What’s UUp 8/23/26?

Join Us for the Peace Walk this Saturday!

See your Midweek Update or the Facebook Chalice Group page for details.

Children’s RE Summer Fun – Cooking Day II

Create goodies for a donation-based lemonade stand. Proceeds go to CLCM

HELP – Coffee Hour Hosts

Looking for a way to get involved at church? Join our team of Coffee Hour hosts! This low key commitment is 11:50-12:45 one Sunday a month after service. If you are interested, please use our online form to sign up!

UU the Vote

We’re writing postcards to get out the vote for the November election. Come by the Social Hall after the service, or for more information, email.

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.

Join Us Sunday at 11:00am

Heal Thyself! 
Speaker:
Rev. Dr. Muriel Schmid
from KRCRC

 

Access to care can be challenging, especially when we talk about reproductive care. Abortion bans, OBG-YN flight, medical misogyny, and transphobia have made it very unsafe for pregnant people as well as anyone on their reproductive journey to receive the care they need. As people of faith and people of conscience, how do we address this?

 

About Our Speaker:
Rev. Dr. Muriel Schmid

Rev. Dr. Muriel Schmid grew up in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. She was a pastor in the Swiss Reformed Church (equivalent PCUSA) for several years before coming to the U.S.
She first taught religious studies at the University of Utah and then started working for different faith-based nonprofit organizations. She joined the reproductive rights movement in Kentucky. Now she is the first Executive Director of the Kentucky Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (KRCRC). For now, she still splits her time between KY and MD, where her wife lives.

Kentucky Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
Their mission is to advocate for the right of all Kentuckians to exercise reproductive and religious freedom consistent with their beliefs. For more information on KRCRC click here.

We Welcome Our Musicians

Mickey Nelson, banjo

Julie Avery, fiddle
Bernadette Mudd, vocalist, guitar

Kyle Ellison, banjo
Marshall Shelot, guitar
Ethan McCollum
 

For the zoom linkClick 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)

Prelude        Wedding Ring       Mickey Nelson and Julie Avery
Words and music: Mickey Nelson

Welcome        Mindy Arnett

Gathering Music      You Don’t Own Me
Bernadette Mudd. Kyle Ellison, Marshall Shelor
Words and music: John Madara, Dave White

Lighting the Chalice & the Black Lives Matter Candle
Valerie Schwartz and Peggy Muller

Opening Words   Rev. Dr. Muriel Schmid

Hymn #109      As We Come Marching, Marching      Ethan
Words: James Oppenheim; music: Carolina Kohlsaat

A Moment for All Ages         Valerie

Joys and Sorrows       Valerie and Peggy             

Musical Response #1002    Comfort Me           Ethan
Words and music: Mimi Bornstein-Doble

Meditation and Common Prayer      Rev. DrMuriel

Musical Response     Unwed Fathers       Bernadette, Kyle, Marshall
Words and music: John Prine and Bobby Braddock

Invitation to Generosity      Peggy

Offertory         Ethan

Sermon        Heal Thyself          Rev. DrMuriel

Hymn #107      Now Sing We of the Brave and Old      Ethan
Words: Albert M. P. Dawson
Music: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Extinguishing the Chalice        Valerie
We extinguish these flames,
but not the light of truth,                        
the warmth of community,
or the fire of commitment.
These we carry in our hearts
until we are together again

Closing Words              Rev. Dr. Muriel

Postlude       Oh, Freedom
Bernadette, Kyle, Marshall, Mickey
Traditional Spiritual

Invitations        Valerie