Sunday Services
Due to concerns over the COVID-19 virus worship services for Sunday, August 16, 2020 will be live streamed. While the building will be closed, we'll stay connected.
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Have a joy or sorrow you would like to share at the next Sunday Service? Send them to JoysAndSorrows@uucod.org so we might rejoice or lament with you.
August 2, 2020
Knit Together in Community
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian Riddell
Worship Associate: Joni Padduck
What can the practices knitting and crafting teach us about building just, loving relationships and communities?
August 9, 2020
Widening the Circle of Concern, Part Three
Worship Leader: Rev. Donald Stouder
Worship Associate: Bryna Blum
In the final sermon of this series, Rev. Don will finish reviewing the UUA’s Widening the Circle report, and help put its ideas into perspective for our UUCOD family. He will also discuss how these important ideas intersect right here in our own Coachella Valley in
terms of things like climate justice and economic inequality.
August 16, 2020
“How Are Our Veterans?
Worship Leader: Hon. Mark E. Johnson
Worship Associate: Bob Rancourt
In these times of movements and protests in the country, let’s remember the individuals who serve and have served to secure our freedoms and rights to participate. Judge Mark E. Johnson, himself a veteran, will bring us up to speed on the state of veterans in the county and highlight his eight years’ experience presiding over Riverside County Veterans’ Court. Additionally, we will share the plate with our local chapter of Veterans for Peace.
August 23, 2020
Bread Not Stone
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian Riddell
Worship Associate: Bryna Blum
Even though we are separated from each other, the community we build daily sustains us and brings us possibility. What can we learn about crafting that community from Ursula Le Guin, M. Scott Peck, and knitting socks?
August 30, 2020
Spirituality and Climate Justice
Worship Leader: Rev. Donald Stouder
Worship Associate: Bob Rancourt
In this sermon, Rev. Don will present climate change data from the Climate Reality Project. He will show us the important ways that our lived spirituality as UUs are directly related to the climate justice issues here in the Coachella Valley.
