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Sunday, Jul 13, 2025 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Judith Koren-Shanahan Overview: There is a famous old saying, “Old age is not for sissies.” How do we muster the courage to face our aging futures? How do we make some of the hard decisions we all end up facing? ...
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Sunday, Jul 6, 2025 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Brad Keefauver Overview: After 87 years, another generation will be discovering Superman this summer, and all that lies behind that character. Brad Keefauver will explore the legend, lore, and meanings behind the greatest...
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Sunday, Jun 29, 2025 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Regina Stanley, Membership Coordinator Overview: As we conclude Pride Month and prepare for Peoria’s Pridefest on July 19, Regina Stanley reflects on the history of Pride and the meaning of being welcoming in our time....
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Sunday, Jun 22, 2025 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Keepers of the Great Grove Overview: Celebrate the Summer Solstice with Keepers of the Great Grove CUUPs Chapter. This longest day of the year is the perfect time to reflect on where we’ve been and where we are going. This...
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Sunday, Jun 15, 2025 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Jack Ryan Overview: Longtime member Jack Ryan shares his experience of being raised in the Catholic Church and how his spiritual and ethical evolution led him to Unitarian Universalism. Coffee Hour Afterwards & Offering...
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Sunday, Jun 8, 2025 @ 10:45 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis 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 service will be...
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Sunday, Jun 1, 2025 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis & 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. All are invited to bring flowers as we create our common...
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Sunday, May 25, 2025 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: On Memorial Day weekend, what is the state of this great American Experiment? Coffee Hour Afterwards & Offering...
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Sunday, May 18, 2025 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): UUCP Youth Overview: What is your Truth and how did you find it? Today, we will listen to the youth from our congregation to hear how they have wrestled with that question this year and to learn what some of their answers...
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Sunday, May 11, 2025 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: Our modern understanding of liberal religion did not instantly appear in the 20th century. What led to declarations of a new theology that moved away from the Trinity and to Unitarianism...
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Sunday, May 4, 2025 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: May the Force be with you on May the 4th! We begin this month’s theme of Imagination with the celebration of Star Wars Sunday. Whether or not you are a fan or know anything about the...
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Sunday, Apr 27, 2025 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview:In honor of Earth Day, we explore reciprocity, including all of our ancestors. Materials from the Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth inspire this service. Coffee Hour Afterwards &...
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Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Apr 20, 2025 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: Where is life to be found in the face of loss, death, and our all-too-human burdens? Join us after the service for the annual Egg Hunt. Coffee Hour Afterwards...
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Sunday, Apr 13, 2025 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: From Adrienne Maree Brown: “Feeling good is not frivolous. It is freedom.” What is the relationship between celebration and liberation? Coffee Hour Afterwards & Offering...
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Sunday, Apr 6, 2025 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: So often we are taught to chase the bright and big moments. What might emerge when we cherish the small wonders and the everyday miracles? Coffee Hour Afterwards & Offering...
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Sunday, Mar 30, 2025 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Charlie Davis Overview: What do we trust when all hope is gone? What gives us strength to survive? What gives us courage to move forward? Coffee Hour Afterwards & Offering...
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Sunday, Mar 23, 2025 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: The deep Islamic practice of contemplation and fasting for 30 days happens this month. How might this practice speak to us today? Coffee Hour Afterwards & Offering...
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Sunday, Mar 16, 2025 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: In a time when so many of us may not want to be part of a religious community, how do we create this church together?Join Reverend Jennifer in Fellowship Hall after the service to celebrate...
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Sunday, Mar 9, 2025 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: Trust is the delicate stuff that knits up the world. What happens when it is frayed and torn? Coffee Hour Afterwards & Offering...
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Sunday, Mar 2, 2025 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: “A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because her trust is not in the branch but in her own wings.” This month’s theme is the Practice of Trust. The Financial...
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Sunday, Feb 23, 2025 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Florence Caplow Overview: As we enter into a time of uncertainty and turmoil in our national life, finding our own personal grounding and clarity is essential, not just for our well-being but for our capacity to...
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Sunday, Feb 16, 2025 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview:We invite. We welcome. We host. This month’s theme is inclusion. What happens when we include? Coffee Hour Afterwards & Offering...
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Sunday, Feb 9, 2025 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: “Only connect” says E.M. Forster. We have so many ways to find each other and yet we miss each other all the time. How might we treat the epidemic of loneliness? Coffee Hour Afterwards &...
