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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.
Jan. 5, 2025
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, having completed forty years in the ministry. Currently in Baton Rouge, he has been guest-hosting a talk show on the local public radio station in Baton Rouge. Reverend Crump holds religion and ministry degrees from the University of Chicago Divinity School and Meadville-Lombard Theological School, Chicago.
Topic: It Ain’t Necessarily So
Beginnings are opportunities for fresh starts. There are so many unknowns as to where our nation is headed but personally, we can keep an open mind and a compassionate heart as we live thoughtful lives. Do you think we ought to write our resolutions in pencil this year just in case we need to make mid-course corrections? Rev Crump says, “Yes” and will tell us why on this very first Sunday of another new year in our Fellowship. “Stay curious,” he says.
Jan. 12, 2025
Dee Collier
Biography:
Dee Collier is a former elementary school teacher from Ocala who loves drama and history Those loves have led her to portray 29 famous (and infamous) women in history. There will be a board on a table that has pictures of her portraying some of them. You are welcome to take one of her papers or cards and invite her to other groups as well. Dee is a 3rd generation native Floridian who married her high school sweetheart. They have 2 sons and 5 grandchildren living in the Atlanta area.
Topic: Annie Sullivan
Annie Sullivan (1866–1936) was an American teacher best known for her role as the lifelong instructor and companion to Helen Keller, whom she taught to communicate despite Keller’s blindness and deafness. Overcoming her own challenging childhood marked by poverty and vision loss, Sullivan’s determination and innovative teaching methods made her a pioneer in education and advocacy for people with disabilities.
Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025
Speaker – UU Rev Janet Onnie
Biography:
The Reverend Janet Onnie has supplied pulpits, trained congregations in Lay Pastoral Care, and facilitated workshops on organizational and leadership development and conflict management. She was named Minister Emerita of the Tri-County Unitarian Universalists (FL) and served first, as treasurer, then as President of the Florida Chapter of the UU Ministers Association. As a founder of and contributor to interfaith organizations she is a passionate advocate for social justice issues in cooperation with interfaith partners and allies and is a frequent contributor to newspapers and public forums. Rev. Onnie retired to Staunton, Virginia in January 2021, where she serves as a consulting minister to the Harrisonburg Unitarian Universalists and continues to supply pulpits both in person and via Zoom. She also revived her pre-ministerial career as a professional musician, serving as Board member and volunteer coordinator for the Staunton Music Festival, playing with the Charlottesville Band and the Waynesboro Symphony Orchestra.
Topic: From Walden to Birmingham
Unitarian Universalists are known for their leadership in movements that bend the arc of the moral universe toward a more just society. Let’s review our history of civil disobedience and reaffirm our commitment to continuing that tradition.
Sunday, Jan. 26, 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: Empty Cup
Letting go of what is no longer needed in our life and opening to the new coming through.
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