MAY 2026 – Awakening Curiosity

Sunday, May 31, 2026 at 10:30am

“The Role of Unconditional Love in Social Justice”

Come and explore together how unconditional love informs the fight for justice.

Worship Leaders: Rev. Margalie Belizaire / Judith Stein-Farrall / Aubrey Connelly-Candelario

JUNE 2026 – Flourishing Together

Sunday, June 7, 2026, at 10:30am

“Flower Communion Worship Service”

Worship Leaders: Rev. Margalie Belizaire / Judith Stein-Farrall / Aubrey Connelly-Candelario

Come… Let us engage in our flower communion ritual in an intentional way and in the name of freedom in a time where that seems scarce. And don’t forget to bring flowers to commune with those that others bring.

Sunday, June 14, 2026, at 10:30am

“Volunteer Appreciation & Inverse Water Communion Service”

Worship Leaders: Rev. Margalie Belizaire / Judith Stein-Farrall / Aubrey Connelly-Candelario

Come be celebrated for all that you do and how you give freely. 1U doesn’t happen without you. So come and be celebrated.

Sunday, June 21, 2026 at 10:30am

“Summer Solstice & Father’s Day Worship Service”

Worship Leaders: Mystic Grove / Judith Stein-Farrall / Aubrey Connelly-Candelario

Sunday, June 28, 2026, at 10:30am

“Respectability is Not Liberation”

Worship Leaders: Aubrey Connelly-Candelario

LGBTQ+ people have been handed a quiet bargain: be acceptable, and you might be
safe. Dress it up. Tone it down. Don’t make them uncomfortable. Be the “good gay.” Be
the “acceptable” trans person. Earn your place.
This sermon rejects that bargain outright.

“Respectability is Not Liberation” confronts the lie that safety comes from assimilation. It
names the pressure to shrink, soften, and sanitize ourselves for the comfort of others
and asks what it has truly cost us. Who gets left behind when acceptance is
conditional? What parts of ourselves have we been taught to silence in order to belong?

Liberation does not come from being less threatening. It does not come from performing
palatability. It comes from claiming our full humanity. This is a call to stop negotiating for
dignity and start embodying it.

Come ready to be challenged. Come ready to be seen. Come ready to reclaim a truth
that has always been, whether you are LGBTQ+ or not:

You were never meant to be acceptable; you were meant to be free.