Join us for worship this Sunday, Sept. 24 as we continue exploring our monthly worship theme: Welcoming All People.

In person at 9 a.m.
In person and livestreamed at 11 a.m.

Watch the livestream on Zoom or YouTube Live. The recording is available for on-demand streaming on our YouTube channel immediately after the service ends.
Zoom webinar ID: 861 805 984

OFFERING: Give via our online giving portal, or CashApp. Make sure to designate that it’s for the “Offering Plate” fund.

Masks are welcome but not required in the sanctuary. Read our COVID policies for gathering. Find information about childcare and Sunday morning options for children and youth here.

This Sunday, September 17 marks the start of Religious Education classes and the move to two worship services, at 9 and 11 a.m. Join us as we continue exploring our September worship theme: Welcoming All People.

Join us in person or online at 9 and 11 a.m.

Watch the livestream on Zoom or YouTube Live. The recording is available for on-demand streaming on our YouTube channel immediately after the service ends.
Zoom webinar ID: 861 805 984

OFFERING: Give via our online giving portal, or CashApp. Make sure to designate that it’s for the “Offering Plate” fund.

Masks are welcome but not required in the sanctuary. Read our COVID policies for gathering. Find information about childcare and Sunday morning options for children and youth here.

A Place to Start: in person, immediately after both services 
Facilitated by one of our members, A Place to Start is a brief, casual orientation to Unitarian Universalism and First Universalist Church. During this 40-minute class, participants will learn about the foundations of our faith tradition and opportunities to get involved. The facilitator will be holding a green “Here is A Place to Start” sign at the front of the sanctuary after the worship services. We look forward to welcoming you!

We host A Place to Start next on Oct. 1 and 22. If you can’t make it, or would like to connect one on one, please fill out the Visitor Connect form so we can follow up with you. Thank you!

We’re having our Water Communion ritual in Sunday worship on September 10th at 10 a.m. Water Communion is a very special tradition we celebrate each year at First Universalist. All are welcome, whether it’s your first or fortieth time! Come and be a part of this joyous time where the waters mingle and set a new year of community on its way.

OFFERING: Give via our online giving portal, or CashApp. Make sure to designate that it’s for the “Offering Plate” fund.

Masks are welcome but not required in the sanctuary. Read our COVID policies for gathering.

Childcare is available for children ages 6 months through 3 years. All other kids and youth stay with their families in the sanctuary for a multigenerational worship service. Religious Education starts next Sunday, Spet. 17. Find information about childcare and Sunday morning options for children and youth here.

“Let us measure success by how many of us can say: I am living a life I don’t regret. A life that will resonate with my ancestors…” -adrienne maree brown. Join us for a reflection of heavy suitcases, surprise turning points, and opening to welcome, even when the people are complicated and the path is unclear.

OFFERING: Give via our online giving portal, or CashApp. Make sure to designate that it’s for the “Offering Plate” fund.

Masks are welcome but not required in the sanctuary. Read our COVID policies for gathering. Find information about childcare and Sunday morning options for children and youth here.

A Place to Start – in person, immediately after the service (option to join via zoom)

Facilitated by one of our members, A Place to Start is a brief, casual orientation to Unitarian Universalism and First Universalist Church. During this 40-minute class, participants will learn about the foundations of our faith tradition and opportunities to get involved. If you attend, please fill out the Visitor Connect form so we can follow up with you. Thank you!

We host A Place to Start next on Sept. 13 (after dinner) and Sept. 17. The facilitator will be holding a green “Here is A Place to Start” sign at the front of the sanctuary after the worship services. We look forward to welcoming you!

As summer comes to an end, don’t miss our annual Backpack Blessing and worship service this Sunday, Aug. 27 at 10 a.m. The multigenerational service will offer children, youth, and adults of all ages the opportunity to reflect upon how we might carry the love of our church community and the tools of our faith with us wherever we go. After worship, stay for lunch under the tent and an Open Eye Theater Performance of Molly and the Magic Boot!

