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Jessica Demick will be our speaker this Sunday leading us in a ritual for welcoming in the New Year and offering some reflections on the power of acknowledging sacred thresholds. Please join us for Blessing the New Year.
In January we will be hosting two meetings on Sunday, January 18. One will be before the worship service and start at 9:15 am. The other will be after the worship service and start at 11:45 am. Both meetings will have the same agenda so you can pick the one which is most convenient for you.
Please join with Adult Education in reading Pema Chodron’s book, The Places That Scare You. This is a book I depend on to bring me back to the center. You may find it helpful as well. -Marty Bishop
This week, we lift up how we choose hope when we notice we have the ability to start over.
Stay tuned for details for our December 28 service, which will be a music service.
Join us at 5:00 pm on Wednesday, December 24 for KUUF's annual candlelight Christmas Eve service. We'll celebrate the season with readings and music.
Are you new to KUUF and wonder what Unitarian Universalism is all about? Do you want to know more about this Fellowship? Do you want to know how and when to become a member and what that means for you? If you have questions about KUUF, this is the time and place to ask them!
This week we join together for a multigenerational worship service, our annual no rehearsal, all ages, Christmas Pageant. What is a no rehearsal Christmas Pageant? Everyone will be together in the service as we celebrate the birth legend of Jesus. During the service people are invited to come forward to create a tableaux of manger animals, wise people, shepherds and angels.
You're invited to the Winter Solstice Labyrinth Celebration at the Kitsap Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Sanctuary on Saturday, December 20. The event begins at 4:00 pm. Potluck to follow. Everyone is welcome!
You're invited to the Winter Solstice Labyrinth Celebration planning party set for Sunday, December 14 at 11:45am in the Elmore Room. Come chat about how we can make this year's celebration extra special! Bring your ideas. All are welcome.
This week, we lift up how hope can be found when we make the choice to trust that it will work out.
In a small bookstore in a small town there was a small book poised and waiting to be opened. One day in December a customer—who was looking for holiday gifts—opened the book and found three words printed in small type on the middle of each page: here we are. Over 200 pages, page after page, of here we are. What on Earth was the meaning of this gift?
There is no Second Friday Film series gathering today, December 12. Please email screening suggestions to Bonner Sams for January.
The KUUF Grief Support Group now meets the first Sunday of the month. The next meeting will be Sunday, December 7th at 11:45 am in the Elmore Room.
This week, we lift up how we choose hope when we create light for each other.
This is a season of shared hope. Even as the light grows thin, people gather to celebrate Advent, Solstice, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, the New Year. In doing so, the human community recognizes that hope is something we choose again and again, even when the evidence waivers.
The Truth Quest Book Group meets again via Zoom on Sunday, December 7, 8:00 to 9:00 am (note: starting at 8:00 instead of our usual 8:30 start time).
We will be sharing our thoughts and feelings about "Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life” by Dacher Keltner
You are invited to join us in our next monthly meditation mini retreat on December 6. On the first Saturday of every month from 11:50 am to 2:20 pm we will practice a variety of meditation styles: guided and silent, sitting and walking, and Loving Kindness (metta). The program will be divided into 20 minute meditations, with 5 minute breaks in between. You are welcome to join for all or part of the afternoon.
Please join and help us decorate KUUF for the holidays on Friday, December 5, starting at 5:30 pm!
This week, we are exploring how gratitude nurtures us by reminding us that there are many ways to express gratitude.
During this time of uncertainty, division, and accelerating change, many of us feel a profound hunger, hunger for compassion, hunger for integrity, for a world made more whole. This message explores that deep, moral yearning as a spiritual compass, guiding us toward courage, connection, and meaningful action. Together, we will reflect on how to nourish our spirits while working toward justice, and how the longing we carry can even become a source of hope rather than despair.
Join us for the 4th Friday LGBTQIA+ potluck on Friday, November 28. We gather to build community and share social time. We meet in the administration building from 6:00 to 8:00 pm.
Annual potluck Thanksgiving 2025, Thursday, November 27, 2026 in the KUUF Sanctuary. For members, family, friends, or anyone seeking solace from the storm. Bring a dish or not ! There's bound to be plenty for everyone.
Turkey & Coffee provided. A classic film will stream after pie & dessert.
From Bremerton Foodline: We’re still stuffed with gratitude for everyone who trotted with us at last year’s Bremerton Turkey Trot — over 1,000 of you flocked to the park! Get ready to shake your tail feathers again this year for another round of GOBBLE WOBBLE fun!
This week, we are exploring how gratitude nurtures us by asking us to respond to our gratitude by taking care of the earth and being generous to others.
Pressed between October’s sweet Halloween candy and December’s bright Christmas lights, November is an ideal spot to explore the Gifts of Winter. Walking in crunching snow. Making sweeping snow angels. Sipping hot chocolate. Decorating cookies with white icing. Yet these gifts are more than cozy sweaters and steaming soups. Let’s take some time to reflect on the wisdom, strength, and joy that come from the Gifts of Winter.
Enl!ghten Kitsap presents Robert Horton: Hollywood and the Blacklist Era tonight, 6:30 to 8:30 pm at St. Paul's Episcopal Church (700 Callahan Dr, Bremerton). The blacklist era threw many movie making professionals out of work. This presentation tells the stories from this heartbreaking and scandalous era.
Soulful Home is an ongoing parent group meeting that usually meets the third Sunday of each month.
This week, we are exploring how gratitude nurtures us by helping us shift our perspective, moving us from sadness to happiness.
If you have been feeling that the past few months have been more unsettling than usual, you are not alone. Even as we may face anxiety and uncertainty, let us take this time together to pause, take one more deep breath, and reflect on and express gratitude for the wonders, the beauty in this life and in the world around us.
The Social Justice Committee will meet Sunday, November 16, 2024 - 9:00 - 10:15 in the Admin Room for our monthly meeting. All our welcome. You don't have to be a KUUF member to attend. Please join us as we discuss our plans for the future.
Join us Saturday, November 15, 1:00 pm in the KUUF Sanctuary for a celebration of life honoring Kay Wilson.
Social Justice Committee monthly screening of the 2nd Friday Film Series, Nov 14, in the Elmore Room. Doors open 6pm; film at 6:30.
