Sunday, December 7, 2025

First Sundays for Families at the Fellowship: Building Your Own Theology

Name: Gorge Youth
Price range: $

Come at 9 am to be part of the All-Ages Pop Up Choir (no experience/reading skills necessary). Service at 10 am. Youth have the option to stay through our Time for All Ages storytime and then head downstairs to work on an art project connected to the sermon's theme with our child care provider.

This Sunday's Theme: Building Your Own Theology

How do Unitarian Universalists do theology?

As happy heretics, that is people who choose what to believe and what not to believe, rather than accept what creeds and doctrines decree, we encourage each other to think for ourselves.

While we rightly relish our freedoms, we are also responsible for finding trustworthy tools and materials to answer the five big questions that every religious tradition answers: what is divinity?, what does it mean to be human?, what is the relationship between the human and the divine?, why are we alive?, how are we supposed to live?

As inheritors of and participants in a liberal religious tradition that some have called a “do-it-yourself tradition,” it is incumbent upon each one of us to find our own answers to these questions.

How will you do theology in the new year?

I invite you to begin building or remodeling our own theology, to share what you believe with other fellowship members and friends, so that together, we can strengthen our capacity to contribute to the common good.

I look forward to seeing you on Sunday, January 4!

With love beyond belief, Barbara

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Spiritual communities come in all shapes and stripes. If you're looking for a group of folks who live by deed, not creed, then come check out the Mid-Columbia Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at our First Sundays for Families services.

What is First Sundays for Families? Every first Sunday Service of the month is geared towards engaging young minds and hearts with age-appropriate topics along with an all-ages pop up choir open to all early comers. Sermons are based on our theme of the month with a story exploring that theme for kids, along with a Children’s Guide who will give kids the opportunity to play and engage downstairs while the service finishes up. Service begins at 10 am, but come at 9 am to join the Pop Up Choir for People of All Ages. No need to be able to read music or words, just come at 9 am to learn the song and then sing during service!

We are also collecting responses to our Family Needs Survey. If you can please fill out our survey and share this link with other local families, it will go a long way towards informing our future family-focused programming. LINK: tinyurl.com/HRFAMILIES

More information on the Mid-Columbia Unitarian Universalist Fellowship can be found at mcuuf2.org