The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Columbia

Rev. Paige Getty leads a service inspired by the recent High Holy Days observed in Jewish communities. We’ll consider how, and for what, we are called to repent.

Speakers:

• Melissa Affolter, Michael Adcock, Rev. Paige Getty, Robin Slaw, Steve Buckingham, UUCC Chalice Choir

Join Adrian Graham, UU seminarian, for a service entitled “Let Go and Grow.” As Unitarian Universalists, we collectively affirm and promote “acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations.” What might actual adherence to this, our 3rd Principle, look like in practice today? In living these values, might we find salvation?

Speakers:

• Adrian L. H. Graham, Jenny Afkinich, Regina Verow, Robin Slaw, Tom Monroe

Join Robin Slaw, Director of Religious Education, as we consider what it means to know and be known in community, to grow into the people we are called to be, and to experience ourselves as part of something more.

Speakers:

• Kelli Danaker, Michael Adcock, Robin Slaw, Sarah Baseheart, UUCC Chalice Choir, Valerie Hsu

One of adrienne maree brown’s core principles of Emergent Strategy is “What you pay attention to grows.” In this service, Rev. Paige Getty will explore how this principle applies to us as individual persons of faith and as a religious institution.

Speakers:

• Chris Crandell, Hallie Getty, Kelli Danaker, Michael Adcock, Rev. Paige Getty, Robin Slaw

In this traditional UUCC Ingathering service — including a water ceremony — we will celebrate the beautiful diversity of this spiritual community and honor the sacred nature of water, its healing and destructive powers, and the inequities around the U.S. and the world in accessing clean, healthy water.

Bring a bit of water from a sacred source for the ceremony, bring a potluck dish (if possible) to share, and plan to join other congregants for a luncheon following the worship service!

Speakers:

• Colette Gelwicks, Jodi Brown, Kelli Danaker, Kevin Mercer, Laurie Coltri, Melissa Affolter, Rev. Paige Getty, Robin Slaw, Valerie Hsu

Last month, ten UUCC youth traveled to McDowell County, West Virginia to support the work of Big Creek People in Action (BCPIA). Through volunteering with BCPIA’s housing rehab projects and conversations with local residents, the youth encountered new perspectives and insights on what is meant by community. This Sunday, hear the teens share stories and reflections of their experiences living, working, and learning together.

Speakers:

• Alena Von Schlag, Hallie Getty, Jonathan Ganel-Constant, Khylei Shelor, Leah Ricafort, Lucas Eaton, Marc Harshman, Raleigh Martin, Rose Spezio, Teaghan Verow McLaughlin, Tom Monroe, Valerie Hsu

As Howard County students and educators are returning to public school classrooms, we celebrate education both within and beyond the walls of UUCC. Rev. Paige Getty will focus especially on our commitment to comprehensive, faith-based, values-driven sexuality education as offered in the lifespan Our Whole Lives program. And bring your backpack / book bag / briefcase for our annual Blessing of the Backpacks!

Speakers:

• Amelia Sorenson, MaryAnn Evangelista, Rev. Paige Getty, Robin Slaw, Sarah Baseheart

In April 2022, UUCC launched an initiative to collect reparations for the performance of Negro Spirituals. Join Music Director Michael Adcock, the UUCC Spirituals Reparations Committee and the Chalice Choir for additional examples highlighting the historical significance of spirituals, with special attention to the choral preservation and dissemination of the genre — and exploration of coded language and messages contained within.

Speakers:

• Glennor Shirley, Jenny Afkinich, Laurie Coltri, Michael Adcock, Regina Verow, Tom Monroe, UUCC Chalice Choir

While the emotion of joy is often posited as an essential component of spirituality, physical pleasure is at best ignored and at worst, vilified. Theologian Matthew Fox, however, asserts, “Pleasure is one of the deepest spiritual experiences of our lives.” In this service, Rev. Karyn Marsh will explore the place of physical pleasure as a spiritual practice in Unitarian Universalism.

Speakers:

• Colette Gelwicks, Rev. Karyn Marsh, Robin Slaw, Tom Monroe

Join UUCC member and UU historian Kathy Parker and Worship Associate Melissa Affolter for a service entitled “Finding Who We Are in Unitarian Universalism.” 

Speakers:

• Cindi Wood, Kathy Parker, Melissa Affolter, Regina Verow, Robin Slaw