72425 Via Vail
Rancho Mirage, CA 92270
760-321-0694

Sunday Worship: Co-Creating the Beloved Community

Hybrid: Online and In-Person 72425 Via Vail, Rancho Mirage, CA, United States

Worship Leader: Dr. Mignonne Pollard
Worship Associate: Sarita Gonzales

The beloved community is a concept that Martin Luther King Jr popularized as the belief that justice, abundance, and peace is for all. The community is a global community. As we embody MLK’s dream, we recognize that one path to the beloved community is through racial healing. Racial healing asks each of us to investigate our own backgrounds for understanding and knowledge before we reach across the aisle to our neighbors. As we do this work of racial healing, we can consciously co-create our world. This week we will honor the MLK’s dream as well as meditate on the Unitarian Universalist’s 8th principle.

Recurring

S2S2S Rehearsal

Hybrid: Online and In-Person 72425 Via Vail, Rancho Mirage, CA, United States

Sunday Worship: What Do We Mean When We Say: Beloved Community?

Hybrid: Online and In-Person 72425 Via Vail, Rancho Mirage, CA, United States

Worship Leaders: Rev. Ian W. Riddell, Julia Alberg-Burbank, Jane Zaun, Joaquin Galeano and Walter Gendell
We've been talking a lot about being and becoming a "Beloved Community" but what do we mean by that? What do you think that means? Join us as we explore living into our covenant in loving, just, and deepening ways.

Recurring

S2S2S Rehearsal

Hybrid: Online and In-Person 72425 Via Vail, Rancho Mirage, CA, United States

Sunday Worship: “Rise Up, O Flame: Embracing a New Year”

Hybrid: Online and In-Person 72425 Via Vail, Rancho Mirage, CA, United States

Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Joni Padduck
At the beginning of a new year, we look back and wonder what we can let go from the year gone by and what we can carry forward into the months to come. Join us as we let the past burn away and shed light on the future.

Christmas Eve Service: Be Not Afraid

Hybrid: Online and In-Person 72425 Via Vail, Rancho Mirage, CA, United States

Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Bryna Blum
UUCOD Choir, Vanessa Ament, Director

Join us for our annual celebration of light and hope, coming together to find comfort and possibility in the quiet and in the joyful music.

Sunday Worship: Candles of Hope and Wonder

Hybrid: Online and In-Person 72425 Via Vail, Rancho Mirage, CA, United States

Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Bob Rancourt
UUCOD Choir: Vanessa Ament, Director
The festival of Hanukkah is centered around a miracle, the burning of a lamp for eight days when only one day of oil was available. Can we be reminded to find miracles in all around us? To feel awe and curiosity each and every day?

Sunday Together: Carrying Hope into the Darkness

Hybrid: Online and In-Person 72425 Via Vail, Rancho Mirage, CA, United States

Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Bob Rancourt
How is hope different from optimism? How can we be hopeful in these times? The returning darkness of winter brings us opportunities for connection and renewal. How can we learn to be a people of hope?

Sunday Worship: Staying Joyful During the Holiday!

Hybrid: Online and In-Person 72425 Via Vail, Rancho Mirage, CA, United States

Worship Leader: Rev. Tom Owen-Towle
Worship Associate: Bob Rancourt

Join us in welcoming Rev. Tom Owen-Towle back to UUCOD as he guides us in exploring the coming holiday season.

Sunday Worship: Wonderings About Being Human

Hybrid: Online and In-Person 72425 Via Vail, Rancho Mirage, CA, United States

Worship Leader: Rev. Tania Márquez
Worship Associate: Joni Padduck
Rev. Tania will present a service about embodiment, exploring what it means to be an embodied awareness, to live in a body that feels and experiences the world in ways we are not always aware of or that we cannot know.

Environmental Film Fest

Hybrid: Online and In-Person 72425 Via Vail, Rancho Mirage, CA, United States

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.

Sunday Worship: Remembrance and Resistance

Hybrid: Online and In-Person 72425 Via Vail, Rancho Mirage, CA, United States

Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Bob Rancourt
Our trans neighbors and kin are facing bolder and crueler attacks on their lives and health. Join us today as we mourn for those whose lives have been cut short by hatred and as we reaffirm our commitment to celebrating and partnering with our trans kin who are resisting and thriving.

November 2022 Share the Plate

Hybrid: Online and In-Person 72425 Via Vail, Rancho Mirage, CA, United States

November’s Share the Plate to Benefit the Holiday Gift Drive for SafeHouse of the Desert & Harrison House It’s holiday time and UUCOD is once again Sharing the Plate with SafeHouse of the Desert and its transitional living facility, Harrison House. Your generous giving will be used to purchase Target e-gift cards from our RaiseRight […]

Sunday Worship: The Desert Where Life Abounds: Making Home in New Places

Hybrid: Online and In-Person 72425 Via Vail, Rancho Mirage, CA, United States

Worship Leader: Rev. Ian
Worship Associate:
We live in one of the driest parts of the country, but life thrives all around us. Rev. Ian shares a more-personal reflection on the ways we learn to live in new climates and learn to see life in new ways.

Sunday Worship: The Stories Our Ancestors Told Us

Hybrid: Online and In-Person 72425 Via Vail, Rancho Mirage, CA, United States

Worship Leader: Rev. Ian
Worship Associate: Joni Padduck
Join us as we share stories of living in community shared with us by our ancestors.

Sunday Worship: Covenant as Community Keeper

Hybrid: Online and In-Person 72425 Via Vail, Rancho Mirage, CA, United States

Worship Leader: Julia Alberg-Burbank
Worship Associate: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
How does the act of keeping covenant help us forge community when individualism is so strong? How do covenants provide us a roadmap back to each other when we are in conflict?

What’s on Your Ballot?

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California Ballot Propositions Discussion Reproductive justice, funding for the arts in public schools, and flavored tobacco products, are just three of the nine ballot propositions on your November 8, 2022 California ballot. But what do they mean? Join UUCOD the Vote in person or via Zoom for a discussion of the issues along with pros and […]