Sexuality Through a UU Lens
Sunday, Aug 30, 2020 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Dr. Melanie Davis Overview: Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Our Whole Lives (OWL) Sexuality Education, this service explores the Unitarian Universalist perspectives on sexuality and our internationally acclaimed Our...
A Pilgrim Church, A Servant Church
Sunday, Aug 23, 2020 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: As the winds of summer and our shifting world blow about us, what is the purpose of the church? How might we manifest our beloved community in this moment? Share the Plate: Peoria Friendship...
Blessing the Beginnings
Sunday, Aug 16, 2020 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview:Join Reverend Jennifer for a time to honor the beginnings in our lives. All ages are welcome! This service will include a “blessing of the backpacks” where we will recognize what we carry...
Guided by Echoes: A Personal Encounter with History
Sunday, Aug 9, 2020 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Lindy Peterson Overview: Honoring the past can provide insight for today and the future. Lindy Peterson shares some personal family history and how it shapes her perspective in the present. Share the Plate: Peoria Friendship...
Emotional intelligence and what we can learn about it from Disney movies
Sunday, Aug 2, 2020 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Mary Kuester Overview: Emotional intelligence is about 5 key components of emotional health and the skills we need to interact with others. They can be indicative of life long happiness and success. There are many life...
The NEW New Covenant: Redefining UU Polity for the 21st Century
Sunday, July 26, 2020 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Rev. Marcus Fogliano Overview: As Unitarian Universalists around the country grapple with what, if anything, connects us, questions of power and authority create narratives about how we are and aren’t in relationship. Rev....
My Time as a Grassroots Organizer in the Peoria Area
Sunday, Jul 19, 2020 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Chama St. Louis Overview:Join us on Sunday to hear Chama St. Louis talk about her time as a grassroots organizer right here in Peoria. Chama is the organizer for the Peoria People’s Project. The PPP is a community and labor...
Moving Forward with Our Troubling Past
Sunday, Jul 12, 2020 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Brad Keefauver Overview:Brad will speak on how stories reflect culture, and how to find good stories to move forward with amongst the bad stories of our past.. Share the Plate: Mom and Me Camp...
A New Birth of Freedom
Sunday, July 5 @ 10:30 AM Speaker(s): Reverend Martin Woulfe (Visiting Minister) Overview: On this July 4th Weekend, Rev. Martin Woulfe, minister of Springfield’s Abraham Lincoln Unitarian Universalist Congregation (ALUUC) will speak about the recent protests...
Sunday Morning Worship from Regional Assembly
Sunday, June 28 9:00-10:00 AM Sunday Morning Worship from Regional Assembly (registration not required)Click Here to Watch Overview: Join us for the largest annual gathering of UUs joining in worship. The worship service will include a collection for the Tomaquag...
Moving On
Sunday, Jun 21 @ 10:30 AM Speaker(s): Rev. Dave Clements & Rev. Lynnda White Overview: Within our life experiences we face many times where we find that the best choice or course is to just move on. Sometimes that can be painful and requires us to reimagine what...
Passages
Sunday, Jun 14, 2020 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Rev. Dave Clements Overview: Passage is defined as a way of exit or entrance: a road, path, channel, or course by which something passes. Our lives are made of the passages that unfold and the ones that we choose. With each...
Compassion in the Season of Recklessness
Sunday, Jun 7, 2020 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Rev. Lynnda White Overview:Does it feel as if money is more important than people right now? We are caught in some sort of Catch 22 where people are expected to risk their lives to make our economy work, and if they...
Youth Sunday
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Rev. Dave Clements, Rev. Lynnda White, CRE Amy Popp Overview: We all pass through many thresholds in our lives. Please join us on Sunday to recognize our bridging youth as they pass through one important threshold in their...
Flower Communion Sunday
Sunday, May 24, 2020 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Rev. Dave Clements, Rev. Lynnda White, CRE Amy Popp Overview:We will celebrate how everyone is unique. Everyone is asked to send in a photo of them with their favorite flower, and/or please send in photos of what has become...