OFFERING: Give via our online giving portal, or CashApp. Make sure to designate that it’s for the “Offering Plate” fund.

This Sunday, August 20, the Rev. Ashley Horan, Aimee Bryant, and Dr. Glen Thomas Rideout  lead worship with you at the bandshell at Lake Harriet. By the waters, we’ll embody the joy and talk the truths of willful change we can make to the ways we do community. We’ll live a little of love’s post-pandemic, not-far-along-enough-yet call. Truth be told, it has more to do with play and laughter and loving yourself than we’ve often understood. And the possibilities, when we’re willing to untether from the needful, are more wonderful even than we could have dreamed. Don’t you miss it.

Our Lake Harriet Sunday is a summer highlight! It is part of an annual outdoor worship series at the Lake Harriet bandshell with about 15 neighborhood congregations participating. Bring sun protection and a full water bottle! We’re excited to once again enjoy a potluck picnic together after the service. Consider bringing a dish to share!

OFFERING: Give via our online giving portal, or CashApp. Make sure to designate that it’s for the “Offering Plate” fund.

Please note: this will be our only worship service on Sunday, Aug. 20. There will not be a service at 3400 Dupont, and the service will not be live-streamed. Podcast and video recordings will be made available the week following.

We often exclaim church to each other as a place, a sanctuary, a place away from other places. Isn’t it at least as much a moment we make special together? A present-day prophet, the black, science fiction writer Octavia Butler describes “God is change.” How would your relationship with holy things shift if you were looking not for things that have become divine, but instead were on a hunt for the becoming itself in progress? Would that change what goodness you discovered in you?

This Sunday, August 13, we explore the ways the divine expresses in units of time. Guided by the ancient Hebrew practice of sabbath-keeping, we reflect on the special moments of life that keep us in motion. And we ask ourselves and each other: What will stop to have time for what’s holy? What gets a no, so you can be present to what’s right in front of you?

OFFERING: Give via our online giving portal, or CashApp. Make sure to designate that it’s for the “Offering Plate” fund.

Shifted schedules, evening sunshine, produce that doesn’t fit anybody’s plan for the week, movies and music and sunsets that take our breath away and demand that we stop and pay attention. As summer stretches into August, the Big Questions call to us. Join us for worship this Sunday, August 6 as we ask: what are yours and ours, and how might we respond?

Order of Service

Offering: Give via our online giving portal, or CashApp. Make sure to designate that it’s for the “Offering Plate” fund.

Masks are welcome but not required in the sanctuary. Read our COVID policies for gathering. Find information about childcare and Sunday morning options for children and youth here.

In worship this Sunday, July 30, Paolo Dubuque and Dr. Glen Thomas Rideout will talk about re-imagining musical ensembles and using collaborative music to change the world. We’ll make music together for a finale of sorts we’re calling We are the ones, after June Jordan’s famous end to her poem, “Poem for South African Women.” Together, we will make music as a community (that’s right–the featured artist is you! But shhhhh…it’s a surprise.), we explore the rich relationships and stories of American singing over centuries, across cultures. You’ll hear reflections on the Music Listening Session results. And we’ll embrace the calling of this new day–for communities of justice to know the power of their own voice, and to build up beauty in the world starting from within.

OFFERING: Give via our online giving portal, or CashApp. Make sure to designate that it’s for the “Offering Plate” fund.

Masks are welcome but not required in the sanctuary. Read our COVID policies for gathering.

Find information about childcare and Sunday morning options for children and youth here.

Each Sunday in July, worship will feature artists and musicians sharing their craft and some reflections on how their art is connected to their spirituality. We continue this worship series with musician, composer, and First U Member, Ellis Delaney. Ellis is at once funny and wise, thoughtful and uninhibited, with a captivating voice that is matched by tender, sometimes funny, uplifting lyrics. Their music is transformational; leaving audiences feeling better, with softened edges & opened hearts. Join us for worship this Sunday, July 23 at 10 a.m.

OFFERING: Give via our online giving portal, or CashApp. Make sure to designate that it’s for the “Offering Plate” fund.