Current Sunday Services

 

March 2024

Great Egret Gets a Tidbit

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.

Sunday, Mar. 3, 2024

Joe Jencks

Speaker – Joe Jencks

Topic: TBA

Sunday, Mar. 10, 2024

Dee Collier

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 26 famous (and infamous) women in history. There will be a board on a table that has pictures of her portraying some of them. You’re 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: “Susan B. Anthony”

Susan B. Anthony worked tirelessly her whole life, convincing people that everyone should have the same rights of voting, abolishing slavery and equal pay for equal work. She spoke to groups, wrote letters to congress, wrote newspaper articles to advance these ideas we take for granted today.

Sixteen women voted in the 1872 election because the 14th Amendment to the Constitution stated that all citizens of the United States could vote. They all paid dearly for it. But they never gave up working to change people’s ideas. Those ideas led to talk and action. It finally paid off.

Hear from Susan B. Anthony “herself” what it was like to do this work and what the results were in her lifetime and afterwards.

Sunday, Mar. 17, 2024

Rev Bruce Seaman

Speaker – Rev Bruce Seaman

Biography:

Rev. Bruce Seaman is a retired Presbyterian Church, USA minister. He has been married for over 40 years to Nancy, newly retired former Benefits Coordinator for the 7000 employees of the Marion County School Board. They have two adult children. Ray (36) who is a longtime political activist now in his own business building websites and producing digital services while also doing land sales and developing his real estate interests, and Rachel (31) who is a science education designer for online programs for the University of Florida which is top-rated in the nation. Bruce published a book on local Civil War history about a daring raid by Black combatants in Marion County entitled, “To Succeed Where Others Failed: The Untold Story of the Marshall Plantation Raid.” He had made a presentation about the raid to NCUU. He is working on edits to a screenplay based on the raid.

Topic: Temptation for More

The Christian season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, which is also Valentine’s Day – February 14. Lent gets perceived as a time to “give something up” as in those things of negative impact, shoring up our personal weaknesses.

The topic of ‘temptation’ is much more dynamic and consequential than our poor personal foibles. The Garden of Eden has a lot to say about the human condition. It is in my opinion brilliant! It maintains its currency today. Indeed, the story’s understanding of how we negotiate our reality is universal and timeless. Of course, the temptation of Jesus poses wonderful propositions from Satan and effective, pithy responses from Jesus that both deserve a closer look.

Will we find the temptations that confront us mirrored in these passages? Don’t be surprised!

Sunday, Mar. 24, 2024

Vanessa Fuller-Brown

Speaker – Vanessa Fuller-Brown

Topic: Drum Circle

Sunday, Mar. 24, 2024

UU Rev Carole Yorke

Speaker – UU Rev Carole Yorke

Biography:

Rev. Carole has been visiting us at NCUU since about 2000, and is delighted that we continue to invite her to guest preach. Now retired in Port St. Lucie with her three Pomeranians, she has served three churches in Florida. She was ordained in Plainfield NJ 25 years ago, and continues to preach occasionally, do Memorial Services and lead Bereavement Groups at the UU Fellowship of Vero Beach.

Topic: Theological Problem with Easter

I invite you to consider with me ESCHATOLOGY – the study of “LAST’ or ‘FINAL’ or “END’ things. In other words, it is simply about the timeless human question: What happens to us when we die? For more than 2000 years Christianity has had two central messages to the individual and we will look at them.