Threshold or Brink: What is the Difference?
Sunday, May 17, 2020 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Rev. Lynnda White Overview:Where are we, at a threshold or a brink? This is certainly a time when many of us are on edge. What are we learning about ourselves as human beings as we live into an unexpected future? Who out...
The Purpose of Planting Seeds
Sunday, May 10, 2020 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Rev. Dave Clements Overview:For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would...
This Great Turning
Sunday, May 3, 2020 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Overview: 20th century Unitarian Universalist theologian James Luther Adams reminds us that we are “a pilgrim church, a servant church, on an adventure of the spirit.” We are bound to each other in...![Location, Location, Location [Candidate Sermon]](https://peoriauuchurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2020.04.26-Service-1080x675.png)
Location, Location, Location [Candidate Sermon]
(BELOW IS LAST WEEK’S SERVICE) Click Here for Today’s Service Sunday, Apr 26, 2020 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Reverend Jennifer Innis Reverend Jennifer is the candidate to be the next settled minister at the Universalist Unitarian Church of Peoria. After...
Human Liberty and Reverence for the Earth
Sunday, Apr 19, 2020 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Rev. Lynnda White Overview: If liberty is the freedom to live your lives the way we want, as it is defined in several dictionaries, we must ask what affects human liberty and freedom have on our earth, its creatures, and its...
Still I Rise
Easter Sunday, Apr 12, 2020 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Rev. Dave Clements Overview:“You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise.” Maya Angelou. Come and worship as we explore Maya’s...
The Price is Right
Sunday, Apr 5, 2020 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Rev. Dave Clements Overview: For over 30 years the popular game show, “The Price is Right” has had a wide variety of contests and games, all with the same basic challenge: guess the prices of everyday (and some...
A Topsy Turvy Time
Sunday, Mar 29, 2020 @ 10:30 am Speaker(s): Rev. Dave Clements & Amy Popp CRE Overview: How many of you are feeling confused, disarrayed, disheveled, disordered, rumpled, sloppy, tousled, or upside-down? In a short matter of time our world as we knew it has...
No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service… and Other Myths
Sunday, Mar 22, 2020 @ 10:30 am[Jazz Sunday was Cancelled due to COVID-19 concerns] Speaker(s): Rev. Lynnda White Overview:[Live Streamed]Rev. Lynnda White tells us about her thoughts regarding last week’s missing sound… Share the Plate: UUSC and...
The Abiding Wisdom of the Dude and “The Big Lebowski”
Sunday, March 15, 2020 @ 10:30 AM ********* Corona Update ********************This service was Live-Streamed & the building was closed due to COVID-19 concerns.********* Corona Update ******************** Speaker(s): Rev. Dave Clements Overview:Together we will...
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Sunday, March 1, 2020 @ 10:30 AM Speaker: Rev . Dave Clements Overview: Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. If we run a hundred miles an hour to the other end of the continent in order to get away from the obstacle, we find the very...
Are you a Carrot, an Egg, or a Coffee Bean?
Sunday, Feb 23, 2020 @ 10:30 am Speaker: Rev. Dave Clements Overview:Are you like a carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity, you wilt and become soft and lose your strength? Are you like an egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the...
Great Comebacks
Sunday, February 16, 2020 @ 10:30 am Speaker: Rev. Lynnda White Sermon Audio Overview:We often think of resilience as a personal attribute, but how does it happen at family, group, national, and global levels? Is it ever too late to struggle for a comeback? What if we...
Busyness and Resilience
Sunday, February 9, 2020 @ 10:30 am Speaker: Rev. Meredith Olson Sermon Audio Overview:We welcome Bloomington-Normal’s Intern Minister Meredith Olson to our pulpit. Meredith is a past Peoria church member and is now completing her schooling to be come a UU...
Take a Breath
Sunday, February 2nd, 2020 @ 10:30 am Speaker: Rev. Dave Clements Overview:Sometimes in band or choir, music requires players or singers to hold a note longer than they can hold a note. In those cases, one is taught to mindfully stagger when each takes a breath, so...
