For Forum, Mindfulness Meditation and Worship,
drop-in child care is provided. No reservation is needed.

Jan. 4, 2026

Lower Level-Forum Room/Library – No Meeting

The Forum Discussion Group meets at 9 a.m. most Sundays from September through May except holiday weekends. On Jan. 4 Jack Colwill will present on “Health Care in the Age of Trump #3.” Dr. Colwill has presented on healthcare in previous years and is always informative. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and a professor emeritus at the University of Missouri.

9 a.m. – Mindfulness Meditation – Fire Circle or Lower Level-Centering Room

Mindfulness Meditation takes place at 9 a.m. every Sunday. Beginners and experienced meditators are welcome. If the outside temperature is 55° F. or higher and weather permits, meditation will take place at the Fire Circle behind the church. Otherwise, meditation will be in the Lower Level-Centering Room. For more information, email Anna Lingo or Susan Pereira.

10:30 a.m. – Worship Service – Sanctuary

“Finding Our Way” – Rev. Dr. Molly Housh Gordon

January’s worship theme is: “Survival is not a prison. It is a candle.” Join us to build collective hope for for collective liberation, as we find our way toward greater shared thriving.

Order of Service (when available)

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10:30 a.m. – Youth Religious Education – Service Sunday – Lower Level

After a centering time in the Sanctuary at the beginning of worship, the children will go downstairs to participate in a Service Sunday project. Free nursery care for infants to 3-year-olds will be available until 11:45 a.m. Read about our Youth Religious Education program.

After Worship – Coffee Hour – Greeting Area

Enjoy beverages and conversation in the Greeting Area after worship.

Noon – First Sunday Potluck – Greeting Area and Sanctuary

Please bring a main dish, side dish or dessert if you are able, and please stay if you can’t because there’s always plenty of food to go around. To accommodate those with dietary restrictions, please provide a complete ingredient list for your food contribution and indicate whether it is dairy-free, gluten-free, nut-free, vegan and/or vegetarian. Go here for a fillable PDF form for your contribution.

Also, please help set up the Sanctuary for the potluck and stay after to help clean up and return the Sanctuary to normal order. Many hands make light work!

Noon – YRUU – Lower Level-YRUU Room

Members of YRUU, our high school youth group, will gather for the regular weekly meeting.

1:15 p.m. – Social Action Team Documentary Showing – Lower Level-Forum Room/Library

All are invited to join the Social Action Team at 1:15 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026, to view “My Father’s Name,” a 20-minute documentary about a woman’s discovery that her father participated in a lynching. She “must now reckon with deeply conflicted feelings about the father she loved, find a way to hold her family accountable, and face the dawning awareness of her own unconscious racism.” View the trailer.

The showing will take place in the Lower Level-Forum Room/Library. After convening at 1:15 p.m., the film will be shown at 1:30, and then there will be a discussion led by Dave Gibbons at about 2. The session will end no later than 3. Note that this film showing takes the place of the regular January meeting of the Social Action Team.