Award-winning hospice social worker and author, Lejla Becirovic, will discuss resilience based on her life’s journey and professional work supporting individuals and families through hardship and loss this Sunday at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. 

Worship Associate is Erica Hopkins

When we are battered by the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, by serious illness, loss of a loved one, loss of a job, financial crisis, betrayal, rejection, or depression, where do we find the strength to keep going, to have hope? Join us this Sunday as Tom Schwartz, retired professor and international consultant, will talk about those seasons of affliction and how they can lead us either to disillusionment and bitterness or to empathy, compassion and love. He will suggest ways in which suffering can bring with it compensation blessings and spiritual growth.  

Worship Associate is Don Morishita

This Sunday, we gather for Chocolate Communion, a sweet and sensory ritual reminding us that nothing that nourishes us is made alone. From cacao bean to shared table, chocolate carries a story of interdependence — of many hands, many lives, and many differences woven together. As we taste, we’ll reflect on love of neighbor, the gifts of diversity, and the truth that sweetness in our lives so often arrives through one another. Come ready to savor, to notice, and to remember that we belong to a web of connection far wider than we can see.

Presented by Perri Gardner.

Worship Associate Jonathan Thompson