UPCOMING WORSHIP SERVICES
Soul Matters Theme: Beginnings
September 6
The Little Stream And The Great Sea
WATER COMMUNION
10:30 AM
Rev. Clare L. Petersberger, Kara Tyler, Director of Religious Education, Kris Faatz, Music Director, and The TUUC Choir
Drawing on a beloved Sufi story, this service invites us to consider the currents and transformations that carry us through life and how our faith community sustains us through these transformations.
In her poem “Water,” the poet Wislawa Szymborska writes of how the water we encounter in our backyard might have originated in the Ganges or the Nile, or “from hoarfrost ascended to heaven from a seal’s whiskers,” or from a little cloud over Paris in the year 764.
What is calling us to begin? And how does this call connect us to something far larger than ourselves?
Please bring a small amount of water signifying a transformation you experienced this summer to mingle with other waters of transformation in our common bowl.
Come explore the mystery of beginning, becoming, belonging, and finding our way to the sea.
September 13
Adventures In Possibility
10:30 AM
Rev. Clare L. Petersberger, Kara Tyler, Director of Religious Education, Kris Faatz, Music Director, and the Community Choir
Today is the worship service that was auctioned in November on a theme of your choice. Andrew Hager chose John Waters’ book Carsick. Andrew figured it was unlikely I would watch, much less preach on, Waters’ movies extolling violence. By way of contrast, this book explores what becomes possible when we are willing to take a risk. In this case, John Waters chose to hitchhike across America. What did he discover? And at this time when our Jewish family and neighbors are celebrating the sacred beginnings of Rosh Hashannah, what might we discover if we chose to imagine a new beginning for America?
September 20
10:30 AM
Rev. Karyn Marsh
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September 27
All Things Bright And Beautiful
10:30 AM
Rev. Clare L. Petersberger, Kara Tyler, Director of Religious Education, Kris Faatz, Music Director, and the TUUC Choir
The family of Dorothy Hosmer requested that we remember her life through a Gallery Unicorn art show. Dorothy was a painter and a loyal volunteer for Gallery Unicorn. A human life like a blank canvas asks the question, “What will you make of this?” In this service we celebrate the joy of bringing something new into being. We will consider how creativity can help us see familiar things anew—and how making beauty can itself be an act of hope.