Rev Pamela Barz began her ministry serving the UU Church of Saco-Biddeford and now has returned to Maine where she offers coaching to help clergy and others get "unstuck" and live from deep gladness. Contact her at: .
This week we’ll celebrate Earth Day and appreciate our interdependence: This service will explore the interconnectedness of social justice, environmental stewardship and spiritual sustenance through reflections on poetry, activism and the healing power of beauty.
Continuing our Lenten Series this reflective service explores themes of hope, vulnerability, spirituality, meaning and justice. Using a story about a mid-March storm, we’ll look together for personal renewal during Lent, finding it in the everyday sacred.
This service will explore how we are called to show up now, if love is at the center of our shared faith and we are love’s hands in the world. How do we show up in our community? How do we show up for each other and the people we love?
This service will examine the dual truth that we all carry pain and that we are all survivors. Looking at the remarkable resilience of the human psyche, we will celebrate our strength, our compassion and our willingness to reach out to help others even as we carry our own grief.
Mark has internalized lessons about Beloved Community spending summers at overnight camps from the age of 6 until 23. During those summers, Mark developed a love of the outdoors and a deeply felt sense of our interconnectedness with each other and Earth and Universe. Grounded in this belief that separateness is the illusion, Mark invites … Continue reading Beloved Community
Beginning our observance of advent, this service will be the first in a 4 week series that explores resilience and resistance. What else is the Christmas story, but a statement that love eternal is born in the dark and the cold, that Emmanuel cloaks during long nights of worry and fear. Our faith calls us … Continue reading Beginning Our Observation of Advent
Using a few powerful stories, this service will examine the dynamics of losing our way, of finding and seeking. Grounded in the power of community and unconditional love, we’ll ask have you or someone you’ve loved ever been lost and if you have ever been found?
This worship will serve as a reminder that there is beauty even in the midst of hard times. We’ll take a moment this Sunday to remember: to remember our connection to each other and the world, to remember that ours is a life giving faith, and to remember that even as we are called to … Continue reading Celebrating Life
Sorry, service cancelled due to the snowstorm.
Worship Associate, Tiffany Vencile This Sunday our neighbor to the north Rev. Mark Glovin will lead worship. Together, we’ll reflect on the ways we recognize and care for our blessings. As MUUF prepares for our first sabbatical, we’ll name the importance of gratitude and boundaries and caring for each other and the world. … and … Continue reading Finding Naming Bestowing Blessings
