In our UU faith, we are bound together not by creed or dogma, but by covenant, the sacred promises we make with one another about who we are and how we want to be in community together. We often quote our Seven Principles, yet rarely repeat the concluding lines of the congregational covenant from which they come:

 

 

Join Rev. Rebecca and our worship leaders for a month-long exploration of covenant, mutual trust and support, and what binds us to one another, to our living tradition, and to the wider world.

 

As a promise-making people, we are also a promise-breaking people. How do we reweave the bonds of community when we have disappointed or hurt one another? 

 

At our 11am service we will embody our faith’s theology of interdependence by hosting the choir of First Church Los Angeles, our closest neighboring UU congregation at 7th and Vermont. At both 9am and 11am, Rev. Bijur and Rev. Rick Hoyt-McDaniels of First Church, who was called to ministry from this congregation and is a former member of our Board of Directors, will lead worship and preach together.

 

Note:  Special guest Bruce Rankin, ED of the Westside Food Bank, will also join us for both services on May 8 to talk about our congregation's longtime partnership with WFB to end hunger on the Westside of Los Angeles, and to receive a gift of over $2,000 from the congregation. Thank you to those who increased their pledges last fall in order to give more money away to WFB, those who participated in our Supper Bowl Sunday fundraiser with our children and families, gave more in the plate during the month of February, and for all the gifts of food you bring each week for our neighbors in need.