The Within Phase of Beloved Conversations: Virtual will continue in the Spring Term. We would love to have you (and everyone you know!) join us for another term of this program, with a continued focus on personal learning and growth!
The ESUC Staff is off this Sunday, so we found some great services happening on Sunday! We hope you attend one and let us know what you think!
Reverend Furrer preaching on living in and through apocalyptic times. Are they End Times? Prophets have long predicted a coming day when our shared temporal experience is interrupted and radically changed. First here was nuclear Armageddon and now: accelerating climate change. Are the prophets correct? Let’s kick off 2022 right!
World building and imaginative play: Join us in the Sanctuary to construct a new world. Bring a pillow and a blanket. What can we learn about community, individualism, and cooperation from building an epic pillow fort? Join us to play and see.
January sixth is celebrated among orthodox Christians as Epiphany. Lower case “e”piphany is kind of an ah-ha experience or moment. How to cultivate such moments and celebrate them when they come.
Please come for a information and conversation session about our winter programs, reopening the campus for worship, and an opportunity to social and connect as an RE community. Lunch Provided. Movie “Howl’s Moving Castle” will be shown in the North Room for kids to hang out while adults talk some!
The church will open soon for in-person worship, meetings, and fellowship. How will we react to each other after all these months? What will you do if something expected has changed? This may be a surprise and an adjustment! Let’s talk!
The Beloved Conversations Among team leads a worship service about the current program many ESUC lay leaders and staff have been participating in and finding very energizing. Hands on transformation!
Please bring proof of vaccination for you and your children (over age 4) for us to check! We’ll have registration available for RE classes as well. While parents are registering and providing proof of vaccine, children and youth will continue planning the Blessing of the Animals worship service, a short story telling of “The Great Kapok Tree”.
Middle and high school youth outdoors, along with youth advisor Mark Norelius, on a fun adventure into the wild woods of I-90. We would leave from ESUC and return by 8 pm. This youth outdoors program will include snowshoeing, sledding and dinner cooked over an open fire in the snow. You can bring your own equipment or check in with the church about borrowing equipment. We have snowshoes to share.
Register youth online and you'll receive the link to the parent orientation after signup. Learn more about OWL and how it will help your teen grow. You'll have an opportunity to reflect on your own experiences of learning about sexuality and meet the trained teachers ready to help your teens navigate sexuality in a values-centered class!
Join on the 2nd and 4th Sundays thru June for online and in person religious exploration. We’ll be learning about some of the foundational stories that help govern the wisdom of our Unitarian Universalist identity and have time for connection and sharing.
This morning we hoped for RITUAL RE/OPENING of our on-site worship services, but thanks to the Omicron Variant scare, it has led to a total redesign. Instead of the choir heralding our warm collective re-embracing of one another, we are once again, 100% virtual, i.e., in a holding pattern, until our newly adopted Guidelines for Safe Gatherings call for a return. Join us as we share a variety of experiences of both their frustration AND of unexpected riches bubbled forth out of a change in plans.
Join our new Young Adult Ministry for 18-35 years old! We meet on the fourth Sunday of each month following service. Contact amanda alice uluhan, Director of Religious Education, for more informatiom.
Please join Meaningful Movies Bellevue on zoom, Tuesday, January 25th, at 7:00 PM for the 2020 documentary: Healing From Hate - How young men get into -and out-of-violent extremism. In this 84 minute film, Healing From Hate examines the root causes of hate group activity through the bold work of those battling intolerance on the front lines, including Life After Hate, an organization founded by former Skinheads and neo-Nazis, now engaged in transforming attitudes of intolerance. Documenting a stunning era of hatred in America, Healing From Hate follows these reformers in their work to de-radicalize White Nationalists, and heal communities torn apart by racism. Afterwards, please join in our discussion group to talk about the film.
Join us as we discuss The Cold Millions by Jess Walter. An intimate story of brotherhood, love, sacrifice, and betrayal set against the panoramic backdrop of an early twentieth-century America that eerily echoes our own time, The Cold Millions offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation grappling with the chasm between rich and poor, between harsh realities and simple dreams.
Unitarian Universalist women (and men) have long been stalwarts in the fight to make abortion safe and legal. All that is now imperiled. Where to go from here? Sponsored by the Women’s Perspective Team.
Join us as we practice KINDNESS this month with your friends and families by making craft kits for the junior orthopedic guild. Families will be assembling craft kits in Ziploc bags and may be cutting material needed to place in the Ziploc bags as well. If time permits families will be invited to make cards for children the Junior Orthopedic Guild serves.
Join fellow UU activists for our Black Lives Matter Flash Stance in person in Woodinville Stance on the corner of 175th and Garden in front of the Woodinville Jamba Juice. We gather in solidarity with Black, Brown, AAPI and Indigenous People of Color. Flash Stances start conversations, and then carry those conversations on. All are welcome-join us in this important work! Learn more about Flash Stances here on KBCS.
Log on to connect with a volunteer team, schedule your volunteer dates, talk about curriculum, and ask questions of the RE staff. We will be introducing ourselves and introducing the curriculum that will be used. We will also be discussing safety and our principle and covenantal guidelines.