Are you yearning for spiritual connection in light of all the current events in our beloved nation? Join our Sabbatical Minister, Joe Rettenmaier, for a soothing, spiritual vespers. This casual, family-friendly service welcomes you as you are — with gentle guided meditations, peaceful music, safe reflective space, poetry, prose, and more in one healing community Zoomscape. All ages are welcome.
Dream Vespers
8:00 p.m. Pacific
Fridays:
January 15, 2021 8:00 p.m.
January 22, 2021 8:00 p.m.
January 29, 2021 8:00 p.m.
This gathering will be held via Zoom meeting, and participants will be able to see each other. To keep focus on our vespers reflections, we will not be using written chat during this gathering.
This worship is for those of you who are still a bit hung over with grief from the past year or the year we’ve just begun, and are gingerly trying to muster hope. We Unitarian Universalists are known for our optimism. We don’t grieve well. We aren’t versed in the ways of lamentation. And yet that is the way through to a new way. Come let us lament together and then imagine and create.
Rev. Tandi Rogers is one of our affiliated community ministers. She is multi-vocational: teaching at both Meadville Lombard Theological School and Seattle University’s School of Theology & Ministry, spiritual director in private practice, and having served the Unitarian Universalist Association for almost 20 years, is a learning strategist and coordinator of a new initiative helping congregation practice covenant and engage healthy conflict. Rev. Tandi has been a member of TUUC for 30 years and was ordained by our congregation in 2013.
Our souls are overwhelmed by the magnitude of injuries our collective experiment in democracy has sustained. The spiritual work before us turns toward healing: the healing inauguration of the most diverse Executive, Legislative, and Judicial leadership teams in our nation’s history, as well as the healing inauguration of a new age of beloved community.
Joe Rettenmaier is a minister in the Unitarian Universalist Association. He received his Master of Divinity degree from Meadville-Lombard Theological School. Joe was raised in Kansas and has lived in the Salish Sea since 1988. In 2016, he left a high-tech career to pursue his call to ministry – a call that aims to dismantle systemic racism, develop beloved LGBTQ+ multicultural faith community, and reverse climate change.
Join Nancy Slocum, Director of Religious Exploration for Children and Youth for a “Kids’ Chapel” via Zoom on Sundays at 11:30 a.m. This program is geared for elementary school-aged children and will provide a little time to connect and share with each other. We still have a Time for All Ages during our online worship service which starts at 10:30 a.m., and encourage children to participate in the worship service through that point.
If you are a parent of a child or children in our Religious Exploration program and have not received the login information, please email Nancy at dir.re@tahomauu.com and she will send you the info.
Safe Parking Overview and Discussion
Sunday, January 17, 2021
12:00 noon
Join an overview of and discussion about the Tacoma/Pierce County Safe Parking Network Pilot Program on Sunday, January 17 at 12:00 noon. What is Safe Parking? How might it impact our community? Who is involved? How does it help? Members of the Ad Hoc Committee on Building and Grounds Security will provide the essentials and respond to your questions and concerns. If you can’t make this gathering, a second opportunity will be coming up Sunday, February 7 at 12:00 noon.
On Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. join Joe Rettenmaier for conversation and checking in. Any and everyone is welcome to come along for casual conversation.
Participants are encouraged to arrive a few minutes before the meeting start time, so attendees can be invited into the Zoom room. Once the gathering circle has been created for tea time, the Zoom “door” will be closed, and late attendees will not be able to enter. Your timely login allows us the opportunity to create a space for interested participants, and publicly offer this invitation, as well as alleviate concerns about potential mischievous Zoombombers.
Parenting and caring for children always presents challenges and it is even more complex as we live through these days of the pandemic. Come, take a break, and connect with other parents (or anyone raising/living with a child) from TUUC. Share strategies for coping, provide support to one another, and sometimes, just have a good laugh. This is an informal group with no agenda other than to be here for each other. The room is open from 7:00 until 8:00. Busy lives mean you can’t always be there right at the start and that is okay. Pop in late if that is what works for you.
