Past Services and Recordings
April 13, 2025
- Celebrating Passover
- Worship Leader: Rev. Daniel Trollinger with the Eno River Jewish Fellowship
- Music: Paul Baerman, Oboe (9:00 am); Beloved Community Chorus (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
Generosity Sunday: Church World Services
Theme: Joy
April 6, 2025
- Centered In Love
- Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett, Guest Preacher: Elías Ortega, President and Professor of Religion, Ethics & Leadership, Meadville Lombard Theological School
- Music: Eno River Singers (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
Worship Associates: Susan Hazlett, Lisa Jones, Johann Montozzi-Wood
Theme: Joy
In our time of deep uncertainty and attacks against the values of justice, compassion, and transformation that we hold central as a Living Tradition, our Universalist heritage can inspire us to renew our efforts towards the creation of a Beloved Community for our mutual thriving.
March 30, 2025
- TRUST
- Worship Leader - Rev. Jacqueline Brett
- Music: Chalice Singers and Sunshine Kids (11:00 am); Elias Gross – Mandolin (11:00 am);Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
Worship Associate: Susan Hazlett
March Theme: Trust
Child Dedication Sunday
On this Sunday, as some families come forward to dedicate their children*, our full congregation joins in a trust to care for the most vulnerable among us. We’ll also explore the importance of TRUST for the wellbeing of a community overall.
*Those who pre-arranged to participate.
March 23, 2025
- Worship Leader - Rev. Jacqueline Brett
- Music: Beloved Community Chorus, The ERUUF House Band (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
March Theme: Trust
As we plant seeds now to create the world our hearts know is possible, we’ll explore what we might learn from Indigenous wisdom of seven-generation thinking.
March 16, 2025
- Worship Leader - Rev. Daniel Trollinger
- Music: River Folk (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Judith Ann Lyon-Mitchell – Cantor (9:00 am); Pam DiLavore – Cantor (11:00 am)
March Theme: Trust
March 9, 2025
- Gift Economy
- Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett
- Music: Eno River Singers (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
Worship Associate: Michael Field (11:00am)
March Theme: Trust
Daylight Savings Time begins Sunday, March 9 @ 2 am
Remember to set your clocks one hour ahead
There are multiple ways of considering economies -- our relationship with the availability of resources. Today we’ll consider the wisdom of indigenous and other than traditional Western economics and what we might learn from them.
March 2, 2025
- What Seeds Are We Planting?
- Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett
- Music: Beloved Community Chorus (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist, Wendy Looker – Music Director
Worship Associate (11:00am): Simon Kaplan
March Theme: Trust
Annual Pledge Drive begins.
Gardeners and others deeply connected with the earth understand that trees and the flowering and vegetative beauty we most often notice during the awakening of spring is the result of seeds that were planted by nature or perhaps by us at some time earlier. This Sunday, as our Annual Pledge Drive begins, we’ll explore the seeds that have been planted in earlier times at ERUUF and those we must plant now for our future.
February 23, 2025
- The Blessings of Chaos and Change
- Worship Leader - Rev. Jacqueline Brett
- Music: Demeanor, Artist-In-Residence (11:00 am); Johann Montozzi-Wood, Cantor (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
February 2025 Theme: Inclusion
As we lament the general chaos and change that has come upon us nationally and globally these past weeks, is it possible that unexpected blessings might be had? We here at ERUUF also acknowledge a change in this week’s worship plans!
Artist-In-Residence
A rapper and musician from Greensboro, North Carolina, Justin “Demeanor” Harrington is ERUUF’s inaugural artist-in-residence.
February 16, 2025
- The Practice of [Redacted]
- Worship Leader - Rev. Jim Lewis
- Music: Eno River Singers (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
February 2025 Theme: Inclusion
Unitarian Universalists desire to be inclusive. That is fantastic! It also takes our active practice to make it real, both in UU spaces and the broader world. What does it mean for us to practice inclusion, especially at a time when corporations and our government are eschewing and actively demonizing the concept?
February 9, 2025
- Creating the World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
- Worship Leader - Rev. Jacqueline Brett
- Music: Myk'l Hanna (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Pam DiLavore – Cantor (9:00 am); Claudia Kaplan – Cantor (11:00 am)
Worship Associate (11:00 am) – Cheryl Fenner Brown
February 2025 Theme: Inclusion
11:00 am - Multigenerational Service
Despite all that is going on in our country and the world today, we know in our hearts that a better world is possible. In today’s interactive multigenerational service, we will explore how we each can begin to create such a possibility.
February 2, 2025
- Nonetheless, We Shall Overcome
- Worship Leader - Rev. Jacqueline Brett
- Music: Beloved Community Chorus (11:00 am), ERUUF House Band, Kate Lewis – Pianist, Wendy Looker – Music Director
February 2025 Theme: Inclusion
Justice Sunday: Pride+
As we acknowledge the start of Black History Month, we explore what it really takes to be in the challenging and liminal space of overcoming in our own times, despite setbacks, oppressive opposition, and perhaps never ourselves seeing the day that we finally succeed for good. Worship Associate: Michael Field (11:00 am)
January 26, 2025
- Worship Leader - Rev. Lisa Garcia-Sampson
- Music: Eno River Singers (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
January 2025 Theme: Practice of Story
