Sunday, July 31, 2022 at 10 AM
A multi-platform service led by Don and Jennifer Gregg with Worship Associate Elaine Bowen.
As Unitarian Universalist we regard service as one of our highest values. We will explore how we live this principle and how we can integrate service into our individual and family lives.
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Sunday, July 24, 2022 at 10 AM.
A Zoom only service led by Randy Bish and Heidi Shaffer Bish.
A UU spiritual path can be inspired by many sources, including wisdom from the world’s religions, music, movement and story. Randy Bish and Heidi Shaffer Bish will share sources of their own chosen paths with the help of some special guest artists.
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Sunday, July 17, 2022 at 10 AM.
A multi-platform service led by Kathy Walker and Saul Flanner.
Stories are at the heart of all of our services, but our hope for this service is to consider the importance of storytelling as spiritual practice. Family stories connect us to those we’ve lost, teach us who we are and what we value, and give us new understanding. Together, let us embrace storytelling as a way to live our UU principles, build family strengths and recognize our shared humanity. We hope to see you there!
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Sunday, July 10, 2022 at 10 AM
A multi-platform service led by Rev. Renee Ruchotzke.
What does it mean to build Beloved Community when we don’t have a common identity? Creating a sense of belonging among diverse people takes intention and practice. We will explore ways we can transform our understanding of inclusion by engaging with our assumptions about what binds us together.
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Sunday, July 3, 2022 at 10 AM
A multi-platform service led by Vivien Sandlund with Worship Associate Heidi Emhoff Wood.
The Declaration of Independence has long been understood to express the principles underlying the experiment that is the American republic: universal liberty and equality. These principles have always been aspirational. Americans have long sought to make liberty and equality real for all. How far have we come, and how do we move ahead to make this vision real? How can we as UUs work to ensure that all people are both free and equal?
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Sunday, June 26, 2022 at 10 AM.
A multiplatform service led by CLM Lori Mirkin-McGee and guests musicians Kenge, Kenge.
Here is the description for 6/26:
Kenge Kenge is back at UUCK!! Kenge Kenge is a group of Kenyan musicians who travel the globe bringing the joy of African music with them wherever they go. Come join us for a spiritual musical experience of drums, singing, and connection!
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Sunday, June 19, 2022 at 10 AM
Led by Rev. Christie Anderson with guest poet, guest poet, Mwatabu Okantah (KSU).
Juneteenth is a celebration of the resilience and culture of descendents of the enslaved people from Africa. With this grounding, we welcome guest poet and KSU professor, Mwatabu Okantah who, using poetry, storytelling and narrative, will share his search for identity as “an American from Africa.” We will lift up the importance of examining and understanding one’s identity as an individual within a racial/ethnic group.
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Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 10 AM
A multiplatform service led by Director of Religious Education Colleen Thoele with our UUCK Children and Youth.
This PRIDE Sunday we will gather as a community of all ages to lift up stories of Joy! Hannah Roberts Villnave asks, “Why not Rejoice as we resist? Dance as we demand change? Celebrate as we create a community that delights in all of who we are?” and we couldn’t agree more! Join us Sunday June 12th as we celebrate our communities and share the love that we create when we come together with PRIDE and JOY!
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Sunday, June 5 at 10:00 AM
A multi-platform service led by Lori Mirkin-McGee and Worship Associate Elaine Bowen.
Throughout history, people have turned to art as a means of coping with crises. Whether it be painting, sculpting, writing, or making music, art helps us express and process our deepest emotions and our most true selves. In this service, we will hear from several guests about how and why they turned to art during the pandemic. We will explore what it means to find beauty in the struggle.
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Sunday, May 29, 2022 at 10 AM
Led by Rev. Melissa Carvill-Ziemer and Worship Associate Rev. Steven Protzman
The Unitarian Universalist Church of Kent has a vital purpose in Kent and the larger community. Today as we celebrate your amazing accomplishments as a congregation and dedicate Hobbs Hall, it is a good day to pause and reflect on how Hobbs Hall and all that you have and are together can help you live even more deeply into the living, loving congregation you are called to be.
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Sunday, May 22, 2022 at 10 AM
A multi-platform service led by Rev. Steven Protzman and Worship Associate Eric van Baars.
If you’ve ever used a GPS and missed a turn or gone the wrong way, it will say “recalculating”, letting you know that it’s finding another way. As we have our annual meeting and look back at a year that has been both exciting and challenging, we will reflect on how we’ve recalculated to adapt to changes and how we will continue to need to recalculate to live into this next chapter of our congregation’s life and work.
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Sunday, May 15, 2022 at 10 AM
A multi-platform service led by Director of Religious Education Colleen Thoele and the UUCK Children’s Religious Education Committee.
Rev. Suzelle Lynch writes: “When we join hands to practice compassion, Beauty’s heart blooms like a flower”. Today will be a festive service as we kick off our annual Treats and Talents Auction and celebrate flower communion. The flower communion ritual, created by Norbert Capek in Czechoslovakia in 1923, invites us to help beauty bloom in the world by sharing it with others. Please bring flowers to share for this festive service.
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The service recording is currently unavailable. As soon as it’s available, the podcast will be posted.
Sunday, May 8, 2022 at 10 AM
A multi-platform service led by Rev. Steven Protzman and Worship Associate Elaine Bowen.
Rev. Suzelle Lynch writes: “When we join hands to practice compassion, Beauty’s heart blooms like a flower”. Today will be a festive service as we kick off our annual Treats and Talents Auction and celebrate flower communion. The flower communion ritual, created by Norbert Capek in Czechoslovakia in 1923, invites us to help beauty bloom in the world by sharing it with others. Please bring flowers to share for this festive service.
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Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 10 AM
A multi-platform service led by CLM Kathy Kerns and Worship Associate Heidi Shaffer Bish.
Our culture is often very focused on time, with busyness often treated as a valued state of being. By contrast, Italians practice “Dolce Far Niente”, the sweetness of doing nothing, and spiritual practices like honoring the Sabbath are designed to help us slow down to have the time and space to connect with our values and to the people and the world around us. This service explores the wisdom and benefits of adopting idleness, or as the sweetness of doing nothing, as a spiritual practice.
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Sunday, April 24, 2022 at 11 AM
A multi-platform service led by Director of Religious Education Colleen Thoele and our UUCK Children and Youth.
DUE TO A POWER OUTAGE, THE SUNDAY SERVICE IS DELAYED AND WILL BEGIN AT 11 AM.
Our Unitarian Universalist principles affirm that, from fruit flies to giant sequoia trees, all life is interwoven and interconnected. That interdependence moves us to a sense of awe and invites us to care for the life that moves among us. Today as a community of all generations, we will celebrate the web of life and recommit ourselves to the care and keeping of our precious Earth home.
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