Sunday, 6 September 2015, 11 am
Rev. Chris Andrews
“How to Get Rich”
How do we follow the dreams of the heart and not get sidetracked by the cultural agenda of getting more and more and being #1? The sermon will be about “following your bliss,” and living out of a sense of being called instead of just doing anything for a check.

The Rev. Chris Andrews has lived in Louisiana for most of his life. Formerly a minister in the United Methodist Church for 42 years, he served at 1st UMC in Baton Rouge for many of those years. Chris now leads Jubilee Pioneers, an eclectic group of folks in Baton Rouge seeking ways to practice “good religion.” He is not a Christian, but instead calls himself a “follower of Jesus.”

 

September 13th, 2015 is our Homecoming Sunday and we will celebrate with a Water Communion. For those of us who had time for a little R&R this summer, as well as those of us who did not leave the area but had a well deserved ‘staycation,” this talk is for you. Actually it is for all of us. What is it that makes you happy? For many of us, we well only be happy when the other person changes, or when that new job comes through, or when we get that new automobile. In this way the key to our being happy is so external,depending on outside forces or circumstances to change. Truth be told, happiness is an inside job. Let’s explore this on Homecoming Sunday, September 13th.

 

 

Our Coming of Age group capped their class with a pilgrimage to Boston in June, where they explored the roots of Unitarian Universalism in the U.S. – and lots of other cool sights in the Olde Towne. Join them in recounting highlights via a slideshow and personal stories from kids and chaperones – and offering thanks for the generous support of this congregation that made the trip possible!

 

UUCSV Choir
What is it that causes us to seek community in our lives? I have met many people in the area who have left their families of origin, have traveled across this great country of ours, to either begin or to join intentional communities. It appears to me that this longing to be a part of a community is something of what it means to be human. Our 6th principle affirms, “The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all.” Lofty words for sure. Henry David Thoreau was once quoted as saying that it is okay to build sand castles in the air, but there comes a time we must put foundations under them. This Sunday we will explore what it takes to place foundations beneath this idea about what it means to be in community, not only with each other, but for what it requires of us individually and collectively, on our personal journeys toward wholeness.

 

​We are musical beings and it is our responsibility, and our right, to honor this gift, and who we are, for ourselves, for our children and for our communities. By doing so, we change ourselves, and others. And when we do that, we’re one step down the road to changing the world.

 

Beth Magill is a musician who plays with various musicians & bands, primarily The Magills (www.magillsmusic.com), is an active session musician and has appeared on numerous recordings, performed on NPR’s Mountain Stage, served as the music director for Highland Repertory Theater’s production, A Mislaid Heaven, teaches tin whistle, leads community sings with her husband at Asheville’s Diana Wortham Theatre, as part of the theatre’s Intersections series, and believing everyone is musical, offers workshops that empower people to be their naturally musical selves.​