As the incoming administration takes office, you are invited to gather at KUUF for a time of reflection, support, and fellowship. Our intention is to ground ourselves in our UU values, centered in love. You may come at any time during the gathering. There will be writing/drawing/collage supplies, snacks, music, and conversation. 

In the "Tao Te Ching" Lao Tzu writes that he has three treasures: compassion, moderation, and humility. In this sermon we will explore whether the treasures of an ancient Chinese sage can—or, more provocatively, should—be treasured in the modern world.

People’s March Sign Waving Event: Saturday, January 18, 2025 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Indivisible Bremerton is hosting a sign waving event on the Manette Bridge in solidarity with the People’s March taking place that day in Washington DC. Pre-register for this event https://act.indivisible.org/event/local-actions/183241

Remember NPR's Prairie Home Companion? 

Even if you don't, please set your calendars for 7pm, Friday January 17th, when KUUF's own variety show (a dessert theatre show!) Perry Home Companion, airs for the third time.

We need performers, helpers, musicians, and bakers to showcase the incredible talent we have at KUUF.

Join us for our next Adult RE: an interactive session on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion led by Kimberlee Williams

The stories we tell about our own lives – and the lives of our communities – help us navigate the eternal search for meaning. In this rapidly expanding and increasingly complicated world, do we need to find ways to retell those stories?

The Six Triple Eight is a 2024 American war drama film written and directed by Tyler Perry, on the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, an all-Black and all-female battalion, in World War II

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!

Johanna Munson has a passion for expanding the conversations around how we live out the rest of our lives, up to and including the end.

The Truth Quest Book Group meets via Zoom on Sunday, January 5 from 8:30 to 9:30 am when we will be sharing about Joseph Campbell's The Power of Myth.

In this session, we close our exploration of  The Practice of Presence by engaging the tradition of Hanukkah and its call to take up the practice of looking for hope in the midst of seeming hopeless.

Good cooks of KUUF, we will soon be busy with holiday preparations. Let’s give ourselves the gift of simplicity on the last Sunday of December! If you wish, bring some finger food that won’t require plates, bowls, or utensils. Let’s give the hospitality hosts the gift of minimal clean up.

“The years teach much which the days never know,” Emerson once wrote. I have taken his words as an invitation to look back on the year just past and to reflect on the bigger picture or deeper meaning of the events that occurred. What have the years taught us that will help us to understand and deal with the facts of our daily lives, especially during such a turbulent year as this one has been.

This Christmas (Wednesday, December 25) we will have a 1:00 pm potluck, then start the film, The Lion in Winter, at 1:30 pm.  All to be done before the sun goes down!

Come and affirm the mystery (and magic) of new beginnings: of light returning after Solstice, of new life being birthed in such an unlikely place as a manger. Let us rekindle courage and generosity, lighten our burdens, and renew our commitment to extend sanctuary and care within our web of relations.

December 22: No Rehearsal, All Ages,  Christmas Pageant 

Join us Sunday morning 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. 

Join us this Sunday for our annual Christmas pageant! This is an all ages service, featuring an unrehearsed, participatory nativity pageant that is inclusive, spontaneous, and grounded in our UU values.

This is an all ages movie night. Pack a picnic dinner, blanket and pillows and join members of the Soulful Home parenting group for an indoor picnic, pajama wearing, film viewing event. This is an all ages event and because of this we will be starting early. You are invited to socialize and eat from 5:30 to 6:00. At 6:00 movie will begin 

Are you interested in spiritual exploration through creativity? Looking for a group to participate in at the Fellowship? Creativity Matters may be for you. Like a Chalice Circle, participants will gather monthly. At the start of each month,  participants will receive project-based packets built around the monthly theme. Each packet contains creative exercises for group members to work on prior to the meeting. Packets also contain inspirational material and reflection questions to get your creative juices flowing.  Unlike an artists group that explores technique and provides critiques, this group will gather together, similar to a Chalice Circle, for spiritual discernment. While artists are welcome, no experience or artistic skill is required.  Project options include such things as: collage, storytelling, scrapbooking, sketching, photography, creative writing, watercolor painting, fabric arts, sculpture, movement, music, and more. All projects are designed for everyone. At the monthly gathering group members will share their projects and insights that emerged from the exercise/project they picked.  If you are interested in participating please contact Melinda.

Soulful Home is an ongoing parent group meeting the third Sunday of each month following the service. Parents are invited to bring a sack lunch for themselves and for their child(ren). Children will remain up in the Matan Building for childcare while parents meet to build community and explore the Soulful Home resources. Soulful Home is a program through Soul Matters that supports families as they explore the sacred in everyday spaces by providing materials to help parents integrate Unitarian Universalism into everyday home life. 

December 15: Presence & Darkness (Exploring the Invitation of Winter Solstice)

In this session, we explore The Practice of Presence through the lens of the Winter Solstice. Winter is a time of dark and cold, and often the messages we receive from our culture and society is that the darkness brings threats. This session invites children to use the pagan tradition and understanding of solstice to see things differently. Instead of something to be afraid of, times of darkness can be seen as spaces of rest, renewal and even regbirth. And from this perspective, we are all called to take on the practice of looking for and being present to the many gifts hidden in and emerging from the darkness.

Please join us for a presentation about the Rejuvenation Community Day Center. Dianna Sullivan will be giving us an update about the latest renovations, and she'll let us know how we can help. Our regular meeting will follow.

Today we will celebrate Solstice: the longest night. In ancient Germanic traditions, Yule celebrated the turning of the wheel of the seasons into winter. In the far north, some days the sun barely rises at all. So, Solstice rituals and celebrations were created as a way to honor the sun and call it home again. Come and give thanks for the fertile darkness and for the return of the light.

With holiday spirit in the air, this Sunday we explore what it means to
meet strangers at dinner and what happens when the usual chit-chat turns
deep.

Please join us in decorating the KUUF tree on Sunday, December 8 after the service. We are also looking for volunteers to bring decorations down from the Matan Building that day as well.

In this session, we dive into our theme of the practice of presence by exploring lessons in gift-giving. This session highlights how, during the gift-focused holiday season, our society often gives us messages that, when it comes to gifts, “bigger is better.” This focus on the size and expense of the gift overshadows the truly meaningful part of gift-giving: a chance to offer a gift that represents something special about them or shows them what we appreciate about them. All of which invites us to think about the practice of presence as the practice of being present to what you love and appreciate about those you are planning on giving gifts to.

Today we will celebrate Solstice: the longest night. In ancient Germanic traditions, Yule celebrated the turning of the wheel of the seasons into winter. In the far north, some days the sun barely rises at all. So, Solstice rituals and celebrations were created as a way to honor the sun and call it home again. Come and give thanks for the fertile darkness and for the return of the light.

In CRE children will be exploring The Practice of Presence. A goal this month is to help our children leave behind the hustle & bustle of the holiday season as well as escape the all-pervasive consumerist messaging. Instead, we want them to look around and notice the deeper gifts of the season.