If you’re interested in finding out more about our Healing Circle, please go to our Blog page. If you’d like to join the next circle on Zoom, please email your request to slhly1@aol.com
Send Rev. Jeanne a message on our Connect page with your email address if you would like to receive the Zoom link to attend Bible Study.
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Please contact us on our Connect page if you would like the Zoom link to the service.
Please contact us on our Connect page if you would like the Zoom link for the service.
On the first Thursday of each month our Transitions group gathers on Zoom from 10:30-12:00. We provide a safe place- a circle of love, support, and wisdom for everyone who is in transition. Some of us are in places of not knowing about health and family issues, some are on cancer journeys, some have lost jobs, are having financial struggles, are grieving the loss of loved ones, or just trying to find the ground after the trauma of the pandemic. We have a covenant of confidentiality with one another and use poetry (Currently Jan Richardson's book "Blessings in times of Grief") as a container and talk about how the Divine is present and moving in our lives. And we do it in a very ecumenical openhearted way- so no matter what your spiritual background (or not) you are welcome to join us. Rev. Jeanne leads this group and offers gentle group care and guidance for our conversations. Please contact us via the form on the contact page of the website if you are interested in attending or have questions. We are grateful to have this ministry opportunity to offer the big-hearted journey support that is one of our core strengths at UCH.
P.S. This is safe, welcoming space for lgbtqia+ folkx.
Jan Richardson writes in her Pentecost Blessing, "This is the blessing that blazes among us. When we speak into the words strange to our ears. When we finally listen into the chaos. When we breathe together at last." I love that she references the mystery, the collective experience and the chaos. Pentecost is at its core an amazing and yet unsettling day. The call of Pentecost is to speak and listen across languages and ways of being. It's about breathing together as individuals and community as we try to embody, define and articulate the undefinable, unknowable mysteries of God. Join us for this celebratory and decentering "Struggle to Find the Words" conversation about Acts 2- in which there was a very pivotal, "unsettling, settling, cleansing, new, fiery, lightning, language we could all understand" wind event. I look forward to being with you on Zoom for this Holy Day!- Rev. Jeanne
Please contact us on our Connect page if you would like the Zoom link for the service.
Shel Silverstein, in his wonderful book of poetry (for kids and adults) called "Falling Up" writes, "I tripped on my shoelace And I fell up— Up to the roof tops, Up over the town, Up past the tree tops, Up over the mountains, Up where the colors blend into the sounds. But it got me so dizzy- When I looked around, I got sick to my stomach And I threw down." This beautifully captures what ascension really is for us. And it isn't all up. For us really, it is more up, down, sideways and in the present moment. (In fact if we try to go up too fast and far we will find ourselves "throwing down." aka: spiritual bypassing). Join us this Sunday as we celebrate Jesus' ascension by "Falling Up: Exploring the Spiritual Journey of Ascension", and our calling to ascend with him (up, down, sideways, and in the present moment) in the latter part of Luke 24. I look forward to being with you on Zoom! -Rev. Jeanne
Please contact us on our Connect page if you would like the Zoom link for the service.
