Sunday Services for December.
Sunday, December 1, 2024
Service at 10:30 am
Guest Speaker – Elaine Silver (A.K.A. Faerie Elaine)
“The Interdependent Web through Song”
This service demonstrates examples through lecture and singing with some audience participation. “Rev. Faerie” Elaine Silver is a highly acclaimed musician, performing and recording artist (22 CDs and counting) with a thriving Music Ministry.
She is a Trans-denominational minister and Divinity Priestess who has garnered much attention in progressive churches and centers due to her unique method of delivering Music-inspired lessons, messages, workshops and concerts. She is also a Certified Beatleologist through Beatleology University in the UK. As a Licensed Science of Mind Practitioner (RScP), she shares Truth Principles and Universal Law using lecture, songs and audience participation, which bring about connectedness and a sense of ONENESS in many. She has worked with wonderful authors and speakers including Deepak Chopra, don Miguel Ruiz, Neale Donald Walsch, Marianne Williamson, Brene’ Brown, Alan Cohen, Wayne Dyer and more. She is delighted to be presenting at The Unitarian Universalists Church of Tampa.
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Sunday, December 8, 2024
Service at 10:30 am
Guest Speaker – Rev. Charles McKenzie
“Demonstrating our true identity”
We are metaphysical beings on a mission in the physical realm. Life presents opportunities for us to fulfill that metaphysical agenda.
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Sunday, December 15, 2024
Service at 10:30 am
Guest Speaker – Bill Payton
“Finding Purpose”
Bill describes himself as an ordinary guy, going through the passages of his life. He says he has lived an ordinary life including military service, college, career, raising a family and retirement. Having journeyed through those phases of life, he ponders his purpose now.
Bill Payton is currently the President of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Sarasota. Bill grew up in Akron, Ohio, served four years in the Marine Corps and returned home to attend the University of Akron where he graduated with a degree in Banking and Finance. He spent forty years in the insurance industry in a career that took him to seven different cities and states. He retired from the University of Missouri in January of 2007 where he served as the Director of Risk & Insurance Management.
Sunday, December 22, 2024
Service at 10:30 am
Guest Speaker – Rev. Charles McKenzie
“Time is an optical illusion – Parable of the Rock”
Albert Einstein said that time is an optical illusion. We exist within a space-time continuum that has been arbitrarily segmented into time periods. In reality it is not time, but the distance between objects that we are measuring.
Annual RE Candy Cane Hunt: Children will start in the service.
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Join us for our Christmas Eve Candlelight Service
Tuesday Evening, December 24, 2024
Service at 6:00pm
“How the Unitarians Saved Christmas”
Ice cream sundaes served after the service.
Following the service we’ll have our annual hot fudge sundaes in the Multi Purpose Building.
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Sunday, December 29, 2024
Service at 10:30 am
Guest will be our Magnolia Small Group
On this last Sunday of the year, we will experience a special service presented by the Magnolias Small Group Ministry of UUCT on Honoring our Lives. We will deepen our connections by giving and receiving the gift of Presence.
On the last Sunday of the month, following this service: Conversations with The Board. Members of the Board of Trustees will be present for conversation after church today from 11:45 to 12 p.m. The purpose is to open communication and share ideas. Come with questions and ideas but always with an open mind.
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