Each of us has a piece of the truth, and together, we are so much wiser and braver. Together, we have strength and imagination, accountability and encouragement big enough for transformation. When each of us brings what we can, including our vulnerability, we have the collective power to build a community of liberation and joy.  Join us on Sunday, March 21 at 10 a.m. as we explore our collective truth and our collective power, with a special cameo appearance from a modern day UU superhero.

Follow along with the Order of Service

Offering: First Universalist Church
(give here) or text firstuniv to 73256. You’ll receive a link to a secure form where you can enter your information. Select the “Offering Plate” fund from the dropdown menu.

Care Companions Space ~ 11 a.m.
We know that worship can take us into deep and surprising places. If you find yourself needing to talk with someone about what is stirring for you after worship, please speak with one of our care companions in a confidential zoom room after the service. This is how we care for one another.

First Step ~ 11 a.m.
First Step is a brief, casual orientation to Unitarian Universalism and First Universalist Church. During this 45-minute class, participants will learn about the foundations of our faith tradition and opportunities to get involved.
If you attend First Step this morning, please fill out the Visitor Connect form so we can follow up with you! Thank you!

Fellowship Hour for BIPOC and Multiracial folks ~ 11 a.m.
A social space for those who identify as black, indigenous, people of color, and multiracial to connect.

All Identities Fellowship Hour & Environmental Justice Networking ~ 11 a.m.
Connect with fellow worshipers in a casual, social environment. There will be an Environmental Justice Networking breakout room where you can join Environmental Justice team members to catch-up on important environmental happenings around climate legislation, line 3 actions, and First U EJ team activities.

Tonight, we conclude our three part series on “Caring,” by focusing on what it means to care for the world, for creation itself. Our own lives are full and complicated and rarely easy. Given this reality, how might we still practice holding all of creation – every being – in the circle of our care? We happens when we extend our care far beyond ourselves?

Join Rev. Justin for a midweek worship experience for adults and older youth. This service is a brief time (20-30 minutes) of connection, centering, and reflection to help us find and keep our balance.

Launch the Wednesday Worship Zoom here – 7 p.m.

Webinar ID: 117-312-320.
To join by phone (audio only), dial 1-312-626-6799 and enter the webinar ID.

Care Companions Space ~ 7:30 p.m.
We know that worship can take us into deep and surprising places. If you find yourself needing to talk with someone about what is stirring for you after worship, please speak with one of our care companions in a confidential zoom room after the service. This is how we care for one another.

How do you measure a year? How do you measure “five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes?” The hit song from “Rent,” invites us to measure a year in love, and that’s certainly a good measure. But this past year has been full and complicated: fear, grief, loss, struggles with mental health, slowing down, re-evaluating everything, new rituals, recipes, and cooking adventures, and the death of loved ones are ways many of us have measured this past year.

This Sunday, March 14 we will mark the one year anniversary of the pandemic, make meaning of what we’ve experienced, acknowledge we’re not through it yet, and lift up ways to care for ourselves and one another as we move through the third quarter of the pandemic.

Follow along with the Order of Service

Offering: 50/50 Split with Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity
(give here) or text firstuniv to 73256. You’ll receive a link to a secure form where you can enter your information. Select the “Offering Plate” fund from the dropdown menu.

Care Companions Space ~ 11 a.m.
We know that worship can take us into deep and surprising places. If you find yourself needing to talk with someone about what is stirring for you after worship, please speak with one of our care companions in a confidential zoom room after the service. This is how we care for one another.

Fellowship Hour for BIPOC and Multiracial folks ~ 11 a.m.
A social space for those who identify as black, indigenous, people of color, and multiracial to connect.

All Identities Fellowship Hour ~ 11:00 a.m.
A casual, social space to check in with one another and connect.

This Wednesday, March 10, we continue the exploration of our monthly theme, “Caring,” diving into the Loving Kindness meditation, a traditional Buddhist meditation. Join us to breathe, to be still, to let your heart open, and to expand the circle of care.

This service is a brief time (20-30 minutes) of connection, centering, and reflection to help us find and keep our balance.

Launch the Wednesday Worship Zoom here – 7 p.m.

Webinar ID: 117-312-320.
To join by phone (audio only), dial 1-312-626-6799 and enter the webinar ID.

