We Missed You! If you missed us on Sunday, July 23, 2017, you can find the full service here.
Hope to see you next time!
Namaste,
Cricket
Clarksburg WV
Sunday, July 30, 2017: Pagan Pride Day
We have Spiritual Outings on the first Sunday of each month during the summer. This month, we also have an additional outing on the last Sunday of the month. We will staff an information booth at the Morgantown Pagan Pride Day at Mason-Dixon Historical Park in Core, West Virginia, from 11:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. Our usual pot luck picnic will take place at the booth.
For more information about this event, see https://www.facebook.com/events/1357468580981576, or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pagan-pride-day-morgantown-2017-tickets-33261353604#map-target if you are not on Facebook.
The event opens at 11:00 a.m.
For those who would like to caravan or carpool, we will gather at the Progressive Women’s Association parking lot at 9:30 a.m. Please email westforkuu@gmail.com if you would like to join us and need transportation.
We would love to have you come worship with us.
Email westforkuu@gmail.com or use our contact form for more information
or write to us at PO Box 523, Clarksburg WV 26302
Sunday, July 23, 2017
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” – Charles M. Schulz
Prelude: The Candy Man Can from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Welcome: We gather in community to… By Paul H L’Herrou
Song: Sanctuary
Make us aware we
are a sanctuary
each made holy
loved right through
with thanksgiving
we’ll be a living
sanctuary a-new.
Sunday, July 2, 2017: Watters Smith Memorial State Park
We have Spiritual Outings on the first Sunday of each month during the summer. This month, we will gather at Watters Smith Memorial State Park at 11 a.m. for a short service, followed by a potluck picnic, conversation, and hiking the trails.
We will meet at the Pioneer shelter in the picnic area near the historical area.
Please email westforkuu@gmail.com if you would like to carpool.
We would love to have you come worship with us.
Email westforkuu@gmail.com or use our contact form for more information
or write to us at PO Box 523, Clarksburg WV 26302
Sunday, June 18, 2017: Genealogy as a Spiritual Practice
Prelude: Leader of the Band – Dan Fogelberg
Welcome: The Paradox of Ancestry
We gather together this morning,
Because others came before us.
Some have left examples for us to follow,
Others lessons for us to learn from,
and the paradox is that many have left both pain and joy.
We honor our ancestors this morning, not because they are perfect,
But because, without them, we would not be here,
Together,
Sharing our joy, our pain, our living and our dying.
– Christopher A. Rothbauer Continue reading
Sunday, June 11, 2017: Creeds and Other Tests of Faith
Prelude I Believe in You – Don Williams
Welcome The beauty of the whole – Meg Barnhouse
We gather to worship, our hearts alive with hope that here we will be truly seen, that here we will be welcomed into the garden of this community, where the simple and the elegant, the fluted and frilled, the shy and the dramatic complement one another and are treasured. May we know that here, each contributes in their way to the beauty of the whole. Come, let us worship together, all genders, sexualities, politics, clappers and non-clappers, progressive or conservative, may we root ourselves in the values of this faith: compassion and courage, transcendence, justice and transformation.
Chalice lighting Community Chalice Lighting – Atticus Palmer
We call this light before us in hope that we may always remain a strong community,
working together to make the world a better place.
When we are grieving or sad,
When we are challenged,
When we need help,
This flame guides us out of the darkness.
When we are cheerful,
When we celebrate,
When we accomplish a great task,
When we return to a place that makes us happy,
The chalice reminds us to share our happiness with others.)
Sunday, June 4, 2017: Coopers Rock State Forest
Prelude – Wildflowers by Dolly Parton with Emmylou Harris &Linda Ronstadt
Chimes
Opening for Flower Communion By Thomas Rhodes
Announcements
Greeting: #361 “Enter Rejoice and Come In” Greet your neighbor in any way you feel comfortable, as we sing this familiar song.
Chalice Lighting: Infinite Spirit of Life, we ask thy blessing on these By Norbert Fabian Capek
Sunday May 28, 2017
“All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us confine ourselves to that till the lesson be learned; let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. I never see any of these things but I long to get away and lie under a green tree and let the wind blow on me. There is marvel and charm enough in that for me.” – Margaret Fuller from “Good Sense,” in a dialogue between Free Hope, Old Church, Good Sense, and Self‐Poise, p. 127.
This Sunday John Hall will deliver a lesson entitled “On The Right Side of History”.
We would love to have you come worship with us.
Our services are Sundays at 11 a.m. at the Progressive Women’s Association Event Center, 305 Washington Ave. in downtown Clarksburg, behind the Courthouse.
Our Religious Education/ Life Long Learning Class will meet at from 10am to 10:45 am with a coffee gathering before the service. More about us.
Adult religious education, at 10, will be our business and planning meeting for the next five or six months, including our Spiritual Outings for the summer. Bring your thoughts on services, outings, and anything else we should plan for.
Children are welcome. There is childcare and an activity for young children during the service.
The building is wheelchair accessible, with an accessible restroom.
You can park on either side of the PWA building. The lots are marked as private, but are available on Sunday mornings.
Email westforkuu@gmail.com or use our contact form for more information
or write to us at PO Box 523, Clarksburg WV 26302
Namaste,
Cricket
Sunday, May 14, 2017: Hypocrite!
Prelude: Deportee – Cisco Houston
Welcome: To learn more about being human – Erika A. Hewitt
Welcome to this morning, this day, and this opportunity to be together in community — which is a time of joy, comfort, and sometimes challenges. This Unitarian Universalist congregation is a place where we come to learn more about being human. We’re not here because we’ve figured out life’s questions, or because we think we’ve got it right, or even because we think we know what the questions are.
We come here to learn more about being in relationship together: how to listen, how to forgive, how to be vulnerable, and how to create trust and compassion in one another.
Let us move into worship, willing to be authentic with each other, honest within ourselves, and opening to connection in all its forms.
Come, let us worship together.
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