What if the world ended here, around a table, sharing a meal? Let’s celebrate the bonds of love and community and the way our shared human experiences create the whole world.

9:15 AM All Ages Service (in person only)

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

Facilitated Drop-In Small Reflection Groups for Adults

New Location! Fessenden Hall

Religious Education for Children and Youth

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This Week’s Wondering Questions:

1. According to poet Joy Harjo, it’s at the family dinner table that “children are given instructions on what it means to be human”. What did you learn about being human around your family’s table?
2. What are the Thanksgiving traditions that you grew up with? Is there a particular Thanksgiving practice that holds great meaning for you in the life you’re living now

11:00 AM A Multi-platform, Traditional Service (in-person and Zoom)

Led by Rev. Kristina Church, Director of Music Ministries Emily Hall, and Director of Religious Education Colleen Thoele, with special guests Elaine Bowen and Patricia McLoughlin, musical guest Alicia Patrice, and the KentUU Peace Choir.

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Services offered in Hobbs Hall.

Join us as we mourn the people we have lost in the last year to anti-trans violence, as we reflect on our gratitude for the trans people in our lives through whom we are made more whole, and as we reaffirm our fierce, unshakable love for trans people.

Led by Rev. Kristina Church and DRE Colleen Thoele.

Facilitated Drop-In Small Reflection Groups for Adults

New Location! Fessenden Hall

Religious Education for Children and Youth

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This Week’s Wondering Questions:

1. Do you have an identity or quality that makes you “not fit in” to the world? How might that be a gift to the world? 
2. What is one thing you can do to protect and take care of that part of yourself? 
3. Today we are centering our trans community members. What is a gift that you (if you are trans or non-binary), or a trans person in your life gives to the world that you are grateful for?  What can you do to protect and take care of yourself or the trans people in your life?

11:00 AM A Multi-platform, Traditional Service (in-person and Zoom)

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

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All services are being offered in Hobbs Hall.

Led by Rev. Kristina Church and Affiliated Community Minister Rev. Renee Ruchotzke.

Facilitated Drop-In Small Reflection Groups for Adults

New Location! Fessenden Hall

Religious Education for Children and Youth

See the latest schedule and locations.

This Week’s Wondering Questions:

1. During your growing up years, how did you observe people caring for one another?
2. What practices do you have that help you to be in a difficult or overwhelming situation?

11:00 AM A Multi-platform, Traditional Service (in-person and Zoom)

Led by Rev. Kristina Church, Affiliated Community Minister Rev. Renee Ruchotzke, and Worship Associate Dani Beale.

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One service only at 11 AM in Hobbs Hall led by Emily Hall and Worship Associate Dani Beale.

Everyone carries a light of wisdom. Some of the wisdom we gain over time and some are gifts given to us by other light bearers. Join us as we consider all the sources of light and wisdom in our community.

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Please note: There will be NO Children’s RE or Adult RE Reflection circles at 10:00am this Sunday.

All services are being offered in Hobbs Hall.

How can congregations meet this moment – the national political context, the hunger for meaning, the epidemic of loneliness, the crisis for parents, – with bravery, curiosity, and creativity?  This moment is fraught with danger and potential.  So much is at stake.  Yet, our history, present, and collective covenant can guide us as we answer this summons.

9:15 AM All Ages Service (in person only)

Led by Rev. Kristina Church and DRE Colleen Thoele.

Facilitated Drop-In Small Reflection Groups for Adults

New Location! Fessenden Hall

Religious Education for Children and Youth

See the latest schedule and locations.

This Week’s Wondering Questions:

1. Think of a time that you stepped out of your comfort zone to do something brave. How did you feel beforehand? How did you feel afterward?
2. What strengths or beliefs do you think will continue to be important in the days to come? What are strengths or beliefs that may longer serve you?

11:00 AM A Multi-platform, Traditional Service (in-person and Zoom)

Led by guest minister Rev. Dr. Matthew Johnson and Affiliated Minister Rev. Renee Ruchotzke.

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Services are offered in Hobbs Hall.

As Unitarian Universalists, we are called to be protectors and keepers of all that helps life on our planet to thrive. How can ancient and modern Indigenous ways of knowing teach all of us how to safeguard the world’s most precious resource?

