Worship Services
Worship Schedule
Each month’s plans for our 10:30 a.m. Sunday worship services appear here. Details about the worship service for the upcoming Sunday appear on our Home Page. Childcare is always provided without reservations for Worship, Mindfulness Meditation and Forum.
June 1, 2025 – Brunch Church
Join us to celebrate summer with a special All-Ages Brunch Church Potluck Service! We’ll light chalices, share stones, and sing with our tablemates, and then spend our service time breaking bread together! Please bring a brunch dish to share, and remember to bring an ingredient list for those with food allergies. This service will replace our usual post-service First Sunday Potluck.
June 8, 2025 – Pride Sunday – LGBTQ+ Collective Members and Rev. Dr. Molly Housh Gordon
Join us for our Pride Month service celebrating all our LGBTQ+ members, family, friends, and neighbors.
June 15, 2025 – The Sermon in YOU – All-Ages Service – Rev. Dr. Molly Housh Gordon… and YOU!
We’ll be kicking of our summer lay preaching series with an interactive all-ages service. As UUs we believe that every person of every age and identity has a unique and important message to share with the world. Join us to discover.
June 22, 2025 – The Sermon-in-You Series – “On Drawing Near” – Ben Schulz
Can’t you do something? What if you do the wrong thing? And what do you do with the fear of not knowing?
Join us for our summer lay preaching series “The Sermon in You.” Every person has reflections, questions, and inspiration that we could all benefit from, and several lay preachers spent time together this spring discovering theirs! This series will feature several participants across the summer months!
June 29, 2025 – “The Sermon in Summer” – Rev. Dr. Molly Housh Gordon
What inspiration, learning, and reflection has Rev. Molly been gathering this summer? Come and find out!
The Zoom address for our 10:30 a.m. Sunday worship is
https://zoom.us/j/380411489
You can also join by phone: 312-626 6799
Webinar ID: 380 411 489
Services are also streamed live to Facebook
Description of Worship Services
We offer a worship service every Sunday at 10:30 a.m.. The current month’s schedule appears above. Services last about one hour.
Children are present for about the first 15 minutes, which includes a stones of joy and sorrow ritual. The children then leave for their religious education classes. Nursery care and our full religious education program for preschool through junior high school are offered at this time.
Although each of our services is unique, services usually begin with a welcome from a member of our Board of Trustees and occasional special announcements.
Interspersed with a variety of music and hymn singing, the typical service also includes the lighting of the chalice, one or more inspirational readings, a sermon or homily, an offertory, an opportunity to express joys and sorrows, and a closing benediction.
After the service we gather for fellowship, conversation and coffee.
Members of a group called the Worship Associates assist in planning worship services and also participate in conducting services.
Lay-Led Worship Services
Our lay-led services honor our commitment to lay involvement in church leadership and our church’s history. We began in 1951 as a lay-led fellowship, and thus all services were lay led until we called our first minister in 1980.
From September through May, we have occasional lay-led services, and many of the services are lay led during the summer. The Worship Associates organize the lay-led services. These services are often non-traditional and unique and allow individuals to speak to a topic of interest or lead the congregation in exploring a variety of activities related to the many facets of worship and spirituality.