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Recorded Services and Sermons

Scroll down to find recorded services from the last year at SFUU. If interested in other services from this and other years, go to our YouTube channel.

Apr 21, 2024

Let's Celebrate: Putting Love at the Center of Earth Care

Joe Medeiros and the Mission Earth Team

SFUU has done some work to care for the Earth over the past year. What better time to explore these achievements along with why we love the Earth, than on the eve of Earth Day? Please join SFUU’s Mission Earth team in a celebration of the Earth on April 21st. This worship service will include a reflection from local botanist and ecologist, Joe Medeiros, love notes to the Earth, and the Ukaladies (aided by Sam Florence and John McCall).

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Apr 14, 2024

Our Interdependent Web

Vicky Jungers

In school we are taught about the "cycle" of life, and our UU principles encourage our respect for the interdependent web of life. What does it really mean to be interdependent and how can it strengthen our independence?

Apr 7, 2024

This I Believe

Amy Evans and Stevie Rea

"This I Believe" -  Join us to learn and experience the profound meaning of encountering each other - through a powerful, well known method.

March 31, 2024

Joan Lacktis, Vicky Jungers, and Milo Florence

Flower Communion Springtime Easter Celebration

Join us this Easter Sunday as we explore the meaning of the UU Flower Communion Service, past, present and future. You are invited to bring florals to share and decorate the altar.

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March 24, 2024

Comfort as a Drug - Joy as Resistance

Rev. Alex da Silva, Vicky Jungers, and John McCall

Comfort feels safe, resistance often feels the opposite. What is it that calls us to work through discomfort in order to live out our talk and exercise our values with authenticity and integrity?

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March 17, 2024

We All Live on this Earth Together: Understanding Native American Culture, Developing Positive Relationships

Rev. Alex da Silva, Stan Padilla, Bella DeLaTorre, and Amy Hansen

We welcome Stan Padilla to the pulpit this morning. He is a Native American Artist, Indigenous Educator and cultural activist. As an artist he has been recognized with the prestigious Master Artist Legacy Fellowship 2024, as an educator he is currently Artistic/Cultural Mentor for the United Auburn Indian Community Tribal School and as an activist he is dedicated to many causes. Currently he is focused on fulfilling the promise of a multi-racial democratic republic.

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March 10, 2024

Stewardship Sunday

Stevie Rea, Cynthia Stubblbine, Maureen Bauman, and Jeff Chamberlain

Come and celebrate the history of SFUU and consider the impact of bountiful thinking on our lives and church community.

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March 3, 2024

BLIZZARD FACING BISON

Rev. Alex da Silva, Vicky Jungers, Milo and Sam Florence

As this winter comes to a close, how have you weathered these seasonal storms?

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February 25, 2024

Nourish the Spirit through Social Justice

Carol Koons, Maureen Bauman, and Barb Munn

Do you find value in making a difference in the lives of others? Do you wish to cultivate a spirit of gratitude and hope through generosity?  Have you discovered that justice work is transformative, feeding your spirit as you offer a helping hand?  During our worship service today, you will hear the stories of real people helped by the work of grassroots organizations partnered with the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee.  And you can help them too through the Guest at Your Table (GAYT) program.

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February 18, 2024

Facets of Justice: Peace with Justice

Rev. Alex da Silva Souto and David Beseler

Are there critical distinctions between interpersonal practices and experiences of peace versus the ones of institutional scale?

February 11, 2024

Love Will Guide Us

Joan Lacktis, Suzanne Borth, and Val Bowman

Our need for love drives us to connect with the world in many ways- through personal relationships, care of the Earth, working for justice and equity. Sometimes people we love and feel connected to let us down or disappoint us. How do we work through conflicts in a loving way so that we stay in relationship?

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February 4, 2024

Rev. Alex da Silva Souto and Vicky Jungers

Facets of Justice: Negative Peace vs Positive Peace

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January 28, 2024

Rev. Tet Gallardo and Joan Lacktis

Love in the Time of War

Rev. Tet Gallardo will present her reflections as a person from the former colony of the United States and Spain and how Filipinos have created a culture of beloved community that persisted throughout the difficult colonial period and prevailed as an independent nation. If we are not sustaining a counterculture that prevails in times of highs and lows, are we a beloved community?

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January 21, 2024

Liberation as a Verb: Look It Up

Rev. Alex da Silva Souto, Vicky Jungers, David Beseler, John and Val Bowman

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January 14, 2024

The Gift of a Liberating Love

Rev. Alex da Silva Souto, Amelia Zuver, and Vicky Jungers

"Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders." ~Henry David Thoreau

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January 7, 2024

A Messy Heart

Rev. Alex da Silva Souto and Vicky Jungers

What is a word you would use to speak of your own human heart today? ~Nadia Bolz-Weber

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December 31, 2023

Hope-y New Year!

