Index of Sunday Services 1998-2003

May 4, 2003
Rev. Walker/Lia McCoo and others

"In Just Spring"

A Way Cool Sunday School Multigenerational Celebration of Spring, Green, Colors and Warmth. We will
also honor and thank all our Way Cool Sunday School facilitators , pre-school and kindergarten teachers
and youth advisors.

May 11, 2003
Rev. Nina D. Grey

To Dwell Together In Peace

New Member Welcoming Ceremony

Last month I began a homily/sermon series, reflecting on the covenant we say each Sunday: Love is the
spirit of this church, and service its law. This is our great covenant: to dwell together in peace, to seek the
truth in love, and to help one another. Easter Sunday's homily was: Love Is the Spirit. This morning we
think on the meaning of dwelling together in peace. This Mother's Day weekend service honors Julia Ward
Howe's Mothers Day peace proclamation. We reflect on needs and hopes for peace-dwelling in families,
communities and nations.

May 18, 2003

Choir Sunday
The Choir, Director Ron Wentzel, and Rev. Nina D. Grey

To Seek the Truth in Love

In this spring concert our choir will sing songs of many languages. Rev. Nina Grey's homily will reflect on
the loving seeking of truth in diverse communities such as ours, in which people view realities through
different lenses and speak many different "languages."

May 25, 2003
Guest Speaker: Stefanie S. Etzbach-Dale

The Light At The Tip Of The Candle.

The idea for this Memorial Day weekend sermon came from my reflection on the meaning of Memorial
Day and the honoring of our individual and collective memories. A reading of Thich Nat Hahn's "Love In
Action" prompted me to think more deeply about the resources these memories are for individual and
collective transformation, and to think about how this connects with our Unitarian Universalist heritage
and principles.

Stefanie S. Etzbach-Dale, our speaker on May 25, is a Unitarian Universalist ministerial candidate,
completing her second year of graduate studies at Meadville Lombard Theological School in the Masters
of Divinity program. With a special emphasis on pastoral care, she has served as Chaplain Intern at NYU
Medical Center and at UCLA Medical Center.

Since February of this year she has been involved in field work with this congregation under the
supervision of Rev. Nina Grey. During this time, she has been learning a great deal about the life of this
religious community and the roles and responsibilites entailed in active ministry -- particularly through
participation in worship services here and at Montgomery Place and co-leadership of the Small Group
Ministry Learning Groups. Stefanie is grateful to all who have welcomed her, offering guidance and
support in this learning process.

Stefanie will be with us until the middle of June. As a result of this experience at First Unitarian Church,
Stefanie feels well prepared to enter the next stage of her ministerial formation. In June she will be
leaving Chicago for a one-year internship at Santa Monica Community Church in Los Angeles, where she
will finally be joining her husband, George, and three step-children, Gregory (17), Natalie (14) and
Alex(9).

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