Sermon Archive
“Emissaries of the Imagination: The arts in Times of Environmental and Cultural Upheaval” - Will Hornyak (Virtual Visit to Eastrose Fellowship UU)
The times of greatest difficulty can also draw forth from us the stories we carry and the gifts we bear for the renewal of ourselves and our communities. Among our greatest resources at such times is imagination, artistry and creativity. What is the unique nature of the medicine we carry and the genius residing within us as individuals? What seeds of vision do we carry for the future? How can we embrace and dance with times of great change rather than feel overwhelmed?
Storyteller Will Hornyak considers myths, poems, storytelling and the arts as essential practices for remembering the rich and varied responses that are possible in times of crisis. He shares a variety of perspectives from oral traditions that can assist us in realizing that we are not alone, that magic is ever afoot and that we all contain seeds of healing and renewal.
Watch the live stream of this service on Sunday, July 24th at 10:30 on YouTube and then join Wy’east for a post service social hour on our usual Zoom Link (around 11:30).
Click HERE to stream the Eastrose Service Live on YouTube
Click HERE to join our Family Service at 9:30-10:00
Meeting ID: 275 194 110
Phone In: (669) 900-6833
Click here to join the virtual post-service social hour on Zoom
Meeting ID: 275 194 110
Phone In: (669) 900-6833
“Creativity as a Healing Practice” - Kirsten Carpentier
Kirsten B. Carpentier, MSW. Eastrose will be joining us. In this time of so much personal and collective illness, upheaval, and brokenness, how do we find a way to being in the present creatively and find grounding? We explore the value of committing to a creative project every day, and seeing where this practice leads, despite the ups and downs of life and inspiration.
Kirsten has an eclectic background as a social worker, fundraiser, administrator, and multimedia artist. She has been facilitating art workshops for over 25 years. She believes that through creativity of all sorts we are able to witness each other's unique gifts, and discover healing through common insights we share. She is a passionate international traveler, and has spent much of her life on one journey or another.
Multi-Platform Worship Sunday at 10:30:
This service will be offered as both a virtual and an in-person service.
Click here to join the virtual service on Zoom
Meeting ID: 275 194 110
Phone In: (669) 900-6833
Click here to Sign-In in advance for the in-person service at the Community for Positive Aging (1820 NE 40th Ave). All in-person attendees must sign in for contact tracing purposes. Save time at the door by signing in now using the link above.
UUA General Assembly 2022: Delegate Feedback & Report
The 2022 UUA General Assembly was here in Portland last month. Wy’east UU sent two delegates (Alana Graham and Mariah Springstead) to the 2022 UUA General Assembly in June and several Wy’east members attended in-person as well. Learn more about the event, happenings in the broader Unitarian Universalist faith and the business decisions made at the Assembly.
Sunday, July 24th
Falling in Love with a Wounded World: How Poetry Can Help Us in Dark Times - Paulann Peterson (Virtual Visit to Eastrose UU Fellowship)
Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita, will—using a handful of poems—talk about the role of poetry in these fraught times, how poetry can help us grapple with the crises and catastrophes that seem to be daily occurrences now.
Watch the live stream of this service on Sunday, July 24th at 10:30 on YouTube and then join Wy’east for a post service social hour on our usual Zoom Link (around 11:30).
Click HERE to stream the Eastrose Service Live on YouTube
Click HERE to join our Family Service at 9:30-10:00
Meeting ID: 275 194 110
Phone In: (669) 900-6833
Click here to join the virtual post-service social hour on Zoom
Meeting ID: 275 194 110
Phone In: (669) 900-6833
How Do You Reconcile a Lynching? A Story of Justice and Redemption - Taylor Stewart with the Oregon Remembrance Project
Taylor Stewart graduated from the University of Portland in 2018 with a degree in Communication and a Master’s in Social Work from Portland State University in 2021. Taylor started the Oregon Remembrance Project in 2018 to help communities unearth stories of injustice and engage in the necessary truth telling and repair required to reconcile instances of historical harm. His work connects historical racism to its present-day legacies in order to inspire contemporary racial justice action. In what started as simply a way to memorialize a man named Alonzo Tucker, the most widely documented African American victim of lynching in Oregon, Taylor has grown to see the power of reconciliation to rectify further instances of historical injustice. “How do you reconcile a lynching?” applies the three r’s of reconciliation -- remembrance, repair, and redemption -- to the lynching of Alonzo Tucker. After working with the community of Coos Bay, OR on remembrance, Taylor invites his audience to join him in repair to help bring a semblance of redemptive justice to the lynching of Alonzo Tucker.
