Announcements
25 September 2016 Sermon Podcast
2 October 2016 Blessing of the Animals All-Ages Worship Service
Please join us on Sunday (2 October 2016) at 11:00 AM for our annual “Blessing of the Animals” worship service.
“Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to animals and so to share the blessings of the merciful.” – Albert Schweitzer
Our annual tribute to the companions who share our home in the interdependent web of all existence.
Today they join us for worship in the sanctuary and it’s OK if some of them decide to sing along with the hymns.
Please bring your pet either on a leash or confined in a carrier. Even the most docile animals can behave unpredictably in strange circumstances.
If you do not currently have a pet or yours is not ready for prime time, please feel free to bring a picture or a stuffed animal to be blessed.
This service is intergenerational — the children and youth remain with us and our pets in the sanctuary for the entire service.
We will still provide nursery care for infants and toddlers 3 and under.
Adult Religious Education — 2 October 2016
Please join us on Sunday (1 October 2016) at 9:15 AM for our adult religious education class — “Broadening our UU Understanding, Deepening Our Journey”
Session 2.1 — Our Roots in the Early Church.
For newcomers and seasoned members alike, this course covers the historical streams of our living tradition from the early Christian church, and provides opportunities for each of us to consider our individual spiritual paths within the scope of that tradition.
25 September 2016 Worship Service and Religious Education for Children and Youth
Please join us on Sunday (25 September 2016) at 11:00 AM for “No Greater Love” by Rev. Carlton Elliott Smith.
What are we willing to sacrifice for the well-being of our loved ones? What about for people we don’t even know, but for whom we feel deep empathy?
Today, we explore the nature of risk and human caring as we remember those in our faith who defied evil though their lives were in danger.
Rev. Smith is a Congregational Life Staff for the Southern Region of the Unitarian Universalist Association and is the primary contact for UU congregations in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Pensacola, Florida.
He lives in the Memphis area and has been an ordained UU minister for 21 years.
Before returning to the Southeast, Rev. Smith served congregations in the Northeast Corridor and in the San Francisco area.
Religious education classes for children and youth are offered during the 11:00 AM service — children and youth attend the first 15-20 minutes of the service and then are dismissed to class.
25 September 2016 — No Adult Religious Education Class
There is no 9:15 AM adult religious education class on Sunday (25 September 2016).
We will continue our “Broadening our UU Understanding, Deepening Our Journey” series of classes next Sunday (2 October 2016) at 9:15 AM.
On 2 October 2016, we will cover session two — “Our Roots in the Europe and a Look at How We Talk About Our Faith to Others.”
For newcomers and seasoned members alike, this course that covers the historical streams of our living tradition from the early Christian church and provides opportunities for each of us to consider our individual spiritual paths within the scope of that tradition.
18 September 2016 Worship Service and Religious Education for Children and Youth
Please join us on Sunday (18 September 2016) at 11:00 AM for “Uni-tarian Uni-versalists and the Oneness of Everything” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell. The All Souls Choir will sing. We will have a newcomer information session immediately following the service.
Religious education classes for children and youth are offered during the 11:00 AM service — children and youth attend the first 15-20 minutes of the service and then are dismissed to class.
Adult Religious Education — 18 September 2016
Please join us on Sunday (18 September 2016) at 9:15 AM for our adult religious education class — “Broadening our UU Understanding, Deepening Our Journey”
Session 2 — Our Roots in the Early Church and a Look at How We Talk About Our Faith to Others.
For newcomers and seasoned members alike, this course covers the historical streams of our living tradition from the early Christian church, and provides opportunities for each of us to consider our individual spiritual paths within the scope of that tradition.
11 September 2016 Worship Service and Religious Education for Children and Youth
Please join us on Sunday (11 September 2016) at 11:00 AM for “Run, Spectate, or Commit” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
In the film City of Joy, Joan, a social worker in a clinic in the slums of Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta), asserts that life really boils down to these three choices.
On this 15th anniversary of an event that calls for our grief and tribute, we look to what is ours to do.
Join us, and stay afterward for a presentation by Stacy Eppers of Volunteers for Youth Justice. They are in need of CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) volunteers willing to work with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth.
Religious education classes for children and youth are offered during the 11:00 AM service — children and youth attend the first 15-20 minutes of the service and then are dismissed to class.
Adult Religious Education Classes Resume This Sunday (11 September 2016)
Please join us on Sunday (11 September 2016) at 9:15 AM for “Broadening our UU Understanding, Deepening Our Journey” with facilitators Rev. Barbara Jarrell and Susan Caldwell.
This class is for newcomers and seasoned members alike — a course that will cover the historical streams of our Living Tradition from the early Christian church and provide opportunities for each of us to consider our individual spiritual paths within the scope of that tradition.
Session 1 — “The House of Our Faith” — We know that we are united by covenant rather than by creed but can we look to a common Unitarian Universalist theology as our foundation? Come and learn more.