Many Different Beliefs, One Loving Community
Visit us this Sunday at 10:30 am PDT. We want to get to know you.
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
The Blessings of Agnosticism, Humanism and Atheism
Hear how the participants in the Agnostic, Humanist, and Atheist Group (AHA) have found blessings in this community and their philosophies.
Blessed are the… what?
In the sermon on the mount, Jesus calls the poor, meek, the hungry “blessed.” What in the world could he mean? Is suffering supposed to be good?
Flower Communion
It’s that wonderful time of year, where we celebrate the blessings of this community! Come join this multigenerational service with Rev. Sian Wiltshire and Karen Magoon Pearson. Flower Communion is an annual ritual that celebrates beauty, human uniqueness, diversity, and community. In this ceremony, everyone in the congregation brings a flower. Each person places a flower on the altar or in a shared vase. The congregation and minister bless the flowers, and they’re redistributed. Each person brings home a different…
New Blogs
Hungry for Live Music
I hope that you are as hungry for live music as I am! Our August will be filled with three live musical experiences for our OCUUC family. Please mark your calendars and plan to come out for three fun evenings! Have you heard Spencer LaJoye’s “Plowshare Prayer” yet? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhOZv5i7CHY) It was going around the UU circles on social media for a while, plus we sang it at church a few weeks ago. Well, Spencer LaJoye is going to be on…
We are Awesome
May completed our onsite Ukrainian Refugee program. Everyone who is not with their sponsor has moved to a dormitory in Los Angeles, and our two-story building is almost empty again. Thank you, thank you, thank you to all of you who donated items, made meals and grocery runs, did onsite stays, drove, and made it all happen. I have been so impressed by all the volunteer response and compassion. We are awesome! The Annual Meeting is upon us. I hope…
A Blessing for Everything
Years ago, I read a book called “The Carmina Gaedelica.” It’s a collection of Celtic Christian prayers, enchantments and blessings from the 19th Century from the Outer Hebrides of the Scottish Isles, a place that had preserved much of its original pagan roots. When you read the prayers and poems (and, yes, spells/enchantments!) you can tell they are unique immediately; they were all once from the druidic/pagan tradition. When Christianity came along, they just added in Jesus and Mary. What…
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.