Sunday Service

We will share stories about what experiences or events or people have been most important in helping us to lives of greater meaning.

We will share stories about what experiences or events or people have been most important in helping us to lives of greater meaning.

We will share stories about what experiences or events or people have been most important in helping us to lives of greater meaning.

Please bring a flower to share at this intergenerational service.

People’s Church youth will reflect on their spiritual journeys and what People’s Church has meant to them.

In our annual Memorial Day observance, we remember those who we have lost.

What might the practice of democracy in our congregation have to teach us about democratic process in our wider society?

What does it means to belong to a religious community in an era when ‘none’ is the fastest growing religious affiliation?

We join with 500 UU congregations in answering the call to talk about white supremacist culture.

We will experience music in new ways and reflect on how making music together helps us create community.

As we celebrate Earth Day, we will explore what it might mean to live with ‘just enough.’

In this intergenerational service, we will celebrate the rhythms of the agricultural year.

On this Palm Sunday, Rev. Rachel will tell Michael Servetus’s story—and the story of the prophet Jesus who also gave his life for the truth as he understood it.

Why do we covenant?

How can we find ways to build and sustain courage and commitment in these politically charged times?

How can white people participate in movements led by people of color?

What has People’s Church done to advance pure and practical religion in the community? What lies ahead?

How might The Book of Esther in the Hebrew Scriptures inspire us to act with courage today?

Rev. Rachel will share the story of how the modern Gay Pride movement began.

On this Sunday, Rev. Rachel will answer your submitted questions.

Rev. Rachel will reflect on Sabbath practices, how holy rest is different than sloth, and what she has learned from her own Sabbath practice.

What wisdom does the virtue of ‘Prudence’ hold for us today?

We will explore the cause and effect relationship between life and its varied, mysterious, healing and poetic expression.

Rev. Rachel will explore the topic of envy.

On this Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend we will look back at the tidal wave of justice of the Civil Rights Movement.

What is life calling People’s Church to be?

At this service, there will be dancing, music, and ritual to rid ourselves of what we don’t want to carry with us into 2017.

Join us for a simple, intergenerational service where we will celebrate and share the joys of the holidays in story and music.

“Miss Jayne” is a one act play about how we might honor someone who has made a profound difference in our life.

In this intergenerational service, members and friends of our community will be acting out the fictional story of Duke Dwayne’s attempts to outlaw jellybeans (and other things).

At the First Council of Nicaea, Saint Nicholas slapped a Unitarian Christian priest. What might this story teach us today?

Rev. Dennis McCarty will explore with us “A Kinder, Gentler Atheism.”

Rev. Rachel will explore the sin of gluttony and the complicated relationships we have with our food.

With the election over, how do we look forward? Who is the world calling us to be?

As UUs, how do we show our commitment to respect the inherent worth and dignity of every person, no matter what, no exceptions?

How could we become as comfortable talking about money as we are talking about sex?

Rev. Rachel, members of the People’s Church Social Justice Coordinating Committee, and other church members will explore the virtue of justice.

The church can change a life with its one voice. Will we let it?

As we mark Indigenous People’s Day, Rev. Rachel will tell the story of a little-known piece of our denominational history.

Let us celebrate and bless the animals in our lives and in our world! Please bring your well-behaved pets, pictures of beloved animals (living or dead), and/or your favorite stuffed animals.

Anger can eat us alive or fuel us to do good and important work in the world. How do we harness this powerful force?

As Unitarian Universalists, how do we hold answers lightly and live a faith without certainty?

At this service we will dwell in that tension between saving and savoring this world. Please bring a small container of water from somewhere that is meaningful to you.

Church member, Dyrk Hamilton will offer information about a significant way in which he lives an aspect of his faith.

On this Sunday, we welcome those who attended this year’s General Assembly to talk about what it means to be a part of our wider UU tradition.

Tim Bartik will offer information about a significant way in which he lives an aspect of his faith.

Rev. Rachel will offer information about a significant way in which she lives an aspect of her faith.

Church member, Don Miller will offer information about a significant way in which he lives an aspect of his faith.

Rev. Rachel will offer information about a significant way in which she lives an aspect of her faith, and then open the floor for personal sharing about the topic.

