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Sunday Service October 2, 2022

 

“Courage: A Transformation & The Days of Awe”

 

In Jewish traditions, the 10 days starting with Rosh Hashanah and ending with Yom Kippur are known as the “Days of Awe” . This period is part of the Jewish High Holidays, a time of profound introspection, repair and action. This morning we’ll explore some of the themes and spiritual invitations that are part of this season. How can we take honest stock of our lives? How can we restore deeper relationships to self, other, and the sacred? Rev. Dara Olandt is a UU minister of Jewish heritage and practice. Her writing has been featured in “Jewish Voices in Unitarian Universalism” (Skinner House, 2014). She formerly served as Assistant Minister at UUCSR and is delighted to return as a guest worship leader today. 

 
Service Leader: Guest Rev. Dara Olandt 
Worship Associate: Richard Senghas 
Music: Sally Jones, Karen Naumann & Roger Corman
Religious Education: Please email Era if you have a young one wanting to join in the future.
Share the Basket: Saturday Breakfast with Our Neighbors 
To Donate to Share the Basket: Use the GIVE NOW button, on UUCSR’s website 

 

Sunday Service September 25, 2022

 

“A JOURNEY TOWARDS WHOLENESS:

THE 8TH PRINCIPLE”  

 

Our proposed 8th principle states: “We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, covenant to affirm and promote: journeying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions.” This service will explore how understanding this proposed principle can lead us on a journey toward wholeness.

 
Service Leader: Rev. Dave Clements 
Worship Associate: Bev Spears 
Music: Gage Purdy with The Choir & Roger Corman
 
Religious Education: Please email Era if you have a young one wanting to join in the future.
 
Milestones: If you have any milestones you’d like to share with the congregation, please send them by Friday evening.
 
Share the Basket: CARA
To Donate to Share the Basket: Use the GIVE NOW button here, on UUCSR’s website

 

Sunday Service September 18, 2022
“What Does It mean to Respect the Interdependent Web of Life?”
 
Our seventh Principle may be our Unitarian Universalist way of coming to fully embrace something greater than ourselves. The interdependent web—expressed as the spirit of life, the ground of all being, the oneness of all existence, the community-formingpower, the process of life, the creative force, can help us develop that social understanding of ourselves. It is a source of meaning to which we can dedicate our lives. How do you embrace our 7th principle? 

 
Service Leader: Rev. Dave Clements 
Worship Associate: Judy Withee
Music: Sally Jones & Robert Houseman
 
Religious Education: Please email Era if you have a young one wanting to join in the future.
 
Milestones: If you have any milestones you’d like to share with the congregation, please send them by Friday evening.
 
Share the Basket: Saturday Breakfast 
To Donate to Share the Basket: Use the GIVE NOW button here, on UUCSR’s website

 

Sunday Service September 11, 2022
“Ingathering: So are We Bound Together?”
 
In Gathering Service: As drops of rain that find each other and build to become a track, a rivulet, a stream, a river, a sea, so are we drawn together; so are we fortunate to find each other; so are we bound together, on this shared passage toward an unknown ocean and eternity. Please join us for our Annual Water Communion and as we kick off the beginning of our church year together. Join us as we gather and celebrate.

 
Service Leader: Rev. Dave Clements & DRE Era Capone
Worship Associate: Eric Fischer
Music: Robin Rogers & Roger Corman
 
Religious Education: Please email Era if you have a young one wanting to join in the future.
 
Milestones: If you have any milestones you’d like to share with the congregation, please send them by Friday evening.
 
Share the Basket: LIME Foundation
To Donate to Share the Basket: Use the GIVE NOW button here, on UUCSR’s website

 

Sunday Service September 4, 2022
“Where Can We Find Peace?“
 
Widely recognized as one of the most influential spiritual teachers of the twentieth century, Jiddu Krishnamurti taught that in order for there to be peace in the world, we must each first make peace with ourselves. A magnet on my fridge has reminded me for years that peace and stillness are available any time we need them. Our sixth principle states that we are working toward the goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all. I invite you to ponder about your meaning of our 6th principle.

 
Service Leader: Rev. Dave Clements
Worship Associate: Cathie Wiese
Music: Alan Bell & Roger Corman
 
Religious Education: Please email Era if you have a young one wanting to join in the future.
 
Milestones: If you have any milestones you’d like to share with the congregation, please send them by Friday evening.
 
Share the Basket: Saturday Breakfast for our Neighbors 
To Donate to Share the Basket: Use the GIVE NOW button here, on UUCSR’s website

 

Sunday Service August 28, 2022
“Morality and Machines“
 
In beloved memory of our dear friends Phil and Jenny Harriman who endowed this service, we explore the issues of autonomous and intelligent systems as they continue to influence more and more of our decision making, even our moral decision making. We address strategies for being moral humans and/or moral machines even as amoral entities, both human and machine, gain increasing power in our world. These issues are implicated in several of our Seven UU Principles, and should inform our current deliberations on a potential eighth principle.

