Sunday, December 3, 11a.m. In-Person and Online “Good King Wenceslas: A Millenia Later, Yet A Role Model Still” Lisa Row Wenceslas embodied three qualities we would do well to emulate today: attentiveness, compassion, and humility. In this service, I will offer ideas for how we might use compassion in our interactions with people we encounter.
Sunday, December 10, 11a.m. In-Person and Online "What is Church?" Lori A. Crockett, M. Ed The question of what a church is, and more specifically, what our UU church is, will be explored during our Sunday, December 10 service. We will be asked to examine our own definitions of church, to ask ourselves what the word “church”...
Text Divider Sunday, December 17, 11a.m. In-Person and Online "Stewardship vs. Pledge Drive" Robert Hurt Every year we have a pledge drive to support the church. Robert Hurt, long time member and chair of the Stewardship committee will explore what is Stewardship and how it is so much more than an annual pledge drive. How...
Sunday, December 24, 11a.m. In-Person and Online "Two Sides to Every Story" Rev. Leah DeLong The Advent and Christmas season is a time filled with stories – stories shared at the family dinner table, at gatherings with friends, and in churches. Have you ever shared a story with a close family member or friend, only...
Sunday, December 31. 11a.m. In-Person and Online "Refresh and Restart" The UUCSV Worship Committee The Worship Committee invites you to welcome 2024. Come participate in walking a labyrinth and setting intentions to start the New Year. Wear socks to walk the labyrinth. Reflect on what is truly important in your life through the practice of setting...
Sunday, January 14, 11a.m. In-Person and Online "Power of Communication" LaTasha Do'zia, Artistic Director of Selah Theatre Project The service will be on the Power of Communication based on a play Tosha wrote "Ruth's Tea Room" Her play takes place in the Ruth's Tea Room a Winchester historical site. See below: Winchester Black History: Ruth's...
Sunday, January 21, 11a.m. In-Person and Online "Swinging Through the Hinge Times" Rev. Janet Onnie If you listen to the daily news you might conclude that things are falling apart. I want to affirm that conclusion. Things – our institutions – ARE falling apart. We are in a hinge time in history; a time that...
Sunday, January 28, 11a.m. In-Person and Online “Time After Time: Part I – Our Aging Bodies” Rev. Adam Lawrence Dyer Through the "march of time" we're faced with ever changing bodies. Our bodies get worn and broken; but they also get better and wiser in some ways. How do we make sense out of it...
Sunday, February 4, 11a.m. In-Person and Online "Taking Off the Blinders" Kim. S. Holbrook, Lay-led Service UUCSV Member Kim S. Holbrook will share her personal story of the beginnings of her Religious Education journey as a lifelong Unitarian & Unitarian-Universalist. She will focus this service on her Unitarian roots, her family influences & what it was like...
Sunday, February 11 11a.m. In-Person and Online "Love is the Spirit" Lisa Row, Lay-led Service How might we extend our love beyond the walls of this church? Radical hospitality and constructive non-violence are essential ingredients for public love. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. believed that love was an absolute necessity for the survival of our...
Sunday, February 18 11a.m. In-Person and Online "Music of the Heart" Sue Tenenbaum, Lay-led Service The Rev. Howard Thurman, speaking of the spirit of Christmas, famously exhorts us to "Make music in the heart." But How? How do we reach our hearts in this era of great distractions? In this service we will not try...
