December 22, 2024
Emily Welch
“Ingathering and Water Communion”
September 10, 2023
Our traditional ingathering service with Water Communion!
“No Rehearsal Pageant”
December 19, 2021
- Bob Williams
- Debbie Eston
- Emily Welch
- Rev. Lara Hoke
- Sara Cope
- Susan Tordella
- Thea Shapiro
- Christmas
- nativity
- Time for All Ages
Director of Religious Education Thea Shapiro led the whole congregation through a jolly no-rehearsal pageant! We had lots of fun.
“You Are Traffic”
March 28, 2021
- Cindy Malley
- Emily Welch
- Rev. Lara Hoke
- Vio Malley
- commitment
- coronavirus
- covid-19
- online worship
- Time for All Ages
- traffic
I spoke about … one of my favorite bumper stickers? Yes, I did!
“This Must Be the Place: FCU” (Stewardship Sunday)
February 28, 2021
- Debbie Eston
- Emily Welch
- Rev. Lara Hoke
- Sara Cope
- Beloved Community
- coronavirus
- covid-19
- online worship
- Ship of Theseus
- stewardship
- Time for All Ages
This was part 2 of the “This Must Be the Place” series, looking at the congregational level of “beloved community” for our Stewardship Sunday.
The Vishnu Schist: Imagine Time
January 31, 2021
- Anna Fadden
- Emily Welch
- Rev. Lara Hoke
- coronavirus
- cosmos
- covid-19
- geology
- Great Unconformity
- imagination
- online worship
- time
- Time for All Ages
- Vishnu Schist
My sermon explores the meaning of time. The service features a special video with pieces by FCU artists (from the Arts Playshop of Niela Miller). If you watch on YouTube, click “show more” to see the order of service.
“Stillness: An Appreciation of Zen Buddhism”
December 6, 2020
- Emily Welch
- Karen Tucker-Barisano
- Rev. Lara Hoke
- Buddha
- Buddhism
- coronavirus
- covid-19
- mindfulness
- online worship
- stillness
- Time for All Ages
- Zen
Our online-only service on December 6, 2020 was an appreciation of Zen Buddhism and the stillness and mindfulness of the tradition. If you watch on YouTube, click on “Show More” to see the Order of Service.
“A Unitarian Universalist Look at the Afterlife”
November 1, 2020
- Emily Welch
- Rev. Lara Hoke
- afterlife
- coronavirus
- covid-19
- death
- mortality
- online worship
- Time for All Ages
We took a healing look at death and the afterlife from a UU perspective. Guest appearances by Carolyn McCreary and The Artemis Singers. If you watch on YouTube, click on “show more” to see the Order of Service.
“Listening to the Animals: In Honor of St. Francis”
October 4, 2020
- Emily Welch
- Rev. Lara Hoke
- animals
- coronavirus
- covid-19
- deep listening
- online worship
- St. Francis
- Time for All Ages
Starting the October Soul Matters theme of “deep listening”, we considered what we can learn from listening to the animals, on the Feast Day (in the Christian tradition) of St. Francis of Assisi. If you watch on YouTube, click on “show more” and you will see the Order of Service as well as blue time stamps that enable you to move to various worship elements.