Sunday worship: “Shaking the Snow Globe” (in-person and online)
Sunday
December 15
Sunday
December 15
We hope you will join us in-person or online for “Shaking the Snow Globe”! FCU’s own member and retired UU minister Rev. Jackie Clement will preach and lead worship. Music Director Molly Lozeau and Choir, and DRE Thea Shapiro will co-lead the service.
This service will be multi-platform (streaming live online, and also in-person in the sanctuary). To participate online, members and friends can click HERE shortly before 10 a.m. and enter the website password to receive a link to participate in the worship service. All are welcome to join the worship service live on our YouTube channel HERE (but the YouTube link will not allow you to interact as the Zoom link will).
Tuesday
December 17
More and more churches are offering a “Blue Christmas” service for people struggling during the holiday season. The holidays aren’t the easiest time for everyone, and there are many possible reasons why you might be feeling “blue” during the holidays. Join Rev. Lara and others in our sanctuary if you’re feeling blue – or, if you want to be there with and for your friends from FCU who are.
Friday
December 20
On FRIDAYSs at 2 p.m., Rev. Lara Hoke leads “Loving-Kindness Sangha Meditation Practice” online. Participants are welcome to stay and meditate the entire time, or leave as they wish (or need) to do. The link for online participants will be: https://tinyurl.com/LovingKindnessSangha
All are welcome! No need to RSVP.
Curious about the name? “Loving-kindness” is a feeling and expression of compassion, mercy, tenderness, and an unconditional love toward all beings; it is a term used in some religious traditions, notably Buddhism. (Our own blue/teal hymnal includes #1031, “Filled with Loving Kindness”, with lyrics based on a traditional Buddhist meditation.) “Sangha” is actually a Sanskrit word meaning assembly, congregation, or community, and it is used in several religious traditions, most notably Buddhism (but also Jainism, Sikhism, and more). So the name means something like “an assembly of people aspiring to compassion and unconditional love toward all beings” sharing meditation practice.
Saturday
December 21
This month we dance ON the winter solstice! Let’s warm our spirits and bodies with circle dances and fellowship.
Please bring a canned or packaged food for Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry.
RSVP appreciated: email
We dance in the FCU Vestry, easy dances, no experience needed, all dances are taught.
Just bring a willing spirit and your water bottle (and a food pantry donation).
Sunday
December 22
We hope you will join us in-person or online for “The Festival of Lights”, a multigenerational, multi-holiday celebration! Rev. Lara Hoke and DRE Thea Shapiro will co-lead the service.
This service will be multi-platform (streaming live online, and also in-person in the sanctuary). To participate online, members and friends can click HERE shortly before 10 a.m. and enter the website password to receive a link to participate in the worship service. All are welcome to join the worship service live on our YouTube channel HERE (but the YouTube link will not allow you to interact as the Zoom link will).
Tuesday
December 24
Please join us for a very special Christmas Eve Candlelight Service! The service will be multi-platform (streaming live online, and also in-person in the sanctuary). There will be beautiful music, carols, a story for all ages, a homily, candlelight, and more.
To participate online, members and friends can click HERE shortly before 6 p.m. and enter the website password to receive a link to participate in the worship service. All are welcome to join the worship service live on our YouTube channel HERE (but the YouTube link will not allow you to interact as the Zoom link will).
If you need the Zoom information and don’t know the website password, please email Rev. Lara Hoke.
Sunday
December 29
Please join us for our Annual Deacon-led Potpourri Service which gives you the opportunity to bless us with something that has been meaningful to you this past year. If you’d like, please bring a brief reading or poem you’d like to share. We hope to see you!
This service will be multi-platform (streaming live online, and also in-person in the sanctuary). To participate online, members and friends can click HERE shortly before 10 a.m. and enter the website password to receive a link to participate in the worship service. All are welcome to join the worship service live on our YouTube channel HERE (but the YouTube link will not allow you to interact as the Zoom link will).
Sunday
January 5
We hope you will join us in-person or online for our New Year-themed “Cup of Kindness” service with the Burning Bowl Ritual! Rev. Lara Hoke will lead the service.
This service will be multi-platform (streaming live online, and also in-person in the sanctuary). To participate online, members and friends can click HERE shortly before 10 a.m. and enter the website password to receive a link to participate in the worship service. All are welcome to join the worship service live on our YouTube channel HERE (but the YouTube link will not allow you to interact as the Zoom link will).
Sunday
January 12
Please join us for another multi-platform (streaming live online, and also in-person in the sanctuary) worship service! The Deacons and Rev. Lara Hoke will co-lead our annual Remembrance Service, remembering loved ones we lost in this past year, as well as beloved babies born in this past year.
To participate online, members and friends can click HERE shortly before 10 a.m. and enter the website password to receive a link to participate in the worship service. All are welcome to join the worship service live on our YouTube channel HERE (but the YouTube link will not allow you to interact as the Zoom link will).