The Artist’s Struggle for Integrity
Sunday, January 26, 2020 @ 10:30 am Speaker: Rev Dave Clements Sermon Audio It seems to me that the artist’s struggle for his integrity must be considered as a kind of metaphor for the struggle, which is universal and daily, of all human beings. An artist tries to...
MLK What Lessons Can We Learn
Sunday, January 19, 2020 10:30 am Speaker: Rev. Dave Clements Overview: As we celebrate the life of this visionary leader, what lessons can we learn from what he taught over 30 years ago. Where are we on fulfilling MLK’s dream? The choir will sing. Share the Plate:...
Where is Wisdom to be Found
Sunday, March 8, 2020 @ 10:30 AM Speaker(s): Pastor Charles Eduardo Overview:“The good news is you don’t need to be brilliant to be wise; The bad news is that without wisdom, brilliance isn’t enough…” Pastor Charles will explore with us this concept as to where is...
Integrity: We Know It When We See It
Sunday, Jan 12, 2020 @ 10:30am Reverend Lynnda White Overview:We all know what “integrity” means, but if we had to define it for someone, what would we say? Would you stumble over the words that you feel so clearly in your heart? It’s our nature to understand words at...
The Awe Within
Sunday, Dec 8, 2019 @ 10:30am We stop. We pause…We journey deep down into that quiet center where no voice is heard…Here is the center of the world. In this instant are centered the whirling orbs, the movement of earth and sky. In this fragile moment of...
Why it doesn’t pay to be a people pleaser
Sunday, Dec 5, 2019 @ 10:30 am Rev. Dave Clements sermon for December 5th suggests you ought to be pleasing...
Beyond Categorical Thinking
Sunday, Oct 20, 2019 @ 10:30am Rev. Keith Kron is Director of the Transitions Office of the Unitarian Universalist Association, helping congregations with the ministerial search...
Silence and the Discovery of Belonging
Sunday, Oct 13, 2019 @ 10:30am Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us. Not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of...
We are all in this together
Sunday, Oct 6, 2019 @ 10:30am Rev. Dave...
The Future Is In Our Hands
Sunday, Sep 29, 2019 @ 10:30am Rev. Dave Clements talks about the role of the Interim Minister, as the congregation continues the process of looking for a Settled...
When Children Lead The Way
Sunday, Sep 22, 2019 @ 10:30am If you’ve been watching the news, you know that school children around the world have been urging action on climate change. Rev. Lynnda White speaks about children leading the way, from the Doctrine of Discovery to gun laws to...
I Know This Rose Will Open
Sunday, Sep 15, 2019 @ 10:30am After the congregation sang “I know this rose will open”, Rev. Dave Clements invited them to explore their expectations and how something within us all can and will...
The Water Service
Sunday, Sep 8, 2019 @ 10:30 am Rev. Lynnda White delivers the homily in the UU Church of Peoria’s annual “Water Service”, the first service of the fall...
Beauty and the Beast
Sunday, Jun 2, 2019 @ 10:30 am What does the story of the Beauty and the Beast teach us about beauty? What does thestory say about us as Unitarian Universalists and how we view the...
Curiosity May Kill the Cat, But It Can Nourish UUs
Sunday, May 5, 2019 @10:30 am Curiosity gets a bad rap, as in “Curiosity killed the cat.” But Unitarian poet E.E. Cummings wrote, “Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human...
A Conversation with a Rabbi
Sunday, Apr 28, 2019 @ 10:30 am There’s nothing like answering someone’s questions about what you believe in…or don’t believe in…to sharpen your focus on your faith. That’s sort of what happens with Rev. Dave and Rev. Lynnda in a...
Finding Yourself
Sunday, Apr 14, 2019 @ 10:30 am As Rev. Lynnda White tells us, “finding yourself” shouldn’t require a GPS. ‘Finding yourself’ is not how it works. You aren’t a ten-dollar bill in last winter’s coat pocket. You are also not lost. Your true self...