What’s UUp 12/28/25?

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What’s UUp December 28?

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.

Upcoming Services after Sunday

To Do Sunday: See the Announcements for Details

  • Adult (RE) Adult Religious Exploration  All are Welcome. Check-in begins at 9:45. Class meets in the Church Library at 10am.
    Sunday, December 28: My Art Therapy Journey
    Jane Martin-Buckley will share her entertaining story into the field of art therapy, using her own impressive and imaginative portfolio as a launching pad.
  • Children’s RE Classes: 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 28

Down for the Struggle
and the Snuggle

Speaker: Fran/Clare Gervasi
 

Fran reflects on their experience as a UU and a community organizer across two cities, their hometown of Louisville and their chosen city of Chicago. What is special about First U? What is special about Louisville? What have they learned in Chicago? What can these places teach  us as UUs?

About the Speaker:
While Fran does not dream of work, they are happily employed as a Montessori guide. Besides Montessori, the great loves of their life are their son and their hope for a better life for everyone. Fran’s life has largely revolved around volunteer-led orgs and projects in service to liberatory causes. They have been a UU since 2015. Fran’s drive to encourage human connection and understanding has been the undercurrent invigorating their teaching and advocacy work, across projects.
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        Jane Martin Buckley

Prelude        Ethan McCollum

Lighting the Chalice and the Black Lives Matter Candle   
Laura Roberts and Peggy Muller

Opening Words          Fran/Clare Gervasi
 Our Lives Intersect and Intertwine  by Tania Y. Márguez

Hymn #391    Voice Still and Small        Ethan
Words and music: John Corrado

Moment for All Ages            Fran/Clare
          Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty
Authors: Anne Herbert and Margaret Paloma Pavel

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.

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

Our Covenant (unison)            Peggy
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            Laura

Musical Response #95    There is More Love Somewhere     Ethan
Words and music: African American hymn

Moment of Prayer and Meditation        Laura

Invitation to Generosity      Peggy

Offertory      Ethan

Message     Down for the Struggle and the Snuggle    Fran/Clare

Hymn #1015    I Know I Can, verses 1, 2, and 4.     Ethan
Words: Dennis Hamilton; Music: Jeannie Gagné

Extinguishing the Chalice        Fran/Clare

Closing Words      Fran/Clare

Postlude    Ethan

Benediction         Laura