Worship Dates and Information

Sunday, March 30, 2025, 10:30 a.m.

Rev. Bill Gupton leads this service.

Next month marks the five-year anniversary of the opening of Heritage Acres Memorial Sanctuary, the tri-state region’s only dedicated natural (“green”) burial ground. My, how time flies! What a journey it has been — for this congregation, for Rev. Bill and all its Founders, and for the more than 100 families who have now laid a loved one to rest on the beautiful grounds of the sanctuary on Locust Corner Road. 

This morning, Rev. Bill will share stories and reminiscences of that journey, and offer an update on all that’s happening, and is being planned, for what has quickly become one of the nation’s premiere green burial grounds. Our Choir will also sing for us today. 

At 10:30 a.m., join us in the sanctuary or click this Zoom link.

Image source: courtesy of Bill Gupton

Sunday, April 6, 2025, 10:30 a.m.

Rev. Mitra Jafarzadeh leads this service.

Last month, Rev. Mitra Jafarzadeh of Direct Light Consultation encouraged us to consider the question “Why Not Here?” Today she will continue to help us with our transition work by asking us to wonder “Why Not Now?”

 Rev. Mitra Jafarzedeh, now retired from the UU ministry, focuses on using her skills in pastoring and coaching to help individuals and groups live with integrity and grace. Her company, Direct Light Consultation, uses individual coaching, group facilitation, and public speaking / teaching to help people move from good to better.

Image source: “Man Caves and She Sheds,” March 17, 2024, YouTube.com

Sunday, April 13, 2025, 10:30 a.m.

Patrick Sanders leads this service.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in other cultures, to experience new religions, and to learn and grow amid vastly different, non-Western societies? Patrick Sanders has spent a good portion of his 20s doing just that, and this morning he will share some of his experiences with us.

After growing up in Heritage Church, he went to The Ohio State University to study Ecological Engineering, but always felt the call to travel. Once he graduated, he began a series of spiritual, environmental, and outdoor-educational adventures, first in New Zealand (2018-2020) and later in Hawai’i/Asia (2021-2024). During his most recent journey around the globe, he visited twelve countries and worked in six of them, leading youth in outdoor education.

Don’t miss this chance to hear about these journeys, which he refers to as “nomadic wonderings”!

Image source: courtesy of Patrick Sanders in Bangladesh Green Mosque

Sunday, April 20, 2025, 10:30 a.m.

Rev. Bill Gupton and Laci Lee Adams, DLFD, lead this service.

Unitarian Universalists have always had a particularly interesting relationship with Easter. Being a creedless tradition where different interpretations of scripture, myth, history, and even current events are welcomed and accepted, we often wonder how it is we should celebrate this major religious holiday – or even if we should at all.

This Easter Sunday, we’ll hear from both our Senior Minister and our Director of Lifespan Faith Development (DLFD), as well as others, as we reflect on the many meanings of Easter. As is always the case on this celebratory Spring morning, our beloved choir will sing – and fancy Easter hats are optional, but welcome!

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Sunday, April 27, 2025, 10:30 a.m.

Rev. Mitra Jafarzadeh and Rabbi Jonathan Cohen lead this service.

Join Rev. Mitra and Rabbi Jonathan to explore how we stay rooted in our own faith and respectful of the faith of our ancestors even as hope calls us into a new day. 

Nurturing communities of justice is vitally important in this chaotic era. Building on these three things, faith, hope, and justice is a special skill of HUUC and we look forward to exploring potential futures together. 

Rev. Mitra Jafarzedeh, now retired from the UU ministry, focuses on using her skills in pastoring and coaching to help individuals and groups live with integrity and grace. Her company, Direct Light Consultation, uses individual coaching, group facilitation, and public speaking / teaching to help people move from good to better.

Rabbi Jonathan Cohen is an Israeli born scholar and rabbi who served as faculty member, director of an academic center, campus dean, and senior rabbi. Jonathan has been a board member of arts, social service, and denominational as well as interfaith organizations. He brings extensive experience in teaching and mentoring, coaching, organizational consulting, governance support, fundraising and budgeting, human resources, project management, and community building and organizing.

Together Rev. Mitra and Rabbi Jonathan are providing consulting services to HUUC with its ministerial transition. See the announcements for further details.

Image source: created by B.L. Barnes

Sunday, May 4, 2025, 10:30 a.m.

Rev. Bill Gupton leads this service.

Join us this Sunday as we celebrate the rites of spring at Heritage Church! In our traditional Unitarian Universalist Flower Communion ceremony, we will beautify our altar with fresh flowers, and each take home with us a lovely reminder of the Love that is the spirit of our church. We will also bless the youngest members of our church family in another cherished UU tradition, our Baby and Child Dedication.

In addition, our Choir will make beautiful music for us today, and our former Choir Director, Erin McCamley, will also sing.

Each person is invited to bring a fresh flower to church this morning. Our Flower Communion involves sharing those flowers with others. If you have a baby or small child whom you would like to be blessed and dedicated, please contact Rev. Bill to make arrangements to participate in that ceremony.

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