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Sunday, Feb 2, 2025 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Patrick Price Overview: As we begin the monthly theme of Inclusion, we turn to our commitments to climate justice and ask, “How might we be in right relationship with the Earth in this time?” Coffee Hour...
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Sunday, Jan 26, 2025 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: Each of us has a part in the story of our nation. Coffee Hour Afterwards & Offering...
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Sunday, Jan 19, 2025 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: Since its founding in 1843, this congregation has seen the conflicts and movements of the nation. What is our story as a religious community? What lives on with us? Coffee Hour Afterwards...
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Sunday, Jan 12, 2025 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: Join us for a chance to sing and share in the language of music. Stay after the service for aconversation about music in worship. Coffee Hour Afterwards & Offering...
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Sunday, Jan 5, 2025 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: What stories shaped our early lives? What are we creating today? See Reverend Jennifer if you would like to share a brief story. Coffee Hour Afterwards & Offering...
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Sunday, Dec 29, 2024 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Jill Thomas and the Worship Committee Overview: On the last Sunday of the year, join us for a ritual to bid farewell to the old year and gather our spirits for the year to come. Coffee Hour Afterwards & Offering...
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Tuesday, Dec 24, 2024 @ 7:00 pm Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: For Christmas Eve, we share the message of Jesus’ birth through ancient and modern texts and beautiful music. This service will feature violin music from EmmaLee Holmes-Hicks and piano and...
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Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Dec 22, 2024 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: In this season, we are pulled by our love of the world and our heartbreak for it. What boundaries need to be in place for us to be in our integrity and live...
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Sunday, Dec 15, 2024 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Rebecca Gant Overview: The ancient story of the night Jesus was born is often portrayed as a serene affair with Mary and Joseph, gazing adoringly at their new baby while a star lights up the sky. But the Mary of the...
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Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Dec 8, 2024 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: This year’s interactive pageant will focus on the radical story of an immigrant baby who was born to an unwed mom and grew up to fight the empire. Everyone is...
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Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Dec 1, 2024 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: This service focuses on World AIDS Day. Reverend Jennifer would like to hear your stories about AIDS and its impact. Email her at revjennifer@peoriauuchurch.org....
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Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Nov 24, 2024 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: Join us for a deeper exploration of how our stories shape our lives. This service follows on the theme of speculative fiction from the “What If…?” service of...
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Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Nov 17, 2024 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: What do a few of our world religions say about our monthly theme of Repair?Fall Congregational Meeting is after the service. Coffee Hour Afterwards &...
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Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Nov 10, 2024 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: On this Sunday after the election, we get our bearings for the work of our time.Soup Lunch to benefit Pleasant Valley Middle School after service. Coffee Hour...
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Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Nov 3, 2024 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: On this Sunday before the November election, we return to our highest ideals. How shall wemeet this moment with care and commitment? Coffee Hour Afterwards &...
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Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Oct 20, 2024 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview:One of our human superpowers is wondering. We wonder and then craft stories, draft machines, and make meaning. What stories do we need today? Bonus: All are...
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Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, October 13th @ 10:30 am Speaker: Babs Allen Climate change, systemic oppression, war, genocide, contentious politics…it can feel never ending and overwhelming. Would it feel different if we approached things from a place of love...
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Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Oct 6, 2024 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: As part of our exploration of spiritual practices, we honor Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. With this service, we will begin to work with our monthly theme...
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Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Oct 27, 2024 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis, Jesi Laughlin, and 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....
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Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Sep 29, 2024 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: Addressing climate crisis and climate justice are massive, daunting tasks. What if we returned to love? See how congregations across the country respond at...
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Sunday, Sep 22, 2024 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: In recent years, we have rediscovered the value of compassion. We also recognize the many forms of our “love languages.” What does pastoral care mean to you? How do we serve one another?...
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Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Sep 15, 2024 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: All human beings carry a hunger. This may be a literal hunger, or it might be for something challenging to name and impossible to satisfy. What do you hunger...
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Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Sep 8, 2024 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: This Ingathering marks the start of the church year. We offer our commitments to one another and celebrate being part of community that is called to create more...
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Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Sep 1, 2024 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: On Labor Day Sunday, Reverend Jennifer returns to her occasional series on democracy. Given the ever-shifting dynamics of our politics, how do we speak for...
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Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Aug 25, 2024 @ 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...
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Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Aug 18, 2024 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis 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 in a kennel or carrier....
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Join the 10:30am Service Zoom Sunday, Aug 11, 2024 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Sarah Allen Overview: Regenerative agriculture focuses on improving the health of soil, which has been degraded by the use of heavy machinery, fertilizers, and pesticides in...
