FUUSN Summer Services

Date 2025

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Description           All Services start at 10:15

June 15 Jazz Church Parish Hall only Like jazz, life flows between the earthy and the sacred. Join us this Sunday as local jazz artist and minister Geoff Hicks transforms our Parish Hall into a jazz club to celebrate both.
June 22 Summer Solstice-Earth Based Rituals Parish Hall only FUUSN member Karen Edwards will lead our summer solstice celebration, drawing on ancient earth-based rituals to explore our place in the great web of existence and to honor this day of maximum sun.
June 29 Ethics and Endowments Zoom only Why does FUUSN have an endowment? What should we do with it? Bruce Kimball, FUUSN member, writer and national speaker, will explain some of the major ethical controversies concerning all endowments and invite our response.
July 6 NO SERVICE
July 13 Blessing of the Bells Parish Hall only We celebrate the spiritual power of FUUSN’s 11 cast bells. Hear their history, sing with them, and enjoy a piece composed just for them. Bring a bell from home—jingle, hand, or meditation—for a special community blessing.
July 20 Home Altars Zoom only Altars in UU churches respect a broad diversity of belief among members by remaining quietly general. Curt Lamb will share images and stories of our congregation’s personal altars, and ideas about how to bring this kind of magic into our lives.
July 27 Chasing Joy Parish Hall only Join Suzanne Buchko for an exploration of joy—the light, effortless joy of children and the intentional joy shaped by sorrow and gratitude. This service invites us to practice finding the joy always waiting to be chosen.
August 3 FUUSN’s Civil Rights Heritage Zoom only FUUSN’s role in the civil rights movement of the 1950’s and 60’s was thrilling, tragic, and inspiring. Bob Ellertsen will share this powerful history and how we continue its work today.
August 10 Serving Those in Sorrow Zoom only Claire Willis invites us to reflect on how we hold both personal sorrow and the sorrow of our times—and how we can support one another in community through these challenging times.
August 17 Listening to Voices from the First Days Sanctuary & Zoom The First Peoples of Australia are of many cultures and nations, yet they share a way of being in the world that is utterly different than the world we live in.  For us Unitarian Universalists, who practice interdependence and love, the wisdom they have gathered over 50,000 or more years offers us striking insights.  Reverend Joel Miller.
August 24 What We Learned On Our Summer Vacations Sanctuary & Zoom
August 31 NO SERVICE