This Month's Services
One Service at 10:00 a.m.
August 22, 2010: Spirituality in the Round: the Ridge Experience: The UUCD is a spiritual community, eager to welcome our new minister. But the minister does not "do it all!" The UUA's "small group ministry" model gives us guidelines for deepening our connections with each other and helping each other grow spiritually. Come learn more about it. Led by Mary Alice Kimball and other Chalice Circle facilitators.
August 29, 2010: Don't Throw Shoes: Improv Comedy and a New Way to Think About How we Treat Others: In the world today, we all experience a so called "rat race". What if we were to change our thinking on our experiences and make it so that all we do is help other's win? One of the most important elements of Improv Comedy is to make everyone else on stage look good. If our lives are a stage, then what if all we ever did was make others look good? In this service we'll explore this concept, and even perhaps try out some Improv Comedy. Led by Shawn Sweeney.
September 5, 2010: The Narrative of Humanity is written in the Margins: Marginalization and discrimination today, as it affects the growing number of citizens returning from incarceration. Led by Jeff Shaffer.
September 12, 2010: “Gathered Here” - Rev. Barbara Fast & Mary Collins & Rev. Peggy Block
Come and join us for our All Congregation Celebration service as Rev. Barbara begins her ministry at UUCD. We will gather the waters from our separate summers, and gather ourselves into “one strong body” as we rededicate our sanctuary and ourselves to service in the year ahead.
Please join us after the service for a pot luck picnic. More details to follow.
Two Services – 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.
September 19, 2010: “Atonement” - Rev. Barbara Fast
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement was September 18th. In the Jewish tradition the ten days between Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of New Year, and Yom Kippur are the High Holidays, in Hebrew, the Yamin Noraim, “The Days of Awe. We will explore the spiritual tasks of this season. We will commission our teachers and our Religious Education program at the beginning of the service.
September 26, 2010: Stand by This Faith - Rev. Barbara Fast
I saved the last Sunday in September for my Annual Universalist Sermon because it was on September 30, 1770 that John Murray reluctantly preached his sermon, “Universal Grace” at Farmer Potter’s chapel in New Jersey. It took a kind of miracle to get him there. What does this theology call us to now?