Let’s explore the spiritual possibilities inherent in the world of sound! With special guests, the Illuminati Ensemble of the Columbus Gay Men’s Chorus, who use their musical gifts to create inclusive sacred space, where all humans know and feel that we’re whole, holy, and loved.

9:15 AM Service — meeting in the Church Sanctuary (in person only)

Led by Rev. Kristina Church, DRE Colleen Thoele, and Director of Music Ministries Emily Hall.

Religious Education for Children and Youth

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Facilitated Drop-In Small Reflection Groups for Adults

Location: Fessenden Hall

This Week’s Wondering Questions:

1. Growing up, what kinds of responses to music were acceptable in your culture? Were there some kinds of musical expression or appreciation that were considered too loud, bold, or exuberant for a religious setting? Has that changed for you over time?
2. How can we best embrace our value of Pluralism, and its inherent sense of multiple possibilities, in our music here at Kent UU?

11:00 AM Service — meeting in Hobbs Hall and on Zoom

Led by Rev. Kristina Church and Worship Associate Kevyn Breedon

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9:15 AM Service — Celebrating Transgender Day of Visibility

Led by Rev. Kristina Church and DRE Colleen Thoele meeting in the Church Sanctuary (in person only)

Religious Education for Children and Youth

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Facilitated Drop-In Small Reflection Groups for Adults

Location: Fessenden Hall

This Week’s Wondering Questions:

1. What is something about yourself that you wish people didn’t ask you about.

2. What is something about yourself that you wish people were curious about?

11:00 AM Service — Snapshots from Transylvania

Led by CLM Kathy Kerns and Worship Associate Randy Bish in Hobbs Hall and on Zoom.

The Unitarian Church emerged in Transylvania. Last summer, I (Kathy K.) visited the region with members from the West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church as they made their yearly trip to Romania to connect with their partner congregation in Bagyon. Based on experiences from that trip, this service will share about our roots as a faith, the current Unitarian Church in Transylvania, and the message of resilience they exemplify.

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By living into our vision of the Beloved Community as a congregation, we are creating an “island of sanity” in a wider world that seems more and more chaotic. How can we be intentional in building that resilience as a community?

Stay after the 11:00 service for an all-church brunch that will be the official kick-off to our annual “program fund” stewardship campaign for next year’s operating budget. 

9:15 AM Service — meeting in the Church Sanctuary (in person only)

Led by Rev. Kristina Church, DRE Colleen Thoele, and Director of Music Ministries Emily Hall.

Religious Education for Children and Youth

See the latest schedule and locations.

Facilitated Drop-In Small Reflection Groups for Adults

Location: Fessenden Hall

This Week’s Wondering Questions:

1. With so much of our world seeming fragile and on the brink of collapse, do you still have faith that humanity will be resilient?  If saving the world seems no longer within reach, how might creating islands of sanity be a road back to hope?
2. What if resilience is not about holding tight against the wind, but letting go and trusting the wind? What do you need in order to trust life to take you where you need to go next?

11:00 AM Service — meeting in Hobbs Hall and on Zoom

Led by Rev. Kristina Church and Rev Renee Ruchotzke

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9:15 AM Service — The Oneness of Everything

Led by Rev. Kristina Church, DRE Colleen Thoele and Dir. of Music Emily Hall — meeting in the Church Sanctuary (in person only)

Religious Education for Children and Youth

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Facilitated Drop-In Small Reflection Groups for Adults

Location: Fessenden Hall

This Week’s Wondering Questions:

1. The Gaia theory states that every part of Earth–plants, animals, minerals, etc.–  plays a part in a holistic, complex, self-regulating system that supports all life. How does this relate to our UU core value of Interdependence, and how do you see yourself as an essential part of the whole?
2. Have you ever given your attention so deeply to something that you suddenly felt one with it?  How did the experience change you?

11:00 AM Service — Gaia, Mother Earth and the Oneness of Everything

A worship service with musician Jim Scott meeting in Hobbs Hall and on Zoom

Jim intersperses original songs and readings with his personal reflections on a spiritual ecological awareness. The idea of Mother Earth or “Gaia” being a living organism with the same physical attributes as humans connects us with our life support system. Our “spiritual response” is so needed  now, as “the spirit of life on earth is in crisis.” Jim’s uplifting songs provide the balance to the wake up call, leaving participants with a vision and inspiration to take the healing into our own hands.    

