Sunday Service

How do we respect the autonomy of those we love when they make choices that we disagree with?

In this intergenerational service, we will celebrate the joy that animals bring to our lives.

What does it mean to be a beloved community?

How does the story of Jesus relate to our UU principles?

What spiritual preparations can we take now to keep ourselves calm in a crisis?

How can People’s Church be a place for internal and larger scale transformation?

We will explore why it might be worthwhile for UUs to turn or return to the Bible as a source of wisdom.

Please bring water in a small container from a place that is important to you to pour into our collective bowl.

Cybelle Shattuck will speak about overcoming challenges.

Allen Webb will speak about overcoming challenges.

Paul LaDuca will speak about overcoming challenges.

Rev. Rachel will speak about overcoming challenges.

Cylis Snow will speak about overcoming challenges.

Darryl Loiacano will speak about loss, renewal, and hope.

Mike Pritchard will speak about overcoming challenges.

Rev. Rachel will speak about overcoming challenges.

Nicky Leigh will speak about overcoming challenges.

Laura MacLellan will speak about overcoming challenges.

Kelly Henderson will speak about overcoming challenges.

Rev. Rachel will talk about overcoming challenges.

We will hold our annual flower service. Please bring a flower to church.

Our high school seniors will share their reflections on what growing up at People’s Church has meant to them.

Join us for this day of remembrance.

Our 8th and 9th grade Coming of Age class will be leading this Sunday service.

Our 8th and 9th grade Coming of Age class will be leading this Sunday service.

Kevin DeBeck will show some of Dr. Seuss’s work to illustrate why the term “America First” is as dangerous today as it was 70 years ago.

We will explore why Unitarian Universalism may be more needed now than ever.

Enjoy the story of Gluscabi as he and grandmother muskrat demonstrate how to live in balance and harmony with our mother earth.

Bring your ears and your voice to our interactive spring music service.

We will explore how the heartbreak calls us into community and into action.

On this Easter Sunday, we will celebrate new life and resurrection through readings and song.

Our annual Poetry Service will explore the bond of human experience through spoken and written word.

Rev. Rachel and People’s people will reflect on the great things happening at People’s Church.

In this service, we will explore Persian Muslim mystic poets and the mystic approach to religious knowing.

The word ‘Islam’ literally means ‘submission’ or ‘surrender.’ What might we learn from engaging with these ideas?

People’s people will share what they do to stay woke, stay present, and stay engaged.

How can men join the #MeToo conversation as allies?

We will explore stories from The Zhuangzi, one of the core texts of Taoism.

We’ll explore how we might incorporate the wisdom of water, spontaneity, and flow into our lives.

Bring you questions and Rev. Rachel will do her best to answer them on-the-spot during the service.

Rev. Fred Campbell will share a sermon based on Isaac’s trip to the sacred mountain.

This Sunday, we will celebrate this edict, which granted religious freedom to Catholics, Lutherans, Calvinists and Unitarians.

At this turning of the year, we will explore how we might move forward into a brighter year.

We will gather together to reflect on our learnings from the year.

We will retell the Christmas story in song, poetry and prose.

We will mark the winter solstice with song, story, ritual, and reflection.

We will discuss Jesus’s parable about The Good Samaritan.

Music selections will include holiday favorites and other pieces that capture the aspirations of the season.

For this service, all are invited to be in The Commons for the whole service.

Korea is the most Confucian culture in the world. How has its history manifested in its current approach to world affairs?

What can Confucianism teach us about relationships?

How can the emphasis of learning found in Confucianism spur on moral development?

If you could design a worship service from scratch, what might it look like?

How might we better live into our values of love, justice, and respect for the inherent worth of all people?

How do we distinguish between what is true and the experiences, language, teachers, and texts that help us learn what is true?

Rev. Dannison is the Senior Minister of the First Congregational Church and is a fierce advocate of social justice and benevolent localism.

Director of Religious Education Diane Melvin will share how the daily religious practice of meditation and Lojong has been transformative in her life.

Let us celebrate and bless the animals in our lives and in our world.

Rev. Rachel will share the story of Arjuna from The Bhagavad Gita, a sacred Hindu text.

What wisdom does Hinduism hold for us about aging?

Please bring a small container of water to join together in this intergenerational 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.

Rev. Rachel will share stories from the UUA General Assembly that took place in New Orleans this past June.

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.

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.

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.