We will host an in-person and virtual worship service on Sunday, March 13th at 10:15 am.

What do yUU believe?
Our faith is a shared endeavor of meaning making, and a communal practice of living according to the meaning we make. Participants in our recent intergenerational class, What Do yUU Believe, share their thoughts on some of their core beliefs and how those beliefs inform their lives. This service is led by Rev. Eileen and Kathy Underwood, our Director of Lifespan Faith Formation with contributions from: Bob Mesle, Luke Montzka, Dan Solomon, and Chris Yoo.

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. If you submit a message by 9 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all! Note there will only be one service time so that we can gather together as a whole community of faith. You can still give to the shared offering through “text to give,” mail a check to the office with “shared offering” in the memo line, or go to our website and hit “give” on the upper right or click here. This Sunday’s shared offering recipient is UU Advocacy Network of Illinois (UUANI).

We will host an in-person and virtual worship service on Sunday, March 6th at 10:15 am.

The Cycle of Giving and Receiving
Relationships challenge us to bring our full authentic selves and to risk being vulnerable, honest, and accountable in our interactions. They invite us to be open to receiving love and support from another and invite us to determine what we are able to give to the relationship. Being a member of a faith community comes with similar challenges and risks, and similar benefits of care, connection, and belonging. This week we’ll explore how risking to connect your whole self with others in our intentional covenantal community brings us both rewards and responsibilities.

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. If you submit a message by 9 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all! Note there will only be one service time so that we can gather together as a whole community of faith. You can still give to the shared offering through “text to give,” mail a check to the office with “shared offering” in the memo line, or go to our website and hit “give” on the upper right or click here. This Sunday’s shared offering recipient is UU Advocacy Network of Illinois (UUANI).

We will host an in-person and virtual worship service on Sunday, February 27th at 10:15 am.

Supporting the Whole Mission with the Whole of Us
“All of us need all of us to make it,” says the minister, poet, and activist Theresa I. Soto. Whatever your gifts, whatever your needs, whatever your resources, it takes the whole of us to make the world whole. Bring your scattered hopes, your partial wishes, your broken dreams, and your fragile commitments to the altar of this community. Together we will collect and expand them into a more beautiful whole. Rev. Eileen leads the service with Ann McCallister as worship associate.

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. If you submit a message by 9 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all! Note there will only be one service time so that we can gather together as a whole community of faith. You can still give to the shared offering through “text to give,” mail a check to the office with “shared offering” in the memo line, or go to our website and hit “give” on the upper right or click here. This Sunday’s shared offering recipient is Assata’s Daughters.

We will host an in-person and virtual worship service on Sunday, February 20th at 10:15 am.

Reflections on Risk and Innovation
To be a leader, especially in times of uncertainty and change (that is to say always), takes courage. Some of our leaders reflect on their experiences of leading and leaning into a new ways of being. Rev. Eileen leads the service with worship contributors Lane Deamant, Joe Romeo, Jessica Tomell-Presto, and Carla Williams.

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. If you submit a message by 9 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all! Note there will only be one service time so that we can gather together as a whole community of faith. You can still give to the shared offering through “text to give,” mail a check to the office with “shared offering” in the memo line, or go to our website and hit “give” on the upper right or click here. This Sunday’s shared offering recipient is Assata’s Daughters.

We will host an in-person and virtual worship service on Sunday, February 13th at 10:15 am.

The Risk of Hospitality
Being open, inclusive, and genuinely welcoming as individuals and as a faith community requires us to accept a level of discomfort and to let go of the expectation that we will always be safe. True hospitality can be dangerous. How can we lean into love, with curiosity and courage and without being reckless? Rev. Eileen leads this service with Elaine Siegel as Worship Associate.

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. If you submit a message by 9 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all! Note there will only be one service time so that we can gather together as a whole community of faith. You can still give to the shared offering through “text to give,” mail a check to the office with “shared offering” in the memo line, or go to our website and hit “give” on the upper right or click here. This Sunday’s shared offering recipient is Assata’s Daughters.

