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Christmas Eve Services6:00 p.m. Family Vespers ServiceA service of carols, music and stories especially for children and their families. 8:00 p.m. Candlelighting Vespers ServiceA quiet service of reflection and music concluding with a candlelight ceremony. |
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Christmas Eve Services 6 p.m. - Family Vespers Service 8 p.m. - Candlelighting Vespers Service |
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Christmas Eve Services (at 4, 6 and 8 p.m.) 4:00 pm — Family Christmas Eve Service This year we welcome our friends from First UU Los Angeles for the 6 pm and 8 pm services. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Family-Friendly Christmas Eve Service: 4pm. Sanctuary. UUSM Director of Religious Education Catherine Farmer Loya and Rev. Tera Little invite families to this informal and fun afternoon service. Children will rejoice with holiday music from Music Director DeReau K. Farrar and friends, plus a sing-along of old favorites. Early Unitarians promoted the Christmas tree as the symbol of the shared family Christmas, along with the values of love, generosity and the kindly nurture of children. Young visitors may bring an ornament to donate to our community tree, and will take away an ornament to cherish at home. Christmas Eve Candle Lighting Service: 6pm & 8pm. Sanctuary. UUSM welcomes all as we gather for candlelight services on Christmas Eve. Rev. Tera Little will deliver a message evoking the spirit of the season at these moving services of candlelight and song. A Christmas Eve candlelight service is a wonderful way to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas. It provides time to reflect and an inspirational and uplifting escape from the hustle and bustle of the season. We also welcome our friends from First UU Los Angeles to join us. |
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Christmas Pageant (4 p.m.) .Our Holiday pageant “Would You Like to Hold the Baby?” will take place at our 4pm Christmas Eve service this year.
The pageant will showcase all the characters you know and love including the Friendly Beasts!
Join us for a Christmas Nativity pageant in word and song by Joyce Poley and Frank Henning.
This is the timeless story of Mary and Joseph, the Kings and the Shepherds, with the addition of a new character - a young stable girl. As Mary invites the girl to hold her Baby, so we are invited to embrace the deepest meaning Christmas holds for each one of us.
Parking is provided at the UCLA structure for this special family friendly event!
Director of Religious Education Kathleen Hogue invites families to this informal and fun afternoon service. Children will rejoice with beautiful holiday music, including a sing-along of old favorites.
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Christmas Vespers Services6 p.m. Family Vespers Service6 p.m. Family Vespers ServiceThis service of carols and stories is especially for children and their families. 8 p.m. Candlelighting Vespers ServicThis quiet service of reflection and music concludes with a candlelighting ceremony. |
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Chuka Susan Chesney's Bright soul
The Opening Reception for Chuka Susan Chesney’s Bright Soul exhibit will be on Sunday, March 1 from 11:00 am until 1:00 pm in Forbes Hall.
Chesney is an emerging L.A. artist focusing on water color, collage, and mixed media art (and poetry). The exhibit will be open for the first four Sundays in March from 9:00 am until 12:30 pm and on weekdays by appointment. There will be a closing reception on March 22 from 11:00 am until 1:00 pm.
The artist will attend both receptions and extra items will be available for your consideration. The receptions and exhibit are free and open to the public.
Chesney grew up in a family focused on art, design, and words. Her father owned a commercial printing company and brought home stacks of paper for creating paintings and stories. In 1982 she earned her BFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Chesney loves to paint with watercolor and she loves to make collages. Her work often becomes mixed media as she may add pen and ink, brush and ink, pastels, Prismacolors, or embroidery thread to her paintings and collages. She often creates a system of dots, dashes, curly lines to form colorful patterns to convey depth, rhythm, and atmosphere.
 She sets her pieces aside for a time so she can look at them with a fresh eye, which sometimes inspire her to add more effects and other times inspire her to cut them up and use the pieces to create new painting or collages. As a piece evolves, she listens to it to hear and see what it wants. She loves to experiment with her art; she loves to not know exactly what it will become. Her studio is her lab.
Chesney has won many awards in shows across the country. Her art has been published in New England Review and Compose Literary Journal. Her poetry and art have been published in Peacock Journal, Lummox, and Altadena Poetry Review. Her poetry anthology Book of Sighs will be published by Little Red Tree in 2020. She is currently working on a poetry and art anthology for the 100 Vibrant Artists of Los Angeles.
 Contact our Art Director, Beverly Alison, for further information about this show.
For weekday appointments or information about the church, contact the church office: Cyndee at assistant@uusm.org or 310-829-5436 x102.
On Sundays, follow the signs to UU Church Parking, which is in the hospital parking structure on 16th. Handicap parking is available behind the church.
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Church Office Closed for Thanksgiving |
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Church 101 Church Talent Sunday. What are the basics about belonging to a church? What are the expectations and the ethics? Come find out this Sunday, when we'll also enjoy our own church talent as our music program and honor our departing high school seniors with a Bridging Ceremony. |
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Church 2.0 A major national survey shows that 72% of Millennials (18 to 29 years old) consider themselves “spiritual but not religious.” Their social economy follows the laws of sharing and recommending brands, and they live via life narration (“If there are no pics, it didn’t happen”). What do the new social media and social economy mean for how we “do” church? |
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Church Artists CHURCH ARTISTS will exhibit their art on the February Art Wall. Artists include: Bettye Barclay, Charles Haskell, Amy Lacombe, Peggy Rhoads, Carol Ring, Louise Rothman, Judy Schonebaum, Diana Spears, Greg Wood, and Diana Wright. A reception for the artists will be on Sunday, February 10 from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. Please support our artists by inviting your friends to view their work and our church. |
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Church Artists in August
The Church Artist's show continues through August. Eleven artists are represented with a variety of genres that can engage our interest.
Charles Haskell has a suite of four photographs of succulents from Beverly Alison's award winning garden.
Board President Pat Wright's daughter, Diana Wright, gives us a witty take on an "art book."
Carol Ring combines her photographic art with her interest in Buddhism and meditation with a combination of peaceful images with a "metta" (loving-kindness) phrase printed by infusing dyes onto coated, brushed aluminum.
Bettye Barclay shows her multitalented creativity with four works - a clay plate with raku embellishment, two watercolors (one abstract and one figurative), and an abstract acrylic on canvas. Bettye has exhibited widely and has her works in many collections across the country.
Greg Wood takes us on a trip with his watercolor painted in 2 hours at the Truckee River (near Reno, NV) with train crossing and flanked by the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
Amy Lacombe has two very colorful acrylic canvases with a Love theme.
Michael Young has two large "woodsy" photographic prints printed on canvas.
Peggy Rhoads has two pastel landscapes and a black-and-white woodcut.
Dale Riley shows a shoreline on acrylic canvas.
Diana Spears has two assemblages reflecting her interests in Oriental and Native American arts.
Finally, guest artist, Lorraine Paley, has a fantasy watercolor of horses.
— Diana Spears
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