Stories Behind Stories: Real History and Sherlock Holmes
Sunday, Jul 10, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Brad Keefauver Overview: In the late 1800s, a new legend was born from the pen of a doctor named Arthur Conan Doyle that literally inspired both real and fictional detectives for the century that followed. What do those...Building Our Church
Sunday, Jul 17, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Amy Kordonowy and Carol Manny Overview: What is the foundation of this congregation? Love? Compassion? Justice? How might it all fit together? All ages are welcome to share in the service. Coffee Hour Afterwards &...Stories of Gratitude
Sunday, Jul 24, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Carol Manny and Bob Woolsey Overview: TBD Coffee Hour Afterwards & Offering...Learning to be Seen in a World That Would Rather Hide You Away: My Journey in Body Positivity
Sunday, July 31, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Mary Warren Kuester Overview: Growing up I never saw myself represented in the books I read or the other media I consumed, and if I did it was never in a positive light. It wasn’t until I happened upon a romance novel...UU Prison Ministry
Sunday, Aug 7, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: TBD Coffee Hour Afterwards & Offering...Blessing of the Animals
Sunday, Aug 14, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis and a Cast of Thousands Overview: TBD Coffee Hour Afterwards & Offering...The Question Box Sermon
Sunday, Aug 21, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: TBD Coffee Hour Afterwards & Offering...On Solar Power
Sunday, Aug 28, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Kiersten Sheets with Trajectory Energy Partners Overview: TBD Coffee Hour Afterwards & Offering...
Believing Us
Sunday, Jun 26, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Leela Sinha (ze/zim/zir) Overview: Ours is a living faith. What does it mean to be the UUs we say we are? If we were to follow our deepest passions, what might we become? Reverend Leela Sinha joins us via Zoom from...
The Paths We Do Not Choose
Sunday, Jun 19, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Tom Byrom Overview:I am going to talk about my spiritual journey, in particular some unwelcome events that have, I hope, led to a more meaningful life. This journey will always be a work in progress, but there are some...
Celebrating Blessings
Sunday, Jun 12, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer and a Cast of Thousands Overview:Join us at the Herm Farm for our annual picnic and celebration of the past year. The picnic begins at 9:30am. The service at the farm begins around 10:45am. A recorded...
Flower Communion: Emerging Beauty
Sunday, Jun 5, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis and Amy Popp, CRE Overview: Join us for a celebration of story and the abundance of life as we honor our ritual of the Flower Communion. For this multi-age service, all are invited to bring flowers as...
The Beauty of Music
Sunday, May 29, 2020 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis and Graduating Senior High Youth Overview: Join us as we enjoy the return of Music Sunday with our excellent choir led by Dave Breeden. We will also honor the senior high youth who are moving from...
Riding the Winds of Change
Sunday, May 22, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis and Amy Popp Overview: Join us for Religious Education Teacher Appreciation and marking the transitions in our lives. Amy Popp will offer the message in her next-to-last in person Sunday before she...
The Beauty That Makes Us
Sunday, May 15, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: How has beauty transformed your life? Reverend Jennifer shares reflections from many sources, including the words and images of members of the congregation. Note: This service is in lieu of...
Invisible Work
Sunday, May 8, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: The past few years have revealed major shifts in how and where we work. What is our religious response to how we value labor? Our special music comes from the Peoria Recorder Consort. Coffee...
The Wonder of Co-Creation
Sunday, May 1, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: As we begin the monthly theme of Nurturing Beauty, what do we create together? Join us as we celebrate the official end of our Annual Campaign. Share memories during Social Hour as we honor...
Get Rooted and Get Ready
Sunday, Apr 24, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): UU Ministry for the Earth with Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: When you imagine pathways to embodying the inherent worth and dignity of all people, particularly climate migrants, what do you see? Who is with you on in this...
After Easter
Sunday, Apr 17, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: The accounts of Easter tell of Jesus’ ministry, death, and the mystery of what happens after he dies. But his followers have to answer the question of, “What now?” This Easter Sunday also...
Awakenings
Sunday, Apr 10, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview:John O’Donohue tells us, “We live between the act of awakening and the act of surrender… they frame each day and each life; between them the journey where anything can happen, the beauty and...
The Breadth of Existence
Sunday, Apr 3, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: In honor of International Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31, join us for a time of witness and voice. Our guest voices include UUCP member Reverend Marcus Fogliano....
Ready for the Evolution
Sunday, Mar 27, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: We close the month with a focus on who we are and what we might become as a faith and as a beloved collection of people. Coffee Hour Afterwards & Offering...
A Question of Faith
Sunday, Mar 20, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: In the effort to renew faith, we must consider the nature of faith. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. offers, “Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.”...
Shaken and Stirred
Sunday, Mar 13, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: On the second anniversary of pandemic lockdowns, we set aside this moment and recognize the major events and our highly varied experience of life and loss. See Reverend Jennifer if you would...
The Blessing of Rest
Sunday, Mar 6, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: We begin the theme of Renewing Faith with an essential element: Rest. Groups such as The Nap Ministry call us to the sacred work of taking care of ourselves. Rest is Resistance. Get ready...
Follow the Breath
Sunday, Jan 30, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview:We close the month of living with intention by exploring the Buddhist practice of mindfulness. If we follow our breath, where will it lead us? Stay on Zoom after the service and join the...
