We kick off our 2027 Pledge Drive with “Light the Flame”! 

Sunday, October 4, 2026
Service at 10:30 am
Guest Speaker – Rev. Bob Murphy
“Marigolds and Resistance”
Resistance to injustice continues in many places in Florida. Religious organizations are involved. Today, we’ll prepare for Indigenous Peoples Day and Cuban Independence Day. Marigolds from local gardens will appear.

Guest Rev. Bob Murphy is a UU community minister for Florida. Bob asks people to love and care for each other and their natural environment during some difficult days for planet Earth.

There will be a New to UU session Sunday October 4 at 11:45 in the Teen Room (rm 5) of the Multipurpose Building. This is an informal 15-20 minute session to answer questions about UUism, how to get connected here at UUCT, as well as the next steps to becoming a UUCT member.

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Sunday, October 11, 2026
Service at 10:30 am
Guest Speaker – Rev. Charles McKenzie
” Idea Heroes Part 2 – The Myth of Race”
Come and hear about individuals who have positively impacted and altered our world because they refused to accept first assumptions, and to stay within even widely accepted ideological frameworks. They had the courage to challenge and transform our world beyond those frameworks and first assumptions. In the arena of our theological and cosmological traditions we need individuals who are willing to be “idea heroes”.

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Sunday, October 18, 2026
Service at 10:30 am
Guest Speaker – Rev. Bob Murphy
“Memory,  Reality, and Dreams”
Salvador Dali was a Spanish artist who became important in Florida.  Rev. Bob Murphy will explain Dali’s  importance for mystical and spiritual-minded Unitarian Universalists.

Sunday, October 25, 2026
Service at 10:30 am
Guest Speakers – Meditation Group:
Kim Robe, Brian and Kimberly Slaterly-Gaston, and Grant Wilson.
“The UUCT Meditation Sangha Service”
For at least the last 40 years, UUCT has had an active meditation group. We who regularly attend and practice meditation like to see the ongoing meditation group as the spiritual heart and soul of our religious community. Today’s service will introduce congregants to its own “UUCT Meditation Sangha.” A sangha is a group of like-minded folks who are learning together to practice becoming more mindfully aware of a richer inner and outer life possible through regular meditation practice. The service will be led by the four group facilitators: Kim Robe, Brian and Kimberly Slaterly-Gaston, and Grant Wilson. They will share with us: 1.) how to meditate, 2.) a bit of history of the church’s two meditation groups over time, and 3.) a beginning and closing short meditation. We look forward to seeing and sharing with you this congregation’s meditating tradition. Who knows, you may even become interested in attending our Tuesday evening meditations. Namaste, Kim, Brian and Kimberly, and Grant

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