From his work with the Paul Winter Consort, where he was co-composer of their celebrated Missa Gaia/Earth Mass Jim has long been an activist for peace and the Earth with his music. Jim’s songs are in our UU Hymnbooks and he’s visited over 700 UU churches. Former Co-chair of the UU Ministry for the Earth, Jim helped create the “Green Sanctuary” program and his “Earth and Spirit Songbook,” supported by a grant from the Fund for Unitarian Universalism, has been widely acclaimed by UU congregations.

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For this Women’s History Month service, we’re going way back – to the women of early Christianity. We’ll find out what their lives and religion were really like, and how they might have been surprised by the way Christianity looks today.  Join us – and meet Thecla, Phoebe, Lydia and other women who were erased from history!

9:15 AM Service — meeting in the Church Sanctuary (in person only)

Led by Rev. Renee Rucotzke and Director of Music Ministries Emily Hall.

Religious Education for Children and Youth

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Facilitated Drop-In Small Reflection Groups for Adults

Location: Fessenden Hall

This Week’s Wondering Questions:

1. The contributions of women and nonbinary leaders so often get erased, forgotten, or minimized when the “official” story gets told. What can/should we as UUs do to counteract inaccurate or incomplete cultural/historical narratives that flatten the fullness of reality?
2. Has paying close attention ever led you to an encounter with the holy, however you may define it?

11:00 AM Service — meeting in Hobbs Hall and on Zoom

Led by Katie Grigg-Miller and Worship Associate Rev. Kristina Church.

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The service will explore how language like “woke”(once rooted in awareness and care) has been distorted and weaponized. Reclaiming wakefulness as a sacred act of love rather than a label or division, and what it means to be truly alive to the world around us, to refuse apathy, and to practice mutual care.

9:15 AM Service — meeting in the Church Sanctuary (in person only)

Led by Kate Starks, Chris Hook, and Worship Associate Rev. Renee Rucotzke.

Religious Education for Children and Youth

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Facilitated Drop-In Small Reflection Groups for Adults

Location: Fessenden Hall

This Week’s Wondering Questions:

Think back to a time when you felt eager to learn, share, or get involved with a certain cause or issue, but you were labeled as “too sensitive,” “too woke,” or maybe “too political.” What was that experience like for you?

1. In contrast to moments when you may have felt shut down and dismissed, share a time when being “awake” and involved actually made you feel alive—a moment with a group of people that reminded you that you are meant to be right here.
2. How has this overall experience changed how you show up for your friends, families, and communities now?

11:00 AM Service — meeting in Hobbs Hall and on Zoom

Led by Kate Starks, Chris Hook, and Worship Associate Rev. Renee Rutchotzke.

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Our dominant culture teaches “tough-it-out” maxims like what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger and no pain, no gain. Yet research at the frontier of epigenetic and trauma studies is forming a very different picture of what really constitutes resilience. How do adverse experiences actually impact our bodies and minds? What’s the biological price paid for survival under terrible circumstances? And how should UUs respond to the multigenerational damage done by our society’s endemic inequality?

9:15 AM Service — meeting in the Church Sanctuary (in person only)

Led by Rev. Kristina Church, worship associate Becky Haines, and Dir. of Religious Education Colleen Thoele.

Religious Education for Children and Youth

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Facilitated Drop-In Small Reflection Groups for Adults

Location: Fessenden Hall

This Week’s Wondering Questions:

1. What do you know about having to hide parts of yourself to survive or get by? Have you been able to invite those parts back into the world later in life?
2. Our culture promotes and celebrates the path of grit and pushing through no matter the costs. Have you ever resisted that, and saved yourself by courageously quitting, walking away, or letting go?

11:00 AM Service — meeting in Hobbs Hall and on Zoom

Led by Rev. Kristina Church and Worship Associate Becky Cline.

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Our Universalist heritage offers us a vision of being held in the boundless love of God. Modern Unitarian Universalists speak of putting Love at the Center, but what do we mean by that, exactly? On this Valentines Day weekend, let’s take a deep dive into the theological concept of Love. How can we live this value in our daily lives, and give it its rightful place at the heart of our UU faith?

9:15 AM Service — meeting in the Church Sanctuary (in person only)

Led by Rev. Kristina Church, worship associate Dani Beale, and Dir. of Music Ministries Emily Hall.

Religious Education for Children and Youth

See the latest schedule and locations.

