Upcoming Services
The Fellowship is open
In-person services have resumed with social distancing, and masks required, with the hybrid Zoom option provided. Children's Religious Education has also resumed in person. The children start out in Friendship Hall at 10:30 and then, after chalice lighting, go to the Sunday school room with their teacher.
In-person services have resumed with social distancing, and masks required, with the hybrid Zoom option provided. Children's Religious Education has also resumed in person. The children start out in Friendship Hall at 10:30 and then, after chalice lighting, go to the Sunday school room with their teacher.
This Sunday, September 25:
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10:30 am Service:  Image: Random Acts of Kindness Foundation
Practice Random Acts of Kindness
Sermon by Rev. Paul Johnson Very likely you've seen or heard this phrase over the years. It originated in the early 1980's when Ann Herbert wrote it down on a Sausalito restaurant placement (with the additional words "and senseless acts of beauty"). An impressed fellow diner shared it with a local newspaper and it eventually found its way to the national press. Books were written on the theme and Oprah did a show on it. It has left the national spotlight in recent years, so I want to revive it because I find it an inspiring aspect of my Unitarian Universalist journey. Rev. Dr. Paul S. Johnson holds the Doctor of Ministry, and Doctor of Divinity degrees from Meadville/Lombard Theological School in Chicago, and has served Unitarian Universalist congregations in MN, MD, VA, NJ, and NY. After leaving his last settled ministry at the Shelter Rock Unitarian Universalist Congregation on Long Island, he assumed his present position as developmental minister at the Treasure Coast Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Stuart, FL. He has served his denomination as president of the Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association, as a member of the Unitarian Universalist Association's Commission on Social Witness, and as a board member of Meadville/Lombard. His wife, Carol Rowan, recently retired after a 33 year career as a clinical social worker with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. After serving the Stuart congregation as developmental minister for four years, Paul was an interim minister in Jacksonville for one year and for the past year has been with the Unitarian Universalist congregation in West Melbourne. |
Music 
Stephen Downen, choir director, keyboard, soloist, Amy Rosebush, keyboard.
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Children's Religious Education:
The children will start off in Friendship Hall at 10:30 with their parents and participate in the chalice lighting, followed by their Opening Affirmation. Then they will go with the Youth Religious Education teacher down to the Sunday school room for their lesson. All children between the ages of 3 and 12 are welcome. Read more about our Youth Religious Education program...
October 2:
The Notorious "CBC"
Sermon by Rev Claudia Jimenez
Ministry on the frontier and in our denomination was challenging enough in the 1800s. The resilience and perseverance of women ministers like Rev. Caroline Bartlett Crane ("CBC") despite being shunned by the Boston patriarchy are even more remarkable and heartbreaking. What can we learn in this pandemic time from imaginative, pioneer women ministers who were nurturing families, making church more welcoming and promoting community engagement?
The Rev. Claudia Jiménez serves as Minister of Faith Development at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville in NC. She is a frequent speaker at our Fellowship.
The Notorious "CBC"
Sermon by Rev Claudia Jimenez
Ministry on the frontier and in our denomination was challenging enough in the 1800s. The resilience and perseverance of women ministers like Rev. Caroline Bartlett Crane ("CBC") despite being shunned by the Boston patriarchy are even more remarkable and heartbreaking. What can we learn in this pandemic time from imaginative, pioneer women ministers who were nurturing families, making church more welcoming and promoting community engagement?
The Rev. Claudia Jiménez serves as Minister of Faith Development at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville in NC. She is a frequent speaker at our Fellowship.
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If closed captions would help you access our Zoom meetings, you can enable this feature for yourself. Anyone can have this feature, free. Just go to
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/207279736-Closed-captioning-and-live-transcription
to learn more. We hope this will increase accessibility and participation in Zoom meetings.