Care Companions Space ~ 7:30 p.m.
We know that worship can take us into deep and surprising places. If you find yourself needing to talk with someone about what is stirring for you after worship, please speak with one of our care companions in a confidential zoom room after the service. This is how we care for one another.

What does it mean to act on your faith? This Sunday, March 7, you’ll hear moving testimony and reflections from members of our Faithful Action Council, the group that oversees the church’s Faithful Action Ministries, and you’ll hear from congregants involved with our Faithful Action Partners*, and how this involvement has grown their spirits, deepened their faith, and given them hope when things have seemed hopeless.

*Our Faithful Action Partners are Augsburg Fairview Academy, Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative, Habitat for Humanity, Minnesota Interfaith Power and Light, Simpson Housing, a variety of Immigration Justice Organizations and the Center for Leadership and Neighborhood Engagement (CLNE.)

Follow along with the Order of Service

Offering: First Universalist Sanctuary and Resistance Fund
(give here) or text firstuniv to 73256. You’ll receive a link to a secure form where you can enter your information. Select the “Offering Plate” fund from the dropdown menu.

Care Companions Space ~ 11 a.m.
We know that worship can take us into deep and surprising places. If you find yourself needing to talk with someone about what is stirring for you after worship, please speak with one of our care companions in a confidential zoom room after the service. This is how we care for one another.

First Step ~ 11 a.m.
First Step is a brief, casual orientation to Unitarian Universalism and First Universalist Church. During this 45-minute class, participants will learn about the foundations of our faith tradition and opportunities to get involved. If you attend First Step this morning, please fill out the Visitor Connect form so we can follow up with you! Thank you!

Fellowship Hour for BIPOC and Multiracial folks ~ 11 a.m.
A social space for those who identify as black, indigenous, people of color, and multiracial to connect.

All-Identities Fellowship Hour and Environmental Justice Networking ~ 11 a.m.
A casual, social space to connect with fellow congregants new and familiar. This Sunday, we’ll also offer a breakout space for those who would like to connect around environmental justice topics.

Our March worship theme is “Caring.” At its core, care is about compassion, the root of which means to “suffer with.” Care and compassion move us beyond sympathy to deep and profound empathy, to understanding and sharing the feelings of another, to suffering and rejoicing with another human being.

Over the next three Wednesdays, in a 3 part series, we’ll be exploring the religious and spiritual dimensions of care and loving kindness as they relate to self, to those in our immediate circle, and to the wider human family and world we are a part of. Part 1 will be an exploration of care as it relates to self-forgiveness. And we’ll reflect on how focusing on any of these areas impacts all the other areas. Join us this Wednesday, March 3 at 7 p.m. at the “spiritual waystation,” where we’ll fill up with poetry, prayer, and music.

Launch the Wednesday Worship Zoom here – 7 p.m.

Webinar ID: 117-312-320.
To join by phone (audio only), dial 1-312-626-6799 and enter the webinar ID.

Care Companions Space ~ 7:30 p.m.
We know that worship can take us into deep and surprising places. If you find yourself needing to talk with someone about what is stirring for you after worship, please speak with one of our care companions in a confidential zoom room after the service. This is how we care for one another.

The only place our lives happen is in the present, yet for many of us, our minds spend a lot of time being everywhere else but here, now. In this service, we’ll enter into the truth of the present moment through word, song, and shared practice and see if we might get a bit more comfortable hanging out here, now, together. Please join us online Sunday morning, February 28, at 10 a.m.

Follow along with the Order of Service

Offering: 50/50 Every Meal (formerly The Sheridan Story)
(give here) or text firstuniv to 73256. You’ll receive a link to a secure form where you can enter your information. Select the “Offering Plate” fund from the dropdown menu.

Care Companions Space ~ 11 a.m.
We know that worship can take us into deep and surprising places. If you find yourself needing to talk with someone about what is stirring for you after worship, please speak with one of our care companions in a confidential zoom room after the service. This is how we care for one another.

Post-Worship Fellowship Hour for BIPOC and Multiracial folks ~ 11 a.m.
A social space for those who identify as black, indigenous, people of color, and multiracial to connect.