 
Service Leader: Guest Dr. John Sullins, III. Dr. Sullins is Professor of Philosophy at SSU, specializing in ethics in Artificail Intelligence and Robotics, Philosophy of Technology, Engineering Ethics, and Computer Ethics.
Worship Associate: Richard J. Senghas
Music: Gage Purdy & Roger Corman
 
Religious Education: Please email Era if you have a young one wanting to join in the future.
 
Milestones: If you have any milestones you’d like to share with the congregation, please send them by Friday evening.
 
Share the Basket: Redwood Empire Food Bank
To Donate to Share the Basket: Use the GIVE NOW button here, on UUCSR’s website

 

Sunday Service August 21, 2022
“Our Third Principle:
Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth”
 
We are called, by our 3rd Principle to accept one another and offer encouragement to our spiritual growth. While we are each on our individual spiritual paths we share worship in community here at UUCSR. Today we celebrate UUCSR as a deeply nurturing, supportive community, reminding ourselves that our many relationships, here and elsewhere, are precious and sometimes challenging. We accept the challenges, understanding that where there is rupture there is the possibility of repair, creating a deeper, more complex connection. We are held by our covenant which calls us all to this work of loving acceptance of each other, asking us to readily offer forgiveness of others and to acknowledge our own shortcomings. By this we grow.

 
Service Leader: Rev. Dave Clements, With The Right Relations Team
Worship Associate: Judy Withee
Music: Gage Purdy with The Choir, Paul Gilger
 
Religious Education: NO RE this week as Era is away. Please email Era if you have a young one wanting to join in the future.
 
Milestones: If you have any milestones you’d like to share with the congregation, please send them by Friday evening.
 
Share the Basket: Saturday Breakfast with our Neighbors.
To Donate to Share the Basket: Use the GIVE NOW button here, on UUCSR’s website

 

Sunday Service August 14, 2022
“Jazz, The Music of Celebration: UUCSR’s Annual Jazz Service.”
 

In a jazz group, as in our community at UUCSR, certain roles need to be filled. Someone has to play the melody, someone has to keep time, someone has to suggest the harmonic context. Playing in a jazz group involves both responsibility and freedom; freedom consists of understanding your responsibility well enough to act independently and still make the needed contribution to the group. We are embarking on a journey together may it be one of celebration, one of learning and one of commitment. I invite you to join me as we begin our journey of celebration.

*Short Congregational Meeting to Follow. Please plan to attend, we especially need voting members present in person or zoom*

 
Service Leader: Rev. Dave Clements, UUCSR’s new Interim Minister
Worship Associate: Mark Sowers
Music: John Ray, Gage Purdy, Roger Corman
 
Religious Education: Era Capone. Please email Era if you have a young one wanting to join in the future.
 
Milestones: If you have any milestones you’d like to share with the congregation, please send them by Friday evening.
 
Share the Basket: Positive Images (PI) is an LGBTQIA+ Community Center that provides support to Sonoma County’s LGBTQIA+ population, with an emphasis on identities and individuals at the margins.
To Donate to Share the Basket: Use the GIVE NOW button here, on UUCSR’s website

 

Sunday Service August 7, 2022
“The Urgency of Our UU Fourth Principle”
 
The Urgency of Our UU Fourth Principle. In some ways the most personal of our seven principles, the fourth—our affirmation of our right to a free and responsible search for meaning and truth—presents us with both opportunities and obligations. Scott will explore with us the urgency of this principle and call us to a renewed understanding of its seriousness and ethical complexity.

 
Service Leader: Scott Miller- UUCSR Board member, former worship associate, and SSU professor
Worship Associate: Eric Fischer and Susan Thollaug
Music: Alan Bell & Roger Corman
 
Religious Education: Era Capone. Please email Era if you have a young one wanting to join in the future.
 
Milestones: If you have any milestones you’d like to share with the congregation, please send them by Friday evening.
 
Share the Basket: Saturday Breakfast for our Neighbors
To Donate to Share the Basket: Use the GIVE NOW button here, on UUCSR’s website

 

Sunday Service July 31, 2022
“An Insider’s View of Ministry. Rev. Dan O’Neal’s sermon”
 

An Insider’s View of Ministry. Rev. Dan O’Neal’s sermon “Will Preach for Money: An Insider’s Thoughts on the Ministry” Dan O’Neal was our first called minister. He served from 1986 to 1996. Today’s service features a message he presented as he looked forward to his 9th year as our minister. In it he examines the multitudinous roles a minister is asked to take on. 

CUUPS Lammas Bread Offering in the social hall after the service.

 
Service Leader: Lucia Milburn
Worship Associate: Linda Lampson
Music: Sally Jones & Paul Gilger
 
Religious Education: Era Capone. Please email Era if you have a young one wanting to join in the future.
 
Milestones: If you have any milestones you’d like to share with the congregation, please send them by Friday evening.
 
Share the Basket: CARA – California Alliance for Retired Americans
To Donate to Share the Basket: Use the GIVE NOW button here, on UUCSR’s website