Services

Each year on March 31, the world observes Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) to raise awareness about transgender people and celebrate their lives and contributions. Our Guest Speaker will be J Mase III, a Black/Trans/queer poet & educator. He’s the author of And Then I Got Fired: One Transqueer’s Reflections on Grief, Unemployment & Inappropriate Jokes About Death as well as White Folks Be Trippin’: An Ethnography Through Poetry & Prose. Winner of a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Non-Fiction and a Creative Capital Award, he is co-director of the documentary, The Black Trans Prayer Book and is finishing Is Your God a Violent God? Finding a Theology for Survivors. Masks are required for the Workshop and will be provided.

There is always more to a person than what we perceive. We each carry many untold stories, struggles, and joys. In this service, led by East Shore’s High School Youth Group, we will explore how curiosity, love, generosity, and connection can help us see one another more fully. How do we listen deeply? How do we move beyond assumptions and embrace each person’s full humanity? How can this openness strengthen our relationships and our community?
Together, we’ll reflect on the ways we can show up for one another with open hearts, honoring the truth that no one is just the cover of their book. Join us as we celebrate the beauty of the stories we have yet to discover. 

We celebrate Earth Day with a Dirt Communion. Bring a little bit of your dirt. A little bit of the soil where you find your peace, find your power, find your joy. Maybe from your garden, from your playground, from your favorite hiking trail. Maybe from the resting place of someone or something you loved. There’s power in all that. On Earth Day, we'll share our dirt with this community of faith, and trust that we will do something miraculous and transformative with it. Please join us in our very own dirt communion! Rev. Dr. María Cristina Vlassidis Burgoa will be preaching.

Star Trek has provided a richly wonderful source of imagination and speculative exploration ever since the first series aired in 1966. This has been followed by Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Enterprise, countless Star Trek movies and, more recently, Picard and Strange New Worlds. Each series and movie explores the nature of what it means to be human, what it means explore, and often, what it means to forge supportive communities. This service will boldly go where no service has gone before, inviting us all to look to the stars! Dress up as your favorite Star Trek character!