Worship Services Online

Come together for Soulful Sundown with poetry, reflection, and spoken word by Rev. David Carl Olson and live music from The Cosmic Orchestra. Onsite-only coffeehouse/concert afterward features guest musician Vance Gilbert.

Soulful Sundown at 7:30 pm. No charge; donations welcome. Coffee House/Concert with Vance Gilbert directly following.

Soulful Sundown: Where music resides at the heart of religious experience.

Our monthly theme in worship is “The Practice of Repair.” As we approach an election, we acknowledge the democratic process is itself in process. In the past, we had limited access to voting, and we have had times of expansion. We have known more unanimity of opinion; we have known times of great polarization. In all of these times, religious communities like ours have been about the work of repair. In a diverse society, we act in ways that we hope will not harm but be about repair.

Join us for a special Ancestor Remembrance service as we honor the lasting presence of those who came before us. Our ancestors, like us, were imperfect, and their legacies may evoke a range of emotions; together, we will hold space for the fullness of their lives—cherishing the love, wisdom, and lessons they passed on, while also making room for the complexities of remembering. You are invited to bring photos, special objects, or symbols of your beloved dead for display as we gather at the table of memory and transformation. In the constancy of our ancestors’ roots and the ever-changing nature of life, we find both guidance and peace.

Join us for a special animal blessing service where we honor the sacred connections that weave all living beings into the circle of life. Bring your pets—whether furry, feathered, or scaled—for a blessing. If your beloved pet has passed or can’t be with you, bring a photo or a favorite item in their honor. Stuffed animals are welcome too! This joyful service is a time for all ages to celebrate the love and companionship our animal friends provide and reflect on our place within the greater circle of life that connects us all. Everyone is welcome, with or without a pet!

For Indigenous Peoples Sunday, Rev. David Carl Olson and Worship Associate WinterFlower Robinson will consider the spiritualities and struggles of Native American peoples. Ceremony and poetry are joined by our music program and guest musicians.

Come for Supper, stay for Soulful Sundown! Soulful Sundown offers poetry and reflection by Rev. David Carl Olson and live music from The Cosmic Orchestra, onsite AND online. Special guest artist Sarah Gross will perform at an ONSITE-ONLY coffee house/concert afterward. All are welcome; never a charge!

Where music resides at the heart of religious experience.

Come early at 6:30 PM! All are welcome to simple supper prior to Soulful Sundown. A voluntary donation of $10 covers soup, salad, artisanal bread, cookies, and beverages.

In this season of the Jewish High Holy Days, we reflect on what to us, as Unitarian Universalists is holy. Our pluralist faith community holds that there are many ways to experience the divine, to know peace, to find connectedness and purpose. But Unitarian Universalists do not believe that you can do and believe anything, our values, principles, and covenants do provide guidelines and boundaries which can help us to find what to us is holy.

Join us for a special service as part of the national UU Climate Justice Revival Weekend. Together, we’ll explore new ways to break down barriers, build relationships, and engage in transformative climate action. Come be part of this vital conversation and learn how we can all contribute to a more just and sustainable world.

There are many ways of considering our identities. We can think about who we are, what we are, what we do, as ways of defining our identities. But we can also know that our relationship with others is definitional. We can ask, “Whose are we?”

As we come together after our summer journeys, we issue an invitation to everyone to build a deeper connection to others in our congregation, to the community around us, and to the larger world. Join in the Homecoming Picnic following the Worship Service.

Join us as we delve into the practice of invitation and explore how each of us can help foster a culture of genuine hospitality and inclusivity within our community. Through heartfelt reflections, uplifting music, and interactive discussions, we’ll examine the call to radical welcome and how our actions can create a true space of belonging. This Service will also highlight the Welcoming Pathways Program, an initiative of the membership committee aimed at empowering everyone to contribute to a welcoming environment at UUCSR. Come be inspired and learn how you can help shape our culture of welcome.

Minister Dana N. Moore returns to Shelter Rock with words and wisdom from former UUCSR interns and prophetic voices in Unitarian Universalist history. Together we’ll ponder the impact of latter-day prophets, the powerful urgings of present-day leaders, and how our own prophetic voices and actions might inspire future generations. UU Values of justice, transformation, interdependence, pluralism and LOVE will be represented throughout, and attendees encouraged to lift their voices in song to create a lasting synergy and memory of this present moment in our movement.

In these times, we can use the tools of artificial intelligence to do many things for us–including writing and reasoning, planning and communicating. I chose not to use those tools myself but as AI becomes more available to us how do we decide to use it? How do we decide not to use it? Does it make a difference? Would it make a difference to you if a robot wrote my sermon?

