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Services start at 10:30 a.m.
Our services are also available live via Zoom. Please send a request to [email protected] for the link.
Jun. 1, 2025
Annual Flower Service
The flowers given and received during this service will serve as metaphors for gifts we give to, and receive from this beloved community. We will be reminded of how we each serve our congregation in different ways, and what we expect to gain from our membership. We are all different, as are the flowers, but together we make a beautiful bouquet.
Sunday, Jun. 8, 2025
Speaker – Rev Marcia McCartney
Biography:
Rev. Marcia McCartney’s passion is supporting humanity in rediscovering the part each of us plays in our Divine Oneness. For over 30 years, she has been a spiritual midwife for people who desire to deepen and expand their experience of life with the Infinite Creative Spirit within. As a Unity Minister, she has encouraged the practice of Spiritual Truth taught by the great mystical traditions. She has served as senior minister of three Unity ministries in Chicago, Gainesville and Citrus County, Florida. She became a Licensed Unity Teacher in 1992 and an Ordained Unity Minister in 1999. As an Agent of Conscious Evolution, Attitudinal Healing and Sage-ing International facilitator she created an alternative ministry based on healing play, laughter and creativity: The Planetary Play Project (www.planetaryplayproject.org). Rev McCartney currently lives in Crystal River with fur babies Joey and Sophie.
Topic: Embracing the Shadow
Today’s speaker will share what she believes is the deepest work of the soul. . . bringing into the light of our awareness those parts of ourselves that have separated us from our true self. . . our authentic self. It’s time to step into the light and shine that light on those parts of us that we/or others have deemed unacceptable; embracing ourselves with great love and appreciation.
Sunday, Jun. 15, 2025
Speaker – Pam Ricker
Biography:
Pam Ricker has been a NCUU member since 2008. She is very active in volunteer and committee work in our fellowship. She was also very active in her former Unitarian Universalist church in Grafton, MA for 35 years. NCUU and UUism is her home.
Topic: Our Fathers Who Art in Heaven
Several members of our Fellowship will speak about their fathers and how they influenced their lives.
Sunday, Jun. 22, 2025
Speaker – Lynda Hartman
Biography:
Co-author of the memoir “Good Daughter, Dead Daughter”, Lynda Hartman was born in NY, but spent the majority of her life in CT. She also has resided in RI, MD, D.C., and PA before moving to Citrus County in 2004 after becoming a widow. Her early career was spent in office administration, and, as a working adult, she attended Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA and earned a degree in Human Resource Management. She was the HR Manager for a national mercury recycling company until health issues necessitated early retirement and a move to the warm and sunny climate in Florida. Since moving here, she has held various working positions at Citrus United Basket, as activities director at an assisted living facility, and as office manager for a mental health counselor. An active member of Inverness First United Methodist Church, she has served on various committees and is currently a member of the church Outreach Team, and a member of United Women In Faith women’s group. The mother of three grown children, she has five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, and loves spending time with her family and close friends.
Topic: Book Memoir “Good Daughter, Dead Daughter
The memoir “Good Daughter, Dead Daughter” tells the story of two sisters and their tumultuous, abusive childhood with a mother who suffered from undiagnosed mental illness and a father who didn’t stand up for them. While the physical abuse ended with the onset of adulthood, the psychological and emotional abuse and its damage continued and carried over into their teen and adult lives, causing physical and emotional abuse at the hands of others, thoughts of suicide, feelings of worthlessness, estrangement of the sisters, endless search for love in multiple marriages, and, without a loving role model, an inability to mother their own children in a meaningful way. This is the story of how they broke through to find the love they had always yearned for, and, finally, a spiritual path.
Sunday, Jun. 29, 2025
Speaker – UU Rev Ben Bortin
Biography:
UU Rev. Ben Bortin graduated from the University of California with a major in history, specializing in Asian history. He is also a graduate of Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley, California. He has served as minister for UU congregations in Duluth, Minnesota, and Staten Island, New York, and as Membership Coordinator for the UU Congregation at Shelter Rock in Manhasset, New York. Currently, he serves as minister of the UU Fellowship of the North Fork, in Jamesport, NY. His denominational and community involvements have included serving as President of the UU United Nations Office, Secretary and Treasurer of the New York Metro UU Ministers Association, a board member of the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights, and a board member of Project Hospitality, an organization serving homeless people in Staten Island, New York. He is also part of a Social Action Committee with the Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island. He also serves on the “Caring Circle” of his 40 apartment UU Complex, Hadley House.
Topic: What Does Emerson Have to Tell Us?
“The mind on fire.” That’s how one biographer described Ralph Waldo Emerson. Philosopher, Poet, Transcendentalist, Unitarian Minister, and Unitarian Ministry Drop-out, Emerson’s impact has been a powerful and inspired one, both within and outside Unitarian and Universalist ranks.
It is almost an anniversary of his Divinity School Address, which became both famous and infamous after he delivered it in 1838.
A look at that oration, and at Emerson more generally, the man, his message, and his influence.
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