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Growing Together Worship Leaders Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur, Director of Religious Education Catherine Farmer Loya, and Lifespan Religious Education Leaders and Learners Please bring cut flowers from your garden to share in a special Flower Communion. |
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Growing Unitarian Universalists
Join us for this annual intergenerational service in which we celebrate all we've learned together this year in our lifespan religious exploration programs, and recognize all our senior youth who will be "bridging" into young adulthood this year with a special Bridging Ceremony. The services will be followed at 12:30pm by our congregation's Annual Meeting.
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Growing Up and Liking It
This was the title of a book my mother gave me before the onset of puberty. It seems that I was surrounded by elders ready to teach, warn, prepare, and escort me through those early phases of growth and development. Now that I am at the other end of life’s arc, I am not finding as much help. Where are the elders to shepherd me through this phase of degeneration and wisdom? Perhaps their messages are more subtle. This morning we will think about some of the blessings and challenges of Growing Old, especially when we are not liking it so much.
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Growing with ConflictApril Ministry Theme: Transformation
Join Rev. Rebecca, Green Living Committee leaders, and special guests for Seeds of Change, a five-week exploration of personal and social transformation through the lens of climate justice. The journey begins on March 20, when we mark World Water Day with a beach clean up with Heal the Bay, and concludes with Earth Sunday on April 24.
April 3 Sermon: Growing with Conflict
How can we use conflict as a challenge to move into right relationship with ourselves and others? How can we move with grace when our lives resist our attempts at control? Join member and guest preacher Jessica Clay as we reflect on change, and Jessica shares some of the lessons she has learned on her journey through seminary.
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Guest Speaker on Iran: Professor Ali Akbar Mahdi |
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Guest Speaker on Santa Monica’s Historic Apology to the Black Community |
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Guidelines and Ground RulesMay Worship Theme: What Binds Us
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:
Grateful for the religious pluralism which enriches and ennobles our faith, we are inspired to deepen our understanding and expand our vision. As free congregations we enter into this covenant, promising one another our mutual trust and support.
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.
May 1 Sermon: Guidelines and Ground Rules
What guidelines and ground rules can UUs follow to create brave spaces to speak about our diverse identities and experiences, across those very differences?
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Guiding the World Toward Change This is a big year for change. The elections hold the promise of big changes ahead for our country and the world. YRUU will focus their thoughts and feelings on issues that affect our nation and other countries around the world. Among these issues are separation of church and state, global warming, conservative and liberal views. This service promises to be thought provoking and an insight into the views of today’s teens. |
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Gurus and Groups The recent death of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Transcendental Meditation movement, prompts us to look at gurus and ask why so many people are attracted to them. (Remarks by Melanie Sharp) |
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Halloween party/carnival |
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Hands (J. Hagen) - UUSM Choir |
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Hard Choices
Note that while Rev. Rebecca preaches in Santa Monica, there will also be a worship service in the pines for those who join our all-church camp weekend at De Benneville Pines UU Camp in the San Bernadino Mountains, 9/18-9/20. Register here.
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