Our presenter Lynetta Carnes will offer information about a significant way in which she lives an aspect of her faith, and then open the floor for personal sharing about the topic.

Presenter Ally Pye will offer information about a significant way in which she lives an aspect of her faith.

Faith Curtis will offer information about a significant way in which she lives an aspect of her faith.

Cybelle Shattuck will offer information about a significant way in which she lives an aspect of her faith.

For this year’s summer services our presenters will offer information about a significant way in which they live an aspect of their faith.

To kick off our summer services, Rev. Rachel will lead us in lectio divina, a spiritual practice from the Benedictine tradition.

At this intergenerational service, we will celebrate the beauty and impermanence of flowers—and each of us. Please bring a flower to share.

At this service incoming freshman will be bridged into the youth group while seniors will share some reflections on their experiences growing up at People’s Church.

On this Memorial Day Weekend, we remember those we have lost—in war and not in war, in our congregation and in the wider world.

We’ll explore how we might imbue our everyday tasks with spiritual grounding.

Come enjoy the sound of People’s own voices as we share heartfelt poetry together.

Why does our church include comprehensive sexuality as a core part of religious education?

We’ll reflect upon reverence and where and how we come to know our highest values.

We will mark the holidays of Earth Day and Passover while we reflect on the idea of ‘promised land.’

This Sunday, we will explore the importance of living together in community through story, song—and a dance party.

This political primary season has brought into view a variety of prejudices that persist in our culture. As UUs, how are we called to respond?

This Sunday we will hold a conversation between Rev. Rachel and Mr. Palmer on the nature of truth by using excerpts from a sermon made 61 years ago.

How might we practice resurrection?

What has People’s Church accomplished, and what lies ahead?

Can Unitarian Universalists believe anything?

Why do we need superheroes?

What opportunities does grief offer us?

What steps can People’s Church take to become an antiracist organization?

On this Valentine’s Day, how might we learn to love better and bring more love to our relationships and our world?

What can an 18th century religious revival teach us about the Super Bowl?

How do you heal a broken heart?

We will explore a vision of our shared covenant today, a vision that faces the risk, the fear, the uncertainty of life, and offers a path for all of us to return home.

We will explore how Unitarian Universalists have been allies for racial justice in the Civil Rights era of the 1960s and the #BlackLivesMatter movement of today.

We will trace the history of the flaming chalice from its origins in the radical reformation through today as the official logo of our faith.

How might Unitarian Universalism need to change in order to serve our changing country?

We will hold a brief Sunday service, followed by a service project. Please bring in any old computers to donate to computer literacy training.

We will host our co-religionists from the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Southwest Michigan, to remember the stories of a 1914 truce and the stories of the first Christmas.

During this contemplative service we will mark the longest night of the year.

Join us for this all-ages intergenerational service.

Come, enjoy a special service filled with seasonal songs and old favorites.

We will gather to ponder family and charity.

How might we be receivers and creators of grace in this world?

Why do we tell the stories we tell and how might we harness the power of our stories to create a more promising future?

We will hear the story of New Jersey farmer, Thomas Potter in what has been called a Unitarian Universalist miracle story.

How do we live in times of impending crisis, without being in despair or in denial?

What does the declaration of “the end of religion” mean for spiritual communities in the 21st century?

Submit questions to Rev. Rachel, who will answer as many as she can during the time usually set aside for the sermon.

We will explore our obligations to the children within our community and in the the wider world.

Why do bad things happen to good people, particularly us?

Rev. Rachel will share a story about her time in Syria, and reflect on how we might engage the spiritual practice of hospitality in our lives and in our congregation.

We’ll explore an address Ralph Waldo Emerson made to Harvard Divinity School in 1838 and what challenge it might hold for contemporary Unitarian Universalists.

All are invited to bring water from a special place. We’ll join our waters together in a common bowl, as we all join together to form this church community.

What do you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

What does it mean for us, as Unitarian Universalists, when our heroes reveal their flaws? Rev. Rachel will be with us to discuss.

Lynetta Carnes will help us explore the way choices, perceptions and relationships may be changed or better understood by using intuition to “feel” into situations rather than simply “analyzing” them.