Past Services and Recordings
February 2, 2025
- Nonetheless, We Shall Overcome
- Worship Leader - Rev. Jacqueline Brett
- Music: Beloved Community Chorus (11:00 am), ERUUF House Band, Kate Lewis – Pianist, Wendy Looker – Music Director
February 2025 Theme: Inclusion
Justice Sunday: Pride+
As we acknowledge the start of Black History Month, we explore what it really takes to be in the challenging and liminal space of overcoming in our own times, despite setbacks, oppressive opposition, and perhaps never ourselves seeing the day that we finally succeed for good. Worship Associate: Michael Field (11:00 am)
January 26, 2025
- Worship Leader - Rev. Lisa Garcia-Sampson
- Music: Eno River Singers (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
January 2025 Theme: Practice of Story
January 19, 2025
- A War That Even Dr. King Would Approve Of
- Worship Leader – Rev. Jacqueline Brett; Guest Speaker - Dr. Henry C. McKoy, Jr.
- Music: Beloved Community Chorus (11:00 am); ERUUF House Band (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
January 2025 Theme: Practice of Story
Until the day he was assassinated, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. opposed any deviation from his strategy of nonviolence and anti-war. Nearly 60 years later, America seems to remain hopelessly imperfect, and the arc of the moral universe seems to be bending in the wrong direction for the most historically oppressed. Would Dr. King, always more militant than his supporters or critics gave him credit for, still preach the same gospel?
January 12, 2025
- How Do We Understand Our Story?
- Worship Leader - Rev. Jim Lewis
- Music: Sally Franz, Flute (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
January 2025 Theme: Practice of Story
January 5, 2025
- The Story of Now
- Worship Leader - Rev. Daniel Trollinger
- Music: Johann Montozzi-Wood (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
Stories are a language of connection and have the power to reveal our true nature. As we weave together the tales of who we are, where we’ve been, and where we are going, our sense of separation fades and the web of our oneness is revealed. In the turning of the year, may we have the courage to know that there is a story of the world waiting to be written.
December 29, 2024
- Kwanzaa
- Worship Leader - Rev. Jacqueline Brett. Guest Minister -- Rev. Dr. Sofia Betancourt, UUA President
- Music: Guest artists: The Ancestors Voice Ensemble; Beloved Community Chorus; Sofia Betancourt - soloist; Mykal Slack - soloist; Johann Montozzi-Wood–soloist; ERUUF House Band; Wendy Looker-Music Director
ONE SERVICE 11:00 am
Join us this Sunday for our annual Kwanzaa celebration as we focus on Ujamaa, the fourth principal of Kwanzaa, which honors the cooperative economics of people of the African diaspora. We’ll focus on our connection with the earth as cooperative economics. A Kwanzaa Karamu (feast) will take place directly after the service. All are welcome!
Kwanzaa Karamu (feast) held immediately after this multigenerational service.
Christmas Eve December 24, 2024
Each service is multigenerational.
5:00 pm - Holiday Pageant. Worship Leader - Rev. Jim Lewis.
6:00 pm - Holiday Comfort and Cookies Reception
7:00 pm - Candlelight Service. Worship Leader - Rev. Jacqueline Brett. Music: ERUUF Holiday Choir.
December 22, 2024
- The Power of Ritual
- Worship Leader - Rev. Daniel Trollinger
- Music: Vocal Sextet – Kate Lewis, Wendy Looker, Claudia Kaplan, Kimberly Slentz-Kesler, Joyce Kurpiers & Jocelyn Neal (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
Seasonal rituals align with the natural rhythms of life, prompting reflection, growth, and renewal. As we remember the power of ritual and communal gathering in this season of holidays, how can we bring fresh meaning to the traditions that evoke a spirit of remembrance, joy, and celebration? (Sarah Rose Nordgren, woship associate)
December 21, 2024
- Winter Solstice
- Worship Leaders: Rev. Jim Lewis and CUUPS
Saturday, 4:00 pm
In Person Only
Fellowship Hall
December 18, 2024
- Jazz for the Holidays Vespers Service
- Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett
- Music: Myk’l Hanna and Friends
Wednesday, 7:00 pm
December 15, 2024
- Lessons and Carols
- Worship Leaders: Rev. Jacqueline Brett and Dr. Wendy Looker
- Music: Carols: Beloved Community Chorus, Eno River Singers, River Folk, Chalice Singers and Sunshine Kids with Pam DiLavore, Kristi Chilton, and Art Hollander; Jane Hewitt and Catherine Alguire –Harp; John Carmichael - Trumpet; Kate Lewis – Pianist; Dr. Wendy Looker– Music Director
ONE SERVICE 11:00 am
This is a multigenerational service.
Lessons: Rev. Daniel Trollinger, Rev. Jim Lewis, Michael Gilbert-Singletary, Kaleb Graves, Shawn Trimble.
December 8, 2024
- Practicing Presence
- Worship Leader: Rev. Daniel Trollinger
- Music: ERUUF House Band (11:00 am)
Worship Associate: Simon Kaplan
This Sunday is Generosity Sunday. The recipient is Immigrant Solidarity Fund
In this season of celebrations and gatherings, the most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. This is where spiritual practice comes in, for it teaches us to remember something more, calls us back to ourselves, and invites us to cultivate new habits of the heart.
