What’s UUp 12/21/25?

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What’s UUp December 21?

The Nursery is open for babies and pre-k from 9:30am-12:15pm on Sundays.

Please complete one registration form for each child you would like to participate in Religious Exploration in the coming year. This includes the nursery.

Blue Christmas Vigil 

6-7pm December 21 at Clark County Jail

Upcoming Services
 

Wednesday, December 24
Our Annual Christmas Eve Vespers Service
Preludes 5pm    Service at 5:30pm

A Season of Hope

Speaker: Rev. Liz Weber
To Do Sunday: See the Announcements for Details

  • Call for Food Treats for Vespers – We need cookies, finger foods, and other holiday delicacies for our Vespers Service!  If we start making items now, we should have enough by December 24th.  We will have our infamous Vespers Punch, great people, and a fantastic service to celebrate. Please let us know what you can bring.
  • Adult (RE) Adult Religious Exploration  All are Welcome. Check-in begins at 9:45. Class meets in the Church Library at 10am.
  • Children’s RE: Contact Loren Children begin in the sanctuary at 11:00, then have the Moment for Ages. They leave during the Song for the Children
  • The Big Blue Basket – Please donate food for the food pantry at CLCM’s affiliate food pantry next door at Calvary Episcopal Church. Items especially needed are peanut butter, pasta and sauce, canned meat/fish, soups, breakfast cereal….but all items are gratefully accepted. Let’s fill that Big Blue Basket.

Celebration of Life – 11:00am 
 
December 21Winter Solstice Service
Speaker: Valerie Schwartz

Please join us in celebrating the Winter Solstice! This service will be honoring the Cailleach, the Goddess of the long, cold winter months, as well as honoring the warmth of home, family, and friends. Let us strengthen ourselves for the cold and keep our hearts warm for this longest night of the year.
 

About the Speaker:
Valerie Schwartz has been a practicing Pagan for a little over three decades, with experience in creating and guiding seasonal and celebratory rituals. She attends First Unitarian and lives in Louisville, Kentucky with her husband, kiddo, an opinionated cat, and a dog. She holds membership in the Druid orders of
Ár nDraíocht Féin (ADF) and the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids (OBOD).
 

For the zoom link, Click here. The Meeting ID is 4508929882 if you can’t attend in person.  You will not need a password. Contact the volunteer desk if you have trouble getting online.

The Order of Service (Bulletin)

Gathering Music        Ethan McCollum

Chime and Welcome        Devi Pierce

Prelude       Ethan McCollum

Lighting the Chalice and         Michael Tee
          the Black Lives Matter Candle       Michael Tee

Opening Words and Invocation      Valerie

Hymn #1051      We Are    Ethan
Words and Music: Ysaye M. Barnwell

Moment for All Ages     Winter’s Tale     Valerie
Robert Sabuda

Song for Our Children           Ethan
Go in love, our hearts go with you.
Go in joy, our hopes go too.
Learn in love and grow in wisdom.
Shine your light in all you do.

Centering in the Season       Valerie

Our Mission (unison)            Michael
We are a church of reason and spirit,
that witnesses for progressive faith,
nurtures our community and transforms our world.

Our Covenant (unison)            Michael
Love is the spirit of this church, and service is its law.
This is our great covenant: to dwell together in peace,
to seek the truth in love, and to help one another.

Joys and Sorrows      Valerie and Michael

Musical Response #1009         Meditation on Breathing     Ethan
Words and music: Sarah Dan Jones

Moment of Prayer and Meditation       Valerie

Invitation to Generosity          Michael

Offertory           Ethan

Sermon     Meeting the Cailleach, Goddess of Winter       Valerie
With Holly Harris, Raquel Rouse,
Laura Roberts, Tracey Cash-Leonard

Hymn #1055     How Sweet the Darkness     Ethan
Words: Rachel Bates; Music: Jason Shelton

Extinguishing the Chalice          Valerie and Michael

Closing Words      Valerie

Postlude           Ethan

Benediction             Valerie