This month’s theme is healing. In a year of firsts we will, for the first time, celebrate Thanksgiving in the middle of a pandemic. But we can still celebrate! And we will still offer our traditional Thanksgiving cornbread communion. This special service will include the expected as well as the unexpected, as we reflect on … Continue reading Worship Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020 10:00 AM – Cornbread Communion – Building a New World

Broken Hallelujah By Rev. Ellen Quaadgras To watch video please click on the image to the left. Read Sermon below         Reading: by Nancy Shaffer https://www.questformeaning.org/spiritual-themes/healing-forgiveness-spiritual-topic/mending-nancy-shaffer/ Sermon Eight years ago, I led a memorial service for a young woman who I will never forget. She wasn’t a member of this congregation, in … Continue reading Worship Sunday November 15, 2020 10:00 AM – Broken Hallelujah

It has been a week filled with emotion: disappointment, relief, anxiety, uncertainty and more. Our theme this month is Healing. Let’s gather in that spirit to re-ground ourselves in what is true, re-connect with what is hopeful and re-imagine what is possible now. This service appropriate for all ages. Click on arrow to see the … Continue reading Healing – November 8, 2020 10:00 AM

The Healing Power of Extraordinary Hope By Rev. Ellen Quaadgras Westminster Unitarian Church November 11, 2020 To view video click on arrow.         Sermon: I was at a minister’s retreat recently where a colleague talked about something called liminal space. It’s a word ministers like to use about in between times. “Times … Continue reading Worship, Sunday November 1, 2020 – 10:00 AM The Healing Power of “Extra ordinary” Hope

Listening as “Holy Ground” in a time of Black Lives Matter By Rev. Ellen Quaadgras Westminster Unitarian Church October 18, 2020 Story: “Take Off Your Shoes” One of the greatest adventures stories of all time is a dramatic biblical escape story set over 3000 years ago. It’s called the Exodus and it ends with with … Continue reading Worship Sunday, October 18, 2020 10:00 AM – Listening as “Holy Ground” in a time of Black Lives Matter

Reading by Chief Dan George, Tsleil-Waututh The beauty of the trees, the softness of the air, the fragrance of the grass, speaks to me. The summit of the mountain, the thunder of the sky, the rhythm of the sea, speaks to me. The strength of the fire, the taste of salmon, the trail of the … Continue reading Worship Sunday, October 11, 2020 10:00 AM – Listening to the Past – A Sermon on Indigenous People’s Day

Click image to view service video. First Reading: By Erika Hewitt This piece written by Rev Erika Hewitt and is from her book: “The Shared Pulpit” It’s a reader’s theater piece – imagining the thoughts of different people in a group invited to share deeply. I don’t have anything to say. Well, I do—but what … Continue reading Worship Sunday September 27, 2020 The Power of Listening