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Flower Communion

This Sunday, our Fellowship celebrates Flower Communion. If you can, please bring  a flower or two, from your garden, your neighbor’s garden (we suggest asking first), or the local grocery.  

This Flower Ceremony is an annual ritual that celebrates beauty, nature, human uniqueness, joy, diversity, … read more.

Covenant

Our Sunday service this Sunday explores our Fellowship’s Covenant and its importance to how we define ourselves as we build a beloved community here in Gainesville. James Chase is in our Fellowship’s pulpit, and Jeff Stevens serves as worship associate.

Live Stream
If you’re unable to attend, … read more.

Stewards of Creation: Living Our Values in a Changing World

How are we called, as Unitarian Universalists, to respond to a changing world?

Join us for a brief, interactive program led by University of Florida students exploring how rising heat and extreme weather are affecting our North Florida community. These young voices bring energy, clarity, and … read more.

The Return of JET L. PIG

Join us as we reflect on our UU values and enjoy a joke (or two or more …). We will practice the art of laughing at ourselves so that we will be constantly amused. Congregation President Tom Mareci is in our Fellowship’s Pulpit, and Sheila … read more.

Reclaiming Jesus

How can UU’s reclaim Jesus? For Unitarian Universalists, reclaiming Jesus fits right into our tradition. We already draw wisdom from many sources. We already value reason, experience, justice, and compassion over rigid belief. We don’t have to agree about miracles or resurrection or theology to … read more.

Passover

Z’man Cheruteinu, the season of our freedom, is said during Pesach (Passover). Z’man also can be translated as invitation. In this service, we will invite you to consider what it means to free by exploring some of the themes and language of the Haggadah, which … read more.

“Boldly Go” on Stewardship Sunday

The future, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Gainesville. Its one year mission: to explore new ministries, to welcome new people and new paths, to boldly go where no one has gone before. This Sunday, join our Stewardship … read more.

Holidays and Holy Days

Join Sacred Oak CUUPs in an exploration of Ostara, the Spring Equinox, as well as a few other festive and reflective holidays and holy days falling in March this year. You are encouraged to bring noise makers and wear green or other bright colors. Sheila … read more.

Jeannette Rankin: The Woman Who Said No to War—Twice

Jeannette Rankin was not only the first woman elected to Congress;  she was also a committed pacifist who voted against US entry into both world wars, and displayed a remarkable resilience despite opposition to her position. This Sunday, we welcome Barbara Oberlander, Santa Fe College … read more.