We offered a powerful, positive message when we added, ·Welcome Home· to our shirts and banner for Pride Fest. ·Home· also is complicated for many of us. What does ·home· mean? How does our sense of home fulfill our vision?

Ingathering Water Communion, Potluck to follow, and Splish Splash Games at Noon

Join Reverend Jennifer as she offers highlights from her summer travels in our larger Unitarian Universalist world, including notes from when Ibram X. Kendi (How to Be an Antiracist) addressed the General Assembly in Portland, Oregon.

As part of fulfilling our commitment to being good stewards of the earth, this service features a general overview of CEJA as passed in the Illinois legislature last fall. CEJA is the most

For our end of summer Question Box Sermon, we are part of creating the message along with Reverend Jennifer. Send her your questions ahead of time or in person during the service. She will respond to as many as possible during the sermon. Our input also helps her plan for the year.

Join us for our first ever Blessing of the Animals! Beloved animals are welcome to join us on

site or in a photo. In person pets must be leashed or in a kennel or carrier. We expect to hold the service in Fellowship Hall. See Reverend Jennifer for information, especially regarding size and species of animals.

We gather in the Universalist spirit and are reminded that no one is outside the circle of love. Joining with guest speaker, Reverend Allison Farnum, we are invited to feel the power of our living tradition through the lens of the Unitarian Universalist Prison Ministry of Illinois.

Growing up I never saw myself represented in the books I read or the other media I consumed, and if I did it was never in a positive light. It wasn·t until I happened upon a romance novel that changed my life. That·s right, I said a romance novel changed my life. This book was the first time I had ever felt truly seen and represented in a positive light. This book was so profoundly moving that I started a website that serves as a database for people to find books with positive representation. Reading that book and starting Fat Girls in Fiction set my life on a new trajectory. I am excited to share that journey with you, what I have learned about the body positivity movement, and the role representation can play in it.

Join us this Sunday as Peoria businessman and philanthropist Bob Woolsey talks about how our stories can lead us to embrace gratitude and mentor others to do the same.

What is the foundation of this congregation? Love? Compassion? Justice? How might it all fit together? All ages are welcome to share in the service.