Upcoming Services
December 7, 2025: All Ages Service: Traditions of Resilience and Sanctuary
Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray and Dr. Stephanie Kimball
In this service, we reflect on the many traditions of this season and how they nurture resiliency, community and sanctuary. Special music from Carrie Newcomer.
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December 14, 2025: Creating Sanctuary in Community
This music service with Susan Swaney and the UUCB Choir will invite us deeper into the theme of sanctuary. Creating music together is one of the ways we deepen our connections, solidarity and community as a form of sanctuary.
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December 21, 2025: Cultivating Sanctuary Within
We often think about sanctuary as a place or an act of providing protection, but there is also power in being able to create a sense of peace, safety and sanctuary in our own spirits. How can this practice help us find rootedness and peace amid tumult and uncertainty?
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December 21, 2025 - 6pm: Winter Solstice
Winter is a time for slowing down and for resting, for taking stock and for envisioning what we want to bring to life when the wheel turns once more to springtime. We take time on the shortest day to notice the changing season and how it resonates in our bodies and in our lives. This special meditative service features candlelight, a contemplative spiral walk, and special music from Ray Fellman and Mary Craig.
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December 24, 2025 - 4pm: All Ages Service: The Nativity
This fun, slightly irreverent, and participatory no-rehearsal Nativity play invites people of all ages to play a part in the incredible story of Jesus’ birth.
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December 24, 2025 - 7pm: Lessons and Carols
Spend your Christmas Eve with music, community and candlelight at UUCB. This service features the choir and both traditional and contemporary readings and reflections on Christmas.
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December 28, 2025 - 10:30am: Finding Hope in Choppy Waters
We live in challenging times. Anyone who strives for a just and caring world — and engages the national news — is likely to sense a bitter taste of failure as we close out a tumultuous year. To keep up our resilience, might it help to look at success and failure in a different way? Rev. Dennis will look at success, failure, and some lessons of history as we sort out these trying times.
Past Services
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October 11, 2025: Celebration of Life for Rev. Barbara Carlson
A Celebration of Life for Rev. Barbara Carlson will be held on Saturday, October 11, at 2 p.m. in the Meeting Room. A reception will follow in Fellowship Hall.
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October 5, 2025: Celebrate Pride & National Coming Out Day
In recognition of National Coming Out Day (Oct 11th) and Spencer Pride (Oct 4th), this service is dedicated to the history and present of LGBTQIA organizing and human rights.
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October 4, 2025: Celebration of Life Gathering for Paul Arnold
A Celebration of Life Gathering for Paul Arnold will be held on Saturday, October 4, at 11 a.m. in Fellowship Hall.
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September 28, 2025: The Spiritual and Justice Work of Welcome
Join us as we welcome the Rev. Mary Katherine Morn, President and LEO of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee – our UU International Human Rights Organization. UUSC works to advance human rights with an international community of grassroots partners and advocates. They work on issues of defending human rights at risk due to criminalization and systemic oppression of people based on their identity. They support self-determination and defend the rights of people displaced due to climate, conflict or economic hardships; and they respond to humanitarian crises as partners with people whose access to aid is most limited.
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Monday, September 22 - 6:15pm: Fall Equinox Service
Please join us for a quiet service reflecting on this time of balance between light and darkness as our season shifts.
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September 21, 2025: Creating a Culture of Welcome
How do we create a culture of welcome in our community and in our own lives?
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September 14, 2025: Light The Way (Two Services!)
This service will be held twice, at 9:30 and 11:30, beginning the fall two services schedule!
Rev. Forrest Gilmore is UUCB’s Affiliated Community Minister. He served congregations for ten years as a parish minister and now is the Executive Director of Beacon, Inc, a local nonprofit dedicated to people experiencing extreme poverty.
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September 7, 2025: All Ages Ingathering Service: Water Communion
Everyone is invited to bring water from a place that is meaningful to them in their life to share in this service. We remember that these gifts of water are reflective of who we are, of our connection and dependence on water for life. In the service as we pour our waters together, we remember how the sharing of our lives in community creates depth and meaning.
Church Picnic in Fellowship Hall and the playground following the service. All are welcome! -
August 31, 2025: We Need One Another
In times like these, when we are called more and more to live out our values in public places, what becomes of our own needs? In other words, in times like these, what's a congregation for?
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August 24, 2025: Another World is Possible
What is the world we imagine for ourselves and our children? Naming it is part of creating it.
