Worship Service at 10:30 AM; Hybrid services have prelude and/or opening music starting between 10:25 am and 10:30 am.
UUCSS holds hybrid services (offering both online and in-person in the Sanctuary). Details about upcoming services can be found at https://uucss.org/event-category/upcoming-sunday-services/
If you wish to attend in person, the sanctuary is at 10309 New Hampshire Avenue, at the corner with Oaklawn Drive. We have a parking lot off Oaklawn Drive Directions can be found at https://uucss.org/contact/campus-locations/. Please follow our UUCSS guidelines, https://uucss.org/uucss-covid-guidelines/.
To participate remotely, please enter our Zoom room by clicking on Zoom Link for Worship, ASL and Coffee Hour, on Sundays between 10:00 am and 10:30 am during the Slide Show and Prelude, or later while the service is occurring. You can also just click the direct link in the Sunday morning all-church email reminder.
American Sign Language Interpretation will be available live during the service, either in the sanctuary or remotely. In either case, the ASL Interpreter will be visible two ways – merged into the main video feed from the sanctuary (if present locally in the sanctuary), and as a Zoom participant with their own Zoom window.
For guidance on deaf participation via Zoom, please visit https://www.uucss.org/deaf-access, or view the guidance provided on slides shown prior to the Prelude.
For information about our Religious Education program, visit https://uucss.org/uucss-religious-education-classes/
Coffee Hour begins at about 11:30 am, both in person and on the same Zoom session as the worship service, and can be accessed at this Link: Coffee Hour. The ASL interpreter will generally be available during Coffee Hour, in an ASL breakout room or whichever room deaf participants choose to join.
Past Services can be found at the UUCSS YouTube page, https://www.youtube.com/c/UUCSS.
Hi all, I am the Rev. Dayna Edwards and my pronouns are she and her. I serve as the Minister of Faith Formation for Cedar Lane UU Congregation. I am especially excited to be here today, because Silver Spring was the first UU congregation that I became a member of almost 24 years ago, or so. I remember one of the first services I went to was a woman preacher (!) Rev. Liz Lerner Maclay preaching about the DaVinci Code and that maybe God was a woman? Well I immediately knew Unitarian Universalism was my faith. Now, to have come full circle and be preaching here myself feels very special. So thank you for having me today.
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This week we had guest preacher Ryan Ely. Watch the full service on YouTube!
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