Chris or one of us or the host of the Welcome Table.

Spirit in Practice, a new Unitarian Universalist curriculum on spirituality for adults is offered many Sundays 12:30 - 1:30. Child care is provided. See page 4. It's another way to nurture your spirit in supportive community.

So much is going on for all of us, children, youth, and adults, especially on Sundays.

Sundays are full of life and spirit. We are embodying the Vision of the congregation's leaders as they began their capital campaign to raise the money to construct this building in 1960. Here are their words:

Vision on the Hill Top

We have a vision on the hill top:
A place where we can find meaning in our lives:
When we can sit still, surrounded by beauty,
And get to know ourselves,
Where we can form friendships,
And grasp the great meanings,
See the great objectives,
Acquire the great convictions.

And, we continually re-dedicate ourselves to acting on and living the great convictions of integrity, joy and justice

We love seeing you at UUCB.