“Each Night a Child is Born is a Holy Night” Children’s Holiday Service Mary Carter-Vail with Summit Children, Youth & Adults It’s back! Our annual Children’s Holiday service returns to Summit with our “No Rehearsal” Christmas Story. We will be celebrating with a child dedication ritual, traditional holiday songs and create our own Christmas Story as we … Continue reading RE Sunday 2022
Coming of Age Celebration Service: Coming of Age, (COA), is the Unitarian Universalist rite of passage experience that our youth can choose to participate in as they grow into adulthood. This past year, Summit UU Fellowship and First UU Church of San Diego have partnered together to create a very unique COA experience for some … Continue reading Coming of Age
This year has been a very different one for our religious exploration program as we have gathered in virtual spaces and more. Join us for a different kind of Religious Exploration Sunday as we invite you to play with us through story, song and more! We will be celebrating our children, youth, families, volunteers, and … Continue reading An Invitation to Play
Description: Join us for a celebration of the seasonal holidays as Summit families share how they celebrate during the darkest time of the year. Together we will explore and witness as our children, youth, and adults offer the gift of their stories of celebrations that are part of their UU holiday experience. For some these may be … Continue reading Our UU Family Holiday
How are we going to continue to serve our children, youth, families and adults as a beloved community in a virtual space? We now have a beautiful opportunity to envision a new way as we support and care for each other. Mary, our DRE will lead us in our reflection around these interests and help … Continue reading A New Vision for Religious Exploration
Summit member and Community Minister Rose Harris will give us an inside look at homelessness in San Diego. She will share stories of her work with the thousands of homeless folk at Father Joe’s Village and, after the service, be available to answer your questions. Speakers: Rev. Rose Harris & DRE Mary Carter-Vail Join us … Continue reading Hope in the Time of Covid-19
Easter represents a confluence of spiritual traditions and influences, many of which have been sanitized and monetized in the service of consumerism. Our Summit staff gets up-front and personal with their reflections on the deeper meanings behind this holiday season. Speakers: Mary Carter-Vail, Mark Weedman and Linda Peck Virtual Worship on Sunday April 12th, 2020: Our … Continue reading Easter Reflections
Rev. Frank Placone-Willey & DRE Mary Carter-Vail Summer is coming to an end. The days are growing shorter. The harvest season approaches. Life cycles on. It keeps coming, bringing with it new challenges and developments in our lives as individuals and as a community. Come and join us as, in spiritual community, we face the … Continue reading Turn, Turn, Turn
In both the Pagan and Christian communities, Easter is a time for celebrating the cycles of death, rebirth and renewal essential to the health of our life on this earth. In anticipation of Earth Day, we will honor the practical demands of caring for embodied life and open to the spiritual wisdom that calls us … Continue reading Faithful Gardeners of the Spirit
According to the Rabbi Jesus, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Later on, this quote was used by Abraham Lincoln as he sought to maintain our union as a nation. We live in a time when division and rigid opposition can keep us from focusing on that which is most important: our place and … Continue reading Seeking Wholeness Together
