BridgesUU

Serving and Celebrating a Community

Monthly Theme: Summertime ManifestationsWhere: Center for Spiritual Living, Zoom: Sanctuary The Sunday Experience4:30 pm – Welcome and Hospitality5:00 pm – Evening Service (ZOOM Opens)6:00 pm – Refreshments6:30 pm – Continuing Conversations This is the topic of today’s guest speaker, Jimmy Recinos, who for ten years has been a very active member of the Los Angeles community in which he lives. His main areas of interest are on policy making related to gentrification and housing, LA City and County elections, and California history. Jimmy Recinos is the founder and Executive Director of Quien Es Tu Vecindario. Also known as JT, The LA Storyteller, Jimmy […]

My Ice Cream, Your Joy

Monthly Theme: Summertime ManifestationsWhere: Center for Spiritual Living, Zoom: Sanctuary The Sunday Experience4:30 pm – Welcome and Hospitality5:00 pm – Evening Service (ZOOM Opens)6:00 pm – Refreshments6:30 pm – Continuing Conversations There is no question why observances such as New Year’s or the different Independence Days are celebrated around the world. Others, like National Ice Cream Day, might be thought to exist only if they continue to benefit the economy. However, encouraging and uplifting the joys that others find in these moments can also be an important part of the observance. Jake Hearen [Blackfeet / Sámi] grew up in Austin, TX before moving […]

This Gathered Community: A Company of Strangers

Monthly Theme: Summertime ManifestationsWhere: Center for Spiritual Living, Zoom: Sanctuary The Sunday Experience4:30 pm – Welcome and Hospitality5:00 pm – Evening Service (ZOOM Opens)6:00 pm – Refreshments6:30 pm – Continuing Conversations A sermon titled “This Gathered Community: A Company of Strangers,” originally delivered in 1996 by Reverend Barbara Child, Interim Minister at SepulvedaUU from 1996 to 1997, will be presented. Though Reverend Child won’t be present, the words she shared with us nearly thirty years ago continue to remind us of who we are and what community means to us. Before becoming a Unitarian Universalist in 1996, Reverend Child taught English at Kent […]

The Immortal Superwoman, Henrietta Lacks!

Monthly Theme: Summertime ManifestationsWhere: Center for Spiritual Living, Zoom: Sanctuary The Sunday Experience4:30 pm – Welcome and Hospitality5:00 pm – Evening Service (ZOOM Opens)6:00 pm – Breaking Bread Together We talk about our immortal souls, but in 1951 there was, and still is, a superwoman who changed form but not the way you might think. When a mystifying and unexplainable occurrence happens, how do we, as Unitarian Universalists, make sense of it? Teri Ismail has a Master’s Degree in Human Development. She was a Director of Religious Education for Sepulveda Unitarian Universalist Society for over 10 years. She was a Mobil Gas station […]

Celebrating 30 Days of Pride

We are celebrating with Progressive Interfaith Alliance

President’s Corner

It has been a while since you have heard from me. I am still trying to heal from my accident in November. The Board has been hard at work planning the calendar for the coming year. The next year will be pivotal for our future. The Annual Congregational Meeting will be held on Sunday, June 9th at 12:30 pm via Zoom (ZOOM Room 1). We will be voting on next year’s budget, electing positions on the Board and our Nominating and Endowment Committees, as well as deciding if our congregation should adopt the “8th Principle.” These are all very important […]

Annual Congregational Meeting

Join us for our Annual Congregational Meeting! We would like to reflect on our past year, plan financially for the upcoming year, elect church leadership, discuss the vote for the 8th principle, and celebrate our life together. For more information, please contact Janet L. Notice of ANNUAL CONGREGATIONAL MEETING Sunday June 9, 2024 via ZoomMeeting will be held on Zoom via the following link (it is our regular Zoom Room 1) or phone number.https://zoom.us/j/97905246696 Meeting ID: 979 0524 6696 or Dial by your location 669-444-9171. AGENDA “We, Sepulveda Unitarian Universalist Society, covenant to affirm and promote: journeying toward spiritual wholeness […]

Represent You!

The children’s learning trays will have skin-colored playdough, mirrors, google eyes, crinkle paper, and materials to create an image that represents them that is as diverse and beautiful as they are. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Teri I for more information. We hope to see you and your whole family!

Make a Circle of Friends

Your child will have beads and other materials to create bracelets to give to people in the church or to new friends! If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Teri I for more information. We hope to see you and your whole family!

Jars of Caring

Jars that have affirmations from the congregation will be waiting for the children. On each side of the box will be the words 1. Ways to care for yourself 2. Ways to care for family 3. Ways to care for friends 4. Ways to care for the Earth and our community. The Children will get stickers to write or draw symbols on each side that answer those questions. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Teri I for more information. We hope to see you and your whole family!