Joan Lacktis and Val Bowman

You are invited to join us as we look to a New Year with hope!

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December 24, 2023

Christmas Eve Candlelight Service

Rev. Alex da Silva Souto, Vicky Jungers, Pam Downs, Amelia Zuver

All are invited to join in beloved community for Christmas Eve.

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December 17, 2023

Loving Christmas as a Unitarian Universalist

Amy Evans and Vicky Jungers

Join us as we explore the secular side of Christmas time through the eyes of Unitarian Universalists.

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December 10, 2023

Re-wilding

Rev. Alex da Silva Souto, John Bohland, Jessica Carew Craft, Meg Dorsey, and Michael Haynes

Re-Wilding: 'Why We Need to be Wild'- The Book and the Message

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December 3, 2023

The Gift of Mystery

Rev. Alex da Silva Souto and Hank Florence

It is a wonder and mystery that our paths have crossed. What have we learned+taught from these intersections? Where is y(our) intertwining leading you/us?

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November 26, 2023

What’s Enough?

Rev. Alex da Silva Souto, Amelia Zuver, and Davd Beseler

How will we know when we've found/created/accomplished enough? Can generosity alchemically transform finite resources into unexpected abundance?

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November 19, 2023

Let the Mystery Be

Meg Dorsey, Vicky Jungers, Barb Munn, Janet Russell, John McCall, and Patricia Leftridge

Join us for a musical (ukelele) filled Sunday as we explore the "mystery" of the beyond and the "mystery" that is living.

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November 12, 2023

Fearlessness is a Myth

Rev. Alex da Silva Souto, Brenda Marsh, and Jeanine Meunier

What fears tend to dictate how you exist in the world?

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November 5, 2023

Living Well; Sustaining Spirituality

Rev. Sangye Hawke and Amelia Zuver

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October 29, 2023

With the Changing of Seasons

Rev. Alex da Silva Souto, Vicky Jungers, Carol Koons, and Tracey Booth

Let us reflect on the ground we have covered since our return from COVID lockdown; and the future(s) we are building.

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October 22, 2023

The Season of Samhain

KP Hollon Miller and Vicky Jungers

This time of year, multiple cultures and spiritual communities celebrate the end of summer, the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter, which is associated with the darkness and death. It is at this time of year it is believed by many that the veil between the living and the dead is especially thin. Join us this Sunday as explore pagan rituals and blessings and honor the departed souls of those we have loved.

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October 15, 2023

Wisdom of the Elders

Rev. Alex da Silva Souto, Joyce Sanders, John Armstrong, and Larry Smith 

Two Sundays ago, we learned from our Coming of Age humans. Today, we will learn from some SFUU elders. Join us as they share what they have learned from their elders, and how they have grown spiritually, emotionally, and intellectually in the last couple of years.

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October 8, 2023

How to Love Another Culture

Rev. Alex da Silva Souto, Sherryl Weston, and Leah Florence

Sherryl Weston joins us again this Sunday with Rev. Alex as we continue to reflect on true welcome, full inclusion, and radical hospitality.

October 1, 2023

Coming of Age

Rev. Alex da Silva Souto, KP Hollon Miller, Patricia Leftridge, Sam Florence, Emma Warner and Becca Warner, Linda Mercurio, Jeff Chamberlain, Anne White, and John McCall

Our Coming of Age youth, will lead the service this week supported by their mentors, our minister, our DRE and our musical director. They will share with us their Statements of Religious Identity as well as two youth musical presentations. Please join us in honoring our youth as they reach this milestone together

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September 24, 2023

The Welcome and The Surrender

Rev. Tet Gallardo and Joan Lacktis

When we welcome others we surrender space, time, energy, and even some hard-earned freedoms. We are not just called to be accommodating and charitable but also humble and mindful.

September 17, 2023

Walking the UU Talk: Our Morality

Suzanne Borth, Josh White, and Sherryl Weston

You are invited to join us for a special service with long time UU Sherryl N. Weston who will explore with us what it takes to "walk the talk" and develop radically inclusive, culturally informed practices. 

September 10, 2023

History and the Holiness of Water

Joan Lacktis and Vicky Jungers

The Water Service is traditionally the first service of all UU Churches "new" year. You are invited to join us we share where and how this ritual tradition began, why it is important to UU's and how we can and should connect to the holiness of water as a vital element for our earth, humanity and our future.

