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FirstAnnounce – December 21, 2025

  Sunday Worship, December 21rst, 2025 at 10:30 am Christmas Pageant Join us on December 21rst at 10:30 am. Experience the birth of Jesus as you’ve never seen it before—through the imaginative lens of UU storytelling. Come for a joyful, light-hearted, and participatory Christmas pageant filled with music, laughter, and plenty of audience cues. If […]

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New Member Spotlight 2025

New Member Spotlight – Joanne Michalski

Meet Joanne Michalski”I joined the Unitarian Fellowship in Traverse City, Michigan, around 1993. After having our son Konrad in 1989, we were unable to have more children. We joined an open adoption group (never did adopt), and it was strongly suggested that we join some kind of church. I called the local UUs and spoke […]

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Leadership Development Committee – Position Open

Leadership Development Committee Position Open The Leadership Development Committee is seeking an interim member to replace a member who must leave the committee due to out-of-town employment. The term would end on July 1, 2026. However, the candidate could stand for approval at the Congregational meeting in June to fill the remaining two-year term if […]

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FirstAnnounce – December 14, 2025

Sunday Worship, December 14th, 2025 at 10:30 am Lifesaving Love Michael DeSantis, Ministerial Resident Join us on December 14th at 10:30 am. Our UU faith puts love at the center and it’s not a stretch to say that love—genuine, other-focused love—can, in some cases, save lives. Where is that kind of lifesaving love needed in […]

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FirstAnnounce – December 4, 2025

Sunday Worship, December 7th, 2025 at 10:30 am To Save or to Savor? Michael DeSantis Join us on December 7th at 10:30 am. The writer E. B. White once remarked, “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savor the world. This makes it hard to […]

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Religious Exploration News – November 20, 2025

Religious Exploration News!Winter Solstice Eve will be held on Saturday, December 20th, from 4:00 to 7:00 this year. We will have a face painter, an all-ages coloring poster, and a new family-friendly spiral lighting ceremony before the traditional spiral lighting. More details and an RSVP link will be available soon. An interactive, No-Rehearsal Intergenerational Pageant will […]

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FirstAnnounce – November 30, 2025

Sunday Worship, November 30th, 2025 at 10:30 am Costly Love Michael DeSantis Join us on November 23rd at 10:30 am. Love is often thought about as something that is sentimental and saccharine sweet. But our UU faith asks us to live into a liberating love and liberation is hard work. What does liberating love demand […]

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FirstAnnounce – November 23, 2025

Sunday Worship, November 23rd, 2025 at 10:30 am Making a Place for UU Rev. Lia Davis Join us on November 23rd at 10:30 am. Each moment offers a generous invitation to notice, to feel, to be truly awake, to create something new and unknown. And yet it is not so simple for most of us […]

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