Index of Sunday Services 1998-2003

June 1, 2003

Mind the Gap: Honoring Youth and Young Adult Ministry

Rev. Marlene Walker, with help from our youth and young adults and Rev. Nina Grey

This multigenerational service will highlight the importance of youth, young adult and campus ministry to the future of our congregation and to the Unitarian Universalist Association. We will
celebrate our youth who are becoming young adults with a special "Bridging Ceremony" marking this important coming of age transition in their and our lives. We will also be taking a special
collection to support future UUA efforts in supporting Youth, Young Adult and Campus ministries throughout our association.

June 8, 2003

Flower Communion

Rev. Marlene Walker, Rev. David Arksey and Stefanie Etzbach-Dale

This is our annual multigenerational service celebrating the custom begun by Norbert Capek. We will remember the history and roots of flower communion and recognize the many "flowers" that make up the bouquet that is our beloved community.

June 15, 2003

Being the Wave and Not the Water

Rev. Walker and Rev. Arksey

Ministry is full of beginnings and endings, of entering and leaving. Each one changes us and makes us who we are. Yet, there is something that always remains as permanent and that is the
communities that are the home that our ministries take place in. We are never the water only the wave.

This will be Rev. Walker's last Sunday in our pulpit. There will be a special Social Hour following the service to say farewell. Please join us.

June 22, 2003

From Science to the Temple

Guest Speaker: Jody Whelden

Humility is a much overlooked spiritual virtue which has been shelved in a day dominated by reason and science. Today we will explore how humility is a necessary attitude to develop, the
roots of "being right" in the culture of science, and how we might resolve the apparent polarity between the two
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Jody Whelden completed a year and a half Internship at the Olympia Brown UU Church in Racine, Wisconsin, and returns there this summer to complete the internship. She has most
recently been Interim Speaker, at The Free Congregation of Sauk County -- a UU Fellowship.

Jody is a Candidate for Ministry and student at Meadville/Lombard Unitarian Universalist Theological School and she was a Practicum Minister in 2002-3, at the First Unitarian Society of
Madison, Wisconsin. Jody has a Master's Degree in Counseling from Antioch Graduate School of Education, and has practiced as a psychotherapist and counselor since 1974. She also has been
a learning consultant and professional presenter in the fields of learning and conflict transformation. She and her husband, Scott live in Madison, Wisconsin with their cats -- Adie
and Melville. Rev. Nina Grey is Jody's advisor.

June 29, 2003

An Outlook of Astonishment: What a Haiku Can Tell Us

Rosemary Snow

The optimism I am interested in is a state of being based on faith and hope not just a view through rose-colored glasses. I need to be ready to be astonished by a leaf or feather or a
well-tuned phrase. The makers of haikus capture the beauty of an instant so that it can be revisited when the moment is gone. I will bring haikus to share.

Rosemary and Dick Snow and their family have been coming to First Church since 1960 and have served in many capacities, teaching, singing and volunteering.

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