Services for September

Pause Between Seasons

Laura Paligo and the Worship Committee
September 6

We will gather for a time of peaceful reflection as we are guided along the path of our indoor labyrinth, bathed in the healing sounds of crystal bowls and ambient music.

We Begin With Water—Water Communion and Backpack Blessing

Rev. Cynthia Snavely
September 13

Our lives began in the water of the womb and life on this planet began in the ocean. Our beginnings are held by water.

On September 13 at our ingathering service as we move back into our full programming after our summer hiatus, we ask you to bring water from somewhere meaningful to you.That could be the lake where your family gathers each year, the swimming pool where you spent a good many of your summer afternoons, the ocean, your own tap, or anywhere. We will pour that water together with water from past year’s water communions to symbolize the connections we have with each other and with those who were part of the congregation in the past. Some of this year’s water will then be saved for use in future years.

As children go back to school and adults may also be going back to school or work after a summer hiatus we ask you to also bring your backpack, briefcase, laptop bag, or other work bag to be blessed by the congregation so that each day at school or at work you may remember that this community supports you.

We Begin Again in Love

Rev. Cynthia Snavely
september 20

Unitarian Universalist Robert Eller-Isaacs wrote A Litany of Atonement included in our hymnal among the readings for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The response repeated throughout that litany is this, We forgive ourselves and each other; we begin again in love.

(Yom Kippur begins at sundown September 20 and ends September 21.)

A New Beginning: The Merger of Unitarians and Universalists

Rev. Cynthia Snavely
September 27

When the Unitarians and the Universalists merged to become the Unitarian Universalist Association in 1961 they dropped a Christian identity and became a creedless denomination. We are the heirs of that choice.

Our Witness Against Domestic Violence

Kathy Kraft, Rev. Cynthia Snavely, et al
October 4

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. UUFHC regularly places silhouettes along our street front for the month of October to heighten local awareness. On their website the Domestic Violence Awareness Project notes that, Across the United States, we’re seeing violence minimized, cuts to the services families rely upon, and increased barriers to safety for survivors and their children. Survivors deserve action. This DVAM, we invite you to join us as we move from awareness to action in order to meet our current moment. Now more than ever, we must stand with survivors, always. www.dvawareness.org/WithSurvivors.