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Upcoming Worship Services

  • Crouching at the Door

    Sep 20 @ 11:00 am - 12:15 pm

    Rev. Marcus Liefert

    As we honor the Jewish High Holy Day of Yom Kippur, we begin a new worship series using The Hunt as a metaphor for the religious question of soteriology—the search for salvation. When the Hebrew Bible first introduces the questions of harm and repair, it suggests sin is a predator crouching at the door, desiring you. What if naming our own capacity for evil isn’t the opposite of salvation, but instead where an honest search for it begins?


  • Reading Sign

    Sep 27 @ 11:00 am - 12:15 pm

    Rev. Marcus Liefert

    Trackers learn to “read sign”—a bent blade of grass, a snapped twig—a script of the movement of creatures written on the world. An honest search for salvation asks us to pay the same kind of careful attention. How do we attune well enough to the soul’s subtle signals to be aware of our own capacity for harm before it’s already a trail?


  • Hiding in Plain Sight

    Oct 4 @ 11:00 am - 12:15 pm

    Rev. Marcus Liefert

    We build careful covers to keep our worst parts out of sight. What if the grace we long for is tucked into the very folds where we thought we were hiding? Searching for salvation isn’t about distance but attention, and the place we go to conceal ourselves may be exactly where we’re found.


  • Sunday Worship Service

    Oct 11 @ 11:00 am - 12:15 pm

    Rev. Kathryn Jay

    Join us Sunday mornings as we gather in worship—singing, storytelling, and reflection woven together as we explore themes of our faith on our serene campus. Each service blends music, prayer, and sermon in a warm, covenanted community. Whether through intergenerational gatherings or music-centered services, all are welcome to find meaning and connection here.


  • Hunted by Grace

    Oct 18 @ 11:00 am - 12:15 pm

    Rev. Marcus Liefert

    As we close a worship series on the search for salvation, one last turn: what if we’ve had the hunt backward all along? The 19th century English poet Francis Thompson called it “The Hound of Heaven”—grace not as something we chase down through vigilance and effort, but as what has been chasing us, patient, relentless, unwilling to lose the scent. What does it take to let ourselves be caught?


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    UUA General Assembly: Since UUCB is so close to the UUA General Assembly in San Jose in June 2027, a one-year task force will help plan and encourage participation—especially among youth. Melissa Rosales will serve as the main contact. Capital Projects: A five-year capital projects budget, updated each year, outlines UUCB’s priorities and funding needs. […]
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