Upcoming Worship Services

Each church year there are 4 or 5 months that have a 5th Sunday. For the last two years as part of our lay-led ministry, we have been using these Sundays to offer an alternative to traditional worship. In lieu of holding a service, either in-person or on Zoom, we have organized a variety of group service projects we can do together instead.

This final day of August in 2025 is not only a 5th Sunday, but is also the Sunday of Labor Day Weekend. Your worship team invites you to spend it in rest and restoration so that you may enter the new church year revived and ready. 

We will launch our new church year on Sunday, September 7th, with an In-Gathering and Water Communion Service followed by a special Congregational Meeting and Potluck.

There will be NO regular service (either in-person or online) this Sunday.

As the seasons turn and September brings the spirit of new beginnings, we begin a new “church year” together. On this special Sunday, we join in our annual Water Communion and Ingathering—bringing a small amount of water from your summer travels or from where you are on your life’s journey. Together, we will pour our waters as symbols of our shared story, our shared hope, and our shared belonging. We will also welcome a new member into the covenant of this beloved community and our new Religious Educator into our staff team. Come, in person or on Zoom, as we refresh our commitments and joyfully begin again. Service led by Rev. Leslie Becknell Marx.

Special Congregational Meeting after the Service to affirm revised budget!

First-Sunday Monthly Potluck after Service!

Multi-Platform Worship (both in-person & online)

Sunday at 10:30 AM

Click here to join the virtual service on Zoom

Meeting ID:  275 194 110

Phone In:  (669) 900-6833

In this message, Rev. Tania explores the power of words to help make visible the invisible. In this message, she explores the adversities of poverty in a society that has taught us to fear it and the power we have to change it once we are able to identify how it operates.  This is a recorded sermon from the UUA Sermon Speaker Series and is presented by Rev. Tania Y Márquez, UUA Congregational Life Staff, Pacific Western Region.

Rev. Tania Y. Márquez joined the PWR Congregational Life Staff in 2024. With previous experience in parish ministry and hospital chaplaincy. Tania lives in the San Diego area and has lived in the border region for most of her life, on both sides of the border. Her ministry is influenced by her fronteriza and immigrant experience. She believes in the healing power of words, rituals, and community.

She has a master’s degree from San Diego State University in Spanish Linguistics and Literature and an MDiv from Meadville Lombard Theological School. Rev. Tania was ordained into the Unitarian Universalist Ministry in 2017.

She is excited about all the different ways in which we express our humanity, and loves the company of friends, family, the natural world, poetry, music, and Spirit.

Multi-Platform Worship (both in-person & online)

Sunday at 10:30 AM

Click here to join the virtual service on Zoom

Meeting ID:  275 194 110

Phone In:  (669) 900-6833

This week Day and Night will stand in perfect balance. As we close out summer and prepare for the darker months ahead, the Autumnal Equinox reminds us that life is a dance between light and dark, abundance and scarcity, celebration and introspection. What is our spiritual harvest this year, both individually and collectively? What do we wish to learn during the fallow winter? This Sunday we will explore these themes together through ritual, reflection, and conversation. 

Biography: Rev. Stephani Skalak is a hospital chaplain working for Providence Health System. She was the Intern Minister at the UUC at Willamette Falls in Oregon City for two years. Before that, she spent 15 years as a film-maker who taught media literacy and documentary film production to youth in first San Francisco and then Portland, OR. She is a co-founder of the Portland Women’s Film Festival (POW Film Fest). Stephani has experience in small group ministry within the UU tradition and was a board member of the European Unitarian Universalists. She has a Master of Divinity from Meadville Lombard Theological School and a BA in International Relations from The American University. She lives in Portland, with her love, Mark, and their two young-adult children, Ukiah and Seneca. 

Multi-Platform Worship (both in-person & online)

Sunday at 10:30 AM

Click here to join the virtual service on Zoom

Meeting ID:  275 194 110

Phone In:  (669) 900-6833

We kick off our “We Are Stronger Together” Social Justice speaker series with Isa Peña the Director of Strategy at Innovation Law Lab and a look at the current state of immigration policy and advocacy work in Oregon. Innovation Law Lab is a nonprofit organization that leverages law, technology and organizing to fight for immigrant and refugee justice. It is one of many organizations on the frontlines supporting immigrants and refugees across our state. They will cover updates on what immigration enforcement looks like in Oregon now and what you can do to support our immigrant neighbors and friends. 

Isa Peña is the Director of Strategy at Innovation Law Lab. Isa has been a long-time organizer and leader in the immigrant justice movement. She is a daughter of immigrants from Jalisco, Mexico. In her work she leverages her strengths and skills in relationship building, fundraising and policy advocacy to help advance immigrant justice. Isa serves on the Executive teams of Oregon Worker Relief (OWR) and Oregon For All, two statewide coalitions who lead the charge in providing direct assistance and stewarding critical narrative change and statewide coordination to protect immigrant Oregonians.

Multi-Platform Worship (both in-person & online)

Sunday at 10:30 AM

Click here to join the virtual service on Zoom

Meeting ID:  275 194 110

Phone In:  (669) 900-6833