Getting to Know One Another Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains October 24, 2021 Our fourth in a series focused on cultivating relationship, this interactive, café style service offered people a chance to connect several times in small groups for conversation. Envisioned and planned by Wendy Wernigg and Chuck Champlin, Rev. Kevin joins Chuck to […]
Me, Myself, and I: Cultivating a Relationship with Ourselves Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains October 17, 2021 with Dawn Bateman, Janet Bullock, Stu Matthews and Jordan Thomas-Rose, Jeff Stone, Worship Associate How does living through a pandemic influence our relationship with ourselves. And how does that work in the context of living in relationship […]
In Respectful and Right Relationship: Beyond the Words Cultivating Relationship Shelly Covert, Spokesperson for the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe, with Frank Lawrence, and Rev. Kevin Tarsa. Jeff Stone, Worship Associate. Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains October 10, 2021 UUCM members have chosen to include in UUCM’s budget a contribution to the Ancestral […]
We Get There Side by Side October 3, 2021 Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains Rev. Kevin Tarsa, with Worship Associate, Jeff Stone We introduce and enter our October theme of “cultivating relationship,” with story, song, reflection and invitation. How in the world do we cultivate relationship now? Greeting Rev. Kevin Tarsa Song […]
Imagine My Surprise Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains September 26, 2021 Nineteen months into the restrictions of the pandemic has been like climbing to the top of a high mountain – a climb most of us would have thought impossible. Now here, we can see unexpected possibilities in every direction. Join us this week […]
There is often a significant gap between what we expect or wish for, and what actually exists. And, wow, the past two years have given us abundant opportunity to experience that! Wisdom traditions guide us away from using all our energy to lament and rail against the gap, and toward finding greater peacefulness by learning […]
Return Again: Water, Community, Spirit, You September 12, 2021 Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains, Grass Valley, CA with Rev. Kevin Tarsa Cheryl Morris and Gail Johnson Vaughan, Worship Associates This Sunday we launch into the September theme of “embracing possibility.” While the need to alter our face-to-face plans might seem counter to such a […]
How can we make sense of the extreme divide over racial justice in our country? In this service our own Gail Johnson Vaughan gives us two keys to unlock the mystery and some suggestions for actions we can all take to remedy the fallout from the origins of our discontent. Greeting Gail Johnson Vaughan Song […]
Making Powerful Trouble A sermon delivered by Rev. Leela Sinha August 15, 2021 Chuck Champlin, Worship Associate Making Powerful Trouble: we’re accustomed to the idea that resistance has to come from below, from outside, from the Other. But when we are the holders of power, how shall we resist then? Rev. Leela Sinha is a […]
UUCM member Rev. Karyn Packard leads us to consider: However and whenever we look at moving ahead from our COVID isolation, what is required to effectively reconnect: spiritually, physically and as a dynamic community? In our summer series of “Voices Near and Far,” Beth Karow fills in for Worship Associate Gail Johnson Vaughan as we […]