Past services

Arran Liddel, Director of Spiritual Exploration for Children and Youth, and Rev. Melora Lynngood with worship associate Larry Boldt — 

What has this past year been like for you? What changes have you been through?  What losses have you experienced?  What new life, new creations, new ventures have come into being?  This year’s annual transition service will honour the full range of life’s transitions. We will do so with an eye to this month’s theme of “Joy: the practice of embracing life,” and will honour, as well, those things that can make transitions challenging. 

 This is an intergenerational service. Children and youth are welcome in the sanctuary for the entire service. Child-minding will be available in the Sunflower Room for our youngest and/or most restless youngsters.

Rev. Shana Lynngood, Coming of Age Youth and Chris Wulff, Ministerial Intern, with worship associate Madelaine Clarke — 

Our youth share their statements of values and beliefs.

How well can the rest of us do? What do you believe about life, death, God, and the big questions of meaning?

As we begin our exploration of joy, we begin by looking at the ways in which knowing what we believe can bring us a sense of contentment and peace. And sometimes even joy.

Dar Gareau-Levy with Anna Isaacs, Worship Associate — 

Unitarian Universalism has always been a welcoming faith. We spread the word that diversity is more than welcome in our church. But now that those doors have opened and we are being taken up on our offer, how well are we doing at integrating those differences? Sometimes it’s easier to be accepting of those who are very different from ourselves than those we call our own people, simply because these other people’s lives don’t overlap much with ours. Join us as we explore how we can make that transition from ‘Radical Hospitality’, to ‘Radical Acceptance’ with the least amount of collateral damage.

Shelley Motz with Dan Klimke, Worship Associate — 

An encounter with vertigo, an encounter with myself. Disease can be a powerful force for transformation. At the age of 30, a virus suddenly threw Shelley’s life out of balance, prompting her to question everything, including her relationship with her body — and the relationships between her body, mind and spirit.

  Rev. Shana and Chris Wulff with Oliver Belisle, Worship Associate — 

This Mother’s Day we explore the part that gender identity, expression and roles have played in shaping our lives. How have we been pushed to conform by gender expectations? How do we live with authenticity if we feel our identity is not represented in either/or binaries? What new models of how to live within and beyond gender will it take for all people to live as who they are? What has the #metoo movement shown us is broken in the ways our genders relate and create?

Rev. Melora Lynngood and Friends — with Worship Associate Anna Isaacs —

Our 7th Unitarian Universalist Principle calls us to care for “the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.”

In this service we consider the challenges in answering this call, and we will hear stories about how our members are caring for the earth, despite the challenges.

We will consider ways in which we can all be a part of this transformation – how we can all care for the earth in ways large and small. Consider, for example, whether you could give up using plastic straws! Every little bit helps.