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Worship for All Ages at 5:30 / Potluck Dinner at 6:00
Service Leaders: Jen Freese, Rev. Chris Bell,
Music by: Rev. Chris and his magic guitar.
An all-ages affirmation that everyone, whether worker, queen or drone, has their part to play in the great dance of creation.
Service Leaders: Rev. Chris Bell, Richard Senghas, Rev. Dara Olandt
Music by: Most of the Unisurfalists; Roger Corman
Share the Basket: CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates)
We have all been told to heed that still, small voice within, and we all feel the many pressing demands of the human beings around us, crying for our attention. When we think about finding our calling, it’s usually from the perspective of the one who is being called. But perhaps being the caller, the one who draws others out, is just as important. How might we be brave and bold enough to recruit others to the cause of truth, justice and love, particularly in times of such great need as today?
DUST OFF YOUR DANCIN’ SHOES!
Saturday, September 15, 2018
The New Horizons Swing Band will hold their
3rd annual swing dance to benefit:
The Saturday Breakfast for our Neighbors program.
Come on down to the Glaser Center and enjoy the greatest hits from the swing band era of the 1930s and 40s.
Not a dancer? Just tap your toes and sing along.
TIME: Free swing dance lesson at 6:00 PM
Dance from 7:00 to 9:30 PM
TICKET PURCHASE: Click here on Brown Paper Ticket icon:
Can also be ordered at:
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3591211
Or look for our table in the Social Hall after Sunday
Services.
COST: $15 in advance. Advance price ends 11 PM Thursday 9/13/2018.
$20 at the door starting at 5:30 PM on the night of the event
Saturday 9/15/2018.
SNACKS and BEVERAGES will be available for sale.
PARKING: Street parking available. Public Garage behind Glaser Center. Garage entrance on 7th Street between Mendocino and B Street. Garage rates, first hour free, then 50 cents per hour.
Service Leaders: Rev. Chris Bell, Joe Gabaeff
Music by: Sadie Sonntag & the Choir; Roger Corman
Share the Basket: Breakfast for our Neighbors
At the March 2018 Service Auction one of the prize-winning sermon topics was: “What if an extraterrestrial wanted to join UUCSR?” There’s no suspense to this one, actually; as long as we could work with the alien’s currency to secure a 5-10% pledge, of course they would be welcome! All joking aside, the notion of welcoming “aliens” is a timely one in the light of recent events in our nation, which is what we’ll really be talking about.
RETURN TO TWO SERVICES AT 9:15 and 11:00
Service Leaders: Rev. Chris Bell, Rev. Dara Olandt, Joe Gabaeff
Music by: Sadie Sonntag & the Choir; Roger Corman
Share the Basket: Roseland School District’s Through College Mentor Program
Today we celebrate the return from summer break and the beginning of a new “congregational” year. We’ll look ahead to what the year may hold, welcome the children back to RE, and celebrate our unity through the Water Communion. Between now and then, please collect some special water to share in the common bowl! You can learn more about the ritual here: www.uua.org/worship/holidays/water-communion.
Service Leaders: Rev. Sue Magidson, Susan Panttaja
Music by: Robert Howseman & this week’s UUCSR band; Roger Corman
Share the Basket: Social Advocates for Youth
To be human is to work – at something. Work comes in many forms – paid, unpaid, visible, invisible, inner, outer, formal, informal. Work can delight, frustrate, reward, humiliate, exhilarate, exhaust, and so much more. This Labor Day weekend, we’ll explore how our work binds us to each other and our planet.
Rev. Sue Magidson is a community minister affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley. She serves as the spiritual care coordinator and hospital chaplain at San Leandro Hospital. Her essays are published in Skinner House books Jewish Voices in Unitarian Universalism and the recently released Faithful Practices: Everyday Ways to Feed Your Spirit.
Service Leaders: Susan Panttaja, Mary Chapot
Music by: Susan Panttaja & Mary Chapot and many others; Roger Corman
Share the Basket: Disability Services & Legal Center
Harmony is an often-stated goal for living together, in community. How do we create harmony, when we all have different sensibilities, backgrounds, and dreams? How do we find our place in the choir? Today, we will explore the idea that we need not sing alike to sing together.
Service Leaders: Rev. Chris Bell, Rev. Dara Olandt, Andrew Hidas
Music by: Sadie Sonntag & the Choir; Roger Corman
Share the Basket: RECOURSE mediation services
Wise people of all traditions have figured out that whatever our cultural or historical circumstances, we are all of equal value from the perspective of divine love. Christian Universalism in America, from which our contemporary Unitarian Universalism was born, preached this message and gave us the phrase “the inherent worth and dignity of all people.” Come learn more about this wonderfully open-minded and open-hearted side of our faith, and how its teachings are more needed then ever in our painfully divided world.
Service Leaders: Rev. Chris Bell, Rev. Dara Olandt, Aphrodite Bellocchio
Music by: Anna Harriette Foshee (piano) and Caroline Foshee (oboe); Roger Corman (piano)
Share the Basket: Interlink Self-Help Center
We are one and yet we are many. This true not just of the human family, but of everything in the Universe. It has always been true and always will be. Discovering and praising what unites us while honoring and celebrating our beautiful differences is the heart of the spiritual path in general, and of this community in particular. It matters a lot. The future of the nation and the species hinges upon our understanding of how these seemingly paradoxical qualities of our existence are integrated through Love.
Service Leaders: Andrew Hidas, Sharon McCarty, Jen Freese
Music by: Alan Bell and the UU Usual Suspects
Share the Basket: Alianza for Equity Fund
Charles Dickens kicked off “The Tale of Two Cities” with those lines in 1859. The part he left out was all the time in between, the regular times, where most humans spend most of their lives. In this service, we’ll recruit various artists and thinkers from across the centuries to help us explore ecstasy, misery and mundanity as a kind of “immortal continuum” that gives shape to the human experience./p>
