06/02/2026 by Shannon Day

RE Celebration Sunday – Rev. Carter Smith, Leilani Davenberry with Rick Taylor

Event Start Date:06/16/2026Event End Date:06/16/2026Event Venue:Music by Scott Farrell and the Westside Chorale Join us for our annual service celebrating our children and youth who are going through transitions this year: entering kindergarten, going into middle or high school, and bridging into adulthood. This is a service full of music and ritual for honoring that our connections bind us together even while we change and transform. We would love to know if your child or youth is going to be starting kindergarten, is entering middle school or high school or is completing high school. Please email dre@wsuu.org so we can

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06/02/2026 by Shannon Day

2026 Annual Meeting – Online

Event Start Date:06/16/2026Event End Date:06/16/2026Event Venue:WSUU Annual Meeting Sunday, June 7th, 10:30 am Online via Zoom Please make plans to join us on Sunday for this year’s annual meeting. At this meeting, we will: Hear updates from our Board and Finance Chair. Vote on the upcoming year’s Board of Trustees, Nominating Committee, budget and an update to our bylaws. A zoom link will be provided on Sunday morning in our usual Sunday newsletter.

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05/12/2026 by Shannon Day

All The Flowers: A Youth-led Service – Rev. Carter Smith with Rick Taylor and Leilani Davenberry & The Westside Youth

Event Start Date:06/16/2026Event End Date:06/16/2026Event Venue:Join us for a service led by our Youth Group on the theme of Pluralism. During this service we will celebrate our annual Flower Communion—please bring a flower to share as we honor the beauty and diversity of our community. A suggested from our worship leaders: the stranger your flower, the better. Our worship theme for May is “Dreaming Forward.” Join this worship service online via our YouTube Channel at 10:30 am on Sunday, May 24th.

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05/06/2026 by Shannon Day

Eco Grief and Beyond – A Whole Congregation Environmental Justice Event

Event Start Date:06/16/2026Event End Date:06/16/2026Event Venue:Sunday, May 17 10:30 am – 12:00 noon Environmental Justice Whole Congregation Event In the Social Hall, coffee and tea provided All of Westside – including families, teens and children – are invited to join Westside’s Environmental Justice Team for Eco Grief and Beyond. “In a safe space, we will explore and share together our pain for the world, its seeming unraveling. In community, we can begin to move from despair and paralysis to feeling strengthened and moved toward action. Let’s meet in the Social Hall from 10:30 am – 12:00 noon for this important

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04/28/2026 by Shannon Day

Mother’s Day for Peace – Rev. Carter Smith with Ellen Macom

Event Start Date:06/16/2026Event End Date:06/16/2026Event Venue:Sunday, May 10th 10:30 am Mother’s Day for Peace Rev. Carter Smith with David Bullington Music by Scott Farrell & the Westside Chorale Join us for a service honoring the radical roots of Mother’s Day. A women’s suffrage activist, abolitionist, and Unitarian, Julia Ward Howe wrote her “Mother’s Day Proclamation” as an outcry about the violence of the wars of her time. Let us invite her wisdom and vision to speak to us today. Our worship theme for May is “Dreaming Forward.”

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04/28/2026 by Shannon Day

Spark Sunday & Potluck

Event Start Date:06/16/2026Event End Date:06/16/2026Event Venue:Sunday, May 3rd Spark Sunday 10:30-12:00 WSUU Social Hall Facilitated by Jade Wilde, Amy Hance-Brancati & Shannon Day Theme: Interdependence: Exploring Asking for Help 10:00 Coffee & conversation 10:30 Spark Activities 12:00 Potluck – No theme or assignments, bring what gives you joy. Safe food handling guidelines. This will be the final Spark Sunday this church year! Please join us! Do you ever sit in the pews during worship services and wish that you knew others in this community better? Do you crave more joy, meaning, and connection in your life? Are you longing for deeper conversations about topics that

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04/13/2026 by Shannon Day

Our Power, Our Planet – Rev. Carter Smith with Ellen Macom & the WSUU Environmental Justice Group

Event Start Date:06/16/2026Event End Date:06/16/2026Event Venue:Music by Scott Farrell & the Chalice Singers An Earth Month celebration with Rev. Carter Smith and the Westside Environmental Justice Group. We honor our abiding connection to the natural world while we grieve the ways our species is failing to live in right relationship with it. We cry out, we sing, we commit to finding moral courage to stay in the work of environmental justice. Our worship theme for April is “Inflorescence.” Click here to join this worship service on our YouTube Channel at 10:30 on Sunday, April 26th.   

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04/13/2026 by Shannon Day

Parent & Caregiver Group & RE Sunday

Event Start Date:06/16/2026Event End Date:06/16/2026Event Venue:Parent & Caregiver Group 10:30 – 12:00 Fireside Room All are welcome to join any or all meetings — no RSVP is necessary. Participants are welcome to park in the church lot or on the street, and to enter through the Social Hall door. RE child and youth programming will be taking place at the same time in the Social Hall.

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03/30/2026 by Shannon Day

Greeting the Dawn: A Spring & Easter Festival – Rev. Carter Smith with Aimee Schiefelbein

Event Start Date:06/16/2026Event End Date:06/16/2026Event Venue:Today we celebrate Easter and Passover, both Spring festivals about hope breaking through in unexpected places. Come gather for this multigenerational service for music, story, and ritual. *Remember to wear your favorite Easter hat for our annual congregational photo in the sanctuary directly following the service. Click here to join this worship service online or see past services on our YouTube Channel.

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