Upcoming Services
Sunday, March 7
"Though We've Broken our Vows a Thousand Times"
This month we are exploring the theme of commitment. Agreements, treaties, covenants, contracts...there are many ways to make promises to one another. And when those promises are broken what do we do?
Worship Leader: Rev. Christina-Branum Martin
Worship Associate: Elaine Fredendall
Sunday, March 14
"Civic Virtue: How to Love a Country"
Our fifth principle calls us to take responsibility for democracy--in the congregation, in the nation, in the world. Democracy is the only form of governance that respects the inherent worth and dignity of every person and calls for acceptance of one another. Our covenant calls us to dwell together in peace. So how exactly do we as a religious community help and support one another in fulfilling our civic duty? It's all in the be-attitudes: love, hope, trust , and grace.
Worship Leader: Holley Ulbrich
Worship Associate: Janie Shipley
Sunday, March 21
"Choose to Bless the World"
You must answer this question: What will you do with your gifts? Choose to bless the world.
Worship Leader: Rev. Christina Branum-Martin
Worship Associate: Cecil Huey
Sunday, March 28
"Spring Cleaning and Starting Anew"
This service marks a year since the first UUFC service online. In the tradition of Passover, the Spring is a time for Spring cleaning, starting anew. As we move closer to a post-pandemic reality, what do we remain committed to? What do want to reconsider and do differently?
Worship Leader: Rev. Christina Branum-Martin
Sunday, April 4
"Renewal: A Festival of Flowers"
Spring has burst forth. In this season, we respond with gladness that new life shall welcome us to another year of growing. Let us celebrate together with the UU ritual of the flower communion.
Worship Leader: Rev. Christina Branum-Martin
Recent Services
Sunday, February 28
"Beloved Community: A Way of Being"
Beloved community is not a goal, it is a way of being. It is an attitude, an orientation of the heart. Beloved community is a daily practice, a spiritual politics, that requires inclusivity, nonviolence, and the hard discipline of radical hospitality. What future for UUFC do you hope for as this community prepares to welcome a new settled minister?
Worship Leader: Rev. Christina-Branum Martin
Worship Associate: Dave Sanders
Sunday, February 21
"The Gift of Being Let Down"
How we respond to failure – our own, or others’ – can mean the difference between despair and transformation, between isolation and beloved community…
Worship Leader: Rev. Christina-Branum Martin
Sunday, February 14
Side With Love Sunday
In 2021, the annual 30 Days of Love celebration centers 4 themes from a Widening the Circle of Concern, a report from the Commission on Institutional Change, a UUA Board-commissioned group charged with researching, reporting, and making recommendations for transforming white supremacy and other oppressions in the institutional history and practices of the UUA and its 1,000+ congregations and covenanted communities. This Side With Love Sunday worship service lifts up those themes: Living our values, Hospitality & inclusion, Educating for Liberation, and Restoration and Reparations. What if to "side with love" meant making bold, faith-full choices? What if it were even a little bit scary? This worship service brings together worship leaders and musicians from across the country to offer hopeful, moving, challenging reminders about what we, as Unitarian Universalists, are called to do, and BE, in the world.
Worship Leader: Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray, President, Unitarian Universalist Association
Sunday, February 7
“The Meaning of Home”
For many of us, our relationship with home has intensified this year. The pandemic has given many of us new appreciation for, and concerns about, the places we call home and the centrality of these places in our lives This year during Guest at Your Table, we invite you to witness stories of our partners around the world as they tell you about home. Our partners in Central America are working to make sure no one is forced to flee their home due to violence or economic devastation. Our partners in Alaska, Louisiana, and the Pacific are fighting for their homes and ancestral lands against the ravages of extractive industries and climate change. And our partners in Burma, Bangladesh, and beyond are working tirelessly to support the rights of the Rohingya ethnic minority of Burma after facing government backed genocide in their homeland.
Worship Leader: Rev. Christina Branum-Martin
Guest Minister: Rev. Laura Randall, UU Service Committee
Worship Associate: Karen Hiebel