A reflection on what happens when one chaplain seeks to offer and ends up finding for themself healing and sanctuary in the Intensive Care Nursery.

Bio: Lauren Way is a Starr King seminarian who recently completed a Clinical Pastoral Education residency at UCSF’s Benioff Children’s Hospital in San Francisco. Lauren’s journey has involved scientific research, bartending, direct services, peer advocacy and education. They always come back to heart connections.

One of our new ends is: “People rely on UUCB in time of need.” Being a sanctuary congregation, helping people in a great time of need, relate to mission on congregation. How will we move forward into our vision? Is Freestone central to our mission and vision as a congregation?

On this our second Reverse RE Sunday, all ages begin together in worship, and then adults and youth alike will break out into their choice of several workshops and gatherings to explore the topic of “Sanctuary.”

Music can hold us when we need a safe space, a gentle assurance, when we need to feel hope, to find optimism. We will explore how music helps us deal with life’s challenges with a brand new work for strings, piano and chorus by the young Norwegian-American composer Ola Gjeilo. And through spirituals and music that carries the aspiration of young and old.