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Welcome

We are on our summer schedule of one service at 10:00am each Sunday from May 23-September 12.  We invite you to join us for the Sunday service.

Children's Religious Education Classes start at 10:00am each Sunday during the summer schedule, and will be casual experiences with fun games and simple crafts.

We are also offering two separate weeks of summer day camp for kids from K-6th grade, in cooperation with Unity Church, whose approach to religion, while Christian, is inclusive and progressive, like our own.   "Nature Camp" will be held July 19-23 at Unity on 5 Mile Rd, and "Culture Camp" (focusing on world religions) will be August 16-20 at UUCGT.  4U Day Camp will cost $100 per child per week, and scholarships and discounts are available. Kids can attend either or both programs. We'll enroll kids from our two congregations first, and then open the camp up to the community.  To enroll or for questions contact Karen McCarthy.

See our calendar for other scheduled activities.

Browse our site, learn about us and hopefully visit soon!  Perhaps, you would like to read a recent sermon or download a copy of our newsletter, the Beacon.


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If you would like to learn more about Unitarian Universalism, you may enjoy watching our new video.

In "Voices of a Liberal Faith," members and ministers share their thoughts on worship and fellowship, explain the goals of religious education, explore the historic roots of our religion, and celebrate the spirit of social justice that inspires our faith.


Board Notes: Green Cemetery Update  

 

DREview:  4U Day Camp Fun
Notebooks and pencils in hand, we took a lengthy hike in the woods, making lists of what we observed. We found flowers and slugs, pine needles and spiders. The longer we hiked, the more we saw. At the top of the hill, we found: coyote tracks near some fur and bone from the squirrel it ate; tracks and droppings of deer and fawn; and turkey prints with scat (in which we discovered raspberry seeds and a dung beetle).  
 
  
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Current Month Services

Sunday, July 4 — Service: 10:00am
Childcare & RE: 10:00am
“This is My Country”
Rev Kevin Tarsa and members of the congregation
We'll celebrate July 4 in word, art and music, exploring feelings and perspectives regarding this, our country.  If you have ideas, artwork, readings, poems, photos, stories or music you think will work well in the service, please contact Rev. Kevin or Gretchen Kronk.

 

Sunday, July 11 — Service:  10:00am
Childcare & RE: 10:00am
“Tell Me About Your Garden”
Max Old Bear
A sermon about nurturing, caring and patience.  There is a similarity in the caring for a garden to the caring of fellow beings.  There is investment in cultivation, the necessity of love and attention, labor and even thinning and pruning but there is much pleasure and many rewards.

Sunday, July 18 — Service:  10:00am
Childcare & RE: 10:00am
“Gandhi and His Ideas 100 Years Later”
Misty Sheehan
In 1910, Mahatma Gandhi wrote what could be called his manifesto:  Hind Swaraj, or Home Rule, as a critique against colonialism and a call towards action.  Since then, it has been studied and utilized by the Velvet Revolutions in Eastern Europe, the Civil Rights movement, Nelson Mandela, and the Green Movement in Iran.  What does it have to say to us in traverse City today?

Sunday, July 25— Service: 10:00am
Childcare and RE at 10:00am
“Whatever Works”
Mark Gustafson & Friends
If we assume that life is random and absurd, do we therefore also assume that life is meaningless?  What does Woody Allen have to say about this in his 2009 film?  Is there a UU answer to these questions?  Mark will try to sort this all out.

 
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Grand Traverse
6726 Center Road
Traverse City, Michigan  49686