Upcoming Worship Services
All of our services are Multi-Platform and you have the option of attending either In-Person or on Zoom.
In person we meet for worship at the Community for Positive Aging, 1820 NE 40th Ave., Portland, OR.
Every worship service is streamed online on Zoom.
Click here to join our service on Zoom
Meeting ID: 275 194 110
Phone In: (669) 900-6833
Wy’east UU is a shared ministry. Our quarter-time minister, Rev. Leslie Becknell Marx, leads one service most months and also often contributes elements to one other service each month. Our lay-leadership collaborates to bring a variety of guest ministers, other speakers and special programs on the remaining Sundays. These include regular appearances by Guest Minister Rev. Stephani Skalak with her focus on Personal Spiritual Practice, as well as a series of speakers and special collections related to our Social Justice focus for the year “We are Stronger Together.”
In months when there are 5 Sundays, which happens 4 or 5 times each year, we will typically gather for a service project rather than a worship service.
"Radical Hospitality, Radical Joy” Beth Madsen Bradford, Rahab's Sisters
Rahab's Sisters' Development Director, Beth Madsen Bradford, will join Wy'east UU to talk about radical hospitality, community building, and the healing power of connection.
Rahab's Sisters is a low-barrier day shelter and service hub welcoming women, trans, and nonbinary folks near 82nd Avenue in the Montavilla neighborhood. Beth Madsen Bradford is the Development Director at Rahab's Sisters. She has worked in the nonprofit sector for more than a decade, specializing in organizations dedicated to collaboration, community, and empowerment.
Special Collection: Rose Haven
Loyalty to Love: UUism in Authoritarian Times, Rev. Leslie Becknell Marx
Fascism demands loyalty to power; our UU values call us to loyalty to love. This service reflects on Timothy Snyder’s warning against tyranny and blind allegiance and explores how UU faith invites us to place our loyalty in compassion, justice, and the inherent worthiness of every person. We ask: what does it mean to choose love for the whole interdependent web of existence when fear tells us to choose sides?
First-Sunday Monthly Potluck after Service!
Building Our Way Towards Balance in These Times and Seasons to Come, Alana (Al) Kenagy
Alana will draw on their life as a farmer living in close relationship with land, and their study of somatics and the body, plus their ongoing inquiry into how humans and society function in this service.
They will support us to navigate the complicated and interlocking challenges that come from society’s disconnection from the earth, our bodies and each other.
Alana believes it's not about “fixing” or trying harder but instead about building our quality of presence and our ability to work with grief and anger while also cultivating what nourishes us.
We'll explore the function of the so-called “negative” emotions and how to build lives of balance and meaning without bypassing our pain.
Rev. Leslie Becknell Marx has invited Alana Kenagy to bring their perspective to Wy’east because Leslie’s mind is always expanded when talking to this jack-of-all trades, community organizer, artist/writer, and holistic life education enthusiast.
Social Justice Speaker Series: Oregon Black Pioneers; Mariah Rocker, Public Programs & Exhibits Manager
Our "We are Stronger Together" Social Justice Focus Speaker Series continues this month with a presentation by Mariah Rocker, the Public Programs and Exhibits Manager at Oregon Black Pioneers (OBP) titled Preserving Oregon’s Black History.
Black History Month 2026 marks a century of celebrating Black history, nationally and locally. Oregon Black Pioneers emphasizes the importance of this work and acknowledges some of the remarkable individuals who have helped to uplift this history over the past hundred years.
Oregon Black Pioneers is Oregon’s only historical society dedicated to preserving and presenting the experiences of African Americans statewide. For more than 30 years, they have illuminated the seldom-told stories of people of African descent in Oregon through engaging exhibits, public programs, publications, and historical research. This service will include a Special Collection to benefit Oregon Black Pioneers.
Mariah Rocker is the Public Programs and Exhibits Manager at Oregon Black Pioneers. With a bachelor's in Public Relations and a bachelor's in Sociology, Mariah’s passion for uncovering and sharing the stories of marginalized communities is evident in both her professional and personal pursuits. In her free time, Mariah channels the strength and resilience of historical icons by dressing up as them, and also enjoys crafting handmade miniatures.
Special Collection: Oregon Black Pioneers