Sermon Archive

Join us as we explore the power of cherishing all generations and fostering generational solidarity. In this talk, we will reflect on the importance of building a strong, supportive community where neighbors help neighbors, and every generation finds purpose and meaning in connecting with one another. By embracing an intergenerational perspective, we can address the challenges of social isolation, promote health and well-being, and create thriving, resilient communities. A discussion of Bridge Meadows, intentional intergenerational communities will illuminate how these principles of intergenerational living are applied to build a beloved community. Together, we will discover how we can weave a safety net that strengthens our families, cities, and country, ensuring a vibrant future for all.

Bridge Meadows, Executive Director, Dr. Derenda Schubert, a licensed psychologist, leads Bridge Meadows, advocates nationally for intergenerational housing solutions to complex social challenges, spearheads strategic planning shaping Bridge Meadows’ expansive vision for the future.  She builds coalitions, works with Boards of Directors, manages $60M in assets and to date, raised over $50M to create affordable housing.

Bridge Meadows’ innovative community design intersects housing, child welfare, senior housing, and health in one model. The Bridge Meadows intergenerational housing developments include supportive housing wraparound services designed to address the needs of vulnerable children, families and seniors.

Under Dr. Schubert’s leadership, Bridge Meadows has received national and international recognition for the innovative, intergenerational housing model.  Bridge Meadows has been featured in the New York Times. Washington Post, Stanford Social Innovation Review and the World Health Organization as a housing model for addressing the social determinants of health across the age span.  Dr. Schubert speaks locally and nationally on these topics.  She has spoken nationally, internationally and at TEDxMtHood about the power of intergenerational solutions.

Dr. Schubert was been honored for her contributions to housing, community development and leadership locally and nationally. She is an American Leadership Forum Senior Fellow, an Encore Public Voices Fellow and a former Board Co-Chair for OregonServes.

Special Collection: Bridge Meadows

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Multi-Platform Worship (both in-person & online)

Sunday at 10:30 AM

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Meeting ID:  275 194 110

Phone In:  (669) 900-6833

We are using one online service each month to explore spiritual practice. This service explores how to cultivate nonviolence in our thoughts, words, and deeds. Drawing on Nonviolent Communication, Rev. Leslie will guide us in exercises to practice mindful communication with a commitment to mutual understanding and honest self-expression.Together, we’ll consider how these practices can bring us closer to our vision of a more compassionate and equitable world.

Online (Zoom) Only Worship

Sunday at 10:30 AM

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Meeting ID:  275 194 110

Phone In:  (669) 900-6833

Nonviolence asks us to open our arms and strengthen our hearts—to meet conflict with empathy and injustice with unwavering resolve. Nonviolence is a spiritual practice that nurtures resilience, fosters compassion, and calls us to a higher vision of justice and community.This service will examine the practical dimensions of nonviolence, with a focus on Nonviolent Communication, one of Rev. Leslie’s core spiritual practices. Together, we will imagine a world transformed by kindness and justice.

First-Sunday Monthly Potluck after Service!

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Multi-Platform Worship (both in-person & online)

Sunday at 10:30 AM

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Meeting ID:  275 194 110

Phone In:  (669) 900-6833

As part of our lay-led ministry, we gather on 5th Sundays for a service project in lieu of holding a service, either in-person or on Zoom. Our December 2024 project will again be a supply drive to support Our Just Future and the Lilac Meadows Family Shelter. Details will be forthcoming about their needs. 

We will again gather at Larry & Diane’s home from 10:30 am - 12:30 pm, with everyone bringing their gifts here. We’ll have snacks and cider, maybe sing a little. We will send out information on the address when we get closer to the event.

Here is the information on the Amazon lists of what is being requested. 

There will be NO regular service (either in-person or online) this Sunday.

Gather around and let the warmth of our community fire your spirit and spark your imagination. In this darkest time of the year, our exploration of spiritual practice this month will focus on how we might seek, find and nourish the things that will kindle our own inner flames in the year ahead. 

