Deep listening is essential for true intimacy — with ourselves, each other, and our world. In our rush to keep up with the pace of modern life, we humans can easily fall into more passive forms of engagement, leading to disconnection and divisiveness. Fortunately, deep listening is a capacity that can be cultivated. Join us … Continue reading Worlds beneath the Words: Practices for Deep Listening
Our society bombards us with a cacophony of voices which often makes it difficult to listen deeply to our own inner voice. To counter this, we must remember that we are a people with strong values centered in love and return again and again to what our hearts are telling us. See the UUConnect for the service … Continue reading Listening Deeply to Our Inner Voices
Beth Hudak is a community-focused leader with a history of developing equitable, collaborative, and innovative approaches to driving positive community impact. She is the Director of Community Engagement at House of Hope, providing emergency shelter, housing stability programming, and additional supportive services to youth and families with children experiencing homelessness in the greater Green Bay … Continue reading 5th Sunday Presentation + Potluck
Our Fellowship has a reputation as a place to meet wonderful people on unique spiritual journeys. It’s as if we meet at camp each week to try hiking on different spiritual and ethical paths together. Rev. Jim’s message will focus on three questions: What do UUs believe? What is GBAUUF about? Why would you want … Continue reading Invite a Friend to Camp GBAUUF!
Early Christianity was founded on a practice of invitation that was based on total inclusivity. Members included women, men, slaves, free people, the rich, the poor, Gentiles and Jews. What has changed to the message of Jesus of Nazareth? When anyone looks to join any current Christian denominations, there are qualifications to adhere to before … Continue reading Having Dinner with Tax Collectors and Sinners
Each year we bring a sample of water from our summer activities to mingle together for our welcome back ritual. You are invited to bring some water that represented an activity from this past summer that was meaningful to you. (Tap water from home counts!) This year, as we describe the source of our water, … Continue reading Welcoming Water Sunday (Water Communion)
Due to the Labor Day holiday, we will not have a service this Sunday.
In this second of a two part series, we consider what the world would look like in beloved community. How it would stand out from what we have today? This message is grounded in the book A More Perfect Union by Rev. Adam Russell Taylor. See the UUConnect for the service logon information or click on August … Continue reading Reimagining Beloved Community (Part 2)
Obsessing over endings is all too easy for many of us. As UUs we strive to create a better world and to bring about what MLK called a “beloved community”. This desire and the work it takes is a beautiful thing to behold but is also a point of dismay for many of us who … Continue reading On Endings and Beginnings
Join us for another GBAUUF favorite as we recognize our animal companions this Sunday. You are invited to bring one or more pets (on a leash or in a carrier) to the ceremony. This year we will also have a slide show to honor pets we have lost. See the UUConnect for the service logon information or … Continue reading Pet Blessing
