What to expect at our services

UUFM holds what we call traditional services on the first and third Sunday of every month. Simplified services are held on the second, fourth and the occasional fifth Sunday.

Traditional Services

Elements of typical traditional services (first and third Sundays) include:

• Lighting our chalice, the symbol of our faith

• Singing hymns

• Story for All Ages (children gather at the front of the room to listen to a story)

• Music, instrumental and vocal in a variety of styles

• Time for lifting up the personal joys and concerns

• Sermon by a UUFM minister, guest speaker, or member of the congregation

• A 3-minute meditation

• Dialogue between participants and the speaker following the sermon

• An offering, collecting financial donations for the congregation and for a local non-profit organization

From time to time, worship services incorporate holiday celebrations, child dedications, and coming-of-age ceremonies.

We offer religious exploration classes for children and youth during the traditional services. The children join the adults for the start of the service then go to their classes after the Story for All Ages.

Simplified Services

Simplified services omit a number of the trimmings that characterize a traditional service. In a typical service, a speaker will present a topic and speak on it for about 10 minutes with the remainder time usually being spent in participatory, roundtable style discussions. The speaker is typically a member of the congregation but non-UUFM service organizations are periodically invited to present.

Child care is available during simplified services.

For more information, contact us by email at uufmconnect@uufmac.org

Hours

Address

Meetings:

1700 SW Old Sheridan Rd

McMinnville, OR 97128

Mailing:

PO Box 163

McMinnville, OR 97128

Sundays 10am

We honor the diversity of beliefs and all the ways we are different.