Upcoming Worship Services
All of our services are Multi-Platform and you have the option of attending either In-Person or on Zoom.
In person we meet for worship at the Community for Positive Aging, 1820 NE 40th Ave., Portland, OR.
Every worship service is streamed online on Zoom.
Click here to join our service on Zoom
Meeting ID: 275 194 110
Phone In: (669) 900-6833
Wy’east UU is a shared ministry. Our quarter-time minister, Rev. Leslie Becknell Marx, leads one service most months and also often contributes elements to one other service each month. Our lay-leadership collaborates to bring a variety of guest ministers, other speakers and special programs on the remaining Sundays. These include regular appearances by Guest Minister Rev. Stephani Skalak with her focus on Personal Spiritual Practice, as well as a series of speakers and special collections related to our Social Justice focus for the year “We are Stronger Together.”
In months when there are 5 Sundays, which happens 4 or 5 times each year, we will typically gather for a service project rather than a worship service.
The Social Model of Disability and Building Networks of Belonging, Amy Geoffroy, Dir of Comms & Impact at FACT Oregon
Amy Geoffroy is Director of Communications and Impact at FACT Oregon, a nonprofit that empowers families, youth, and communities to navigate disability systems and advocate for disability justice and policy change. Our goal is that people with disabilities have what they need to thrive at home, in school, and in their communities.
As a parent of a young woman with Down syndrome, Amy will share key concepts in disability rights, her journey as a mom trying to forge a positive trajectory for her daughter, as well as how FACT Oregon supports families and what you and your community can do to help build networks of belonging.
Special Collection: FACT
Spiritual Practice: Flower Communion, Rev. Stephani Skalak
In the words of Rev. Norbert Čapek, “We affirm the dignity of every individual and the beauty that emerges when we share our gifts together.” Join us May 17th for Flower Communion, a beloved Unitarian Universalist tradition that celebrates the beauty of diversity and our shared life together. Each person is invited to bring a flower—garden-grown, wild, or store-bought—and place it in a common vase, where our many individual blossoms become one radiant whole. All ages are welcome to this joyful, sensory worship service honoring connection, renewal, and the sacred worth of every person.
The Nervous System Under Fascism: Now What?, Rev. Jami A. Yandle, UUA Transgender Outreach Specialist
How do political realities shape our bodies and spirits? This service explores how chronic stress and overwhelm are not personal failures, but deeply human responses to sustained threat. Rooted in our UU values of interdependence, this message invites us to rediscover community, care, and connection as sources of resilience and spiritual resistance. This is the May offering in the UUA Recorded Sermon Series.
The Rev. Jami A. Yandle (they/them/theirs) serves as the Unitarian Universalist Association’s Transgender Support Specialist, ministering in the office of the Vice President for Programs and Ministries.
In this role, Rev. Yandle provides spiritual support and direct care for the trans and non-binary community within and beyond the UUA.
Rev. Yandle is a non-binary minister and board certified chaplain currently residing in Texas. Their portfolio includes service on multiple social justice campaigns, parish minister, hospice chaplain, and as a coach on the UUA Hope for Us Conflict Engagement Team. Rev. Yandle is an amateur mobile photographer who enjoys spending time with loved ones, especially their family’s beloved lion-headed bunny named Jasper.
5th Sunday Day of Service: Hollywood Neighborhood Cleanup
Each church year there are 4 months that have a 5th Sunday. As part of our lay-led ministry, we will be using these Sundays to offer an alternative to traditional worship. In lieu of holding a service, either in-person or on Zoom, we will be organizing a group service project we can do together instead.
In the spirit of community care, we are planning our 4th Hollywood Neighborhood Cleanup for this last Sunday of May. Members Larry Burt & Diane Ingle are again coordinating with SOLVE to provide organization and supplies. Our goal is to help make the area a safer, cleaner, more pleasant area to visit and build community spirit among our members. Volunteers will pick up litter in the Hollywood neighborhood business area surrounding our meeting place. Please meet behind the Center for Positive Aging. Come dressed for the weather.
5th Sunday Day of Service, 10:30 AM - 12:00 Noon
There will be NO regular service (either in-person or online) this Sunday.