Worship Online During the Coronavirus Outbreak
Worship has moved online through at least the end of May in an effort to protect our most vulnerable loved ones from exposure to the COVID-19 virus. Join us on YouTube on Sunday morning for livestreamed worship, and on Facebook and Zoom for on-line connection throughout the week. Join our email list for updates and links each week; send a request to administrator@uucss.org to be added.
LINK TO SUNDAY MORNING WORSHIP: On Sunday morning, please go to the church’s YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-ggwJDOg70yLJTi3aTCjuA where the livestream will be listed as the “Premiere” video. The musical prelude and online gathering begin at 10:30 a.m. and lead into worship which begins at 11:00 a.m. Church members will receive a reminder email on Sunday morning with this link and a Direct Access Link.
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Look below to learn about and listen to some of our past sermons.
In today’s opening words, we learned about many ways to bless. It included things like returning an object to someone who lost it; glancing at a friend across the room; touching someone. But in this day and age of COVID, we only have our computers over a distance to bless someone, and that’s how we’ll…
Story/Message: Steve Leete Today’s service is about a special telescope. I have a telescope here, that can be used to look at stars, the Moon, planets, and other things like nebulas and galaxies, from here on the ground. It’s only useful at night, when it isn’t cloudy, because when it is cloudy you can’t see…
I have to come out to you. I am a jock. I was one of the kids on the playground, who got picked for kickball. And for dodgeball. I’m blessed with rhythm, and I’m blessed with eye hand coordination. And I’m blessed that I grew up at a moment in history when girls fought and…
Message: (Story or presentation that is accessible to people of all ages) There was a guy named Roger who spent his summers in Rehoboth Beach. He was what they called mildly retarded back then or developmentally disabled today. He loved Funland, and even as an adult he loved hanging around the park. He dreamed of…
Compost and Other Teachers / Rev. Lyn Cox You saw a little glimpse of my garden earlier. I hope you didn’t mind the weeds, and were able to hear the invitation to beauty. One of the things I have learned in the garden is that it will not and I cannot be perfect. I do…
In these times, travel isn’t what it once was, yet new experiences, milestones, and transitions continue to be facts of life. We are transported by web conference or YouTube or fiction to other times and places. We may be traveling to different identities or states of being: graduating, retiring, grieving, welcoming children into the world,…
Two members of UUCSS discuss their personal experience with grief following deaths connected with military service. Evelyn discusses the loss of her father to the war in Vietnam. She recounts the impact of this grief on a nine year old girl who loved her father dearly and the implications of this loss into her adult life,…
Beloved Community, according to the King Center, was understood by Dr. King to be an achievable goal. It may well be achievable someday. Meanwhile, I think living into it, getting closer to it, is a task that asks for constant renewal. Like any kind of relationship, Beloved Community thrives on attention, tenderness, and awareness. Like…
Homily: Where Charity and Love Abide Where is the Divine in all of this? If you’ve ever had sessions with a spiritual director, that may sound familiar. If you are a theist, they may ask you to reflect on where God’s presence seems nearby. If you are agnostic, they might get more creative, like where…