We will host a virtual worship service on Sunday, February 6th at 10:15 am.

Widening the Circle of Theology and Faith Formation
What is a Unitarian Universalist theology and how does our shared Unitarian Universalist faith – in humanity and in the possibility of justice – call us to dismantle oppression?

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. If you submit a message by 9 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all! Note there will only be one service time so that we can gather together as a whole community of faith. You can still give to the shared offering through “text to give,” mail a check to the office with “shared offering” in the memo line, or go to our website and hit “give” on the upper right or click here. This Sunday’s shared offering recipient is Assata’s Daughters.

We will host a virtual worship service on Sunday, January 30th at 10:15 am.

Resilience and Perseverance Wherever We Engage
Our Covenant of Engagement, which is the set of promises we aspire to fulfill together in Beloved Community concludes with the hope that we will, ​​”practice resilience and perseverance wherever we engage.” Staying connected across physical distance and social isolation is challenging. Returning to one another again and again to reconcile and repair when we break our covenants is hard work. How do we fulfill the promise of resilience and perseverance even when our reserves are low? Rev. Eileen Wiviott leads the service with Worship Associate, Marianne Griebler.

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. If you submit a message by 9 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all! Note there will only be one service time so that we can gather together as a whole community of faith. You can still give to the shared offering through “text to give,” mail a check to the office with “shared offering” in the memo line, or go to our website and hit “give” on the upper right or click here. This Sunday’s shared offering recipient is Mother & Child Alliance.

We will host a virtual worship service on Sunday, January 23rd at 10:15 am.

Living Our Unitarian Universalism in the World
Our faith in each other, our commitment to recognizing the worth and dignity, as well as the interconnection of all emerges in many ways beyond the walls of our church and outside of the time we are together on Sunday mornings. Together we recognize and inspire one another to more fully and creatively live our UU values. Rev. Eileen Wiviott leads worship with Worship Associate, Joe Romeo.

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. If you submit a message by 9 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all! Note there will only be one service time so that we can gather together as a whole community of faith. You can still give to the shared offering through “text to give,” mail a check to the office with “shared offering” in the memo line, or go to our website and hit “give” on the upper right or click here. This Sunday’s shared offering recipient is Community Renewal Society (CRS).

We will host a virtual worship service on Sunday, January 16th at 10:15 am.

Reparations: To Share Love and Power
How does a nation make amends for its deepest moral failing, the evil of enslavement? How can our society be repaired, unless we acknowledge the historic and ongoing devastation of white supremacy? To fulfill the dream of Beloved Community and create a whole and just world, we must learn to share love as well as power. Rev. Eileen Wiviott leads the service with Worship Associate, Sarah Vanderwicken.

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. If you submit a message by 9 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all! Note there will only be one service time so that we can gather together as a whole community of faith. You can still give to the shared offering through “text to give,” mail a check to the office with “shared offering” in the memo line, or go to our website and hit “give” on the upper right or click here. This Sunday’s shared offering recipient is Community Renewal Society (CRS).

We will host a virtual worship service on Sunday, January 9th at 10:15 am.

Justifying Our Means and Ends
In October, we talked about renewing our Ends Statements* and introduced the process of exploring our core values through an exercise called The Experience of the Holy. Many of you have participated in these meaning making conversations over the past several months. In this service, we will explore what we’ve learned so far about the values we share and the aspirations we can intentionally claim in the coming years. Rev. Eileen leads the service with Lynn Kendall as Worship Associate.

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. If you submit a message by 9 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all! Note there will only be one service time so that we can gather together as a whole community of faith. You can still give to the shared offering through “text to give,” mail a check to the office with “shared offering” in the memo line, or go to our website and hit “give” on the upper right or click here. This Sunday’s shared offering recipient is Community Renewal Society (CRS).