Abortion and Faith
Sunday, Jan 23, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview:The 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade is next year, but the conversation is now. Given the range of theologies and personal choices, how do we talk about abortion as a people of faith? Stay on...
Choose to Love
Sunday, Jan 16, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview:Have you heard of bell hooks? bell hooks was the pen name of Gloria Jean Watkins. She was a writer, teacher, and activist who called us to put love into action. On this MLK Sunday, hear about...
Shoot the Moon
Sunday, Jan 9, 2022 @ 10:30 am – ONLINE ONLY Online Only – Service Zoom Link Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: For our theme of “Living with Intention”, we begin with how we are called onward. What if we were willing to “Shoot the Moon?” Coffee Hour...
Gratitude
Sunday, Jan 2, 2022 10:30 AM – ONLINE ONLY Online Only – Service Zoom Link Speaker(s): Reverend Susan Frederick-Gray & Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview:For the first Sunday of 2022, we gather only online for service. Reverend Jennifer will offer a path...
Kwanzaa and COVID
Sunday, Dec 26, 2021 @ 10:30 am – Online Only, Not In-Person Speaker(s): Garry Moore Service Zoom Link Overview: For the day after Christmas, we gather only online for service. Wear comfy pajamas and enjoy your coffee as Garry Moore shares a celebration of...
Winter Solstice Service
Tuesday, Dec 21, 2021 @ 7 PM Overview: We will chant, dance, and offer up our own gifts to add to the coming light on the eve before the longest, darkest night of the year. Coffee Hour Afterwards & Offering...
A Very Special Guest – A Holiday Service for All Ages
Sunday, Dec 19, 2021 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Guest Presenter, Brian Fox-Ellis Overview: Join us, people of all ages and stages, as we have a unique and wondrous visit from a very special guest who, through stories and music, will help us gain a deeper appreciation...
The Possibility of Joy
Sunday, Dec 12, 2021 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: There are so many forms for joy – ordinary, personal, shared, divine, radical, musical, and more. What is joy for our time? Join us for our New Member Recognition, too! Coffee Hour...
On the Origin of Questions
Sunday, Dec 5, 2021 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: The premise of Stephen Prothero in his book, “God is Not One”, is that each religion answers a different question. If each faith, or each of us, is answering a different question,...
The Joy of Christmas
Friday, Dec 24, 2021 ~ Christmas Eve @ 6 & 8 PM 6 PM Service8 PM Service Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: Join us for beautiful music and ancient and modern lessons as we celebrate Christmas. To have enough room for everyone and allow for space...
Stories of Legacy and Gratitude
Sunday, Nov 28, 2021 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis & Friends Overview: A long line of dedicated people made it possible for this congregation to exist and thrive today. What are the great stories? What are the small stories? Join Reverend Jennifer...
Culture is Our Lived Religion
Sunday, Nov 21, 2021 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Tet Gallardo Overview: Culture is lived religion. Cultural differences also cause religious differences. Folks who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color have long complained that the lack of culture in white...
On Principle
Sunday, Nov 14, 2021 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: Many of us cite the seven principles of Unitarian Universalism as a core expression of our shared values. From we covenant to promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person to the...
What Is of Worth
Sunday, Nov 7, 2021 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview:The pandemic upended everything about church life, especially how we congregate on Sunday mornings. As we keep learning about multi-platform worship, we can ask “why?” along with the “how?”...Adult RE: Thursday Nights
Dates: Thursdays @ 7pmFacilitator: Reverend Jennifer InnisLocation: Conference RoomZoom: https://bit.ly/38r5zRJ (pass 1843) April:Study of UU Principles Continues What do UUs Value? What do we promise to one Another? The UU Church of Peoria, and the UU Church of...
Thinning the Veil
Due to a technical error, audio was not recorded in the sanctuary and the service has been taken down Sunday, Oct 31, 2021 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: At this time of year, many cultures and faiths set aside time for when the veil...
Telling Our Stories
Sunday, Oct 17, 2021 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Darrick Jackson Overview: We are a people of story. The stories we tell shape how we see ourselves and the world. What happens if we change our stories? Coffee Hour Afterwards & Offering...
The Doctrine of Discovery
Sunday, Oct 10, 2021 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: Starting in the 15th and 16th centuries, the Doctrine of Discovery gave Christian Europeans the right to claim lands and resources of non-Christian people. With the discovery of more...
Essential Connections
Sunday, Oct 3, 2021 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: As we begin this month’s theme of “Cultivating Relationships,” we focus on the connections we choose. What are your most important relationships? How did they become part of your life? Coffee...
The Body Is Not an Apology
Sunday, Oct 24, 2021 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: Sonya Renee Taylor promotes radical self-love for Everybody and Every Body in her book, “The Body is Not an Apology.” How do we tend to the relationship with our bodies? Coffee Hour...
A New Normal?
Sunday, Sep 26, 2021 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: The pandemic has led to changes in how we work and how we regard the social contract. What is the role of Unitarian Universalism in the conversations about class, civility, and society?...
A Touch of Possibility
Sunday, Sep 19, 2021 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: “Ask what’s possible, not what’s wrong,” is a mantra from Rev. Sara LaWall. How do we dwell on the world? The weight of the world is real – and I wonder what is possible. Click here to join...