Worship Services at Unity Church
Our building is currently closed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Multigenerational Sunday services are being live-streamed from the Sanctuary at 10:00 a.m. Please join us. Services are being recorded and may be viewed at your convenience following the live stream. CLICK HERE for past services.
After the service, whether this is your first time with us or you've been here all your life, you’re invited to participate in a virtual Zoom coffee hour, where we share a bit of our lives with each other and get to know one another more deeply. Stay for a few minutes or stay up to 45 minutes to connect in smaller break-out rooms. Unity Church staff and volunteers lead the sessions, and will suggest questions both light-hearted and deep for discussion. Please CLICK HERE to participate in the Zoom coffee hour. If you would like to participate in Finding Yourself at Unity, a weekly way for newcomers to connect and learn about Unity Church and Unitarian Universalism, please CLICK HERE for details. Each Sunday, through the work of the Generosity Ministry Team, seventy percent of the offering is placed in the hands of the chosen community non-profit recipient. The remaining thirty percent goes to support of the Community Outreach Ministry at Unity Church. Offering recipients for each Sunday are listed below the Sunday service description. CLICK HERE to make a donation. If you would like to nominate a non-profit to receive the Sunday offering, please fill out the online nomination form. Sunday Worship • 10:00 a.m.America's Real Abundance • Sunday, July 4 • 10:00 a.m. • Livestream
Our community is blessed with an abundance of visionaries. As we celebrate freedom, liberty, and independence, can we hear — and heed — their calls for true freedom and liberation? Angela Wilcox and her beloved children Lucy and Nelson Moroukian will lean in to explore and celebrate these visions, nurtured and shared with us by our all-American neighbors. Offering recipient: Protect Minnesota Coming into "The Peace of Wild Things" • Sunday, July 11 • 10:00 a.m. • Livestream Wendell Berry writes, “When despair for the world grows in me… I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.” Nature provides many of us with refuge and solace when life feels overwhelming and it’s all just too much. But what about when our “despair for the world” is due to the very real and serious threats of climate change? When the place we seek relief is what’s at stake? Join worship leaders Bailey Webster and Rebecca Flood as they explore what it means to lean into our connection with nature’s abundance even as we grieve its losses. Offering recipient: Northwest Passage. The Abundance of Solidarity • Sunday, July 18 • 10:00 a.m. • Livestream In her book, “The Sum of Us,” Heather McGee posits that a core idea of white American thinking goes something like: “there is an us and a them, and what’s good for them is bad for us.” This is not true for all Americans. In fact Black Americans, Asian and Indigenous communities, and other communities of color don’t necessarily equate better outcomes for their communities with worse outcomes for white people. Our Unitarian Universalist principles invite all of us, as people of faith, into a framework of abundance rather than the zero sum game. Join The Rev. Ruth MacKenzie and worship associate Ray Wiedmeyer in exploring what joining together in solidarity, and inherent worth and dignity, has to do with abundance. Offering recipient: Days for Girls The Longest Table • Sunday, July 25 • 10:00 a.m. • Livestream When abundance and scarcity seem to exist side-by-side in every life, how do we intentionally create a culture of care and belonging for each person in the human family? Do our perceptions of abundance and scarcity shape how we live out Unitarian Universalism's seventh principle, which affirms our respect for the interdependence of all existence? Worship leaders Erika Sanders and Richard Lau will explore how we and our communities may become more healed and whole when we expand our capacity to practice greater spiritual generosity and humility. Offering recipient: Neighborhood House Past services and sermons are available on our YouTube channel, in our podcast archive, and by contacting the church office at [email protected]. |
Family and Story Sundays
Family Sundays 2021-22: TBD
Family Sundays take place five times each church year. On Family Sundays, children experience the entire worship together with their families in the Sanctuary. A children’s message and activity books related to the stories and sermon help children to engage in the experience of worship. Regular religious education programming does not take place on Family Sundays; however, the nursery is open for children under three years of age. Story Sundays 2021-22: TBD Story Sundays happen frequently throughout the church year, with children in grades 1-8 beginning in worship with the congregation in the Sanctuary. After the opening hymn, prayers, and children’s message, Workshop Rotation children (grades 1-5) proceed with their Journey Guides to their classrooms for religious education programming while junior high youth (grades 6-8) remain in the sanctuary for the entire worship service. |
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