9:15 AM All Ages Service (in person only)

Led by Rev. Kristina Church and DRE Colleen Thoele

Facilitated Drop-In Small Reflection Groups for Adults

New Location! Fessenden Hall

Religious Education for Children and Youth

See the latest schedule and locations.

This Week’s Wondering Questions:

1. Share a time in your life when you felt connected or nurtured by the natural world or by a gift that someone shared with you.
2. What’s something you have an abundance of to share with your community?
3. Reflect on a time when you shared a gift or service and you received what you needed as well.

11:00 AM A Multi-platform, Traditional Service (in-person and Zoom)

Led by Rev. Kristina Church and Worship Associate Randy Bish.

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Services are offered in Hobbs Hall.

Human imperfection is a given. Our response to this is our choice. How can we respond to ourselves and others with compassion and grace and love? And embrace our full selves? And be a blessing to one another on life’s journey?

9:15 AM All Ages Service (in person only)

Led by DRE Colleen Thoele and Director of Music Ministries Emily Hall. Reflection by Mike Hovancsek.

Facilitated Drop-In Small Reflection Groups for Adults

New Location! Fessenden Hall

Religious Education for Children and Youth

See the latest schedule and locations.

This Week’s Wondering Questions:

1. What do you believe about failure? What did you learn about failure growing up? How can we help create a community where failure is understood more deeply, accepted, and celebrated?
2. Reflect on a time when failure led to something beautiful or helpful.

11:00 AM A Multi-platform, Traditional Service (in-person and Zoom)

Led by Commissioned Lay Minister Kathy Kerns and Worship Associate Affiliated Minister Rev. Christie Anderson along with Dir. of Religious Edication Colleen Thoele and Dir. of Music Ministries Emily Hall.

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Services held in Hobbs Hall.

Throughout our long history UU congregations have been charged with choosing their own ministers. Based on the congregation knowing and owning its own course of ministry to the church and the community, the congregation searches for that minister who can partner with them: challenging, comforting, supporting, working alongside them. Calling a minister is one of our greatest responsibilities and joys.

9:15 AM All Ages Service (in person only)

Led by DRE Colleen Thoele and Director of Music Ministries Emily Hall.

Facilitated Drop-In Small Reflection Groups for Adults

New Location! Fessenden Hall

Religious Education for Children and Youth

See the latest schedule and locations.

This Week’s Wondering Questions:

1. Describe a wonderful leader you have experienced. What qualities did they have? How did they make you feel?
2. Describe a time when you were included (or excluded) from an important decision? How could it have happened differently?

11:00 AM A Multi-platform, Traditional Service (in-person and Zoom)

Led by Rev. Elaine Strawn, Deb Celinski and Worship Associate CLM Kathy Kerns

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Services held in Hobbs Hall.

Our new articulation of Unitarian Universalist values is much more than a vision of the ideal world we long to see. It’s also instructions for how to move closer to bringing that vision about. Its interlocking covenants remind us how we are called to act, everywhere we go. Let’s explore those covenants, visions, and values, together.

9:15 AM All Ages Service (in person only)

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

Facilitated Drop-In Small Reflection Groups for Adults

New Location! Fessenden Hall

This is an opportunity for members, friends, and visitors to reflect and share on wondering questions based on the day’s sermon topic. Everyone (including first-time visitors) is welcome to drop in and join us in Hobbs Hall for this small group connection time.

Religious Education for Children and Youth

See the latest schedule and locations.

This Week’s Wondering Questions:

In Unitarian Universalism, we use the core values of Justice, Equity, Transformation, Pluralism, Interdependence, and Generosity– with LOVE at the center– to help us determine what our actions in the world should be. 

1. If you were ever in a complicated situation where it wasn’t clear what you should do, how did you decide? (If not, can you imagine such a scenario and how you might resolve it?) Are there important values/principles that you’d call upon (such as honesty, respect, compassion, etc., or any of the ones mentioned above) to help you figure it out?
2. Looking at your own life, what values would you say are at the center of who you are? (They may be the same as or different from the UU ones.) How do these personal core values guide your choices in life?

