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Guest Speaker Rev. Addae Kraba's service delivered on June 16, 2024. This week we celebrate Juneteenth. Whatever way we choose to become indebted economically, thereby chaining ourselves to a workforce that we hate out of necessity is a personal choice of imprisonment. However, true freedom is a natural right that every human being is born with.

Rev. Chris Jimmerson and Kelly Stokes with our Chalice Campers' service delivered on June 9, 2024. This week we hosted Chalice Camp, a summer day camp exploring UU history, theology, values, and traditions. During worship this Sunday, the campers and counselors will be sharing some of the songs and stories from camp. Join us for this youthful - and very joyful - worship service.

Rev. Chris Jimmerson and Rev. Michelle LaGraves's service delivered on June 2, 2024. This Sunday we hold our annual Flower Communion Service. Please join us for this much-loved Unitarian Universalist ritual exchange of flowers. During the service partisipants have the opportunity to add flowers to the large bouquets and to take a different flower home, symbolizing both the unique, sacred beauty of each of us and the even greater beauty we create when we share that sacred uniqueness with one another.

The May 26, 2024 service will be delivered by the First UU Youth Group. Our High School Youth Group will take us on a journey of coming of age in the twenty-first century. The youth will share music and readings that have resonated with them this year, along with very real and sometimes challenging stories and reflections on mental health, being a teen, and being a UU.

Rev. Michelle LaGraves and Guest Speaker, VP of the UU Service Committee, Cassandra Ryan's service delivered on May 19, 2024. From fighting for climate justice in the South Pacific, to assisting refugees in Ukraine, supporting migrants in Central America, and helping rebuild civil society in Haiti, please join us to learn about UUSC's work around the world and how UU's are partnering to promote peace, justice, and global solidarity.

Rev. Michelle LaGraves's service delivered on May 12, 2024. Did you know that God had a "wife"? Her name was Asherah and stories of this old Hebrew Goddess remain in the Bibles of today. On this Mother's Day, let us reclaim the story of the Queen of Heaven.