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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 7, 2026
Speaker – Sonja Coster
Biography:
Sonja Coster was born and raised in South Africa. She was/is an activist against Apartheid. She was/is an educator all her life and had a Drama Studio and a one woman show for 24 years in South Africa. She was the chair lady for the Guild of Speech and Drama teachers for many years. She moved to Wisconsin in 1995. She was the Vice President for programs at the McGaw YMCA in Evanston and at the Milwaukee YMCA. She is a lay preacher in the Methodist Church but also serves in many different denominations and engages in speaking opportunities. She retired in 2024 and moved to Ocala Florida. She is married and has 3 children and 5 grandchildren.
Topic: The impact of Apartheid on a nation and the world.
Sonja will discuss the concept of Apartheid and the injustice it caused in South Africa. We will discuss how two people forgot about titles and race and had the courage and conviction to abandon apartheid. Sonja will discuss facts but also give demonstrations and examples of literature by quoting poems and prose to demonstrate the impact of Apartheid. We will also look at South Africa currently.
Sunday, Jun 14, 2026
Speaker – UU Rev Steve Crump
Biography:
The Reverend Dr. Steve J. Crump is Minister Emeritus of the congregation of the Unitarian Church of Baton Rouge. He holds religion and ministry degrees from the University of Chicago Divinity School and Meadville-Lombard Theological School, Chicago.
Topic: Our Complicated Commemoration: The 250th Birthday
Our touchstones this morning include some famous UUs, key insights from the sacred texts of our nation’s formation, the music, of course, plus our own critical awareness of this moment’s call to responsibility.
Sunday, Jun 21, 2026
Speaker – Amira Sims
Biography:
Amira Sims is a mother of four, college professor, spoken word artist and lifelong learner. Starting at the ripe age of 8 she began keeping a journal. Ever since she can remember she always wanted to be a teacher. Her childhood nickname was school. Even before graduating with her master’s degree in psychology, she guest lectured at Valdosta State University. In 2003 she began teaching an array of psychology courses at the collegiate level. Many years later, in her 2019 TEDx Ocala talk she shared that one of the reasons she consistently began to speak her poetry was all thanks to one of her undergraduate college professors who encouraged her to “keep writing, start sharing.”
Topic: TBD
Sunday, Jun 28, 2026
Speaker – Rev Carole Yorke
Biography:
The retired Rev Carole Yorke decided a year ago that a move was in the works and she and her two Pomeranians moved from Port St Lucie to Dunnellon. Rev Carole had already been making the trip up here to guest preach at NCUU —for more than twenty years— once or twice a year. She still guest preaches here and now in several other churches in Florida.
Topic: Pride as a Practice: Love, Resistance, and the Light We Tend
How can we celebrate Pride in the era of this president? Let’s look at the ways we can celebrate Pride, building on our history beginning with Stonewall.
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