Multi-Platform Worship Sunday at 10:30:
This service will be offered as both a virtual and an in-person service.
“Laughing Our Angst Off During Hard Times” - Linda Kalb Hamm
Using laughter as a way to remain optimistic and available through the ups and downs of life, Linda Kalb Hamm, M.Ed. will share how Laughter Yoga can lead to a path of good health, mindfulness and service.
Linda Kalb Hamm is a certified Laughter Yoga teacher and leads groups in the Sacramento area and around the world. She is an entrepreneur, teacher, and artist residing near Sacramento, CA.
She can be contacted here: Laughing My Angst Off: Laughter Yoga
Annual Interdependence Day Picnic
Our annual tradition of gathering in a park the first Sunday in July continues with our July 3rd Interdependence Day Picnic. This joyful in-person gathering is in lieu of our usual Sunday Worship Service. We will not be meeting virtually this Sunday.
The picnic will be at Creston Park (Area D) from 10:30 - 1:00. As is our tradition, this will be in lieu of our usual Sunday virtual gathering. Please bring your own picnic and supplies such as chairs, blankets, etc. Please bring a mask and be respectful of the needs of others and be ready to put on your mask and social distance as needed.
There will be no regular worship this Sunday.
UUA General Assembly Sunday Worship + Virtual Coffee Hour
The largest annual gathering of UUs joining in worship is happening in Portland! All are welcome to join in person at the Oregon Convention Center (details below) but if you would prefer you can join this powerful, communal worship experience virtually. It will stream on Sunday, June 26, 2022 at 9:30 Pacific. Join fellow Wy’east members and friends for a virtual post service coffee hour around 11:00am.
Click Here to Stream the Virtual Worship
Click Here to Join the Virtual Post-service Social Hour
Meeting ID: 275 194 110
Phone In: (669) 900-6833
Members of the public are welcome to view the service. In-person attendance to this service will be complimentary and open to visitors who are fully vaccinated and who are pre-registered no later than 24 hours in advance.
Build a Better Tree-House -- Rev. Craig Moro
In my last sermon as your half-time minister, I’ll tell a Father’s Day story and reflect on just what it is that I’ve been trying to help us all build at Wy’east for the past six years.
Multi-Platform Worship Sunday at 10:30:
This service will be offered as both a virtual and an in-person service.
Click here to join the virtual service on Zoom
Meeting ID: 275 194 110
Phone In: (669) 900-6833
Click here to RSVP for the in-person service at the Community for Positive Aging (1820 NE 40th Ave). You must RSVP to attend in person
Rev. Sara Green - UUA Youth & Young Adult Program Manager
Democracy, Alive!
Governance, often and unfortunately used interchangeably with democracy, is a vibrant, multidimensional practice of how communities make decisions about their communities. Governance practices and structures can tell someone about a community's agreements, values, boundaries and goals. In this worshipful space, let's imagine systems of governance that echo equity, care and imagination.
Sara Green here—your youth and young adults program manager. I am a southern, cis/queer/poly, Black femme minister living near Nashville, TN. I imagine liberation/salvation/beloved community as communities that have the ability to eat good food together, experience pleasure in our bodies and regularly put their hands in soil—all the while free from fear and violence by way of all of the cultural and legal changes that must happen in order for this world to exist. I understand myself as part of a legacy of cultural workers, healers, maroons and creoles, southern queer freedom fighters and artists trying to shape god. And I feel so blessed to be doing this work now. Learn more about Sara and her work on her website: https://www.theosophiapodcast.com/
Click here to join the virtual service on Zoom
Meeting ID: 275 194 110
Phone In: (669) 900-6833