Sunday Services
At the core of every religious community are the gatherings for worship, and that is true of ours. For us, worship is not an obligation owed to a supernatural being, but an opportunity to gather to celebrate the values we cherish. Worship is a time for both sustenance and challenge. We are people who find spiritual uplift in grappling with the complexities of life. Our focus is not on another life, but on making this one better. Our Senior Minister generally delivers sermons twice each month from September through June. The remaining Sundays are divided among our Minister of Religious Education, our lay-led Worship Committee, our Affiliated Ministers, and invited pulpit guests. We cannot promise that everyone will equally appreciate every Sunday service - we are too diverse for that and so is the fare we offer. We can promise you will not be bored! Click here to view a typical Order of Service.

Lay Services
This year five Sundays have been designated as the responsibility of the Worship committee which will be choosing themes for those services and a variety of approaches to addressing them. Members are invited to participate in the process of developing and presenting those services.

Special Sundays
While we do not function on the basis of a traditional “liturgical year,” there are, in fact, several Special Services to which we look forward each year:

Homecoming
Our church, unlike many Unitarian Universalist churches, operates on a year-round calendar with professionally led summer services. Nonetheless, many of us are away during the summer and we have a sense of Homecoming on the Sunday after Labor Day when we gather for a service planned around the whole church family.

Thanksgiving
On the Sunday before Thanksgiving we plan a special service designed to appeal to people of all ages at which we consider what it means to be thankful for what we have and how we can best express that appreciation.

Music Sundays
It is a tradition of our church to devote most of the first Sunday service in December and a Sunday in May to a major choral presentation by the Unicantors, accompanied by a small orchestra. Recent performances have included a Faure Requiem, John Rutter’s Magnificat, and Conrad Susa’s Carols & Lullabies.

Christmas Service
Since time immemorial, the Winter Solstice has been observed around the world through myths and celebrations that involve fire. Our annual Candlelight Service, held on the Sunday evening before Christmas, centers on the words and music of the myths surrounding the birth of Jesus, and goes beyond that frame to inspire us all to be “light-bearers.”

Easter
The celebration of Easter in our church is a whole-family gathering in which we affirm the births and deaths within the families of our church during the preceding year as an affirmation of the cycle of life.

Youth Sunday
Our senior high group, YRUU (Young Religious Unitarian Universalists), focuses its creative energies on the presentation of a Sunday Service to the whole church.

Coming of Age
One of the highlights of our church year is the first service in June at which we recognize our youth who are graduating from eighth grade. They work all year on activities that lead them to a presentation of their personal “credos.” The parents speak in turn about the meaning to their lives of the maturing of their children.