72425 Via Vail
Rancho Mirage, CA 92270
760-321-0694
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Joni Padduck
Our General Assembly in June will be deciding if the UUA begins the process of adopting new ways of expressing what is at the core of our tradition, shifting from principles to shared values. Join us as we explore what the changes might mean for us and how we understand ourselves.
Worship Leaders : Rev. Dr. Don Stouder
Worship Associate: Ginger Hemingway
"Now, faced as we are with global environmental deterioration, I wish to address every person living on this planet." Did you know that Pope Francis wrote each of us a personal letter? In this sermon, Rev. Don will talk about the historical and unprecedented calls from mainstream religion to save our planet home. He will use the Pope's encyclical letter on climate change to discuss this trend as well as the intimate relationship between the poor and the fragility of the planet.
Annual Congregational Meeting in Sanctuary and via Zoom.
Worship Leader: Rod Belshee Worship Associate: Robert Rancourt
Why do we sometimes seem to skate merrily along in life and at other times bristle up? What is our innate self and what is just a response to outside events? Are we immutable? The Wheel of Dependent Origination offers some insight
Join the Social Justice Committee for UUCOD’s Environmental Film Fest. This five film series culminates in April for Earth Day. These films share a special emphasis on the climate changes happening in our Coachella Valley and beyond.
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Julia Alberg-Burbank
Join us as we celebrate the beauty and life-giving wonder of our planetary home. How do we respond to the environmental crises around us? How do we find ways for us and all of life to thrive on our vast but tiny home?
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Ginger Hemingway
What do Unitarian Universalists believe? Why do you do things this way? What does it mean when you say that? Newcomers have lots of questions for us as they get to know our UU ways of being and thinking. Today, we’ll explore some of their questions. We might even answer a few!
Meeting will be at Margaret Beaman's home.
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Derek Moore
We’ve spent so much time and energy expecting and hoping for a “return to normal” after the years of pandemic. As the pandemic has been fading we’ve been trying to return to our old lives—and finding out that the world has shifted and “normal” isn’t what it used to be. Join us as we are inspired by the ancient story of life triumphing over death to ponder what a new life together might look like. Our choir will sing!
Worship Leaders :Rev. Ian W. Riddell and the Peet Family
Worship Associate: Julia Alberg-Burbank
Our Pacific Southwest area has been blessed with our own camp and retreat center in the San Bernadino National Forest. Since 1961 the camp has been a place for UUs (and others) to find retreat, renewal, and restoration among the trees. And to connect with and learn with other UUs. Join the Peet family today as we reflect on what camp has meant to them and what exploring our UU connections in the forest might mean for all of us.
Worship Leader: Rabbi Mark Borovitz Worship Associate: Bryna Blum
Rabbi Mark will discuss the exodus of Egypt historically and in our time.
The Environmental Film Festival has been canceled for March. It will resume in April for our final film to celebrate Earth Day.
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Julia Alberg-Burbank
What does welcome feel like? What does it look like? How can we welcome newness and possibility and hope into our lives and into our congregation. Join us as we explore welcome and celebrate the new members joining our community.
Worship Leader: Rabbi Jules King
Worship Associate: Bryna Blum
Why do they hate us? Why is it always the Jews? Is there anything we can do? How to identify it and name it.
Worship Leader: Rev. Sarah Gibb Millspaugh
Worship Associate: Joni Padduck
s we begin to consider a deeper, longer commitment with our minister Rev. Ian Riddell, our guest speaker Rev. Sarah Gibb Millspaugh from the UUA Pacific Western Region staff leads us in reflecting on how we are always forming, and re-forming, ourselves and our communities. In these tumultuous times we are called to live differently than our consumerist, hyper-individualist society may have taught us. Together we are called to embrace a kind of spiritual salvage work: saving one another, our planet, and ourselves; living into a deep interdependence and joyful aliveness. Calling a minister at a time like this has a profound meaning for UUCOD, a congregation that Sarah has partnered with on its own healing journey of the past seven years. Let us celebrate all that we are and all that we are becoming, together.