Event Start Date:10/12/2024Event End Date:10/12/2024Event Venue:How does Nature inspire you? Join fellow Westside members and friends for a morning of music and poetry to honor May Day. Click here to join the livestream of this worship service on Sunday, May 1 at 10:30 am. This worship service will be multi-platform (in person and online). If you are joining us in the sanctuary please read our COVID -19 Guidelines.
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Event Start Date:10/12/2024Event End Date:10/12/2024Event Venue:Now more than ever, Earth needs us to rapidly clean up our sources of energy. Join us for a journey through insights and wisdom that can inspire us to clean up our spiritual energy as well, for the sake of all life on Earth. Our services are now multi-platform! Join us in person in our sanctuary (following our new COVID-19 Guidelines) or online via our YouTube Channel. Click here to join the livestream of this worship service at 10:30 am on Sunday, April 24.
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Event Start Date:10/12/2024Event End Date:10/12/2024Event Venue:This year, Easter Sunday falls on the same week as Earth day! Let us cleanse our hearts and spirits of the heaviness from winter, and celebrate the rebirth that spring time offers us with joyful music. Join Scott Ferrell, our music director, the Westside Strummers, and a plethora of musicians from our community either in our sanctuary or online to soak up the good vibrations. Our services are now multi-platform! Join us in person in our sanctuary (following our new COVID-19 Guidelines) or online via our YouTube Channel. Click here to join the livestream of
Continue readingEvent Start Date:10/12/2024Event End Date:10/12/2024Event Venue:Click here to join the livestream of this worship service at 10:30 am on Sunday, April 10th. Inspired by the hymn, “Gather the Spirit,” the Worship Team and Rainier Reunion will present Westside’s return to hybrid worship, with some members and friends assembling in the Sanctuary and others joining connecting remotely by live stream. At this time of congregational transition, we’ll celebrate our love of gathering and reconnecting through words and song, and will honor the beginning of the Passover. This service will be our return to hybrid worship. We will gather both in the
Continue readingEvent Start Date:10/12/2024Event End Date:10/12/2024Event Venue:Click here to join the livestream of this worship service at 10:30 am on Sunday, March 27th at 10:30 am. As we prepare to return to our Sanctuary on April 3, our community finds itself once again on the threshold of transition, needing to revision the immediate and long arc of our future as a congregation. Our visiting speaker, the Rev. Rachael Hayes, will use the model of the octopus to encourage us to find wholehearted ways to stay engaged, and to find connection by moving from the center out. Order of Service Prelude Call
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Event Start Date:10/12/2024Event End Date:10/12/2024Event Venue:Click here to join the livestream of this worship service at 10:30 am on Sunday, March 20. Kevin Lane-Cummings and other members of the congregation will be speaking about what Westside means to them and why they choose to support our community even during challenging times.
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Event Start Date:10/12/2024Event End Date:10/12/2024Event Venue:Click here to join the livestream of this worship service at 10:30 am on Sunday, March 13. Westside UU Congregation has just joined the statewide, interfaith Faith Action Network (FAN)! What does that mean for you, and for FAN? What can we learn about building community from one another? Elizabeth Dickinson is the Partnership Coordinator with the Faith Action Network. She is passionately committed to justice advocacy and community-building as central dimensions of our sacred being and calling. Contact info is at Elizabeth Dickinson, Partnership Coordinator at FAN Order of Service Prelude Ringing of the
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Event Start Date:10/12/2024Event End Date:10/12/2024Event Venue:Click here to join the livestream of this worship service at 10:30 am on Sunday, March 6. Order of Service Prelude Ringing of the Bell Call to Community: Courage, My Friend Welcome and Invitation Opening Words Chalice Lighting & Congregational Affirmation: Hymn: 1015 I Know I Can Time for All Ages – Charlie’s Best Work Yet, by Ris iRAWniQ Anderson read by Mia Offering: Sound Generations Gift of Music: Fiddle Tune Joys and Sorrows Spiritual Practice Personal Reflection Anthem: Learn to Fly – Mary Grigolia Sermon Sending Hymn: Lead with Love – Melanie DeMore Closing
Continue readingEvent Start Date:10/12/2024Event End Date:10/12/2024Event Venue:Unitarian Universalists sometimes think of ourselves as rebels and individualists, but in fact we LOVE institutions! Throughout our history, we have responded to institutional crises in the larger society by creating new institutions that are aligned with our values. We are called to do the same today. As twentieth century institutions collapse in the face of populism and the pandemic, we can use our love of institutions to bless the world. Click here to join the livestream of this worship service at 10:30am on Sunday, February 27. Order of Service Ringing of the Bell Call
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Event Start Date:10/12/2024Event End Date:10/12/2024Event Venue:Click here to join the livestream of this worship service at 10:30 am on Sunday, February 20th. Order of Service Prelude Ringing of the Bell Call to Community: Everything Hurt is Healed Again (words and music by Starhawk (from Kore’s Chant), arr. Kathleen Tracy Welcome and Invitation Opening Words, Chalice Lighting & Congregational Affirmation: Hymn: Morning Has Come Time for All Ages – Change Sings Offering: Unitarian Universalist Trauma Response Ministry Gift of Music: I Know This Rose Will Open Joys and Sorrows: Personal Reflection Sermon Sending Hymn: A Change is Coming Announcements, Closing
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