Good People,
Summer Services at the UU Church of Ventura will feature a number of familiar faces, though some in new roles.
You’ll find more detail below, though I want to catch you up a bit on where I’ve been for the last couple of weeks.
I have just returned from a successful General Assembly in Portland, where I stayed a couple extra days to see old friends. This was not a GA with weighty issues or particular controversy, though there were a couple of contended seats on the UUA Board of Trustees. That was probably just as well, as we were trying out so many new things. It was also the first General Assembly for our DRE Fidelity Ballmer who connected with her LREDA colleagues and the UU Young Adult community. This was the second GA for Music Director Carolyn Bjerke, though it was her first as a seminarian.
I’m dipping back into church life to wind up a couple of things before I head back out for the month of July. I’m not going anywhere, though I’ll be laying low, catching up with friends and household tasks. Resting, reading, writing, breathing, and such.
Summer Services
Among the familiar faces in worship this summer will be our Cluster Ministers from San Luis Obispo to the Conejo Valley. Each minister chose a favorite Zoom service from the last year or so, recorded a sharable version of the sermon, and provided our lay worship teams all the other service elements. We remain grateful to each other and for the new ways we are collaborating. This has been what some call a ‘Covid Rainbow’ in the midst of the storms.
Other known and loved faces you will see are
Summer Services at the UU Church of Ventura will feature a number of familiar faces, though some in new roles.
You’ll find more detail below, though I want to catch you up a bit on where I’ve been for the last couple of weeks.
I have just returned from a successful General Assembly in Portland, where I stayed a couple extra days to see old friends. This was not a GA with weighty issues or particular controversy, though there were a couple of contended seats on the UUA Board of Trustees. That was probably just as well, as we were trying out so many new things. It was also the first General Assembly for our DRE Fidelity Ballmer who connected with her LREDA colleagues and the UU Young Adult community. This was the second GA for Music Director Carolyn Bjerke, though it was her first as a seminarian.
I’m dipping back into church life to wind up a couple of things before I head back out for the month of July. I’m not going anywhere, though I’ll be laying low, catching up with friends and household tasks. Resting, reading, writing, breathing, and such.
Summer Services
Among the familiar faces in worship this summer will be our Cluster Ministers from San Luis Obispo to the Conejo Valley. Each minister chose a favorite Zoom service from the last year or so, recorded a sharable version of the sermon, and provided our lay worship teams all the other service elements. We remain grateful to each other and for the new ways we are collaborating. This has been what some call a ‘Covid Rainbow’ in the midst of the storms.
Other known and loved faces you will see are
- Tanner Linden who grew up in the church and is blossoming as a UU Young Adult. He’s making a summer stop back home and will be in our pulpit in August.
- Fidelity is also eager to try her hand at creating a lively All Generations service in July.
- And Carolyn will preach for one of her first times ever bringing us all a sense of what she has been learning from her first year (virtually) at United Theological Seminary, based in St. Paul, Minnesota.
- I will round out the summer preaching a couple of services in August.
Covid Time is not done with us, though we have rounded a few corners.
We’ve also learned buckets of new ways to craft and lead worship, and we get to try a few more this summer.
May all have a Safe Summer first, and then filled with lots of the sweet things that summer brings:
Sunshine, play, rest, travel, hiking, biking, swimming, breathing fresh air, many sorts of grilled foods, all accompanied by the love and delight of family and friends.
Over and out for now.
With love,
Rev. Dana
