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 29, 2025 – “Clear, Grieving and Grounded” – Rev. Dr. Molly Housh Gordon
What inspiration, learning and reflection has Rev. Molly been gathering this summer? Refreshed by attending the UUA General Assembly and a gathering with minister colleagues, she will share what’s on her mind. Come hear what she has to say!
July 6, 2025 – The Sermon in YOU Series – “The Work That Reconnects” – Caya Tanski and Allison Wonderland
“The Work That Reconnects” is a framework for personal and social change developed by Joanna Macy, a scholar of systems theory, deep ecology and Buddhism. It is designed to help individuals and communities confront and process the ecological, social and political crises of our time — such as climate change, species extinction and systemic injustice — empowering us to act by reconnecting us with feelings of care and concern for the world and strengthening our sense of belonging and interconnection with all life.
July 13, 2025 – Sacred Songs in Sacred Spaces – Violet Vonder Haar
Join us for a session of music director Violet Vonder Haar’s beloved new singing circle offering. All summer, Violet has been gathering folks in beautiful places to learn and sing heart-centered songs of hope and solidarity. This Sunday we’ll sing together.
July 20, 2025 – The Sermon in YOU Series – “Flying Through Space on a Rock” – Steve Scott
Astronomers estimate there are between 100 billion and 200 billion galaxies in the observable universe. Our Sun – one of an estimated 100 billion to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy – rotates around the center of the galaxy at 483,000 miles per hour along with its planets, including Earth. We are literally flying through space on a rock. What do these facts imply about how puny humanity should behave?
July 27, 2025 – “Faith In Resistance” – Rev. Dr. Molly Housh Gordon
Join us to glean lessons from 20th century theologians who faithfully resisted fascism in their own time. We’ll spend time with the wisdom of German Christian theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and American Unitarian theologian James Luther Adams.
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.