Category Archives: Services

A List of Sunday Morning Programs

January 1 Service: “Letting Go”

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The Burning Bowl: A Ritual for the New Year

Worship Leader: Karen Fothergill

The ‘New Year’ is an artificial ‘beginning,’ but a useful way to reflect on the year past and an opportunity to release ourselves from things we said or did that we wish we hadn’t, or what we didn’t say and didn’t do and wish we had. The ritual of the Burning Bowl is a timeless invitation to “begin again.” This will be a simple service of music, meditation and sharing.

During our service this morning, MVUUF member Karen Fothergill will lead us in our Burning Bowl ceremony to provide space to release fears, sorrows, and regrets and put them behind us in order to make way for new beginnings and resolutions.

As we continue to seek out the stories of hope in our world in the New Year, there are also some things we would very much like to put behind us from the old year. Scraps of paper on which to inscribe those things from which we would seek to unburden ourselves will be distributed (you may also inscribe these things prior to coming to our fellowship in the privacy of your own homes).

These scraps of paper will then be placed in the Burning Bowl and consign them to the purifying flames.

A discussion will immediately follow our service.

December 24th at 6 pm: A Christmas Eve Candelight Service “Each Night a Child is Born is a Holy Night”

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We will gather on this Christmas Eve in our beloved community, to reflect on our many blessings and celebrate the miracle of our very lives, because even during the coldest and darkest time of the year, every night a child is born is a holy night.  We will listen to traditional readings and beautiful music, share the light of many candles and sing carols together, ending our time together with the beautiful Silent Night.  Join us for this multi-generational service that is sure to feed your soul and lift your heart.Worship Leader: Rev. Suzanne Marsh
Worship Associate: Ryan Terry

Please note: We will not be having a service Sunday, December 25th Christmas Day.

December 18th Service: “Holiday Music”

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Whatever your holiday traditions may be, this Sunday we invite you to join us in celebrating a few of the many reasons for the season.  The service will include music and readings of Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas, and Winter Solstice.

Come sing along to your holiday favorites and enjoy a message of peace for all

Worship Leader: Susanna Terry

Sunday, December 18, 2011
Twin Falls Senior Center, Twin Falls, Idaho
Beginning at 10:30 AM

December 11th Service: “A Piece of Quiet”

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In the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel, God afflicts the city with the curse of many languages so that they cannot understand each other. We live in times where it often seems we are afflicted in a similar way; we can easily feel like we are under assault from so many different directions with numerous incomprehensible demands and inexplicable requirements.  The world is a cacophony of bad news, tragedies and endless undone tasks.  At this time of year it seems worse, the many tasks of the holidays make us feel like we might be going over the edge. On this Sunday let us come together and explore how we might silence some of the external and internal noise of our lives and find a place of inner quiet to carry us through the holiday season.
Worship Leader: Rev. Suzanne Marsh
Worship Associate: Kyi Kyi Whiting

December 4th Service: “Dealing With Stress!”

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Donna Graybill-Roberts will lead the congregation with the topic “Dealing with Stress.”

Donna will discuss: stress, the effect of stress, how to manage stress and stress in the context of privilege and oppression.

Please join us this Sunday, December 4th, to hear Donna Graybill-Roberts timely message.

Worship Leader: Donna Graybill-Roberts
Worship Associate: Ken Whiting

November 27th Service: “What Are You Grateful For?”

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Speaker: Ryan Terry

What are you grateful for? Why is it so important to express our gratitude, and to whom or where should we focus our gratitude when it seems like there is no individual person or group to thank?

Ryan Terry will read an article titled “The Deep Thanksgiving of our Souls” by Daniel S. Schatz, a Unitarian Universalist minister from Warrington, Pennsylvania.
After reading this article we invite everyone to participate in a short discussion on the importance of gratitude.

PLEASE NOTE: BEGINNING IN DECEMBER, OUR SERVICES WILL BEGIN AT 10:30 AM 

November 20th Service: “Why Occupy Anything?”

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As I write this, the Occupy Wall Street Movement and its supporting protests all over the world are still going strong, despite the encroaching cold weather and growing police actions against protestors in many cities. Why is this movement of importance to us as Unitarian Universalists anyway? In this service, we’ll look at the roots of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and why the protests speak directly to the heart of our principles. What are these protests asking for?  If we can’t take to the streets, then what can each of us do to show our support and put our principles into action??

A discussion of the service topic will follow the service for those who are interested.

Worship Leader: Rev. Suzanne Marsh
Worship Associate: Karen Fothergill

November 13th Service: “A Queer Perspective on Love”

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Be drunk on love, because love is all that exists. It is Love and the Lover that lives eternally, don’t lend your heart to anything else; all else is borrowed. –Rumi

There is within the Sufi tradition the idea that everything is but a reflection of the divine. The tradition teaches that the more one polishes his or her heart the more one can see just how vast and interconnected the ocean of love we call reality really is. From Jesus to Rumi.

James Tidmarsh will share portions of his journey and will also explain why he believes that radical lovemaking is essential not only for one’s spiritual health but for the well being of the world as well.

Speaker: James Tidmarsh

Worship Associate: Dale Bostock

November 6 Service: “A Living Member of the Great Family of All Souls” + Potluck

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William Ellery Channing once said: “I am a living member of the great family of all souls”. The beginning of November brings us the holidays of Halloween, All Saints Day, All Souls Day, Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) and the pagan festival Samhain.
Each of these holidays remembers and celebrates those who are no longer with us at a time of the year where it is said that the veil between the living and the dead is at its thinnest. On this Sunday, together we will explore the essence of these traditions and consider how our connections to our ancestors and lost loved ones informs and enriches us.

Please bring a picture or other memento of a lost love one to decorate our altar as we gather this Sunday to remember and honor those we have lost. If you are so inclined, please bring flowers or other living things to decorate our altar. Children are welcome to wear their Halloween costumes!

Worship Leader: Rev. Suzanne Marsh
Worship Associate: Kyi Kyi Whiting

Please Note: There will be a potluck following the service. If you are wondering  type of dish to contribute, Susanna Terry has a sign-up list.