The worship services this month will focus on different aspects of our community, from celebrating OUUC’s youth, to recognizing our heritage with a flower ceremony, to honoring fathers, to experiencing the wonder and joy of music.
On June 3, we will honor and celebrate all the ways that so many people serve our community, the OUUC community and the wider community. Join the fun at OUUC from 10-noon on Saturday morning.
In the wider community, there are ways to serve the Olympia community with others from OUUC: the Community Kitchen and shelter meals are examples. You can find information regularly in the Tuesday electronic update.
On June 10, you can join me at the Tumwater Dog Days in Pioneer Park from 10 am – 1 pm. I was asked to deliver an interfaith animal blessing that day, even after I confessed to being more of a cat lady!
This month we also celebrate the lives of two OUUC members, Janet Swanson and Karen Krueger.
Later in June, several of us will participate in the Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly (GA). This is the annual gathering of UU’s from around the world, both onsite in Pittsburgh and online. Some of us will serve as delegates to GA. You can learn more about this at the after-service forum on June 4.
Add in Melanie Ransom’s Talk Show and a guest speaker sponsored by OUUC’s Environmental Action Team, and you have an array of events to participate in to experience community in its many forms.
We gather in community to worship and to mourn, to celebrate and to learn, and to expand our hearts and minds. We can extend the bounds of our community beyond the walls of OUUC to the wider community of Olympia, and even to the world. We can expand our connection to other animals, even to all of creation. When we experience community in the widest sense, we can glimpse the interconnected web of which we are a part.
