Upcoming Worship Topics

 

^{September 5, 2010}

10:00 a.m.

The Tao of UU

Davis Balestracci

Lao-Tzu’s Tao te Ching is a 2500 year old book consisting of 81 paragraphs of the most intense wisdom you will ever encounter.  In studying it for 15 years, it has had a profound effect on Davis’s spirituality.  He will introduce the concept of "Tao” and two of its especially important themes;  then, as a group, the congregation will explore its manifestations in healing, parenting, aging, coupling, and working followed by a meditation on the Tao’s views of "water” as a guide for everyday living.  The service will end by looking at the possibility for Tao’s seamless integration into our individual UU spiritualities.

Davis Balestracci has been a member of A2U2 for four years.  His "day job” is as a consultant in healthcare improvement, where he deals with the difficult psychology of culture change.  He constantly uses Tao principles (without calling them that) to heal work cultures…and the individuals in them

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Beginning Sept 12, there will be two services each Sunday, at 9 and 11 a.m. with programs of religious education for children and youth.

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During September and October, we will be reflecting on our mission and our ministry as we take stock of where we are, and envision our next steps as a congregation.  For six Sundays, one part of our mission statement will be highlighted in each worship service.

 

 September 12, 2010

9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.

All the Water is One Water      

Rev. Myke Johnson

During our ingathering service, we bring water from the places that are important in our lives, and pour them together into one container.  We will reflect on that part of our mission which says, we walk with care on this earth.  How does water teach us to walk with care on this earth? 

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