Archives: Services

Summer Community Sunday

In this special multigenerational service, join us for a Summer Community Sunday from 11:00am – 1:30pm! We will have a shortened worship service celebrating the importance of play and rest, then we will have time to be in community together with various Summer Fun Stations: a bubble blessing of the playgrounds, games and crafts in […]

Music as Nourishment

As we navigate our complicated world, music offers nourishment for our souls through shared vibrations which surround our collective bodies – uplifting us with sound. Join us this Sunday for Music Sunday and Volunteer Appreciation! Sunday services: In-person or virtually on Vimeo.Click here to join the Vimeo Live Service

The Power of Group Intention

This service explores the science and spirituality behind focused group intention for healing, inspired by the work of Lynn McTaggart author of the book Power of 8. The congregation will try our own small group intentions for healing. If you have someone who needs healing, bring their name (and condition) to the service – with […]

Bridging

In UU tradition, “bridging” is the ceremony celebrating our children’s transitions from youth to young adulthood. “Bridging” refers to both the ritual used to honor this transition and the process of leaving youth community and finding one’s place in young adult community. Join us this Sunday for a multi-generational worship service in which we celebrate […]

Together, We are Transformed: New Member Welcome

On this special Sunday, we formally invite our newest members into covenant with this congregation. The presence of new beloveds in our constellation of membership transforms each of us in this sacred community. As we celebrate and renew our commitment to membership at UUCT, we affirm Octavia E. Butler’s wisdom: all that we touch, we […]

The Flower Communion

In this annual ceremony, we honor our UU roots (and blooms!). The Flower Communion uplifts beauty, diversity, and community in a time-honored UU ritual: sharing flowers (and other plant-gifts) with one another. Join us this multigenerational Sunday as we celebrate beauty not as a diversion from the ugly parts of our reality, but as a […]

Our Place in the Cosmos

Why do so many of us seem to suffer from a kind of spiritual emptiness? One answer is the modern realization that our universe is unimaginably vast and indifferent to us. That sense of insignificance and meaninglessness can lead to despair. Or it can draw us to fundamentalist beliefs that provide a false sense of […]

Earth Day: Climate Justice as an Act of Love

Cornel West says, “Justice is what love looks like in public.” In this Earth Day service, Lou Lobinske will wonder about, “What if we didn’t gender the Earth?” and Regina Joseph will explore how the fight for climate justice is also the fight for racial and gender justice. The people most affected by climate change […]

Celebrating the Interdependent Web

Celebrating the Interdependent Web with Rev. Faerie Elaine Silver brings us on a heartfelt journey into different aspects of UU’s 7th Principle (now Value). Participation is encouraged in the songs, which helps the audience to more fully embody these wonderful ideas. Rev. Faerie” Elaine Silver is a highly acclaimed musician, performing and recording artist (22 […]

Easter: Embracing the Possibilities That Lie Beyond Grief and Loss

On this multigenerational Easter Sunday, we begin a month of embracing possibilities. Join us as we explore transformation and the possibilities beyond grief and loss. Sad and disappointing things happen to all of us: beloveds die, friends move away, and plans go awry. When we experience losses of all kinds, it may feel like the […]