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Hopes and Wishes and Dreams
It is hard to have hope when you are filled with doubt. Having faith in yourself and in your community provides the foundation for hope to emerge.
Hospitality

In the largest sense, we are all guests, guests of life. As all the traditional views of hospitality indicate, the stranger, the unknown element, is the most important. Yet, our ideas of hospitality often leave out the element of the stranger. What are the implications of considering hospitality as a holy endeavor?
House Party Facilitator training
How a Broken Place Becomes Strong

Throughout our history, our church community has experienced both the pain of conflict and the process of healing. How did we get strong again? The answer teaches us not only about church, but also about life. Music Christine Mourad, singer/songwriter Throughout our history, our church community has experienced both the pain of conflict and the process of healing. How did we get strong again? The answer teaches us not only about church, but also about life. Music Christine Mourad, singer/songwriter

How can I find out more about the church, to figure out if it's the right place for me?

Attending services and other events is the best way to get to know us, but other resources are available, too. Guests who sign in at the table in the front courtyard before the services will receive our online newsmagazine, weekly announcements and an invitation to the next Visitor Meetup.
How Can UUs Welcome the Sacred? (9 am) & Living with Fear, Responding with Hope (11 am)

9 a.m. service
The Rev. John Millspaugh
“How Can UUs Welcome the Sacred?”

Regardless of our spiritual beliefs, or lack thereof, all of us have encountered the depth of existence that reminds us that life is full of hope and dynamic possibility. Do deeply meaningful moments arise randomly, or is there something we can do to invite them into our lives? Come hear an unexpected perspective on “the Sacred” and what it has to do with pottery
and poetry, love and lower back pain.

The Rev. John Millspaugh is minister of Tapestry, a Unitarian Universalist congregation in Mission Viejo, CA.

 

11 a.m. service
The Rev. Sarah Millspaugh
“Living with Fear, Responding with Hope”

At a time when fear seems to pervade our political, civic, commercial, and religious institutions, how can we respond with hope? What are some spiritual resources we can draw on as Unitarian Universalists to counter cynicism and despair and embrace life in its fullness? Come explore these questions and reflect on living between fear and hope.

The Rev. Sarah Gibb Millspaugh is the UUA’s adult programs director and affiliated community minister ofTapestry.
How Good Do We Have to Be?

It's New Year's. Time for taking stock, making resolutions, and hoping for fresh starts. How much can we really expect of ourselves? Music: Jami Lula, vocalist
How Long the Journey
How to Schedule Remote Meetings
If you need to schedule a church business group or committee meeting via Zoom, please contact our office staff at zoomsupport@uusm.org, or post you request here. 
 
Please provide the following details at least three days prior to the meeting.  If you would like the meeting to be posted in the Weekly Email Announcements, please email Sibylla Nash at OOS@uusm.org by Wednesday evenings.  For all meetings, please include:
 
  • Title of meeting
  • Date/day, meeting start time and end time
  • Host‘s email address(es)
  • Whether the meeting will be "Invitation Only" or "Public"

You will receive your meeting confirmation and ID via email. The meeting Host/Chair is responsible for sharing Zoom Room and ID information with attendees. 

Please note that we can only schedule one Zoom meeting at a time, so please be flexible with your meeting time. We will do our best to accommodate everybody, but you might need to change the time your meeting takes place.
 
Individuals can attend the meeting by phone if they do not have an email address. 
 
If you have your own Zoom account and would like to use it for meetings, we can post the information on the Weekly Announcements.
 
How We Have Changed

The New Year is a time to take stock of where we have been and where we are going. Wherever that is, we're not the same this year. Please bring back Guest At Your Table boxes this Sunday.
How We Love (B. Chapman) - Chloe Vaught
Human Heart (Flaherty/Arens) - Saunder Choi