What’s Your Story?
Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains
August 23, 2026
Rev. Kevin Tarsa
Beth Karow, Worship Associate
UUCM’s annual campout weekend in the Sierra Buttes offers people spacious, intimate, and spontaneous chances to connect and to discover more about one another over warm morning beverages, on scenic daytime hikes, during shared meals, or around an evening fire. Inspired by that energy and gift, we lift up the ways this happens all year long, and we gather around the fire in our own way this Sunday, a base camp of sorts with our fellow travelers.
Song for Gathering Blue Boat Home #1064 by Peter Mayer, with Michael Bankston, trumpet
Land Acknowledgement
Welcome Beth Karow, Worship Associate
Lighting of the Chalice/Campfire
Wonderbox & Singing the Children on Their Way
What’s Your Story? Rev. Kevin Tarsa
Greeting One Another
Freedom Summer Moment Leslie King and Lisa Higbee
Candle of Compassion, Resistance, and Resilience
What’s Your Story?
Song When I Am Frightened #1012 by Shelley Jackson Denham
Joys & Sorrows
Prayer & Meditation Kumbayah African American spiritual
What’s Your Story?
Song Ours is a Living Faith by David Tamulevich
Offering Beth Karow, Worship Associate
Offertory Trumpet Tune by Henry Purcell; Michael Bankston, trumpet and Linda Snyder, piano
Dedication Beth Karow
Thank you & Announcements
Closing Song Here Together by David Glasgow (both parts)
Closing Words
Community Benediction / Extinguishing of the Chalice
Carry the flame of peace and love until we meet again.
Music for Going Forth