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Sunday Services
 We welcome you to our Sunday Services at 10:00 a.m. throughout the year, services which express our values of inclusivity and radical hospitality.
We are a thinking and feeling congregation and our worship stretches our minds and touches our hearts. We are a congregation of all ages with growing numbers of young families. We are multicultural and multiracial and our worship life expresses the rich diversity of our congregation.
In our weekly Sunday morning worship we celebrate life, seek truth and meaning, build community, offer comfort in times of sorrow, and challenge each other to live our deepest, highest values in everyday life. With inspiring, sometimes meditative, sometimes joyful music, we fill our spirits and strengthen our courage.
Our Worship leaders include our senior minister, director of religious education, many guest ministers, our music director and choir, and may lay leaders spanning the ages from youth through young adults to older adults. Our worship leaders collaborate to create services that flow through words and music, rich sound and color, story, rituals and silence. Our choir’s music is very diverse, reflecting our multicultural sensibilities, and the music draws us into meditation or lifts us up in thanksgiving for life. Each service also includes times of meditation and prayer.
Our children are with us for the first part of every service before we sing them to the religious education programs, and we have from 6 to 8 completely multigenerational services throughout the year, including our Water Ceremony after Labor Day, United Nations Sunday with the Chicago Children’s Choir, Thanksgiving, Holiday Sunday in December, Kwanzaa, Easter, Religious Education Sunday and Flower Communion Sunday in June.
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Sunday Service - September 5 |
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Michael Brunson, Guest Speaker
Public Service Workers: Rights Under Attack
The Social Justice Council will hold its annual Labor Day Sunday Worship Service, to celebrate and lift up the cause of workers. This year's service will focus on the work of those in the public sector, with a special attention to teachers. Michael Brunson, the Recording Secretary for the Caucus of Rank and File Educators (CORE), who is a member of First Unitarian Church, will deliver the pulpit presentation, which is titled "Love, Labor and Time". As usual, this service will feature many labor related songs, with music provided by John Kimsey and the Twisted Roots. Tell your friends who work for a living to come to this wonderful worship service.
The Social Justice Council will hold a special collection to aid refugees from the great floods in Pakistan.
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Sunday Service - September 12 |
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Rev. Dr. Nina D. Grey,Rev. Dr. W. David Arksey,
Virginia LeBeau, DRE, Lara Tushla, Madeiria Myrieckes
Ingathering Water Ceremony – Beauty, Joy, Kinship and Care
Be with us for our annual multigenerational Ingathering Sunday, as we begin our 2010-2011 church year with the Water Ceremony. We remember to bring some water from our individual journeys and we pour the waters together into a common bowl. In this way, we blend our individual paths in shared community. This year we will focus on three themes drawn from the song, For the Beauty of the Earth. The themes are Beauty, Joy, and Kinship and Caring. Please take time to think ahead of time about the meaning of the water you bring, in relation to one of these three themes. During the service you will be invited to share very briefly about the meaning of the water, if you wish. Michael Thorn and our choir, regathering after a summer hiatus will grace the service with joyful song.
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Sunday Service - September 19 |
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Rev. Dr. Nina D. Grey
Called to Mindfulness, a High Holy Days Reflection
As always, the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashonah, inaugurated a ten-day time of reflection, and culminated in the holy day of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, just now past. There are many important themes of these holy days: praise of creation and the source of creation, thanksgiving for blessings, reflection on the covenantal relationship with the Holy or with Life, repentance or turning, asking for, offering and receiving forgiveness, and beginning again. The shofar is blown, waking us to what is right in front of us, and alerting us again to our highest, deepest values. We are called to awareness, that we might make mindful, life-affirming choices.
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Sunday Service - September 26 |
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Ms. Kathleen “Kay” Montgomery
Rev. Jack Mendelsohn
Remember, Rejoice, Renew!
We hope to welcome back the Rev. Jack Mendelsohn to our congregation for this weekend and this Sunday service. If Jack’s health permits, he will join us in the sanctuary on this Sunday morning, the official kick-off of our 175th Anniversary Year. And this morning we are delighted also to welcome Ms. Kathleen “Kay” Montgomery, long-time Executive Vice President of the UUA. On this very festive day, Kay Montgomery will offer the guest sermon and bring us the greetings of the Unitarian Universalist Association. Kay tells us that she has a special place in her heart for our church, and those of us who know Kay through her many years serving our Association have a special place in our hearts for her.
In this service, we expect to show an excerpt from a videoed interview of Jack Mendelsohn, filmed at General Assembly 2010. In the interview Jack recalls his years of service as minister of our congregation. The service will be followed by a very special Social Hour. Join us as we officially enter our Year of Celebration! |
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