Archives: Services

A Celebration of Lay Leadership

Worship leader: Lucas Gonzalez Milliken and the Summer Worship Team Social Hour to follow the service for fellowship and connection. For this service, In-person attendance is described below. If joining by Zoom, please use the regular First Parish Zoom account: https://zoom.us/j/4438056805 – Please note the time change – summer services start at 10am! Sunday Services from July … Continue reading A Celebration of Lay Leadership

UUA General Assembly Streaming Service

First Universalist Church of Minneapolis will serve as worship leaders for this year’s GA Sunday Morning Service. Music will be offered through collaboration with 2021 GA Choir Director Susan Mashiyama, the GA virtual choir, and musicians from First Universalist. Go to this page for the link to the streaming service, which will be available on Sunday … Continue reading UUA General Assembly Streaming Service

Full Bodied Joy

As we welcome the summer months and relish the beauty around us, let us create and feel the full bodied joy that fuels us. We cannot live a life of fullness unless we can feel our joy all the way into our toes. We cannot sustain real work for change in the world unless we … Continue reading Full Bodied Joy

Playing Pretend

Playing pretend can give us an empowering way to work through and express different parts of ourselves. It can also be the most disempowering and soul draining thing when it is forced upon us for survival. Join us as we celebrate the ways in which we are creating a world where everyone is honored and … Continue reading Playing Pretend

Stories of the Sky

Looking at stories from various traditions, let us consider how the sky has united us consider how the sky has united us and will support us as we explore ways to connect again. Social Hour to follow the service for fellowship and connection. See Less Guest preacher Rev. Ashley DeTar Birt is the Program Coordinator for … Continue reading Stories of the Sky

Where Do We Come From?

We all have various origin stories – personal, familial, cultural, communal and cultural. Our origin stories can have a big impact on how we understand ourselves. How we interrogate or accept those stories matters. Join us as we explore the power of origin stories in our lives. Rev. Elizabeth Carrier-Ladd preaching. 

Our Whole Lives

Our goal as Unitarian Universalists is to create a Beloved Community built upon the foundation of our ‘whole’ lives and stories. Rev. Pratima Dharm will speak on May 16th on how to create the sacred spaces within our midst that allow us to hear and embrace the totality of our stories which would pave the way … Continue reading Our Whole Lives

Resilient Story

The term resilience has been used to justify or glorify trauma and oppression – but that is not the true meaning of resilience. Join us as we unpack what resilience really is, the power it can have in our lives and how to practice it on purpose so that we are connected to our own … Continue reading Resilient Story