September 3, 2023

The Gift of Welcome: UU+Me

Rev. Alex da Silva Souto

Rev. Alex will offer their account of UUA General Assembly this last June and invite the congregation to reflect on the concepts of Welcome, Hospitality, and Relationality in the Indigenous Epistomological and Pedagogical sense of this term.

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August 27, 2023

Now Let Us Sing

Vicky Jungers, Jeff Chamberlain, John McCall, Hank & Sam Florence, Jeanine Meunier, Patricia Leftridge and Elijah & Alicia Eggen 

You are invited to join us in a special celebration of music. Some of our SFUU music makers will be sharing music that is special to them, as we honor the spiritual power of song and sound.

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August 20, 2023

Blame Game or Solitaire?

Rev. Alex da Silva Souto, Brenda Marsh, Carol Koons, Tom Frye, and Jeanine Meunier

In this service we continued to process manifestations of shame, blame, and how we can continue to heal and co-liberate. Our apologies, we had technical difficulties and were not able to record this service. However, you can see the order of service here.

August 13, 2023

Living in Covenanted Community

Suzanne Borth, Amy Evans, and Laurie Soper

We all live in spoken, and unspoken, covenants in our lives: our partner, our coworkers, our hairstylist or barista. People who we have committed to be with, trust or support. Abrahamic traditions have a covenant with God. But what does a UU covenant look like? Have you committed to one? Explore with us the history, meaning and approaches to living in a covenanted community.

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August 6, 2023

Tsk..tsk...tsk...

Rev. Alex da Silva Souto, Amelia Zuver, Carol Koons, and Brenda Marsh

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July 30, 2023

Be... Still... Know... Here the Silence...

Rev. Alex da Silva Souto and Michael Haynes

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July 23, 2023

Can We Maintain Balance in a Complex World?

Meg Dorsey and Anne White

Simplicity as a Spiritual Practice. What is simplicity? Can simplicity foster peace and contentment? Do we drive ourselves nuts trying to achieve simplicity? Meg and Ann don't have answers but we invite you to explore the questions.

July 16, 2023

What's Up?

Rev. Alex da Silva Souto, Elijah Eggen, and Alicia Eggen

Are you "still tryin' to get up that great big hill of hope For a destination"?

July 9, 2023

Find a Stillness

Rev. Alex da Silva Souto and Vicky Jungers

These words from one of our meditative UU hymns "find a stillness, hold a stillness, let the stillness carry me" is our inspiration for today as we continue to explore what it means to "be" and to "know".

July 2, 2023

Be Still and Know

Rev. Alex da Silva Souto

Are you able to just "be"?
Join us this Sunday as we move into this conversation.

June 25, 2023

Ever Willing: Becoming the People Our World Needs

This Sunday we gathered to watch the Sunday Service live from the UUA General Assembly in Pittsburgh.

June 18, 2023

Delight? Verb? Noun? Action?

Vicky Jungers, Elijah Eggen, and Alicia Eggen

So much to think about as we explore the path of delight! Join us in sharing the journey!

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June 11, 2023

Where Can Delight Be Found?

Rev. Alex da Silva Souto and Brenda Marsh

Where does the economy of give and take pleasure occurs?

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June 4, 2023

What/How is your capacity for Delight these days?

Rev. Alex da Silva Souto and Tricia Caspers

The word delight is commonly associated with sensory pleasures... now how do we define pleasure?

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May 28, 2023

Creative Poetry

Amy Evans and Joan Lacktis

Poetry is the music that comes from our love of language and words. Join us this Sunday as we explore the creativity of poetry and embark on a liturgical poetry practice together!

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May 21, 2023

Music for Spiritual Nourishment

Rev. Alex da Silva Souto and Brenda Marsh

Whether you are someone who just appreciates music, or someone for whom music is your heartbeat, music offers each of us a special nourishing and personal connection to our soul as we walk our spiritual path.

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This service featured a number of songs by Elton John - for the original versions, please click on the music videos below:

May 14, 2023

The Creative Art of Nurture

Amy Evans and Vicky Jungers

In a world filled with people who "nurture" perhaps we need to broaden our perspective on what it means to "mother". As we reflect on the creativity to be found in the nurturing of others, join us as we focus on these concepts outside the traditional mother/child construct.

May 7, 2023

New Member Sunday

Rev. Alex da Silva Souto, Carol Koons, and Rosalind Rowe

Growth and new membership are a part of our mutual path of Creativity. As we welcome new members to SFUU this Sunday we broaden our circle of Beloved Community.

April 30, 2023

The Path of Creativity

Rev. Alex da Silva Souto, Josh White, and Tom Frye

Unfortunately, we had technical difficulties recording this service (our apologies!). There was no sound for the first half, and the sound for the second half was not good.

Below are the truncated video for the reflections, and the meditation videos used during this service.

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