Many will include the following elements: A blessing for the new life of the child An expression of the parent or parents’ hopes for the child A promise by the congregation to support and nurture the child.
text from https://www.uua.org/beliefs/what-we-do/celebrations/births

​Order of Service
Prelude: Maggie Mooha
Chalice Lighting: Mark Bergtholdt
Song: Come Sing a Song with Me #346 
Dedication Ceremony: Nina Kuzniak
Song: #354 We Laugh We Cry 1st, 2nd, & 4th.
Chalice Extinguishing: Nina Kuzniak
Postlude: Theme to Bluey

Please contact UUCLV at [email protected] if you're interested in getting a Child Dedication.

​The final Harvest approaches. 
The Threads of life have been woven; we have met our challenges with courage. Now is time for reaping...

The fields are bare, the leaves have fallen from the trees, and the skies are going gray and cold. It is the time of year when the earth has died and gone dormant. Every year on October 31, the Sabbat we call Samhain presents us with the opportunity to once more celebrate the cycle of death and rebirth.
Tonight we Seek the Moirai. Calling upon each of the Fates; reflecting on our journey as we pass from this year, and step anew onto the path of the year ahead.

This Samhain we invite you to share sacred time and space with us in person! This will be a hybrid event, with online access for all our dear friends who are with us from afar. Come - be part of the magic!

Doors will open at 7:30 pm
Ritual at 8:00 pm
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Potluck to immediately follow, please bring a dish to share and get to know our fantastic Goddess Community!

​Please contact us for more info: [email protected]

Sunday Service will be a simulcast of the GA's Sunday Service.

You can join others at UUCLV Sunday Morning at 9:30 AM to watch it with your compadres or you can watch it with this link from home:
https://www.uua.org/ga/off-site/2022 

 The last few years have not been easy, including in our local congregations. Whole swaths of members have simply stopped coming; COVID is confusing, and polarizing; many ministers have joined the great resignation; and Pew studies and friends alike have pronounced the end of the local church.
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In this moment, when so many of us might be wondering if we should just give up, and relent, now’s the time instead to double down on our commitment to the local church -this unique community that saves us and also breaks our hearts - often much more of the latter than we’d like to admit. In the midst of our culture of death, the church is a place of life. Or it is, as long as we are willing to bring our own lives to it. Join us for a morning of celebration, witness, and future-visioning for the already and not yet power of the local Unitarian Universalist church.
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Leading us in worship will be Rev. Gretchen Haley, Rev. Shari Halliday-Quan, Rev. Sean Neil-Barron, Lea Morris, Adam Podd, Joseph and Aimee Santos-Lyons, and Allison King with the GA Choir.

Order of Service available here: 
https://www.uua.org/ga/off-site/2022/sunday-worship

Join us at UUCLV as we share a celebration Sunday. We will officially meet and greet our new members and celebrate them becoming one with us.  Also, its our Flower Communion Sunday and this day is intended to symbolize the way in which just as no two flowers are alike, so no two people are alike yet each has a contribution to make to the community. This is a wonderful way to affirm and celebrate our Unitarian Universalist faith and the spiritual community we create when we join together in our beloved  congregations life.

In order to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 virus, the UUCLV congregation has suspended most in-person programs and events for the time being.

UUCLV will hold Virtual Worshipful Gatherings on Sundays until such a time that we can come together in-person again.

You can join us at ​https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84823621393 on Sunday mornings.
The Zoom room opens at 10:25 AM. Worship begins at 10:30 AM
Please message us at [email protected] for the Zoom passcode.

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​Are you interested in being a Worship Associate at UUCLV?

​If you like the idea of being in front of people and reading stories / poems / prayers / selected readings or giving a sermon, join us!

Help plan the worship schedule, help with Sunday worship, and more.

We meet on the 2nd & 4th Tuesdays each month at 6:30pm. Please contact Mark at [email protected] for more information.

Come worship with the UUs!

Please join us for our earth-based Winter Solstice ritual. Let us communion together as we remember the Elements and Directions at the threshold of longest, darkest night and the  returning emerging light; the "Birth of the Sun". Gratitude and letting go will weave through our time together.

​In order to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 virus, the UUCLV congregation has suspended most in-person programs and events for the time being.

UUCLV will be holding Virtual Worshipful Gatherings until such a time that we can come together in-person again.
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You can join us at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89186209573 on Monday evening starting at 6:50 PM. Please send a message for the password. [email protected]

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Pictured: In astronomy, an analemma is a diagram showing the deviation of the Sun from its mean motion in the sky, as viewed from a fixed location on the Earth. Due to the Earth's axial tilt and orbital eccentricity, the Sun will not be in the same position in the sky at the same time every day.     Date 18 April 2016, 13:27     Source Analemma A14 2016
Author Giuseppe Donatiello     https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Analemma_A14_2016_(25907420783).jpg

Thursday, December 31, 2020
from 12:00 PM
​with The Reverend
Gordon Clay Bailey

THE LOSS OF A LOVED ONE can be difficult to deal with at any time. But in the era of COVID-19, when physical, or social, distancing is the norm, family and friends wanting to pay their last respects to the deceased face special challenges.

We at UUCLV have had losses within our community and members of our congregations have experienced loss of their loved ones.  Let us on this last day of 2020 take time to remember, reflect. And honor our dead and the countless souls who have left this life this year.

UUCLV will be holding Virtual Worshipful Gatherings until such a time that we can come together in-person again.
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You can join us at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84823621393 on Thursday afternoon starting at 11:50 AM to stay connected with the local congregation. Please send a message for the password. [email protected]

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Thursday, December 24, 2020
​with The Reverend
Gordon Clay Bailey

Come worship with the UUs!

Come celebrate a UU Christmas together via Zoom. Share our special service of Unitarian Universalist lessons and carols, with readings from many traditions, experience the peace of sharing our closing hymn “Silent Night.” By lighting a candle, or flashlight at home but together with all of our UUCLV family.

UUCLV will be holding Virtual Worshipful Gatherings until such a time that we can come together in-person again.

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