May 2024

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April 28, 2024(1 event)

10:00 am: Sunday Service: Love and Justice


April 28, 2024

In-person & Live-stream.

Justice has long been a key value for Unitarian Universalists, and our congregation in particular. How is our justice work rooted in love, and how does it help us to create community?

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UCWC
501 S. High St.
West Chester, PA 19382
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May 5, 2024(1 event)

10:00 am: Sunday Service: Annual Flower Celebration


May 5, 2024

In-person & Live-stream.

Celebrate the beauty in diversity with a Sunday of music and flowers! This very special all ages service will feature The Spirit Singers, our Youth Ensemble, our new Pianist Lisa Bennett, and other UCWC musicians. Please bring a cut flower for each member of your family attending the service.

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UCWC
501 S. High St.
West Chester, PA 19382
May 6, 2024(1 event)

5:00 pm: Racial Justice Ministry


May 6, 2024

Contact Sandra Schaal. All are invited to attend. Email: Black Lives Matter

May 7, 2024
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May 12, 2024(1 event)

10:00 am: Sunday Service: The Gift of Compassion


May 12, 2024

In-person & Live-stream.

Of all the gifts we can give to each other, perhaps the most precious is our understanding compassion.

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UCWC
501 S. High St.
West Chester, PA 19382
May 13, 2024(1 event)

7:00 pm: Religious Services Committee


May 13, 2024

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May 15, 2024(1 event)

7:30 pm: UUJusticePA Reproductive Justice Team


May 15, 2024

UUJusticePA Reproductive Justice meetings are via Zoom on the 3rd Wednesday of the month at 7:30.  Contact Susan Batchelor. Email: reproductive-justice for more information.

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May 19, 2024(3 events)

Share the Plate

May 19, 2024

Nov 19 - Baby Food Fund

Dec 17 - Maternal and Child Health Consortium

Jan 21 - Melton Center

Feb 18 - West Chester University Resource Pantry

Mar 17 - Educational Equity Alliance

Apr 21 - Community Youth and Women’s Association

May 19 - Citizen Advocacy of Chester County

Jun 16 - West Chester Food Cupboard

Jul 21 - LCH Health and Community Services

Aug 18 - Volunteer English Program

Sep 15 - Friends Association for Care and Protection of Children

Oct 20 - Act in Faith

UCWC
501 S. High St.
West Chester, PA 19382
United States

10:00 am: Sunday Service: Rituals


May 19, 2024

In-person & Live-stream.

Are rituals only seemingly senseless acts, or are they an important way to give our life more meaning? Or both? And what makes a ritual either this or that? Is there a difference between ritual and tradition? Sorry, but Rev. Gabi will not have a comprehensive, all-inclusive answer for those questions. However, she will try to explore what it is about rituals that make them either weird or very important. Come ready to participate.

The Reverend Dr. Gabriele Parks came to the United States from Germany in 1991, with her husband Roger and her then six-year-old twins. She felt the call to UU ministry and went to Lancaster Theological Seminary in 2001 where she received her Master of Divinity degree. Since then, she has served five congregations as an intentional interim minister; now called transition minister. In 2015, she went back to seminary where she graduated with the Doctor of Ministry in the field of Narrative Theology. She served her congregation in York, Pennsylvania, until her retirement in February of 2019.

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UCWC
501 S. High St.
West Chester, PA 19382

7:00 pm: Diversity Book Group


May 19, 2024

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2023-24 Selections

August
The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas – MOVIE

September
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver

October
At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf – Tara Ison

November
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy

December
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency: Book 1 – Alexander McCall Smith

January
The Sentence – Louise Erdrich (author of The Night Watchman)

February
Not without Laughter – Langston Hughes

March
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women – Lisa See (author of Island of Sea Women)

April
The Sympathizer – Viet Thanh Nguyen

May
Free – Lea Ypi

May 20, 2024(1 event)

5:00 pm: Racial Justice Ministry


May 20, 2024

Contact Sandra Schaal. All are invited to attend. Email: Black Lives Matter

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May 26, 2024(1 event)

10:00 am: Sunday Service: The Lost Mode of Prayer and Galileo's Wish


May 26, 2024

In-person & Live-stream.

Sparked by scientific research and Robin’s personal experiences, this provocative program invites you to open to new ways of thinking, feeling, and being. This is an exploration of a new way of prayer as a non-religious, non-beseeching practice. As the song goes, “The times, they are a changin’!” Robin offers examples of how it is possible to move through adversity and invoke grace by tuning in, listening, and acting from your heart.

Robin Reichert is an author, storyteller, speaker, artist, mystic, retired massage therapist, and body-centered psychotherapy practitioner. She implements her storytelling skills as a lay liturgist and Sunday service presenter for Unitarian Universalist and other churches. In 2011 Robin participated in the 25th anniversary of the World Interfaith Summit for Peace and Justice in Assisi, Italy.

Her most recent book, Diary of a Man Called Jesus - His Life and Missing Years, a Novel, offers a surprising new slant on a 2000 year old story. She also authored Earth Divine – Adventures of an Everyday Mystic, Feather Gifts for All Ages, and has one storytelling CD Mystic – Stories of Wonder and Magic.

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UCWC
501 S. High St.
West Chester, PA 19382
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