Sunday Small Groups & Fellowship Hours ~ 11:15 a.m.
Fellowship hours will funnel through this link. Breakout room options are:

• Six-Week Sunday Small Groups (pre-registration required)
• All-Identities Fellowship Hour

Have you ever considered the themes that constitute your life narrative? Are there recurring episodes in your life that you want to use a remote control to fast forward through? What if we were unapologetic about our lives? What would you replace “woulda, shoulda, coulda” with? Do Unitarian Universalists understand life stories in any unique ways that feed our minds and hearts? Come; let’s ask a lot of questions, propose some ideas and leave the service with more questions.

Join Rev. Karen Hutt on Wednesday, Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. for this midweek worship experience for adults and older youth. This service is a brief time (20-30 minutes) of connection, centering, and reflection to help us find and keep our balance.

Launch the Wednesday Worship Zoom here – 7 p.m.

Webinar ID: 117-312-320.
To join by phone (audio only), dial 1-312-626-6799 and enter the webinar ID.

Care Companions Space ~ 7:30 p.m.
We know that worship can take us into deep and surprising places. If you find yourself needing to talk with someone about what is stirring for you after worship, please speak with one of our care companions in a confidential zoom room after the service. This is how we care for one another.

The truth is, grief hurts. It is exhausting, disorienting, and downright awful when we lose someone or something that matters to us. As we approach a year of pandemic living and losing, grief is our everyday companion. The author and activist, adrienne maree brown, reminds us that we are water, that the salt trails of our tears are the natural outcome of our living and loving. This Sunday, February 21, we’ll continue to recognize our losses and the love that keeps us connected.

Follow along with the Order of Service

Offering: Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism
(give here) or text firstuniv to 73256. You’ll receive a link to a secure form where you can enter your information. Select the “Offering Plate” fund from the dropdown menu.

Care Companions Space ~ 11 a.m.
We know that worship can take us into deep and surprising places. If you find yourself needing to talk with someone about what is stirring for you after worship, please speak with one of our care companions in a confidential zoom room after the service. This is how we care for one another.

First Step ~ 11-11:30 a.m. today
First Step is a brief, casual orientation to Unitarian Universalism and First Universalist Church. Today, First Step will be abbreviated to 30 minutes. Participants will learn about the foundations of our faith tradition and opportunities to get involved. If you attend First Step this morning, please fill out our Visitor Connect form so we can follow up with you! Thank you!

Post-Worship Fellowship Hour for BIPOC and Multiracial folks ~ 11-11:30 a.m. today
A social space for those who identify as black, indigenous, people of color, and multiracial to connect.

Sunday Small Groups & All Identities Fellowship Hour – 11-11:30 a.m. today 
Fellowship hours will funnel through this link. Breakout room options are:
Six-Week Sunday Small Groups (pre-registration required)
All-Identities Fellowship Hour

UUs in 12-Step Recovery – 11:30-12:30
Do you identify as someone in 12-Step recovery? Would you like to build community at church and add a layer of support for yourself and others? Join this drop-in group for UUs in 12-step based recovery from all kinds of addiction and family dysfunction. We’ll join in a time of silent meditation, explore a topic, and share our experience, strength and hope with each other. Participation in the meeting is confidential, and no sign up is required.

Annual State of the Church Meeting – 11:30 a.m.
Join us for our annual State of the Church meeting, which will include updates from the board and staff on the upcoming ministerial transition, finances, and Phase 2 of the capital campaign and building renovation. Our State of the Church meeting this year will be held via Zoom. You can join us live, or watch the recording, which will be made available within a few days. (Webinar ID: 844 7686 9954). To join via phone (audio only), dial 1-312-626-6799 and enter the webinar ID.

How adept are you at living with the realities of ambiguity? Does multiplicity cloud your theological constructs or does it enhance them? How can we live out our faith as UUs as what is true today is not true tomorrow? Join Rev. Karen Hutt this Wednesday, Feb. 17  as we explore these questions, create new ones, and leave without answers.

This midweek worship experience is a brief time (20-30 minutes) of connection, centering, and reflection, to help us find and keep our balance during this time of pandemic and physical distancing.

Launch the Wednesday Worship Zoom here – 7 p.m.

Webinar ID: 117-312-320.
To join by phone (audio only), dial 1-312-626-6799 and enter the webinar ID.

Care Companions Space ~ 7:30 p.m.
We know that worship can take us into deep and surprising places. If you find yourself needing to talk with someone about what is stirring for you after worship, please speak with one of our care companions in a confidential zoom room after the service. This is how we care for one another.