Many Different Beliefs, One Loving Community
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Location Details
2845 Mesa Verde Drive East Costa Mesa, CA 92626
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Sundays 10:30 am (in person/online)
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(714) 55-OCUUC
New Sermons
Happy Place
Sometimes the world is a difficult place and we need to find our “happy place.” Where is your “happy place?” What happens when that is gone or you can no longer find it? How do you find or create a new one?
Universe-All? Ultra-Universalism and Today
Ultra-Universalism is one of our historical beliefs as UUs. Today, we look at what it means, and how we might apply it to modern Unitarian Universalism.
All You Need is Love
How to love the unlovable, opening ourselves up to be hurt, and practicing perfection in imperfection. -Rev. Dr. Karen Stoyanoff, Minister Emerita
New Blogs
Updates for August
It is a new church year and a great time for beginnings. I am really looking forward to working with our excellent Board and all of you to make OCUUC all it can be. We have so many opportunities. The Environmental Film Festival promises to be a fantastic event and our beloved Camp deBenneville Pines weekend is in the works for October. It was a pleasure to work with Carolina Tercero Brandon, Eva Lu Goodwin Noriega, Nina Smith and Phyllis…
Journey to Ann Arbor
I just got back from my first Association for Unitarian Universalist Music Ministries (AUUMM) Conference in 3 years. This year it was in Ann Arbor, and we really lucked out with good weather plus a GIANT art festival happening in town last week. My cup has been filled up by SO. MUCH. SINGING and camaraderie with my wonderful colleagues. There were only about 100 attendees in per-son this year, much fewer than normal, and we didn’t have a conference choir…
Magic Summer
We’ve been having a joyful and service-filled summer in Religious Education. We began our Magic Summer curriculum from Soul Matters in July, encompassing the three S’s of Silence, Service, and Sunshine. We have experienced silence through a guided meditation that had us imagining ourselves as a sprouting seed, an activity in which we mind-fully passed a cup of water without spilling a drop, a meditation on the meaningfulness of books, and a loving kindness meditation. Our first act of service…
Giving
Many of us give of our time, many of us give of our resources, most of us do both. We are what we can do together.