The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Columbia

Love at the Center

Love is the power that holds us together and is at the center of our shared values. (from the proposed revision of UUA Article II) 

In our ongoing exploration of the draft revision of our UU values statement, Rev. Paige Getty considers this declaration at its center. What does it mean, spiritually and practically and theologically, to live with Love at the center?

Speakers: Betsy Osterman, Kelli Danaker, Melissa Affolter, Michael Adcock, Rev. Paige Getty and the UUCC Chalic Choir

• Betsy Osterman, Kelli Danaker, Melissa Affolter, Michael Adcock, Rev. Paige Getty, UUCC Chalice Choir

Covenant and Call

What does it mean to give our bodies, minds, and spirits over to the promise and possibility of a faith living out the very best parts of itself in this place in new ways? How can we, in the context of changing leadership, loose ourselves of control enough that we allow all the energies and Sources of love to realign us toward what is truest and best about our Unitarian Universalism and our communities? Join Rev. Mykal Slack, Community Minister of Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism and co-founder of the Transforming Hearts Collective, as we reflect together on Covenant and Call.

Speakers: Dori Schatell, Kelli Danaker, Laurie Coltri, Lisa Marini, Michael Adcock, Rev. Mykal Slack, Tim Lattimer, UUCC Chalice Choir

All of Us Need All of Us

We celebrate the varied contributions that make UUCC a unique and vibrant community. Every congregant has a valuable gift — in worship, in social hour, in classrooms, in gardens, in public witness, and in other countless ways. So today we ask ourselves what gifts of time and skill we offer? Because “all of us need all of us to make it,” as UU minister Rev. Julián Jamaica Soto wrote.

Speakers: Amelia Sorenson, Andrew Brown, Dave Lopes, Dori Schatell, Ed Gaddy, Eric Kieley, Hannah Nelson, Jen Hayashi, Jim Johnston, Kelly Danaker, Ken Rock, Kevin Murcer, Norma Byers, Rev. Paige Getty and Tim Lattimer.

 

 

What Brings Us Here

UUCC newcomers and new members reflect on their spiritual journeys and the meaning of spiritual community through exploration of the question: What brought you here and / or what keeps you here at UUCC?

Speakers: Christina Gibson, Dot Brauer, Haley Fischer, Jing Wang, Kelli Danaker, Laurie Coltri, Lisa Marini, Natalie Coore, the Rev. Paige Getty, Tim Lattimer, Tom Benjamin, the UUCC Chalice Choir and Valerie Nix

At a Threshold

With four months remaining in her ministry with us, Rev. Paige Getty — drawing inspiration especially from John O’Donohue’s writing about thresholds in his collection To Bless the Space Between Us — reflects on opportunities that are unique to times of transition.

Speakers: Alex Cauthen-Zach, Dori Schatell, Gail Thompson Guy, Kelli Danaker, Meagan Lopes. the Rev. Paige Getty, Tim Lattimer and Tom Monroe

Whose Loaves and Fishes?

In this service, Rev. Paige Getty and UUCC Executive Director Valerie Hsu explore dimensions of generosity* through the Christian biblical story of the feeding of the 5,000 — using not only a scriptural version, but also contemporary, first-world retellings. Through stories and reflections, they’ll ask us all to consider where we see ourselves and UUCC in this provocative story.

Speakers: Linda Adcox-Kimmel, Melissa Affolter, Valeria Hsu, Michael Adcock, the Rev. Paige Getty and the UUCC Chalice Choir.

Curiously Pluralistic

Unitarian Universalism is a pluralistic religious tradition, and pluralism is one of the six shared values named in the proposed revision of the UUA’s Article II*. In this worship service, Rev. Paige Getty will explore what it means to actively celebrate “that we are all sacred beings, diverse in culture, experience, and theology.”

Speakers: Betsy Osterman, Kelli Danaker, Kevin Mercer, Rev. Paige Getty and Tom Monroe

 

 

Embodying Care

UUCC embodies love in action. At the heart of our identity as a religious community is our care for each other — care that strengthens and nourishes us to embody love in the world. In this service, we celebrate the ways that UUCC congregants care for one another in formal and informal ways, and especially through the Karuna Ministry of lay pastoral caregiving.

Speakers: Bernadette Rock, Jillian Storms, Kelli Danaker, Laurie Coltri, Margaret LaFon, Michael Adcock, the Rev. Paige Getty and the UUCC Chalice Choir

 

 

• Bernadette Rock, Jillian Storms, Kelli Danaker, Laurie Coltri, Margaret LaFon, Michael Adcock, Rev. Paige Getty, UUCC Chalice Choir

Don't Believe Everything You Think

As part of living into our call to create Beloved Community, we must trust that people will be still and bear witness to us, acknowledge and accept what we share of our experience. We also must be present with one another with an empathy that honors our different life experiences. CB Beal will share about the spiritual practice of setting aside what we think, bearing witness, and trusting others to bear witness to us.

Speakers: Amber Stone, Becky Reese, CB Beal, Jing Wang, Kelli Danaker, Lisa Marini, Michael Adcock and the Rev. Paige Getty

The Wonder and Awe of Trees

In this auction raffle service, Rev. Paige Getty and congregant Becky Reese explore the wonder (and maybe even awe) of trees and forests through facts, images and experiences.

Speakers: Becky Reese, Ed Gaddy, Kelli Danaker, Kevin Mercer and Michael Adcock accompanied by the UUCC Chalice Choir.