Facilitated Drop-In Small Reflection Groups for Adults

Location: Fessenden Hall

This Week’s Wondering Questions:

1. How has beauty been a source of survival and resilience for you? Do you think beauty and love are connected, and how so?
2. Wider perspectives infuse us with deeper resilience, enabling us to move beyond the daily stresses and defeats that seem all-important. Tell about a time when you survived by connecting to something larger than your separate self?

11:00 AM Service — meeting in Hobbs Hall and on Zoom

Led by Rev. Kristina Church.

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As a congregation, we’re blessed when visitors come, seeking a supportive space for their unique spiritual journeys. We’re deeply affirmed when they choose to become members: bringing new ideas and approaches; sharing their one-of-a-kind, irreplaceable gifts; increasing our capacity to serve justice; and bringing more opportunities to care for each other! What do new and longtime members need to grow and thrive here? How can we be a religious home worthy of their faith and trust?

9:15 AM Service — meeting in the Church Sanctuary (in person only)

Led by Rev. Kristina Church, DRE Colleen Thoele, and Dir. of Music Ministries Emily Hall, and Malachi Stevens.

9:45am Adult “Justice January” Program in Fessenden Hall

Location: Fessenden Hall

From Values to Action: Mapping and Networking

Rescheduled from Sunday, January 25

Where is good work already happening and how do we connect to it?

Religious Education for Children and Youth

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11:00 AM Service — meeting in Hobbs Hall and on Zoom

Led by Rev. Kristina Church, DRE Colleen Thoele, and Dir. of Music Ministries Emily Hall, Malachi Stevens and the membership committee.

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Come and find out what our youth have to say about the times that they are growing up in. As Justice January comes to a close, our children and youth will lead this service and share their experiences as kids in an ever escalating and tumultuous time. Are we ready to listen? Are we ready to follow their lead?

9:15 AM Chapel Service — meeting in the Church Sanctuary (in person only)

Led by Director of Religious Education Colleen Thoele and our UU Church of Kent Youth.

Facilitated Drop-In Small Reflection Groups for Adults

Location: Fessenden Hall

Religious Education for Children and Youth

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This Week’s Wondering Questions:

11:00 AM Service — meeting in Hobbs Hall and on Zoom

Led by Director of Religious Education Colleen Thoele and our UU Church of Kent Youth.

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As we move through Justice January, determined to learn and practice resistance to the injustices happening around us, we honor the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who reminded us that children and youth can be powerful advocates for the world we long to see. Even if we fear for their safety, children and youth are helping to imagine, form, and influence the world we live in. How can we empower them to dream and work for a better society, while honoring their right to a safe place to grow?

9:15 AM Service — meeting in the Church Sanctuary (in person only)

Led by Rev. Kristina Church, Director of Religious Education Colleen Thoele, and Director of Music Ministries Emily Hall.

Facilitated Drop-In Small Reflection Groups for Adults

Location: Fessenden Hall

Religious Education for Children and Youth

See the latest schedule and locations.

This Week’s Wondering Questions:

11:00 AM Service — meeting in Hobbs Hall and on Zoom

Led by Rev. Kristina Church and Worship Associate Dani Beale.

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The many injustices of 2025 have caused each of us to navigate difficult questions in our never-ending pursuit of liberty and justice for all. Join us as we consider the work of Unitarian Universalists past, present, and future who inspire us to act according to our most deeply held values, even in times when siding with love might involve breaking the rules or taking risks.

9:15 AM Service — meeting in person only in the Church Sanctuary

Led by Rev. Kristina Church and Worship Associate Kevyn Breedon

Facilitated Drop-In Small Reflection Groups for Adults

Location: Fessenden Hall

Religious Education for Children and Youth

See the latest schedule and locations.

This Week’s Wondering Questions:

11:00 AM Service — meeting in Hobbs Hall and on Zoom

Led by Rev. Kristina Church and Worship Associate Kevyn Breedon.

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One all-ages service, only at 11:00 AM in Hobbs Hall led by Affiliated Community Minister Rev. Christie Anderson and Worship Associate Kevyn Breedon.

Release your sorrows and celebrate the future as we gather in a traditional New Orleans burial and “cutting loose” of the recently-departed Year 2025. Feel the full circle of life in a music-filled worship service with the Tarnished Brass playing traditional New Orleans tunes of mourning and new life.

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