Fourth Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Westchester

Some musical humor for UUs...

I invite you to take in this powerful worship service the First Universalist Church in Minneapolis streamed this morning addressing the death of George Floyd an...d the collective grief we are holding at this time. Rev. Jen Crow, Co-Senior Minister, offers a welcome and opening words @ 15:50 UUA President Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray shares greetings & a prayer from the wider UU world @ 24:00 Religious Educator Lauren Wyeth shares a children’s message and speaks the truth in love, even when that truth is sad, complicated or scary @ 31:00 Adjunct Minister Rev. Karen Hutt delivers a powerful sermon @ 56:00 from her lived experience as a black woman in this country. Musical selections, prayer, and a virtual flower ceremony round out the service. (Check out the altar in the world @ 1:19) Rev. Cindy

Rev. Bill Sinkford, former President and Co-President of the UUA, offers these words to his congregation this week: I will not offer you a simplified and sani...tized hope. The most I can offer you is an invitation. to be present to the lack of hope. Not an invitation to a pity party. Not an invitation to despair. An invitation to cease pretending. The challenge is not to punish one white police officer in one city for one act of violence. Wethat would be all of usneed to face the truth that so much of the structure of the world we know is built on a commitment to maintain the racial hierarchy. We must face it if we want to have any chance of changing it. The words of prophet James Baldwin: ‘Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.’ We must face the truth.

To accommodate more visitors joining our online worship on Sunday, March 15 at 10:00am we are moving to a new, bigger room! NEW LOG IN INFORMATION:... Join the service via computer/device: zoom.us/j/761321991 Join the service via any phone: +1 646 876 9923 ~ Meeting ID: 761 321 991