Over the last few months, Reverend Nica and several CVUUF members have attended our UU Regional Assembly in Portland and the UUA General Assembly in Kansas City. Join them to hear reflections about our wider faith and learn new ideas, learnings and inspiration about our national movement.
Curiosity and connection are key to a healthy minister-congregation relationship. In this interview style service, Reverend Nica will respond to questions the congregation has submitted to her. Join us for this fun, revealing and authentic summer service.
Last month, 6 members of our Fellowship traveled to the “Peace and Justice Summit” held in Montgomery, Alabama. Celebrated speakers and artists shared wisdom for the openings of the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration as well as the National Memorial for Peace and Justice created by the Equal Justice Initiative. Founded by attorney and civil rights activist, Bryan Stevenson, the EJI works to advance truth and reconciliation around race in America and to protect basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society. Join us to hear stories from this life-changing journey.
Our fourth Unitarian Universalist principle calls us to a free and responsible search for truth and meaning. In this service, we will explore the ways that search is satisfied by an embrace of the blessings we unearth within our broken places. Maggie Burbank Yenoki received her Master of Divinity degree from Drew Theological School in Madison, NJ and served the Unitarian Fellowship in Morristown, NJ as Summer Minister. She is a Candidate for UU Ministry and served for two years as Minister to the Sepulveda Unitarian Universalist Society, fondly known as ‘The Onion.’ Maggie currently serves the Monte Vista Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Montclair, as Intern Minister. Maggie is also a certified Hospital Chaplain and practitioner in The Art of Death Midwifery through Sacred Crossings.
Some of us had wonderful fathers who have given us an enduring legacy. Others had difficult relationships with their fathers or were raised without a father. On this Father’s Day, we look at the way fathers impact our lives. Whether you’re a father or were influenced by your own father, what legacy can we celebrate or transform? What blessings have fathers, our own or others’, shared with us?
What is a blessing? Blessing can be an unusual word for Unitarian Universalists. Whom do we bless and who or what blesses us? Join us to explore this month’s theme of blessing and perhaps find unexpected ways to repurpose that word. As Reverend Dr. Rebecca Parker said may we “Bless the World.”
Every year at this time our High School seniors graduate and go forth into the wider world. This service honors CVUUF’s graduating seniors as they ‘bridge’ into their next phase of life and we pay tribute to our RE program teachers. Join us to bless and celebrate our youth and Religious Education program.
Human creativity appears across a wide range of experiences, transcending any one specific means of expression. It applies to every area of human endeavor. Creativity is a disposition, a habit of mind we can cultivate to respond to life’s joys and challenges in an open and curious way. Join us for an exploration of the creative process and how it has been the primary spiritual practice of our lives.
Wendell Berry says that: “The mind that is not baffled is not employed.” Life’s most challenging and puzzling times often give rise to the most creative solutions. Uncertainty, struggle and stuckness require us to find creative responses, which we may not have considered before. This Sunday we will explore the ingenuity and creativity of the human spirit, showing that hurdles and challenge may be necessary for us to evolve.
Mothering is so much more than birthing and raising children. Mothering is the nurturing instinct in us all, the drive to care for, protect and nurture others. That is something most of us can claim in some form or another. On this Mother’s Day, join us to honor and celebrate the Mother in us All, and witness the many ways we care for one another and our planet.
