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
Blessings in Hindsight: Reframing Regret
The sermon explores how we make meaning from failure, disappointment, and the choices we wish we could revisit. Drawing from my own experience with the rise and fall of a company I founded, and the period of reflection that followed, I look at regret not simply as something to overcome, but as a lens through which we can recognize growth, transformation, and even blessings that were difficult to see while we were living through them.
Shipwrecked and Reclaimed: Two Unlikely Beginnings
This week we begin a new sermon series exploring the lives of famous Unitarians and Universalists, starting with the two men often called the founders of our modern faith: William Ellery Channing and John Murray. Both arrived at their calling not through grand vision, but through grief, exhaustion, and circumstances neither of them chose. Join Rev. Sian as we explore what we can learn from them about starting over and starting out.
Water Ceremony: What We Water Grows
Every new church year begins with something small: a seed, a hope, an intention, a little bit of water. As we return from summer and gather again in community, we’ll reflect on what we want to nurture in ourselves, in one another, and in the world we are helping to create.
New Blogs
Wizard School: Second Semester
The magic continues throughout October as Wizard School gets a fun twist! Our young wizards will continue their training with bubbling potions, magical creatures, mysteries, experiments, spellbinding games, and Halloween-inspired adventures. Each week will bring a new magical challenge that encourages creativity, teamwork, courage, and curiosity while continuing to explore our UU values. We’ll finish our time at Wizard School with some extra Halloween fun and celebrate everything our wizards have learned during their magical semester. Wizard School Journey Week…
Sing Out Love Beyond Our Sanctuary: An Update
Back in August, we shared our vision for an Outreach Music Ministry—a way for us to take the joy of singing beyond our sanctuary and into the wider community. We imagined gathering a group of singers and musicians to visit senior living communities, share familiar songs, and create moments of connection and joy through music. That vision is beginning to become a reality! Making Connections With Seniors Music has a remarkable way of reaching places that words alone cannot. A…
The Courage to Hope
I recently learned a new word: “hopium.” It’s internet slang, and it names the kind of hope that works like a drug. Hopium is the voice that says someone else will fix it, the next headline will make it all go away, and if we just don’t look too closely, everything will turn out fine. I’ll confess I’ve taken a hit or two myself. It feels good for a moment. But like any drug, it wears off, and it leaves…
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.