UU Fellowship of Lima Sunday Services

2014-2015 Sunday Services Schedule

9/7/14	In-gathering	Congregation	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. Service Leader: Anne Edwards
9/14/14	Spiritual Uplift	Rev. Ray Michel	Life is made to live. Rev. Michel will explore how we can inspire ourselves and others to make us better human beings and how we can share that inspiration with others. Service Leader:Marilyn Bell
9/21/14	Ethics in Politics	Ben Rose	A discussion on how ethics comes into play in government and how government seeks to build a more ethical process. Presented by Ben Rose, the former Chairperson of the Ohio Ethics Commission. Service Leader:Chuck Wolfe
9/28/14	Story Theology	Rev. TK Barger	Service Leader:Chuck Wolfe
10/5/14	Travel & Change	Dr. Holly Norton	Holly shares her thoughts & reminiscences about her 2014 journey to Holland, Belgium, and France. Service Leader: Anne Edwards
10/12/14	Change and the Courts	Judge Glenn Derryberry	Service Leader: Rick Siferd
10/19/14	Once Upon a Time	Rev. TK Barger
10/26/14	Change in the Arts	Kay Van Meter	Service Leader: Anne Edwards
11/2/14	Life of Pi	Annett Kuck	Service Leader: Shirley Boeheim
11/9/14	Project Peace -- Imagining a World without War	Sister Paulette Schroeder	Working internationally "to build the hope within people that war is not inevitable, that violence is not the best choice in settling conflicts, and that human beings are not naturally violent." - See more at: Project Peace
11/16/14	Chapters	Rev. TK Barger
11/23/14	Guest At Your Table	Shirley Boeheim	Thanksgiving buffet will follow the Service.
11/30/14	The Crossroads Crisis Center	April Cacioppo	Crossroads Crisis Center Website
12/7/14	Charles Dickens	John Bell	facebook Service Leader: Dow Wagner An important Congregational Meeting will be held at 12:30 following the service.
12/14/14	Baroque Music	Michael Ballen	Service Leader: Dow Wagner
12/21/14	A Sense of Adventure: Unitarian Universalist in the Holiday Season	Rev. TK Barger	Service Leader: Dow Wagner Buffet will follow the Service
12/28/14	Christmas Memories	Congregation	Service Leader: Dow Wagner
1/4/15	Out of the Flames	Louise Daniels	This is the story of the Protestant Reformation and the effect the new printing press had on public reaction to religious leaders and the churches that sponsored them. The execution of Unitarian Michael Servetus by John Calvin is part of the story.
1/11/15	An Island of Safety for Children with Diabetes	Shirley Boeheim	The National Missionary Association of Universalist Women purchased the Clara Barton property in 1921 and, as a tribute to her, developed it into a treatment center.
1/18/15	Manifesting antidisestablishmentarianism Hand in Hand	Rev. TK Barger	Three stories of Unitarian and Universalist history: the ship the Hand in Hand, which brought Universalist John Murray to America; Unitarianism and the political term antidisestablishmentarianism; the Humanist Manifesto of the early 1900's.
1/25/15	A Brief History of Wine and Its Religious Significance in the West	Brian Keegan	Greeks, Romans, Jews and Christians all have differed in their approach to the spiritual, but each has integrated the spirit of the grape in their rituals and celebrations.
2/1/15	Loving War	Rev. Richard Venus	Unless there is some unimaginable breakthrough, we will see more religiously inspired terrorism. It often seems that we might be better off without religion. A cursory consideration of the crusades and persecutions of Christian history shows that religious violence is not confined to the Islamic world. If the different faiths really are committed to peace and goodwill, why do they inspire such hatred,and why are their scriptures so aggressive?
2/8/15	Sharing the Love	Stephen Jenkins	Stephen Jenkins is Executive Director at Our Daily Bread Soup Kitchen in Lima
2/15/15	The Story Behind Shakespeare's Sonnets	David Adams	Shakespeare's 154 sonnets tell a love story -- more properly, a love triangle in which the poet's love for a young man (108 sonnets) and a "dark lady" (26 sonnets) is complicated by rivalry and betrayal. Buffet will follow the Service. Bring a dish to share at our annual "Sweetheart Luncheon".
2/22/15	Lent, Love, and Liberal Religion	Rev. TK Barger
3/1/15 Canceled due to snow	Myth and Heroes	Judy Gilbert	rescheduled. see: March 22
3/8/15	Astronomy & The Bible	Prof. Earl Lhamon
3/15/15	Robins in Spring	Rev. Tim Barger	On the season, spirituality, rebirth, and return.
3/22/15	"The Hero's Journey Within Us.	Judy Gilbert
3/29/15	The Library of Ashurbanipal and Creation Stories	Cris Elstro	The program will cover the unearthing of the Library of Ashurbanipal and three Creation Myths found there. Corollaries to the Biblical myths will be included.
4/5/15	Easter Service	Congregation	coordinated by Carla Thompson
4/12/15	Taft & Our 6th Principle / World Peace	Rev. Frank W. Carpenter, D.Min	Cincinnati native Wm. Howard Taft was the most recent Unitarian to be President of the USA. After he left the White House he was the leading Unitarian Laymen. During World War One he took the lead for building American morale. His most important lifetime goal was supporting international peace negotiations. Is his work relevant to our world? more
4/19/15	Religion and Science	Mayor David Berger
4/26/15	Tree Festival	Congregation Music: Connie Hornung	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.
5/3/15		Rev. Richard Venus
5/10/15	Mother Songs	Holly Norton and Shirley Boeheim	A celebration to honor mothers through poems, songs, and the congregation's thoughts about their mothers
5/17/15	Unitarian Universalist Humanism	Rev. TK Barger	With the seasonal theme of renewal for services at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Lima in May, Rev. Tim is addressing theological renewal, which might be considered a type of spiritual spring cleaning. On May 17 the topic is "Unitarian Universalist Humanism," and on May 24 "Unitarian Universalist Buddhism." In our faith tradition, we support people of many theologies and ways of religious expression. In these two weeks, we'll look at humanism and Buddhism as practices within Unitarian Universalism. Music: Connie Hornung Annual Meeting follows service
5/24/15	Unitarian Universalist Buddhism	Rev. TK Barger	see May 17
5/31/15	UU Flower Communion	Congregation	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.

There are not regular Sunday Services over the summer. An occasional special service may be scheduled. Regular Sunday Services will resume in September. Watch this space in mid August for next year's scheduled.

2013-2014 Schedule of last year Services