About our Service: Potlatch has been a long-standing Native American tradition. It is a ritual about letting go of something and getting something new in return. Before making a New Year’s resolution, come to this service! Bring an item you are ready to let go of. At the end of the service, everyone takes home … Continue reading Potlatch
Not inspired to celebrate the holidays in the traditional style? You can resist holiday commercialism and stresses by coming to BBUUC to celebrate Festivus. This “Festivus for the rest-of-us” was popularized on the TV show Seinfeld. Come be with your church family for an hour on New Years Eve morning to “air your grievances.” Festivus … Continue reading 2nd-Annual Festivus Service
A time honored BBUUC tradition, the Christmas Eve service is a perfect place to get in to the spirit of the holiday season. Songs, dances, and stories shape this service. This is not an event that you will want to miss. Feel free to bring the whole family.
There will also be a 10:30 am service.
Worship Leader: Vanessa Birchell
As is traditional in many UU churches across the country, BBUUC will hold our annual Water Sharing ritual. All are invited to bring a small container of water from (or representing) your travels, special places, moments or events from the summer or the year, and place the waters into the communal bowl.
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About our Service Pete Seeger used folk music to build community. For in community, there laid the possibility for political action. A Unitarian Universalist, Seeger’s songs bolstered the labor movement of the 1940s, the civil rights marches and anti-Vietnam War rallies of the 1960s, and environmental and antiwar causes of the 1970s. We celebrate the … Continue reading Hammer Out Love
In our Faith, Bridging Ceremonies are the sacred transition from one point in our lives to the other. Bridging is about change, growth, and our ability to reach out from where we are to where we could be if only we let ourselves realize our potential.
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About our Service: The Flower Ceremony celebrates beauty, human uniqueness, diversity, and community. Everyone brings a flower and places it on the altar or in a shared vase where they’re blessed & redistributed. Each person brings home a different flower than the one they brought. Right after service is an Easter Egg Hunt & delicious potluck.
Not inspired to celebrate the holidays in the traditional style? You can resist holiday commercialism and stresses by coming to BBUUC to celebrate Festivus.
General Assembly takes form in a barrage of emotions- exhausting, invigorating, frustrating, satisfying, inspiring. One item that is perhaps more important than the whirlwind of emotions is that General Assembly is an educational experience. The education that one receives at General Assembly is life-altering and possesses so much power that there lies the ability to spark a movement of change.