11:00 AM A Multi-platform, Traditional Service (in-person and Zoom)

Led by Rev. Kristina Church and Worship Associate Dani Beale with Director of Music Ministries Emily Hall.

CLICK HERE to view or print the Order of Service.

Services held in Hobbs Hall.

Experience the transformative power of collective music making with Gabriel Odhiambo Oduor, our friend and musician from the group Kenge Kenge. Kenge Kenge is a group of Kenyan musicians who travel the globe bringing the joy of African music and story telling with them wherever they go.  Come join us for a spiritual musical experience of drums, singing, and connection!  

9:15 AM All Ages Service (in person only)

Led by Gabriel Odhiambo Oduor of Kenge Kenge, DRE Colleen Thoele and Director of Music Ministries Emily Hall.

Facilitated Drop-In Small Reflection Groups for Adults

New Location! Fessenden Hall

This is an opportunity for members, friends, and visitors to reflect and share on wondering questions based on the day’s sermon topic. Everyone (including first-time visitors) is welcome to drop in and join us in Hobbs Hall for this small group connection time.

Religious Education for Children and Youth

See the latest schedule and locations.

This Week’s Wondering Questions:

1. What do you need to feel belonging? Where do you find belonging?
2. Share about a time when music or rhythm helped make you feel more connected to those around you. How did your experience make you feel? What else creates similar feelings in you?
3. Describe a time that you risked sharing your authentic self that led to a deeper feeling of belonging.

11:00 AM A Multi-platform, Traditional Service (in-person and Zoom)

Led by Gabriel Odhiambo Oduor of Kenge Kenge with Director of Music Ministries Emily Hall and Worship Associate Kathy Kerns.

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Services held in Hobbs Hall.

On this day dedicated to equanimity and peace, let’s remember that our efforts to heal a world in pain must begin from a centered and grounded place. How can we find our own balance, in a world that seems to be teetering out of control?

9:15 AM All Ages Service (in person only)

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

Facilitated Drop-In Small Reflection Groups for Adults

New Location! Fessenden Hall

This is an opportunity for members, friends, and visitors to reflect and share on wondering questions based on the day’s sermon topic. Everyone (including first-time visitors) is welcome to drop in and join us in Hobbs Hall for this small group connection time.

Religious Education for Children and Youth

See the latest schedule and locations.

This Week’s Wondering Questions:

1. What is one thing that is currently stressing you out?
2. What is one thing that you do to find peace when you are stressed out?
   What is a second thing that you might do?

11:00 AM A Multi-platform, Traditional Service (in-person and Zoom)

Led by Rev. Kristina Church and Worship Associate Dani B. with Director of Music Ministries Emily Hall.

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10 AM in Hobbs Hall led by Rev. Kristina Church and DRE Colleen Thoele with Director of Music Ministries Emily Hall.

In a time of chaos, our faith traditions offer solace and strength. Come, join us for Ingathering and Water Communion 2025. Let the waters flow and let the people gather, here at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Kent, for our 157th year of faithful community.

Please bring a small amount of water from your home, recent hike, or summer travels to participate in the Water Communion. Water will be available for all.

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Join us for social hour after the service! Sign up to bring a snack.

10:00 AM in Hobbs Hall led by Rev. Kristina Church, Director of Religious Education Colleen Thoele, Director of Music Ministries Emily Hall, Connections Coordinator Renee Ruchotzke and special guests Becky Cline, Don Gregg, and Dana Wakefield.

This service will be followed by our Connections Fair, an opportunity to learn about the various ministries of the church, update your information in the church directory, and enjoy some refreshments!

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10:00 AM in Hobbs Hall led by Rev. Kristina Church

In 2024, delegates to our yearly national gathering, UU General Assembly, voted to adopt a new foundational statement about the core tenets of our faith. This set of interlocking covenants, sometimes known as “Article II”, sets out broad aspirations for how UUs are called to live into our highest values. What happened to the Seven/Eight Principles? What does it all mean for UUs, and our congregations? Join us for an exploration of the Living Tradition known as Unitarian Universalism!

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10 AM in Hobbs Hall led by Rev. Kristina Church and Worship Associate Ashley Bores

Join us, as we explore how creativity can be found in an increasingly difficult world!

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