The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Columbia

Climate Induced Migration

Rev. Paige Getty and the UUCC Climate Crisis Team explore the future of climate-induced migration in the coming century, both in the US and abroad. Following service we will host a Climate Fair in Sanctuary C, where you can mix and mingle with members who are interested in a variety of climate issues.

Betsy Osterman, Climate Action Team, Kelli Danaker, Melissa Affolter, Michael Adcock, Phil Webster and Rev. Paige Getty

Beyond Land Acknowledgements

Our guest speakers for this service are members of the Piscataway Conoy Tribe — the indigenous people of the unceded lands on which UUCC resides — who will invite us to consider what it means to honor their people and this land … beyond spoken land acknowledgements.

Jen Hayashi, Kelli Danaker, Kyle Swann, Meagan Lopes, Michael Adcock and the Reverend Paige Getty

Wondering and Wandering | The Reverend Paige Getty, Minister

As we mark UUCC and Rev. Paige Getty’s 20th anniversary of ministry together in this community, Paige reflects on where we’ve been and imagines what lies ahead for our shared ministries.

Colette Gelwicks, Matthew Huh, Michael Adcock, Regina Verow, The Reverend Paige Getty, Stacy Huh and the UUCC Chalice Choir

On Repentance, Repair and Renewal | The Reverend Paige Getty

Inspired by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg’s book On Repentance and Repair, Rev. Paige Getty explores the human need for repentance as a necessary foundation of repair and renewal as our Jewish siblings observe the High Holy Days.

Ed Gaddy, Kelli Danaker, Laurie Coltri, Michael Adcock, Sarita Olson, Sherry Peruzzi, the UUCC Chalice Choir and the Rev. Paige Getty

The Question Box | Rev. Paige Getty

After a five-month sabbatical, Rev. Paige Getty is back in the pulpit and ready to engage with your questions. Bring your inquisitive curiosity — about faith, about religion, about sabbatical, about UUCC, about Paige — and Paige will offer responses rooted in integrity, experience, and vulnerability.

Speakers: Becky Rease, Kelli Danaker, Laurie Alderman, Lisa Marini, The Rev. Paige Getty and Tom Monroe

Ingathering and Water Ceremony | the Rev. Paige Getty

Please join us as we celebrate the beginning of a new congregational year with our annual ingathering worship service for all ages, complete with a water ceremony. Bring a small amount of water from a sacred source, your summer travels, or your kitchen sink for the water ceremony. The service is for all ages so there will be no separate programming for children.

Carla Gates, Dr. Meleny Thomas, Kelli Danaker, Melissa Affolter, Michael Adcock, Michael Phillips, the Rev. Paige Getty and the UUCC Chalice Choir

• Carla Gates, Dr. Meleny Thomas, Kelli Danaker, Melissa Affolter, Michael Adcock, Michael Phillips, Rev. Paige Getty, UUCC Chalice Choir

YRUU in West Virginia - I Am Whom I’m Becoming | Melissa Affolter

Come join a YRUU lead service recounting their time spent in War, West Virginia. On July 30th a group of 11 teens and 3 adults from UUCC journeyed to Big Creek People in Actions’s center to stay for a week and take part in their housing rehab program. The youth from this trip will share music, reflections, and stories brought from, and inspired by, the people of The Town of War.

Speakers: Alena Von Schlag, Amelia Sorenson, Jonathan Ganel-Constant, Kaila Thomas, Khylei Shelor, Leah Ricafort, Liam Estell, Lucas Eaton, Melissa Affolter, Olivia Wright, Teaghan Verow McLaughlin, Valerie Hsu, WIll Weller, the YRUU (Young Religious UUs) and Zoey Garra

Love in Action | Cynthia Marshall

Cynthia Marshall works with People Acting Together in Howard (PATH) and its sister organizations across the country, and comes to UUCC to share a message of joy, connection, and action.

Cynthia Marshall

Why Ritual? | Regina Verow

Join Regina Verow, UUCC member and Catholic School graduate, as we explore ritual, it’s significance and how ritual plays an integral part even in Unitarian Universalism.

Speakers and musicians include Alex Horn, Jodi Brown, Lauri Coltri, Regina Verow and Tom Monroe

Meeting the Past | Stephen Evangelista

On this Sunday we will explore the idea that the individuals who struggled and fought during the American Civil War were ordinary people who lived during an extraordinary time. This service will tell the story of Rhode Island’s Battery B and their heroic sacrifices both on and off the battlefield. Before they were soldiers, they were fathers, sons, brothers, and husbands. Together, we will enter the past, meet them face-to-face, and discover how their story is our story too.

Stephen Evangelista, Linda Adcox-Kimmel, Michael Adcock, Kelli Danaker, Sophia Evangelista, Susan Appletree