Each week we post a description of the upcoming Sunday service here. After the service we’ll add a podcast link if the service was recorded. You can find out about services further in the future by visiting our online calendar (or subscribe if you are a Google calendar user or want to become one) or reading our monthly newsletter, the Northern Log. You can find out more about what people wear, childcare, weather policies, accessibility, and how you can participate in UUFF services back on the Sundays page.
Frequently Unasked Questions
Minister: Rev. Leslie Ahuvah Fails Music: Marsha Sousa and Megan Webb
An All-Alaska Question Box Service! As the hymn goes, Unitarian Universalists believe that “to question truly is an answer.” Our program this morning will be made up entirely of your queries and Rev. Leslie’s attempts to answer them. If you’ve got deep theological conundrums, ethical quandaries, or playful paradoxes taking up space in your brain, this is your chance to have our minister take a crack at them from the (digital) pulpit.
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Meeting ID: 934 7128 5417
Password: 126745
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+12532158782,,93471285417#,,1#,126745# US (Tacoma)
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OR dial +1 253 215 8782 and key in meeting ID and password
Transformation, Restoration, and Liberation
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Rodney Lemery
Rev. Dr. Rodney Lemery currently serves as the Minister of the Worthy Now Prison Network at the Church of the Larger Fellowship as well as a volunteer chaplain at the Solano County Jail. He lives in Hercules, CA with his husband, a human-resources professional, and their fur-baby Basil. Rodney and his husband are members of the Mount Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church in Walnut Creek, CA where Rodney also holds a part-time assistant ministry job as the Justice Minister for the congregation.
In this day of transformational hope and radical restoration, what does it mean to move through the world as an anti-racist and why is it important to do so? Please join me in an exploration of practical methods of journeying together toward wholeness and collective liberation in this denomination and beyond using anti-racism as a tool!
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Meeting ID: 934 7128 5417
Password: 126745
One tap mobile
+12532158782,,93471285417#,,1#,126745# US (Tacoma)
+16699009128,,93471285417#,,1#,126745# US (San Jose)
OR dial +1 253 215 8782 and key in meeting ID and password
The Future We Create
“Our ancestors dreamed us up and then bent reality to create us.” — Walidah Imarisha
The story we find ourselves in would have seemed like science fiction only a few short months ago, and we know little about what the future will bring. In this moment of uncertainty and opportunity, we’ll draw wisdom from artists, musicians, and poets who have made it their lives’ work to dream a more equitable world into being.
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Meeting ID: 934 7128 5417
Password: 126745
One tap mobile
+12532158782,,93471285417#,,1#,126745# US (Tacoma)
+16699009128,,93471285417#,,1#,126745# US (San Jose)
OR dial +1 253 215 8782 and key in meeting ID and password
What’s Going On – Songs of Protest, Power and Peace
This Sunday is our first All-Alaska Worship Service! UUFF and the Anchorage UU Fellowship will be joining together for worship throughout the summer, and all UUs — Alaskan and otherwise — are welcome to join us!
Click Here to Join the Virtual Worship Service on Sunday Morning!
What to Expect:
Summer Worship will use the “meeting” Zoom format, which is a little different from what we’ve been doing so far. As early as 10:15 AM, you can click the link (or call in using the information below) and enter the Waiting Room. (This security feature allows us to prevent “Zoom bombing” where people try to disrupt services.) The waiting room does not allow us to play music, unfortunately. At 10:30 or shortly before, Ushers will begin admitting people into the service from the Waiting Room. Shortly thereafter the service will begin! Please be sure to keep your microphone muted — and remember that if your camera is on, you are visible! After the service, we will enjoy Coffee Hour together.
Sunday 6/14
“What’s Going On – Songs of Protest, Power and Peace”
Leader: Megan Webb, AUUF Music Director
Join us as we sing songs that help raise our awareness and strengthen our resolve to dismantle racism and other oppression in ourselves, our institutions, and our nation. Black Lives Matter.
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Meeting ID: 934 7128 5417
Password: 126745
One tap mobile
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+16699009128,,93471285417#,,1#
OR dial +1 253 215 8782 and key in meeting ID and password
In the Name of Love
Our nation is in the midst of an uprising against racism and police brutality. What can we do now? What concrete, immediate actions can we take — no matter who we are, what resources we have — to live our UU faith in this pivotal moment in American history? After a brief service for all our members, friends, and visitors, Rev. Leslie will accompany us through a encouraging and spiritually grounded workshop: “In the Name of Love”: led by Rev. Meg Riley, Chris Crass, and Rev. Ashley Horan. This workshop will help white Unitarian Universalists seeking to be in right relationship with people of color in our fellowship and wider community. After the workshop, we will take part in a special coffee hour discussion.
UUFF Annual Meeting Service
This Sunday will be a brief service before our annual Meeting. This is the link to the service.
ZOOM LINK: https://zoom.us/j/761060086
or CALL IN: dial 669 900 9128, meeting ID#761060086
Life After Death
Minister: Rev. Leslie
Our beliefs regarding what happens — and what doesn’t happen — after we die have a profound impact on the way we live our lives. Rev. Leslie will explore the spectrum of Unitarian Universalist beliefs about what lies beyond this life.
ZOOM LINK: https://zoom.us/j/
or CALL IN: dial 669 900 9128, meeting ID#761060086
After the service, we’ll be holding a VIRTUAL COFFEE HOUR!
Forgiveness
Minister: Rev. Leslie Ahuvah Fails Lay Leader: Cam Leonard
“The will to forgive is not enough … Only true understanding can bring about forgiveness. And this kind of understanding is possible only when you see the suffering (of others)”.
-Thich Nhat Hanh
Forgiveness can be heavy spiritual work. What can be done when it is difficult — or impossible — to forgive? What happens within us when we make peace with how we have been wronged — and how we have wronged others? And — how will we ever forgive ourselves?
Acts of Love
Minister: Rev. Leslie Ahuvah Fails
“Love, according to our Universalist forebears, is the Thing that holds us. In all our holy human perfection and all our wretched human brokenness—which cannot be separated, one from the other, in any of us—Love holds us.” -Lisa Doege
Join us as we honor those who uplift others with acts of love and all who have mothered us throughout our lives.
ZOOM LINK: https://zoom.us/j/761060086
or CALL IN: dial 669 900 9128, meeting ID#761060086
After the service, we’ll be holding a VIRTUAL COFFEE HOUR!
Sharing the Light (Poetry Sunday)
Rev. Leslie and UUFF Poets & Readers
In this beloved yearly service, we will share poems that touch our hearts and stir our spirits. Our members and minister will weave together poetry and song to celebrate the return of the light!
ZOOM LINK: https://zoom.us/j/761060086
or CALL IN: dial 669 900 9128, meeting ID#761060086
After the service, we’ll be holding a Special VIRTUAL COFFEE HOUR!
After the Sunday Service, join us for our first Coffee Hour Discussion! Our special guest will be Dr. Mark Simon, who has graciously agreed to answer questions from the UUFF community about the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Dr. Simon is an emergency room physician at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital. He is a member of the Fairbanks Hospital Board and since 2009 has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Greater Fairbanks Community Hospital Foundation. Mark was appointed to the Executive Committee in 2010. He is a trained and board-certified emergency medicine physician. Dr. Simon earned his bachelor’s degree from Drake University and his medical degree from the University of Iowa College of Medicine. He has been active in our community providing expert information on Covid-19 related medical information.
Do you have questions for Dr. Simon? Please submit them to John Davies (jdavies1945@gmail.com) by this Saturday.
