Yesterday was Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent in the Christian calendar, the 40 days that lead up to Easter Sunday. Lent recognizes the 40 days that Jesus wandered in the desert after he was baptized by John the Baptist and before he started his ministry. The story says that, in those days wandering in […]
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Vision/Mission/Ends Project: Introducing Cottage Meetings!
Submitted by Chris Parke As part of the congregation’s process toward new, invigorating statements of Vision, Mission, and Ends, OUUC members and friends are invited to take part in an upcoming Cottage Meeting. What Is a Cottage Meeting? Check out this video from Board President James Trujillo to learn more about cottage meetings: What Can […]
Safe and Safer
One of the things I’ve learned during this COVID time is how different we humans are in our assessment and ability to risk. This is apparent in our response to the pandemic, which has asked us to do hard things for a really long time in order to protect our health and the health of […]
Bringing Soul Matters Themes into Our Lives
We practice something called “theme-based ministry” here at OUUC, with a monthly theme that we receive from our subscription to Soul Matters. This month’s theme has been “Imagination”. One of the things I love about theme-based ministry is that it connects worship to small group ministry and to the children and youth ministries, helping to […]
Sunday Worship
What is it about Sunday mornings? Why do we gather and what is this thing we call worship? Some OUUC worship leaders will join me on Saturday afternoon to offer a workshop on Worship Arts where we’ll explore those questions and more. (Details and Zoom link are below!) That we gather on Sunday morning (rather […]
