Services at 9:15 & 11:00a
As we welcome new members into our midst, we explore what it means to truly be a Unitarian Universalist. Several longtime UUs will share their stories together with Reverend Nica’s thoughts on the essence of Unitarian Universalism. Join us for this special celebratory service featuring our choir.
Services at 9:15 & 11:00
Mystery is an important part of our spiritual lives. There is so much we cannot and will never know in life. How do we want to interact with the mystery of the unknowable? Do we resist it or can we surrender to it? Join us to explore the mystery.
Memories can be sweet or bitter, and sometimes both. This goes for collective memory, those stories and recollections of a people that provide meaning for us in our culture, and it goes for the individual. Whether we think of a holiday like Thanksgiving and all its ambivalences that we had this week, or whether it’s the remembered experiences that shape us as individuals, our emotional centers bring us back, again and again, to places of joy and pain. Can we use all of them to move into a better place, a place of wholeness and healing?
On this Sunday before Thanksgiving, in the midst of all the turmoil in the Conejo Valley, we turn our attention to the good in our lives. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the challenges we face, especially at this time. It can feel like a daily onslaught, a constant uphill struggle, juggling disasters, illness and stress. So this Sunday, we’ll intentionally shift our perspective to remember all the good we share – the good that has been, is now and is yet to come. Join us to celebrate gratitude as a community.
10am-11:30am
In what might be a first-ever for CVUUF, we will hold tomorrow’s service “virtually”.
We will however be gathering on Zoom (an internet group platform) from 10 – 11:30. You can join us by phone or live on camera. We will light a chalice, share stories, hear uplifting readings, sing together, mourn the tragedies of these past few days and be in community even when we are physically apart. You can join us at any time during that window, or be with us for the whole time. And if you have CVUUF neighbors nearby, you may want to invite them over so you can have some fellowship, while we’re on the Zoom call together. If you know people who do not have internet, please let them know the phone number they can call tomorrow.
Here is the access information for zoom:
To join Zoom Meeting by internet (so we can see one another) – paste this link into your browser:
https://zoom.us/j/161146667
To join by mobile phone dial:
+1 669 900 6833 US
Press Meeting ID: 161 146 667
Experience and science have shown how powerful music can be in evoking in us memories. Sometimes. these memories are near the surface of our recall ability, others are deeply buried. Do we as people share the same memories of the same songs? What happens when we don’t?
Day of the Dead and All Soul’s Day is a time to honor our ancestors, celebrating them through stories and song. Visiting guest author, Amada Perez, will be sharing stories about her life and ancestry ( www.amadairmaperez.com ). Reverend Nica and Sam Dickerson will lead this intergenerational service. We invite you to bring photos of your relatives and friends who are no longer with us, both from this community and your families to place on our community altar of remembrance. Let us pull from their love and strength so that we may heal what troubles us, and move toward a more joyous future for all generations.
In our UU congregations, we focus on shared love over belief. We offer sanctuary by being a place where you are loved and accepted for who you are, in your wholeness, your brokenness, your uniqueness and your quirkiness. Love is what binds us together. Explore with us what it means to live out our Universalist heritage of love beyond belief.
It is a grace-filled moment when we are caught in the rain and someone offers to share their umbrella with us. We all need sanctuary at different times in our lives. Times when life gets tough to navigate. When it throws us a curve ball. Together we explore the beautiful gift of our interdependence, of being able to give and receive sanctuary to one another.
What are you about? How are you going about being about it? Every day we have opportunities to clarify our values as individuals and a community. In this service we will consider how we can clearly discuss our values and come to live in ways that strive to be in alignment with what we truly believe.
