Upcoming Worship Services

The turning of the year invites both honesty and intention. In a time of profound uncertainty, this service centers the spiritual practice of staying with what is—grief and gratitude, fear and love—without turning away. Through shared ritual and reflection, we remain resilient by choosing, again and again, to meet the present moment together. Grounded in Unitarian Universalist values, we recommit to becoming what this moment asks of us, holding fast to our vision of a future with love at the center.

First-Sunday Monthly Potluck after the Service!

Special Congregational Meeting after the Service: Proposal for Planned Partnership with Y.O.U.TH (Youth Organized and United To Help)

The space between. That is where the change happens.  Yet how often do we simply move from one thing to another, neither giving farewell nor greeting to our rich life experiences?  We often carry things along, not laying them down, not being fully present.  Or we just plow forward, missing the joy of welcoming the next thing into our life. Let’s consider these thresholds in a new way, a fully conscious way, an aware and purposeful way.   

Jean DeVenney is an active congregant of the Unitarian Unitarian Church in Eugene, where she serves as a Worship Associate and lay leader, Small Group Connection Circle and book group facilitator, and co-facilitator of an Aging and End of Life series.  When living in a small town in Alaska she felt the need for a spiritual community, so advertised in the weekly newspaper for “open minded, liberally religious and/or spiritually curious others”.  People showed up, so in her living room began the Kenai Peninsula UU Fellowship.  

Now retired, she spent most of her career as a college counselor and instructor, focusing on returning adults and student development.  When not traveling, camping, or kayaking, Jean is taking art classes, reading mysteries, exploring the concepts of the Enneagram, and aspiring to learn pickleball.   Her volunteer work includes her church’s food security programs, the local shelter for her unhoused neighbors, and serving on the Eliot Institute Board of directors for UU family camps.  She is a trained SoulCollage® practitioner and facilitates workshops in her community and online.

In honor of Martin Luther King Day, please join us for a thoughtful discussion of heroes through the ages: What makes a person heroic? Who are our personal heroes? What does heroism look like in ourselves and in our communities?

This is our monthly spiritual practice service with Guest Minister Rev. Stephani Skalak

Rahab's Sisters' Development Director, Beth Madsen Bradford, will join Wy'east Unitarian on Sunday, January 25, to talk about radical hospitality, community building, and the healing power of connection.

Rahab's Sisters is a low-barrier day shelter and service hub welcoming women, trans, and nonbinary folks near 82nd Avenue in the Montavilla neighborhood. Beth Madsen Bradford is the Development Director at Rahab's Sisters. She has worked in the nonprofit sector for more than a decade, specializing in organizations dedicated to collaboration, community, and empowerment.

Special Collection: Rose Haven