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Memorial Bricks Installation
We will have a short ceremony after the service to commemorate loved ones who’ve passed. We invite those of you who purchased bricks in the past or are installing bricks to participate in the service and everyone to join us. We will be honoring a few members and friends from UUSM history for their leadership and generosity.
 
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Memorial Day - Office Closed
Memorial Day Service

Though opinions about war may divide us, grief over the losses unites us. In the universal human experience of grief we may find a way to heal divisions and move on together. Music David Ellis, guitar

Memorial Day Service

America is in a state of mourning. The lives lost at war this year leave many families bereft and many more anxious and fearful. Our Memorial Day observance will look at this reality and search for hope in the sadness. Music Ginger Murphy, cello

Memorial Day Service

How will memory serve us as the events and people this day commemorates recede into the past? What must we take care never to forget? How will it matter?

Memorial Day Service

Memorial Day acknowledges the lives lost in war, but what about those veterans who came back, but are lost in life? We?ll look at the total human cost in our observance this Sunday.

Memorial Day Service

Remembering those who died in war evokes powerful feelings in the living. What we do with those feelings may be the best tribute to the lives they lived and lost.

Memorial Day Sunday

Standard Memorial Day rhetoric suggests that there is an ultimate justification for the lives lost in war. What if there isn't? Chalice Lighting Hiroshima by Natalie Kahn

Memorial Finale for Pipes Distinguished Lecture Series

Final Pipes Lecture Series Memorial

The Pipes Lecture Series will have its Finale on Saturday, May 7 at 5:30 pm in the Sanctuary with memorials to three pillars of the lecture series committee, Leonard Adler, Rev. Ernie Pipes, and Marguerite Spears, pictured above. All three died last year within six months of one another. The committee felt it a fitting time to put on this final event. 

Entertainment will be provided by accomplished gospel singer Linda Alvarez, her Mahalia Jackson Tribute Show accompanist, Severn Behnen, who is also Music Director at the UU Palos Verdes church, and William Bryant, Santa Monica College's Emeritus Gospel Music Choir Director. Bryant's early career involved working with Motown artists. 
 
We plan to record these events for the church 's record and for those who may not be able to attend. Light refreshments will follow in Forbes Hall. 
 
Memorial Service
Memorial Service - James MacQueen
Memorial Service - James Nelson