Our congregation celebrated Dia de los Muertos and with it remembrances of friends and family who have passed. Amid traditional decorations, copal incense and mariachi music we also learned how the holiday is celebrated in Mexico.
Bruce Knotts, Director of the Unitarian-Universalist United Nations Office, spoke on the UN Compact for Migration and Advancing Just Migration for All in a visit to our congregation sponsored by congregation member Connie Baker.
Lynn Turner was our guide for this service introducing us to drum circles and world drum traditions.
2018 found UUCOP at the home of John and Diane for our annual Freedom Picnic. Luckily the heat dialed down from the mid 90’s earlier in the week, and there was a refreshing cool breeze from Lake Michigan to complement the many delicious potluck dishes.
Congregation member Alan provided Tibetan bowls and a meditation service for our congregation June 10,2018. More photos are available here.
UUCOP commissioned local potter David Otis to create two beautiful candle holders for the altar in the Chapel. The left holds candles lit for sharing of Joys and Concerns and the right is for our Chalice Lighting which opens the service.
A traditional part of the Petoskey Unitarian-Universalists’ celebration of Thanksgiving is participation in Guest at Your Table which provides financial support for the human rights work of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC). Our congregation celebrated with an intergenerational service based on the folk story “Stone Soup”, a sharing of soup and bread (and we … Continued
2017 Blessing/Remembance of the Animals Service at Wildwood
At the June 18th service Petoskey Unitarian-Universalists unanimously endorsed the UUA’s Declaration of Conscience
I Find Silence (Group Poem from April 9, 2017, Poetry Sunday) I find silence in a drop of dew sliding from a leaf I find silence reassuring, calmness still exists I find silence after the rain, the birds fly down to drink water I find silence in the early morning when I wake as I … Continued
