UU Fellowship of Lima Sunday Services

2013-2014 Sunday Services Schedule

09/08/13	Coming Home--Like Rivers to the Sea	Rev. Chuck Thomas	Our Annual In-Gathering Water Service. Performed by the congregants, this program emphasizes the continuity of life. It commemorates past services and persons while welcoming the coming year. Each person, informally and voluntarily, pours a little water into a communal bowl while describing his/her summer activities, feelings, or thoughts.
09/15/13	Intelligent Design and Irreducible Complexity	Dr. Earl Lhamon	Service Leader: Louise Daniels
09/22/13	The Jamii Project - Update on Efforts to Build a Medical Clinic in Tanzania	David Woodward	Service Leader: Dow Wagner
09/29/13	Travels in Buenos Aires	Dr. Holly Norton
10/06/13	Animals and Humans: Moral Sense and Sense-Abilities.	Cris Elstro
10/13/13	Reaching Out to All	Ray Michel	Service Leader: Dow Wagner
10/20/13	I Don’t Remember the Name, But the Place is Familiar	Rev. Chuck Thomas
10/27/13	The Northwest Ohio Literacy Council: Making a Difference Every Day	Becky Hirn and Ken Blanchard	Learn how the Northwest Ohio Literacy Council goes beyond helping adults to read by addressing many areas of illiteracy in the community. Also hear how this small organization is reaching out in the community to partner with other groups to make a difference every day.
11/03/13	The Mysterious Mary Roberts Rinehart: A Feminist in Victorian Times.	Dr. Carmel Morse
11/10/13	Understanding Egypt	Maha Zehery
11/17/13	Give Us That Old Time Universalist Religion: We’re Good Enough For It	Rev. Chuck Thomas
11/24/13	Thanksgiving Celebration	Congregation	Following a service dedicated to Thanksgiving, brunch will be served. Each person brings a dish to be shared. Service Leader: Marilyn Frank
12/01/13	Scrooge Revisited	Rev. Chuck Thomas
12/08/13	'Tween Jupiter and Bethlehem	Rev. Richard Venus
12/15/13 CANCELED	A Reading of William Saroyan's "The Beggars"	John Bell	John's reading has been rescheduled for Jan. 12
12/22/13	Christmas Celebration	Congregation	Holiday celebration and brunch. Service leader: Dow Wagner
12/29/13	Janus Service: A Year to Remember, A Year to Look Forward To	Congregation	Thoughts for the new year. Service Leader: Louise Daniels
01/05/14	Travels in Lisbon	Dr. Holly Norton
01/12/14	A Reading of William Saroyan's "The Beggars"	John Bell
01/19/14	Unenforceable Obligations	Rev. Chuck Thomas	A list of ten unenforceable obligations to contrast the enforceable obligations of the Ten Commandments.
01/26/14 SERVICE CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER. RESCHEDULED FOR 3/2	In the Words of Max Coots	Shirley Boeheim	A tribute to Max Coots, Unitarian-Universalist minister in Canton, NY for 35 years, influential community leader, and Shirley's close friend. Shirley will discuss her memories of Reverend Coots and share quotes from his three books, View from a Tree, Seasons of the Self, and Leaning Against the Wind.
02/02/14	Socrates' Myth of the Cave	Mary Buckley	An exploration of how it's easier for people to not think for themselves and allow others to interpret for them.
02/09/14	A reading of "Shame on You" by John Fockler	Dow Wagner	Examines shame as an appropriate means of social sanction in our society.
02/16/14	Evil	Rev. Chuck Thomas	The 20th century has been a century of genocide, and some say that we need to understand the evil that propagates genocide when, actually, we just need to stop it. Sweetheart Brunch following service.
02/23/14	Serving Homeless Families	Chuck Wolfe	Chuck Wolfe, Executive Director of Family Promise of Lima-Allen County, will speak about the services Family Promise offers.
03/02/14 CANCELED DUE TO SNOW. Rescheduled 3/23	Crisis: The Awful Opportunity	Shirley Boeheim, daughter of a Unitarian Universalist minister and retired psychologist	A tribute to Max Coots, Unitarian-Universalist minister in Canton, NY for 35 years, influential community leader, and Shirley's close friend. Shirley will discuss her memories of Reverend Coots and share quotes from his three books, View from a Tree, Seasons of the Self, and Leaning Against the Wind.
03/09/14	Who is the Alien Among Us?	Tom Bowman	Service leader: Chuck Wolfe
03/16/14	Wine Worship	Brian Keegan
03/23/14	Crisis: The Awful Opportunity	Shirley Boeheim, daughter of a Unitarian Universalist minister and retired psychologist	A tribute to Max Coots, Unitarian-Universalist minister in Canton, NY for 35 years, influential community leader, and Shirley's close friend. Shirley will discuss her memories of Reverend Coots and share quotes from his three books, View from a Tree, Seasons of the Self, and Leaning Against the Wind.
03/30/14	Modern Science and Ancient Legend	Candy Miller
04/06/14	"Doing Ministry Is All of Us	Rev. Richard Venus
04/13/14	The Incredible Journey: Remembering Pete Seeger	Anne Edwards will do the recordings and Judy Decker will be worship leader.	We will reflect on the great music of Pete Seeger. Music will be interspersed with reflections on meaning of the songs and the life of Pete Seeger. Many members will participate. Come ready to be creative! Some surprises are planned. Spring Brunch following service. Please bring a dish to share.
04/20/14	Peace through Music: Playing for Change	A film directed by Mark Johnson	On this Easter Sunday we will view and discuss Peace through Music "... an exploration into the human spirit and the power of music to unite us as a human race. Through the process of making this film we traveled around the world and discovered that music opens the door to a place where we can celebrate our differences and still connect our hearts."
04/27/14	In Memorium: Poems for the Centennial of WWI	David Adams	In honor of National Poetry Month, Dr. David Adams will present and discuss poems relating to World War I in honor of its one hundredth anniversary.
05/04/14	Tree Festival		An adaptation of the ancient Jewish festival Tu Bishvat. We look at the natural world with wonder and celebrate the abundance of earth's resources. We read aloud descriptive text interspersed with songs and savor a variety of fruits, grains, nuts, honey and wine. We reaffirm our responsibility to be caretakers of this creation and to commit to meaningful policies that affect environmental integrity.
05/11/14	Compassion	Rev. Tim Barger	Greater Toledo just became a compassionate region, the 36th area in a global movement to recognize compassionate cities by working to honor the Charter for Compassion, which was published in 2009. How does this golden rule ideal affect our lives and our future, individually and in society? Rev. Tim will share some thoughts about compassionate living and our religious ways.Service Leader: Dow Wagner
05/18/14	UU Flower Communion	Service leader: Shirley Boeheim	Each person brings a single flower and places it in a large vase with all the others, symbolizing the individuals in the church community. The collection expresses the unity, attractiveness, and shared responsibility that enables group action and fellowship. At the end of the service, each person takes home a flower not his/her own, symbolizing acceptance of the individuality that underlies our group energy and interests. The annual meeting with a brown bag lunch will follow the service.
05/25/14	Making Progress	Ray Michel	The greater part of our happiness and satisfaction with life depends on our disposition and not on our circumstance. Service leader: Dow Wagner. Carry-in Spring Luncheon will follow service.