Past Services and Recordings
May 4, 2025
- Imagination, Faith, and Practice
- Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett
- Music: Beloved Community Chorus (11:00 am), Kate Lewis – Pianist, Wendy Looker – Music Director
Worship Associate: Simon Kaplan (11:00 am)
Theme: Imagination
Throughout May, we’ll explore some of the many dimensions of imagination. This Sunday, we’ll ask what’s needed once our imaginations have become activated. We’ll also hear a pledge campaign update, and at the 11:00 service, we’ll enter into covenant with the 50 people who’ve signed the membership book since February.
April 27, 2025
- Alabama Pilgrimage
- Worship Leaders: Rev. Jacqueline Brett & Rev. Jim Lewis
- Music: Johann Montozzi-Wood (Cantor); Kate Lewis – Pianist
Theme: Joy
ONE SERVICE 11:00 AM
This past week 50 ERUUFians and guests went on pilgrimage to Montgomery and Selma, Alabama, the historical site of significant events and memorials of America’s racial history. Today, we’ll hear their reflections upon what it meant to be on pilgrimage and what they experienced.
April 20, 2025
- Easter Sunday and Earth Day
- Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett
- Music: Eno River Singers, Beloved Community Chorus, ERUUF House Band, Kate Lewis - Pianist, Wendy Looker – Music Director
Worship Associates: Jonathan Sheline and Raquel Silva
Theme: Joy
ONE MULTIGENERATION SERVICE @ 11:00 am (online and in person)
As the Easter Holiday and Earth Day converge this Sunday, we shall honor them both with song, readings, reflections, and our annual flower ceremony, this year with a slightly new twist! We invite all to join in by bringing a flower from your garden or elsewhere. We’ll also close the service with a joyful community singing of “Hallelujah” from Handel’s Messiah.
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?