This sermon and service is in support of our paradigm shift as Unitarian Universalist. Rev. Gordon Bailey believes the principles and purposes are forever etched on our minds yet LOVE Centered will help change the dynamics of who we are as a movement that seeks to be in relationship all.

Bio: Growing up on the banks of the Hudson River, the Reverend Gordon Clay Bailey spent his early adult life searching for the right career path. A job where he could make the most difference. A place to bring together his heart, his mind and his spirit. He found that call in Unitarian Universalism Ministry with its rich tradition in social justice and its non-dogmatic approach to worship. He earned his Master of Divinity specializing in Pastoral Counseling and Urban Ministry at Wesley Theological Seminary. Since his ordination in 2002, he has served congregations in California; New Jersey; New York; Washington, DC; and Nevada. Currently he is the minister at the Sepulveda Unitarian Universalist Society.

Come together to share poems about the summer season. Read and share poems of beauty, heat, adventure, love–whatever the summer brings to you and this community.

Like our agrarian ancestors, we celebrate the abundant harvest that is evident in our home and community gardens. We’ll share stories and songs, dance a circle dance (as we are able), and bless the bounty of our gardens.

After the service, we’ll go outside to the Veatch House patio for refreshing summertime (non-alcoholic) beverages and offer a time where people may exchange the produce of their gardens. “A good for a good,” a generous response for the bounty of life. Please share what is growing in your garden—vegetables and flowers, grains and fungi, all the representations of Mother Earth’s bounty!

Our Perceptions Create Our Objective World: The interplay between the subjective and objective world is more complicated than we think, even as, is the interplay between the individual and collective ego. We will explore this interplay to answer the question posed in a song in A Chorus Line: "Who am I anyway, am I my resume?"

You are invited to let your curiosity and wonder take center stage! Do you ever stop and wonder: What does it mean to live a life of purpose? How do we find hope in challenging times? How can we live out our values more fully in our daily lives? During the service, you will be invited to pose your questions of meaning, wonder, and discovery to Rev. Israel, who will then respond in real time. Come with your curiosity and leave with new insights.

Unitarian Universalism invites us to work together to create a future that can hold each of us in our wholeness and complexity with compassion. In this service, we take time to imagine this bold future that we often call the Beloved Community, the starts and stops along our journey there, and the lessons we learned along the way. Come explore a future worth remembering.

Rev. Dr. Gregory C. Carrow-Boyd, CRE–LL (UU Hawaii) (he/him) is a Religious Educator Credentialed at the Leadership Level. He serves our UU congregation in Honolulu, HI, as Executive Minister of Religious Education. He also serves our wider Association as a LREDA Good Officer and Religious Education Credentialing Program Mentor.

We must change how we source energy, what we eat and the way we use land. What are we doing to make the transition here at Shelter Rock? What can you do at home? Join Rev. Olson and the Green Sanctuary Committee for this service. Music provided by Any Given Sunday Band!

In her final offering as UUCSR's 2023-24 Student Minister, Dana N. Moore explores the ritualistic process of Renewal as a vital element of sustainability in systems that champion transformation and change. Along with Claire Deroche, UUCSR Social Justice Coordinator of 17 years, we'll celebrate and consider values, principles and practices that inspire faithful work and support the future of Unitarian Universalism.

A celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride, and a morning to thank our dads. Recognizing, too, that we only days away from Juneteenth, we will hear from diverse voices in our congregation. Rev. Olson will share thoughts about parenting and pride.

Come for Supper, stay for Soulful Sundown! Soulful Sundown offers poetry and reflection by Rev. David Carl Olson and live music from The Cosmic Orchestra, onsite AND online. Special guest artist Walter Finley will perform at an ONSITE-ONLY coffee house/concert afterward. All are welcome; never a charge!

Where music resides at the heart of religious experience.

Come early at 6:30 PM! All are welcome to simple supper prior to Soulful Sundown. A voluntary donation of $10 covers soup, salad, artisanal bread, cookies, and beverages.

Our annual Bridging Worship Service celebrates transitions of the young people in the UUCSR Religious Education Program.

All are welcome to a picnic celebration immediately following Worship.

The work and ministry of a congregation requires many hearts and hands. In this service we offer appreciation for all those who give life to this community. We are renewed each year by the commitment of members and friends. Let’s celebrate.

This Sunday, UUCSR worships in two locations. Our community is gathered onsite and also at the All-Congregation Retreat in Pennsylvania. We are both together and apart. We remember this for Memorial Day—we may be physically separated from those who have died but we are together in our hearts.

Join the annual celebration of our eighth grade Coming of Age class. Our young people will share their thoughts on what Unitarian Universalism means to them. They will share their gifts and talents with this community they love.