Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Sep 24, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: We speak of welcoming, but what does it mean to do so in real life? Coffee Hour Afterwards & Offering...
Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Sep 17, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Jesi Laughlin, DLRE Overview:Nurturing moral and spiritual growth is the foundation of any faith. What are we exploring this year? The children and youth begin their program today. Coffee Hour...
Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Sep 10, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: Potluck and Splash Games after Service This Ingathering marks the start of the church year. We offer our commitments to one another and celebrate being part...
Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Sep 3, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: For our end of summer Question Box Sermon, we are part of creating the message along with Reverend Jennifer. Send her your questions ahead of time or in person...
Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Aug 27, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis and a Cast of Thousands Overview:Join us for our Blessing of the Animals! Beloved animals are welcome to join us on site or in a photo. In person pets must be leashed or...
Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Aug 20, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Michael Brown Overview: Rev. Michael will share reflections on the 2023 Parliament of the World’s Religions. Coffee Hour Afterwards & Offering...
Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Aug 13, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): BJ Lindsey Overview: BJ challenges us to appreciate what we may be overlooking. Coffee Hour Afterwards & Offering...
Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Aug 6, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Joyce Harant Overview:Film will educate us on the closure of the coal plant and the current issues. Discussion in the conference room will follow. Click HERE to view the film on its own. Coffee...
Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Jul 30, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): CUUPs Overview: Lughnasadh is a Pagan Holiday and one of the eight Wiccan Sabbats that mark the turning of the year. This ritual is a time to celebrate the very beginning of the harvest, when...
Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Jul 23, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Jeanette Gruber Overview: Jeanette helps us explore love relationships (including the ones with our pets!) along with author Mary Frances O’Connor, PhD, whose work, The Grieving Brain, is our...
Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Jul 16, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Paul Resnick Overview: Paul will share alternatives to the green grass lawn. Coffee Hour Afterwards & Offering...
Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Jul 9, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Pat Harris Overview: Pat will share the immigration story of her father and the remarkable way in which it unfolded. Coffee Hour Afterwards & Offering...
Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Jul 2, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Brad Keefauver Overview:Even though fans are wiser than ever about the mythology of sports entertainment, professional wrestling is still popular. What can this tell us about belief, truth, and...
Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Jun 25, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Judith Koren-Shanahan, Peoria UU Member Overview: We explore the impact the arts have on us today. Coffee Hour Afterwards &...
Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Jun 18, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Kathy Carter, Peoria UU Member Overview: Kathy will share stories and events from the UUPC history that have shaped us into who we are today. Coffee Hour Afterwards & Offering...
NO ZOOM PLEASE JOIN US AT THE HERM FARM IN-PERSON OR WATCH THE PRE-RECORDED SERVICE BELOW Sunday, Jun 11, 2023 @ 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....
Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Jun 4, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis and Jesi Laughlin, DLRE 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,...
Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, May 28, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: Memorial Day weekend marks the cusp between Spring and Summer. What have we already received year? How shall we prepare for what is to come? Coffee Hour...
Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, May 21, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Universalist Unitarian Church Choir Overview: Join us as we enjoy our annual Music Sunday with our excellent choir led by Dave Breeden. Everyone starts in worship. Children may remain in service...
Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, May 14, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: The creative principle is everywhere, as are the forces working against it. How do you navigate that flow? We will enjoy the music of the Peoria Recorder Group....
Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, May 7, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: As the Nazis rose to power in Western Europe, many churches ignored or denied the growing threat. Unitarian theologian James Luther Adams called those...
Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Apr 30, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: Unitarian Universalism is committed to creating a more just and equitable world. And – we arepredominantly white with a mixed history of being anti-racist and...
Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Apr 23, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Florence Caplow Overview: “Oh to be a pear tree—any tree in bloom!” Zora Neale HurstonCome celebrate Earth Day with the poetic voices of women honoring the earth, as well asreflections...
Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Apr 16, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview:Humans come in so many forms, including how our minds work. How do we expand ourunderstanding of human intelligence as we strive to welcome all?The choir will...
Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Apr 9, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: Guest Musician: Wes SedrelJesus always flipped the tables on people’s expectations as he showed a new way of relating toeach other. What do we learn from him...
Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Apr 2, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: What might we mere mortals offer to a bruised and hurting world? Join us for the kickoff of our Annual Campaign and dream of our work in the world. The choir...
Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Mar 26, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: On this last Sunday with the theme of Vulnerability and before we enter into April’s theme of Resistance, we pause to pay attention to our brokenness, our...
Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Mar 19, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: The first women in ministry faced bias and few opportunities. But the Great Plains of the 1800’s were an opportunity for a band of Unitarian women. Who were...
Sunday, Mar 12, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: Rosabeth Moss Kanter tells us that “The most radical thing we can do is connect people to one another. That starts conversations toward a vision for change.” What does connection mean for us...
Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Mar 5, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: How do we declare what we hold dear in this time? Join us for how this faith is exploring new ways to name our foundation and our values. See the notice about...
Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Feb 26, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview:As part of Black History Month, hear about a woman who sought equality for all people as she navigated being a Black Unitarian woman in antebellum United States....
Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Feb 19, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Carin Bringelson Overview:Come explore the loving roots of Unitarian Universalism. When we dig deep into our spiritual sustenance, we might just find that love is as messy as it is...
Sunday, Feb 12, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview:In conjunction with our series on the six sources of Unitarian Universalism, we consider the relationship between love and surrender in Islam. Coffee Hour Afterwards & Offering...
Sunday, Feb 5, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview:Over the past few decades, Love has grown as the primary word for Unitarian Universalism. Are we The Love Church? The choir sings today. Coffee Hour Afterwards & Offering...
Sunday, Jan 29, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Craig Schwalenberg Overview:Ever play Let’s Pretend? Ever visit the Kingdom of Make-Believe? Maybe when we were kids, but we’re too old for that now…aren’t we? I certainly hope not. Grab your chalk, hop on the...
Sunday, Jan 22, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Members of the Congregation Overview: Finding our center includes listening to the lives of those who have seen and known so much of this world. Children and youth ask questions of our older members. All are welcome for this...
Sunday, Jan 15, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: As we remember the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., what is the place of justice in our lives and in our beliefs? Coffee Hour Afterwards & Offering...
Sunday, Jan 8, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview:Our efforts at a liberal approach to religion is based on deep mutual commitments. Speaking our covenant out loud lifts the heart. How do our promises work with real, live human beings? The...
Sunday, Jan 1, 2023 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Jesi Laughlin, Director of Lifespan Religious Education Overview: What is at your center? Let’s look inside ourselves set an intention, and create a touchstone to recall all year long. Coffee Hour Afterwards & Offering...
Sunday, Dec 25, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis and the Congregation Overview: On Christmas Morning, join us for carols, stories, and brunch in Fellowship Hall. We will take turns unwrapping the parts of the service and sharing them as they emerge....
Saturday, Dec 24, 2022 @ 7:00 pm Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis and the Congregation Overview:For Christmas Eve, we share the message of the birth of Jesus through ancient and modern texts and beautiful music. This service will feature music from Dave Breeden and...
Sunday, Dec 18, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: So often in our language we use “black” or “dark” to refer to what is fearful and evil. Let us explore the richness of the Dark in our lives. The choir will sing. Coffee Hour Afterwards...
Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Dec 11, 2022 @ 10:30 am No Facebook Stream or Posted Recording on 12/11 To honor the privacy of our youngest members and friends, worship on December 11th will be available on the church’s public Zoom feed but will not be streamed...
Sunday, Dec 4, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview:What is the place of wonder in our lives? What has wonder done for us lately? The choir sings today. Coffee Hour Afterwards & Offering...
Sunday, Nov 27, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: How do you feel in your body as well as your heart? Before we enter into December’s theme of Wonder, let’s spend a moment on locating ourselves and our ever-shifting physical forms. Coffee...
Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Nov 20, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: For over 40 years, Unitarian Universalists have worked from a core expression of our values as named in seven Principles and six Sources. Now we are asked to...
Sunday, Nov 13, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: On this Sunday after the elections, we explore what it means to live in a divided time and hold true to a democratic process. The Fall Congregational Meeting is after the service. Coffee...
Sunday, Nov 6, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview:We begin this month’s theme of the Path of Change by addressing it directly. William Bridges offers a guide on how to make sense of change, even when everything is in flux. The choir...
Sunday, Oct 30, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis, Jesi Laughlin DLRE & the Congregation Overview:At this time of year, many cultures and faiths set aside time for when the veil between the living and the dead grows thin. This year we will...
Sunday, Oct 23, 2022 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis & Jesi Laughlin, DLRE Overview:The mission of this congregation includes the call to grow spiritually. What does spiritual growth mean to you? What do we offer and what would you like to explore?...