Online (Zoom) Only Worship

Sunday at 10:30 AM

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Meeting ID:  275 194 110

Phone In:  (669) 900-6833

Our Annual Celebration of Light returns in its traditional form again this year! All children and youth are invited to participate in our Winter Pageant, which features them in adorable costumes acting out the solstice stories of eight different religious traditions. This Wy’east creation celebrates how we all find meaning in the darkness of winter, no matter which stories are told and which holidays we observe. This pageant is being coordinated by Anders Liljeholm and other religious educators.

We will have a single rehearsal for this event during the Potluck at the first Sunday service in December. If you can’t make the rehearsal there will still be an opportunity for any children and youth to participate.

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Special Collection: Sustained Partner, Rahab’s Sisters

Multi-Platform Worship (both in-person & online)

Sunday at 10:30 AM

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Meeting ID:  275 194 110

Phone In:  (669) 900-6833

Unitarian Universalists often name the experience of "transcending mystery and wonder" as a foundational element of a spiritual life. This service will reflect on two contemporary stories about the intermingling of the sacred and the secular, inviting us to consider how we welcome mystery and wonder, within and beyond sanctuaries on Sunday morning. Presented by Rev. Heather Janules, UUA Congregational Life Staff in the New England Region.

Prior to taking on a part-time role on the UUA Congregational Life Staff in the New England Region, the Rev. Heather Janules (she/her/hers) served UU congregations for the 19 years as both an Associate and Solo Minister, first as the Associate Minister for Pastoral Care with Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Bethesda, Maryland and then as the Parish Minister of the Winchester Unitarian Society in Winchester, MA.

Heather shares her home with two spoiled pets. She finds solace in walking outside by water, whether it is Horn Pond in suburban Boston, her family's log cabin on a lake in the Deep North Woods of northern New Hampshire or by the Ashuelot River near her soon-to-be home in Hinsdale, NH. She also has deep appreciation for the absurd in life which, thankfully, is always available in abundance.

Online (Zoom) Only Worship

Sunday at 10:30 AM

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Meeting ID:  275 194 110

Phone In:  (669) 900-6833

This service will explore how community can serve as a vital source of strength during times of struggle. We will reflect on how joining together to support one another in navigating life’s challenges is itself a form of resilience. Remembering our Interdependence  helps ward off isolation and fear. Come be together to nourish compassion, courage and hope. 

First-Sunday Monthly Potluck after Service!

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Multi-Platform Worship (both in-person & online)

Sunday at 10:30 AM

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Meeting ID:  275 194 110

Phone In:  (669) 900-6833

When strong feelings are present among us in the congregation, we sometimes struggle to know what to do to support ourselves and each other. Luckily, there are specific tools that can help! Presented by Rev. Erica Baron, UUA Congregational Life Staff, New England Region.

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Online (Zoom) Only Worship

Sunday at 10:30 AM

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Meeting ID:  275 194 110

Phone In:  (669) 900-6833

Activism can be an act of resistance, healing, and a form of spiritual practice. Join us for guest speaker, Edward Ball, sharing stories of his AIDS activism, reproductive freedom activism and queer activism from the inside.  We’ll reflect on how standing up for dignity and freedom can transform one’s sense of self, purpose, and connection to the sacred. This Sunday, we’ll honor how activism for justice calls us into deeper empathy and connection. Through personal stories and shared reflection, we’ll explore how the struggles for dignity and freedom transform our hearts, inviting us to live out our love and courage more fully.

Edward Ball is a veteran of the queer and AIDS activist movements of the previous millennium. He has a Masters of Divinity from The Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. In recent decades he has turned his attention to inter-religious organizing, writing workshops that unlock creative potential, and fundraising efforts for non-profit organizations. 

Special Collection: With Love

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Multi-Platform Worship (both in-person & online)

Sunday at 10:30 AM

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Meeting ID:  275 194 110

Phone In:  (669) 900-6833